The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		Secondary Sources
The Right of Succession
	The Succession Tracts
	The Succession Acts of Henry VIII
	The Will of Henry VIII
	The Bond of Association and the Act for the Queen’s Safety
	English Common Law and Foreign Inheritance
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		London
		Oxford
		Edinburgh
		Other Locations
		Printed Primary Sources
		Edited Volumes and Modern Editions of Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Elizabeth: The View from the Throne
	“I do, yet dare not say I ever meant”: Elizabeth’s Poetic Thoughts
	“what becometh a king to do”: Elizabeth’s Correspondence with James VI
	Words from “the princely seat”: Elizabeth’s Speeches
	Elizabeth’s Theory of Kingship
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		London
		Other Locations
		Printed Primary Sources
		Edited Volumes and Modern Editions of Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
The Privy Council: A Monarchical Republic?
	The Privy Council and the Monarchical Republic
	A Mixed Polity and the Succession
	The Bond and an Interregnum
	An Execution and a Clash
	The Earl of Essex: A Militaristic Monarchical Republican?
	The Secret Correspondence and Monarchical Republicanism
	A Monarchical Republic or Succession-Driven Presumption?
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		London
		Other Locations
		Printed Primary Sources
		Edited Volumes and Modern Editions of Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Parliament: To Legislate or Advise the Succession?
	Elizabethan Parliament and its Historiography
	Legislation: Limiting the Succession?
	Petitions: Advising the Succession
	The Succession Parliaments
	Freedom of Speech: An Unintended Effect of the Succession
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		London
		Printed Primary Sources
		Edited Volumes and Modern Editions of Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
		London
		Other Locations
		Secondary Sources
Index