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Burghley

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Burgh·ley  (bûrl), First Baron
See William Cecil.
Burghley, Burleigh [ˈbɜːlɪ]
n
(Biographies / Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598) M, English, POLITICS: statesman) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520-98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558-72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572-98)


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Bacon was now ready to enter on the great career for which his talents fitted him, but his uncle by marriage, Lord Burghley, though all-powerful with the queen, systematically thwarted his progress, from jealous consciousness of his superiority to his own son.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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