* Antonio Verrio begins work on the Heaven Room at Burghley House.

A new Theobalds House just off the main road north from London to Ware, was built between 1564 and 1585 to the order of Burghley.

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

All the arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on Burghley House and Theobalds ( which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House ).

* Burghley House ( The Cecil family ) ( now owned by Burghley House Preservation Trust ).

* Burghley House

* Burghley House, Lincolnshire

He spent the next decade at Burghley House, the property of the 5th Earl of Exeter, and Chatsworth, the property of the 4th Earl of Devonshire.

Verro's surviving decorative work in England can be seen at Burghley House, Chatsworth, Reigate Priory, Chelsea Hospital, Christ's Hospital, Ham House, Hampton Court Palace, Moor Park, Powis Castle, Snape Castle ( although in very bad condition ) and Windsor Castle.

His wall paintings can be found in Blenheim Palace, Marlborough House, Petworth House, Burghley House Fetcham Park House and Chatsworth House.

In addition to his easel pictures, Stothard decorated the grand staircase of Burghley House, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, with subjects of War, Intemperance, and the Descent of Orpheus in Hell ( 1799 – 1803 ); the mansion of Hafod, North Wales, with a series of scenes from Froissart and Monstrelet ( 1810 ); the cupola of the upper hall of the Advocates ' Library, Edinburgh ( later occupied by the Signet Library ), with Apollo and the Muses, and figures of poets, orators, etc.

* Cecil House, also called Exeter House or Burghley House, was on the north side of the Strand ; it was built in the 16th century by Lord Burghley as an expansion of an existing Tudor house.

Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate ( near Stamford, Lincolnshire ), and his wife, Jane Heckington.

The ancestral home of the Marquesses of Exeter is Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Born near Stamford, Lincolnshire as heir to the 5th Marquess of Exeter, Lord Burghley was educated at Eton College, Institut Le Rosey, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials is an annual three day event held at Burghley House near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, currently in early September.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and through the middle of the town, where it forded the Welland, eventually reaching Lincoln ; they built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash.

The licensed premises reflect the history and geography of the town with The Lord Burghley, The William Cecil, The Danish Invader and The Scotgate, ( and previously The Daniel Lambert ) together with the Easton on the Hill nearly thirty premises serve real ale.

The parkland of the Burghley Estate adjoins the town of Stamford on two sides.

When his father died he moved to the nearby town of Midhurst, England, and inherited the Earldom in 1581 when he became a royal ward under the immediate care of Lord Burghley.

Near Stamford ( actually in the historic Soke of Peterborough and the parish of Barnack ) is Burghley House, an Elizabethan mansion, vast and ornate, built by the First Minister of Elizabeth I, Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley.

* Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK ( John Dee's house exteriors / London alley / Paris street scene )

Among ancient mansions are Castle Ashby, the seat of the Comptons, the oldest portion belonging to the reign of Henry VIII ; Althorp, the seat of the Spencers, of various dates ; Drayton House, of the time of Henry VI ; the vast pile of Burghley House, Stamford, founded by Lord Burleigh ( 1553 ), but more than once altered and enlarged ; Kirby Hall, a beautiful Elizabethan building once the residence of Sir Christopher Hatton ; and Lilford Hall a fine example of a Jacobean mansion.

Burghley House () is a grand 16th-century country house in Cambridgeshire south of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England and northwest of the city of Peterborough.

As well as the annual Burghley Horse Trials, Burghley plays host to the famous " Burghley Run " for Stamford School and an annual meet for the Cambridge University Draghounds.

In later years Burghley was to upbraid Oxford frequently for his prodigal extravagance.

He had earlier petitioned both the Queen and Burghley on the condemned Norfolk's behalf, to no avail, and it was reported that he had plotted to provide a ship to assist his cousin's escape attempt to Spain.

He allowed his wife to attend the Queen at court, but only when he himself was not present, and stipulated that Burghley must make no further appeals to him on Anne's behalf.

Burghley interceded for him, and he was released from the Tower on 8 June, but he remained under house arrest until sometime in July.

In a letter to Burghley three years later Oxford offered to attend his father-in-law at his house " as well as a lame man might "; it is possible his lameness was a result of injuries from that encounter.

Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".

After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

Between 1591 and 1592 Oxford disposed of the last of his large estates ; Castle Hedingham, the seat of his earldom, went to Lord Burghley, it was held in trust for Oxford's three daughters by his first marriage.

In March he was unable to go to court due to illness, in August he wrote to Burghley from Byfleet, where he gone for his health: ' I find comfort in this air, but no fortune in the court.

His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Francis Bacon's uncle.

However, " farmer " is a common word, and " equivocation " was also the subject of a 1583 tract by Queen Elizabeth's chief councillor Lord Burghley, and of the 1584 Doctrine of Equivocation by the Spanish prelate Martin Azpilcueta, which was disseminated across Europe and into England in the 1590s.

This view was first expressed by Charles Wisner Barrell, who argued that De Vere " kept the place as a literary hideaway where he could carry on his creative work without the interference of his father-in-law, Burghley, and other distractions of Court and city life.

Oxfordian scholars respond that the concept of " equivocation " was the subject of a 1583 tract by Queen Elizabeth's chief councillor ( and Oxford's father-in-law ) Lord Burghley, as well as of the 1584 Doctrine of Equivocation by the Spanish prelate Martín de Azpilcueta, which was disseminated across Europe and into England in the 1590s.

* At 12, Oxford was made a royal ward and placed in the household of Lord Burghley, who was the Lord High Treasurer and Queen Elizabeth I's closest and most trusted advisor.

Oxfordians claim that Lord Burghley was the model for the character of chief minister Polonius in Hamlet.

* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.

* Polonius sent the spy Reynaldo to watch his son when Laertes was away at school, and for similar reasons Burghley sent a spy to watch his son, Thomas, when he was away in Paris.

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

" William Camden wrote a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and was granted access to the private papers of Lord Burghley and to the state archives.