"Anonymous Life" of William Cecil, Lord Burghley

Published from the manuscript written within five years of the death of the eminent Elizabethan statesman, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, (1520-1598), this volume examines the career and personality of the man who was chief minister for 40 years to Queen Elizabeth I. It includes a modern assessment of the manuscript which has not been reprinted since the 18th century.