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APC Acts of the Privy Council

Castries Henri de Castries et al., eds., Sources inédites pour l’histoire du Maroc , 26 vols. (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 1905–1965)

CP Cecil Papers at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, UK

CSPD Calendar of State Papers, Domestic

CSPF Calendar of State Papers, Foreign

CSPS Calendar of State Papers, Spain

CSPV Calendar of State Paper, Venice

Hakluyt Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation , 7 vols. (London: Everyman’s Library/J. M. Dent, 1907)

LP Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII

ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

OED Oxford English Dictionary Online

TNA The National Archives of the United Kingdom

以上列出的所有官方政府记录和参考书均可在网上查阅。所有对莎士比亚戏剧的引用（除了《奥赛罗》）都取自斯蒂芬·格林布拉特等人编辑的《诺顿莎士比亚全集》（New York: W. W. Norton, 1997）。