Abbreviations
| AGI | Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla, Spain) |
| AGS | Archivo General de Simancas (Simancas, Spain) |
| AHSCM | Arquivo da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Salvador (Salvador, Brazil) |
| ANTT | Portuguese National Archives (Lisbon) |
| ASV | Archivo Segreto Vaticano (Rome) |
| BN | Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) |
| BNE | Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid) |
| BNP | Portuguese National Library (Lisbon) |
| CA | Chatsworth Archives (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire) |
| CTB | Calendar of Treasury Books |
| EHES | European Historical Economics Society |
| HMC | Historical Manuscripts Commission |
| L & P | Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII |
| NRS | National Records of Scotland (Edinburgh) |
| ODNB | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| Östa | Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Vienna) |
| RPCS | Register of the Privy Council of Scotland |
| RPS | Records of the Parliament of Scotland |
| SAA | Stadsarchief Amsterdam |
| SRA | Riksarkivet (Stockholm) |
| TNA | The National Archives (Kew) |