A series of books compiled from a wide range of documentary evidence by F. G. Emmison, the former county archivist of Essex Record Office, which contain many references to life in Elizabethan Wivenhoe:
By F. G. Emmison [Essex Record Office Publication No 56] Essex County Council, Chelmsford (1970), 354pp
Emmison, F. G., National Genealogical Society, Washington D.C. (1982)
Emmison, F. G., New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston (1983)
Emmison, F.G., New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston (1986)
Extract from the Will of Henry Foote, yeoman, 29 March 1595, Essex Record Office D/ACW 3/204
Extract from the Will of John Venstree gentleman, 28 May 1591 (National Archives PRO 11/78/424)