The Cecils: The Men Who Made England? (alt. title: "Slandering the Cecils")

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

King Edward VI and the Pope by an unknown artist (c.1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of William Cecil by an unknown artist (1570-1599). Held by the National Trust – Croft Castle.

Portrait of a young Elizabeth I attributed to William Scrots (1546-1547). Held by the Royal Collection.

Portrait of Mary I by Antonis Mor (1554). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Robert Dudley by an unknown artist (c.1564). Held by Waddesdon Manor.

The Death of Amy Robsart, as imagined by Victorian artist William Frederick Yeames (1878). Held by the Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.

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Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey by Levina Teerlinc (1555-1560). Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Portrait of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, attributed to Hans Eworth (1565). Held in an unknown private collection.

Portrait of Lady Katherine or Catherine Grey and her son Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache by an unknown artist (c.1562). Held in an unknown collection.

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots by François Clouet (1560). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Drawing of the Kirk o' Field after the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1567). Held by the National Archives, U.K.

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Composite image of forged postscript to a letter by Mary Queen of Scots to Anthony Babington (SP 12/193/54) and alongside Babington's record of the cipher used (1586). SP 53/18/55.

Drawing of the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Great Chamber at Fotheringay Castle, co. Northants., 14-15 October 1586. Held by the British Library.

Portrait of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by an unknown artist (after 1587). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

The execution of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, drawn by Robert Beale (on or shortly after 8 February 1587). Held by the British Library, Additional Manuscript 48027, folio 650 from Robert Beale's The Order and Manner of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Feb. 8, 1587.

Portrait of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury by an unknown artist, after John De Critz the Elder (1602). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards by an unknown artist (c.1560-1590). Scanned from Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith, New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1967.

Portrait of James I and VI attributed to John de Critz (c.1605). Held by the Museo del Prado.

The Old Globe theatre — a print of the original theatre in London. Created in 1642 by Wenceslas Hollar for his Long View of London. The label "The Globe" has been superimposed; in the original drawing, the building was mistakenly labelled "beere baiting".

Portrait of James VI and I by Paul van Somer I (c,1620). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

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Quoted texts:

Julian Goodare, ODNB entry on Mary, Queen of Scots.

Paul E. J. Hammer, ODNB entry for Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex.

Pauline Croft, ODNB entry on Robert Cecil

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Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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