His first mistake was to deflower royal maid-of-honor Bessy Throckmorton, an act which led to his first  stay in the Tower of London.
His first mistake was to deflower royal maid-of-honor Bessy Throckmorton, an act which led to his first  stay in the Tower of London. His last mistake was his hare-brained private invasion of the Guyanas,  which exhausted the limited patience of James I and led to his 1618 beheading. The legend of his  spreading a cloak over a puddle so that the queen may cross dry shod is mentioned in Kenilworth. FTP,  name this historian and adventurer whose most famous failure was the lost colony of Roanoke.
His first mistake was to deflower royal maid-of-honor Bessy Throckmorton, an act which led to his first  stay in the Tower of London.
Sir Walter Raleigh