Books Consulted
Face Down Mystery Series



Note: General Bibliography link is at the bottom. Books listed for one novel are also used for the others. Most books listed here, with the exception of National Trust and English Heritage guidebooks, should be available in the U.S. through inter-library-loans. Ask your local librarian.


Book One
Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

Ardagh, John, Cultural Atlas of France (1991)
Chalkin, C.W., Seventeenth Century Kent (1965)
Church, Richard, Kent (1948)
Clark, Peter, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution: Religion, Politics and Society in Kent 1500-1640 (1977)
Coudy, Julian, ed., The Huguenot Wars (1969)
Crouch, Marcus, Kent (1966)
Febvre, Lucien, Life in Medieval France (1977)
Fedden, Katharine, Manor Life in Old France from the Journal of the Sire de Gouberville for the years 1549-1562 (1933)
Haigh, Christopher, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (1975)
Haynes, Alan, Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Service 1570-1603 (1991)
Plowden, Alison, Elizabethan Secret Service
Somerville, Robert, History of the Duchy of Lancaster, Vol.I (1265-1603) (1953)
Strage, Mark, Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de'Medici (1976)
Tait, James, Medieval Manchester and the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904)
Walton, John K., Lancashire: A Social History 1558-1939 (1987)
Wiley, W.L., The Gentleman of Renaissance France (1954)
Willan, T.S., Elizabethan Manchester (1980)
Williamson, Hugh Ross, Catherine de' Medici (1973)
Williamson, J.A., The English Channel: A History (1959)



Book Two
Face Down Upon an Herbal

Bingham, Madelaine, Scotland Under Mary Stuart (1971)
Deppa, James Walter, The Marriage that Did Succeed for Mary Queen of Scots (1990) (self-published)
Evans, Herbert Arthur, Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds (1923)
Foister, Susan, "Tudor Collections and Collecting," History Today 12/85
Fraser, Antonia, Mary Queen of Scots (1969)
Hare, Kenneth, Gloucestershire (1949)
Lynch, Michael, Edinburgh and the Reformation (1981)
Oastler, C.L., John Day: The Elizabethan Printer (1975)
Rae, T.I., Scotland in the Time of Shakespeare (1965)
Sanderson, Margaret H.B., Mary Sewart's People (1987)
Steel, David and Judy, Mary Stuart's Scotland (1987)
Willcox, William Bradford, Gloucestershire: A Study in Local Government 1590-1640 (1940)
Wormold, Francis and C.E. Wright, eds., The English Library before 1700 (1958)



Book Three
Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

Atkinson, Tom, Elizabethan Winchester (1963)
Barker, Felix, "Westminster, 1585," History Today 6/85
Beier, A.L. and Roger Finlay, eds., London 1500-1700: The Making of a Metropolis (1986)
Borer, Mary Cathcart, The City of London (1978)
Burford, E.J., Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels (1976)
(NOTE: This is a fascinating book but does contain errors, such as saying Mary Boleyn was long-time mistress of Henry the Seventh!)
Clout, Hugh, ed. The Times London History Atlas (1991)
Crouch, Marcus, Essex (1969)
Durant, David, "A London Visit, 1591," History Today 7/74
Haynes, Alan, Untam'd Desire (1997)
Holmes, Martin, Elizabethan London (1969)
Karras, Ruth M., Common Women (1996)
McCall, Andrew, The Medieval Underworld (1979)
McMullan, John L., The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld 1550-1700 (1985)
Myers, A.R., London in the Age of Chaucer (1972)
Partridge, Eric, Shakespeare's Bawdy (1960)
Platt, Colin, Medieval Southampton: the port and trading community 1000-1600 (1973)
Prockter, Adrian, and Robert Taylor, The A to Z of Elizabethan London (1979)
Quaife, G.R., Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England (1979)
Roberts, Nickie, Whores in History (1992)
Robertson, A.G., Tudor London (1968)
Robertson, D.W., Chaucer's London (1968)
Rossiaud, Jacques, Medieval Prostitution (tr. 1988)
Rossner, Gervase, Medieval Westminster 1200-1540 (1989)
Salgado, Gemini, The Elizabethan Underworld (1977)
Stow, John, The Survey of London (1598/1912)
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds., The London Encyclopedia (1986)
Weinstein, Rosemary, Tudor London (1994)



