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.

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.