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An English Garner (8 vols., ed. Edward Arber, London, 1877–92).

Anselme, Père (Father Anselm of the Virgin Mary): Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de France, et des grands officiers de la couronne (2 vols., 1674).

The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellany, intended to Preserve and Illustrate Several Valuable remains of Old Times (4 vols., ed. F. Grose and T. Astle, London, 1775–84, 1808).

Bellay, Martin and Guillaume: Mèmoires (4 vols., ed. V. L. Bourrilly and F. Vindry, Paris, 1908–19).

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris MS. fr.7853, f.305b.

Blackwood, Adam: Martyre de la Reyne d’Éscosse (Edinburgh, 1587; Antwerp, 1588).

Bourbon, Nicolas: Nicolae Borbonii Vandoperani Lingonensis, Nugarum libri octo (Lyons, 1538; Basel, 1540).

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Camden, William: Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (London, 1615).

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Carey, Sir Robert: Memoirs of the Life of Robert Carey, Baron of Leppington and Earl of Monmouth, written by himself (written before 1627; ed. John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery, London, 1759; ed. F. H. Mares, Oxford, 1972).

Carles, Lancelot de: Letter containing the criminal trial brought against the Queen Anne Boleyn of England (Mss. Fr. 1742 and 2370, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, written 1536, published Lyons, 1545, of which a copy is in the British Library; published as “Épistre contenant le procès criminel faict a l’encontre de la royne Anne Boullant d’Angleterre” (in La Grande Bretagne devant l’Opinion Française by Georges Ascoli, Paris, 1927).

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Cavendish, George: Metrical Visions (published in vol. 2 of S. W. Singer’s edition of George Cavendish’s The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, London, 1825).

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Dugdale, William: Monasticon Anglicanum (6 vols., ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandine, London, 1817–30).

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Leti, Gregorio: Vita di Elisabetta (Amsterdam, 1692).

The Letters of King Henry VIII (ed. Muriel St. Clair Byrne, London, 1936).

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Letters of the Queens of England, 1100–1547 (ed. Anne Crawford, Stroud, 1994).

Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain (3 vols., ed. Mary Anne Everett Wood, London, 1846).

The Lisle Letters (6 vols., ed. Muriel St. Clair Byrne, London and Chicago, 1981).

The Love Letters of Henry VIII (ed. Henry Savage, London, 1949).

The Love Letters of Henry VIII (ed. Jasper Ridley, 1988).

The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell (ed. Hugh Campbell, London, 1825).

Mander, Karel van: Schilderbook (1604; trans. Constant van der Wall, New York, 1936).

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Pole, Reginald: Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione (A Defence of the Unity of the Church) (Rome, 1538, based on an open letter sent to Henry VIII in 1536).

Puttenham, George: The Art of English Poesie (London, 1589; ed. G. D. Willcock and Alice Walker, London, 1936).

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Robinson, C.: “Carey, Barons Hunsdon, etc.” (Herald and Genealogist, 8 vols., London, 1867).

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Skelton, John: The Book of the Laurel (ed. Frank Walsh Brownlow, Delaware, 1990).

Sloane mss., British Library.

Smyth, John: The Berkeley Manuscripts: Lives of the Berkeleys (ed. Sir John Maclean, Gloucester, 1883).

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Statutes of the Realm (11 vols., Records Commissioners, London, 1810–28).

Stow, John: A Survey of London (London, 1598; Stroud, 1994).

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