Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth

Camden arranged his history by years, in the manner of Tacitus. The introduction to the edition linked here says that the first part, covering 1558 to 1588, was printed in London in 1615, and that the whole work appeared at Leiden in 1625, after his death. The English text on the same site is the translation first printed in 1630 as the work of “R. N., Gent.”; library catalogues give the translator as Robert Norton, and the edition’s introduction calls him Richard Norton.

For the bull of Pius V the work is a later narrative, not a contemporary record: it was published forty-five years after 1570. Camden writes as a subject of the crown and calls the death of John Felton a “vaine shadow of glorious martyrdome”. It is cited for what a well-informed English writer of the next generation reported about the publication of the bull and its reception, and each use says so.