Royal Newmarket: The Story of Two Royal Palaces - Book List

Recommended Reading

Weiser, B. Charles II and the Politics of Access
Woodbridge: Boydell Press 2003

Keay, A. The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power
London: Hambledon Continuum, 2008

The Royal Architects

Downes, K. The Architecture of Wren
London: Redheadge, 1988

Hart,V. Inigo Jones: The Architecture of Kings
London: Yale University Press, 2011

Summerson, J. Inigo Jones
London: Penguin, 1966 - and many subsequent re-printings

Summerson, J. Sir Christopher Wren
London: Collins, 1953 - and many subsequent re-printings

Whinney, M. Wren
London: Thames&Hudson, 1971

See also the entry on 'William Samwell' in New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) Vol. 48, p.835

Royal Newmarket

Colvin, H. M., ed. The History of the King's Work,
London: H.M.S.O, 1963 - 82
Vol. IV. (1485 - 1660) Part II, pp. 175 - 179
Vol. V. (1660 - 1782) pp. 214 - 217

Lyle, R.C. Royal Newmarket
London: Putman, 1940

May, P. The Changing Faces of Newmarket: A History from 1600 - 1760
Newmarket: Peter May Publications, 1984

Onslow, R. Headquarters A History of Newmarket and its Racing
Cambridge: Great Ouse Press, 1983

Sutton, J. New Light on Newmarket's Two Stuart Palaces
Suffolk and Norfolk Life. No. 249. May 2010, pp. 44 - 45

Thompson, L. Newmarket from James I to the Present Day
London: Virgin, 2000

Thurley, S. Newmarket Palace
Country Life. 2008. Vol. 202. No. 17, pp. 100 - 103

Andrew Lacey
November 2011

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