G. R. Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII (1962) online editionLưu trữ 2011-04-18 tại Wayback Machine; Elton, Reform and Reformation: England, 1509–1558 (1977) is sharply hostile toward the king — an "ego-centric monstrosity," whose reign "owed its successes and virtues to better and greater men about him; most of its horrors and failures sprang more directly from himself." p. 43
G. R. Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII (1962) online editionLưu trữ 2011-04-18 tại Wayback Machine; Elton, Reform and Reformation: England, 1509–1558 (1977) is sharply hostile toward the king — an "ego-centric monstrosity," whose reign "owed its successes and virtues to better and greater men about him; most of its horrors and failures sprang more directly from himself." p. 43