Ruled: 1553-1558
- Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 11 - 1553
- Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 12 - 1554
- Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 13 - 1554-1558
- Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 6 - 1555-1558
- Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 1 - 1556-1696
- Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Mary - 1553-1558
- Privy purse expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry the Eighth, afterwards Queen Mary
- The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563)
- Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Mary - 1553-1558
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80 - You need to pay for access to this.
- Acts of the Privy Council of England volume 4 - 1552-1554
- Journal of the House of Commons: volume 1 - 1547-1629
- Hall's Chronicle
- Actes and Monuments, John Foxe
- Holinshed's Chronicle - You can download the pdf of this at http://ia310836.us.archive.org/3/items/holinshedschroni01holi/holinshedschroni01holi.pdf or read it online at The Holinshed Project
- The chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of Queen Mary, and especially of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
- Narratives of the days of the reformation : chiefly from the manuscripts of John Foxe the martyrologist ; with two contemporary biographies of Archbishop Cranmer
- Charles Wriothesley's "A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors from AD 1485-1559" - Download the pdf of Volume I at http://ia341309.us.archive.org/2/items/chronicleengland00wriouoft/chronicleengland00wriouoft.pdf and Volume II at http://ia331313.us.archive.org/3/items/chronicleofengla02wriouoft/chronicleofengla02wriouoft.pdf
- Journal of the House of Lords 1509-1577
- A Collection of State Papers: relating to Affairs In the Reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth : From the year 1542 to 1570, left by William Cecil
- Original letters relative to the English Reformation : written during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary
Specific Events, People and Periods
British History Online, a wonderful collection of archives and primary sources, have collated some of their sources into specific topics to help researchers:
1555 Latimer and Ridley
Two Protestant bishops, martyred at the stake at Oxford in October 1555.
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1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt
Leader of a failed uprising against Mary in early 1554, beginning in Kent.
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- Queen Mary - Volume 2 - January 1554
- Spain - February 1554, 1-5
- Southwark - Old London Bridge
- Diary - 1554 (Jan - June)
1554 Philip of Spain
Philip II of Spain, married to Mary in July 1554.
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