Rochester (formerly St. Andrews Abbey), Kent – Bibliography

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

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 809 (Mar 1542)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 785 (Feb 1541–Dec 1542)

Longleat MS Misc. XXX (Apr–May 1542)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson B 340 (Oct 1542; duplicated from MS Rawlinson D 785)

 

Selected Secondary Sources:

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 26, 234–7.

Hope, William H. St. John. Architectural History of the Cathedral Church and Monastery of Rochester (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1900), 202–3.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 156–7.

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): 267–70.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 56, 57, 115–118, 163.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 37, 56, 386, 387, 393, 441.

 

Selected Online Links

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