Killigrew BHO, Hatfield, CSPD, and Archive.org Source Dossier
Mixed Needs Review source map packet
Topic: Killigrew BHO, Hatfield, CSPD, and Archive.org Source Dossier
Purpose
This packet is a deep source ledger for the Killigrew branch around Henry Neville d. 1615. It separates five evidence lanes that should not be blurred:
- the immediate Neville in-law household: Sir Henry Killigrew d. 1603, Anne Killigrew Neville, Lady Neville, and Lothbury;
- Sir Robert Killigrew d. 1633 as Neville's collateral in-law, estate-network actor, court broker, and later father of playwright sons;
- the playwright branch: Sir William Killigrew, Thomas Killigrew, and Dr Henry Killigrew;
- the First Folio provenance correction: the accessible evidence points to Charles Killigrew, not Thomas Killigrew, in the Congreve/Meisei copy line;
- source-access discipline: BHO page controls, Archive.org OCR/page-image witnesses, local Hatfield OCR, local MegaLetters/BRO transcriptions, and project notes.
Book-safe center of gravity: the Killigrews are very important, but the strongest Neville-side evidence is household, papers, estate, and kinship-network evidence. The playwright and First Folio branch is a later collateral family-network argument unless a future source proves direct manuscript transmission.
Method And Access Log
- British History Online was searched and opened through the in-app browser workflow described in the local skill SKILL.md. BHO challenge pages were allowed to settle. No premium or login gate was bypassed.
- Archive.org page-image/OCR handling is now captured in the local skill SKILL.md, created during this Killigrew pass for calendar, page-image, OCR, and page/leaf alignment workflows.
- A broader reusable archive-web skill is now installed and validated at SKILL.md. It covers TNA Discovery, Google Books, BHO, HOP, Folger, BL, and Archive.org source-control patterns used in this dossier.
- BHO public body text was verified for the Hatfield/Cecil Papers pages listed below, plus Survey of London and Office-Holders theatre controls.
- BHO search and canonical URL controls were useful for CSPD, but the CSPD body pages were premium-gated in the current sessions. For CSPD body text, use Archive.org OCR and page images until logged-in BHO access is available.
- TNA Discovery was searched through browser navigation on
2026-06-25because lightweight fetches can return JavaScript/bot-check pages. Result sets and selected detail-page text were saved under[local source path removed]. - Google Books was searched through browser navigation on
2026-06-25; direct automated fetches can trigger blocking. The useful Robert lead from that pass is Samuel Pasfield Oliver's Pendennis and St. Mawes, Google Books ID9cwHAAAAQAAJ. - On
2026-06-26, TNA Discovery's exact-reference API route was tested. The general search endpoint returned TNA's restricted page from this network, buthttps://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/API/records/v1/collection/[encoded-reference]returned JSON for known references. - On
2026-06-26, Google Books page images for Oliver's Pendennis and St. Mawes, pp.22,24, and27, were saved and visually checked. The signed PDF/EPUB download URLs returned Google captcha HTML in command-line fetch, so page images and browser route are the checked witnesses. - On
2026-06-26, a Southampton-focused browser pass checked Cuddy/OUP/Academia, TNA Discovery, BHO Petitions in the State Papers, and Google Books search routes. Google Books browser searches loaded, but the Google Books API returned a quota error and should not be cited for results. - On
2026-06-26, the in-app Browser skill was retried for TNA/Google Books follow-up but new-tab attachment timed out and reset the session. Read-only Playwright browser snapshots were used instead for the TNA, Google Books, and BHO follow-up pages. - On
2026-06-26, a later Playwright/browser pass added TNA detail-page snapshots forPROB 11/164/115andSpalding Sewers/449/4, TNA keyword-search negative controls for"Robert Killigrew" Virginiaand"Robert Killigrew" Sandys, Google Books route snapshots for Bellany and Brown, Archive.org/John Smith page alignment, and local EEBO exact-hit checks. It is filed as ROBERT_KILLIGREW_BROWN_EEBO_TNA_BROWSER_RESOLUTION_2026-06-26.md. - On
2026-06-26, a probate/Crediton/Cornwall estate pass used the TNA exact-reference API, TNA browser snapshots, BHO Crediton body text, Google Books search, and Archive.org OCR/page-image checks for George Oliver's History of Exeter. It is filed as ROBERT_KILLIGREW_PROBATE_CREDITON_CORNWALL_ESTATE_PASS_2026-06-26.md. - On
2026-06-26, Archive.org page images for CSPD James I 1611-1618 were aligned against scandata/OCR. The Overbury/Neville/Killigrew remembrance is printed p.171, not p.172; Archive.org/download/page/n178.jpgis the checked image. - On
2026-06-27, Archive.org page images for the main Robert Killigrew entries in CSPD Charles I1625-1626,1627-1628,1629-1631, and1631-1633were aligned against IA DjVu XML and scandata. The resulting source note is CSPD_CHARLES_I_KILLIGREW_PAGE_IMAGE_SOURCE_NOTE_2026-06-27.md. - History of Parliament direct member slugs were opened through the browser after search pages proved less reliable. The correct 1604-1629 Robert slug is
killigrew-sir-robert-1580-1633. - Archive.org items and local OCR were used as body-text witnesses for CSPD and Hatfield printed-calendar volumes.
- EEBO/TCP and EarlyPrint database witnesses were kept separate from Archive.org page-image witnesses.
- On
2026-06-26, JSTOR was accessed through the user's authenticated Chrome tab via the Wikipedia Library/OCLC proxy. The JSTOR header showedAccess provided by Wikipedia. Search results were usable for stable IDs, result counts, bibliographic lines, and snippets; PDF access redirected to a JSTOR terms-acceptance page, which the agent did not accept. The pass is filed as ROBERT_KILLIGREW_JSTOR_BROWSER_PASS_2026-06-26.md, and the reusable skill is SKILL.md. - The AHR/Peckard
Lord Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia, 1613-1631route is now collated more tightly. Peckard p.156was page-image checked and printsSir R. Killegrew, not Robert or Richard. AHR part I, p.493, was downloaded from Archive.org/JSTOR and visually checked; it expands the witness asSir Richard Killigrew. AHR part II was also downloaded and OCRed from Archive.org/JSTOR; it contains noKilligrewhit but confirms the Sackville/Peckard document-numbering trail. Kingsbury vol. 1 expands the same custody tradition asSir Robert Killigrewwhile cautioning that the surviving Byrd/Southampton volumes need not have come from Dorset.
- On
2026-06-26, a focused Southampton/Sackville/Peckard/TNA browser pass collated Kingsbury vol. 3 p.512, Kingsbury vol. 1 pp.80-81, Peckard p.156, AHR parts I-II, Brown's English Politics in Early Virginia History, TNA exact-reference API records, BHO body-text captures, and Google Books/Archive.org routes for Brown and Oliver. It is filed as ROBERT_KILLIGREW_SOUTHAMPTON_SACKVILLE_PECKARD_TNA_BROWSER_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
High-Value Findings
- A direct Hatfield/BHO control now places Henry Nevill writing from Lothbury on
6 May 1598, when his wife was gravely ill and his estate was under pressure from the Sir Henry Unton land purchase. This is stronger than generic "Killigrews of Lothbury" context. - The
6 March 1601Zachary Lok note is a major papers-custody control: Neville's cabinet of writings was sent for from Sir Henry Killigrew's lodging, and Lady Neville supplied the key. This ties Neville's papers, Anne, and the Killigrew lodging route in a single calendar item. - MegaLetters
Doc_30is not a Savile letter. The corrected working reading is Henry Killigrew to Sir Henry Neville, London,6 March 1599/1600, signedH: Killigrew. - A direct 1599-1601 letter sequence now makes Sir Henry Killigrew an operational broker for Neville, not just a kinship label: Neville routes embassy-expense intelligence through "mine uncle killigrew" and Savile, asks Cecil to signal Jersey-governorship support through that uncle, manages Queen/Winwood inquiry reports through him, and later discloses the Exchequer tellership jointly held with Sir Henry Killigrew.
- Sir Robert Killigrew's importance is broader than the will. BRO places him in Neville's trust/feoffment machinery, and CSPD places him in Overbury, Pendennis/Falmouth, Seal Office, United Provinces, Queen Henrietta Maria household, Kempton/Hanworth, and fen-drainage lanes.
- McClure vol. 1, printed p.
358/ local PDF p.383, adds a direct Chamberlain-to-Carleton printed-letter witness for Robert's Overbury access in the secretaryship context: Chamberlain writes thatSir Robert Killegreewas one of Overbury's "next favorites" and Carleton'sfast frend, then immediately adds that Sir Henry Neville would not see Carleton wronged if he could help. - A 1613 alum lead now places Lord Southampton,
Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Robert Killegrewe, Sir Herbert Croft, and Sir William Twysden in Dr Edward Jordan's proposed security network for farming the whole alum works. This is a high-value business-network lead, but it remains printed-secondary until the primaryLands, 166/175record is inspected. - The Virginia Company lane is now explicit and multi-tiered, but must be split by date and identity: the 1609 Second Charter names Henry Earl of Southampton, Sir Henry Nevil, and Sir Robert Killigrew in the resident council; the apparent 1613
Sir H. NevilleChancery suit is now excluded from the Henry Neville d. 1615 evidence set because Brown identifies the defendant as Henry Nevill of Kent; Kingsbury vol. 1 records Robert's 1620 company attendance and the John Ferrar tradition about records passing through Robert to Sir Edward Sackville; Kingsbury vol. 2 shows Robert actively speaking on joint-stock governance and serving on the May 1623 committee for handling records demanded by royal commissioners; Kingsbury vol. 3 adds a Ferrar Papers letter in which Sir Edwin Sandys says Robert was chosen on Southampton's commendation for a Southampton Hundred supply/adventure role and was then lying in Lothbury; and Kingsbury vol. 4 reprints the July 1624 royal commission naming Robert among those appointed to settle Virginia government after the charter crisis. - Identity correction,
2026-06-27: remove the1613Virginia Company suit from the Henry Neville d.1615control set. Brown's printed bill identifies the defendant as Henry Nevill of Kent, and Brown's index separates that entry fromNeville, Sir Henry, of Billingbear, Berkshire. Keep the source only as a same-name guardrail unless the Chancery original overturns the printed witness. - The Southampton link should be foregrounded. The strongest direct source is not generic Virginia Company membership but the
5 November 1621Sandys-to-Ferrar letter: Robert was chosen on Southampton's recommendation for a100l.Southampton Hundred role, and Ferrar was sent to reach him in Lothbury. This is now page-image checked against Kingsbury vol. 3 p.512and saved locally askingsbury_vol3_page_n549_p512.jpg. - JSTOR now supplies a live authenticated research route into this same Southampton/Virginia lane. The query
Southampton Killigrew Virginiareturned131accessible results and ranked AHRstable/1837804, "Lord Sackville's Papers Respecting Virginia, 1613-1631, I," first. Treat JSTOR as a stable-ID/discovery layer here; the direct proof still rests on page-image-checked Kingsbury/Ferrar/Peckard/AHR witnesses and the unresolvedSir R. Killegrew/Sir Richard/Sir Robertconflict. - The Southampton link is now independently supported by History of Parliament: HOP says Southampton approached Robert in November
1621about a£100Virginia Company investment, matching the Kingsbury/Sandys/Ferrar control. HOP also links Robert's Cornish electoral influence to Sir Edwin Sandys's1625Penryn return, adding a second Sandys/Southampton/Virginia bridge. - Alexander Brown's Genesis of the United States, vol. 2, now adds a strong older synthesis of Robert's Virginia/Southampton profile. Brown gives Robert as "Of Hanworth and Lothbury," with
Sub. £75; pd. £110, records him in Virginia council/company roles in1607and1609, repeats the Southampton-to-Robert custody tradition, and warns that the latter part of the story "must be an error." This makes Brown a useful control precisely because it preserves both the claim and the caveat. - Local EarlyPrint/EEBO now adds contemporaneous printed Virginia witnesses:
A14521, the 1620 Virginia Declaration, listsSir Robert Killegrew 110; John Smith's 1624 Generall Historie (A12461) includesSir Robert KillegreWin the adventurers list. These support Robert's Virginia financial/adventurer role without depending on later secondary synthesis. - Neil Cuddy's Southampton chapter adds an earlier interpretive Southampton control. In Cuddy's account of the
1611-1614Carr/Overbury/Neville/Southampton network, Robert was in Carr's English entourage, linked to Berkeley and Neville, and Southampton made him captain of Pendennis. Cuddy also says Killigrew, Neville, and Southampton tried to help Overbury after he went to the Tower in April1613. This is secondary interpretation, but it is directly relevant to the Robert/Southampton link and should be checked against Akrigg p.145and the Pendennis grant book. - The 2026-06-26 Akrigg/grant-book follow-up improves the control layer without closing the manuscript gap. Google Books did not expose Akrigg p.
