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Authors: Timothy Venning
Buckingham's sneers at the Tudors:
Calendar of State Papers Spain
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Thomas Penn,
Winter King: the Dawn of Tudor England
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Penn, pp. 167â70 and 261â332. The King's decline into paranoia and extortion notably worsened after Dudley's appointment in 1504, as the latter's foes alleged in 1509âbut the famous âMorton's Fork' tax-policy and other instances of oppressive fiscal policies had already been invented by the King's long-term adviser Bishop Fox who was carefully exonerated as being more useful to Henry VIII.
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Third Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records
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Third Report
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