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Hace 3 días · Early in the 17th century the Cranborne estate was acquired by Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury, who employed John Norden to make a general survey of the property. Norden's survey, dated 1605, is preserved at Hatfield House (fn. 3) and upon the title page of the accompanying terrier is drawn the plan and elevation of the manor ...
Hace 2 días · Where he delivered Cecil a note of special good things to be purchased, Cecil has discovered it to his adversaries, and the fame thereof is "over the country" to his great rebuke. Has received the tithe of Duddleston, upon the report of his adversaries, at harder terms than he deserved.
Hace 4 días · "John Mountfennell, baron," to Sir Robert Cecil. [1600–1, ?Feb.] Details treacheries he alleges were committed by Captain Peter Green, Captain Owen Salisbury, and Captain Roger Billing in the Low Countries in Leicester's time, for which they procured pardon through Secretary Walsingham.
Hace 5 días · Disraeli’s foreign minister, who disapproved of such action, resigned, to be succeeded by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, marquess of Salisbury, who was eventually to serve as prime minister in the last Conservative administrations of the 19th century.
Hace 4 días · As of the 1870s and 1880s, those who seemed ‘liberal’, understood salon music-making as uniting a private practice with public good, while conservatives such as Arthur Balfour and Robert Cecil (third marquess of Salisbury) did not.
Hace 3 días · Although the term was used as early as the reign of Queen Anne (1702–14), it acquired wider currency during the reign of George II (1727–60), when it began to be used as a term of reproach toward Sir Robert Walpole.
Hace 5 días · For nine years after the change of dynasty, until his premature death from cancer at the age of 48, Cecil duly served his new master with immense diplomatic and financial acumen. The king, who raised him to the peerage as first Earl of Salisbury, called him his “little beagle”. Cecil certainly knew how to sniff out his prey.