145, and Archive.org Akrigg copies remain access-restricted catalogue routes. TNA confirms parentSP 14/77as1614 Apr-Septbut exposes no item-levelSP 14/77/373record; exact Discovery search for"Grant Book" "Killigrew" "Pendennis"returned no records. Candidate patent-roll controls now bracket the conflict:C 66/1996(11 Jas I,1613 Mar 24-1614 Mar 23) andC 66/2031(12 Jas I,1614 Mar 24-1615 Mar 23). - BHO Colonial, p.
74, no.42, now confirms the official calendar entry behind the 1625 Virginia grievance petition: Wyatt, the Virginia Council, and Assembly asked that the cause be referred to William Lord Paget, Sir Richard Weston, Sir Humphrey May, and Sir Robert Killigrew, commissioners for Virginia affairs. This proves Robert's commissioner role in the exact grievance setting before using later interpretation. - The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol.
15(1907-1908), p.362, adds a strong Southampton-Sandys control. Robert appears as one of the commissioners to whom the 1625 Virginia grievances should be referred, and the editorial note calls him a close friend of Southampton and Sandys and repeats the John Ferrar tradition that Robert kept copied Virginia Company records secretly in his house to prevent royal seizure. The page image is checked through Archive.org itemvirginiamagazine15bruc, printed p.362/ downloadn425. - British Library
Add MS 46188now adds a manuscript catalogue route into Robert's 1625 Low Countries / Southampton / Essex circle. The BL catalogue describes the Jessop Papers volume as papers of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and lists Carleton letters to Southampton and Essex in1624, Elizabeth Wriothesley widow of Southampton to Essex, and folio76, a1625John Cooke letter to Sir R. Killigrew / Sir Robert Killigrew. This is not proof of a Southampton-to-Robert letter, but it places Robert in the same manuscript cluster as Southampton, Essex, Carleton, Buckingham, and United Provinces material. - The deeper TNA browser/API pass adds
YHL/PO/JO/10/1/28, a House of Lords main-papers bundle whose API description includes a6 April 1625warrant paying Robert£350for repairs to Pendennis, St Mawes, and St Michael's Mount;CY/7260, a28 June 1623Cornwall deputy-lieutenancy appointment naming Robert; andC 2/JasI/C17/83, a Clerkenwell messuage Chancery suit naming Sir William Hickman, Sir William Killigrew, and Sir Robert Killigrew. - A Southampton-specific TNA Discovery browser query for
"Robert Killigrew" Southamptondid not produce a new direct Southampton/Killigrew control. Its single hit wasYHL/PO/JO/10/1/28, whereSouthamptonappears in an unrelated county-place item in the same House of Lords bundle. Keep the direct Southampton claim anchored in Kingsbury/Ferrar Papers and HOP. - Later TNA browser searches sharpen the route limits:
"Robert Killigrew" Virginiareturned0 records, and"Robert Killigrew" SandysreturnedSpalding Sewers/449/4, a30 July 1631fen/sewers commission held by Lincolnshire Archives. These are negative route controls, not negative evidence against Robert's Virginia/Southampton role. - TNA Discovery significantly deepens Robert's source map. New controls include the corrected will
PROB 11/164/115, the 1638 codicil/probate routePROB 11/177/407, the 1634 Sunbury sentencePROB 11/165/728, London tax residenceE 115/232/135, fen approvership agreementDL 26/96, Pendennis garrison reductionPC 2/41/329, prothonotary/seal-fee certificateE 215/398, and Holland correspondenceSP 84/91/15. - TNA browser detail now confirms
PROB 11/164/115as "Will of Sir Robert KilligreW of Kempton, Middlesex," dated12 July 1633; Surrey History CentrePCC/SUN/8adds a rich public abstract of the main will, the1634sentence, and the1638codicil/probate route. Use Surrey as a roadmap until PCC images are collated. - The probate/Crediton/Cornwall pass materially strengthens the estate side of the argument. BHO Magna Britannia gives the broad Crediton descent from Bishop Babington to William Killigrew in
1595, then to Sir Robert, then to Robert's devisees selling the park in1637; George Oliver's History of Exeter supplies the checked Archive.org witness for the22 June 1637feoffment to Sir John Chichester for GBP2600; and Devon/TNA records show William as Robert's son/heir and Berkeley, Lygon, and Tully as executors/devisees in repeated Crediton sales from1634through1639. - Kresen/TNA
G/381, dated5 September 1639, adds a Cornwall daughter-trust lane. It names George Kirke, Master of the Robes, Henry Killigrew of Lanrack, John Sharpe of Clifford's Inn, William Killigrew of Kempton Park, Berkeley, Lygon, and Tully, and places Robert's estate in trust for his daughters. NeighboringG/369,G/372, andG/379show the St Anthony/Manaccan/Pennare sequence from John Killigrew of Arwenack to Sir William Killigrew of Hanworth and then through Michell/Gregor records. Images remain necessary for exact property clauses. - A direct TNA browser search resolves
Lanrackas Lanrake/Landrake, Cornwall.C 3/395/103places Henry Killigrew in Landrake/Botallack/Killigorrick manors and rectories litigation in1632;C 2/ChasI/K13/41andC 2/ChasI/K27/114name Henry Killigrew of Lanrake/Landrake in1640-1641Chancery suits; and Kresen/TNACY/1006directly pairs Henry of Landrake with Richard Ligon in a1642quitclaim. This strengthens the identification of theG/381trustee but still needs document images. - University of London Fuller Collection
Fuller V/1, no. 11, dated18 May 1640, adds a possible office-revenue afterlife lead: a King's Bench receipts/revenues assignment names Sir William Killigrew of Kempton Park, Sir Charles Berkeley of Bruton, Richard Lyon, and Josias Tully of London. The catalogue entry does not name Robert, so it should be used only as a lead for the Seal Office/King's Bench profit lane until the document is inspected. - TNA exact-reference API calls now confirm the same controls directly and add or firm up
HILL 22/1/7,STAC 8/224/12,C 2/ChasI/K27/123,C 3/315/4,C 3/349/11,E 134/4Chas1/East36,Q/HAL/041,Spalding Sewers/449/3, andSpalding Sewers/449/4. - BHO's East Indies calendar adds a major Pendennis/East India control: on
21 October 1624, Buckingham wrote to Robert as captain of Pendennis with instructions in the Amboyna/Dutch East India crisis. This makes Robert's Pendennis office a trade-war enforcement post, not just a castle command. - BHO's Colonial calendar adds a later West Indies policy control: on
29 September 1628, Sir Robert Killigrew wrote to James, Earl of Carlisle, about St Christopher's and a way to secure the islands from Spanish threat. TNA confirms parentSP 16/117(1628 Sept 12-1628 Sept 30) but not the item-levelSP 16/117/79through the exact-reference API. - BHO Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
25 May 1624, adds a Commons/trade control: Sir Robert Killigrew spoke against the Dungeness/lighthouse imposition because it deterred ships from using West Country havens. This belongs with Pendennis/Falmouth and Amboyna because it shows Robert acting as a West Country ports and maritime-trade spokesman. - BHO Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
20 March 1624, adds a Sandys-facing Commons control: Sir Edwin Sandys framed the great subsidy/war-preparation debate, and Robert repeatedly moved that the House proceed by Sandys's ordered heads and one point at a time. This is not a Southampton record, but it strengthens Robert's public alignment with Sandys's procedural leadership. - Google Books now adds a Spedding/Bacon Overbury control, Google Books ID
R6kQAAAAYAAJ; Google's in-volume search locates Robert/Overbury/powder snippets on pp.329and332, but this remains snippet-level until page images are collated. Public DNB/Britannica summaries keep the guardrail that Robert supplied powders but the fatal-powder attribution was disputed. - BHO Petitions in the State Papers: 1620s adds Robert's own Pendennis petition text at
SP 16/49 f. 10(1627). He says he had filed sixty-nine petitions over eleven years for Pendennis supply and soldiers' pay, that the soldiers had been unpaid for two years and three quarters, and that some had already perished for want. This is a direct transcript control, not just a calendar abstract. - Local EarlyPrint/EEBO adds a Lindsey-Level printed afterlife route:
A47376(1647) andA47375(1649) are Sir William Killigrew / Lindsey drainage pamphlets.A47375is now exact enough to matter because William invokes "my Father Sir Robert Killigrew" and "two hundred Acres" disposed by will to younger sons. UMich EEBO2B08645.0001.001, The case of Sir Robert Killigrew, Thomas Wyndham, William Killigrew, Henry Heron, and Edward Heron..., is a stable route but was Cloudflare-blocked from shell fetch. - Robert's Hanworth household also has a learned/political dimension: Donne preached there in 1622 to Carlisle's company, with Northumberland in the auditory; Grierson's Donne edition identifies Huygens's meeting with Donne as probably at Sir Robert Killigrew's house; Huygens's no.
521letter to Hooft is now directly collated as a Donne manuscript-circulation witness; Huygens's correspondence database has three 1630 letters to Sir Robert and further letters to Mary Woodhouse/Killigrew; a November 1625 Donne letter calls Robert the friend going into Carleton's place; EMLO places the young Robert Killigrew on a 1596-1599 Casaubon/Italy itinerary under Richard Thomson; and Farnaby's Martial dedication to Robert is now controlled through 1644/1704 reprint witnesses plus Folger's 1615 copy-level/title-page/A1v controls. These are Robert-context controls, not direct Neville transmission evidence. - BHO now adds two extra public controls beyond the CSPD/Hatfield core: VCH Middlesex's
Forestrychapter independently records the1631Kempton Park grant to Sir Robert and the earlier Hanworth/Kempton grant to his father, while the House of Commons Journal records Sir William Killigrew's1671Lindsey Level hearings. - The First Folio lead should be rewritten as a Charles Killigrew / Killigrew-family provenance lead. The accessible Folger, Hodges, CELM, Folio400/Leeds, Mayer HAL/Cambridge, and BHO office-holder controls do not support a verified Thomas Killigrew ownership claim.
