Henry Neville Timeline

Topic: Henry Neville Timeline

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Neville Research wiki timeline gives the birth date:

“11 April -- Born”

• The same timeline gives the baptism entry:

“20 May -- Christened, St Ann Blackfriars Church”

• The same timeline gives the Merton entry:

“20 Dec -- Entered Merton College, Oxford”

• The same timeline states for 1581:

“Aug -- Is in Venice; receives letter from Andreas Dudith”

• The same timeline states for 1582:

“17 Sept -- Cobham in Paris writes Walsingham a letter referencing "the young Neville"”

• The same timeline states for 1583:

“August -- Henry Neville travels to Scotland with Walsingham's retinue to meet with King James VI”

• The same timeline gives the marriage date:

“22 Dec -- Married Anne Killigrew”

• The same timeline gives the knighting context under 1599:

“9 Apr -- Easter Monday knighting: Henry Neville, "in the Privy Chamber at Greenwich". Prior to leaving for France as Ambassador.”

• The same timeline gives the return from France:

“2 Aug -- Henry Neville, his wife and children arrive in Dover from France”

• The same timeline states for 1600:

“4 Aug -- Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It were noted on the flyleaf of Liber C of the Stationer's Company”

• The same timeline states for 1601:

“22 Feb -- Rides back to London from Dover to be arrested for Essex Rebellion”

• The same timeline states for 1603:

“28 March -- Francis Bacon sends his "concealed poets" letter to John Davies”

• The same timeline states for 1603:

“10 April -- Henry Neville and the Earl of Southampton released from prison”

• The same timeline states for 1605:

“January -- "Sir Henry Neville sits by all this while unthought of, but 'tis hoped by many honest Men, the Necessity of the Time will lay the Place upon him"”

• The same timeline states for 1614:

“9 Feb -- Suffers from illness (jaundice, scurvy, and dropsy) requiring remedy”

• The same timeline gives the death date:

“10 July -- Henry Neville dies”

• McClure vol. 1, printed p. 577, directly controls the illness timeline entry through Chamberlain's letter to Dudley Carleton dated London, 9 February 1614/15. The letter says Neville had the jaundis, the scorbut, and a dropsie, and was in a very weake case.
• McClure vol. 1, printed pp. 607-608, directly controls the date-adjacent death notice through Chamberlain's 13 July 1615 letter to Dudley Carleton. It reports that Sir Henry Nevile died on Monday of the Scorbut; Monday in that week was 10 July 1615, matching the inquisition death date.
• A local Timeline (Cited, with Neville Letters v8) file adds letter-corpus anchors, including:

“1599-02-17 to 1599-02-19 | Travel/passport logistics letters to Cecil and Windebank”

• The same cited timeline records:

“1600-08-02 | Returns to Dover with family from France”

• The same cited timeline records:

“1604-11-01 | Letter to Ralph Winwood”

• The same cited timeline records:

“1608-09-14 / 1608-09-15 | Letters to Henry Savile and Thomas Windebank”

• Source-control update, 2026-05-30: this packet remains a chronological routing aid, not a final biographical chronology. The wiki timeline supplies useful prompts, but the controlling evidence should be the developed packets and direct source files. BRO/Royal Berkshire documents add date-bearing controls for Lothbury/Killigrew correspondence, Billingbear household/estate work, Sonning/Windsor/Wargrave administration, and 1615 estate settlement, but those need to be integrated through their topic packets before they become timeline claims.
• Duncan integration update, 2026-06-09: Duncan's dissertation supplies the best single older narrative chronology for the life from inheritance, education, continental travel, France, Essex, post-1604 parliamentary work, and the 1612-1614 Undertaking. Use it as a scaffold and source-map, not as the timeline's controlling authority. Dates and episodes that matter for book prose should still be routed through the topic packet with the strongest direct source.
• Edes/Scotland source-control update, 2026-06-21: the wiki line August -- Henry Neville travels to Scotland with Walsingham's retinue should be treated as a compressed secondary claim. The controlling packet is walsingham_scotland_embassy_1583_edes_iter_boreale_neville.md: Edes's direct witness is a learned Nevillus in Walsingham's company at Durham during the return from Scotland, with Sutton's identification of Sir Henry Neville marked perhaps and Durham dated 20-26 Sept. 1583.
• Archive.org CSPD addendum, 2026-06-24: the variant sweep of CSPD Elizabeth 1595-1597 adds or reconnects five date-bearing Neville-name hits. Three remain useful for the main working chronology: 15 Feb. 1594/5 Newbury corporation/signet business by Hen. Nevill to Windebank, 1595? iron-ordnance patent discussion naming Mr. Neville and others, and 1596 Berkshire deputy-lieutenancy commission naming Hen. Neville. Two are now corrected as cousin records, not the main Henry Neville: the 26 Aug. 1596 Cadiz-spoil gold-chain sale to Sir Hen. Nevill and the 1597 Buckhurst/Lake travel-licence request for Sir Hen. Neville.

