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• Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism (London: Burns and Oates, 1877), by Nicholas Sander and Edward Rishton, ed. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)
• Parish life under Queen Elizabeth : an introductory study (Manresa press, 1914), by W. P. M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elizabethan clergy, 1558-64. (Clarendon Press, 1898), by Henry Gee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth (Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by John Hungerford Pollen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan religious history (John W. Parker, 1839), by Henry Soames (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English church in the sixteenth century. (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1958), by Craig R. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dodd's Church history of England from the commencement of the sixteenth century to the revolution in 1688. (C. Dolman, 1839), by Charles Dodd and Mark Aloysius Tierney (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical introduction to the Marprelate tracts : a chapter in the evolution of religious and civil liberty in England (A. Constable, 1908), by William Pierce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John Penry: his life, times and writings (Hodder and Stoughton, 1923), by William Pierce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rome and the counter-reformation in England (Burns, Oates, 1914), by Philip Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reformation of the sixteenth century, with chapters on monastic England, and the Wycliffite reformation. (Religious Tract Society, 1890), by W. H. Beckett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church under Queen Elizabeth : an historical sketch (T. Baker, 1896), by Frederick George Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton-le-Spring and apostle of the North. (Simpkin, Marshall & co., 1884), by Charles Edward Stuart Collingwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church-government : Part V : a relation of the English Reformation : and the lawfulness thereof examined by the theses deliver'd in the four former parts. ([s.n.], 1687), by R. H. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of religious toleration in England (Harvard University Press, 1932), by W. K. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey (Houghton Mifflin, 1905), by George Cavendish and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical introduction to the Marprelate tracts : a chapter in the evolution of religious and civil liberty in England (E. P. Dutton and Co., 1909), by William Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritans: or, The church, court, and Parliament of England, during the reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1860), by Samuel Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church under Queen Elizabeth; an historical sketch (Allen, 1892), by Frederick George Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-Roman relations, 1558-1565 (Clarendon press, 1913), by C. G. Bayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the English episcopacy; from the period of the Long Parliament to the Act of uniformity (J. W. Parker, 1836), by Thomas Lathbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reformation of the Church of England : its history, principles, and results (Rivingtons, 1885), by John Henry Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the memorial of the reformation : against the exceptions of Presbyterian prejudice display'd by an hearty wellwisher of the established church : with a particular enquiry into the authors and abettors of the Irish massacre ... (Printed for J. Morley, at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1723), by Benjamin Bennet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memorials relating to the Independents or Congregationalists : from their rise to the restoration of the monarchy A.D. MDCLX (Printed for The Congregational Union of England and Wales [by] Fisher, Son, 1839), by Benjamin Hanbury and Congregational Union of England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• A viewe of some part of such publike wants and disorders as are in the service of God : within her Majesties countrie of Wales, together with an humble petition, unto this high court of Parliament for their speedy redresse. Anno 1588 (Printed by Thomas Richards, 1861), by John Penry, Martin Marprelate, and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• England im Reformationszeitalter : vier Vorträge (J. Buddeus, 1866), by Wilhelm Maurenbrecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth: or, The church, court, and Parliament of England, from the reign of Edward VI. to the death of the queen. (A. D. F. Randolph & co., 1875), by Samuel Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church, court, and Parliament of England (A.D.F. Randolph & Co., 1875), by Samuel Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memorials relating to the Independents or Congregationalists : from their rise to the restoration of the monarchy A.D. MDCLX (Printed for The Congregational Union of England and Wales [by] Fisher, Son, 1839), by Benjamin Hanbury and Congregational Union of England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Protestant nonconformity in England from the Reformation under Henry VIII (W. Ball, 1838), by Thomas Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and writings of Thomas Cartwright, B.D., the