BHO And Hatfield Controls
Lothbury And Immediate Neville/Killigrew Household
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 5, November 1594, verifies a Sir Henry Killigrew / Robert Beale directive requiring Londoners to attend Sir Henry Killigrew's dwelling house beside the Lothbury conduit. Use this for the Lothbury household base.
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 5, March 1594/5, verifies a Sir Henry Killigrew letter dated from his brother's house in Lothbury.
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 6, August 1596, verifies the
14 August 1596H. Kyllygrew brother's-house-in-Lothbury note previously preserved through project image trails. - BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 8, May 1598, verifies Henry Nevill to Cecil,
6 May 1598, from Lothbury. The usable facts are: Neville was at Lothbury, his wife was dangerously ill, he sought respite from attendance, and his estate was strained by the Sir Henry Unton land purchase and large recognizances due within three months. - Local Hatfield OCR for vol. 8 also shows John Killigrew to Cecil,
4 May 1598, as a prisoner seeking better liberty and creditor handling, with an enclosure or related letter by Dorothy Killigrew from Arwenack. This is a neighboring Killigrew/Cecil distress context, not a direct Neville transaction.
Boulogne Return And Killigrew/Cecil Business
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 10, April 1600, verifies William Killigrew to Cecil on the French ambassador's audience with Elizabeth and Cecil's expected role.
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 10, June 1600, verifies the Sir Francis Godolphin / Privy Council entry involving Stronge, John Killigrew, hides and commodities, and a ship belonging to Godard of Hampton. This belongs to the John Killigrew debt/commerce lane.
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 10, August 1600, verifies Sir Henry Neville's
2 August 1600Dover return from Boulogne with wife, family, and Secretary Herbert. The same page range has Dorothy Killigrewe's14 August 1600appeal to Cecil about protecting her husband John from arrests pending appearance. - BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 14, undated
[1600], verifies a second William Killigrew / French ambassador scheduling item. It should be used as court-access context, not as a direct Neville event. - BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 15, May 1603, verifies John Kyllygrewe from the Gatehouse as a prisoner over debts and suits in right of the late Queen.
Sir Robert Killigrew Administrative Control
- BHO, Cecil Papers vol. 17, March 1604/5, verifies Sir Thomas Lake's report that Sir Robert Killigrew sought the reversion of Seal Office profits in King's Bench. The entry says his father Sir William had a 20-year estate and that the king preferred Robert because Sir William had increased the office profits by diligence.
- This is important for the Robert/William continuity: Sir Robert is not only a courtier in DNB; he inherits or pursues an administrative-business lane from Sir William Killigrew.
Sir Robert Killigrew DNB Career Controls
- DNB supplies the public-career skeleton that should be checked against HoP, CSPD, and office records where possible: Robert was probably born in London in
1579; matriculated at Christ Church in1590/1; was MP for St Mawes, Newport, Helston, Penryn, Cornwall, Tregony, and Bodmin at different points between1601and1628; was knighted at Hanworth on23 July 1603; became prothonotary of Chancery for life in1618; was an original New River shareholder when the company was incorporated on21 June 1619; served as resident ambassador to the States-General in1625/6; became vice-chamberlain to Queen Henrietta Maria in1630; and died at Kineton Park, Hanworth, in spring1633, with PCC will proved12 May 1633. - These DNB controls matter because they make Robert a serious court-office, business, infrastructure, and diplomatic figure in his own right. For the Neville book, they should be used to contextualize the BRO trust/feoffment and will facts, not to replace them.
Neville Manuscript And Cabinet Intersections
Direct Letter And Papers Controls
letter_015, Neville to Cecil, Blois,28 July 1599O.S., says Neville understood Cecil's favor especially through "mine uncle Killigrew." In this context the uncle is Sir Henry Killigrew d. 1603, Anne Killigrew Neville's father and Neville's uncle by marriage.letter_128, Neville to Thomas Windebank, Paris,28 June 1599O.S., asks Windebank to gather precedent or favorable information about ambassadorial transport and horse-hire charges and to acquaintmine uncle killigrewandmy cosen Savillwith it. This makes Killigrew and Savile the London-side route for embassy-finance pressure.- MegaLetters
Doc_30_PRO_088-089.md, Henry Killigrew to Sir Henry Neville, London,6 March 1599/1600, is a direct incoming family/diplomatic letter to Neville during the French embassy. It reports Edmondes, Verreyken / the Audiencier, Essex/Donnington Castle gossip, Mountjoy in Ireland, and a greyhound favor. letter_099, Neville to Robert Cecil, Boulogne,27 June 1600, asks Cecil, in the possible suit for the Jersey government after Sir Anthony Paulet's dangerous illness, to make known Cecil's approbation or dislike tomine uncle killigrew; Neville says the rest may be left to his uncle's friendly solicitation. This is an explicit patronage-broker use of Sir Henry Killigrew.letter_080, Neville to Ralph Winwood,28 December 1600, says the Queen was inquisitive of Winwood both through Neville'sunckle killigrewand others, and that Neville directed them how to answer. This is a small but direct court-reputation control.letter_145_cecil_1601_07_09.md, Neville to Cecil from the Tower,9 July 1601, says Neville held jointly with Sir Henry Killigrew a Teller's place in the Exchequer, though by agreement he took no benefit from it during Killigrew's lifetime. This is a financial-office link between Neville and his father-in-law, separate from the Lothbury household route.- MegaLetters
Doc_38_PRO_105-108.md, George Willington to Neville, Westminster,1 July 1600, says Willington tried to find Mr Killigrew between court and London and would go to him the next day. This is a smaller financial/court-logistics Killigrew contact in Neville's embassy business. - MegaLetters
Doc_54_PRO_152-155.md, John Holles to Neville from Lyons, closes with remembrance to Lady Neville and "my cosen Killigrew." The year needs hardening before final use, but the letter shows Killigrew social-network language around Neville's diplomatic circle. letter_155_cecil_1603_01_07.md, Neville to Cecil,7 January 1602/3, says Neville heard from "mine uncle Killigrew" and the Lieutenant that Cecil dealt honorably for Neville's liberty.- The
6 March 1601Zachary Lok to Cecil calendar note says Lok admitted Winwood's man to Neville and sent for Neville's cabinet of writings to Sir Henry Killigrew's lodging, where Lady Neville delivered the key. The cabinet held writings touching Neville's employments and private estate. This is not literary-manuscript evidence, but it is high-grade papers-access evidence. - The
4 June 1606Neville to Winwood transcript says Elliot had been questioned only concerning John Killigrew, with whom correspondence in Spain had been suspected. This is a later intelligence/legal memory involving a John Killigrew and Spanish correspondence.
Reverse-Side Alibech / Killigrew Witness
- MegaLetters
Doc_104_PRO_013-014.mdandDoc_115_PRO_Alibech_righe_side-alibech_crop.mdpreserve a PRO 30/50/70/2 Italian-newsletter-side witness with repeatedKilligrew,Harry,Rusticuccio,Alibech, andRusticoforms. - This matters to the Killigrew dossier because it puts the Killigrew name inside the same source-image lane as the Alibech/Rustico evidence. It does not identify Robert, Thomas, William, or Dr Henry Killigrew, and it should not be used as a Folio-transmission proof.
- The archival-reference conflict remains open: current dossier control is
PRO 30/50/70/2, while older project notes also citeSP 12/238, f. 180.
Sir Robert Killigrew: Virginia, Alum, And Learned-Household Lanes
Virginia Company And Colonial Governance
- The Second Charter of Virginia,
23 May 1609, names Henry Earl of Southampton, Sir Henry Nevil, and Sir Robert Killigrew in the resident council for the Virginia Company. This is a direct corporate-governance overlap among Neville, Southampton, and Robert Killigrew. - The same charter is not proof of active joint management by Neville and Robert, but it raises the Virginia lane above a generic "gentry investment" context. It should be crosswalked with the East India, Muscovy, free-trade, and New River material rather than absorbed into them.
- Kingsbury vol. 4 reprints the charter in both Latin and English form. The English text again names Sir Henry Nevill and Sir Robert Killigrewe in the great body of patentees, and later in the resident-council list. Use the Avalon page for readable public citation and Kingsbury vol. 4 for a printed-record cross-check.
- Kingsbury/Brown identity correction,
2026-06-27: the28 April 1613Chancery bill should not be used as a Henry Neville d.1615control. Kingsbury's list entry gives the short formSir H. Neville, but Brown's printed bill identifies the defendant as Henry Nevill of Kent and Brown's index separates him from Henry Neville of Billingbear. Source note: KINGSBURY_BROWN_1613_VIRGINIA_CHANCERY_SOURCE_NOTE_2026-06-27.md. - Kingsbury vol. 1 places Robert in the active company world after Neville's death. At the
17 May 1620quarter court, the attendance list names Southampton, Warwick, Devonshire, Doncaster, Edwin Sandys, Sir John Danvers, and Sir Robert Killigrew. The7 July 1620account/debt discussion names Robert among those proposed for soliciting knight/gentleman debts. The12 July 1620general court again names Southampton, Sir Thomas Roe, Lord Cavendish, Edwin Sandys, Sir John Danvers, Sir Robert Killigrew, Sir Edward Sackville, and others. - Kingsbury vol. 2 is stronger for Robert's active voice. In the
3 February 1622/3debate over the tobacco contract / joint-stock management, Sir Robert Killigrew objects that joint stocks are normally managed by a chief officer and deputy and warns against a new course without precedent. This makes him more than an attendance-name in the Virginia/Somers Islands business world. - Kingsbury vol. 2 also gives an official records-handling control before the later John Ferrar tradition. At the
17 May 1623extraordinary court, after royal commissioners required the secretary and officers to bring patents, commissions, records, order books, accounts, entries, notes, and writings concerning Virginia and the Somers Islands, the company appointed a committee including Sir Robert Killigrew and Sir John Danvers to attend the commissioners and manage delivery/copying of the materials. - Kingsbury vol. 3 / Virtual Jamestown adds the strongest direct Robert-Southampton-Lothbury control from the Ferrar Papers. In Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar,
5 November 1621, Sandys asks that the present-adventurers note for Southampton Hundred supplies remove Sir Francis Wyatt, who could not pay, and insert Sir Robert Killigrew. Sandys says Robert was chosen on Southampton's commendation, had100l.prepared, but withheld it because of intervening trouble, and that Ferrar should go to him because he was lying in Lothbury. The page image is now checked against Kingsbury vol. 3 p.512. This is post-Neville evidence, but it directly joins Southampton, Sandys, Ferrar, Robert Killigrew, Virginia finance, and Lothbury. - Brown's Genesis of the United States, vol. 2, strengthens this same lane from an older Virginia-historiography angle. It gives Robert's subscription/payment as
Sub. £75; pd. £110, identifies him as "Of Hanworth and Lothbury," says he was in Virginia council/company roles in1607and1609, repeats the Southampton-to-Robert custody tradition, and warns that the latter part "must be an error." Treat Brown as a useful synthesis and warning label, not as a replacement for Kingsbury/Ferrar/Peckard/Knole. - The local EarlyPrint/EEBO corpus supplies contemporaneous printed-list controls for Robert's Virginia role.
