(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!
 
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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