*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.
• Web/Archive.org update, 2026-06-20: the local Twitter-image witness can now be paired with a full public 1611 Boston Public Library scan on Internet Archive, identifier coryatscrudities00cory.
• The IA metadata identifies the contributor as Boston Public Library, the date as 1611, William Stansby as printer, Henry Frederick Prince of Wales as dedicatee, and includes Thomas Coryate, George Coryate, Hermann Kirchner, Ben Jonson, and William Hole among associated names.
• IA OCR locates the poem sequence and the closing line, but it is not reliable for the heading: the opening is mangled as Henricm de Abergeuenny, while the closing is more legible as Explicit Henrim Keuill de Abergeuenny. Therefore, the local image witness remains the safer source for exact transcription until the IA page image is visually cropped.

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.

Twitter Thread Batch 02 Crosswalk, 2026-06-28

• Requested thread #32 asks which Henry Neville wrote in Coryate's apparatus. It is now routed through twitter_thread_research_batch_02_networks_lucan_amiens_windsor.md.
• The thread's question remains valuable because Neuhauser shows that the Coryate apparatus was organized social-literary production, not random filler. At the same time, the printed poem witness still says Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.
• Current source-control status: preserve the Billingbear-context argument as a research interpretation; cite the printed attribution exactly unless a new bibliographic or manuscript witness changes the identification.

2A. Quoted Source Passages

Follow SOURCE_QUOTATION_STANDARD.md. The controlling direct witness is the printed 1611 Coryats Crudities page image/local crop, not the unreliable IA OCR.

Printed attribution

• Source: Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crudities (London, 1611), STC 5808; local Twitter-image witness paired with Internet Archive/Boston Public Library scan coryatscrudities00cory.
• Quotation:

"Incipit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny."

"Explicit Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny."

• What it proves: The printed poem is attributed in the book to Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny.
• Limits: This does not identify the writer with Henry Neville of Billingbear. The Billingbear connection remains contextual/interpretive unless a stronger witness is found.

Poem's Coryate praise

• Source: Same 1611 printed witness and local image transcription.
• Quotation:

"Of Tom of Oldcombe then doth Odcumbe ring."

"Vnto thy shoes, thy shirt, thy fustian case"

• What it proves: The poem is part of the Coryate commendatory apparatus and praises Coryate through Odcombe/travel trophies imagery.
• Limits: These lines support placement and subject matter, not the Neville identity problem.

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.
• Coryate, Thomas. Coryats crudities : hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells... Boston Public Library scan. Internet Archive identifier coryatscrudities00cory. Archive.org item.
• Internet Archive OCR text for the Boston 1611 scan: DjVu text.
• 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 2026-06-20 Archive.org pass supplies a full-book public page-image route for visual collation, but its OCR should not be used as the controlling transcription because it mangles the Neville heading.
• 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.

Third-Batch Fact-Source Update, 2026-06-24

• Archive.org's Boston Public Library scan now supplies the public full-book image route for Coryats Crudities: publication date 1611, William Stansby printer, associated names including Thomas Coryate, Ben Jonson, William Hole, Prince Henry, and bibliographic/copy notes.
• The local image crop remains the controlling witness for the poem heading and colophon because the IA OCR is not reliable for the Neville form.
• Book use: keep the attribution exactly as printed, Henricus Nevill de Abergevenny, unless a new bibliographic witness proves a different identification.