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	ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Owing to Cecils action, on the death of Elizabeth on the 24th of March 1603, James was proclaimed king, and took possession of the throne without opposition.
		Cecil was continued in his office, was created Baron Cecil of Essendon in Rutlandshire on the I3th of May, Viscount Cranborne on the 20th of August 1604, and earl of Salisbury on the 4th of May 1605.
		Cecil took a leading part in his trial in July 1603, and, though probably convinced of his guilt, endeavoured to ensure him a fair trial and rebuked the attorney-general, Sir Edward Coke, for his harshness towards the prisoner.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALISBURY_ROBERT_CECIL_1ST_EARL_OF.htm (1760 words)

	Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Cecil 1st Earl of Salisbury (June 1 1563 - May 24 1612) son of William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil 1st Earl of Exeter statesman and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England.
		Robert Cecil is the one who down most of the old palace of Hatfield House and built the new one.
		Cecil was made Secretary of State following the death of Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590 and he became the leading minister the death of his father in 1598 serving both Elizabeth and James as Secretary of State.
	www.freeglossary.com /Robert_Cecil (321 words)

	Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563–24 May 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
		He was made Secretary of State following the death of Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, and he became the leading minister after the death of his father in 1598, serving both Queen Elizabeth and King James as Secretary of State.
		One of the arguments used to attempt to inculpate Salisbury in the plot are the death-bed allegations of Robert Catesby's servant stating that Salisbury and Catesby, one of the principal Gunpowder Plotters, met on three separate occasions in the period leading up to the events of the night of 5 November 1605.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury (623 words)

	Robert Cecil
		Afterwards Elizabeth regretted this decision and Cecil was temporarily banished from court.
		Robert Cecil was a very small man and Elizabeth affectionately called him her "elf".
		Robert Cecil died of stomach cancer in 1612.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDcecilR.htm (612 words)

	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Most Honourable Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830–22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister.
		Lord Robert Cecil was the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury.
		In 1866 Cecil, now called Viscount Cranborne (due to the death of his older brother), entered the third government of Lord Derby as Secretary of State for India, but resigned the next year over the Reform Bill, which he opposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury (1471 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
		Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, PC (born September 30, 1946), was a Conservative politician and Leader of the House of Lords, under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.
		The Marquesses of Salisbury were descended from the 1st Marquess, a courtier and favorite of King George III of the United Kingdom, who was himself a descendant of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and one of the men who brought about the accession of King James I of England.
		Robert Cecil was himself a younger son of Elizabeth's courtier-advisor William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the descendant of a Welsh soldier David Cyssell.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_7th_Marquess_of_Salisbury (1039 words)

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		Robert II, duke of Normandy, (Robert Curthose), c.1054-1134, duke of Normandy (1087-1106); eldest son of King William I of England.
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	CECIL - LoveToKnow Article on CECIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Cecil, 2nd earl of Exeter, took as his first wife the Lady Roos, daughter and heir of the 3rd earl of Rutland of the Manners family.
		A third son of the 1st earl was Edward Cecil, a somewhat incompetent military commander, created in 1625 Lord Cecil of Putney and Viscount Wimbledon, titles that died with him in 1638, although he was thrice married.
		The younger or Hatfield lin.e was founded by Robert Cecil, the onlysurviving son of the great Burghleys second marriage.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CECIL.htm (872 words)

	William CECIL (1° B. Burghley)
		After the fall of Somerset Cecil became a member of the Privy Council and he was an unwilling signatory to the instrument which sought to disinherit the sisters of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth.
		Robert the other surviving son was born 1 Jun 1563 at Westminster, and in the next reign was created Earl of Salisbury.
		In 1586 Cecil was chiefly responsible for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, after the discovery of the infamous Babington Plot which had for its aim the assassination of the Queen.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/WilliamCecil(1BBurghley).htm (2860 words)

