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

Source-Control Position

• Direct-image upgrade, 2026-07-09: Archive.org item `bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-christian-and-wholsom-_christian-admonition_1587` is a verified public EEBO image witness for STC 5154. The full PDF and OCR are retained in the NETWORK PLAY CLUSTER SOURCE PASS 2026 07 09.
• PDF page 9, leaf A5r, directly images the joint dedication to Henry and Anne Neville. PDF page 11, A6r, directly supplies the place, date, and signature: At Maighfield in Sussex this 24. of Iune. 1587 and Christopher Fetherstone. PDF page 12, A6v, directly images the exhortatory sonnet and its constant name-clue.
• The old A6r / A6v discrepancy is resolved: the author-identification poem is on A6v. A6r is the close of the dedication and visibly bears the A 6 signature.
• New source-image packet: SOURCE NOTES.
• Research pass log: CHRISTIAN ADMONITION NEVILLE 1587 RESEARCH PASS 2026 06 20.
• The earlier 2026-06-20 statement that no verified public scan had been found is superseded by the variant-spelling discovery above. Keep the local TCP and Folger records as independent text/catalogue controls, but direct page quotation is now possible.
• Folger's current physical record adds copy-specific evidence not previously foregrounded: Annotations, Manuscript waste, copy 1 manuscript notes/markings and provenance, and copy 2 bound with STC 24566 plus six other religious works from 1554-1588.
• The Folger electronic/vendor record identifies the EEBO reproduction as Early English Books, 1475-1640, 1198:14; EarlyPrint XML places the Neville dedication at pb facs="tcp:21489:5", giving a precise target for a future licensed image check.
• The catalogue disagreement is now itself a useful control note: Folger's physical record correctly cites A6v, while the vendor/EarlyPrint note's A6r reference is off by one side of the leaf.
• The 1854 Gardner sale catalogue gives a public image witness for a rare-book description of the 1587 book as black letter, John Wolfe, 1587, with a Songe or Sonnett by the author: gardner_catalogue_lot_918_crop.jpg. The Sussex place-name attached to Christopher Featherstone should be checked against the page image before being normalized.
• The Archive.org title page for STC 24566 / TCP A14251, olde_fayth_stc24566_title_page_context.jpg, is contextual only: it illustrates the tract named as Folger copy 2's bound-with anchor, not Folger copy 2 itself and not the Neville dedication.

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.

The page-image discovery adds a decisive local dimension: Fetherstone signed the dedication at Mayfield in Sussex on 24 June 1587. The book is therefore a direct witness to Protestant translation and patronage activity situated at the Nevilles' Mayfield world, not merely a metropolitan book bearing their names.

Quoted Source Passages

1. The 1587 Dedication Names Henry and Anne Neville Together

• Source: EarlyPrint/TCP A18639, A Christian and wholesom admonition, 1587; local extraction staged at A18639; dedication target pb facs="tcp:21489:5" per SOURCE NOTES.
• Quotation:

"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."

• What it proves: The printed dedication explicitly addresses Henry Neville and Anne Neville as a married pair before the younger Sir Henry Neville III was born.
• Limits: This is a local TCP/XML witness, not a checked public page-image witness for STC 5154.

2. The Dedication Frames the Relationship as Prior Patronage

• Source: EarlyPrint/TCP A18639, same dedication.
• Quotation:

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

• What it proves: The dedicator presents the Neville household as prior benefactors or patrons, not merely names on a title page.
• Limits: It does not identify the exact acts of patronage or prove any broader literary-program role.

3. Fetherstone Signs and Dates the Dedication at Mayfield

• Source: STC 5154, Archive.org EEBO image witness, leaf A6r, PDF page 11; image witnesses Christian_Wholsom_Admonition_1587_pdfpage-011.jpg.
• Quotation:

"At Maighfield in Sussex this 24. of Iune. 1587."

"Your worships much bounden and at commandement in the Lord, Christopher Fetherstone."

• What it proves: The translator/dedicator placed himself at Mayfield when he completed the epistle and expressly described himself as bound to the Neville dedicatees.
• Limits: The formula does not identify Fetherstone's office or prove that the tract was printed at Mayfield; the imprint remains London, John Wolfe.

4. The Author-Identification Sonnet Is on A6v

• Source: same witness, leaf A6v, PDF page 12; image witnesses Christian_Wholsom_Admonition_1587_pdfpage-012.jpg.
• Quotation:

"Which constant hath proposed to you, / Vp, vp, I say, and enter now."

