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'''William Cecil, Lord Burghley''' (1520-1598)

Born in 1520, the son of [[Richard Cecil]].

He was the prime minister during the reign of [[Elizabeth I, Queen of England]].

==Secondary sources==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#The_first_series DNB], [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Brown+-+Chaloner.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.CE.15&fn=william&ln=cecil&st=d&pid=11794&rc=135,631,256,661;291,632,483,662&zp=75 "William Cecil, Lord Burghley]
*Complete Peerage, "Burghley", pg 428, transcribed [http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/WilliamCecil1 here]

*[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1402159013&id=Wdngqyl9coAC&pg=RA5-PA63&lpg=RA5-PA63&sig=Pdl1T_NOgmfs-4gdFstauZXCu-o The Great Governing Families of England, by Meredith White Townsend and John Langton Sanford; Vol 2, pg 63]

==External links==
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/Royals/GED2WEB/people/p0000058.htm#I4801 His entry at Will Johnson's ''Royals'']
*[http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en;i=312993 His entry at the Roglo database]
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00003566&tree=LEO His entry at genealogics]
*[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CECIL.htm#Richard%20CECIL%20(CYSSEL)1 The Cecil family entry at tudorplace.com.ar]
*[http://www.thepeerage.com/p6159.htm#i61586 His entry at thepeerage.com]
*[http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4aq/cecil01.htm His entry at stirnet.com]
*[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=7672598&lds=0&frompage=0 His entry at familysearch.org]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil,_Lord_Burghley William Cecil, Lord Burghley] on Wikipedia


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