Talk:Secretary of State (England)

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A 'suspected copyright violation' template was added by a bot. This immediately followed splitting the page per Talk:Secretary of State (United Kingdom)#Split needed, and text which was previously at Secretary of State (United Kingdom) must have been copied from that source some time ago. I have now rewritten it for this article, Secretary of State (England). Moonraker2 (talk) 18:26, 23 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Walsingham's successor

The article currently says that Sir Robert Cecil became acting Secretary on 5 July 1590. However, his DNB article - Pauline Croft, ‘Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury (1563–1612)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 accessed 15 April 2016 - says that "After the death of Walsingham in April 1590 Burghley resumed the tasks of the secretary of state ... in August 1591 ... evidence of a tacit agreement between the queen and Burghley that Cecil would increasingly take over the workload while Burghley continued as acting secretary...Elizabeth on 5 July 1596 at last bestowed the title of secretary of state on [Sir Robert Cecil]" This seems to be saying that it was William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley who was acting Secretary from 1590-96. I propose to amend the article accordingly, citing the DNB article. Alekksandr (talk) 22:07, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now done. Alekksandr (talk) 15:14, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]