Behind nearly every government in England - and sometimes in front of it - has been a lord of Burghley, Exeter, or Salisbury, all of them descended from plain David Cecil, yeoman. Here, in this essay from the eminent historian Lacey Baldwin Smith, is the story of England's second most powerful family, the Cecils.
Behind nearly every government in England - and sometimes in front of it - has been a lord of Burghley, Exeter, or Salisbury, all of them descended from plain David Cecil, yeoman. Here, in this essay from the eminent historian Lacey Baldwin Smith, is the story of England's second most powerful family, the Cecils.