William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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title:
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, A.F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England." Cecil set as the main goal of English policy the creation of a united and Protestant British Is
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English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520–1598)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil,_1st_Baron_Burghley
date created:
2002-05-02T13:39:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:48:51Z
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