Henry Goodere
TBD Draft evidence packet
Topic: Henry Goodere
1. Verified Sourced Facts
- Julian T. S. Neuhauser writes that the
14 knightswho wrote for Coryate included:
“Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Goodere and Sir Henry Neville.”
- Neuhauser's fuller argument is that Coryate grouped the Panegyricke Verses contributors intentionally and that the Sireniacal Gentlemen functioned as a mock-guild organized around literary production. Goodere's appearance beside Neville and Phelips is therefore a stronger literary-social placement than a casual name-list, but it is not by itself evidence of direct collaboration with Neville.
- Michelle O’Callaghan’s description of the
Convivium Philosophicumattendee list includes:
“Henry Goodyere”
- The Middle Temple article describes the tavern/intellectual group near the Temple as including:
“the landowner, courtier and Middle Templar Sir Henry Goodere (bap 1571, d. 1627, adm MT 1589)”
- Source-hardening check of the local Middle Temple PDF confirms that Goodere belongs to Winston's
1610sInns/tavern literary circle, not merely to a generic Middle Temple membership list. Winston treats that circle as a literary community connected with the Temple, Mitre, and Mermaid, and with wider political/intellectual networks.
2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information
- No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.
3. Quoted Source Text
Neuhauser
- “Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Goodere and Sir Henry Neville”
- “Panegyricke Verses”
- “mock-guild”
O’Callaghan
- “Henry Goodyere”
Middle Temple article
- “the landowner, courtier and Middle Templar Sir Henry Goodere”
- “broader intellectual and political community”
4. Citations
- Neuhauser, Julian T. S. “Sirenaicks, Guilds and a New Coryate Manuscript.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 74, no. 313, 2023, pp. 31-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac061. Local PDF: hgac061.pdf.
- O’Callaghan, Michelle. “‘Talking Politics’: Tyranny, Parliament, and Christopher Brooke’s The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614).” The Historical Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 1998, pp. 97-120. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2640146.
- Winston, Jessica. “Literary Associations of the Middle Temple.” In Middle Temple Lawyers and the Law, edited by Richard O. Havery. Local PDF: Literary_Associations_of_the_Middle_Tem.pdf.
5. Notes on Access
- This is a starter packet for Goodere’s place in the Sireniac/Mermaid/Middle Temple network.
- The current packet preserves only the direct Neville-adjacent network evidence from the local PDFs already in hand.
- Source-hardening result,
2026-04-27: the Middle Temple PDF should be cited as Jessica Winston's chapter, not as Wilfrid Prest's monograph. - Source-hardening result,
2026-04-27: Neuhauser strengthens Goodere's placement in Coryate's organized literary-social network, but the packet should still avoid turning shared Coryate adjacency into a direct Goodere/Neville working relationship.