Eltham Palace, Kent – Bibliography

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

The National Archive, E 36/215 (1517–18)

The National Archive, E 36/216 (1518–22)

The National Archive, EXT 6/142, formerly E 101/497/1 (dates likely ca. 1518–1528)

The National Archive, E 101/420/11 (1528–31)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 775 (1532)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 876 (1534)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 776 (Mar–Apr 1534, Aug 1534)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 777 (Nov–Dec 1535; Apr–Aug 1536)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 779 (1535–6)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781 (Aug–Sep 1542)

British Library, MS Add 10109 (Apr–May 1543)

Selected Secondary Sources:

Brook, R. The Story of Eltham Palace (London: 1960).

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 78–86, 216.

Emery, Anthony. Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 3 Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 226–30.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 72–73.

“Parishes: Eltham,” in A History of the County of Kent: Volume 1, ed. H E Malden (London: Victoria County History, 1911), 455–91. British History Online, accessed April 9, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol1/pp455-491.

“Post Medieval Britain in 1977,” Post Medieval Archaeology Vol. 11 (1977): 95.

Powers, Alan. “Eltham Palace, London,” Country Life 189:45 (Nov 9, 1995): 68–71.

Priestly, John. Eltham Palace (Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2013).

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 10, 18–20, 44–46, 68, 69, 73, 76, 79, 114, 122, 130, 151, 161, 163, 166, 169, 174, 176, 182, 189, 196–197, 203, 205, 231, 232.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 195, 303, 345.

Woods, H. “Excavations at Eltham Palace 1975–9,” Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 33 (1982): 214–66.

Selected Online Links:

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1875.html

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol1/pp455-491

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/eltham-palace-and-gardens/