A Christian and Wholesom Admonition (1587) / Henry Neville / Anne Neville

Topic: A Christian and Wholesom Admonition (1587) and the Dedication to Henry Neville and Anne Neville

1. Verified Sourced Facts

The 1587 book A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie is an important early Neville-household witness because its dedicatory epistle is addressed to M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife.

This matters because it gives a documented pre-1590 dedication to the elder Henry Neville and Anne Killigrew Neville as a couple. It is therefore not evidence about the younger Sir Henry Neville III, who was not baptized until 10 March 1588, but it is strong evidence that the Neville household was already functioning as a recognizable Protestant dedicatory target before the son's birth.

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3. Why It Matters

• This is primarily a documentary and biographical-household topic.
• It is relevant to religious identity, because the book is explicitly Protestant and anti-Catholic in orientation.
• It is relevant to patronage, because it shows Henry Neville and Anne Neville receiving a printed dedication together.
• It helps establish the pre-history of later Neville-family literary and documentary associations.

4. Core Facts

• Documented: The book is STC 5154, TCP A18639, dated 1587.
• Catalog attribution: The Folger catalog record for STC 5154 identifies Constant, Léonard, -1610 as author, and describes the work as a translation by Christopher Fetherstone of Constant's Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire.
• Documented catalog fact: The Folger physical record for STC 5154 gives the imprint as London, printed by John Wolfe near the Castle in Distaff Lane, [1587], and records the book as entered on 28 April 1587.
• Documented catalog caveat: The Folger record states that the author's name is ambiguously mentioned in an exhortatory poem and refers the identification to STC. Therefore Constant, Léonard should be cited as Folger/STC catalog attribution, not as a clean title-page reading unless page images are checked directly.
• Documented: Its title is A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.
• Documented: The dedicatory address is to M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife.
• Documented: The dedication calls them the right worshipfull godly vertuous and my singular good friends.
• Documented: The dedication presents the pair as a Protestant household worthy of religious commendation and patronage.
• Strong inference: M. Henry Neuill Esquier is the elder Henry Neville, not the later Sir Henry Neville III.
• Strong inference: maistresse Anne Neuill his wife is Anne Killigrew Neville.
• Documented: This cannot refer to the son, because Henry Neville III was baptized on 10 March 1588, after the 1587 book.
• Strong inference: The witness shows the Neville household already visible in reformist literary-religious networks in the later 1580s.

5. Strongest Sources

• Local EEBO core record via earlyprint.db
• Local EEBO FTS witness via earlyprint_fts_lemma_word.db
• Related topic: Sir Henry Neville III (1588-1629)
• Related topic: A King and No King (1619) / Walkley / Sir Henry Neville

6. Key Quotations

• Local EEBO FTS witness for A18639:

"To the right worshipfull godly vertuous and my singular good friends M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife grace and peace with increase of godlie zeale"

• Same dedication, continuation:

"Right worshipfull sithence my first acquaintance had with you such hath been the continuall course of your manyfolde courtesies towards me"

7. Important Names / Entities

• Henry Neville

The elder Henry Neville, here still styled M. and Esquier, not yet the later father of the 1619 dedicatee discussion by way of death and succession.

• Anne Neville

Anne Killigrew Neville, named alongside her husband in the dedication. Important because she appears as part of the household's public religious-patronage identity.

• Henry Neville III

Important negatively: he is not the dedicatee here, because he had not yet been baptized in 1587.

• STC 5154

The Short-Title Catalogue identifier for the printed book.

• A18639

The TCP identifier for the EEBO witness.

• Léonard Constant

Author name supplied in the EEBO/corpus metadata, preserved in eebo_texts_mentioning_or_dedicating_henry_neville.md, and confirmed by the Folger catalog record for STC 5154. Folger notes that the author's name is ambiguous in the book itself and is discussed through STC.

• Christopher Fetherstone

Identified by the Folger catalog as translator of Constant's French original.

• Protestant / anti-Catholic polemic

The book's confessional frame matters because it shows what kind of text was being dedicated to the Neville household.

8. Chronology

9. Open Questions / Caution Flags

• The local EEBO evidence is strong for the dedication wording. The author attribution Constant, Léonard is currently accepted only as corpus metadata, not as a separately verified title-page reading in this packet.
• The dedication clearly names Henry and Anne Neville, but by itself it does not prove any broader literary-program role for the household.
• This topic should not be confused with the younger Sir Henry Neville III, whose separate packet begins in 1588.
• The title is long and confessional; when cited elsewhere, use STC 5154 and TCP A18639 together when possible.
• Folger's Entered 28 April 1587 date should be used for print-chronology discussions, but it should not be confused with the date of the dedication itself unless the internal paratext supplies a separate date.

10. Local Source Paths

• /Users/kenf/Database/Pervez Database/earlyprint/earlyprint.db
• /Users/kenf/Database/Pervez Database/earlyprint/earlyprint_fts_lemma_word.db
• /Users/kenf/Neville Book/NEVILLE_AI_TOPICS/topics/sir_henry_neville_iii_1588_1629.md
• /Users/kenf/Neville Book/NEVILLE_AI_TOPICS/topics/a_king_and_no_king_1619_walkley_nevill.md
• Folger Shakespeare Library catalog record for STC 5154: A Christian and wholesom admonition.
• Folger electronic/vendor record for the EEBO reproduction: A Christian and wholesom admonition, electronic resource.
• WEB_SOURCE_AUDIT_2026-04-21.md, first-pass web audit note for this packet.