Primary sources

The Anglo-Saxon C/ironicfe, translated with an introduction by G. N. Garmonsway (London: Dent, 1954) (Everyman’s Library)

Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry Hand Richard I, ed. R. Howictt (London: Longman, 1884-89) (Rolls series) (Rerum Britannicarum Medii/Evi Scriptores)

- particularly the Chronicle of Adam of Diss

The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds, 1212-1101 cd. Antonia Gransden (London: Nelson, 1964) (Medieval Texts)

W. A. Copinger, County of Suffolk: Its History as Disclosed hy Existing Records and Other Documents (5 vols, London: Sotheran, 1904-05)

Domesday Book. 33. Norfolk (2 vols, Chichester: Phillimore, 1984)

Domesday Book. 34- Suffolk (2 vols, Chichester: Phillimore, 1986)

Jocelin of Brakelond, The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Concerning the Acts of Samson, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Edmund, translated by H. E. Butler (London: Nelson,

1949)

G. C. Lee, Leading Documents of English History (London: Bell, 1900)

Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History, edited and translated by Marjorie Chibnall (vol. 2, books 3 and 4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969) (Oxford medieval texts)

Pipe Rolls (various volumes in the printed series of transcripts, particularly those covering the reigns of Stephen and Henry II; for Orford Castle, sec also The Building of Orford Castle: a Translation from the Pipe Rolls 1161-78 trans. Valeric Potter, research by Margaret Poulter, commentary and editorial notes by Jane Allen (Orford: Orford Museum, r.2002)