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 illustrating the most extravagant anti-clerical attitude, 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 attitude 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, illustrating 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.
Prescott, Conquest of Mexico and Peru: the classical work on the subject.
Robertson, Charles V.
Strype, Memorials of Cranmer.
MODERN: A. GENERAL
Armstrong, E., Charles V., the best record of the Emperor's career.
Brewer, J. S., The Reign of Henry VIII.: Introductions to the vols. of "L. & P." to the fall of Wolsey: edited in 2 vols. by J. Gairdner. Incomparable as an examination and exposition of the Cardinal's career.
Creighton (Bishop), Wolsey (in the Twelve English Statesmen series), practically an exposition of Brewer for the general reader.
Froude, J. A., History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Armada. An English classic, but an unsafe guide. Mr. Froude studied and made use of an immense mass of evidence not before available; but his transcriptions and summaries are not always distinguishable nor always accurate. He was unable to describe otherwise than picturesquely and impressively, and his colouring of events is frequently imaginative; he was overpowered by an anti-clerical passion and an almost blind enthusiasm for Henry VIII.
Oppenheim, M., History of the Administration of the Royal Navy, etc.
Seebohm, F., Era of the Protestant Revolution ("Epoch" series), professedly for school use, but extremely useful to even advanced students.
Pollard, A. F., Henry VIII.; a sumptuous study.
MODERN: B. REFORMATION
Dixon, R. W., History of the English Church (vols. i. and ii.): actually, of the Reformation in England, down to Elizabeth. Further volumes have however been added. The author holds a brief against the anti-clericals of every kind; his view may be summarised as Anglo-Catholic: the precise antithesis of Froude. He is full and careful in his documentary evidence, but is so persistently ironical as occasionally to convey prima facie an impression diametrically opposed to what was intended.
Gairdner, J., History of the English Church in the Sixteenth Century, concluding with the death of Mary. An admirably judicial survey, with a moderate predilection for the Conservative side.
Gasquet, F. A., Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries, and The Eve of the Reformation. Very able and judicial statements of the case for Home and the loyal Roman Catholics.
Innes, A. D., Cranmer and the English Reformation (in "The World's
Epoch Makers"): a short study.
Mason, A. J., Thomas Cranmer (in "Leaders of Religion"): a short study.
Moore, Aubrey, History of the Reformation. This volume consists almost entirely of notes, varying in fulness, for courses of lectures delivered by Canon Moore. The student will find them of much assistance in classifying and correlating events, and touched with flashes of insight. The High Anglican position is taken for granted throughout.
Pollard, A. F., Cranmer (in "Heroes of the Reformation" series); somewhat fuller than the above-mentioned studies.
Seebohm, F., The Oxford Reformers. (See under Henry VII.)
Taunton, E., Thomas Wolsey, Reformer and Legate—from the Roman point of view.
Westcott (Bishop), History of the English Bible.
EDWARD VI
CONTEMPORARY: A. DOCUMENTARY
Calendar of State Papers, Edward VI., etc., Domestic; vol. i. (Rolls.) Little more than a catalogue. Somewhat amplified by the Addenda in vol. vi.
Calendar of State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign, 1 vol. (Rolls.) Fairly full.
Calendar of Scottish State Papers, Ed. Bain.
Hamilton Papers (Scotland).