*Coryats Crudities* (1611) and “Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny”

Topic: Coryats Crudities (1611) and “Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny”

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Folger catalog record identifies the 1611 book as:

“Coryats crudities [electronic resource] : hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia ...”

• The same record gives:

“(STC) 5808”

• Julian T. S. Neuhauser writes of the commendatory poems:

“Coryate grouped the contributors to the ‘Panegyricke Verses’ together with intention, beginning with the 14 knights that wrote for him, a group that included Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Goodere and Sir Henry Neville.”

• The same image witness ends:

“Explicit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.”

• Neuhauser's open-access article argues that the Sireniacal Gentlemen should be understood not merely as a loose tavern circle but as a mock-guild organized around literary production.
• Neuhauser specifically treats the Panegyricke Verses as intentionally grouped literary/social production rather than a random heap of commendatory matter. This strengthens the significance of Neville's placement among the initial 14 knights, but it does not identify which Neville wrote the poem headed Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.
• Neuhauser treats the Latin Convivium Philosophicum as a likely Sirenaick function and states that, if so, additional possible Sirenaicks include:

“knights Sir Henry Neville and Sir Henry Goodere, the businessmen Lionel Cranfield and Arthur Ingram, John West ... and Richard Connock”

• Neuhauser's framework strengthens the social-literary context around Coryate, but it does not override the printed Crudities attribution of the poem to Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A local image witness from the Twitter archive shows a poem headed:

“Incipit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.”

• Ken Feinstein's Twitter layer argues that the Convivium/Coryate social context is more closely connected with Henry Neville of Billingbear than with the Abergavenny branch, while also acknowledging that the printed attribution itself says Abergevenny.
• This packet should preserve that as an interpretive identification problem, not a verified correction of the printed attribution.

3. Quoted Source Text

Bibliographic witness

• “Coryats crudities”
• “hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells”
• STC 5808

Heading and colophon of the Neville poem

• “Incipit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.”
• “Explicit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.”

Neuhauser on Sirenaick sociality

• “right Worshipful Fraternitie of Sireniacal Gentlemen”
• “mock-guild”
• “Panegyricke Verses”
• “Sir Henry Neville and Sir Henry Goodere”
• “businessmen Lionel Cranfield and Arthur Ingram”

Diplomatic transcription from the local image witness

Incipit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.

GOldilockt God that doest on Parnasse dwell,

O thou that sweetly playest on a fiddle

To sisters Nine that Aganippes Well

Do much frequent, there bathing to the middle;

Lend me thy notes, that I may sweeter sing

Of Tom of Oldcombe then doth Odcumbe ring.

Oh that some errant Knight could now be seene,

That he might dubbe thee; crying, Vp Sir Thomas:

Their dangers and aduentures lesse haue beene

That erst did wander to the land of promise.

Thou mak'st Sir Beuis and sir Guy a fable,

VVith all the daring knights of the round table.

Vnto thy shoes, thy shirt, thy fustian case

That hang at Odcombe, trophees of thy trauailes,

Ioyne this fayre booke of thine, which makes thee passe

Great Merlin Cockay in recounting maruailes.

VVhilst pendant scutchins others tombes adorne,

O're thine these faire atchiuements shall be borne.

Explicit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.

4. Evidence Images

Neville poem image witness

Preceding anonymous poem image witness

5. Citations

• Coryate, Thomas. Coryats crudities: hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia ... [London], [printed by William Stansby for the author], 1611. STC 5808. Folger Shakespeare Library, https://catalog.folger.edu/record/162993?ln=en.
• Neuhauser, Julian T. S. “Sirenaicks, Guilds and a New Coryate Manuscript.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 74, no. 313, 2023, pp. 31-46. Open access, Oxford Academic, https://academic.oup.com/res/article/74/313/31/6718147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac061.
• Thomas_Coryate.html, local Twitter archive page with image witnesses and source-note text.
• John_Donne.html, local Twitter archive page preserving the “Henricus Nevill de Abergavenny” post in context with other Coryats Crudities contributors.

6. Notes on Access

• This packet preserves two direct witness layers:
• the printed-book bibliographic witness for Coryats Crudities
• the local image witness centered on the poem attributed to Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny
• The transcription above is taken from the local image witness, not from a newly extracted diplomatic transcription of the whole book.
• The heading and colophon identify the poem with Abergevenny. This packet therefore treats the printed attribution as Abergavenny unless and until a stronger bibliographic argument is added elsewhere.
• The Neuhauser article is now the best open-access scholarly control for the broader Sirenaick/Coryate social-literary setting. It supports the importance of Neville, Goodere, Cranfield, Ingram, Hoskins, Donne, Jonson, and related figures as a literary-sociable network, but it does not identify the Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny poem as Billingbear Neville.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: Neuhauser supports a stronger reading of the Crudities apparatus as organized literary-social production around Coryate. The hard limit remains the same: the local image witness names Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny, so any Billingbear connection is contextual or interpretive unless a new direct witness is found.
• The preceding anonymous poem image is preserved as an adjacent witness, but this packet does not turn local discussion about its significance into fact.
• For the separate evidence that Abergavenny Nevilles patronized provincial acting companies, see lord_abergavennys_men_neville_acting_company_patronage.md. That evidence strengthens the broader Abergavenny theater-network context, but it does not by itself identify the author of the Coryats Crudities poem.
• Local Twitter/context leads include twitter_Convivium_Philosophicum.md, twitter_Parliament_and_Politics.md, and the archived local HTML pages cited above.