William Cecil: Life Story

The key sources we have used are listed below.

Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I (London: Yale University Press, 2008)

British History Online [accessed 7 September 2015]

Charlton, W B, Burghley (Stamford, Lincs: W. Langley, 1847)

Childs, Jessie, God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England (United States: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014)

Danner, Bruce, Edmund Spenser’s War on Lord Burghley (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

‘Elizabeth and Cecil’, by John Guy [accessed 6 September 2015]

Higham, C S S, Wimbledon Manor House under the Cecils (Longmans Green & Co. Ltd, 1962)

Ives, Eric, Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, 1st edn (United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2012)

Lettenhove, Kervyn de, ed., Relations Politiques Des Pays-Bas et d’Angleterre (Brussels: L’Academie Royale de Belgique, 1882)

Marshall, Rosalind K, John Knox (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008)

Ross, Josephine, Suitors to the Queen: The Men in the Life of Elizabeth I of England, 1st edn (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975)

Simms, Brendan, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present (United States: Basic Books, 2014)

Skelton, R A, and John Summerson, A Description of Maps and Architectural Drawings in the Collection Made by William Cecil, First Baron Burghley, Now at Hatfield House (Oxford: Oxford Press, 1971)

Whitelock, Anna, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows, Kindle (London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013)

Williams, Neville, The Life and Times of Elizabeth I (New York, NY: Welcome Rain Publishers, 1998)

Wimbledon Common Committee, ed., Extracts from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon from Edward IV to AD 1864 (London: Wyman and Sons, 1866)