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3. Quoted Source Text

Henry Neville timeline wiki page

• “11 April -- Born”
• “20 May -- Christened, St Ann Blackfriars Church”
• “20 Dec -- Entered Merton College, Oxford”
• “Aug -- Is in Venice; receives letter from Andreas Dudith”
• “17 Sept -- Cobham in Paris writes Walsingham a letter referencing "the young Neville"”
• “August -- Henry Neville travels to Scotland with Walsingham's retinue to meet with King James VI”
• “22 Dec -- Married Anne Killigrew”
• “9 Apr -- Easter Monday knighting: Henry Neville, "in the Privy Chamber at Greenwich". Prior to leaving for France as Ambassador.”
• “2 Aug -- Henry Neville, his wife and children arrive in Dover from France”
• “4 Aug -- Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It were noted on the flyleaf of Liber C of the Stationer's Company”
• “22 Feb -- Rides back to London from Dover to be arrested for Essex Rebellion”
• “28 March -- Francis Bacon sends his "concealed poets" letter to John Davies”
• “10 April -- Henry Neville and the Earl of Southampton released from prison”
• “January -- "Sir Henry Neville sits by all this while unthought of, but 'tis hoped by many honest Men, the Necessity of the Time will lay the Place upon him"”
• “9 Feb -- Suffers from illness (jaundice, scurvy, and dropsy) requiring remedy”
• “10 July -- Henry Neville dies”

McClure / Chamberlain date controls

• “the jaundis, the scorbut and a dropsie”
• “a very weake case”
• “Sir Henry Nevile died on Monday of the Scorbut”
• “the stewardship of Sunning”

Timeline (Cited, with Neville Letters v8)

• “1599-02-17 to 1599-02-19 | Travel/passport logistics letters to Cecil and Windebank”
• “1600-08-02 | Returns to Dover with family from France”
• “1604-11-01 | Letter to Ralph Winwood”
• “1608-09-14 / 1608-09-15 | Letters to Henry Savile and Thomas Windebank”

4. Citations

• “Henry Neville Timeline.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=Henry_Neville_Timeline. Local preservation: wiki_timeline.md.
• timeline_cited_with_letters_v8.md, local cited timeline integrating the v8 letters corpus.
• Neville_Letters_Corpus_v8.xml, underlying letters corpus.
• neville_letters_v8_timeline_index.csv, date-indexed extraction used in the cited timeline.
• Chamberlain, John. The Letters of John Chamberlain. Edited by Norman Egbert McClure, vol. 1, American Philosophical Society, 1939, pp. 577, 607-608. Local PDF: uc1-32106005854481-1782657835.pdf.
• MCCLURE_CHAMBERLAIN_NEVILLE_REFERENCE_INVENTORY_2026-06-28.md, page-level inventory of Neville references in McClure vols. 1-2.
• BRO/Royal Berkshire source routing: bro_transcriptions_source_dossier.md.
• Duncan, Owen Lowe, Jr. The Political Career of Sir Henry Neville: An Elizabethan Gentleman at the Court of James I. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1974. Local transcription: DUNCAN_OL_1974_7424317_combined.md. Local mining dossier: DUNCAN_DISSERTATION_MINING_DOSSIER_2026-06-09.md.

5. Notes on Access

• This is a chronology packet, not a narrative biography.
• The wiki timeline remains the simplest date skeleton, while timeline_cited_with_letters_v8.md is the stronger local file for integrating letter-based anchors.
• Status change, 2026-05-30: tbd/draft under-described the current state. The packet is mixed/needs_review because some dates are controlled by local letter/image packets while others still come from the older wiki skeleton.
• Where the timeline intersects with more developed packets, those packets should control the detailed sourcing:
• henry_neville_birthdate.md
• ambassador_to_france.md
• essex_rebellion.md
• francis_bacon.md
• Duncan note, 2026-06-09: the dissertation is especially useful for spotting missing chronological transitions between topic packets, but the timeline should label Duncan-only entries until the underlying source named in his note apparatus has been inspected.
• For the 1583 Scotland entry, use cautious chronology language until manuscript/retinue controls are retrieved: Sept. 1583, plausible identification of Henry Neville with Edes's book-learned Nevillus in Walsingham's retinue at Durham during the return from Scotland.

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

• Treat this as a routing aid, not a finished book chronology. More developed packets should control detailed assertions where they overlap with the timeline.
• Duncan remains useful for transition-spotting and missing-source leads, but Duncan-only entries should be labeled as such until the underlying note sources are inspected.
• The 1583 Scotland entry should stay cautious: Edes's Nevillus is a plausible identification, not a closed fact, and the current evidence places Walsingham's return context at Durham rather than proving a Neville presence at James VI's court.

Archive.org Variant-Sweep Timeline Addendum, 2026-06-24

• 15 Feb. 1594/5, CSPD Elizabeth 1595-1597, vol. CCLI, item 29, printed p. 10: Hen. Nevill writes to Thomas Windebank about Newbury corporation/signets and Mr. Chambers. This is already letter-controlled in letter_125.md; route the local-government implication through berkshire_offices.md.
• 1595?, vol. CCLV, item 63, printed pp. 153-154: official ordnance/patent discussion says the patent to Mr. Neville and others was for 21 years, with six elapsed, and that Mr. Sackville then held it. Route through business_interests.md and mayfield_manor_and_ironworks.md.
• 26 Aug. 1596, printed p. 270: Sir Arthur Savage reports that after Cadiz he sold a gold chain to Sir Hen. Nevill. Correction, 2026-06-24: this is Henry Neville's cousin, not the main Henry Neville. Do not route this through the Essex Rebellion chronology except as a false-to-target control.
• 1596, printed p. 297: commission of lieutenancy for Berks and Oxon names Hen. Neville among Berkshire deputies. Route through berkshire_offices.md.
• 1597, vol. CCLXIII, item 108, printed pp. 442-443: Buckhurst asks Lake to make out a Queen-granted travel licence for Sir Hen. Neville. Correction, 2026-06-24: this is Henry Neville's cousin, not the main Henry Neville. Do not route this through the travel or ambassador chronology except as a false-to-target control.