第一代伯利男爵威廉·塞西尔

第一代伯利男爵威廉·塞西尔 （William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley；）是伊麗莎白一世的一位大臣，曾擔任財務大臣、國務大臣等重要職務，是伊麗莎白一世手下最有權勢的人物之一。Albert Frederick Pollard,  "Burghley, William Cecil, Baron". in Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 4:816. This page originally was a copy of Pollard's article.

其政治目標主要是將不列顛統一（對愛爾蘭和蘇格蘭的絕對控制），形成一個強有力的新教國家。為了抵禦強敵如西班牙的入侵，他開始加强英國海軍。雖然在他任內英國海軍並非所向披靡，但他的繼任者們逐漸使之成為現實Jane E. A. Dawson, "William Cecil and the British Dimension of early Elizabethan foreign policy," History 74#241 (1989): 196-216.。

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 Nare, Edward. Memoirs of the life and administration of the Right Honourable William Cecil, Lord Burghley, : containing an historical view of the times in which he lived, and of the many eminent and illustrious persons with whom he was connected; with extracts from his private and official correspondence, and other papers, now first published from the originals at the Internet Archive. Volume I (1828), Volume II (1830), Volume III (1831)
 Lord Macaulay's essay "Burleigh and His Times" Edinburgh Review'', April 1832, at Online Library of Liberty
 William Cecil (1521–98)  at luminarium.org, Excerpted from Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol IV.
 Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, (1521-1598) Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. IV at archive.org

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