A14521, the 1620 Declaration of the state of the colonie and affaires in Virginia, givesSir Robert Killegrew 110; John Smith's 1624 Generall Historie (A12461) includesSir Robert KillegreWin the adventurers list. Archive.org itemgenerallhistorie00smit_0gives a page-image route for the Smith witness. - A second Ferrar Papers control in Kingsbury vol. 3, Sir Edwin Sandys to John Ferrar,
9 April 1622, says Sandys had written to Sir Robert Killegrew and asks Ferrar to read, seal, and deliver the letter. The content of the enclosed/unsealed Killigrew letter is not printed there, so use this only as a correspondence-routing lead. - Kingsbury vol. 4 reprints the
15 July 1624commission for settling Virginia government after the charter crisis, from Patent Roll 22 James I and Additional MSS. 12496. It names Sir Robert Killigrew among the commissioners. This is a post-Neville royal-administration control, not a Henry Neville control. - Kingsbury vol. 4 also supplies the next Knole route: it says the Sackville Papers at Knole Park were examined by A. Percival Newton and that the Virginia documents were printed in The American Historical Review, vol.
27, pp.493-538and738-765. The Oxford/AHR issue pages identify these as "Lord Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia, 1613-1631, I" and "II" (1922). This is the publication trail to check before treating the Sackville papers as merely lost or uncalendared. - Kingsbury's introduction preserves a separate John Ferrar records-history tradition: Southampton was reportedly advised not to keep the copied Virginia records in his own house and delivered them to Sir Robert Killigrew, who left them to Sir Edward Sackville / Dorset. Kingsbury vol. 1 pp.
80-81are now page-image checked. Kingsbury immediately qualifies the tradition: there is no evidence that the two surviving Byrd/Southampton court-book volumes came from Dorset, though some other records may have gone to Robert. Treat this as a manuscript-custody lead requiring John Ferrar/Peckard/Knole follow-up, not as a settled chain of title. - Peckard p.
156, the underlying printed source cited by AHR part I, gives the abbreviated formSir R. Killegrew. AHR part I, p.493, expands it asSir Richard Killigrew; Kingsbury expands it asSir Robert Killigrew; AHR part II does not resolve the identity. This creates a real identity conflict between printed witnesses and must be carried in the source map until John Ferrar/Peckard/Knole evidence is inspected. - BHO Proceedings in Parliament 1624 confirms the Commons Virginia-petition setting and the king's intervention that halted further Commons pursuit. Those pages are useful for context around the dissolution/commission moment; they do not by themselves prove a Neville connection because Neville d. 1615 was already dead.
Alum Works And Industrial Finance
- Turton's The Alum Farm gives a printed-secondary lead that Dr Edward Jordan, in
1613, offered to farm the whole alum works and deliver alum at a lower price, with security bonds guaranteed by Southampton,Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Robert Killegrewe, Sir Herbert Croft, and Sir William Twysden. - This is a major network lead because it binds Southampton, a
Sir Henry Nevill, Robert Killigrew, Croft, and Twysden in a crown-industrial finance proposal during the final years of Henry Neville d. 1615. - The control is not yet primary. Turton cites
Lands, 166/175; that record must be inspected before the book states that Henry Neville d. 1615 personally joined the bond network. The younger Henry Neville III and other Nevill lines still need exclusion. - The same printed passage says Jordan later contracted for Slape Wath on
8 March 1613/4, produced far below expectations, and became entangled with workmen, weather, and Sir Arthur Ingram's competing lease interests. That context matters: the lead is a failed industrial-finance proposal, not proof of successful alum operation by Neville or Robert.
Hanworth Literary-Political Household
- Oxford's Donne sermons project states that Donne preached at Hanworth on
25 August 1622, at Sir Robert Killigrew's home, to Carlisle and company, with Northumberland also in the auditory; it further links Killigrew and Donne through the Doncaster embassy and later Buckingham clientage. - The same Oxford page says Donne met Constantijn Huygens at Hanworth in
1622-3, but the line namesSir Thomas Killigrew's houseeven though the surrounding context names Sir Robert. Grierson's Donne edition gives the better control by saying the house was probably Sir Robert Killigrew's and tying the point to Huygens's 1630 letter to Hooft about Donne and manuscript circulation. - Huygens letter no.
521,17 August 1630, to Pieter Cornelis Hooft, is now directly controlled through the Huygens database and DBNL/Worp edition. The database identifies the original as Leiden University LibraryPAP 2; Worp prints the letter at vol. 1, p.289; and the DBNL text says Huygens had received about twenty-five Donne poems through English friends and chose Hooft among his Dutch friends because Donne suited Hooft's manner of thought and expression. This is a direct Donne manuscript-circulation witness; it is not proof that Robert Killigrew supplied the poems. - DBNL/Worp letter no.
522, also17 August 1630, to Joost Baeck, supplies a routing control because Worp's footnote says the note enclosed the Hooft letter and the Donne translations. A UCL-hosted translation study independently identifies the same Hooft letter and translation evidence. - Direct Huygens database controls now make the Robert/Mary household lane much firmer:
- Huygens correspondent list gives
Killigrew, sir Robert, member of Parliament, with three letters to him; - no.
503,30 March 1630, to Sir Robert Killigrew, English/French, KBKA 49-1, pp.411-412, 415-416; - no.
513,23 May 1630, to Sir Robert Killigrew, French, KBKA 49-1, pp.413-414; - no.
566,5 December 1630, to Sir Robert Killigrew, French, KBKA 49-1, pp.417-418; - correspondent list gives
Woodhouse, Mary, wife of Sir Robert Killigrew and later Sir Thomas Stafford, with five letters to her; - no.
567,5 December 1630, to Mary Woodhouse, KBKA 49-1, pp.423-424; - no.
577,12 February 1631, to Mary Woodhouse, with a database summary that Huygens rejoices at the restored good relationship with her and invokes Gaultier as witness. - DBNL's Worp text for Huygens letter no.
503shows the letter was about a household/court dispute: Huygens writes to Sir Robert about Mary Killigrew and Robert's son Charles, defending his conduct toward Charles in the Prince of Orange's orbit. This is a direct Anglo-Dutch Killigrew household witness. - Lisa Jardine's Temptation in the Archives is a useful secondary control for the later Mary Woodhouse/Killigrew evidence: it identifies Lady Stafford as Mary Killigrew after her remarriage to Sir Thomas Stafford, describes Huygens's first encounter with the Killigrew household during his 1622 English stay, and treats Mary/Lady Stafford as a later cultural intermediary for music, architectural engravings, Inigo Jones, and London court contacts.
- A local Donne transcript adds a near-contemporary diplomatic witness: Donne to Sir Henry Goodyer, Chelsea,
25 November 1625, says Sir Robert Killigrew was going into Sir Dudley Carleton's place. This reinforces the Robert/Donne/Buckingham/United Provinces lane already visible in CSPD. - DNB's Richard Thomson entry reports that Thomas Farnaby said Thomson lived for a time under Sir Robert Killigrew's protection and was known as an interpreter of Martial. EMLO independently deepens the point: Thomson became secretary to a Killigrew family member; William Killigrew procured Thomson's denization in May
1596; and a few weeks after Thomson's July1596Oxford incorporation, he left on a European tour as tutor to the young Robert Killigrew. Thomson and Robert visited Casaubon in Geneva, were in Italy by1597, and returned to England in1599. Thomson later became a King James Bible translator and helped bring Casaubon to England in1610. - Farnaby's Martial evidence is now better controlled but still incomplete. IUCAT records the original 1615 London edition, STC
17492, with a dedication on p.[3]signedTho. Farnaby. Folger Digital Collections controls a 1615 copy (STC 17492 copy 1) with copy notes, title-page image, and leaf A1v image; the title page bears Ben Jonson's ownership inscription, and A1v preserves the Jonson-to-Richard-Briggs presentation note. Folger's public IIIF manifest currently exposes only the title page and A1v, not the dedication leaf. Archive.org scans of the 1644 Amsterdam reprint and a 1704 Amsterdam/Paduan reprint preserve the dedication to Sir Robert Killigrew and explicitly connect the public presentation of Farnaby's Martial work to Richard Thomson's prior relationship with Robert. Use this as a printed patronage witness with edition caveat; do not quote the 1615 dedication as image-collated until that leaf is obtained. - These controls place Robert's formation inside a humanist/Casaubon-connected orbit before his later Pendennis, court, and diplomatic offices. They do not prove that Shakespeare papers or Neville papers passed through Robert's house.
- These Hanworth controls strengthen Robert's political-literary profile. They do not prove that any Shakespeare papers moved through Robert's household.
Sir Robert Killigrew: CSPD / Archive.org Chronology
1613-1615: Overbury And Neville-Proximate Court Risk
- Cuddy's Southampton chapter frames this period as a Carr/Overbury/Neville/Southampton political moment. In that interpretation, Robert is a Carr favorite tied by marriage/kinship to Berkeley and Neville, Southampton is connected to the Pendennis appointment, and Killigrew, Neville, and Southampton tried to help Overbury after his Tower commitment.
- Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton, printed in McClure vol. 1, p.
358, gives a contemporary news-letter version of Robert's access value before Overbury's fall. The exact anchor is:Sir Robert Killegree who is one of his next favorites is your fast frend. This should be kept distinct from later Overbury-poisoning evidence; here Robert is evidence for Carleton/Overbury/Rochester access and for Neville's secretaryship network. - CSPD James I 1611-1618, printed p.
171, calendars Overbury to Carleton saying Sir Henry Neville and Sir Robert Killigrew desired remembrances. This puts Robert and Neville in the same Overbury/Carleton courtesy network. The corrected Archive.org page image is/download/page/n178.jpg, saved locally ascspd_james_around_overbury_download_n178.jpg. - CSPD May 1613 calendars Robert released from the Fleet, then committed for holding intercourse with Overbury in prison.
- CSPD May 1613 also calendars Lidcott cautioning that Sir Robert should not be acquainted with a business involving Overbury's imprisonment and his servant Lawrence.
- CSPD October 1615 calendars an Overbury-investigation relation saying a powder taken to Overbury came through Sir Robert Killegrew and was sent by Rochester to create illness as a pretext for release.
- Guardrail: this proves proximity to the dangerous Overbury/Rochester network. It does not prove Robert knowingly participated in poisoning or murder.
1614-1618: Pendennis, Falmouth, Ashridge/Windsor Forest, Prothonotary
- CSPD July 1614 calendars a life grant to Sir Robert Killigrew as Captain or Keeper of Pendennis Castle, Cornwall. Use
1614as the calendar-controlled date unless a grant-book image supports DNB's1613. - A neighboring 1614 entry calendars a pension surrendered by Sir Robert after his appointment in the Falmouth/Pendennis lane.
- CSPD 1617 calendars Attorney General proceedings involving Sir Henry Neville, Sir Francis Moore, Sir Henry Savile, Sir William Burlacy, Sir Robert Killigrew, and Humphrey Newbery over Ashridge and lands in Windsor Forest. This is a high-value posthumous Neville estate/legal-network control because several Neville trust figures appear together.
- CSPD 1618 calendars a duel between Sir Robert Killigrew and Captain Burton.
- CSPD 1618 also calendars Sir John Parker, Captain of Falmouth, succeeded by Sir Robert Killigrew.
- CSPD later calendars a grant to Robert of the office of Prothonotary of Chancery for life.
1624: Amboyna, East India, And Pendennis Enforcement
- BHO, Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, October
1624, calendars Buckingham to Sir Robert Killigrew, captain of Pendennis Castle, on21 October 1624. The king's pleasure was that Robert should stop Dutch East India ships and goods coming within his command in the aftermath of Amboyna, with care for ships and men if they submitted. - This is a significant addition to Robert's business/state profile. It links Pendennis and Falmouth directly to the East India Company's Dutch crisis, and it belongs beside the Virginia, alum, New River, Seal Office, and fen-drainage lanes.
