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Sep 9, 2024 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was a principal adviser to England’s Queen Elizabeth I through most of her reign. Cecil was a master of Renaissance statecraft, whose talents as a diplomat, politician, and administrator won him high office and a peerage.
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Sep 9, 2024 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - Statesman, Adviser, Queen Elizabeth I: As a statesman Burghley saw that his duty was to give the Queen his best advice and then to carry out whatever policy seemed expedient to her.
Sep 22, 2024 · It was built by Sir William Cecil from 1555–87 and is considered one of the most magnificent houses of the Elizabethan Age. Cecil, later Lord Burghley, was lord treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I and one of her key advisers.
Sep 13, 2024 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, 1520 – 1598, was a chief minister during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. In that he served as chief advisor to the queen for much of her reign, his influence upon the political landscape of Elizabethan England was as pervasive as it was enduring.
Sep 26, 2024 · "Slanders, lies and scoldings, maliciously, grossly and impudently vomited and jangled out in certain traitorous books and pamphlets, concerning two Councillors, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Sir William Cecil, principal Secretary to her Majesty."
Sep 25, 2024 · With respect to Sir William Cecil himself, not only is his guiding influence in all the home and foreign policy of England abundantly illustrated, but many details of his private life are revealed, his friendships, his literary tastes (especially in the way of genealogical research), his journal, and even matters relating to his household, the ...
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Sep 26, 2024 · William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, K.G., who took the side of the Parliament during the Civil Wars. He died December 3rd, 1668, aged seventy-seven. See his character, "despicable to all men," drawn by Lord Clarendon, "History of the Rebellion," book vi., ed. Macray, 1888, vol. ii., p. 542.
