Windsor Manor, Berkshire – Bibliography

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

The National Archive, 36/262 (Oct 1508–1518)

The National Archive, 36/263 (1518–1528)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 775 (Jan–Feb and May–Sept, 1532–3)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 776 (Oct–Dec 1533 and Feb–Oct 1534)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 777 (Oct–Dec 1534; Jan–Apr and Jun–-Oct, 1535)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 779 (1535)

Nottingham University Library, NE O 1 (Dec 1535–Sep 1536; also Mar–Apr 1536)

The National Archive, E 36/264 (Apr 1535–Apr 1540)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 780 (Oct 1536–Aug 1537)

Nottingham University Library, NE O 2 (May 1539–Oct1539; includes reference to the tower on Windsor Heath)

Oxford, MS Rawlinson D 781 (Oct 1541 and Jul–Aug 1542)

The National Archive, E 101/497/3 (Apr 1509–1547)

The National Archive, E 101/504/2 (Mar–June 1544)

 

Selected Secondary Sources:

Brindle, Steven, ed., Windsor Castle A Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (Royal Collection Trust, University of Chicago Press, 2018).

Brindle, Steven and Kerr, Brian. Windsor Revealed: New Light on the History of the Castle (London: English Heritage, 1997).

Colvin, Howard M., ed., The History of the King’s Works, vol. 4 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), 14, 343–4.

Goodall, John. The English Castle 1066–1650 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011).

Hope, W. H. St John. Windsor Castle:  An Architectural History, 3 parts (London: Country Life, 1913).

Nicolson, Adam. Restoration: The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle (London: The Royal Collection, 1997).

Palmer, Alan and Veronica. Royal England: A Historical Gazetteer (London: Methuen Press, 1983), 207–11.

“Parishes: Old Windsor,” in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1923), 80–5. British History Online, accessed January 31, 2018, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp80-85.

Roberts, Jane. Royal Landscape:  The Gardens and Parks of Windsor (New Haven and London, 1997), 175–83.

Saul, Nigel, and Tim Tatton-Brown, eds., St George’s Chapel, Windsor: History and Heritage (Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press, 2010).

Thurley, Simon. Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World (London: Bantam, 2017), 36, 159, 192, 196, 241, 248, 250, 324.

Thurley, Simon. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 14601547 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993), 1–3, 8–9, 17–19, 34, 68, 74, 131, 170, 186, 200.

Weir, Allison. Henry VIII, The King and His Court. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 36, 107, 127, 248, 291, 485.

 

Selected Online Links:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp80-85

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3664.html

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/windsorcastle