1. The following works are essential: LP; StP, Lisle Letters; Acts of the Privy Council of England, ed. J.R. Dasent (46 vols; London, 1890–1964); Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, ed. N.H. Nicolas (7 vols; London, 1834–7); Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain (13 vols; London, 1862–1954); G. Mattingly (ed.), Further Supplement to Letters, Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain (London, 1940); R.B. Merriman (ed.), Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell (2 vols; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902)
2. G.R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution (2nd edn; Cambridge UP, 1982); Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government (Cambridge UP, 1953); Elton, Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (Cambridge UP, 1972); Elton, Reform and Reformation: England, 1509–1558 (London: Edward Arnold 1977); Elton, Reform and Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal (Cambridge UP, 1973); Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government (4 vols, Cambridge UP, 1974, 1983, 1992); Alistair Fox and John Guy, Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics and Reform (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
3. John Guy, Tudor England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988)
4. Guy, ‘Thomas More as Successor to Wolsey’, Thought: Fordham University Quarterly, 52 (1977) 275–92
5. Guy, Christopher St. German on Chancery and Statute (Seiden Society, London, 1985)