• What it proves: The poem is physically on A6v and contains the internal constant clue underlying the STC/Folger attribution to Léonard Constant.
• Limits: The word is printed in lower case and participates in the verse's ordinary sense. The image confirms the clue, not a typographically unambiguous author signature.

5. Folger Copy Controls Add Annotation and Sammelband Leads

• Source: Folger STC 5154 catalog controls, summarized in SOURCE NOTES.
• Quotation:

"Annotations"; "Manuscript waste"; "STC 5154 Copy 2 Bd.w. STC 24566"

• What it proves: Folger's copy-level records make this tract a live material-book target, with reader-mark and bound-with questions still worth checking.
• Limits: These catalog phrases do not prove that any manuscript notes touch the Neville dedication.

6. The Gardner Sale Catalogue Is a Secondary Bibliographical Witness

• Source: Catalogue of the principal portion of the valuable library of John Dunn Gardner, printed p. 77, lot 918; local crop gardner_catalogue_lot_918_crop.jpg.
• Quotation:

"A Christian and wholesome Admonition directed to the Frenchmen"; "Songe or Sonnett by the author"

• What it proves: A public sale-catalogue image independently preserves a rare-book description of the 1587 tract and its paratext.
• Limits: The Gardner catalogue is not an image of the dedication itself and must not be cited as a substitute for STC 5154 page collation.

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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 catalog fact: The Folger physical record now exposes two copy notes: copy 1 has manuscript notes/markings and provenance through George Stokes, the Religious Tract Society, and Harmsworth; copy 2 is bound with STC 24566 and six other religious works from 1554-1588, with manuscript-waste endpapers.
• Documented image-search result: No verified public Archive.org scan of STC 5154 / TCP A18639 was found on 2026-06-20.
• Documented image-search correction: A later search under Archive.org's wholsom spelling found the verified 1587 image witness on 2026-07-09; it supersedes the earlier negative result.
• Documented secondary witness: The 1854 Gardner sale catalogue, lot 918, describes a copy under Christopher Featherstone, identifies him with a Sussex place-name, describes the book as black letter, John Wolfe, 1587, and notes a Songe or Sonnett by the author.
• 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: Fetherstone dates and signs the dedication At Maighfield in Sussex this 24. of Iune. 1587.
• Documented: The exhortatory sonnet is on A6v; A6r is the signed conclusion of the dedication.
• 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

• EarlyPrint corpus database
• EarlyPrint computational index
• SOURCE NOTES
• CHRISTIAN ADMONITION NEVILLE 1587 RESEARCH PASS 2026 06 20
• sir henry neville iii 1588 1629
• a king and no king 1619 walkley nevill

6. Key Quotations

• 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, 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 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 packet now has a verified public STC 5154 page-image witness. Continue to distinguish the 1587 images from the Gardner sale catalogue and from Folger's copy-specific annotations.
• The STC 24566 title-page image is only bound-with context for Folger copy 2. It is not an image of Folger STC 5154 Copy 2 and does not independently prove anything about the Neville dedication.
• 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.
• The A6r / A6v discrepancy is closed: direct images place the poem on A6v.

10. Local Source Paths

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• Folger Shakespeare Library catalog record for STC 5154: A Christian and wholesom admonition.
• Direct Archive.org page-image witness: A Christian and wholsom admonition (1587).
• Folger electronic/vendor record for the EEBO reproduction: A Christian and wholesom admonition, electronic resource.
• Internet Archive Gardner sale catalogue page image: catalogueofprinc00gard.
• Internet Archive STC 24566 bound-with context witness: The olde fayth of greate Brittaygne.
• Christie's STC 24566 rarity/provenance context: lot 246182.
• WEB SOURCE AUDIT 2026 04 21, first-pass web audit note for this packet.

11. Images

Additional Fact-Source Notes

• The 2026-07-09 direct-image pass supersedes the earlier no-scan note. The Archive.org item, document witnesses, and A5r-A6v derivatives now govern direct quotation, with TCP/Folger used as independent text and catalogue controls.
• The STC 24566 image remains bound-with/context evidence only. It should not be described as the Neville dedication witness.
• Book use: this is now a direct-image evidence packet. Quote the dedication from A5r-A6r, preserve Maighfield and Fetherstone spellings when transcribing, and identify A6v separately when discussing the Constant attribution.