NOTES
- Wills of Thomas and Joan Tallis, printed from Public Record Office (PRO) sources in Tudor Church Music, 6 (London, 1928), xxi-xxii.
- Paul Doe, ‘Thomas Tallis’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 1980), xviii, 541–8.
- For the Ropers generally see Visitation of Kent, 1619, Harleian Society, 42 (London 1898), 82; Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), xiii, 876 (s.v. Sir Thomas More) and xvii, 215 (s.v. William Roper); and E. Hasted, Historical and Topographical Survey of Kent (Canterbury, 1799), i, 472–4 and ii, 515–22.
- The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, ed. E.F. Rogers (Princeton, 1947), 563–4.
- Nicholas Harpsfield, The Life of Sir Thomas More, knight, ed. E.V. Hitchcock, Early English Text Society, 186 (Oxford, 1932), 83.
- William Roper, The life of Sir Thomas Moore, knight, ed. E.V. Hitchcook, EETS, 197 (Oxford, 1935), introduction, xxxiv; and Admissions Register of Lincoln's Inn (London, 1896), i, 68.
- PRO, SP/12/118 f.138; he seems to have shared his father's former post with his brother Thomas, to whom DNB says William resigned it.
- Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1619, Harl. Soc., 41 (London, 1897), 21–2
- PRO, PCC 103 Cobham (1597).
- PRO, PCC 27 Langley (1578).
- Hasted, ii, 522; the arms Hasted saw on the monument are those of Roper quartering Cotton, vide the Visitations cited above.
- Vis. Kent (q.v.), and compare John Roper's will (1524) printed in Archaeologia Cantiana, 2 (London, 1859), 156–73.
- DNB s.v. More (q.v.), and Harpsfield, 64.
- Harpsfield, 78–9 and 83.
- For example John Petre, Byrd's future patron, at the Inner Temple 1567–70: A.C. Edwards, John Petre (London, 1975), 15–16.
- Roper's life of More, 25 and 79–80; LCC Survey of London, vol.4, ‘Chelsea’ (London, 1913), 11.
- Victoria County History of Kent, ii (London, 1926), 87–8, with original sources there cited.
- Hasted, i, 474; Calendar of State Papers (Domestic) 1547–80, 311.
- PRO, SP/12/99 f. 118.
- R.M. Fisher, ‘Privy Council coercion and religious conformity at the Inns of Court’, Recusant History, 15 (1979–81), 311–19.
- Vis. Cambs. (q.v.).
- ‘Proceedings…in Kent in connexion with the two Parliaments called in 1640’, in Camden Society, 80 O.S. (London, 1862), 65–6.
- Register Book of St. Dunstans Canterbury 1559–1800, ed. J.M. Cowper (Canterbury, 1887), 114; Ingatestone parish register 1558–1732 (Essex Record Office MS. D/P 31/1/1) and surviving monuments.
- John Milsom, ‘English Polyphonic Style in Transition: a Study of the Sacred Music of Thomas Tallis’ (D.Phil dissertation, University of Oxford, 1983).
- Denis Stevens, ‘A song of 40 parts, made by Mr. Tallys’, Early Music, 10 (1982), 177.
- Philip Brett, record review in The Musical Quarterly, 53 (1972), 149.
- Paul Doe, Tallis (London, 1968) and article in The New Grove.
- Acts of the Privy Council, 1581–82, 147–8 and 158–9.
- Joseph Kerman, The Masses and Motets of William Byrd (London, 1981), Chapter 1: ‘Motet texts and motet function’, passim (quotation is from p.35).
- Doe, Tallis, 39–40.