BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The following list of books provides only a short introduction to the very large literature now available on the Tudor period. For a detailed biblio­ graphy, students should consult Conyers Read, Bibliography of British History: Tudor Period 1485-1603 (2nd ed., Oxford, 1959). In addition to the books cited below, two works have been indispensable for compiling a reference book of this type. They are M. Po wicke and E. B. Fryde (eds.), Handbook of British Chronology (2nd ed., London, 1961) and G. R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution (Cambridge, 1972). In addition to the books cited below, readers are referred to the detailed footnote references in the appropriate chapter. CROWN AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT THE PRIVY COUNCIL Elton, G. R., 'Why the History of the Early Tudor Council Remains Un­ written' in Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, I (Cambridge, 1974). -'Henry VII's Council' in ibid. Hoak, D. E., The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge, 1976). Hurstfield, 1., 'The Succession Struggle in Late Elizabethan England' in Elizabethan Government and Society ed. S. T. Bindoff et al. (London, 1961). Pulman, M. B., The Elizabethan Privy Council in the Fifteen-seventies (Berke­ ley, California, 1971). THE SEALS AND THE SECRETARY Dewar, M., Sir Thomas Smith (London, 1964). Elton, G. R., Policy and Police: the Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (Cambridge, 1972). -Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government (Cambridge, 1974). Emmison, F. G., Tudor Secretary (London, 1961). Evans, F. M. G., The Principle Secretary of State (Manchester, 1923). Hearder, H. and Loyn, H. R. (eds), BritishG overnment and Administration: Studies Presented to S. B. Chrimes. 221 ENGLISH HISTORICAL FACTS 1485-1603 Read, C., Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols (Oxford, 1925). ROY AL FINANCE Bell, H. E., An Introduction to the History and Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries (Cambridge, 1953). Dietz, F. C., English Public Finance 1558-1642 (New York, 1932). -English Government Finance 1485-1558 (University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, IX, 1920, no. 3). Gras, N., The Early English Customs System (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1918). Hooker, J. R., 'Some Cautionary Notes on Henry VII's Household and Chamber "System" " Speculum, XXXIII (1958). Hurstfield, J., The Queen's Wards (London, 1958). Newton, A. P., 'The Establishment of the Great Farm of the English Cus­ toms', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th series (1918). Richardson, W. C., Tudor Chamber Administration (Baton Rouge, 1952). PARLIAMENT Elton, G. R., 'The Commons' Supplication against the Ordinaries: Parlia­ mentary Manoeuvres in the Reign of Henry VIII', English Historical Review, LXVI (1951). Hinton, R. W. K., 'The Decline of Parliamentary Government under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts', Cambridge Historical Journal, XIII (1957). McKisack, M., The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs during the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1932). Neale, J. E., The Commons' Privilege of Free Speech in Parliament, Tudor Studies presented . .. to A. F. Pollard (London, 1924). -The Elizabethan House of Commons (London, 1949). -Elizabeth I and her Parliaments (London, 1957). -Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958). -'Peter Wentworth', English Historical Review, XXXIX (1924). Notestein, W., The Winning of the Initiative by the House of Commons (London, 1924). Pike, L. 0., A Constitutional History of the House of Lords (London, 1894). Pollard, A. F., The Evolution of Parliament (2nd ed., London, 1934). LOCAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL Hassell Smith, A., County and Court: Government and Politics in Norfolk /558-1603 (Oxford, 1974). 222 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Hurstfield, J., 'County Government c. I 530-c. 1660' in V.C.H. Wiltshire, v (1957). Smith, A. G. R., The Government of Elizabethan England (London, 1967). Willcox, W. B., Gloucestershire: a study in local government, /590-/640 (New Haven, 1940). REGIONAL COUNCILS Brooks, F. W., The Council of the North (Historical Association series, 1953). Reid, R. R., The King's Council of the North (London, 1921). Williams, P., The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I (Cardiff, 1958). Youings, J., 'The Council of the West' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series (1960). ASSIZES Cockburn, J. S., A History of English Assizes /558-/714 (Cambridge, 1972). QUARTER SESSIONS AND THE J.P.S Forster, G. C. F., The East Riding Justices of the Peace in the Seventeenth Century (East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1973). LORDS LIEUTENANTS AND DEFENCE Boynton, L., The Elizabethan Militia 1558-1638 (London and Toronto, 1967). Cruickshank, C. G., Elizabeth's