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: 1501 - ''The Book of Margery Kempe '' (posthumous)
: 1503 - ''The Thrissill and the Rois'' - William Dunbar
: 1505 - ''The Passtyme of Pleasure'' and ''The Temple of Glass'' - Stephen Hawes
: 1508 - ''The Goldyn Targe'' - William Dunbar
: 1509 - '' In Praise Of Folly '' - Erasmus
: 1512 - '' Fulgens And Lucrece '' - Henry Medwall
: 1513 - First translation of the Aeneid into English Language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
: 1515 - '' The New Chronicles of England and France'' by Robert Fabyan
: about 1516 - '' Utopia '' by Thomas More
: 1526 - William Tyndale 's Bible Translation
: 1527 - ''Historia Scotorum'' - Hector Boece
: 1532 - '' The Prince '' by Niccolò Machiavelli
: 1535 - '' Huon Of Bordeaux '' - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
: 1539 - ''The Castel of Helth'' - Sir Thomas Elyot
: 1540 - ''Historia Scotorum'' of Hector Boece , translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V Of Scotland
: 1541 - ''Baptistes'' and ''Jephtha'' - George Buchanan
: 1542 - ''The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke'' - Edward Hall
: 1545 - ''Toxophilus'' - Roger Ascham
: about 1553 - '' Gammer Gurton's Needle '' and '' Ralph Roister Doister '', the first comedies written in the English Language
: 1559 - The Elizabethan version of the Book Of Common Prayer of the Church Of England , which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.
: 1560 - '' Geneva Bible '' - William Whittingham , Anthony Gilby , Thomas Sampson

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: 1577
  • ''The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande'' - Raphael Holinshed

  • ''The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies'' - Richard Eden


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: 1586
  • ''A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia'' - Thomas Hariot

  • ''Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland'' - John Knox

  • ''The Raigne of Edward III'' - anonymous, attributed by some to William Shakespeare

  • ''The Arte of English Poesie'' - attributed to George Puttenham

  • ''Primera parte de la Angélica'' - Luis Barahona De Soto

  • ''Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne'' - John Lyly


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