(Tudor.org): Elizabeth 1 and Sir William Cecil

http://www.tudors.org/undergraduate/74-elizabeth-and-cecil.html


Elizabeth and Cecil
  


William Cecil was Elizabeth I's chief councillor. He served her from her accession in November 1558 until his death in August 1598. It was a partnership that lasted 40 years! Just imagine. What would it have been like if Margaret Thatcher had served as Prime Minister from 1979 until 2019!
 
In fact,

Thomas Becon (1512-1567): Cambridge Don, Prebend (Canterbury) & English Reformer

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3756/Becon-Thomas-1512-1567.html


 Thomas Becon (1512–1567) - BIOGRAPHY, MAJOR WORKS AND THEMES, CRITICAL RECEPTION

Thomas Becon is one of those writers whom students of English history and literature invariably see, when they look at the writers at all, as examples of the “incipient Puritanism” of the mid-Tudor dynasty. One of the most prolific

John Whitgift: "Articles Touching Preachers and Other Orders for the Church, A.D. 1583

http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/articles1583.htm ARTICLES TOUCHING PREACHERS AND OTHERORDERS FOR THE CHURCH, A.D. 1583



Archbishop John Whitgift,
the third Cantaur of Elizabeth 1


WHITGIFT was elected
archbishop on August 24, 1583. He was confirmed a month later. The first act of
his episcopate was to issue, after consultation with the bishops of the
province, the following