ed. T. Hearne (3
vols., 1717); _Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary_, ed. J. G.
Nichols (Camden Soc., 1850); E. Hall, _Chronicle_ (Henry VIII.), ed.
C. Whibley (2 vols., London, 1904); N. Harpsfield, _Treatise on the
Pretended Divorce of Henry VIII._, ed. N. Pocock (Camden Soc., 1878);
J. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_ (often called "The Book of Martyrs"),
ed. S. R. Cattley and G. Townsend (a book with many facts
industriously gathered, many documents and some errors) (8 vols.,
London, 1843-1849); H. Machyn, _Diary_ (1550-1563), and _Narratives of
the Reformation_, both ed. J. G. Nichols (Camden Soc., 1854, 1859); W.
Roper, _The Life of Sir Thomas More_, ed. S. Singer (1817), and other
editions, a beautiful book by More's son-in-law; N. Sander, _De
origins ac progressu schismatis Anglicani_, continued by E. Rishton
(Rome, 1586), translated by D. Lewis (London, 1877) (Sander was a
Roman Catholic priest who wrote in 1576; his language is violent but
the narrative generally trustworthy); _The Presbyterian Movement in
the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_, ed. R. G. Usher (R. Hist. Soc., 1905).
Modern histories: J. H. Blunt, _History of the English Reformation_
(London, 1878), a careful work, though of no great historical
importance; T. E. Bridgett, _Life of Blessed John Fisher_ (London,
1888); R. W. Dixon, _History of the Church of England from the
Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction_ (5 vols., London, 1878-1892), a
book showing great knowledge and insight; V. M. Doreau, _Henry VIII et
les martyres de la Chartreuse_ (Paris, 1890); H. Fisher, _History of
England 1485-1547_, presents a brilliant and trustworthy narrative of
ecclesiastical affairs during the reign of Henry VIII., and forms
vol. v. of the _Political History of England_, ed. W. Hunt and R. L.
Poole (London, 1906); P. Friedmann, _Anne Boleyn_ (London, 1884), an
important work; W. H. Frere, _History of the English Church,
1558-1625_, ed. W. R. W. Stephens and W. Hunt (1904), scholarly; J. A.
Froude, _History of England_ (1527-1588), a work of literary beauty,
research and historical grasp, from an anti-ecclesiastical standpoint,
with some blemishes, but of increasing value after the reign of Henry
VIII. (12 vols., London, 1856-1870, cheap editions, 1881-1882, 1893);
J. Gairdner, _History of the English Church_, Henry VIII. to Mary, ed.
Stephens and Hunt (London, 1902), by the highest authority on the
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