This movie aired on HBO late on this Saturday night past. I enjoyed it immensely - staying up way too late. The execution scene (of E's cousin, Mary - lovely family, heh?) matches closely with John Guy's account of same in his "The True Life of Mary Stuart Queen of Scots", so I gathered we were getting good history from the production.

I wonder if the Tyrone O'Neill's clever tactics will be properly credited for the demise of young Devereux in Part 2 of the production.   Reckon I oughter tune in to find out.

ASIDE:
By chance, last Thursday, I had asked a Morgan County (Kentucky) native by the name o' Rex Cecil (there's a good few Cecils in the hollars of Morgan and Wolfe) if he claimed any ancestral connection with E's Baron Burghley. Says Rex, "Ya mean my 16th great-grandpappy Billy Cecil?"

I intend to seek/demand some documentation from Rex when I see him again. It leads me to a question (I'll be stunned if I receive an answer):

The cash crop that had sustained family farms here for generations is "burley" tobacco. Would anyone know if Kentucky's burley got its name from an English Burghley?

Cheers,

Danneeo