Primary Sources for Construction and Building in the Reign of Henry VIII:
Duchy of Lancaster, Reciever’s Account, 7588 (1539–40)
Duchy of Lancaster, Reciever’s Account, 7589 (1545–6)
The National Archive, E 101/464/27 (undated, time of Henry VIII)
Selected Secondary Sources:
Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 1 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 258–60.
Goodall, John. The English Castle 1066-1650 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011)
Harvey, John Hooper. “Side-Lights on Kenilworth Castle,”Archaeological Journal 101(1944): 91–107.
“Parishes: Kenilworth,” in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred, ed. L. F. Salzman (London: Victoria County History, 1951), 132–143. British History Online, accessed May 24, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp132-143.
Thompson, M.W. “Reclamation of Waste Ground for the Pleasance at Kenilworth Castle,” Medieval Archaeology 8(1964): 222–3.
Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), 9, 10, 185.
Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001) 38.
Selected Online Links:
http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3533.html
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenilworth-castle/
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp132-143#s2