Bibliography
Books mentioned by Herle
Cecil, William, The Execution of Justice in England (London, 1583) Harleian Miscellany, vol. 2 (London: J. White, J. Murray & J. Harding, 1809) [transcript]
- , D'executie van iustitie (Middelburgh: R. Schilders, 1584) [transcript]
- , Justitia Britannica, Per quam liquet perspicue &c. (London: T. Vautrollier, 1584) [transcript]
- , L'execution de iustice faict en Angleterre, Traduite en langue Françoise (London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1584) [transcript]
- , Atto della Giustitia d'Inghilterra, esseguito, per la conservatione della commune & christiana pace, &c. (Londra: G. Wolfio, 1584) [transcript]
Guicciardini, Lodovico, Descriptione de Touts les Pais-bas (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582) [transcript] [transcript]
La Ioyeuse & Magnifique Entreé de Monseigneur Françoys, Fils de France &c. (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582) [transcript] [transcript] [transcript] [transcript] [transcript]
Leslie, John, De Titulo et jure ... Mariae Scotorum Reginae &c. (Rheims: J. Fognaeus, 1580) [transcript 262]
Martin, Gregory, A Treatise of Schisme (London: William Carter, 1578) [transcript]
Froumenteau, Nicholas, Le Secret des Finances de France &c. (Paris?: 1581) [transcript]
Stanihurst, Richard, The first fore bookes of Virgil his Aeneis translated into English heroical verse (Leiden: Jan Paedts, 1582) [transcript]
Whitaker, William, Responsionis ad decem illas Rationes, quibus fretus E. Campianus certamen Ecclesiae Anglincanae ministris &c. (London: Henry Middleton, 1583) [transcript]
Bibliography of printed Herle letters
Bossy, John, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002)
Lettenhove, Baron Kervyn de, Relations politiques de Pays-Bas et de l'Angleterre sous le Regne de Phillipe II (Brussels: Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Art of Belgium, 1891)
Murdin, William, A Collection of State Papers relating to Affairs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth from the year 1571 to 1596 (London: William Bowyer, 1759)
Nicholas, Sir Harris, The Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton (London: R Bentley, 1847)
Reference works
Blakeway, J. B., The Sheriffs of Shropshire, with their Armorial Bearings; and notices, Genealogical and Biographical, of their families (Shrewsbury: William & John Eddowes, 1831)
British Library Manuscripts catalogue
Butler, Arthur J., ed. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, Elizabeth, 1581-82 (London: HM Stationery Office, 1907)
Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth (London: Longman & Co., 1863- )
Dasent, J. R., ed. Acts of the Privy Council (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1893)
Fry, Edward Alexander, ed. Index of Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (1558-1604) (London: British Records Society, 1907)
HMC Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, 24 vols (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1883-1976)
Lobies, Francois P., ed. Index Bio-Bibliographicus notorum hominum (Osnabruck: Biblio Verlag, 1972- ) (IBN)
McNaughton, Andrew, The Book of Kings: a Royal Genealogy 3 vols (London: Garnstone Press, 1973)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Wispelwey, Berend, Biographical Index of the Benelux Countries (Munchen: K. G. Saur, 2003) (BX)
Studies which mention Herle
Adams, Robyn, '"Both diligent and secret": The Intelligence Letters of William Herle' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of London, 2004)
Edwards, Francis, The Marvellous Chance: Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and the Ridolphi Plot, 1570-1572 (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
Hammer, P. E. J., The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: the Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Haynes, Alan, The Elizabethan Secret Services (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1992)
Jardine, Lisa, The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-Gun (London: HarperCollins, 2005)
Lewis Jones, David, 'William Herle and the Office of Rhaglaw in Elizabethan Cardiganshire' in National Library of Wales Journal, vol. 17 (1971-72): 161-79
Mckeen, David, A Life of Honour: The Life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham (Salzburg: Salsburg Studies in English Literature 108, 1986)
Parker, Geoffrey, The Dutch Revolt (London: Penguin, 1988)
Plowden, Alison, The Elizabethan Secret Services (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)
Read, Conyers, Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925)
-, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965)
Wilson, Charles, Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands (London: Macmillan, 1970)