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2 of England (1911), A. W. Clapham and W. H. Godfrey, Some Famous Buildings and their Story (1913), and the numerous monographs cited in the notes to the present chapter. Perhaps the most useful books of general reference are The Dictionary of National Biography, G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Peerage, W. A. Shaw's The Knights of England, and The Victoria History of the Counties of England.

Behind and beyond these treatises, much social and personal material is available in prints or abstracts of official and private letters and analogous documents. The following is not an exhaustive list of sources. There are the Calendars of State Papers, of which the Domestic, Foreign, Scottish, Spanish, and Venetian Papers are the most valuable. There are the Privy Council minutes in J. R. Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council (1890-1907), and those of the Welsh Council in R. Flenley's Calendar (1916). There is, unfortunately, no collection of the letters missive of Elizabeth. There are full texts, by no means only of treaties, in T. Rymer's Foedera (1704-35). Proclamations are calendared in R. Steele, Bibliography of Royal Proclamations (1910-11), and London civic correspondence in Analytical Index to the Remembrancia (1878). There are the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, covering private collections, of which the Hatfield MSS. (papers of Lord Burghley and Sir R. Cecil) are by far the most important, while the Rutland MSS., Loseley MSS. (Sir T. Cawarden and Sir W. More), Pepys MSS. (Earl of Leicester), Finch MSS. (Sir T. Heneage), and Middleton MSS. are also useful. With these may be classed J. E. Jackson, Longleat Papers (Wilts. Archaeological Magazine, xiv, xviii, xix), I. H. Jeayes, Catalogue of the Muniments at Berkeley Castle (1892, George Lord Hunsdon), and H. W. Saunders, Stiffkey MSS. (1915, Sir Nathaniel Bacon). There is a long series of collections of letters from the seventeenth century onwards, in some of which the interest is mainly diplomatic, in others ecclesiastical, in others again personal; Cabala (1654, Lord Burghley), D. Digges, The Compleat Ambassador (1655, Sir F. Walsingham), E. Sawyer, Winwood Memorials (1725), F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa (1732), A. Collins, Sydney Papers (1746), T. Birch, Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth (1754, Anthony Bacon), S. Haynes and W. Murdin, A Collection of State Papers (1740-59, Lord Burghley), L. Howard, A Collection of Letters (1753), H. Harington, Nugae Antiquae (1769, 1804, Sir J. Harington), Earl of Hardwicke, Miscellaneous State Papers (1778), E. Lodge, Illustrations of British History and Manners (1791, 1838), A. Clifford, Sadleir Papers (1809), H. Ellis, Original Letters Illustrative of English History (1825-46), A. J. Kempe, Loseley MSS. (1835), T. Wright, Queen Elizabeth and her Times (1838), G. Goodman, Court of King James I (1839), J. P. Collier, Egerton Papers (1840, Sir T. Egerton), H. Robinson, Zurich Letters (1842-5), T. Birch, Court and Times of James I (1848), J. Bruce, Letters of Elizabeth and James I (1849), J. Bruce and T. T. Perowne, Correspondence of M. Parker (1853), S. Williams, Letters of John Chamberlain (1861), I. H. Jeayes, Letters of Philip Gawdy (1906). There are biographies, in which also collections of letters are often included; J. Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys (c. 1618), Memoirs of Robert Carey (1577-1627), J. Strype, Sir T. Smith (1698), T. Birch, Henry Prince of Wales (1760), N. H. Nicolas, William Davison (1823), E. Nares, William Cecil Lord Burghley (1828-31), J. H. Wiffen, The House of Russell (1833), J. W. Burgon, Sir T. Gresham (1839), N. H. Nicolas, Sir C. Hatton (1847), W. B. Devereux, The Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), J. Spedding, Francis Bacon (1861-74), E. Edwards, Sir W. Raleigh (1868), E. T. Bradley, Arabella Stuart (1889), B. C. Hardy, Arbella Stuart (1913), E. Gosse, John Donne (1899), L. P. Smith, Sir H. Wotton (1907), Mrs. A. Richardson, The Lover of Queen Elizabeth (1907), A. H. Mathew