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William Cecil

William Cecil

Former Lord Privy Seal of the United KingdomWikipedia

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Oct 26, 2026

Ebrahim JosephGUEST
6:23
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.
Ebrahim JosephGUEST
6:36
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.
Ebrahim JosephGUEST
6:47
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.
Ebrahim JosephGUEST
6:58
But it can't provide at least a straightforward model for Elizabeth herself and how she exercises power.

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Ebrahim JosephGUEST
14:25
And it's that model that passes into Elizabethan England, but first into some of the most influential texts of the Renaissance.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
14:35
So it's being picked up by ancient Greeks or ancient Romans and
Ebrahim JosephGUEST
14:41
Yeah, so in Rome, Cicero, that figure that Cecil was looking to, he calls Cyrus the pattern of just rule.
Ebrahim JosephGUEST
14:51
And he claims that he's modelled aspects of his own political career on Cyrus.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:10
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:25
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:29
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:36
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
29:26
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
29:56
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
30:00
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
30:07
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
25:38
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
26:08
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
26:12
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
26:20
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
29:51
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
30:02
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
30:06
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
30:14
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Terry BurnsGUEST
67:55
And to a lesser degree, even the Master Grid Laman and the Holy Table, that these are partially predesigned by Kelly or some group.
Terry BurnsGUEST
68:05
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.
Terry BurnsGUEST
68:14
So there are two competing spy rings we could look at here if we wanted to jump into the historical background
Frater RCHOST
68:24
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

2 HRS 15 MINS LATER

Terry BurnsGUEST
203:37
Garland in there is probably lying.
Terry BurnsGUEST
203:38
That's probably Edward Dyer, in my opinion.
Terry BurnsGUEST
203:40
But William Cecil in England and then some people in Prague think that, you know, Kelly's able to produce all this gold.
Terry BurnsGUEST
203:50
So...
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:58
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
28:09
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
28:13
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
28:20
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:10
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.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:25
So there's a portrait of William Cecil, her chief minister.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:29
There's a portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of her favourites.
Harry SpillaneGUEST
27:36
And actually, of course, that makes it extremely of its time, very much of a moment.
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0:09
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0:14
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0:29
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0:34
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Natalie GrueningerGUEST
10:30
She's got lots of people surrounding her that can tell her that.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
10:34
And we know from later letters and things with William Cecil that Elizabeth believes that her mother's marriage was completely legitimate.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
10:42
She believes, actually, there's one letter where she suggests that she thinks there was a papal dispensation given.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
10:48
And she asks Matthew Parker to, in fact, have a look if he can find this document.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
13:22
She obviously had such an impact on him.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
13:24
And we think that Anne asked him to care for Elizabeth if anything should happen to her.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
13:30
So she's got William Cecil.
Natalie GrueningerGUEST
13:31
He himself was a child when Anne was executed, but William's father died.

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