Chief Authorities.
A.—Primary [printed].
- Gesta Abbatum Monasterii St. Albani. 3 vols. Ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series.
- Historia Anglicana: Thomas Walsingham. 2 vols. Ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series.
- Johannis de Trokelowe et H. de Blaneforde Chronica et Annales. Ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series.
- Chronicon Angliae. Ed. E. M. Thompson. Rolls Series.
- John Amundesham: Annales Monasterii S. Albani. 2 vols. Ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series.
- Registrum Abbatiae Johannis Whethamstede. 2 vols. Ed. H. T. Riley. Rolls Series.
- Calendar of the Patent Rolls (from the beginning of the period up to 1485).
- Calendar of the Close Rolls (from the beginning of the period up to 1364).
- Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters and Papal Petitions.
- Calendar: Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic. Ed. Brewer and Gairdner. 1509–1545.
- Wilkins: Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae. Vol. III.
- Monasticon: Dugdale. Vol. II. 1819.
- Catalogue: Materials for British History. Ed. Duffus Hardy. Vol. III. Rolls Series.
B.—Secondary.
- The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. Robert Clutterbuck. 3 vols. London. 1815–27.
- History of Hertfordshire. J. E. Cussans. 3 vols. 1870–81.
- Historical Antiquities of Hertford. Henry Chauncey. 1700.
- The History of the Abbey of St. Albans. Peter Newcome. 1795.
- History of the Monastery of Tynemouth. W. S. Gibson. 2 vols. 1846–7.
- The Victoria History of the English Counties. Hertford. Vol. II.
- Constitutional History. Stubbs. Vol. II. 1906.
- Le Soulèvement des Travailleurs d’Angleterre en 1381 par André Réville. Ed. Petit Dutaillis. Paris, 1898.
- John of Gaunt. Armitage Smith. 1904.
- An Essay on English Municipal History. James Thompson. 1867.
- Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History. Ed. Vinogradoff. I.—The English Monasteries on the Eve of Dissolution. Savine.
- Henry VIII and the English Monasteries. Gasquet. 1899.
- Short Studies: Third Series. J. A. Froude. 1877. ‘Annals of an English Abbey.’
- Lollardy and the Reformation. 3 vols. James Gairdner. 1908–1911.
- History of England. Froude. Vol. II. 1877.
- The English Historical Review (E.H.R.), Vol. XXIV.
Among these authorities the material is derived primarily from Gesta Abbatum, Vols. II and III, Annals of John Amundesham, and Register of John Whethamstede, 1422–1488. Where no authority is given for a statement it is from one of these volumes. Reference to these for every fact cited would have unduly encumbered the essay with notes.
HOLYWELL PRESS, OXFORD.
FOOTNOTES
[1] In view of the fact that the Abbey contained sixty monks, St. Albans was relatively slenderly endowed. Cf. below, p. 23.
[2] The shrines of St. Osyth and St. Amphibalus, also at St. Albans, were scarcely less famous.