William Cecil
Former Lord Privy Seal of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Oct 26, 2026
How Persia Influenced Elizabeth I
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6:23Ebrahim JosephGUEST
So we see that all through the 16th century, looking to the classical past is really seen as perhaps the best training for any politician, any statesman.
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6:36Ebrahim JosephGUEST
So Cecil or Burley is said to carry around a copy of a text by the Roman orator Cicero as he goes about his political duties so that he can look to that for guidance.
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6:47Ebrahim JosephGUEST
And so Rome and Athens, with its democracy, can provide a model for a lot of councillors, for a lot of people engaged in politics in Elizabethan England.
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6:58Ebrahim JosephGUEST
But it can't provide at least a straightforward model for Elizabeth herself and how she exercises power.
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14:25Ebrahim JosephGUEST
And it's that model that passes into Elizabethan England, but first into some of the most influential texts of the Renaissance.
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14:35Suzannah LipscombHOST
So it's being picked up by ancient Greeks or ancient Romans and
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14:41Ebrahim JosephGUEST
Yeah, so in Rome, Cicero, that figure that Cecil was looking to, he calls Cyrus the pattern of just rule.
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14:51Ebrahim JosephGUEST
And he claims that he's modelled aspects of his own political career on Cyrus.
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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27:10Harry SpillaneGUEST
The Bishop's Bible struggles to stand the test of time, and that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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27:25Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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27:29Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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27:36Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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29:26Harry SpillaneGUEST
the sort of rival version to the geneva bible and from then on he starts playing around with them and he makes some geneva bibles look more like bishops bibles and some bishops bibles look more like geneva bibles and he starts to expand the market in all sorts of ways The Bishop's Bible struggles to stand the test of time, and that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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29:56Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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30:00Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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30:07Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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25:38Harry SpillaneGUEST
sort of rival version to the geneva bible and from then on he starts playing around with them and he makes some geneva bibles look more like bishops bibles and some bishops bibles look more like geneva bibles and he starts to expand the market in all sorts of ways The Bishop's Bible struggles to stand the test of time, and that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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26:08Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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26:12Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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26:20Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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29:51Harry SpillaneGUEST
And that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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30:02Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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30:06Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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30:14Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
The Most Powerful Occult Book I've Ever Opened - It's NOT what you think!
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67:55Terry BurnsGUEST
And to a lesser degree, even the Master Grid Laman and the Holy Table, that these are partially predesigned by Kelly or some group.
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68:05Terry BurnsGUEST
We do know, by the way, Kelly was working for William Cecil, probably not a voluntary thing, and that Dee's next door neighbor was Sir Francis Walsingham.
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68:14Terry BurnsGUEST
So there are two competing spy rings we could look at here if we wanted to jump into the historical background
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68:24Frater RCHOST
and uh well burns is afk i'll just uh say yeah this is fantastic chat happening i love that you're all here and for those of you who might not know the full details because you just jumped on we are doing uh the third annual dean kelly conference next month in austin you can attend online live in real time and here's a song about it for those of you on the audio podcast but if you're watching the video you can see the list of presenters and workshops we have it's very exciting i'll see you back dr burns and i will be back in just a couple minutes so
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203:37Terry BurnsGUEST
Garland in there is probably lying.
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203:38Terry BurnsGUEST
That's probably Edward Dyer, in my opinion.
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203:40Terry BurnsGUEST
But William Cecil in England and then some people in Prague think that, you know, Kelly's able to produce all this gold.
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203:50Terry BurnsGUEST
So...
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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27:58Harry SpillaneGUEST
And that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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28:09Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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28:13Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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28:20Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)
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27:10Harry SpillaneGUEST
The Bishop's Bible struggles to stand the test of time, and that's partly because its translation isn't very good, but it's partly because the very early copies were full of royal imagery, portraits of Elizabeth's ministers.
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27:25Harry SpillaneGUEST
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
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27:29Harry SpillaneGUEST
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
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27:36Harry SpillaneGUEST
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Philip Howard: Episode Three
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0:09Peter AtkinsonNARRATOR
Joining the House of Lords, Philip finds himself excited by the prospect of public service.
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0:14Peter AtkinsonNARRATOR
But when his guardian, Lord Burleigh, invites him to watch a debate inside the House of Lords, Philip encounters a man who will shape his family's destiny.
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0:29Peter AtkinsonADVERTISER
The Saints, Adventures of Faith and Courage.
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0:34Peter AtkinsonADVERTISER
Philip Howard.
Anne Boleyn You Will Always Be Famous (with Natalie Grueninger)
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10:30Natalie GrueningerGUEST
She's got lots of people surrounding her that can tell her that.
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10:34Natalie GrueningerGUEST
And we know from later letters and things with William Cecil that Elizabeth believes that her mother's marriage was completely legitimate.
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10:42Natalie GrueningerGUEST
She believes, actually, there's one letter where she suggests that she thinks there was a papal dispensation given.
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10:48Natalie GrueningerGUEST
And she asks Matthew Parker to, in fact, have a look if he can find this document.
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13:22Natalie GrueningerGUEST
She obviously had such an impact on him.
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13:24Natalie GrueningerGUEST
And we think that Anne asked him to care for Elizabeth if anything should happen to her.
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13:30Natalie GrueningerGUEST
So she's got William Cecil.
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13:31Natalie GrueningerGUEST
He himself was a child when Anne was executed, but William's father died.
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