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1500Tower of London
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1516Thomas More's Utopia
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1518Songs written by Henry VIII
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1518Catherine of Aragon's pregnancy
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1526First printed Bible in English
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1539Dissolution of the Monasteries
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1547Edward VI's diary
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1549Book of Common Prayer
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1553Letter from Elizabeth I
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1563John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
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1567The First National Lottery
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1577Elizabethan dress codes
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1580Handwritten recipe
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1580Evidence of Royal Scots
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1582Beginnings of an English Dictionary
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1588Speech by Elizabeth I
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1590Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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1592Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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1595A cure for drunkenness
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1597Shakespeare’s Richard III
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Intro
Writers at this time were undecided about towns. On the one hand, they recognised them as powerful centres of economic, cultural, political, administrative and spiritual activity. But on the other hand, they saw that towns offered many wicked temptations, the most dangerous of which were taverns and alehouses, gambling dens and brothels. Towns could also be dirty, expensive and riddled with disease.
Shelfmark: Royal 16 F II, f.73.
