George Carleton

Topic: George Carleton

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The title page of Carleton’s 1603 book reads:

“Heroici characteres. : Ad illustrissimum equitem, Henricum Nevillum. Autore, Georgio Carletono.”

• The same 1603 record states:

“Oxoniae : Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1603.”

• The same 1603 record is cited by Folger as:

“STC 4636”

• The same 1603 record is cited by Folger as:

“English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107511”

• The 1624 Carleton book record states:

“Astrologomania: the madnesse of astrologers. Or An examination of Sir Christopher Heydons booke ... Written neere vpon twenty yeares ago, by G.C.”

• The same 1624 record states:

“London : Printed by W. Iaggard, for W. Turner of Oxford, 1624.”

• The same 1624 record is cited by Folger as:

“STC 4630”

• The same 1624 record is cited by Folger as:

“English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107657”

• A rendered image witness of the 1624 dedicatory epistle reads:

“To the Worshipfull my very good Cousin M. Thomas Carleton, of Carleton Hall in Cumberland; Esquire, and one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the Countie of Cumberland, Grace, and Peace.”

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• Ken's George Carleton materials emphasize Carleton as a Neville-adjacent clerical and publication figure: the 1603 Latin dedication to Neville, the later marriage to Anne Killigrew Neville, and the 1624 Astrologomania print path through William Jaggard and Thomas Vicars.
• Ken also preserves a local lead that Neville appointed Carleton vicar at Mayfield in 1587. That remains a local-archive/Twitter-blog lead until a parish or ecclesiastical record is extracted.
• The Thomas Vicars connection is important because Vicars was Carleton's son-in-law and the named publisher/editorial conduit in the 1624 Astrologomania record, but its Shakespeare relevance remains interpretive.

3. Quoted Source Text

1603 book to Henry Neville

• “Heroici characteres. : Ad illustrissimum equitem, Henricum Nevillum. Autore, Georgio Carletono.”
• “Oxoniae : Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1603.”
• “STC 4636”
• “English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107511”

1624 separate book

• “Astrologomania: the madnesse of astrologers. Or An examination of Sir Christopher Heydons booke ... Written neere vpon twenty yeares ago, by G.C.”
• “London : Printed by W. Iaggard, for W. Turner of Oxford, 1624.”
• “STC 4630”
• “English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107657”
• “To the Worshipfull my very good Cousin M. Thomas Carleton, of Carleton Hall in Cumberland; Esquire, and one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the Countie of Cumberland, Grace, and Peace.”

4. Citations

• Carleton, George. Heroici characteres. Ad illustrissimum equitem, Henricum Nevillum. Autore, Georgio Carletono. Oxoniae, Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1603. STC 4636. ESTC S107511. Folger record.
• Carleton, George. Astrologomania: the madnesse of astrologers. Or An examination of Sir Christopher Heydons booke, intituled A defence of iudiciarie astrologie. Written neere vpon twenty yeares ago, by G.C. And by permission of the author set forth for the vse of such as might happily be misled by the Knights booke. Published by T.V. B. of D. London, Printed by W. Iaggard, for W. Turner of Oxford, 1624. STC 4630. ESTC S107657. Folger record.
• Carleton, George. Astrologomania: the madnesse of astrologers... TCP A17971. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections / EEBO, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A17971.0001.001.
• Feinstein, Ken. Local Twitter material preserved in twitter_George_Carleton.md, twitter_William_Jaggard.md, and TWITTER_BOOK_ADDITIONS.md.
• heroici_characteres_1603_george_carleton_henry_neville.md, direct packet for the 1603 Neville-dedicated book.
• astrologomania_1624_george_carleton_john_chamber_thomas_vicars.md, separate packet for the 1624 Carleton book.

5. Notes on Access

• The 1603 and 1624 book evidence is now extracted separately in:
• heroici_characteres_1603_george_carleton_henry_neville.md
• astrologomania_1624_george_carleton_john_chamber_thomas_vicars.md
• A local post-1615 research note preserves this unverified Chamberlain wording for follow-up:

“yr cousin Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, shall marrie the Lady Nevill Sir Henries' widow”

• The local George Carleton archive mirror preserves these leads, which should not be treated as verified facts until directly sourced:
• appointment to Mayfield in 1587
• marriage to Anne Neville
• Thomas Vicars as husband of Carleton’s daughter Anne
• No direct John Chamberlain witness has yet been located stating that Neville did not want the dedication retained in a later reprint.
• This is now a mixed packet: the 1603 and 1624 printed books are verified bibliographical facts, while the Mayfield appointment, marriage wording, and Neville-publication-intention claims still need direct-document hardening.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-28: keep the 1587 Mayfield vicarial appointment in the Feinstein/local-archive lead tier. The currently hardened Mayfield sources establish Neville's Mayfield property/manorial context, but they do not yet prove the ecclesiastical appointment claim. The needed upgrade is a parish, diocesan, presentation, or institution record.