Henry VIII,the Reign
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and elsewhere in England
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1 1509 to 1514 2 1515 to 1518 3 1519 to 1523 4 1524 to 1530 5 1531 to 1532 6 1533 7 1534 8 1535 January to July 9 1535 August to December 10 1536 January to July 11 1536 August to December 12 1537 Part 1 January to July 12 1537 Part 2 August to December 13 1538 Part 1 January to July |
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13 1538 Part 2 August to December 14 1539 Part 1 January to July 14 1539 Part 2 August to December 15 1540 January to August 16 1540 September to December and 1541 17 1542 18 Part 1 1543 18 Part 2 1543 19 Part 1 1544 19 Part 2 1544 20 Part 1 1545 20 Part 2 1545 21 Part 2 1546 21 Part 2 1546/7 |
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and elsewhere in England
Usually known as Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII is a twenty-one-volume edition of documents from the reign of Henry VIII in addition to which there are a further two volumes of Addenda.
J.S. Brewer (John Sherren Brewer) edited the series, James Gairdner and R. H. Brodie, and first published between 1862 and 1932. It continues to be a key resource for historians of the period.
Documents from the Public Record Office (now The National Archives), the British Museum (now the British Library), other archives, and reliable older publications, are presented in date order.
The texts are calendared which in this context means a descriptive list of documents that have been summarised, edited and often the language modernised, the letters and papers within the publication are not the original documents but a summary of the original with some footnotes with further details.
Documents without dates are printed at the end of the month from which it is understood they relate.
An earlier work, State Papers of Henry VIII was published by the Royal Commission for State Papers in 11 volumes between 1830 and 1852
The editors of that publication set out to reproduce the original spelling and phrasing of the letters.
The first volume of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII was edited by Brewer and covered the years 1509 to 1514 and was published in 1862.
Brewer then edited the next three volumes, which covered the years 1515 to 1530 and were published in eight parts between 1864 and 1876.
Brewer died in 1879 and James Gairdner edited the next nine volumes (5–13), covering the years 1531 to 1538, which appeared in eleven parts between 1880 and 1893.
Gairdner and Brodie jointly edited the next eight volumes (14–21), covering the years 1539 to 1547, published in a total of thirteen parts between 1894 and 1910.
Thus, the series covered the full reign of Henry VIII, however by 1910 new documents had become known, and the first volume was lacking important material.
A second, enlarged, edition of Volume 1 was therefore published in three parts (two volumes of text and an index) in 1920. Two further volumes of Addenda were published in 1929 and 1932.
A full reprint of the series was issued by the Kraus Reprint Co. in 1965.
Usually known as Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII is a twenty-one-volume edition of documents from the reign of Henry VIII in addition to which there are a further two volumes of Addenda.
J.S. Brewer (John Sherren Brewer) edited the series, James Gairdner and R. H. Brodie, and first published between 1862 and 1932. It continues to be a key resource for historians of the period.
Documents from the Public Record Office (now The National Archives), the British Museum (now the British Library), other archives, and reliable older publications, are presented in date order.
The texts are calendared which in this context means a descriptive list of documents that have been summarised, edited and often the language modernised, the letters and papers within the publication are not the original documents but a summary of the original with some footnotes with further details.
Documents without dates are printed at the end of the month from which it is understood they relate.
An earlier work, State Papers of Henry VIII was published by the Royal Commission for State Papers in 11 volumes between 1830 and 1852
The editors of that publication set out to reproduce the original spelling and phrasing of the letters.
The first volume of Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII was edited by Brewer and covered the years 1509 to 1514 and was published in 1862.
Brewer then edited the next three volumes, which covered the years 1515 to 1530 and were published in eight parts between 1864 and 1876.
Brewer died in 1879 and James Gairdner edited the next nine volumes (5–13), covering the years 1531 to 1538, which appeared in eleven parts between 1880 and 1893.
Gairdner and Brodie jointly edited the next eight volumes (14–21), covering the years 1539 to 1547, published in a total of thirteen parts between 1894 and 1910.
Thus, the series covered the full reign of Henry VIII, however by 1910 new documents had become known, and the first volume was lacking important material.
A second, enlarged, edition of Volume 1 was therefore published in three parts (two volumes of text and an index) in 1920. Two further volumes of Addenda were published in 1929 and 1932.
A full reprint of the series was issued by the Kraus Reprint Co. in 1965.