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(2) _Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII._ Vols. i.-iv. ed. Brewer, vols. v. ff. ed. J. Gairdner and others. Dr. Brewer carried his work down to the fall of Wolsey, arranging all available doc.u.ments so far as possible chronologically, but without other cla.s.sification. His introductions have been edited as two solid volumes (_v. infra_) by Dr. Gairdner. The subsequent editors were restricted as to the length of introduction permitted but the same system of arrangement is followed. Throughout, all doc.u.ments of any importance are transcribed with fulness.

(3) _State Papers, Venetian,_ (4) _State Papers, Ireland,_ (5) (State Papers, Spanish;_ all official collections throwing some light on (various aspects of the history. [2, 3, and 5 belong to the Rolls series.]

_Hamilton Papers_ (Scotland) 2 vols.: full transcriptions of the Hamilton collection of Papers.

_Letters of Thomas Cromwell,_ ed. Merriman, a complete collection of all the available letters of Cromwell, with a historical survey.

B. CHRONICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Buchanan, G., _History of Scotland;_ the author was an excellent scholar but a violent partisan with a rudimentary idea of evidence.

Cavendish, _Life of Cardinal Wolsey_. The author was a member of Wolsey's household, from 1526, and regarded him with affection and admiration.

Fabyan: see under Henry VII.

Fish, Simon, _The Supplicacyon for the Beggers,_ a pamphlet ill.u.s.trating the most extravagant anti-clerical att.i.tude, just before Wolsey's fall.

Foxe, J., _Acts and Monuments,_ commonly known as the ”_Book of Martyrs_”. The work of a strong but honest partisan and a good hater.

_Narratives of the Reformation_ by the same author.

Hall's Chronicle: see under Henry VII.

Holinshed, Raphael, _Chronicle_: compiled in the reign of Elizabeth. It forms with Hall's Chronicle, the basis of the popular impressions of English History down to Elizabeth, partly no doubt because Shakespeare, drawing upon those works, has made those popular impressions permanent.

Knox, John, _History of the Reformation;_ less valuable perhaps as a record of facts set forth with a strong bias than as a revelation of the mental att.i.tude of the great Reformer and his followers.

Latimer, Hugh, _Sermons_.

Lyndsay, Sir David, _Poetical Works,_ for Social and Ecclesiastical conditions in Scotland.

Lyndsay of Pitscottie, _Historie of Scotland_. See under Henry VII.

More, Thomas, _Utopia_ (1516) expresses the ideas of an advanced political thinker, and incidentally, directly or by implication, conveys much information as to prevalent social economic and intellectual conditions.

Pole, Reginald (Cardinal), _Epistolae,_ ill.u.s.trating the Cardinal's own views.

Roper, W., _Life of Sir T. More,_ whose son-in-law the author was.

Sanders, Nicholas, _History of the Anglican Schism_ presented from the extreme (contemporary) Catholic point of view.

Skelton, J., _Poems_.

Macchiavelli, N., _The Prince_.

INTERMEDIATE

Burnet, Gilbert, _History of the Reformation;_ painstaking, liberal-minded and Orthodox, but requiring modification in the light of later information.

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