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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. MAJOR SOURCES OF The Scarlet Letter
The Harleian Miscellany; or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining
Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late
Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical
Notes ( London, 1808. 1811), III, 316-322; III, 344-368; V, 349-403.
Thomas Bayly Howell, ed., A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceed-
ings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest
Period to the Year 1783 ( London, 1816), II, 786-862, 911-1022.
Alfred John Kerape, The Loseley: Manuscripts: Manuscripts, and Other Rare
Documents, Illustrative of Some of the More Minute Particulars of English
History, Biography, and Manners, from the Reign of Henry VIII to that of
James I ( London, 1836), pp. 379-417.
[ Michael Sparke, ed.], The Narrative History of King James, for the First
Fourteen Years ( London, 1651).

II. MINOR SOURCES OF The Scarlet Letter
Andrew Amos, The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London ( Lon.
don, 1846).
Biographia Britannica; or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have
Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Ages down to the
Present Times ( London, 1746- 1766), Devereux, Howard, Overbury,
Russell * .
Thomas Birch, The Court and Times of James the First; Containing a Series
of Historical and Confidential Letters, in which Will Be Found a Detail of the
Public Transactions and Events in Great Britain during That Period, 2 vols.
( London, 1849).
The Harleian Miscellany ( London, 1808- 1811), VI, 5-9.
John Oldmixon, The History of England, during the Reigns of the Royal House
of Stuart ( London, 1730).
Sir Anthony Weldon, The Court and Character of King James ( London, 1651).

III. WORKS CONSULTED ON THE OVERBURY AFFAIR
The Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee
( London, 1937- 1939), "Sir Thomas Overbury," "Robert Carr," "Sir Gervase
Helwys."
Samuel R. Gardiner, The History of England, 1603- 1642, ( Boston, 1883), II,
166-187, 331-363.
Great Britain, Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series,
of the Reign of James 1. 1611- 1618, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green ( London,
1858).
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* Various other encyclopedias, biographical and historical dictionaries, and
sketches of English peers that were current in Hawthorne's day might well be
added to this list in the future, but they were not available for this study.

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