John Hoskyns

Topic: John Hoskyns

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Julian T. S. Neuhauser writes:

“Hoskins was one of 57 contributors to the ‘Panegyricke Verses’”

• The same article states:

“He was also one of the 14 diners referred to by pseudonyms in the Latin manuscript poem, ‘Convivium Philosophicum’”

• Neuhauser also writes:

“John Hoskins was a member of Middle Temple”

• The same article states:

“John Hoskins’s affiliation with Middle Temple and his close association with Coryate makes it all but certain that it was he who endorsed ‘Coryat v. Bingham’.”

• Neuhauser identifies Coryat v. Bingham as a Chancery suit against Nicholas Bingham over debt, now preserved as:

“TNA MS C 2/Jasl/C23/68”

• Neuhauser's argument makes Hoskyns more than a name in the Panegyricke Verses: he appears as a practical legal/social supporter within Coryate's Sireniacal network.
• James Doelman writes of 1614:

“Hoskins, Thomas Wentworth, Sir Walter Chute and Sir Henry Neville were” questioned after the dissolution

• Doelman also notes a specific parliamentary-history parallel: in a 25 May 1614 speech, Hoskyns grouped Bishop Neile with Doctor Shaw, the preacher associated with Richard III's title propaganda. Doelman treats this as part of the same historical-reference climate in which Brooke's Ghost of Richard III could operate politically.
• O’Callaghan’s description of the Convivium Philosophicum attendee list includes:

“John Hoskyns”

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

• “Hoskins was one of 57 contributors to the ‘Panegyricke Verses’”
• “He was also one of the 14 diners referred to by pseudonyms in the Latin manuscript poem, ‘Convivium Philosophicum’”
• “John Hoskins was a member of Middle Temple”
• “makes it all but certain that it was he who endorsed ‘Coryat v. Bingham’”
• “TNA MS C 2/Jasl/C23/68”

Doelman

• “Hoskins, Thomas Wentworth, Sir Walter Chute and Sir Henry Neville were”
• “A sermon at Paul's Cross in R. 3”

O’Callaghan

• “John Hoskyns”

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.
• Doelman, James. “Born with Teeth: Christopher Brooke’s The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614).” The Seventeenth Century, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999, pp. 115-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.1999.10555459. Local PDF: Born with Teeth Christopher Brooke s The Ghost of Richard the Third 1614.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.

5. Notes on Access

• This packet is a network packet for Hoskins as a Middle Temple and Coryate/Sireniac figure with a direct Neville adjacency.
• For the broader Coryate/Sireniac setting, see convivium_philosophicum_and_thomas_coryate.md.
• The normalized historical spelling used for the person in this corpus should be John Hoskyns (1566-1638). Variant Hoskins spellings are preserved when quoting sources that print that form.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: Doelman supports Hoskyns as part of the Addled Parliament / Richard III political-reference environment. O'Callaghan and Neuhauser remain the better sources for the Sireniac/Coryate network frame. A fresh pass through Neuhauser adds the Coryat v. Bingham Chancery suit as a concrete documentary anchor for Hoskyns's practical involvement with Coryate.