1. Contemporary works which give the flavour of politics and court life are George Cavendish’s The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey, best ed. R.S. Sylvester (Early English Text Society, 243, 1959), and Thomas Wyatt’s poems, notably his three Satires and his comments on life at court and on various political crises: Collected Poems, ed. J. Daalder (Oxford: OUP, 1975) items vii, lix, cv, cvi, cvii, cxliii, cxlix, clx, clxiii, clxxxi. There is no modern edition of the Eltham Ordinances.
2. For the royal court see S. Thurley, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1993)
3. D.R. Starkey, ‘Intimacy and Innovation: the Rise of the Privy Chamber’, in The English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, ed. D.R. Starkey (London: Longman, 1987) pp. 71–118, and ‘Court and Government’, in Revolution Reassessed, ed. C. Coleman and D.R. Starkey (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986) pp. 30-58.
4. The nature of Henrician politics is discussed in: G.R. Elton, ‘Tudor Government: the Points of Contact; III the Court’, in TRHS, 5, ser. 26 (1976) 211–28
5. also in G.R. Elton (ed.), Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government (Cambridge: CUP, 1974–92) III, 38–57