Sir Walter Raleigh’s medicinal garden at the Tower
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- Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the most famous explorers of Elizabeth I’s reign. He was also a scholar and a poet. However, he managed to displease both the Queen and her successor James I, and so found himself a prisoner of the Tower of London - no less than three times!
As a gentleman, he was deprived of his liberty but not his comforts: his family could visit and he grew exotic plants in a medicinal garden within the Tower walls.
Raleigh endured over 13 years of imprisonment at the Tower of London. During this time, his physical and mental health suffered.
Raleigh brewed his own herbal remedies using plants from the garden. This included his Balsam of Guiana, a potent medicinal cordial of strawberry water, and his ‘Great Cordial’ a mixture of 40 ingredients, including herbs, spices and powders. He used these medicines, and many others, to treat himself as well as fellow residents (and prisoners) at the Tower.
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Sir Walter Raleigh is one of my favorite historical figures of all time!
Very well made! A little garden truly is peace for the soul. Still terrible to be confined for such a long time.
A garden is the best healing salve for depression.
Enjoyed this. would like more on the medicinal herbs and their uses from that era
Gardens are good for the soul ❤
"If you would be happy for a week, kill a pig.
If you would be happy for a year, marry.
If you would be happy forever, plant a garden." Old Chinese proverb.
Thank you for bringing to light this dark and little-known aspect of a famous life. I hope that he also used that time of enforced withdrawal to reflect on life, read the Bible, and find spiritual renewal.
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿Thank You for this video.
Amazing! Toi toi toi for Sir Righley!
That’s interesting.
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"To you, it's a potato. To me, it's a potato. But to Sir Walter bloody Raleigh, it's fine carriages, luxury estates and as many girls as his tongue can cope with!"
Too bad it isn't more like this in modern jails and prisons. But then again this guy still tried to off himself...
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Clearly these doctors of the era are definitely geniuses ahead of their time and have to base a good amount of their medicines from actual experience knowing they do in fact counter certain symptoms that we can backup/confirm today; but how many of these recipes did they create that are just absolute BS and totally just them having fun throwing a bunch of garbage together and rolling with it?
Am I to presume Lizzy had the hots for him? 13 years in prison certainly sounds like a women scorned.
This was after Elizabeth died. He was imprisoned under James.
@@Patrick3183 Ah I see. Thanks.