Early Modern Tudor Texts

Anon., Ballad of Bosworth Field

Cranmer, Thomas, Letter Concerning Henry VIII's Annulment, 1533

Elizabeth I, Letter to Mary Queen of Scots

Elizabeth I, Speech to Her Troops at Tilbury, 1588

Elizabeth I, Works

Foxe, John, Book of Martyrs

Glastonbury Abbey, Dissolution of, 1539

Henry VIII, Poems

Hooker, Richard, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593)

More, Thomas, History of King Richard III

More, Thomas, Last Letter (1535)

Philip II, Letters, 1592-1597

Puritan Voices

Raleigh, Sir Walter, The Dutie of a King (1599), excerpts

Shakespeare, William, Tragedy of King Richard III

Spenser, Edmund, View of the Present State of Ireland (1596)

Vergil, Polydore, Anglica Historia, Books 23-25

Wyclif, John, On the Sacrament of Communion