Sir William Cecil...was arguably the greatest statesman not only of Tudor England but of sixteenth-century Europe. He was Elizabeth's de facto prime minister for the first forty years of her forty-five year reign.
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Curtis C. Breight in Arthur Kinney (ed.), Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (Garland Science, 2000), p. 119.William Cecil
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Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley
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