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• The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer-Poem, 1485-1625, by Christopher Boswell (HTML with commentary at cultureandrhetoric.net)
• Yorkshire Star Chamber proceedings. (Printed for the Society, 1909), by England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber, Hardy Bertram McCall, and William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nugæ antiquæ; being a miscellaneous collection of original papers, in prose and verse; written in the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary, Elizabeth and King James (Vernor and Hood [etc.], 1804), by John Harington, Edward S. Marsh, Richard Harington, Thomas Park, and Henry Harington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish life under Queen Elizabeth : an introductory study (Manresa press, 1914), by W. P. M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society women of Shakespeare's time (Kennikat Press, 1970), by Violet A. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• England in Tudor times : an account of its social life and industries (B.T. Batsford, 1926), by L. F. Salzman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan society: (The Jackson press, 1920), by John Bennett Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish life under Queen Elizabeth : an introductory study (Manresa press, 1914), by W. P. M. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society in the Elizabethan age (S. Sonenschein, 1901), by Hubert Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscripts and other rare documents (J. Murray, 1836), by Alfred John Kempe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society in the Elizabethan age (S. Sonnenschein, 1902), by Hubert Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• [The boke of nurture for men, seruauntes, and chyldren] ([London : s.n., ca. 1570]), by Hugh Rhodes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Interesting description of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Thomas Dean and Son, Threadneedle Street, 1847), by Miss Corner and Dean & Son (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plumpton correspondence. A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV. Richard III. Henry VII. and Henry VIII. (Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1839), by Thomas Stapleton and Edward Plumpton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain: A. Uystpruyst; et al., 1908), by Great Britain Office of the Revels, ed. by Albert Feuillerat
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• Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University press, c1913), ed. by John Dover Wilson
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• The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed; With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations (Harvard Classics edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, and William Harrison, ed. by Charles William Eliot, G. C. Macaulay, William Caxton, and Raphael Holinshed, trans. by John Bourchier Berners
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• The queen's progress, and other Elizabethan sketches (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan home discovered in 2 dialogues. (F. Etchells & H. Macdonald, 1925), by Claudius Hollyband, M. St. Clare Byrne, and Pierre Erondelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pierce penilesse, his supplication to the divell (1592) (John Lane: New York, E. P. Dutton & company, 1924), by Thomas Nash and G. B. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people for whom Shakespeare wrote (Harper & Brothers, 1897), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan rogues and vagabonds (Clarendon Press, 1913), by Frank Aydelotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Shakspere's England (J. Nisbet & co., limited, 1903), by Henrietta O'Brien Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through merrie England (F. Warne & Co. Ltd., 1928), by Frank Leonard Stevens and F. D. Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan England. (The W. Scott publishing co., ltd., 1902), by William Harrison and Lothrop Withington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth : among which are interspersed other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events during the reign of that illustrious princess : collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, etc., etc. : illustrated, with historical notes (AMS Press :, 1969), by John Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben der Vornehmen Englands im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, vornehmlich nach den Dramen Ben Jonsons ([s.n.], 1907), by Johannes Püschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Shakspere's England (J. Pott and co.;, 1904), by F. S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth. Among which are interspersed other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events during the reign of that illustrious princess. (Printed by and for J. Nichols and son, 1823), by John Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• England as seen by foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and James the First. (J. R. Smith, 1865), by William Brenchley Rye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The household of a Tudor nobleman (University of Illinois, 1918), by Paul Van Brunt Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere's England (Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856), by Walter Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of Elizabeth. (AMS Press, 1974), by Walter Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Olde English Faire (State of Illinois, Dept. of Conservation, Bureau of Land and Historic Sites., in the 20th century), by Illinois. Bureau of Land and Historic Sites and Illinois. Department of Conservation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anatomie of abuses (W. Pickering ;, 1836), by Phillip Stubbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan England: From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison, by William Harrison, ed. by Lothrop Withington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cyuile and vncyuile life a discourse very profitable, pleasant, and fit to bee read of all nobilitie and gentlemen : where, in forme of a dialoge is disputed, what order of lyfe best beseemeth a gentleman in all ages and times ... (Imprinted at London : By Richard Jones, and are to bee solde at his shop ouer agaynst Sainct Sepulchers Church, 1579) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proclamations. 1546-07-22 ([London : T. Berthelet, 1541]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treatyse of a galaunt. ([[Enprynte]d at London : In the Flete strete at the [sygne of t]he sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde, [1510?]), by John Lydgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anatomie of abuses. Part 1 (Printed at London : By [John Kingston for] Richard Iones, 1. Maij. 1583), by Phillip Stubbes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the diuell. Written by Tho. Nash, Gent (London : Printed by Abell Ieffes, for I. B[usby], 1592), by Thomas Nash (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The schoole of good manners. Or, A new schoole of vertue. Teaching children & youth how they ought to behaue themselues in all companies, times, and places. / Translated out of French. By W.F.. (London, : Printed by I. Danter, for William Ihones: and are to be sold at the signe of the Gun neare Holburne Conduit., 1595.), by William Phiston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Letter: whearin, part of the entertainment untoo the Queenz Majesty, at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwik Sheer, in this soomerz progress 1575. iz signified. ([London : S.n., ca. 1585]), by William Patten and Robert Laneham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Here begynneth a treatyse of this galaunt with the maryage of the bosse of Byllyngesgate. vnto London stone. ([London? : J. Skot for Wynkyn de Worde, 1521?]), by John Lydgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English courtier, and the cūtrey gentleman: a pleasaunt and learned disputation, betweene them both: very profitable and necessarie to be read of all nobilitie and gentlemen. : VVerein is discoursed, vvhat order of lyfe, best beseemeth a gentleman, (aswell, for education, as the course of his whole life) to make him a person fytte for the publique seruice of his prince and countrey.. (Imprinted at London, : by Richard Iones: dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere vnto Holborne Bridge., 1586.) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Red tavern (D. Appleton and Company, 1914), by C. R. Macauley (page images at HathiTrust)

• England in Shakespeare's day (Methuen & Co. ltd., 1928), by G. B. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Notable Discovery of Coosenage Now Daily Practised by Sundry Lewd Persons, Called Connie-Catchers, and Crosse-Byters (London: Printed by T. Scarlet for T. Nelson, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Second Part of Conny-Catching: Contayning the Discovery of Certaine Wondrous Coosenages, Either Superficiallie Past Over, or Utterlie Untoucht in the First (London: Printed by I. Wolfe for W. Wright, 1591), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching, With the New Devised Knavish Arte of Foole-Taking (London: Printed by T. Scarlet for C. Burby, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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