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unusual facts about James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury



James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury

Salisbury was already imprisoned in the Tower of London, and the Lords ordered that "his lady, friends and servants" were to have access to him.

Afterwards he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for some twenty-two months, eventually being charged with high treason.

Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester

The co-heirs were now Edward Southwell (grandson of the eldest sister Catherine); James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (son of the second sister Anne); the fourth sister Mary (now widow of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower); and the fifth sister Isabella, (widow of Sir Francis Blake Delaval) or her daughter Isabella (wife of John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont).


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