320 INDEX
India, 263, 264 ; his views on the Church, 264 ; his relations with Disraeli, 264 266 ; at the Conference of Constantinople 267, 268 ; Gladstone's opinion of him, 267, 278, 281 ; his relations with Lord Derby, 269, 270 ; Foreign Secretary, 270 ; at the Berlin Congress, 270 273 ; succeeds Beacons- field as leader in the Lords, 274 ; on Home Rule, 276, 277,
282, 283 ; Prime Minister, 279 ; his " blazing indiscretions,"
283, 284 ; his second administration, 285 290 ; his third administration, 290 299 ; defects of his ministry, 291, 292 ; death of his wife, 298 ; his fourth administration, 299, 300 ; resigns, 300 ; his death, 301 ; compared with Lord Burghley, 301, 302, 307 ; personal characteristics, 301 305 ; his place as a statesman, 305 308
Cecil, Sophia, wife of Henry Pierrepont, 141 note Cecil, Sir Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, 7, 20, 43, 44, 78, 121 ; his birth, 79 ; his adventures on the Continent, 80 88 ; his marriage, 89 ; appointed Governor of the Brill, 92 ; relations with his brother, 94, 95 ; succeeds as Lord Burghley, 96 ; appointed President of the North, 97 ; created Earl of Exeter, 100 ; his last years and death, 100 102 Cecil, Thomas Chambers, 138 Cecil, Lady Victoria, 143
Cecil, William, second Earl of Exeter, 93, 107, 121 123 Cecil, William, Lord Roos, 100, 101, 122, 124 130 Cecil, William, second Earl of Salisbury, 166, 180, 210, 212,
219 225
Cecil, William, of Tewin (son of the second Earl of Salisbury), 226 Cecil, William (son of the third Earl of Salisbury), 231 Cecil, Colonel Lord William, 144 Cecil, Rev. Lord William, 309
Cecil, William Alleyne, third Marquess of Exeter, 143, 144 Cecil, William Thomas Brownlow, fifth Marquess of Exeter, 54,
55 and note, 145
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 4 7, 9, n, 13, 14, 122, 146, 152, 1 60, 169, 172 ; his interest in genealogy and heraldry, i, 18 ; birth and education, 15, 16 ; his first marriage, 17 ; advance- ment at Court, 19, 21 ; second marriage, 20 ; in favour with Somerset, 21 23 ; appointed Secretary of State, 24 ; his behaviour to Somerset, 24 26 ; evades responsibility for Northumberland's plot, 29 ; his bad health, 28, 55 ; his position during Mary's reign, 30 32 ; his attitude to religious questions, 31, 70, 71 ; his relations with Elizabeth, 32, 33 ; receives grants of land, 33 ; enlarges Burghley House, 33 35, 40, 53 55 ; Secretary of State under Elizabeth, 36 ; his share in the religious settlement of 1559, 37 ; negotiates the Treaty of Edinburgh, 38 ; made Master of the Court of Wards, 38, 39 ; enlarges Cecil House, 40 ; builds Theobalds, 40 43 ; his children, 43 ; plots against him, 44, 45, 49, 50, 64 ; authorised use of torture, 47, 48 ; his magnanimity to opponents, 48 ; created Lord Burghley, 51 ; made Lord Treasurer, 52 ; his expenses, 52, 53 ; meets Mary Queen of Scots at Buxton, 55, 56 ; marriage of his daughter to the Earl of Oxford, 57 59 ; his encouragement
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