Cecil, Elizabeth

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also spelled Burleigh-but I defer to the Oxford University Press spelling
He was High Treasurer and Prime Minister of England. He was Elizabeth I's chief minister until the day of his death.
According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: He may have had a child out of wedlock by age 14
With his father's help he became an MP, and a justice of the peace. At 27 he became Master of the Requests to Edward VI, he was knighted shortly afterward. He retired to the country during the reign of Mary Tudor. He was a womanizer and had frequent liassons. In 1571 elizabeth I created him Lord Burghley, a year later, Knight of the Garter and Lord Treasurer.
Lord Burghley conducted what amounted to a school for young noblemen at his estate, partly to educate and partly to build the governing class and strengthen Elizabeth I
From Michael David Smart: "Sixty Old Master paintings drawn from the collection of one of England's grandest Elizabethan houses came to Lakeview Museum in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings, Paintings from the Burghley House Collection...This outstanding collection of 16th to 18th century paintings has remained near intact for more than 300 years at Burghley House, a 750 room house located 90 miles from London and home to 17 generations of the Cecil family. The house is the oldest home in England still lived in continuously by the same family. Burghley House was finished in 1587 for Sir William Cecil...Though the interior was remodeled in the 1690's the house remains the finest example of late 16th century architechture in England..."

Adrian Channing reports "1st Lord Burleigh was v fond of maps, at a time when maps of 'regions' were first being produced in England. My ancestor (a Browne) sent him the first map of county Mayo, Ireland in 1585, so perhaps this fondness of maps carried down to his grandson."

William married Cooke, Mildred on 21 Dec 1545 in England. Mildred was born on 24 Aug 1524 in Gildea Hall, Co Essex, England; died on 5 Apr 1589 in Burghley House, Strand, Co Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cedil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: She was daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, gvernor to youn Prince Edward

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Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1542 & 1543 Custodian of Windsor Castle
According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: Richard added to the family holdings, was made Groom of the Privy Chamber. He supported the King (Henry VIII) in his breach with the Roman Catholic Church. It gave Richard a chance to buy confiscated Church lands.
ollowing from the book, "The Anonymous Life of William Cecil, Lord
Burghley", page 40-42 (no chapters in book) a 1598 manuscript reprinted
and forward by
Alan G. R. Smith. (possibly authors are Henry Maynard/Vincent
Skinner/Michael Hickes)

"This Mr. Richard Cecil was a gentleman descended from the Cecils of
Alt-yr-ynys in Wales, a very ancient house, myself having seen many
ancient, authentic writings and evidences proving many lineal desents, even
to himself, the copies whereof I have in my custody to show, and am assured
few men in England can show more pregnant and authentical proofs for
derivation of his descent than are extant for approving the truth of his
pedigree by many several evidences and records proving every descent, a
thing not usual to be seen. But if this were not so, or that his said
proofs failed, yet was he a gentleman, for besides that his father was a
squire by his place, he was a gentleman by his mother, godly, virtuous
gentlewoman who lived to the age of fourscore and five years.

Jane brought the Lordship of Burghley as heir of father William Heckington
of Bourne in the county of Lincoln, by whom came the inheritance of the
lordship of Burghley, now the mansion of his lordship's barony, and other
lands to the value of two hundred pounds yearly. The said Mr. Richard
Cecil had by his wife the said Jane, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord
Treasurer of England; Anne, married to John White, esquire; Margaret,
married to Roger Cave, esquire; and Elizabeth, married to John Wingfield,
esquire."

NOTE: The Christian name of Anne's husband (John White) was Thomas.
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Now this is about all I have to offer at this time. At least on the surface
of this it would appear this WHITE bunch were not of the Episcopal church
type but rather of the Puritan/Quaker type? Your guess?


Till Later, Paul

Richard married Heckington, Jane in 1520 in Lincolnshire, England. Jane was born between 1494 and 1500 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England; died in Mar 1587 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cedil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: she was the daughter of a respected local family and higher born than her husband.