EEBO Henry/Henrie Neville Variant Sweep

Topic: EEBO Henry/Henrie Neville Variant Sweep

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• A phrase-level EEBO sweep on the local FTS corpus for adjacent Henry/Henrie/Henrye plus Neville-family spellings produced 45 unique TCP hits.
• The search was run against the local EEBO FTS database with adjacent-name phrases only.
• These hits include:
• direct Billingbear Henry Neville witnesses
• direct Henry Neville III witnesses
• Abergavenny collateral Neville-family witnesses
• medieval Latimer / Warwick / Westmorland Nevilles
• older Tudor or otherwise non-project Henry Nevilles
• unrelated administrative or clerical Henry Nevills
• The Florio / Montaigne Abergavenny dedication does not fall inside this adjacent-name hit set, because the dedication is to Lady Mary Neville and Henry appears inside her identification rather than as the direct adjacent-name phrase searched here.

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3. Quoted Source Text

Direct Billingbear / project-line witnesses

• A18639: “M. Henry Neuill Esquier and maistresse Anne Neuill his wife”
• A01216: “sir Henry Neuil that serued her maiestie as ligier ambassadour with the french king”
• A19903: “to the noble discreete and wellbeloved knight sir Henry Nevill”
• A14521: “sir henry neuill of barkshire”
• A12461: “sir henry neuill of barkshire”
• A17832: “Billingsbere the inhabitation of sir Henry Nevill”
• A50030: “sir thomas layton to sir henry nevile walking upon the taresse at windsor”
• A25601: “sir Henry Nevill by name”
• A80650: “sir Henry Nevil Knight, the Queen of Englands embassadour”

Direct son / heir witnesses

• A06207: “to the right worshipfvll and worthie knight sir Henrie Nevill”
• A15075: “sr henry nevill of pillingbere in berks”

Abergavenny collateral witnesses

• A02836: “sir Henry Neuil sonne and heire to the lord of aberguenny”
• A10215: “henry nevill baron of abergaveny”
• A00529: “henry lord abergavenny”

Florio / Montaigne collateral witness

• Florio, Essayes: “Ladie Marie Nevill”
• Florio, Essayes: “wife to Sir Henrie Nevill of Abergevenny.”

4. Citations

• Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership local corpus, searched through:
• /Users/kenf/Database/Pervez Database/earlyprint/earlyprint_fts_lemma_word.db
• /Users/kenf/Database/Pervez Database/earlyprint/earlyprint.db
• Florio, John, translator. The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne. 1603. “Florio’s Epistle Dedicatorie,” Renascence Editions, University of Oregon, https://pages.uoregon.edu/rbear/montaigne/book3.html.

5. Notes on Access

• Search phrases used in the local FTS pass combined Henry, Henrie, and Henrye with the surname spellings Nevil, Nevill, Nevile, Neville, Neuil, Neuill, Nevyll, and Nevyl, with and without Sir.
• This packet is a search audit, not a claim that all 45 hits concern the same man.
• Classification wording in the hit list distinguishes identity from lifetime status. Entries dated after Neville's death on 10 July 1615 may still refer to Henry Neville (1563-1615), but they are retrospective or posthumous references, not direct references to a living officeholder.

6. Hit List