Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Appointment of Edward North as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely (1 May 1559)
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 236)
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Once queen, Elizabeth moved quickly to bring her loyalists into the government and remove her sister's supporters without humiliating them. This document appointed Lord North to a prominent ceremonial post of Lord Lieutenant, but at the same time he was dropped from the Queen's Privy Council. North had previously held offices under Henry VIII and Edward VI as well as under Mary I.

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