	Biographies: Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury
		Cecil alludes to the fact he had been aware of 'papist activities' for several months leading up to the gunpowder's discovery, but there is no evidence to support this other than his own word.
		Cecil's solutions to England's escalating expenditure (as a result of the Irish Wars) which had put her on the brink of bankruptcy were not well received as he sought extra-parliamentary means of obtaining income.
		Sir Robert Cecil certainly did not solve all of the problems troubling the Elizabethan era, but as a politician he was a skilled and effective manipulator, abilities that ensured a steady rise to the top.
	www.britannia.com /history/r-cecil.html (2097 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| The Marquess of Salisbury
		Robert Edward Peter Gascoyne-Cecil was born on October 24 1916 into one of the great families of England, which rose to prominence under Elizabeth I. Robert Cecil, younger son of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Lord Treasurer, was the principal Secretary of State and created 1st Earl of Salisbury by James I in 1605.
		James Cecil, the 6th Earl and Lord Chamberlain to George III, was advanced to marquess in 1789.
		Robert was educated at Eton, and then commissioned in the Grenadier Guards.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2003/07/12/db1201.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=119412 (951 words)

	The Plotters
		Cecil is suspicions when the new arrivals claim to have lost their papers in a struggle with ruffians on the road, and invites them to attend a dinner with the King.
		Cecil soon guesses the "Victor" is really a girl, and when he meets with the Spaniard that night, the Spaniard reports that his note to Catesby was intercepted by a young couple who spoke of a doctor and of travelling by ship.
		Cecil is shocked to see the Doctor still attending Haldann and Otley, and when the Doctor drops deliberate hints about a plot brewing, Cecil's furious reaction confirms the Doctor's suspicion; Cecil himself has set the Gunpowder Plot in motion, in order to expose it and provide an excuse for punitive measures against the Catholics.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_ma28.htm (2097 words)

	AllRefer.com - Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st earl of 1563–1612, English statesman; son of William Cecil, Baron Burghley.
		He became chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in 1597 and in 1598 succeeded his father as principal secretary, despite the rivalry of Francis Bacon and the 2d earl of Essex.
		The fall and execution of Essex in 1601 cleared the way for Cecil to enter into secret negotiations with James VI of Scotland and arrange the latter's peaceful accession to the English throne as James I on the death of Elizabeth (1603).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SalsbryRC.html (482 words)

	SHAFR: June 2001 Newsletter: League of Nations
		Cecil wrote in part:...I do not quite understand why you insist so strongly on the one hand that common interests of different nations are much greater than their hostilities and, on the other, that precisely the opposite is true of the different classes in the nations themselves.
		Cecil had read International Government as well as other works by Woolf, so he was well aware that his friend was one of the early proponents of the use of force as a last resort to preserve peace when Cecil wrote Woolf about this issue years later.
		Robert Cecil, "Education and the New Era: The League of Nations," in Education and Life: Addresses Delivered at the National Conference on Education and Citizenship, Held in Toronto, Canada, April 1923, ed.
	www.shafr.org /newsletter/2001/jun/league.htm (3812 words)

	Robert Cecil
		On the left of the party, Cecil was one of the few Conservatives who supported women's suffrage.
		Cecil was appointed as the British representative in charge of negotiations for this new organization.
		Cecil represented the Dominion of South Africa in the League Assembly.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcecilrobert.htm (525 words)

	Family History, A Seventeenth Century Knight, Sir John Dackombe
		Robert Cecil's father, Lord Burghley - who, as Lord Treasurer, held the highest office in the land died in 1598 and Robert was made Secretary of State.
		Robert had acquired a farm and rectory in Stepleton; these estates were probably negotiated with his kinsman, James of Stepleton - the son and heir of Robert's uncle John Dackombe of Stepleton.
		From this and his important post with Robert Cecil, he was able to acquire a great deal of property and lands either by purchase or patronage.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /the.nook/dacinfo/dwill10.htm (633 words)

