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William Cecil, Lord Burghley, . . . Frontispiece 



William Cecil, son of Richard Cecil of Burleigh, was 

 born at Bourn on the 13th September, 1520. He 

 was educated at Stamford, Grantham, and St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, and entered Gray's Inn in 

 I 541. In 1547 Henry VIII. appointed him custos 

 hrevium. The Lord Protector Somerset made 

 him Master of Requests in 1 547 and his Secre- 

 tary in 1548. On Somerset's disgrace Cecil was 

 imprisoned for two months in the Tower, but 

 in 1550 he was made a Secretary of State, and in 

 I 55 1 was knighted. In 1558 Elizabeth appointed 

 him Chief Secretary of State, and in 1572 Lord 

 High Treasurer, a post which he held until his 

 death on 4th August, 1598. He was created Baron 

 Burghley in 1571. The portrait here reproduced 

 is from the print by William Rogers in the British 

 Museum. 



Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Baron of 



Effingham, ....... 200 



Lord Howard of Effingham was born in 1536 and suc- 

 ceeded his father in 1573. In 1585 he was made 

 Lord High Admiral of England and as such he 

 commanded the fleet against the Armada. He was 

 created Earl of Nottingham for his services against 

 the Armada and in the Cadiz expedition of 1596. 



