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JOHN WHETHAMSTEDE'S REGISTER: Registrum Abbatia Johannis Whethamstede, Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Albani, iterum susceptæ, ed. Riley in No. XXXI. 1452-1461. The time of the War of the Roses.

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Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the English in France during the Reign of Henry VI, ed. J. Stevenson. No. XXXI. 1861, 1864. This collection includes the Annals and Collections of William of Worcester, the Chronicle of Jean le Bel; the collection is continued by the same editor in Narratives of the Expulsion of the English from Normandy. 1449-50. No. XXXI. 1863.

FROISSART'S CHRONICLES: Chroniques, qui traitent des merveilleuses emprises. en France, Angleterre, Bretaigne, Burgogne, Escosse, Espagne, Portingal et ès Autres Parties, ed. J. A. C. Buchon. Paris, 1835. translations and editions.

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Most interesting. Covers period 1326-1400.

Many

MONSTRELET'S NARRATIVES: Chroniques d'Enguerrand de Monstrelet, ed. J. A. Buchon. Paris, 1826. Several translations, one by T. Johnes. London, 1849 (Bohn). Begins where Froissart ends. Terminates 1467. See also Robert Blondel in No. XXXI, 1863.

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HISTORIE OF THE ARRIVAL OF EDWARD IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of his Kingdomes from Henry VI., ed. J. Bruce. No. XXVI. 1838.

Valuable contemporary account.

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PASTON LETTERS. Ed. by J. Gairdner. 1872-75. Other editions.

1422-1509. Light on social life of period. Overrated source. The prefaces of the editor are more valuable than the sources.

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CONTINUATION OF THE CROYLAND CHRONICLE: Petri Blesensis continuatio ad Historiam Ingulphi. Gale, Fell and Fulman's Scriptures; also elsewhere. Translations. H. T. Riley. London, 1854 (Bohn).

Important for reign of Edward IV. Not to be confounded with the Ingufian forgery.

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PECOCKS REPRESSOR: The Repressor of over much Blaming of the Clergy, ed. C. Babington. No. XXXI. 1860..

This work indicates the theological movement of the fifteenth century.

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LITTLE BUNDLE OF TARES: Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif cum Tutico, ascribed to T. Netter; ed. W. W. Shirley. No. XXXI. 1858.

The contemporary account of the rise of Lollardy. Strongly anti-Lollard.

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WYCLIF'S WORKS.

These have appeared in many editions and by various editors. Among them, Select English Works, ed. T. Arnold. 1871. The English Works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted, ed. F. D. Matthew. No. XXXVII. 1880.

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MORE'S EDWARD V AND RICHARD III: Historie of the pitifull life and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth. Also, The History of Richard the Third. In various editions; also in Kennett's Complete History of England. London, 1719.

Considered by S. R. Gardiner as a contemporaneous ac

count.

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Grants, etc. From the Crown during the Reign of Edward The Fifth from the Original Docket-Book and Two Speeches for Opening Parliament, ed. J. G. Nichols. 1854. Of some value for a period not well illustrated.

SECTION 7.- THE TUDOR PERIOD

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MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY VII., ed. W. Campbell. No. XXXI. 1873, 1877. From original documents. Furnishes valuable material for the study of the reign.

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POLYDORE VIRGIL: Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglica Histori Libri Vigintiseptem. Basel, 1534. Also in No. XXVI. Translation, first VIII books, in No. XXVI. Very high authority from the time of Henry VI., where contemporay record becomes scanty. Somewhat biassed, violently opposed to Wolsey, but otherwise accurate. Should be read in connection with No. CXLVIII.

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BERNARD ANDRÉ: Historia Regis Henrici Septimi a Bernardo Andrea Tholosate conscripta, necnon alia quædam ad eundem regem spectantia, ed. J. Gairdner. No. XXXI.

1858.

Best contemporary record of reign of Henry VII. It is to be found in Memorials of Henry VII, ed. J. Gairdner. No. XXXI, 1847. This work contains other valuable material.

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VENETIAN RELATION: A Relation, or rather a true account, of the Isle of England; with sundry particulars of the customs of these People and of the Royal Revenues under Kng Henry the Seventh about the year 1500. Translation. No. XXVI. 1847.

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Political, commercial, financial data of reign of Hen. VII.

The col

STATE PAPERS OF THE TUDOR PERIOD. lection of manuscripts is extremely large. It has been indexed and epitomized in the various Calendars which have been issued by the Record Commission under the following title: Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, and James I.; Calendar of State Papers,

Foreign Series, of the Reign of Edward VI.; Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Mary; Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth; Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to English Affairs preserved in the Archives of Venice and other Libraries of Northern Italy, 1202-1591; Calendar of Letters, Despatches and State Papers dealing with the Negotiations between England and Spain, preserved in the Archives of Simancas and elsewhere, 1485-1543. Selections from the State Papers of Henry VIII. have been issued by the Record Commission under the following titles: Domestic Correspondence; Correspondence Relating to Ireland; Correspondence Relating to Scotland; Correspondence between England and other Courts. See No. XXV.

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HARPSFIELD'S TREATISE: The Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII. and Catharine of Aragon, by Nicholas Harpsfield. No. XXVI, 1878, ed. N. Pococke.

Written from the Catholic point of view. Consult also Reginald Pole's treatise de Unitate Ecclesiæ.

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RECORD OF THE REFORMATION. by N. Pococke.

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Valuable material for period 1527-1533.

Oxford, 1870, ed.

MORE'S UTOPIA: A truteful and pleasaunt worke of the beste State of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Utopia: Written in Latine by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and translated into Englyshe by Ralphe Robynson Citizein and Goldsmythe of London, at the procurement and earnest request of George Tadlowe Citizein and Haberdassher of the same city. London, 1551. Arbers' English Reprints 1869, also other editions.

Social and political evils and abuses of first half of the sixteenth century.

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STARKEY'S ENGLAND in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, ed. S. J. Herrtage. No. XXXVII. 1878.

Social and political evils and abuses of the sixteenth century.

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HALL'S CHRONICLE: Containing the History of England during the Reign of Henry the Fourth and the succeeding Monarchs to the End of the Reign of Henry the Eighth, in which are particularly described the Manners and Customs of these Periods. Various editions. 1548, 1550, 1809.

Should be considered with the work of Polydore Virgil, upon which it is very largely based. Virgil is bitterly opposed to Woolsey and his partisans; Hall flatters them. These books well illustrate the opposing parties of the reign of Henry VIII. for which period they are contemporary

sources.

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HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES of England, Scotland and Ireland. Various edits. First in 1557, 1586.

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Various Chronicles. Valuable sources. Last edition brings record to 1586. First edition contains passages suppressed in succeeding editions but printed separately in 1723.

STOW, JOHN

(a) A Summarie of the Chronicles of England diligently collected, abridged, and continued unto this present year of Christ 1604. London, 1604.

Be

(b) Annales or a Generall Chronicle of England. gun by John Stow: Continued and augmented with matters Foreign and Domestique, Ancient and Moderne, unto the end of this present yeere, 1631. By Edmund Howes, Gent. London, 1631.

(c) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminister and the Burough of Southwark. Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, present State and Government of those Cities. Written at first in the Year 1598 by John Stow, Citizen and Native of London. Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged in the Year 1720 by John Strype, M. O. A native also of the said City. The Survey and History brought down to the present time by careful hands. With an appendix. London, 1754. Several other edits.

These works of Stow are extremely valuable. Stow was unbiassed, well informed, and accurate in description.