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BL Royal MS 2 A xviii, fo.30v – Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Book of Hours.
TNA E404/81/1 – Prince Henry’s christening, 1491.
BM MS Cotton Julius B XII fo.91 – Prince Henry is created Duke of York and a Knight of the Bath, 1494.
BL Egerton MS 1651 fo.1 – Erasmus’s poem to Prince Henry, 1499.
BL Additional MS 21404 fo.9 – Prince Henry’s letter to Philip the Handsome, 1506.
BL Additional MS 31922 – A volume of songs compiled by Sir Henry Guildford, including lyrics written by Henry VIII.
TNA SP1/5, fos.76–7 – Wolsey’s ‘purge’ of Henry VIII’s privy chamber, 1519.
BL Cotton MS Titus B I fo.188 – Henry VIII agrees to Cardinal Wolsey’s reform of his household, 1519.
BL MS Cotton Titus B.i, fo.192 – A ‘privy remembrance’ from Wolsey to Henry VIII, urging him to take measures for his security, 1520.
TNA PRO, SP 1/20, fos.42–3 – Sir Nicholas Wingfield’s letter to Wolsey regarding arrangements for the Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520.
TNA SP 1/49 fos.7–7v – The will of Sir William Compton, 1528.
BL MS Cotton Vitellius B.XII fo.173 – Thomas Alward’s description of Henry VIII’s last meeting with Wolsey, October 1529.
BL Cotton MS Titus B i fos.261r, 264 – Thomas Cromwell’s letters to Henry VIII.
TNA PROB 11/25, fo.243v – William Blount, Lord Mountjoy’s will, 1534.
BM Harleian MS 283 fo.134 – Letter from Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, regarding the preparations for the executions of Anne Boleyn and her alleged lovers, 1536.
BL MS Cotton Otho CX – Henry Percy’s letter to Cromwell, insisting he had not been pre-contracted to Anne Boleyn, 1536.
TNA SP 3/7, fo.28r – Sir John Russell’s letter to Arthur Plantagenet, announcing Henry VIII’s marriage to Jane Seymour, 1536.
BL Harley MS 282 fos.211–12 – Letter from Cromwell to Sir Thomas Wyatt, announcing the birth of Henry VIII’s son Edward, 1537.
TNA KB 8/11 fo.2 – The evidence against Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, 1538.
BL Cotton MS Titus B I – Letter from Cromwell to the Earl of Rutland, urging him to make Anne of Cleves more pleasing to the king, 1540.
BL Cotton MS Titus B i fos.267–9, Otho CX fo.242 – Cromwell’s letters to Henry VIII from the Tower, 1540.
BL Additional MS 48028 fos.160–5 – The indictment against Cromwell, 1540.
TNA SP 1/189 fo.151r – Sir John Russell’s letter to Henry VIII, complaining about the expense and futility of the war with France, 1545.
TNA SP 4/1 – The dry stamp register, 1546.
TNA E23/4 fo.16 – Henry VIII’s will, 1546.
BL Harley MS 1419 A – The inventory of Henry VIII’s possessions, 1547.
BM Cotton MS Nero C x, fo.12 – Edward VI’s diary, recording the death of his father, Henry VIII, 1547.
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