Lord Burleigh Quotations

William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleyKG PCwas an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of Stateand Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Albert Pollard says, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England."... (wikipedia)