distinguished Puritan reformer; including the principal ecclesiastical movements in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. (J. Snow, 1845), by B. Brook and Thomas Cartwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish life under Queen Elizabeth : an introductory study (Manresa press, 1914), by W. P. M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorial of the reformation (chiefly in England) and of Britain's deliverances from popery and arbitrary-power, since that time to the year M DCC XIX ... (J. Clark, 1721), by Benjamin Bennet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia eclesiástica del cisma de Inglaterra (Oficina de D. Plácido Barco López, 1786), by Pedro de Ribadeneyra (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan religious settlement; a study of contemporary documents. (G. Bell, 1907), by Henry Norbert Birt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English church in the sixteenth century (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1979), by Craig R. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reformation of the Church of England : its history, principles, and results (Rivingtons, 1878), by John Henry Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia del cisma de Inglaterra. (Imprenta de la Revista medica, 1863), by Pedro de Ribadeneyra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the reformation in England ([s.n., 1883), by John J. Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the French, Walloon, Dutch and other foreign Protestant refugees settled in England from the reign of Henry VIII to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; with notices of their trade and commerce, copious extracts from the registers, lists of the early settlers, ministers, &c., and an appendix containing copies of the charter of Edward VI, &c. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846), by John Southerden Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queen Elizabeth and the penal laws, with an introduction on William Cobbett's "History of the Protestant reformation." Passing in review the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary. (Protestant Alliance, 1890), by Charles Hastings Collette (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reformation of the sixteenth century : with chapters on monastic England and the Wycliffite reformation (Religious Tract Society, 1890), by W. H. Beckett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on the Relation of the English Reformation, lately printed at Oxford (Printed for J.S., 1688), by Gilbert Burnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorial of the reformation, (chiefly in England) and of Britain's deliverances from popery and arbitrary-power, since that time, to the year, 1716 ... (S. Cruttenden and T. Cox; [etc., etc.], 1717) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Nash his ghost ... (Reeves and Turner, 1871), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of Martin Bucer on England (1915), by Lilly Stiegelmeier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thomas Wolsey, legate and reformer. (Kennikat Press, 1970), by Ethelred L. Taunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia ecclesiastica della rivoluzion d'Inghilterra (Presso Guglielmo Facciotti, ad istanza di Gio. Angelo Ruffinelli, 1594), by Girolamo Pollini and Nicholas Sander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish life under Queen Elizabeth an introductory study (Manresa Press, 1914), by W. P. M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Thomas Wolsey (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd., 1899), by George Cavendish, Thomas Churchyard, and Frederick Startridge Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church under the Tudors : with an introductory chapter on the origin of the connection between church and state (W. Kent, 1881), by Durham Dunlop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English reformation : how it came about and why we should uphold it ([publisher not identified], 1881), by Cunningham Geikie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampshire recusants : a story of their troubles in the time of Queen Elizabeth (J. Hodges, 1895), by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• English church history. (Clark, 1907), by Alfred Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English church in the sixteenth century : from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Mary (AMS Press, 1968), by James Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Reformation in Great Britain (London : Rivingtons, 1900., 1900), by Henry Offley Wakeman and Leighton Pullan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish, ed. by Samuel Weller Singer, contrib. by George Wyatt (Gutenberg ebook)
