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accomplishment of a facetious wit to recommend him", but also that "many persons, knowing what interest he had with Sir Robert ... made him their friend, at any rate, to solicit their causes with him, who was ever... ready to gratify Sir Michael, especially where the benefit was likely to accrue to him".
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but seems to have surrendered the post on 12 July 1604. According to Wotton, Hicks "was well skilled in philological learning, and had read over the polite Roman historians and moralists; out of which authors he made large collections, especially of the moral and wise sentences out of which he filled
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after Burghley's death, Hicks became an influential figure at court and appears to have been popular. Kimber & Johnson (1771) state that he "by his ingenious education and good parts, became very polite and agreeable and was admitted into a society of learned and eminent persons, having the
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money in 1593, and between that year and 1608 Bacon sent him several appeals for further loans. Hicks proved a very friendly creditor. Bacon invariably wrote to him in amicable terms and urged him to preserve good relations between himself and Sir Robert Cecil. To
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Joining the household of Sir William Cecil, the future Lord Burghley, he rose to become one of Burghley's two principal secretaries at the time he was the Queen's chief minister. Taking the same position with
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Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ...
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Hicks appeared to have possessed considerable financial abilities, and his personal friends sought his aid and counsel in their pecuniary difficulties. He lent
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Michael Hicks (or Hickes) born 21 October 1543, was the eldest son of Robert Hicks of Bristol, Gloucestershire, at one time a London merchant. His mother was
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In June 1604, he was granted the site and demesne of the priory of Lenton, Nottinghamshire. On 16 June 1604 Hicks entertained
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and suggests he was the author (who to this day has not been conclusively identified) of the
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Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall
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in every Parliament but one between 1585 and his death, representing
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survives, depicting him and his wife as semi-reclining figures.
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On 17 May 1603, Hicks became Receiver-General for the county of
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629
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Hicks died at Ruckholt on 15 August 1612 of a "burning
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Michael Hicks
Leyton
St Mary's Church, Leyton
Trinity College, Cambridge
Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet
Julian Penn
Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden
courtier
Lord Burghley
Queen Elizabeth I
Julian (or Juliana)
Baptist
Viscount Campden
Trinity College, Cambridge
Lincoln's Inn
Sir Robert Cecil
Francis Bacon
Fulke Greville
Beverstone
Leyton
Essex
Elizabeth I
Henry Maynard
James I
knighted
Theobalds
Leyton
MP
Truro
Shaftesbury

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