Grafton Manor, Northamptonshire – Bibliography

Primary Sources for Construction and Building in the Reign of Henry VIII:

The National Archive, E 101/ 420/11, fol 61 (1529)

Longleat MS Misc. XXX (1536)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 779 (1536–7)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 780 (Jun–Aug, 1537)

Nottingham, MS NE O 3 (Aug–Sep 1539)

Selected Secondary Sources:

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 92–96.

“The Honor of Grafton and Wakefield Lodge Estate,” in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 5, the Hundred of Cleley, ed. Philip Riden and Charles Insley (London: Victoria County History, 2002), 18–37. British History Online, accessed January 31, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol5/pp18-37.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 86.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 49, 130, 157, 189.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 263.

Selected Online Links:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol5/pp18-37

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/4313.html