Prescott, _Conquest of Mexico and Peru_: the cla.s.sical work on the subject.

Robertson, _Charles V_.

Strype, _Memorials of Cranmer_.

MODERN: A. GENERAL

Armstrong, E., _Charles V_., the best record of the Emperor's career.

Brewer, J. S., _The Reign of Henry VIII._: Introductions to the vols. of "L. & P." to the fall of Wolsey: edited in 2 vols. by J.

Gairdner. Incomparable as an examination and exposition of the Cardinal's career.

Creighton (Bishop), _Wolsey_ (in the Twelve English Statesmen series), practically an exposition of Brewer for the general reader.

Froude, J. A., _History of England_ from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Armada. An English cla.s.sic, but an unsafe guide. Mr. Froude studied and made use of an immense ma.s.s of evidence not before available; but his transcriptions and summaries are not always distinguishable nor always accurate. He was unable to describe otherwise than picturesquely and impressively, and his colouring of events is frequently imaginative; he was overpowered by an anti-clerical pa.s.sion and an almost blind enthusiasm for Henry VIII.

Oppenheim, M., _History of the Administration of the Royal Navy, etc._

Seebohm, F., _Era of the Protestant Revolution_ ("Epoch" series), professedly for school use, but extremely useful to even advanced students.

Pollard, A. F., _Henry VIII.;_ a sumptuous study.

MODERN: B. REFORMATION

Dixon, R. W., _History of the English Church_ (vols. i. and ii.): actually, of the Reformation in England, down to Elizabeth. Further volumes have however been added. The author holds a brief against the anti-clericals of every kind; his view may be summarised as Anglo-Catholic: the precise ant.i.thesis of Froude. He is full and careful in his doc.u.mentary evidence, but is so persistently ironical as occasionally to convey _prima facie_ an impression diametrically opposed to what was intended.

Gairdner, J., _History of the English Church in the Sixteenth Century,_ concluding with the death of Mary. An admirably judicial survey, with a moderate predilection for the Conservative side.

Gasquet, F. A., _Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries,_ and _The Eve of the Reformation_. Very able and judicial statements of the case for Home and the loyal Roman Catholics.

Innes, A. D., _Cranmer and the English Reformation_ (in "The World's Epoch Makers"): a short study.

Mason, A. J., _Thomas Cranmer_ (in "Leaders of Religion"): a short study.

Moore, Aubrey, _History of the Reformation_. This volume consists almost entirely of notes, varying in fulness, for courses of lectures delivered by Canon Moore. The student will find them of much a.s.sistance in cla.s.sifying and correlating events, and touched with flashes of insight. The High Anglican position is taken for granted throughout.

Pollard, A. F., _Cranmer_ (in "Heroes of the Reformation" series); somewhat fuller than the above-mentioned studies.

Seebohm, F., _The Oxford Reformers_. (See under Henry VII.)

Taunton, E., _Thomas Wolsey, Reformer and Legate_--from the Roman point of view.

Westcott (Bishop), _History of the English Bible_.

EDWARD VI

CONTEMPORARY: A. DOc.u.mENTARY

_Calendar of State Papers, Edward VI., etc., Domestic;_ vol. i.

(Rolls.) Little more than a catalogue. Somewhat amplified by the Addenda in vol. vi.

_Calendar of State Papers, Edward VI., Foreign,_ 1 vol. (Rolls.) Fairly full.

_Calendar of Scottish State Papers,_ Ed. Bain.

_Hamilton Papers_ (Scotland).

B. CHRONICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Buchanan, _History of Scotland_.

Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_.

Holinshed, _Chronicle_.

Knox, _History of the Reformation_.

Lyndsay of Pitscottie, _Historie of Scotland_.

_Literary Remains of Edward VI.,_ Ed. Nichols.

Pole, Reginald, _Epistolae_.

Sanders, Nicholas, _History of the Anglican Schism_.

Smith, Sir T., _De Republica Anglorum_

INTERMEDIATE

As for Henry VIII.

MODERN: A. GENERAL

Armstrong, E., _Charles V._

Dicey, A. V., _The Privy Council_.

Froude, J. A., _History of England_. In this and the next reign, Mr. Froude is much less erratic.

Oppenheim, M., _The Royal Navy, etc._

Pollard, A. F., _England under Protector Somerset_. The best work on the time; though the impression given of Somerset is somewhat more favourable than the facts quite warrant, the rehabilitation was to a great extent necessary and justified. Much information as to authorities is given in the bibliography.

Tytler, P. F., _England in the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary_.

B. REFORMATION

Dixon, _History of the English Church,_ vols. iii, iv.