Thomas Cromwell

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

  Wing

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  Wriothesley’s Chronicle

  W. D. Hamilton (ed.), A Chronicle of England . . . by Charles Wriothesley, Windsor Herald (2 vols, CS 2nd series 11, 20, 1875, 1877)

  Bibliography

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  E 36: Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt, miscellaneous documents

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  E 135: Exchequer: miscellaneous ecclesiastical documents

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  E 321: Exchequer: legal proceedings in the Court of Augmentations

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  Folio Δ 624: Edward Lord Herbert of Chirbury, The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1649, Wing H1504: see also Secondary Sources: Books and Articles below), interleaved with extracts from the Chronicle of Anthony Anthony

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