1. See A. D. Cousins, “Humanism, Female Education and Myth: Erasmus, Vives and More’s ‘To Candidus,’” Journal of the History of Ideas (Volume 63, Number 2, April, 2004), pp. 213–230.
2. Sharon Jansen, The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), p. 204
3. See Edward Gregg, Queen Anne (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), p. 11.
4. Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 5 (London: George Bell and Sons, 1840–1848), p. 191.
5. Calendar of State Papers Venetian, Volume 17, p. 597 and Jean Heroard, Journal de Jean Heroard, 2 volumes, ed. Madeleine Foisil (Paris: Fayard, 1989), Volume 2, p. 2590.