William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, 1520-1598. English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I. In the ceremonial robes of a Knight of the Garter with gold collar. Lord Burleigh. Copperplate engraving after a painting attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger from Samuel Woodburn’s Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martin’s Lane, London, 1816.

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