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As your Majesty knows, it is Burghley who rules the whole of this country.
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Letter by Antonio de Guaras to the Duke of Alva (26 March, 1572).
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Conyers Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1960), p. 70.

 

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