Army (2nd ed., Oxfo.rd, 1966). Sainty, J. C., Lieutenants of Counties 1585-1642 (Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Special Supplement, VIII, 1970). Scott Thomson, G., Lords Lieutenants in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1923) TOWNS Dyer, A. D., The City of Worcester in the Sixteenth Century (Leicester, 1973). MacCaffrey, W. T., Exeter 1540-1640 (2nd ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976). Phythian-Adams, c., 'Ceremony and the Citizen: the Communal Year at Coventry, 1450-1550' in P. Clark (ed.), The Early Modern Town (London, 1976). JUDICATURE GENERAL Elton, G. R., The Tudor Constitution (Cambridge, 1960). -The Tudor Revolution in Government, (Cambridge, 1953). -'The Rule of Law in Sixteenth-Century England' in Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, I (Cambridge, 1974). 223 ENGLISH HISTORICAL FACTS 1485-1603 Harding, A., The Law Courts of Medieval England (London, 1973). Holdsworth, W. H., A History of English Law (13 vols., London, 1903 onwards): vol. I describes the courts. Hurstfield, J., 'Was there a Tudor Despotism after all?' in Freedom, Corrup­ tion and Government (London, 1973). ANCIENT COURTS Hastings, M., The Court of Common Pleas in Fifteenth-Century England (Ithaca, 1947). Jones, W. J., The Elizabethan Court of Chancery (Oxford, 1967). ST AR CHAMBER AND CONCILIAR COURTS Elton, G. R., Star Chamber Stories (London, 1958). Leadam, 1. S., Select Cases in the Court of Requests, 1467-1569 (Selden Society, XII, London, 1898): introduction describes the court. Ruddock, A. A., 'The Earliest Records of the High Court of Admiralty, 1515-58' in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, XXII (1949). THE CHURCH AND RELIGION THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCH AND THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS Heath, P., The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation (London and Toronto, 1969). Knowles, D., The Religious Orders in England: III, The Tudor Age (Cambridge, 1959). Pollard, A. F., Wolsey (London, 1929 [Fontana, 1965]). Smith, H. M., Pre-Reformation England (London, 1938). Thomson, J. A. F., The Later Lollards, 1414-1520 (Oxford, 1965). THE REFORMATION AND THE GROWTH OF PROTESTANTISM Dickens, A. G .. , The English Reformation (Revised ed., London, 1967). -Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York, 1509-1558 (Oxford, 1959). -Thomas Cromwell and the English Reformation (London, 1959). Elton, G. R., Policy and Police: the Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (Cambridge, 1972). McConica, J. K., English Humanists and Reformation Politics (Oxford, 1965). Palliser, D. M., The Reformation in York, 1534-1553 (York, Borthwick Papers, 1971). Rupp, E. G., Studies in the Making of the English Protestant Tradition (Cambridge, 1947). Scarisbrick, J. J., Henry VIII (London, 1968). Smith, L. B., Tudor Prelates and Politics 1536-1558 (Princeton, New Jersey, 1953). 224 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Williams, G., 'The Protestant Experiment in the Diocese of St. David's, 1534-1555', in Welsh Reformation Essays (Cardiff, 1967), pp. 111-39. THE MARIAN REACTION Dickens, A. G., The Marian Reaction in the Diocese of York (York, Borth­ wick Papers, 1957). Loades, D. M., 'The Enforcement of Reaction, 1553-58', Journal of EC('le­ siastical History, XVI, 1965, pp. 54-66. -The Oxford Martyrs (London, 1970). Powell, K. G., The Marian Martyrs and the Reformation in Bristol (Bristol, Historical Association series, 1972). PURITANISM, CATHOLICISM AND THE ELIZABETHAN CHURCH Bossy, J., 'The Character of Elizabethan Catholicism', in Crisis in Europe 1560-1660, ed. T. Aston (London, 1965) pp. 223-46. Collinson, P., The Elizabethan Puritan Mm'ement (London, 1967). Cross, C The Royal Supremacy in the Elizabethan Church (London, 1969). Hill, C, Economic Problems of the Church,from Whitgift to the Long Parlia­ ment (Oxford, 1956). Knappen, M. M., Tudor Puritanism (Chicago, 1939 [Phoenix, 1970)). McGrath, P. Y., Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I (London, 1967). Porter, H. C, Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge (Cambridge, 1958). -Puritanism in Tudor England (London, 1970). THE ENGLISH BIBLE Mozley, J. F., Com'dale and his Bibles (London, 1953). Pollard, A. W., Records of the English Bible (Oxford, 1911). EDUCATION GENERAL Charlton, K., Education in Renaissance England (London, 1965), Simon, J., Education and Society in Tudor England (Cambridge, 1966). Stone, L., 'The Educational Revolution in England, 1560-1640' in Past and Present, XXVIII (1964). SCHOOLS Baldwin, T. W., William Shakespeare's small Latine and lesse Greeke (Oxford, 1944). Lawson, J., The Endowed Grammar Schools of East Yorkshire (York, 1962). Leach, A. F., English Schools at the Reformation (London, 1896). Orme, N., English Schools in the Middle Ages (London, 1973). 225 ENGLISH HISTORICAL FACTS 1485-1603 Orme, N., Education in the West of England 1066-1548 (Exeter, 1977). Simon, J., 'The Reformation