1625-1628: United Provinces, Pendennis, Seal Fees
- CSPD Charles I 1625-1626 calendars Sir George Goring reporting that Sir Robert Killigrew would succeed Sir Dudley Carleton in the States/United Provinces diplomatic lane.
- CSPD 1625 calendars Robert, Captain of Pendennis, petitioning the Council of War about defects in the fort.
- CSPD 1625 calendars Robert petitioning to purchase Kempton Park and the manors of Kempton and Feltham / Felton.
- CSPD January-February 1626 calendars Robert's 4l. per diem as resident ambassador with the States from
1 December 1625, plus plate for his ambassadorial table and related retinue expenses. - CSPD 1627-1628 calendars Robert saying he had filed sixty-nine petitions over eleven years for Pendennis supply and soldiers' pay; some soldiers had perished for want.
- BHO Petitions in the State Papers: 1620s supplies the exact transcript for one of these petition controls:
SP 16/49 f. 10(1627), "Sir Robert Killigrew, knight, captain of the fort of Pendennis in Cornwall." It preserves Robert's phrasing about "threescore and nyne severall peticions," "theis two yeres and three quarters," and soldiers "already perished for want." - CSPD 1627 calendars a grant to Robert of fees on sealing writs in King's Bench and Common Pleas for forty years, at a large yearly rent.
- CSPD 1627 calendars continued ambassadorial allowance, Pendennis pay for fifty additional men, and imprest / repair warrants involving Robert and Sir Francis Godolphin.
- CSPD 1628 calendars Robert's complaint that Pendennis lacked powder, match, bullets, carriage, repaired ports, guardhouses, and storehouses; it also calendars Rochelle intelligence and Robert's muster/repair activity at the fort.
- Page-image upgrade,
2026-06-27: the main printed-calendar witnesses above are now staged and checked in CSPD_CHARLES_I_KILLIGREW_PAGE_IMAGE_SOURCE_NOTE_2026-06-27.md. The checked page set covers CSPD Charles I1625-1626printed pp.202,231,454,559, and560; CSPD Charles I1627-1628printed pp.15,96,103,123,198,287, and440.
1629-1633: Queen's Household, Fens, Kempton, Sir William Transition
- CSPD 1629-1631 calendars Robert as Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Henrietta Maria in commissions concerning the Ordnance Office and exacted fees.
- CSPD 1629-1631 and 1631-1633 calendar Robert as a recommended or appointed undertaker in the Lincolnshire fen-drainage lane, with Robert Earl of Lindsey, Robert Long, and later William Lockton.
- CSPD 1631 calendars Robert's Kempton/Hanworth reversion and fee-farm grant. The entries say Queen Elizabeth had granted Kempton/Hanworth to Robert's father, Sir William Killigrew, and that Robert was to maintain the park stocked with deer.
- BHO VCH Middlesex,
Forestry, independently controls the same property lane in public body text: it says Kempton Park was granted by Charles I in1631to Sir Robert Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to the queen, and connects the grant to the earlier Elizabethan eighty-year lease of Kempton and Hanworth to Robert's father. - CSPD 1631-1633 calendars the transition toward Robert's son Sir William Killigrew in Pendennis/St Mawes jurisdiction disputes.
- CSPD 1632 calendars Robert protesting against reduction of the Pendennis garrison.
- CSPD 1633 calendars Robert petitioning for commission to examine witnesses in the dispute between his son Sir William Killigrew and Captain Richard Bradshaw.
- Page-image upgrade,
2026-06-27: the staged Charles I images now cover CSPD Charles I1629-1631printed pp.158,179,426, and481, and CSPD Charles I1631-1633printed pp.113,153,172,351,404-405,523,526, and534. The p.404fen entry continues onto p.405, so both page images are required for complete citation.
TNA, Google Books, And History Of Parliament Browser Pass
- Full pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_TNA_GOOGLE_BOOKS_BROWSER_PASS_2026-06-25.md.
- Follow-up pass note: AHR_SACKVILLE_SOUTHAMPTON_KILLIGREW_CUSTODY_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
- Follow-up pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_SOUTHAMPTON_SACKVILLE_PECKARD_TNA_BROWSER_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
- Southampton/Cuddy/CSPD/Petitions follow-up pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_SOUTHAMPTON_CUDDY_CSPD_PETITIONS_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
- Folio/theatre branch follow-up pass note: KILLIGREW_FOLIO_THEATRE_BRANCH_SOURCE_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
- Akrigg/grant-book/Virginia follow-up pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_AKRIGG_GRANT_BOOK_VIRGINIA_FOLLOWUP_2026-06-26.md.
- BHO/Sandys/Virginia follow-up pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_BHO_SANDYS_VIRGINIA_DEEPENING_2026-06-26.md.
- Brown/EEBO/TNA/browser resolution pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_BROWN_EEBO_TNA_BROWSER_RESOLUTION_2026-06-26.md.
- Probate/Crediton/Cornwall estate pass note: ROBERT_KILLIGREW_PROBATE_CREDITON_CORNWALL_ESTATE_PASS_2026-06-26.md.
TNA Discovery Controls To Retrieve
PROB 11/164/115: main will of Sir Robert Killigrew of Kempton, Middlesex, dated/proved12 July 1633; corrects the older workingPROB 11/163/69/PCC Russell 69shorthand.PROB 11/177/407: later will/codicil route for Sir Robert Killigrew, dated3 July 1638.PROB 11/165/728: sentence of Robert Killigrew of Sunbury, Middlesex, dated27 June 1634; identity and relation to the main probate need inspection.E 115/232/135: certificate of residence showing Robert taxable in London, not the hundred of Alton,1620-1621; important for the Lothbury/London location lane.DL 26/96: articles of agreement between the king and Sir Robert Killigrew and others over profits of fen approvership in the honor of Bolingbroke,1630-1631.PC 2/41/329: Privy Council letter of21 October 1631instructing Robert, as captain of Pendennis, to reduce the garrison.E 215/398: certificate about fees taken for pardons passed under the seal of Sir Robert Killigrew,11 December 1630.SP 84/91/15: Sir Robert Killigrew to Carleton,15 July 1619, a direct Holland-correspondence route for Robert's Carleton/diplomatic-trade lane.STAC 8/224/12,C 2/ChasI/K27/123,C 3/315/4,C 3/349/11, andE 134/4Chas1/East36: family, Chancery, Star Chamber, manor, and trade/litigation leads requiring order or image inspection.- Devon/Crediton estate records requiring original inspection:
Z1/10/293,Z1/10/299,Z1/10/300,Z1/48/40,2065M-8/T1/8A-B,2065M-8/T1/9, and the primary record behind Oliver's22 June 1637Crediton Park feoffment. - Cornwall/Kresen estate records requiring original inspection:
G/381for Robert's daughter-trust wording, plusG/369,G/372,G/379, andG/382for the St Anthony/Manaccan/Pennare/Gregor sequence. - Henry Killigrew of Lanrack/Landrake controls requiring inspection:
C 3/395/103,C 2/ChasI/K13/41,C 2/ChasI/K27/114, and Kresen/TNACY/1006, especially for Henry's relation to Richard Ligon, Josias Tully, and theG/381trust. - University of London Fuller Collection
Fuller V/1, no. 11: 18 May 1640 King's Bench receipts/revenues assignment naming William Killigrew, Berkeley, Lygon, and Tully; inspect for relation to Robert's office-profit estate lane. - Browser detail now confirms
PROB 11/164/115as "Will of Sir Robert KilligreW of Kempton, Middlesex" andSpalding Sewers/449/4as a30 July 1631Great Seal fen/sewers commission held by Lincolnshire Archives. These detail pages are safer than the exact-reference API during current TNA WAF/challenge instability. - TNA keyword route limits:
"Robert Killigrew" Virginiareturned0 records;"Robert Killigrew" Sandysreturned the Spalding Sewers/fen commission, not Sir Edwin Sandys. Keep the direct Southampton/Virginia argument anchored in Kingsbury/Ferrar/HOP/Brown/printed Virginia sources.
TNA Discovery API Exact-Reference Controls
- TNA API catalogue: https://www.api.gov.uk/tna/discovery/. The catalogue says Discovery contains more than 35 million descriptions and gives endpoint
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/API. - Sandbox route: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/API/sandbox/index. The Swagger spec exposes
/search/v1/recordsand/records/v1/collection/{reference}. - In this workspace,
/search/v1/recordsreturned a TNA restricted page, but/records/v1/collection/[encoded-reference]returned usable JSON for known references. - Exact-reference confirmations:
PROB 11/164/115: will of Sir Robert Killigrew of Kempton, Middlesex,12 July 1633, digitised, idD867327.PROB 11/177/407: Sir Robert Killigrew will/codicil route,3 July 1638, digitised, idD873468.PROB 11/165/728: sentence of Robert Killigrew of Sunbury, Middlesex,27 June 1634, digitised, idD865648.E 115/232/135: Robert taxable in London, not Alton/Portsdown,1620-1621.DL 26/96: fen approvership profits in the honor of Bolingbroke,[1630-1631].PC 2/41/329: Privy Council letter to Robert as captain of Pendennis,21 October 1631, reducing the garrison.E 215/398: certificate on fees for pardons under Sir Robert Killigrew's seal,11 December 1630.SP 84/91/15: folio39, Sir Robert Killigrew to Carleton,15 July 1619.HILL 22/1/7: Lincolnshire Archives fen papers including Robert, John Heydon, and George Kirke's 1630 drainage proposal.Spalding Sewers/449/3andSpalding Sewers/449/4: 1629 and 1631 sewers commissions including Sir Robert.STAC 8/224/12: Onslowe v Killigrewe, naming Sir William, Sir Robert, Mary, and Dame Jael Killigrew.C 2/ChasI/K27/123: Killigrew v Archbishop of Canterbury, naming Sir Robert, Mary his wife, and Anne their daughter.C 3/315/4: Killigrew v Gedy, Cornish manors,1618.C 3/349/11: Fish v Killigrew, Crediton,1625.E 134/4Chas1/East36: Killigrew v Lawrence, Crediton fairs/markets/customs,1628.Z1/10/293: Devon Archives/SW Heritage, Crediton bargain and sale,2 June 1634; William as Robert's son/heir, Berkeley/Lygon/Tully as executors/devisees of Crediton.Z1/10/299: Crediton charter of feoffment,10 November 1635; William plus Berkeley/Lygon/Tully, with armorial seals of Killigrew, Berkeley, and Lygon noted.2065M-8/T1/8A-B: Crediton conveyance/counterpart,4 September 1638; executors of Robert to George Younge, consideration GBP600.G/381: Cornwall Record Office/Kresen Kernow, declaration of trust,5 September 1639; Robert's estate in trust for his daughters.G/369: Cornwall Record Office/Kresen Kernow,17 March 1596; John Killigrew of Arwenack to Hugh Michell, including rectories of St Anthony and Manaccan.G/372: Cornwall Record Office/Kresen Kernow,25 June 1611; James I to Sir William Killigrew of Hanworth, including Barton of Pennare and the rectories of St Anthony and Manaccan.G/379: Cornwall Record Office/Kresen Kernow,20 January 1630; John Michell to Francis Gregor, Peter White, and William White, rectories asG/372.C 3/395/103: Bassett v Killigrew,1632; Henry Killigrew and manors/rectories of Landrake, Botallack, and Killigorrick.C 2/ChasI/K13/41: Killigrew v Thorneton,1640; Henry Killigrew of Lanrake/Landrake.C 2/ChasI/K27/114: Killigrew v Topp,1640-1641; Henry Killigrew of Lanrake/Landrake, with Josias Tully among defendants.CY/1006: Kresen/Cornwall quitclaim,17 March 1642; Henry Killigrew of Lanracke/Landrake and Richard Ligon.YHL/PO/JO/10/1/28: House of Lords main papers,28 March 1625-8 July 1625; API description includes a6 April 1625warrant paying Robert for Pendennis, St Mawes, and St Michael's Mount repairs.CY/7260: Kresen Kernow / Cornwall Record Office,28 June 1623; appointment of the Earl of Pembroke as lord lieutenant with Robert among deputy lieutenants.C 2/JasI/C17/83: Chancery,Challoner v Hickman,1603-1625; Clerkenwell messuage, defendants Sir William Hickman, Sir William Killigrew, and Sir Robert Killigrew.SP 14/77: State Papers Domestic, James I,1614 Apr-Sept; parent volume for CSPD p.242/ Oliver'svol. 77Pendennis grant route. ExactSP 14/77/373did not resolve as an item-level Discovery reference.C 66/1996: Patent Roll,11 Jas I: Part 19,1613 Mar 24-1614 Mar 23; candidate enrolment range if DNB's1613dating has manuscript support.C 66/2031: Patent Roll,12 Jas I: Part 15,1614 Mar 24-1615 Mar 23; candidate enrolment range if the CSPD/Oliver1614date is correct.SP 16/117: State Papers Domestic, Charles I,1628 Sept 12-1628 Sept 30; parent volume for BHO Colonial calendar's29 September 1628Robert-to-Carlisle/St Christopher's entry.44M69/G2/320andMON 7/16: later Lindsey-Level printed/parliamentary afterlife records naming Robert and other drainers/participants.
