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Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, [and other Sackvilles], by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.187-196) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Duel between Edward, Earl of Dorset, and Lord Bruce, in 1613, by C. L. Prince, published 1894 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 39, notes & queries, pp.209-213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2124] & The Keep [LIB/500257] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Duel between Edward, Earl of Dorset, and Lord Bruce, in 1613 (Ref SAC Vol 39), by F. R. Fairbank, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, notes & queries, p.266) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest together with the History of the Sackville Family, by Charles Nassau Sutton, published 1902 (x + 388 pp., Tunbridge Wells: Baldwin) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

History of the Sackville Family: volume 1, by Charles J. Phillips, published c.1925 (xiv + 493 pp., Cassell & Co. Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507376]

History of the Sackville Family: volume 2, by Charles J. Phillips, published c.1925 (xi + 484 pp., Cassell & Co. Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507377]

Two Sussex Men at Minden [Lord George Sackville and Thomas Spencer Wilson], by Arthur Beckett, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 8, article, pp.517-523) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Notes from the Earl of Dorset's Road Book, 1667, by S.N.Q. contributor, published May 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 2, article, pp.38-39) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Shakespeare, by Gilbert Standen, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 12, article, p.746) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

Lewes Priory [ re: Sir Richard Sackville], by Ernest Straker, published August 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 7, query, p.222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Some Sussex Monuments. III - Cibber's Sackville Monument at Withyham, by Mrs Esdaile, published August 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 7, article, pp.185-187) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

A Sixteenth-Century Portrait [of Thomas Sackville], by L. F. salzman, published November 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 8, article, pp.205-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

The Sussex Property of St. Mary Clerkenwell and the Sackvilles, by W. O. Hassall, M.A., D.Phil., F.S.A., published May 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 2, article, pp.38-40) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

The Sackville Family and Sussex Politics, by Robert L. Hess, published 1961 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 99, article, pp.20-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2184] & The Keep [LIB/500330] & S.A.S. library

The Fabric of an interest: the first Duke of Dorset and Kentish and Sussex Politics, 1705-1765, by K. Von den Steinen, 1969 at Los Angeles University (Ph.D. thesis)

A Dispute over Iron Ore between two County Grandees, edited by Judith Brent, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, pp.20-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Given below are extracts from correspondence between Sir Richard Sackville and Sir Edward Gage in 1560 and 1562 which is deposited with the Sussex Archaeological Society. (G6/50) Sir Richard Sackville, first cousin to Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth, had established himself as a prominent member of the rising gentry before her accession, having grown rich by the exploitation of secularised monastic and chantry property. In 1558 he was elected M.P. for Kent and in 1563 for Sussex. Sir Edward Gage's father, Sir John Gage, a prominent and successful courtier under Henry VIII and Queen Mary, had also waxed rich through the purchase of monastic properties but the continuing allegiance of Sir Edward Gage to Roman Catholicism may have sapped somewhat his local standing and power. Rest Hills, the copyhold in question, lay on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest in the Manor of Maresfield but in the parish of East Grinstead adjoining the highway from Newbridge to Forest Row and consisted of 111/2 acres of arable and 511/2 acres of woodland.(see G6/10).

Maker of Bexhill-on-Sea: the 8th Earl De La Warr, by Aylwin Guilmant, published September 1982 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 2, article, pp.45-51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1985 (448 pp., New York: William Morrow and Co., ISBN-10: 0688039634 & ISBN-13: 9780688039639) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400 [the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde], by Nigel Saul, published 1 October 1986 (216 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198200773 & ISBN-13: 9780198200772) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500094] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Looking at the world of the medieval gentry through the eyes of three families in East Sussex - the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde - Scenes from Provincial Life presents an insightful picture of what day-to-day life was like for a member of a knightly family in the Middle Ages. It draws on charters, estate documents, and even information gleaned from buildings and churches of the day to provide an illuminating account of the central preoccupations of landowners - estate management, military service, provision for relatives, and arrangements for schooling.

Sackville College, by P. B. Evershed, published December 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 8, article, pp.338-339) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties, by David L. Smith, published February 1992 in Institute of Historical Research (vol. 65, issue 156, article, pp.37-53)   View Online

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, published 12 March 1992 (480 pp., London: Virago Press Ltd., ISBN-10: 1853815055 & ISBN-13: 9781853815058) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

This is a collection of Vita Sackville-West's letters to Virginia Woolf, assembled with extracts from Virginia's replies and a linking narrative. It illuminates each woman's contemporaries, times, travels, their moments of levity, their periods of despair. And it reflects the private voices of two women, as their friendship deepened from formal admiration to become one of the most searingly intense affairs in modern literary history.

The Sackville Chapel, Withyham, Sussex, by Countess De La War and Robert Innes-Smith, published May 1993 (12 pp., Heritage House Group Ltd., ISBN-10: 0851013007 & ISBN-13: 9780851013008) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Manor and Hundred of Bexhill, by J. A. Beaden, published March 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 5, article, pp.165-166) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508820] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A brief history of the Manor and Hundred of Bexhill from 772 AD when King Offa granted eight hides of land, to 1570 when Elizabeth I granted the manor to Sir Thomas Sackville, to 1997 when the author purchased the title from the Honourable Thomas Sackville and Lady Arabella Sackville.

A poet in politics: Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and first earl of Dorset (1536-1608), by Rivkah Zim, published May 2006 in Institute of Historical Research (vol. 79, issue 204, article, pp.199-223)   View Online

Three elements in the experience of Thomas Sackville - eloquence, money and the law - integrate the achievements of the young poet and the mentality of the mature councillor, and enhance our understanding of him. His poetry had topical, political significance and taught him how to argue persuasively. His wealth gave him the confidence to be outspoken. His legal training, and the emphasis on equity and conscience, which began to affect Tudor jurisprudence (through such works as St. German's), account for many of the assumptions he articulated in public life. Two appended letters provide extended illustrations of these arguments.

Religion and the Politic Counsellor: Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608, by Rivkah Zim, published September 2007 in The English Historical Review (vol. cxxii, issue 498, article, pp.892-917, ISSN: 0013-8266)   View Online

There have been few attempts at new interpretations of religious and political identities among the political elite of Elizabethan England. This article investigates the actions and background of Thomas Sackville, lord Buckhurst, whose politic pragmatism and reticence in commenting personally on religion, in writing, have contributed to conflicting views on his position. It demonstrates that while Sackville upheld and promoted the religion of the established church, he nevertheless repeatedly differentiated between the political needs of the state for conformity, and the personal needs of individuals for freedom of conscience where there was not otherwise a threat to social order. It argues that Sackville's stance is significant because he had opportunities to engage in a wide variety of political spheres at the highest levels and often with scope to use his own judgment in determining when and how to intervene. Reference is made to his family background; activities in Sussex, including ecclesiastical patronage; disagreement with the earl of Leicester over English policy in the Netherlands (1587); his work as a privy councillor and high commissioner from 1586; and as chancellor of Oxford University from 1592. Reasons for his mentality are examined in assessing his generation's humanist ethical values, transmitted in English poetry as well as the premises of a classical education. It concludes that Sackville's construction of his religious identity as a moderate, in the preamble to his will, should not be construed as a lack of idealism in a man of his generation and experience

Parish church treasures. 'Dear little Tom' [Sackville Chapel, St Michael & All Angels, Withyham], by John Goodall, published 23 July 2014 in Country Life (vol. 208 no. 30, article, p.40)