Greenwich Palace, Kent – Bibliography

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

The National Archive, E 36/215 (1510–24)

The National Archive, E 101/517/23, No. 11 (1515–18)

The National Archive, E 36/216 (1518)

The National Archive, E 101/504/2 (1519–20)

The National Archive, E 101/ 420/11 (1528–29)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 775 (Nov 1532–Sep 1533)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 776 (Sep 1533–Sep 1534)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 777 (Sep 1534–Sep 1535)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 779 (Sep 1535–Sep 1536)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 780 (Oct 1536–Jul 1537 and Sep 1540)

Foljambe MS (1540)

Nottingham University Library, MS NE O 1 (Nov 1536)

Nottingham University Library, MS NE O 2 (Oct 1538–May 1539; Aug–Sep 1539)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson Rawlinson D 791 (Oct 1541–Oct 1542)

The National Archive, DL 42/95 (Oct 1542 and Feb–Mar 1544)

British Library MS Add 10109 (Oct–Dec 1542 and Mar–Aug 1543)

The National Archive, 101/504/2 (Sep–Dec 1543 and Jan–Mar 1544, Jun–Oct 1544, Jan 1545)

Selected Secondary Sources:

Aslet, Clive, The story of Greenwich (London: Fourth Estate, 1999).

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 96–123.

Dixon, Philip. Excavations at Greenwich Palace, 1970-1971: An Interim Report. London: Greenwich and Lewisham Antiquarian Society, 1972.

Dixon, Philip. “The Tudor palace at Greenwich,” Court Historian Vol. 11:2 (2006), 105–11.

“Friaries: The Observant Friars of Greenwich,” in A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1926), 194–8. British History Online, accessed December 6, 2017, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/kent/vol2/pp194-198.

Kirby, J.W. “Building Work at Placentia, 1532–1533,” Transactions of the Greenwich & Lewisham Antiquarian Society 5, no. 1 (London: The Blackheath Press, 1957), 22–50.

Kirby, J.W. “Building Work at Placentia, 1543–1544,” Transactions of the Greenwich & Lewisham Antiquarian Society 4, no. 6 (London: The Blackheath Press, 1954), 285–313.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 87–89.

Petit, Harry. “Inside the Birthplace for King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I: Two Lost Tudor Rooms are uncovered in Greenwich in a ‘Remarkable Find,’” Mail Online, August 15, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4791888/A-look-inside-lost-birthplace-King-Henry-VIII.html

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.

Ravilious, Kate. “Henry VIII’s Lost Chapel Discovered Under Parking Lot,” National Geographic News, February 9, 206, accessed April 10, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20140812213025/http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2006/02/0209_060209_london_chapel.html.

Thurley, Simon. “Greenwich Palace,” in David Starkey, Henry VIII : European Court in

England. New Ed. ed. Collins & Brown, 1992.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 27, 34–36, 48–50, 55–56, 69, 72, 73–80, 83, 114, 122, 127, 129, 131, 141, 153, 157, 161, 164, 173, 174, 181–183, 187, 190–193, 196, 197, 225, 229, 232, 233.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 13, 36, 39, 47, 54, 56, 107, 124, 134, 166, 188, 240, 244, 266, 303, 358, 390, 402, 437.

Selected Online Links:

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1876.html

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/kent/vol2/pp194-198

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Placentia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4791888/A-look-inside-lost-birthplace-King-Henry-VIII.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20140812213025/http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2006/02/0209_060209_london_chapel.html.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/greenwich-and-tudors