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Julius Caesar and John Salusbury

Lead Needs Review source map packet

Topic: Julius Caesar and John Salusbury

BRO sweep found Sir Julius Caesar documents in the Neville estate corpus, but no John Salusbury witness. Do not confuse Sir Julius Caesar, the officeholder in Neville estate papers, with the play Julius Caesar or with John Salusbury of Denbighshire.
Local searches found the Salusbury material currently lives mainly in tweet/book-additions notes around Love's Martyr and The Phoenix and Turtle, not in this packet as direct evidence.
This packet remains a lead only. The anti-Essex, Chapman, Brutus, Phoenix/dove, and brother-betrayal claims should be treated as routing targets until direct sources are extracted.

Promoted out of draft only as a quarantine/source-map packet.
No book argument should depend on this file yet: do not conflate Sir Julius Caesar estate papers with the play, and do not use Salusbury/Brutus/Phoenix claims without direct Salusbury and printed-text controls.

The correct printed-text routing target for the Phoenix/Turtle side is TCP B12045, Robert Chester, Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint, with the local metadata title "Allegorically shadowing the truth of loue, in the constant fate of the phœnix and turtle."
The B12045 metadata identifies the imprint as "Imprinted [by R. Field] for E. B[lount]" and supplies the Chester authorship line. The local local EarlyPrint database does not currently have a full texts row for B12045, so this is a metadata/catalog control, not yet a text quotation control.
Internet Archive has the 1878 New Shakspere Society / Grosart type-facsimile edition under identifier robertchesterslo00ches. This is a useful access witness for page review, but it is not the same as extracting the 1601 quarto or Folger facsimile directly.
A local metadata sweep also found many later John Salusbury / Thomas Salusbury publisher imprints from the late seventeenth century. These are false positives for this packet and should not be used as evidence for John Salusbury of Denbighshire or the 1601 Love's Martyr context.

No verified sourced facts have been isolated in this packet yet; current value is mainly as a source map or lead packet.
Local EarlyPrint metadata verifies B12045 as the Love's Martyr / Phoenix-and-turtle printed witness route, but the local full text is not present in local EarlyPrint database.
Local EarlyPrint metadata hits for later publishers named John or Thomas Salusbury are irrelevant to this topic unless a separate line of evidence ties them to John Salusbury of Denbighshire, which this pass did not find.

“Shakespeare and Chapman were pro-Essex.”
“John Salusbury was anti-Essex.”
“Brutus is an honorable man.”
“Salusbury apparently betrayed his own brothers.”
“The Phoenix is Queen Elizabeth.”
“The dove is Essex.”
“They both had to die for the new greater Phoenix, King James, to arise from the ashes.”

Chester, Robert. Loves Martyr: or, Rosalins Complaint. Allegorically Shadowing the Truth of Loue, in the Constant Fate of the Phoenix and Turtle. London, imprinted by R. Field for E. Blount, 1601. TCP B12045; local EarlyPrint metadata: [local source path removed].
Chester, Robert. Robert Chester's "Love's Martyr, or, Rosalins Complaint" (1601): With Its Supplement. Edited by A. B. Grosart. London: New Shakspere Society, 1878. Internet Archive identifier robertchesterslo00ches, https://archive.org/details/robertchesterslo00ches. Type-facsimile / access witness, not the original quarto.
Feinstein, Ken. Tweet, 23 Dec. 2019, https://twitter.com/user/status/1208983866448343040. Local preservation: twitter_Julius_Caesar.md.
essex_rebellion.md, related Essex packet.

This is a lead packet, not a primary-source packet.
The claims about Salusbury, Chapman, Essex, and the Brutus parallel have not yet been supported here with direct documentary extraction.
A direct Play: Julius Caesar packet does not yet exist in the corpus.
Next useful hardening step: obtain the B12045 page images/full text and a direct John Salusbury historical source before integrating the Phoenix/Turtle argument with Julius Caesar.