Book Four
Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross

Adams, Simon, "A Godly Peer? Leicester and the Puritans," History Today 1/90
Adams, Simon, "At Home and Away: The Earl of Leicester," History Today 3/96
Adams, Simon, Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558-1561 and 1584-1586 (1995)
Adams, Simon, "The Dudley Clientele, 1553-1563," in The Tudor Nobility, edited by G.W. Bernard (1992)
Beer, Barrett L., Northumberland (1973)
Davies, D.W., Elizabethans Errant (1967)
Haynes, Alan, The White Bear: Robert Dudley, the Elizabethan Earl of Leicester (1989)
Reese, M.M., The Royal Office of Master of the Horse (1976)
Willan, T.S., Early History of the Russia Company 1553-1600 (1956)
Willan, T.S., The Muscovy Merchants of 1555 (1953)
Wilson, Derek, Sweet Robin: a biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1533-1588) (1981)
(NOTE: Also see the list under Crime and Punishment in the General Bibliography)



Book Five
Face Down Under the Wych Elm

Clark, Peter, and Lyn Murfin, The History of Maidstone: The Making of a Modern County Town (1995)
Ewen, Cecil H. L'Estrange, Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (1929)
Gibson, Joyce, Hanged for Witchcraft: Elizabeth Lowys and her Successors (1988)
Haining, Peter, ed., The Witchcraft Papers (1974)
MacFarlane, Alan, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England (1970)
Neame, Alan, The Holy Maid of Kent The Life of Elizabeth Barton 1506-1534 (1971)
Notestein, Wallace, A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 (1912/1968)
Robbins, Rossell Hope, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology (1959)
Watt, Tessa, Cheap Print and Popular Piety 1550-1640 (1991)
Young, Alan R., "Elizabeth Lowys: Witch and Social Victim, 1564," History Today 12/72



Book Six
Face Down Before Rebel Hooves

Collingwood, W.G., Elizabethan Keswick (1912)
Davis, Ralph, English Overseas Trade 1500-1700 (1973)
Ehrenberg, Richard, Capital and Finance in the Age of the Renaissance: A Study of the Fugger and their Connections (1963)
Ellis, Steven, "Frontiers and Power in the Early Tudor State," History Today 4/95
Fletcher, Anthony, Tudor Rebellions, 3rd.ed., (1983)
Home, Gordon, Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes (1907)
Lowers, James K., Mirrors for Rebels: A Study of Polemical Literature Relating to the Northern Rebellion 1569 (1953)
Marnef, Guido, Antwerp in the Age of Reformation 1550-1577 (1996)
Matthews, George T., ed., News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters (1959)
Murray, John T., "The Cultural Impact of the Flemish Low Countries on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England," American Historical Review, July 1957
Palliser, D.M., Tudor York (1979)
Platt, Richard, The Ordnance Survey Guide to Smugglers' Britain (1991)
Smugglers' Britain contains the full text of Richard Platt's excellent book
Rae, Thomas I., The Administration of the Scottish Frontier 1513-1603 (1966)
Ramsay, G.D., The Queen's Merchants and the Revolt of the Netherlands (1986)
Reid, R.R., The King's Council in the North (1921)
Williams, N.J., The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports 1550-1590 (1988)



