No idea if this is a good example of it's kind... more informed opinion is welcome.
Watch this space. I'll try to find a good history that could guide further choices.
Seems like a fun thing to sing, anyway.
Update: at least 60 years old but possibly a suitable book for this purpose: for about £10 plus postage at places like AbeBooks.co.uk:
Elizabethan Music and Musical Criticism by Morrison Comegys Boyd.
Equally suitable, perhaps, this (free) PhD thesis:
Image and Influence: The Political Uses of Music at the Court of Elizabeth I by Katherine Anne Butler