The Cecil Papers are now available on Databases A-Z.

The Cecil Papers provides online access to a collection of Tudor and early Stuart documents, principally from the reigns of Elizabethan I and James I/VI, privately held by the Gascoyne-Cecil family at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. The resource contains nearly 30,000 documents gathered by William Cecil (1521-98), Lord Burghley and his son Robert Cecil (1563-1612), First Earl of Salisbury. These important statesmen were Lord High Treasurer and Secretary of State serving Elizabeth I and then James I. The collection includes many 16th and 17th century state papers, grants from the Crown, legal documents, treaties, correspondence, and political memoranda.