Book Seven
Face Down Across the Western Sea

"Ancient Norumbega," Bangor Historical Magazine, Vol. II, p. 134-5 (1887)
"Ancient Norombega," Bangor Historical Magazine, Vol. VI, p. 49 (1891)
"In Search of Norumbega," Down East, November, 1988
Andrews, Kenneth R., The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder 1530-1630 (1978)
Baker, Emerson W., Edwin A. Churchill, Richard S. D'Abate, Kristine L. Jones, Victor A. Konrad, and Harald E. L. Prins, eds., American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega (1994)
Barone, Robert W., "Madoc and John Dee: Welsh Myth and Elizabethan Imperialism," Elizabethan Review (http://www.elizreview.com/Dee.htm)
Carre, Meyrick, "Visitors to Mortlake: The Life and Misfortunes of John Dee," History Today, XII (1962) 640-7
Carus-Wilson, E. M., The Merchant Adventurers of Bristol in the Fifteenth Century (1962)
Crone, G. R., Maps and their Makers: An Introduction to the History of Cartography (1953)
Crooker, William S., "Henry Sinclair's Castle," in Tracking Treasure: In Searchof East Coast Bounty (1998)
Croxton, Derek, "The Cabot Dilemma: John Cabot's 1497 Voyage and the Limits of Historiography," Essays in History, v. 33 (1990-1)
Deacon, Richard, John Dee: Scientist, Geographer, Astrologer and Secret Agent to Elizabeth I (1968)
Deagan, Kathleen A., "Searching for Columbus's Lost Colony," National Geographic, November, 1986
DeCosta, B. F., "Ancient Norombega," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April, 1890
DeCosta, Rev. Benjamin F., "Norumbega and Its English Exlorers," in Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. III, ed. by Justin Winsor (1884)
Elliott-Binns, L. E., Medieval Cornwall (1955)
Fell, Charlotte, John Dee (1909) (downloadable from www.johndee.org)
Finnan, Mark, The Sinclair Saga (1999)
Firstbrook, Peter, The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America (1997)
French, Peter J., John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (1972)
Grenier, Robert, "Excavating a 400-year-old Basque Galleon," National Geographic, July, 1985
Hobbs, William Herbert, "The Fourteenth Century Discovery of America by Antonio Zeno," Scientific Monthly, LXXII (1951), 24-31
Hodgkiss, A. G., Discovering Antique Maps (1981)
Judge, Joseph, "Exploring Our Forgotten Century," National Geographic, March, 1988
Judge, Joseph, "Where Columbus Found the New World," National Geographic, November, 1986
Kelly, Eric P., The Amazing Journey of David Ingram (1949 ~ a novel)
Laxalt, Robert, "The Indomitable Basques," National Geographic, July, 1985
Lenz, Peter, ed., Voyages to Norumbega . . . c. 997-1620 (1994)
Lethridge, T. C., A Step in the Dark (1967)
Lister, Raymond, Antique Maps and their Cartographers (1970)
Mallet, Charles Edward, A History of the University of Oxford, Vol. II (The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) (1924/1968)
Marden, Luis, "Tracking Columbus Across the Atlantic," National Geographic, November 1986
Matar, Nabil, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (1999)
McFee, William, The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher (1928)
Milton, Giles, Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the English Colonists in America (2000)
Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Iain, The Highland Clans (1982)
Morison, Samuel Eliot, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages (1971)
Mowat, Farley, The Alban Quest (1999)
Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Atlas of Columbus and The Great Discoveries (1990)
Parks, George Bruner, Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages (2nd. ed., 1961)
Peterson, Mendel, "Reach for the New World," National Geographic, December, 1977
Pohl, Frederick J., Prince Henry Sinclair: His Expedition to the New World in 1398 (1974)
Pohl, Frederick J., The Viking Settlement of North America (1972)
Porter, Charles Wesley III, Adventurers to a New World: The Roanoke Colony 1585-87 (1972)
Pugh, Ellen, Brave His Soul: The Story of Prince Madog of Wales and his discovery of America in 1170 (1970)
Quinn, David B., ed., North American Discovery circa 1000-1612 (1971)
Quinn, David B., Sebastian Cabot and Bristol Exploration (1968)
Quinn, David Beers, England and the Discovery of America 1481-1620 (1973)
Ramsey, Raymond H., No Longer on the Map (1972)
Read, Conyers, Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. I (1925)
Rowse, A. L., "The Diary of William Carnsew, Country Gentleman," in Court and Country: Studies in Tudor Social History (1987)
Rowse, A. L., Tudor Cornwall: Portrait of a Society (1941)
Seaver, Kirsten A., The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America c. AD 1000-1500 (1996)
Severin, Timothy, "The Voyage of the 'Brendan," National Geographic, December, 1977
Seymour, Ian, "The Political Magic of John Dee," in History Today (1/89)
Sherman, William H., John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (1995)
Sinclair, Andrew, The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America (1992)
Sinclair, Niven, "Henry 'the Holy' Sinclair," The Highlander, Jan. 1997, 31-2
Skeeters, Martha C., Community and Clergy: Bristol and the Reformation c. 1530-c.1570 (1993)
Taylor, E. G. R., "The Fisherman's Story, 1354," Geographical Magazine, XXXVII (1/65), 709-12
Taylor, E. G. R., "A Fourteenth Century Riddle and its Solution," Geographical Review, LVI (1964), 573-76
Taylor, E. G. R., ed., The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, 2 vols. (1935)
Tuck, James A., "Unearthing Red Bay's Whaling History," National Geographic, July, 1985
Tyacke, Sarah, ed., English Map-Making 1500-1650 (Historical Essays) (1983)
Villiers, Alan, "First Voyage Around the World," National Geographic, June, 1976
Warnicke, Retha M., William Lambarde: Elizabethan Antiquary 1536-1601 (1973)
White, Richard, "The Scot Who Discovered America," The Highlander, (Nov/Dec 1983), 18-21
Willard, Lawrence F., "Westford's Mysterious Knight," Yankee, XXII (1958), 60-61, 84-89
Williams, Gwyn A., Madoc: The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America (1979/1987)
Williamson, James A., Hawkins of Plymouth (1950)
Williamson, James A., The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII (1929)
Wilson, Ian, The Columbus Myth: Did men of Bristol reach America before Columbus? (1991)
Woolley, Benjamin, The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee (2001)
Youings, Joyce, ed., Privateering and Colonization in the reign of Elizabeth I (1985)
National Trust guidebooks to Boscastle and Tintagel



