NOTE TO THIS VOLUME
The purpose of this volume is to supply several of those documents which are of great historical importance, and which, at present, find no place in the series of documents published by the Oxford University Press. Further, while most of the more important historical events are dealt with, an attempt has been made to introduce the student to the Tudor Atmosphere, and to reproduce as much as possible, both the mental and bodily energy, the prosperity, and the general virility of the period.
F. W. B.
St. Paul's School,
September 1912.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| page | |||
| Introduction | [v] | ||
| 1485. | Device for the Coronation of Henry VII. | Rutland Papers | [1] |
| 1486. | Introduction of the Yeomen of the Guard. The Sweating Sickness | Holinshed | [3] |
| 1486. | Insurrection of Lambert Simnel | " | [4] |
| 1490. | The Levying of Benevolences | " | [9] |
| 1496. | The Rebellion of the Cornishmen | " | [10] |
| 1499. | Perkin Warbeck's Confession | " | [14] |
| 1500. | Reception of Princess Catharine | Paston Letters | [16] |
| 1504. | Cardinal Morton's Fork | Holinshed | [17] |
| 1506. | The Meeting of Henry VII. and the King of Castile | Paston Letters | [18] |
| 1509. | Superstition | Erasmus | [20] |
| 1516. | The Making of Beggars and Thieves | More | [22] |
| 1520. | Enclosures | Holinshed | [26] |
| 1522. | Visit of Chas. V. to England | Rutland Papers | [28] |
| 1522. | Cardinal Wolsey | John Skelton | [31] |
| 1524. | Wolsey and the Popedom | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [34] |
| 1528. | Wolsey and the King's Marriage | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [36] |
| 1528. | On the Translation of the Scriptures | William Tyndale | [39] |
| 1529. | English Translations of the Bible burnt | Hall | [41] |
| 1529. | Two Letters written by King Henry to the University of Oxford | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [43] |
| 1529. | Cardinal Campeggio's Judgment on the Divorce of Queen Katharine | Hall | [45] |
| 1529. | Anne Boleyn's Hatred of Wolsey | Cavendish | [47] |
| 1529. | Wolsey's Fall | " | [48] |
| 1530. | A Letter written by Wolsey to Dr. Stephen Gardner | Cavendish | [49] |
| 1532. | The King's last letter to the Pope | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [51] |
| 1534. | Submission of the Clergy and Restraint of Appeals | Statutes of the Realm | [56] |
| 1534. | The Ecclesiastical Appointments Act. The Absolute Restraint of Annates | " | [57] |
| 1534. | Act forbidding Papal Dispensations and the Payment of Peter's Pence | " | [58] |
| 1534. | First Act of Succession | " | [58] |
| 1534. | The Supremacy Act | " | [60] |
| 1534. | Letters of Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn | Lettres à Anne Boleyn | [61] |
| 1534. | The Sweating Sickness | " | [62] |
| 1536. | Queen Ann Boleyn to King Henry, from the Tower | Burnet's "History of the Reformation" | [62] |
| 1536. | Act for Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries | Statutes of the Realm | [64] |
| 1536. | Suppression of the Monastery of Tewkesbury | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [66] |
| 1537. | The Insurrection in Lincolnshire | Hall | [70] |
| 1538. | Injunctions to the Clergy made by Cromwell | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [75] |
| 1539. | Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries | Statutes of the Realm | [79] |
| 1539. | The Six Articles Act | " | [80] |
| 1539. | Henry VIII. and Sport | Hall and Holinshed | [82] |
| 1540. | The Attainder of Thomas Cromwell | Burnet's "Collection of Records" | [87] |
| 1544. | Hertford's Orders for the Navy and Army | Hamilton Papers | [91] |
| 1544. | Hertford and others to Henry VIII. | " | [94] |
| 1545. | Attempted Invasion of England by the French | Holinshed | [102] |
| 1545. | The Capture of the Barque Ager | Hall | [105] |
| 1546. | Speech made by King Henry VIII. at the Opening of Parliament | Hall | [106] |
| 1549. | Sermon on "The Ploughers" | Latimer | [110] |
| The Rules of Justing | Lord Tiptolfe | [114] | |
| Preface to Colet's "Latin Grammar" | Knight's "Life of Colet" | [117] |
THE REFORMATION AND
THE RENAISSANCE
(1485-1547)