22. His family resided in the Tower with him
Sir Walter Raleigh was accompanied by his family during most of his stay in the Tower of London, as well as by servants which saw to his needs, did his laundry, prepared and served his food, and catered to his whims. The enterprising Raleigh was well aware of an underground network in London through which servants cared for their charges while exchanging gossip, and through the network (as well as in some of his poetry) word began to be bandied about regarding his awareness of the location of rich veins of gold and silver in the lands he had explored previously in Guiana and Venezuela. Raleigh, through subterfuge, lobbied the king and his ministers to allow another expedition to recover the great wealth of which only he knew for certain, for the benefit of the king and his kingdom.