Book Eight
Face Down Below the Banqueting House

Airs, Malcolm, The Tudor and Jacobean Country House: A Building History (1995)
Chalkin, C.W., Seventeenth Century Kent(1965)
Church, Richard, Kent (1948)
Clark, Peter, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution: Religion, Politics and Society in Kent 1500-1640 (1977)
Crouch, Marcus, Kent (1966)
Ditchfield, P.H., The Manor Houses of England (1910/1994)
Dovey, Zillah, An Elizabethan Progress: The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578 (1996)
Dunlap, Ian, Palaces and Progresses of Elizabeth I (1962)
Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House (1978)
Hicks, Penny, ed., Historic Houses (1994)
Huggett, Jane,The Book of Children: Children and Childrearing 1480-1680 Part 1, Birth to Age Seven and Part 2, Age 7-14(Living History Reference Series,1996)
Howard, Maurice, The Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics 1490-1550(1987)
Kettle, Pamela, Oldcotes, The last Mansion built by Bess of Hardwick(2000)
Lambarde, William, A Perambulation of Kent (1576/1970)
Nichols, John, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols. (1823/1966)
Nicolson, Nigel, Kent (1988)
Sim, Alison, The Tudor Housewife (1996)
Spence, Keith, The Companion Guide to Kent and Sussex (1999)

