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327 Under New Management

The History of England

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The Count of Salisbury

Raleigh's trial transformed his reputation from universal contempt to universal sympathy with the gen pub an ever wrote. He was mindlessly aggressive, and the evidence against raleigh was wafer. But james then repeated his little trick of reprieving raleigh on the gallows, and he was instead to spend the next 15 years writing away busily. Robert cecil remained at the heart of the government and james's right hand man, confirmed in post a secretary of state. By 16 o five, cecil will have been made the earl of salisbury. And so now we have that traditional problem of key players changing their names. So joining a salisbury were henry

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