A Note on Sources

1. A Bull of Anglesey

J. Williams, ‘Penmynydd and the Tudors’, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd series, XV, 1869

Glyn Roberts, ‘Wyrion Eden: the Anglesey descendants of Ednyfed Fychan in the 14th century’, Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club (1951), pp. 34–72

Ralph A. Griffiths and Roger S. Thomas, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1985

Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, ed. J. Gairdner, Camden Society, 3rd series, XXVIII, 1880

C.H. Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Cambridge, 1874

M.K. Jones and M.G. Underwood, The King’s Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Cambridge, 1992

Chronicles of London, ed. C.L. Kingsford, Oxford, 1905

Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia, ed. D. Hay, Camden Society, n.s. 74 (1950)

Andre, Bernard, ‘Vita Henrici Septimi’ in Memorials of King Henry VII, ed. J. Gairdner, Rolls Series, London, 1858

2. The Rose of England

Michael Bennett, The Battle of Bosworth, Alan Sutton, 1985

Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia

The Song of Lady Bessy, ed. J.O. Halliwell, Percy Society, 20 (1877)

Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, ed. N.H. Nicolas, London, 1830

S.B. Chrimes, Henry VII, London, 1977

Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII, ed. W. Campbell, 2 vols, Rolls Series, London, 1873–7

The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources, ed. A.F. Pollard, 3 vols, London, 1913–14

Hall’s Chronicle, ed. H. Ellis, London, 1809

Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, ed. Roger Lockyer, Folio Society, London, 1971

3. A Wonder for Wise Men

John Leland, De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, Vol. IV, Oxford, 1715 (contains Margaret Beaufort’s Ordinances)

Calendar of State Papers, Spanish, Henry VII, ed. G.A. Bergenroth, London, 1862

Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. J. Gairdner, Rolls Series, London, 1861–3

Hall’s Chronicle, ed. Ellis

Francis Bacon, History, ed. Lockyer

The Fiancels of Margaret Tudor, Leland’s Collectanea, Vol. V

Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia

4. The Renaissance Prince

J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII, London, 1968

Hall’s Chronicle, ed. Ellis

Calendar of State Papers, Spanish, ed. G.A. Bergenroth, Vol. 2

Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, ed. Rawdon Brown, London, 1864, Vol. II

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of Henry VIII, ed. J.S. Brewer, J. Gairdner and R.H. Brodie, London, 1862–1910). This is a monumental work in 21 vols in 33 parts and is the basic source for the whole reign.

S.J. Gunn, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Oxford, 1988

5. Tudor Sisters

M.A.E. Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, London, 1849, Vol. 5

Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Tudor Princesses, London, 1868

Hester Chapman, The Sisters of Henry VIII, London, 1969

W.C. Richardson, Mary Tudor, the White Queen, London, 1970

Hall’s Chronicle, ed. Ellis

Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Brewer et al.

Cal. of State Papers, Venetian, Vol. II, ed. Brown

6. The King’s Secret Matter

Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, London, 1992

Garrett Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon, 1942

J.E. Paul, Catherine of Aragon and her Friends, 1966

Hester Chapman, Anne Boleyn, 1974

E.W. Ives, Anne Boleyn, Oxford, 1986

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Vol. 2, ed. Bergenroth

Hall’s Chronicle, ed. Ellis

George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey, ed. R.S. Sylvester, Early English Text Society, 1959

The Letters of King Henry VIII, ed. M. St. Clare Byrne, ne edn, London, 1968

Charles Wriothesley, Chronicle of England, ed. W.D. Hamilton, 2 vols, Camden Society, n.s. XI, 1875–7

7. England’s Treasure

Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, reprinted 1972

Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Brewer et al.

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Vol. 10,

H.F.M. Prescott, Mary Tudor, revised edition, 1952

David Loades, Mary Tudor: a Life, Oxford, 1989

Hester Chapman, The Last Tudor King, 1958

8. The Old Fox

Lacey Baldwin Smith, A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine Howard, London, 1961

John Foxe, Acts and Monuments [aka The Book of Martyrs], ed. S.R.T. Cattley and G. Townsend, London, 1837

Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England

Lacey Baldwin Smith, Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty, 1971

9. A Boy of Wondrous Hope

P.F. Tytler, England under the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary, 1839

W.K. Jordan, Edward VI: The Young King, London, 1968

Literary Remains of King Edward VI, ed. J.G. Nichols, 2 Vols, Roxburghe Club, 1857

John Hayward, The Life of Edward VI, in White Kennett, Complete History of England, Vol. II, 1706

F.A. Mumby, The Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth, 1906

State Papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, ed. Samuel Haynes, 1740 (contains the depositions, letters, etc., concerning Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour)

Strickland, Lives of the Tudor Princesses

Hester Chapman, Lady Jane Grey, London, 1962

10. Gone is Our Treasure

W.K. Jordan, Edward VI: The Threshold of Power, 1970

——, The Chronicle and Political Papers of Edward VI, New York, 1966

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Vols 10 and 11

Diary of Henry Machyn, ed. J.G. Nichols, Camden Society, 42, 1848

F. Madden, Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, 1831

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary, ed. J.G. Nichols, Camden Society, 48, 1850

11. The Rule of the Proud Spaniards

Prescott, Mary Tudor

Chronicle of the Greyfriars, ed. J.G. Nichols, Camden Society, 53, 1852

Chronicle of Queen Jane

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Vols 11 and 12

E.H. Harbison, Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary, Princeton UP, 1940

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey, N.H. Nicolas, London, 1825

12. In Honour of Worthy Philip

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Vol. 12

Cal. of State Papers, Venetian, Vols 5 and 6

Bedingfield Papers, ed. C.R. Manning, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, Vol. IV, 1855

Foxe, Acts and Monuments

13. England’s Eliza

Holinshed’s Chronicle, ed. H. Ellis, London, 1807

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Elizabeth, ed. M.A.S. Hume, 1892–9, Vol. 1

Cal. of State Papers, Foreign, Elizabeth, ed. J. Stevenson, 1863, Vol. 2

John Hayward, Annals of the first four years of the reign of Elizabeth, ed. John Bruce, Camden Society, 7, 1840

J.E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth I, new edn, 1952

Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth and Leicester, 1961

George Adlard, Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester, 1870

Strickland, Lives of the Tudor Princesses

Hester Chapman, Two Tudor Portraits, 1960 (for a modern study of Lady Catherine Grey)

14. When Hempe is Spun

Cal. of State Papers, Spanish, Elizabeth, ed. Hume, Vols 1 and 2

Cal. of State Papers, Foreign, Elizabeth, Vols 3 and 4

F.A. Mumby, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart: the Beginning of the Feud, Boston, 1914

Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1969

James Melville’s Memoirs, ed. Frances Steuart, 1929

Andre de Maisse, Journal, trans. G.B. Harrison, 1931