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| Inspiring hope : questions of purpose and audience in The Vocacyon of Johan Bale | Almasy, Rudolph P. | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| John Bale | Happé, Peter | Monograph or Collective Volume | Prentice Hall | 1996 |
| John Bale (1495-1563) | O'Neill, William, Rev. | Thesis | | 1970 |
| John Bale's non-dramatic works of religious controversy | Pineas, Rainer | Article in Journal | | 1962 |
| John Bale, bishop of Ossory, 1552-3 | Ellis, Steven G., 1950- | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| Persecution and deliverance in sixteenth-century Kilkenny: The Vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553) | Boran, Elizabethanne | Article in Journal | | 2017 |
| Shakespeare, Spenser, and the matter of Britain | Hadfield, Andrew | Monograph or Collective Volume | Palgrave Macmillan | 2004 |
| Strangers to that land : British perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the famine | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Smythe | 1994 |
| The impact of the Reformation on the urban community of Kilkenny, 1540-1640 | Lennon, Colm | Article in Journal | | 2018 |
| The Irish 'remnaunt' of John Bale's manuscripts | O'Sullivan, William, 1921-2000 | Article in Book | | 1995 |
| The Irish theatre | Fitz-Simon, Christopher | Monograph or Collective Volume | Thames & Hudson | 1983 |
| The strange case of the drunken bishop : a reformation mystery solved | Daniel, T. K. | Article in Journal | | 1980 |
| The Vocacyon of Johan Bale and early English Autobiography | Fairfield, L. P. | Article in Journal | | 1971 |
| The vocacyon of John Bale to the bishoprick of Ossorie in Ireland | Anonymous | Article in Journal | | 1734 |
| The vocacyon of John Bale to the bishoprick of Ossorie in Ireland | Anonymous | Article in Book | | 1734 |
| Translating the Reformation : John Bale's Irish Vocacyon | Hadfield, Andrew | Article in Book | | 1993 |