Westminster Palace, Middlesex (London) – Bibliography

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

The National Archive, E 101/517/23, no. 34 (1509)

The National Archive, E 36/251 (1531)

The National Archive, E 351/3322 (May 1531–Apr 1532)

The National Archive, E 36/252 (Apr 1531–Apr 1532)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 775 (Jan–Feb and Jun 1533)

The National Archive, E 101/474/14 (Apr 1534–Apr 1546)

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

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 779 (1535–6)

Longleat MS Misc XXIX (1534–6)

Longleat MS Misc XXX (1537)

Nottingham University Library, NE 0 2 (Oct 1538–Oct 1539 and Jan 1539)

Foljambe MS (1538–40)

Nottingham University Library, NE 0 3 (1538–40)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 809 (Oct 1539)

The National Archive, E 101/474/15 (Apr 1539–Apr 1540).

The National Archive, E 101/474/14 (Mar 1541)

London, British Library MS Add 10109 (Jul–Dec 1542, Jan and Aug 1543)

The National Archive, DL 42/95 (Aug 1543)

[Lansdowne Roll 14 Dec 1548]

The National Archive, E 101/474/17 (Apr 1509–Jan 1547)

 

Selected Secondary Sources:

“Benedictine monks: St Peter’s abbey, Westminster,” in A History of the County of London: Volume 1, London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1909), 433–57. British History Online, accessed January 31, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/london/vol1/pp433-457.

Collins, Mark. “The Topography of the Old Palace of Westminster, 1510–1834,” in Warwick Rodwell and Tim Tatton-Brown, Westminster: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey and Palace, vol 2. British Archaeological Association Transactions 39 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2015), 206–56.

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 286–300.

Colvin, Howard M., ed., “Views of the Old Palace of Westminster,” Architectural History 9(1966): 23–184.

Cooke, Robert. The Palace of Westminster (New York: MacMillan, 1987).

Croot, Patricia. “A Place in Town in Medieval and Early Modern Westminster: The Origins and History of the Palaces in the Strand,” The London Journal 39, no. 2 (2014): 85–101.

Emery, Philip and Heath, Jacqueline. “Conservation and Archaeology in Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster, London,” Transactions of the Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings 31(2008).

Goodall, John. “St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster,” in Warwick Rodwell and Tim Tatton-Brown, Westminster: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey and Palace, vol 2. British Archaeological Association Transactions 39 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2015), 111–19.

Hayward, Maria Anne. “The 1542 inventory of the Palace of Westminster,” History Today 52/11 (2002), 7–8.

Horsman, Valerie and Davison, Brian. “The New Palace Yard and its Fountains: Excavations in the Palace of Westminster, 1972–4,” Antiquaries Journal 69(1989), 279–97.

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 195–200.

Thomas, Christopher, Cowie, Robert and Sidell, Jane. The Royal Palace, Abbey and Town of Westminster on Thorney Island (London; Museum of London Archaeology Service Monograph 22, 2005).

Thurley, Simon. Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World (London: Bantam, 2017), 196, 20, 291, 323.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 1–7, 12, 23, 44, 102, 107, 145, 163, 167, 195–6, 209.

Thurley, Simon. “Whitehall Palace and Westminster 1400–1600: A Royal Seat in Transition,” in David R. M. Gaimster and Paul Stamper, The Age of Transition: The Archaeology of English Culture 1400-1600 (Oxbow Monograph, 98/ The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 15: 1997), 93–104.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 36, 134.

 

Selected Online Links

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/london/vol1/pp433-457

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1888.html

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