	Robert CECIL (1° E. Salisbury)
		Robert Cecil had a spectacular career by any political yardstick, rising to hold jointly the two highest civil offices of the land during the reigns of Elizabeth I, and James VI/I, thus eclipsing the efforts of his father.
		Indeed, there were questionable actions by some of the plotters regarding their relationship with Cecil (relating to both Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham), but it is clearly evident that the government's actions were not those of a body aware of some catastrophic enterprise about to be undertaken.
		Towards the end of 1611 Cecil gradually became weaker, and after failing to secure a marriage for the young Prince Henry to Felipe III of Spain's sister, his physical deterioration was dramatic, and used as a metaphor for his corruption of power.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/RobertCecil(1ESalisbury).htm (2410 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
		Robert Dudley, the favourite and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was the fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guildford.
		Leicester, as prime favourite, was the incessant bugbear and terror of Cecil and the old Catholic nobles.
		Yet, he was obliged, sadly, to confess that Cecil could do more with his mistress in an hour than he could do in seven years; and so he gradually pulled away from his temporary connection with the Catholics and began to court the rising Puritan party in Church and State.
	www.britannia.com /bios/lords/leicesterrd.html (716 words)

	cecil
		William Cecil saw the light at Bourne in the County of Lincoln on 13th September, 1520, and he was baptised at the same place.
		In an attempt by his father, Richard Cecil, to prevent what he regarded as an improvident marriage to Mary, the daughter of Peter Cheke, a young William Cecil was removed from the University and admitted to Grays Inn.
		Robert the other surviving son was born 1st June, 1563 at Westminster, and in the next reign was created Earl of Salisbury.
	www.sirbacon.org /cecil.htm (3346 words)

	Robert Cecil - Biography
		The education which Robert absorbed at home until he was thirteen was superior and far more interesting, he writes in his autobiography, than his four years at Eton.
		From 1887 to 1906, Cecil's career was a legal one, involving most of the forms of common law, occasional efforts in Chancery, and a steadily increasing parliamentary practice.
		Cecil, Lord Robert, The Moral Basis of the League of Nations [the Essex Hall Lecture].
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1937/chelwood-bio.html (691 words)

	Robert Cecil
		Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, plays a very interesting part in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
		Cecil was the skilled puppet master and Guy Fawkes and company were the puppets in his total control - so some believe.
		It can mean many things to many people, which is probably what Cecil wanted but some see it as a coded letter that nothing can stop his plan except if those from the Midlands (where the plotters came from) bugled their part.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /robert_cecil.htm (621 words)

	Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment, ch 10
		At the suggestion of Lord Robert Cecil, the chair was given to General Tasker Bliss of the American delegation.
		In Canada, for example, Robert L. Borden was the first president (1927-1931); N.W. Rowell was the second president; Sir Joseph Flavelle and Vincent Massey were vice-presidents; Glazebrook was honorary secretary; and Percy Corbett was one of the most important members.
		1 Robert Jemmett Stopford (1895-) was a banker in London from 1921 to 1928.
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	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He was one of the principal draftsmen of the League of Nations Covenant in 1919 and one of the most loyal workers for the League until its supersession by the United Nations in 1945.
		Cecil was a master of Renaissance statecraft, whose talents as a diplomat, politician, and administrator won him high office and a peerage.
		British statesman Robert Cecil was a longtime member of Parliament and one of the principal draftsmen of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9021963 (838 words)

	CECIL
		Burghley House in the Soke of Peterborough had belonged to Ralph, Lord Cromwell and afterwards to the Wykes family whose descendants sold it in 1526 to David Cecil, a follower of Henry VII from Pembrokeshire.
		The Cecils may have descended from Seisyllt, Prince of Wales; John Seysyll of the 15th century has a brass in the church of St. Mary Tormarton, Gloucestershire so the Cecils and Cromwells may have known each other before the Tudors came to power.
		A Cecil had his arms registered on the Calais Roll of Edward III (1346) as "barry of 10, argent and azure, on six shields 3, 2, 1, sable, as many lioncels of the first".
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /CECIL.htm (449 words)

	Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marquis of Salisbury, was born at Hatfield House in 1830.
		Cecil was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
		In 1868 Robert Cecil succeeded his father as the 3.
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	Find in a Library: Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 1563-1612 : servant of two sovereigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 1563-1612 : servant of two sovereigns
		Subjects: Salisbury, Robert Cecil, -- Earl of, -- 1563-1612.
		Cecil, Robert, -- Earl of Salisbury, -- 1563-1612.
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	AllRefer.com - Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (British And Irish History, Biography) - ...
		Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1864–1958, British statesman, known in his earlier life as Lord Robert Cecil; 3d son of the 3d marquess of Salisbury.
		A Conservative who held several ministerial posts, Cecil gained fame largely through untiring advocacy of internationalism.
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