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Church and State, 1558–1612: The Task of the Cecils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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A week before Christmas 1604, Robert Cecil, secretary of state to James I, and recently elevated in the peerage to a viscountcy, received from Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, a frank piece of advice. ‘Good my Lord Cranborne,’ wrote the archbishop, ‘let me put you in mynde that you wer borne and brought up in true religion. Your worthy father was a worthy instrument to banish superstition and to advaunce the Gospell. Imytate him in this service efectyally.’ There followed some unkind observations about James I’s love for the blood sports, and a further warning about the Roman Catholics, and then a concluding prayer: ‘Thus beseching God to bless your Lordship with his manyfold graces that you may as long serve his most excellent Majestie as your most wyse father did serve most worthy Queen Elizabeth, I bid you most hartely farewell.’
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