History of the English People, Volume 4

"For the close of Henry the Eighth's reign as for the reigns of Edward and Mary we possess copious materials. Strype covers this period in his "Memorials"; and in his lives of Cranmer, Cheke, and Smith; Hayward's "Life of Edward the Sixth"; may be supplemented by the young king's own Journal; "Machyn's Diary"; gives us the aspect of affairs as they presented themselves to a common Englishman; while Holinshed is near enough to serve as a contemporary authority."