Welcome to the Renaissance period of European history. The resources, which are provided below, contain primary source material in the form of electronic texts, manuscripts, or other unique data for your research needs. If you know of other sites not listed here that fit this description, please e-mail me and I will be glad to add it to the list. The links for contact are below. This page is by no means finished. Keep checking back periodically for additions.

Resources

England
	The Battle of Bosworth	Includes both Tudor and Contemporary accounts. An excellent souce of primary documention on the subject.
	Richard III Society Online Library	An excellent source of primary texts and secondary sources.
	Wedding Ceremony from the Prayer Book of Edward VI	(Reigned 1537-1553; Transcription)
	Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting (1584)	Richard Hakluyt devoted his life to recording every piece of evidence concerning the English colonization of the New World.
	The Works of Elizabeth I (1533-1603)	A collection of poems, letters, & speeches.
	Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England	Contains speeches and pictures of notable figures like John Dudley: Duke of Northumberland (1553)
	Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada	Digitized images of the newspaper, The English Mercurie, published July 23, 1588
	The Execution of King Charles I	Digitized image of the article from The Intelligencer. Jan 29- Feb 5, 1648
	The Great Fire of London	Digitized image of the article form The London Gazette- Monday Septemb 3, to Monday Septemp 10, 1666
	Electronic Historical Publications	A collection of articles from The London Gazette. (1674-1692)
	Pre-18th Century Documents	An awesome collection of documents. The most notable texts can be found here! From the Avalon Project at Yale.
	British History1700-1900: Child Labor	An extensive collection of material on this subject!
	Monarchs of Britain	Just about everything you want to know about them!
	Tudors & Stuarts	Offers a great overview of these monarchs & provides additional resources.
	Luminarium	A site that is beautiful and complete in its offering of 16th century Renaissance English literature. The complete works of King Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, & Sir Walter Ralegh (to name a few) are offered here.

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Spain
	Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592 - 1597	These letters from Philip II, King of Spain, mainly to Don Diego de Orellana de Chaves, Royal Governor of Spain's northern coast, date from the time of naval war against England and France, 1592 - 1597.

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