• By the Queene the Queenes Maiestie vnderstanding that there bee certaine persons hauing in times past the office of ministery to the church ... hereby Her Highnesse doth charge and command ... that they doe forbeare to preach ... other then the Gospells and Epistels ... (Imprinted at London : By Richard Iugge [i.e. B. Norton and J. Bill] ..., [ca. 1618]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Quene the Quenes Maiestie vnderstandyng that of late tyme sundrye persons beyng infected with certayne daungerous and pernicious opinions in matters of religion, contrary to the faith of the church of Christe, as Anabaptistes ... ([London] : Imprinted at London in Powles Church yarde by Rycharde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood ..., [1560]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight (London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Ralph Iacson, 1600), by Francis Hastings (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A watch-word to all religious, and true hearted English-men. By Sir Francis Hastings, knight (At London : Printed by Felix Kingston for Ralph Iackson, 1598), by Francis Hastings (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of Englands happinesse, vnder the raigne of Queene Elizabeth and the miserable estate of papists, vnder the Popes tyrany / by M.S. ([London] printed : [s.n.], 1629), by Matthew Sutcliffe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apologie to my Lorde Treasorer touching a speach vttered vnto His Lordship by my Lord of C. ([Middelburg : R. Schilders, 1597?]), by Hugh Broughton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Injunctions. 1570 ([Imprinted at London : In Powles Church yarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Quenes Maiestie], [1570?]), by Church of England and Queen Elizabeth I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treatise concernynge the division betwene the spirytualtie and temporaltie ([Imprinted at London : In fletestrete next to sayncte Dunstones churche, by Robert Redman, [1532?]]), by Christopher Saint German (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Copie of a lettre sent to preachers (Imprinted in London : ... by Richard Grafton, the first daie of Iune in the second yere of the reigne of Our Souereign Lord Kyng Eduuard VI [1 June 1548]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Yet once agayne by the Kynge to the shyryves. ([London : s.n., 1535]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An apologie or defence agaynst the calumnacion of certayne men which preferring wylfull wyll and carnal reason before the playn trueth of Gods gospel, (do sclaundre those men, which for the better seruinge of God with a more pure conscience, according to his holy word) haue abandoned theyr liuinges and vocacion, abydinge as exyles in poore estate oute of theyr natyue cou[n]trye. ([Wesel? : H. Singleton?], 1555), by fl. 1555 I. T. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Truthe tryed very comfortable to the faithfull, but a discomfort to the enemies of God / newly sette forth by J.S. (Imprinted at Lo[n]don : By Henry Sutton for Edward Sutton dwellyng in Lumbarde strete at the signe of the cradell, the xxi. day of December, in the yere of our Lorde 1562), by J. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A coppie of a recantation made at Paules Crosse, by VVilliam Tedder, seminarie priest, the first of December, anno 1588 whereunto is added the recantation or abiuration of Anthonie Tyrell (sometime priest of the Englishe Colledge in Rome) pronounced by himselfe at Paules Crosse the next Sunday following, in the same yeere. (At London : Printed by Iohn Charlewoode, and VVilliam Broome, 1588), by William Tedder and Anthony Tyrrell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Recantation or abiuration of Anthonie Tyrrell. (At London : Printed by Iohn Charlewood and VVilliam Brome, M.D.LXXXVIII [1588]), by William Tedder and Anthony Tyrrell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Querimonia ecclesiæ. (Londini : Ex typographia I. Windet pro Richardo Watkins, 1592) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Caveat for the Protestant clergy, or, A true account of the sufferings of the English clergy upon restitution of popery in the days of Queen Mary ([S.l. : s.n.,], 1671), by Y. E. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Declaration of the lyfe and death of Iohn Story, late a Romish canonicall doctor, by professyon (Imprinted at London : By Thomas Colwell, 1571) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dialogue or Familiar talke betwene two neighbours co[n]cernyng the chyefest ceremonyes, that were, by the mighti power of Gods most holie pure worde, suppressed in Englande, and nowe for vnworthines, set vp agayne by the bishoppes, the impes of Antichrist: right learned, profitable, and pleasaunt to be read, for the comfort of weake co[n]sciences in these troublous daies. Read first, and then iudge. (From Roane [i.e. London?] : By Michael Wodde [i.e. John Day], the .xx. of February. Anno. Domi, M.D.L.IIII. [1554]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe historie of the glorious martyrdom of XII. reuerend priests, executed vvithin these tvveluemonethes for confession and defence of the Catholike faith But vnder the false pretence of treason. Vvith a note of sundrie things that befel them in their life and imprisonment: and a preface declaring their innocencie. Set furth by such as were much conuersant vvith them in their life, and present at their arraignement and death. Occidistis, sed non possedistis. that is you haue slaine them, but you haue not gotten possession. ([Rheins : J. Foigny?], 1582), by William Allen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true and short declaration both of the gathering and ioyning together of certaine persons, and also of the lamentable breach and division which fell amongst them. ([Netherlands? : s.n., 1583?]), by Robert Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Injunctions. 1547 (Imprinted at London : The laste daie of Iulii, in the first yere of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King Edvvard the. VI. by Richard Grafton printer to His Most Royall Maiestie, Anno. 1547), by Church of England and King of England Edward VI (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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