1. John Calvin to Sir William Cecil, after January 29, 1559, The Zurich Letters, Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops and Others with some of the Helvetian Reformers During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Second Series, A.D. 1558–1602, ed. Hastings Robinson (Cambridge: Parker Society, 1845), 35.
2. Louis A. Montrose, The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006), 86;
3. and Peter Sherlock, “The Monuments of Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart: King James and the Manipulation of Memory,” Journal of British Studies 46 (April 2007): 281.
4. Peter McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998), 90. McCullough speculated that the sermon was so popular because it titillated Elizabethan audiences.
5. Helen Hackett, Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (New York: St. Martin’s, 1995), 4.