British Library / Southampton-Essex Manuscript Route
- British Library
Add MS 46188, the Jessop Papers volume of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, is now a live manuscript follow-up route for Robert's 1625 political correspondence. The catalogue lists Carleton material to Lords Southampton and Essex in1624, Elizabeth Wriothesley widow of Southampton to Essex, and folio76, John Cooke to Sir R. Killigrew / Sir Robert Killigrew,1625. - Use this as a manuscript-cluster route rather than a proven Southampton-to-Killigrew communication. The point is that Robert appears in the same BL volume as Southampton/Essex/Carleton/Buckingham/United Provinces material, matching the HOP note that Robert was proposed for a Low Countries role and the TNA
SP 84/91/15Carleton correspondence control. - Catalogue route: https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-002102042.
Google Books / Pendennis Controls
- Google Books surfaced Samuel Pasfield Oliver, Pendennis and St. Mawes, Google Books ID
9cwHAAAAQAAJ, through in-book search for Sir Robert Killigrew. - Useful page controls include Robert's appointment in
1614and the later joint captaincy/grant involving Sir William Killigrew. Treat this as a nineteenth-century monograph route until checked against grant rolls/CSPD/TNA images. - Page images are now checked:
- p.
22:7 July 1614grant to Robert of the office of Captain or Keeper of Pendennis Castle for life. - p.
24: Robert's 1626 petition summary about ten years of supply/fortification requests, unmouted ordnance, four barrels of powder, and unpaid garrison. - p.
27: Robert's11 June 1632protest against reducing the garrison; Oliver's claim that Robert died on26 November 1633conflicts with probate chronology and needs source-level checking. - Local page images:
[local source path removed][local source path removed][local source path removed]- Google Books also supplied a signed PDF/EPUB route, but command-line fetch returned Google captcha HTML. Use browser/page-image controls until a clean PDF/IA/HathiTrust copy is obtained.
Google Books / Overbury Controls
- Google Books query
"Sir Robert Killigrew" Overburysurfaced Spedding's Bacon volume, Google Books IDR6kQAAAAYAAJ. - The
SearchWithinVolume2route returned page-level snippet controls for pp.329and332on Robert, Overbury, and the powder evidence. Local artifact:[local source path removed]. - Status: snippet only. Use it as a route to Spedding/Bacon until a clean IA/HathiTrust/page-image witness is collated.
Google Books / Southampton and Brown Controls
- Google Books query
"Sir Robert Killigrew" Southamptonsurfaced Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England, Google Books IDA8I8TI0N9LAC, p.43, and Alexander Brown, English Politics in Early Virginia History, Google Books IDvkwSAAAAYAAJ, p.133. - Bellany p.
43loaded as an image-only Google Books page in this session. Do not quote it until visually collated. - Brown's Google Books accessible-text route did not add a cleaner quotable witness than Archive.org Brown, Genesis, vol. 2. Use Google Books here as discovery/page-route control; cite Archive.org for the exact Brown quotations.
- Saved browser snapshots are under
[local source path removed].
Cuddy / Southampton / Pendennis Control
- Neil Cuddy's OUP chapter, "The Conflicting Loyalties of a 'vulger counselor': The Third Earl of Southampton, 1597-1624," is a major secondary control for Robert's earlier Southampton link.
- OUP metadata confirms the chapter in Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, pp.
121-150, DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202295.003.0008. - The public full-text route used here says Robert was Carr's second favourite, Neville's cousin, and that Southampton made him captain of Pendennis Castle; it also says Killigrew, Neville, and Southampton tried to help Overbury get out of the Tower.
- Treat this as interpretive secondary evidence and follow Cuddy's note to DNB and Akrigg, Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton, p.
145. - Google Books query
"Akrigg" "Killigrew" "Pendennis"surfaced the Cuddy volume itself in snippet view, confirming the printed Cuddy/Killigrew/Pendennis/Akrigg cluster, but not Akrigg p.145. Google Books query"Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton" "Killigrew"surfaced only a later bibliographic/snippet result, not Akrigg's page.
Virginia Magazine / Southampton-Sandys Control
- BHO Colonial p.
74, no.42, is the official printed-calendar control for the 1625 Virginia petition. It reports that Wyatt, the Virginia Council, and Assembly asked that their cause be referred to William Lord Paget, Sir Richard Weston, Sir Humphrey May, and Sir Robert Killigrew, commissioners for Virginia affairs. - The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol.
15(1907-1908), "Virginia in 1625-26," p.362, prints Robert as one of the commissioners to whom Virginia's grievances should be referred. - Exact quotations to preserve: "Sir Robt. Killigrew, Commissioners for the affairs of Virginia"; "Sir Robert Killigrew, Commissioners for the affairs of Virginia"; "close friend to Southampton and Sandys"; "kept the copies of the records of the Company"; "in secrecy in his own house"; "lest they should be seized by order of the King."
- Archive.org page-image control: item
virginiamagazine15bruc, printed p.362/ downloadn425; local image[local source path removed].
BHO Colonial / Carlisle / St Christopher's Control
- BHO Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 1, p.
94, calendars Sir Robert Killigrew to James, Earl of Carlisle,29 September 1628, on St Christopher's and West Indies security. - Exact quotations to preserve: "Sir Robt. Killigrew to Jas. Earl of Carlisle"; "Things concerning St. Christopher's"; "make those islands past fear of the King of Spain."
- TNA parent-volume control:
SP 16/117,1628 Sept 12-1628 Sept 30, idC3411366; item-levelSP 16/117/79did not resolve through exact-reference API.
BHO Petitions / Pendennis Control
- BHO Petitions in the State Papers: 1620s directly transcribes Sir Robert Killigrew's
1627Pendennis petition,SP 16/49 f. 10. - Exact quotations to preserve: "threescore and nyne severall peticions"; "for the space of eleven yeres"; "theis two yeres and three quarters"; "already perished for want"; "this of as great ymportance as any."
- TNA exact-reference testing resolved parent
SP 16/49, but not folioSP 16/49 f. 10as a separate catalogue record. BHO is therefore the working text witness until the folio image is ordered or otherwise obtained.
Local EEBO / Lindsey-Level Controls
- UMich EEBO2
B08645.0001.001, The case of Sir Robert Killigrew, Thomas Wyndham, William Killigrew, Henry Heron, and Edward Heron, drainers and participants of Lindsey Levell, is a stable printed-case route, but shell fetch returned a Cloudflare challenge. - Local EarlyPrint/EEBO FTS did not contain
B08645, but it contains related Sir William Killigrew printed afterlife controls:A47376(1647), objections against Robert, Earl of Lindsey, and his participants concerning fen draining; andA47375(1649), Sir William Killigrew's answer to fen-men objections against Lindsey's draining. A47375exact quote anchors now matter for probate/fen work: "my Father Sir Robert Killigrew," "by his Will dispose," and "two hundred Acres." Cross-check these against the PCC will/codicil images before final book quotation.- Use these to document the afterlife of Robert's fen investments through William Killigrew and Lindsey participants, not as substitutes for Robert's own direct controls in
DL 26/96,HILL 22/1/7, and Spalding Sewers records.
Probate Abstract Control
- Surrey History Centre
PCC/SUN/8gives a detailed abstract of Robert Killigrew's will and later sentence/codicil route: https://www.surreyarchives.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHCOL_PCC_SUN_8. - This abstract ties Robert's estate to St Margaret Lothbury burial, Kempton Park / Coldkennington, Heston rectory, Seal Office income, Launceston lands for Robert and Thomas, Crediton markets/fairs for Henry, daughters' portions, Lincolnshire drained lands, and executors/overseers including Charles Berkeley, Richard Ligon, Josias Tully, Thomas Stafford, Benjamin Ruddier, and Robert Long.
- Treat the Surrey page as a source roadmap. The controlling witness for final quotation remains the PCC images:
PROB 11/164/115,PROB 11/165/728, andPROB 11/177/407.
British History Online Additions
- BHO Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
20 March 1624, records Robert repeatedly reinforcing Sir Edwin Sandys's method in the Commons subsidy/war-preparation debate. Exact quotations to preserve: "according to Sir Edwin Sandys's motion"; "one point at a time"; "these heads might be all spoken of in their order." Route: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl/mar-20. - BHO Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
25 May 1624, records Sir Robert Killigrew speaking on the Dungeness/lighthouse imposition. He says the imposition discouraged strangers from entering West Country havens and charged inward/outward ships. Route: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl/may-25. - BHO Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, October
1624, no.648, records Buckingham to Robert, captain of Pendennis, ordering seizure of Dutch East India Company ships/goods within his command after Amboyna. Route: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol4/pp416-432.
History Of Parliament Controls
- Correct HOP 1604-1629 page: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/killigrew-sir-robert-1580-1633.
- HOP is now the best secondary synthesis for Robert's office list, Cornish electoral reach, Southampton/Virginia approach, Sandys/Penryn link, 1614 Undertaking context involving Henry Neville, and probate/endnote routes.
Playwright Brothers And Printed/Image Witness Ledger
Family Placement
- Sir Robert Killigrew d. 1633 was son of Sir William Killigrew d. 1622 and Margaret Saunders. Robert married Mary Woodhouse.
- Robert's sons included Sir William Killigrew, Thomas Killigrew the dramatist/theatre manager, and Dr Henry Killigrew the divine/dramatist.
- These sons were Anne Killigrew Neville's first cousins once removed and Henry Neville's collateral relatives by marriage, not Neville descendants.
