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unusual facts about Court of Wards


Court of Wards

The Court of Wards and Liveries, a defunct legal body of 16th- and 17th-century England


Richard Percivale

The queen rewarded him with a pension, and later with a place in the Duchy of Lancaster; and Burghley, when his son Robert Cecil became master of the court of wards, made him "secretary" of the court.


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Elizabethan government

Sir Robert Cecil, second son of Sir William Cecil, was Secretary of State in 1596 and master of Court of Wards after a clash with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.