Guidebooks (variously National Trust, English Heritage, and privately printed)
to the following houses and sites in Great Britain:
Adlington Hall, Cheshire
Athelhampton House, Dorset
Barrington Court, Somerset
Cothele House, Cornwall
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire
Ightham Mote, Kent
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire
Montacute House, Somerset
Penshurst Place, Kent
Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire
Speke Hall, Lancashire



Book Nine
Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well

Ascham, Roger, The Scholemaster (1570), (e-text at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Charlton, Kenneth, Education in Renaissance England (1965)
Childs, Joyce, Tudor Derbyshire (1985)
Craven, Maxwell and Michael Stanley, The Derbyshire Country House, vols. I and II (2001 and 2002)
Cressy, David, Education in Tudor and Stuart England (1976)
Dawson, Giles E., and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (1966)
Digby, George Wingfield, Elizabethan Embroidery (1963)
Dodd, A.E. and E.M., Peakland Roads & Trackways, 3rd ed. (2000)
Durant, David, Bess of Hardwick (1978)
Edwards, David Lawrence, A History of the King's School, Canterbury (1957)
Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Boke named The Governour (1531), (e-text at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Esler, Anthony, The Aspiring Mind of the Elizabethan Younger Generation (1966)
Haslam, Rob, White Peak Way, rev. ed. (1997)
Heape, R. Grundy, Buxton under the Dukes of Derbyshire (1948)
Hembry, Phyllis, The English Spa 1560-1815, A Social History (1990)
Hey, David, Packmen, Carriers & Packhorse Roads (2001)
Hoby, Sir Thomas, The Book of the Courtier (1561), (e-text at http://darkwing.uoregone.edu)
Hole, Christina, English Sports and Pastimes (1949)
Howard, Skiles, The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England (1998)
Jones, Whitney R.D., William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Devine (1988)
Kiernan, David, The Derbyshire Lead Industry in the Sixteenth Century (1989)
Lambley, Kathleen, The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England During Tudor and Stuart Times (1920)
Langham, Mike and Colin Wells, A History of the Baths at Buxton (1997)
Levey, Santina M., An Elizabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles (1998)
McCloy, Andrew, Walks Around Buxton (1998)
Mednelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 (1998)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (1953)
Rodgers, Frank, Curiosities of Derbyshire and the Peak District (2000)
Simon, Joan, Education and Society in Tudor England (1966)
Stowe, A. Monroe, English Grammar Schools in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1908)
Woodfill, Walter L., Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I (1969)
Woodridge, Linda, Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind 1540-1620 (1984)
Wulstan, David, Tudor Music (1986)



Book Ten
Face Down O'er the Border

see also books on Scotland listed under Book Two

Brown, Jennifer M., Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century (1977)
Brown, P. Hume, George Buchanan and his Times (1906)
Douglas, Ronald MacDonald, The Scots Book, including folklore, clans, recipies, place names, proverbs and prose (1949)
Fawcett, Richard, Stirling Castle Official Guide (1983)
Fraser, Antonia, King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1975)
Fraser, George MacDonald, The Steel Bonnets: The story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers (1971)
Gifford, John, Colin McWilliam, David Walker, and Christopher Wilson, The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (1984)
Gow, Ian, The Palace of Holyroodhouse: Official Guide (1995)
Harris, Stuart, The Place Names of Edinburgh (1996)
Hewitt, George R., Scotland Under Morton 1572-1580 (1982)
MacKenzie, John, An English-Gaelic Dictionary (1845/1962)
Marshall, Rosalind K., Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland from 1080-1980 (1983)
McElwes, William, The Wisest Fool in Christendom (1958)
Potter, Harry, Edinburgh Under Siege 1571-1573 (2003)
Rae, Thomas I., The Administration of the Scottish Frontier 1513-1603 (1966)
Smith, Donald, John Knox House: Gateway to Edinburgh's Old Town (1996)
Tabraham, Chris, Edinburgh Castle: The Souvenir Guide (1999)
Willson, David Harris, King James VI and I (1967)



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