- DNB and Westminster Abbey sharpen the three-son theatre branch. Thomas was born in Lothbury on
7 February 1611/12, baptized at St Margaret Lothbury on20 February, wroteThe PrisonersandClaracilla, received the Restoration theatre patent lane with Davenant, built the Drury Lane theatre, and became Master of the Revels in1673. - Sir William, Robert's eldest son, was baptized at Hanworth on
28 May 1606, inherited the Lothbury mansion and Kineton Park after Robert's death, held Pendennis/Falmouth responsibilities, wroteThree PlayesandFovr new Playes, and carried the printed Lindsey Level/fen-drainage controversy forward. - Dr Henry, Robert's fifth son, was born at Hanworth on
11 February 1612/13, educated under Thomas Farnaby, wroteThe Conspiracy, later corrected asPallantus and Eudora, and became a Westminster divine/canon. - Keep the date caveat for Thomas: DNB gives death at Whitehall on
19 March 1682/3, while Westminster Abbey gives death on15 Marchand burial on18 March 1683.
EarlyPrint / EEBO / Local Database Controls
- Local EarlyPrint/EEBO exact phrase searches for Robert now return important Virginia, parliamentary, embassy, and fen witnesses:
A14521(1620 Virginia Declaration, "Sir Robert Killegrew 110"),A12461(John Smith 1624 Generall Historie, "Sir Robert KillegreW"),A47375(1649 Sir William Killigrew fen answer, "my Father Sir Robert Killigrew"),A13959(1605 Nottingham embassy roster), andA21429/B01237(1628 Commons/Bodmin lists). - Local EarlyPrint author search returns
A04824, Henry Killigrew, The Conspiracy,1638. - Local EarlyPrint returns
A04825, Thomas Killigrew, The prisoners and Claracilla,1641. - Local EarlyPrint returns William Killigrew fen-drainage pamphlets:
A47376in1647,A31502in1649, andA47375in1649. - External EEBO/TCP controls add a later Lindsey Level case,
B08645, dated[1665?], naming Sir Robert Killigrew, Thomas Wyndham, William Killigrew, Henry Heron, and Edward Heron as drainers and participants claiming under the late Earl of Lindsey. Because this item did not surface in the local EarlyPrint query used here, keep it as an external EEBO/TCP lead until page-image or local-corpus control is added. - BHO House of Commons Journal entries on
21 February 1671and21 March 1671show the Lindsey Level dispute still active in Parliament, with counsel appearing for Sir William Killigrew, Sir Henry Herne, and Sir John Dawes as adventurers. These pages give a public parliamentary afterlife for the William Killigrew fen-drainage print cluster. - EarlyPrint metadata controls Thomas Killigrew's collected Comedies and tragedies, TCP
A47372, ESTCR7715, printed for Henry Herringman in1664. - The early modern plays database contains:
The Conspiracy,1635, TCP-linked163-A04824;The Princess,1636,163-A47372_01;Claricilla,1636,163-A47372_10;The Prisoners,1635,163-A47372_11;The Parson's Wedding,1641,164-A47372_02.
Archive.org Image Witnesses
- Henry Killigrew image witnesses:
bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-conspiracy-a-tragedy_killigrew-henry_1638bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pallantus-and-eudora-_killigrew-henry_1653bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pallantus-and-eudora-a-_killigrew-henry_1653- Thomas Killigrew image witnesses:
bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-prisoners-and-clarac_killigrew-thomas_1640bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-prisoners-and-clarac_killigrew-thomas_1641bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-prisoners-and-clarac_killigrew-thomas_1641_0comediestragedie00killfor the 1664 collected Comedies and tragedies- Sir William Killigrew image witnesses:
bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-answer-to-such-object_killigrew-sir-william_1647bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_his-answer-to-the-fenne-_killigrew-sir-william_1649bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pandora-a-comedy_killigrew-sir-william_1664bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_three-playes-_killigrew-sir-william_1665bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_fovr-new-playes-_killigrew-sir-william_1666
Restoration Theatre Controls
- BHO Survey of London vol. 35,
The Killigrew and Davenant Patents, verifies Charles II's letters patent to Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant and the Killigrew patent descent behind Drury Lane / the King's Company. - BHO Office-Holders,
Revels 1660-1782, verifies the Master of the Revels succession and grants in reversion involving Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew, and Charles Killigrew. It supports the Charles Killigrew office context needed for the First Folio correction. - Keep the Restoration theatre point separate from the 1615 Neville evidence. It is a later family-network afterlife, not a direct source-transfer record.
First Folio Provenance Correction
- Older project prose says Thomas Killigrew owned a First Folio now at Meisei University. Current accessible controls do not support that as a verified statement.
- The Folger-hosted First Folio PDF says the William Congreve copy formerly belonged to Charles Killigrew and explicitly rejects the Thomas Killigrew evidence claim.
- The same Folger-hosted PDF also rejects a separate Thomas Killigrew attribution for Folger copy 73 on handwriting/provenance grounds. This matters because it shows a broader pattern of weak Thomas-Killigrew First Folio attributions.
- John C. Hodges, The Library of William Congreve, records a First Folio with Congreve's signature and Charles Killigrew on the flyleaf, then at Leeds on loan from the Duke of Leeds.
- CELM's William Congreve introduction tracks the same copy from Leeds Brotherton
Lt. 1, SHAthrough Christie's28 November 1990, lot115, to Meisei University, Tokyo. - Folio400 / Leeds confirms the Duke of Leeds loan copy was withdrawn in 1990, sold, and now resides at Meisei; it belonged to William Congreve and before him Charles Killigrew, Master of the Revels.
- Jean-Christophe Mayer's HAL preprint and Cambridge Core preview say a Meisei First Folio
MR3600was once the property of theatrical manager Charles Killigrew and later William Congreve. The HAL text also helps keepMR3600distinct from MeiseiMR774; West/Meisei catalogue wording still needs checking for final provenance prose. - Meisei's public Shakespeare Collection database controls the MR-number logic but not the Charles provenance. It says the Kodama Memorial Library has twelve First Folios under the shared shelfmark
932.141 Sh12, distinguished byMRserial numbers. The public Yamada digital project isMR774, the heavily annotated "Meisei Copy" identified as West201/ Lee53; it is not Cambridge's Charles Killigrew / CongreveMR3600. - Book-safe wording: "Charles Killigrew / Killigrew-family First Folio provenance lead." Do not say "Thomas Killigrew owned the Meisei First Folio" unless West, Meisei, or another direct catalogue supports it.
Guardrails
- Robert Killigrew was Neville's trusted friend/plate-bequest recipient and a BRO trust/feoffment actor. He was not an executor in the preferred will transcription.
- Keep the two Sir William Killigrews distinct: Sir William d. 1622, Robert's father, and Sir William 1606-1695, Robert's son and playwright.
- Do not convert Lothbury household proximity into proof that Neville used William Killigrew's Holinshed.
- Do not convert the Alibech/Killigrew reverse-side witness into proof of Folio transmission.
- Do not convert Overbury proximity into proof of Robert's guilt in Overbury's death.
- Keep BHO witness types separate: BHO public body text, BHO search/citation controls, Archive.org OCR/page image, local OCR, and manuscript images are different evidence tiers.
Source Routing
BHO / Hatfield / Theatre
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: November 1594." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 5, 1594-1595. British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol5/pp16-26 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: March 1595, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 5, 1594-1595. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol5/pp128-145 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: August 1596, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 6, 1596. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol6/pp309-338 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: May 1598, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 8, 1598. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol8/pp153-168 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: April 1600, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 10, 1600. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol10/pp92-110 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: June 1600, 16-30." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 10, 1600. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol10/pp191-217 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: August 1600, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 10, 1600. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol10/pp257-279 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: Miscellaneous 1600." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 14. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol14/pp126-159 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Roberts, R. A., ed. "Cecil Papers: May 1603, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 15. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol15/pp70-91 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Giuseppi, M. S., ed. "Cecil Papers: March 1605, 1-15." Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 17. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-cecil-papers/vol17/pp77-99 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. "The Killigrew and Davenant Patents." Survey of London: Volume 35. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/pp1-8 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Sainty, J. C. and O. W. Furley, eds. "Revels 1660-1782." Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp114-115 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- Page, William, ed. "Forestry." A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2. London, 1911. BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp223-251 [accessed 24 June 2026].
- House of Commons Journal, vol. 9,
21 February 1671, Lindsey Level hearing involving Sir William Killigrew: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol9/pp205-207 [accessed 24 June 2026]. - House of Commons Journal, vol. 9,
21 March 1671, Lindsey Level hearing involving Sir William Killigrew and Sir Henry Herne: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol9/p222 [accessed 24 June 2026].
Archive.org / CSPD
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I, 1611-1618. Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep09greauoft.
- Page-image correction note for CSPD James I 1611-1618: printed p.
171is Archive.org/download/page/n178.jpg; printed pp.183,184,185,242, and313are/download/page/n190.jpg,/download/page/n191.jpg,/download/page/n192.jpg,/download/page/n249.jpg, and/download/page/n320.jpg. - Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1625-1626. Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/cu31924091775365.
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1627-1628. Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/sim_great-britain-public-record-1625-1649-domestic-series_1627-1628.
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1629-1631. Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ghIqXmHBbUQC.
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1631-1633. Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/cu31924091775415.
- CSPD Charles I page-image source note and local page-image table,
2026-06-27: CSPD_CHARLES_I_KILLIGREW_PAGE_IMAGE_SOURCE_NOTE_2026-06-27.md.
Local Neville / MegaLetters / BRO
- Henry Neville letter packet,
28 July 1599: letter_015.md. - Henry Neville letter packet,
28 June 1599: letter_128.md. - Henry Neville letter packet,
27 June 1600: letter_099.md. - Henry Neville letter packet,
28 December 1600: letter_080.md. - Henry Neville letter packet,
9 July 1601: letter_145_cecil_1601_07_09.md. - Henry Neville letter packet,
7 January 1602/3: letter_155_cecil_1603_01_07.md. - Zachary Lok / cabinet source note: SOURCE_ACQUISITION_STATUS.md.
- MegaLetters Henry Killigrew to Neville: Doc_30_PRO_088-089.md.
- MegaLetters Willington / Mr Killigrew: Doc_38_PRO_105-108.md.
- MegaLetters Holles / cousin Killigrew: Doc_54_PRO_152-155.md.
- Winwood/O'Donnell transcript, Neville to Winwood,
4 June 1606: Nevill to Winwood, 1606.06.04.txt. - Chamberlain, John. The Letters of John Chamberlain. Edited by Norman Egbert McClure, vol. 1, American Philosophical Society, 1939, p.
358, letter to Sir Dudley Carleton, London,26 June 1612; local PDF p.383: uc1-32106005854481-1782657835.pdf. - MegaLetters PRO 30/50/70/2 newsletter witness: Doc_104_PRO_013-014.md.
- MegaLetters Alibech/Killigrew crop: Doc_115_PRO_Alibech_righe_side-alibech_crop.md.
- BRO Lothbury/Killigrew controls: Doc_14d_D_EN_F6_2_5.md, Doc_14g_D_EN_F6_2_1.md, Doc_13_D_EN_F6_2_7.md, Doc_20c_D_EN_F6_1_16_Neville_Lawrence_Waltham_draft.md, and Doc_01_D_EN_F6_1_19.md.
Virginia, Alum, And Hanworth Sources
- Yale Law School Avalon Project, "The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609": https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp.
- Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 1. Archive.org full text: https://archive.org/stream/recordsofvirgini01virg/recordsofvirgini01virg_djvu.txt.
- Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 2. Archive.org item
recordsofvirgini02virguoft; OCR/full text used for Robert's 1622/3 joint-stock/tobacco intervention and the May 1623 records-commissioner committee: https://archive.org/details/recordsofvirgini02virguoft. - Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 3. Archive.org item
recordsofvirgini03virg; OCR/full text checked for financial-list and Sandys/Ferrar/Killigrew leads: https://archive.org/details/recordsofvirgini03virg. - Kingsbury, Susan Myra, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London, vol. 4. Archive.org item
recordsofvirgini04virg; OCR/full text used for the 1609 charter reprint and the July 1624 Virginia government commission: https://archive.org/details/recordsofvirgini04virg. - Library of Congress, The Records of the Virginia Company of London, bibliographic and image gateway: https://www.loc.gov/item/06035006/.
- Virtual Jamestown, The Records of the Virginia Company of London, "Documents, I" / Kingsbury vol. 3 HTML witness, including the
5 November 1621and9 April 1622Sandys-Ferrar-Killigrew controls: https://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/virgco/b002245360. - Virtual Jamestown, The Records of the Virginia Company of London, "Documents, II" / Kingsbury vol. 4 HTML witness, including the Sackville Papers note and 1624 commission: https://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/virgco/b002245362.
- Virtual Jamestown, The Records of the Virginia Company of London, introduction / Kingsbury vol. 1 HTML witness, including the John Ferrar/Peckard/Killigrew/Dorset custody discussion and Kingsbury caution: https://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/virgco/b000451042.
- Brown, Alexander. The Genesis of the United States, vol. 1. Archive.org full text used for Virginia list controls: https://archive.org/stream/genesisofuniteds01brow/genesisofuniteds01brow_djvu.txt.
- Brown, Alexander. The Genesis of the United States, vol. 2. Archive.org full text used for Robert Killigrew entry, subscription/payment, Virginia council/commission notes, Southampton custody tradition, and Brown's caution: https://archive.org/stream/genesisofuniteds02brow/genesisofuniteds02brow_djvu.txt.
- Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624. John Carter Brown Library scan used for the
Sir Robert KillegreWadventurers-list witness: https://archive.org/details/generallhistorie00smit_0. - "Lord Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia, 1613-1631, I." The American Historical Review, vol. 27, issue 3, April 1922, pp.
493-538, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/27.3.493. Oxford issue page: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/27/3. - "Lord Sackville's Papers respecting Virginia, 1613-1631, II." The American Historical Review, vol. 27, issue 4, July 1922, pp.
738-765, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/27.4.738. Oxford article/PDF page: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-pdf/27/4/738/33153/27-4-738.pdf. - Cuddy, Neil. "The Conflicting Loyalties of a 'vulger counselor': The Third Earl of Southampton, 1597-1624." In John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf, eds., Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp.
121-150. OUP metadata/DOI: https://academic.oup.com/book/1809/chapter/141501910. Full-text route used for the Killigrew/Southampton checks: https://www.academia.edu/111280619/The_Conflicting_Loyalties_of_a_vulger_counselor_The_Third_Earl_of_Southampton_1597_1624. - British History Online, "America and West Indies: June 1625," in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660, p.
74, no.42, official calendar control for the Virginia grievance petition naming Sir Robert Killigrew among commissioners: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol1/p74. - The National Archives,
PROB 11/164/115, will of Sir Robert Killigrew of Kempton, Middlesex, dated/proved12 July 1633: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D867327. - Surrey History Centre,
PCC/SUN/8, public abstract of Robert Killigrew's will, sentence, and codicil/probate route: https://www.surreyarchives.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHCOL_PCC_SUN_8. - The National Archives / Lincolnshire Archives,
Spalding Sewers/449/4, "Commission under the Great Seal," dated30 July 1631: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d0cd3686-049f-4089-8c7f-432ff468f6bd. - Feinstein project source pass, ROBERT_KILLIGREW_BROWN_EEBO_TNA_BROWSER_RESOLUTION_2026-06-26.md.
- British History Online, Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
20 March 1624, Robert following Sir Edwin Sandys's ordered method in Commons debate: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl/mar-20. - British History Online, Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
26 April 1624: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl/apr-26. - British History Online, Proceedings in Parliament 1624,
29 April 1624: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/proceedings-1624-parl/apr-29. - British History Online, Brodie Waddell, ed., "Petitions in the State Papers: 1620s," Petitions in the State Papers, 1600-1699, including Sir Robert Killigrew's
1627Pendennis petition,SP 16/49 f. 10: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/petitions/state-papers/1620s. - Turton, R. B. The Alum Farm (Whitby, 1938), Wellcome Collection page-image/OCR witnesses for printed pp.
111-113: p. 111, p. 112, p. 113. - Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, "Volume VI: Sermons Preached for the Nobility and Gentry": https://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/volume-vi-sermons-preached-nobility-and-gentry.
- Grierson, Herbert J. C., ed. The Poems of John Donne. Project Gutenberg HTML, Huygens/Donne note: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48772/pg48772-images.html.
- Donne, John, to Sir Henry Goodyer, Chelsea,
25 November 1625. Local transcript: Letter_150_1625_Nov_Goodyer.txt. - Huygens ING / KNAW, Briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens 1607-1687, letters to Sir Robert Killigrew: no.
503https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/503; no.513https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/513; no.566https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/566. - Huygens ING / KNAW, Briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens 1607-1687, letters to Mary Woodhouse/Killigrew: no.
567https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/567; no.577https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/577; correspondent list forWoodhouse, Mary: https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/personen?start=1363. - Huygens, Constantijn. "503. Aan sir Rob. Killigrew." In J. A. Worp, ed., De briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens, DBNL text: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huyg001jawo03_01/huyg001jawo03_01_0506.php.
- Huygens ING / KNAW, Briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens 1607-1687, no.
521, Huygens to Pieter Cornelis Hooft,17 August 1630: https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/briefwisselingconstantijnhuygens/brief/nr/521. DBNL/Worp text: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huyg001jawo03_01/huyg001jawo03_01_0524.php. - Huygens, Constantijn. "522. Aan J. Baeck." In J. A. Worp, ed., De briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens, DBNL text: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huyg001jawo03_01/huyg001jawo03_01_0525.php.
- Hermans, Theo. "Huygens on Translation." UCL Discovery PDF: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/959/1/87_Huygenstrans.pdf.
- Jardine, Lisa. Temptation in the Archives. UCL Press, 2015. Open PDF: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1468796/2/9781910634028.pdf.
- Seccombe, Thomas. "Killigrew, Robert." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Killigrew,_Robert.
- Knight, John Joseph. "Killigrew, Thomas (1612-1683)." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Killigrew,_Thomas_(1612-1683)).
- Knight, John Joseph. "Killigrew, William." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Killigrew,_William.
- "Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700)." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 31. Wikisource page witness: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_31.djvu/114.
- Westminster Abbey, "Killigrew family": https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/killigrew-family/.
- Cooper, Thompson. "Thomson, Richard (d.1613)." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Thomson,_Richard_(d.1613)).
- Botley, Paul. "The Correspondence of Richard Thomson." EMLO: Early Modern Letters Online. Bodleian Libraries / Cultures of Knowledge: https://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=richard-thomson.
- IUCAT Bloomington. M. Val. Martialis Epigrammaton libri, London: Felix Kingston for William Welby, 1615, STC
17492, with dedication on p.[3]signed Thomas Farnaby: https://iucat.iu.edu/iub/16805773. - Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Collections, M. Val. Martialis epigrammaton libri, London, 1615,
STC 17492 copy 1, with copy/provenance notes including Ben Jonson: https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib164370-158155. IIIF manifest, exposing title page and A1v only in this session: https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/node/45126/manifest. - Folger Shakespeare Library catalogue record for
STC 17492 copy 1: https://catalog.folger.edu/record/164370. Folgerpedia, "Books from Ben Jonson's library at the Folger," entry forSTC 17492 Copy 1: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Books_from_Ben_Jonson%27s_library_at_the_Folger. - Martial / Thomas Farnaby. M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata: cum notis Th. Farnabii. Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1644. Archive.org item
bub_gb_Glic0jSMG7wC, opening dedication to Sir Robert Killigrew: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Glic0jSMG7wC. - Martial / Thomas Farnaby. M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata. Cum notis Th. Farnabii. Amsterdam/Paduan imprint, 1704. Archive.org item
bub_gb_M4ooggWuUW4C, opening dedication to Sir Robert Killigrew: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M4ooggWuUW4C.
First Folio / Charles Killigrew Controls
- Folger Shakespeare Library, The First Folio of Shakespeare PDF: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/images/6/63/BlyFFS.pdf.
- Hodges, John C. The Library of William Congreve. Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27606/27606-h/27606-h.htm.
- CELM, William Congreve introduction: https://celm.folger.edu/introductions/CongreveWilliam.html.
- Folio400 / Leeds Brotherton collection note: https://folio400.com/phernalia/the-brotherton-collection/.
- Cambridge Core, Jean-Christophe Mayer, "Early Buyers and Readers" chapter preview: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-shakespeares-first-folio/early-buyers-and-readers/70E0D46A3127BE6073EE5E70EDDF39E0.
- Mayer, Jean-Christophe. "Shakespeare's Early Readers." HAL preprint of the First Folio early-readers chapter, used for the
MR3600Charles Killigrew / William Congreve / Meisei control: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03097319/file/Mayer-Shakespeare%E2%80%99s%20Early%20Readers-Uncorrected_Preprint.pdf. - Meisei University Shakespeare Collection Database, "The Meisei Copy": http://shakes.meisei-u.ac.jp/e-meiseicopy.html. Access note: site responded over
http, nothttps, in this session. - Yamada, Akihiro, ed. The First Folio of Shakespeare: A Transcript of Contemporary Marginalia in a Copy of the Kodama Memorial Library of Meisei University. Tokyo: Yushodo, 1998. Meisei digital version: http://shakes.meisei-u.ac.jp/ALL.html. Use for Meisei
MR774, not the Charles Killigrew / CongreveMR3600copy.
Archive.org Playwright-Branch Image Witnesses
- Henry Killigrew, The Conspiracy, 1638: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-conspiracy-a-tragedy_killigrew-henry_1638.
- Henry Killigrew, Pallantus and Eudora, 1653: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pallantus-and-eudora-_killigrew-henry_1653.
- Thomas Killigrew, The prisoners and Claracilla, 1640: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-prisoners-and-clarac_killigrew-thomas_1640.
- Thomas Killigrew, The prisoners and Claracilla, 1641: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-prisoners-and-clarac_killigrew-thomas_1641.
- Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and tragedies, 1664: https://archive.org/details/comediestragedie00kill.
- Sir William Killigrew, fen-drainage answer, 1647: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-answer-to-such-object_killigrew-sir-william_1647.
- Sir William Killigrew, fen-men answer, 1649: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_his-answer-to-the-fenne-_killigrew-sir-william_1649.
- Sir William Killigrew, Pandora, 1664: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pandora-a-comedy_killigrew-sir-william_1664.
- Sir William Killigrew, Three playes, 1665: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_three-playes-_killigrew-sir-william_1665.
- Sir William Killigrew, Fovr new playes, 1666: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_fovr-new-playes-_killigrew-sir-william_1666.
- External EEBO/TCP lead, Lindsey Level joint case
B08645: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B08645.0001.001?view=toc.