Dartford (formerly Dartford Priory), Kent – Bibliography

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

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 783 (June 1541–Apr 1542)

Oxford, MS Top Kent C14 (June 1541–Apr 1542; largely duplicates Rawlinson D 783, in a typescript account by J. W. Kirby)

Nottingham MS NE 0 3 (April 1542–Dec 1542)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 784 (Jan 1543–May 1544)

The National Archives, DL 42/95 (Feb–March 1543)

The National Archives, E 101/504/2 (Sept–Dec 1543 and Jan–May 1544; expands upon Rawlinson D 784)

Selected Secondary Sources:

Clapham, A.W. “The Priory of Dartford and the Manor House of Henry VIII,” Archaeological Journal 83 (1926): 67–85.

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 68–74.

Hasted, Edward. “Parishes: Dartford,” in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2, (Canterbury: W Bristow, 1797), 286–328. British History Online, accessed January 31, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp286-328.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 60.

Ransome, David R. “The ‘Particular Books’ of James Nedeham, Surveyor of the King’s Works,” Journal of the Society of Archivists 2, no. 6 (1962), 267–270.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 57, 58, 119, 151, 156, 161.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 386.

Selected Online Links:

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3980.html

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp286-328