For the Reformation Period: Documentary: Notices in Letters and
Papers, Henry VIII., ed. J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner, R. H. Brodie,
Record Publ. (19 vols., 1862-1905), and _Calendars of State Papers_
for Henry VIII., Edward VI., ed. R. Lemon (1856) and M. A. Green
(1870), for Mary, ed. Lemon (1856), Record Publ., and for Elizabeth,
Hatfield MSS., Hist. MSS. Comm.; _Acts of the Privy Council_, ed. J.
R. Dasent (1890), in progress; _Records of the Reformation_, ed. N.
Pocock (2 vols., Oxford, 1870); E. Cardwell, _Documentary Annals_
(Oxford, 1839); _Original Letters_, ed. H. Ellis (11 vols.,
1824-1846); _Zurich Letters_ (2 vols.), _Original Letters_ (2 vols.),
ed. Robinson (1842-1847); Latimer's _Sermons_ (1844), and _Archbishop
Parker's Correspondence_, ed. J. Bruce and T. T. Perowne, all Parker
Soc. Publ., Cambridge; see also _General Index to Parker Soc.'s Publ._
(1855); R. Pole (Cardinal), _Epistolae_, ed. Quirini (5 vols.,
Brescia, 1744-1757); G. W. Prothero, _Select Statutes_, &c.;
_Elizabeth and James I._ (3rd ed., Oxford, 1906). Supplementary:
Strype, _Ecclesiastical Memorials_ (6 vols., 1513-1556); _Annals_
(Elizabeth) (7 vols.); _Memorials of Cranmer_ (2 vols.); _Lives_ of
Parker (3 vols.), Grindal, Whitgift (3 vols.), all with a large
repertory of documents, also of Cheke, T. Smith and Aylmer (all
Oxford, 1820-1824); Burnet, _History of the Reformation_, ed. N.
Pocock (7 vols., Oxford, 1865), with many documents. Chronicles and
early Histories: W. Camden, _Annales_ (Elizabeth), ed. T. Hearne (3
vols., 1717); _Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary_, ed. J. G.
Nichols (Camden Soc., 1850); E. Hall, _Chronicle_ (Henry VIII.), ed.
C. Whibley (2 vols., London, 1904); N. Harpsfield, _Treatise on the
Pretended Divorce of Henry VIII._, ed. N. Pocock (Camden Soc., 1878);
J. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_ (often called "The Book of Martyrs"),
ed. S. R. Cattley and G. Townsend (a book with many facts
industriously gathered, many documents and some errors) (8 vols.,
London, 1843-1849); H. Machyn, _Diary_ (1550-1563), and _Narratives of
the Reformation_, both ed. J. G. Nichols (Camden Soc., 1854, 1859); W.
Roper, _The Life of Sir Thomas More_, ed. S. Singer (1817), and other
editions, a beautiful book by More's son-in-law; N. Sander, _De
origins ac progressu schismatis Anglicani_, continued by E. Rishton
(Rome, 1586), translated by D. Lewis (London, 1877) (Sander was a
Roman Catholic priest who wrote in 1576; his language is violent but
the narrative generally trustworthy); _The Presbyterian Movement in
the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_, ed. R. G. Usher (R. Hist. Soc., 1905).
Modern histories: J. H. Blunt, _History of the English Reformation_
(London, 1878), a careful work, though of no great historical
importance; T. E. Bridgett, _Life of Blessed John Fisher_ (London,
1888); R. W. Dixon, _History of the Church of England from the
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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