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The Killigrews of Lothbury

Mixed Needs Review evidence packet

Topic: The Killigrews of Lothbury

Overview

This packet hardens the Lothbury evidence for the Killigrew family, especially as it affects Henry Neville's access to his wife's family network. The core point is narrow but important: the Killigrews had a documented Lothbury / St Margaret Lothbury presence, and this strengthens the plausibility of a concrete London household route between Neville, Anne Killigrew Neville, William Killigrew, Henry Killigrew, and the William Killigrew Holinshed copy.

This packet does not claim that Henry Neville annotated William Killigrew's Holinshed. It supports a source-access and family-household argument only.

Neville-lifetime priority update, 2026-06-27: for the book argument, this packet should foreground evidence dated through Henry Neville's death on 10 July 1615. The controlling Lothbury/Killigrew material is the 1584 St Margaret Lothbury marriage route, the 1587 dedication to Henry and Anne Neville, the 1589 Anne Neville jointure act, the 1594-1601 Hatfield/Lothbury and Neville-letter sequence, the 1601 cabinet-at-Sir-Henry-Killigrew's-lodging control, and the 1615 BRO/will/IPM estate controls. Later Robert, William, Thomas, and Charles Killigrew evidence should be used as afterlife or back-proving context only.

Source-control update, 2026-05-30: the BRO transcriptions strengthen the Lothbury/Killigrew context but keep the same boundary. Doc_14d gives a direct address witness to Henry Neville at Sir Henry Killigrew's house in Lothbury; Doc_14g is Sir Henry Killigrew writing to Neville in France; Doc_13 identifies Dorothy Seymour as a Killigrew sister of Lady Neville; Doc_15b preserves a later "my brother Killigrewes" business-memory line; and Doc_20c names Sir Robert Killigrew among settlement actors. These support family, household, and estate-network proximity. They do not prove Neville used William Killigrew's Holinshed.

Deep-research update, 2026-06-24: the separate packet robert_thomas_killigrew_first_folio_theater_branch.md now controls the Robert/Thomas/First-Folio branch. It upgrades Robert from a will-only friend to a verified Neville estate/trust actor in BRO D/EN/F6/1/16 and D/EN/F6/1/19, while preserving the will correction that Robert is a friend/plate-bequest recipient, not executor. It also corrects the First Folio lead: the accessible Folger/Cambridge controls point to Charles Killigrew, Thomas's son, as the documented Killigrew owner in the Congreve/Meisei line; Thomas ownership remains unproved. A further same-day pass directly collated Huygens no. 521 and no. 522 for the Donne/Hooft manuscript-circulation witness and controlled Farnaby's Robert Killigrew Martial dedication through 1644/1704 Archive.org reprint witnesses, while keeping the original 1615 STC edition as an image-collation follow-up.

Virginia/Farnaby update, corrected 2026-06-27: the Robert-side packet now adds a fuller Virginia Company lane from Kingsbury vols. 1-4: the 1609 charter overlap with Henry Neville, Southampton, and Robert; Robert's 1620 court/debt appearances; a 5 November 1621 Sandys-to-Ferrar letter saying Robert was chosen on Southampton's commendation for a Southampton Hundred supply/adventure role and was then lying in Lothbury; his 1622/3 joint-stock/tobacco intervention; his May 1623 records-commissioner committee role; and the 1624 Virginia government commission. The apparent 1613 Sir H. Neville Chancery suit is now excluded from the Henry Neville d. 1615 evidence set because Brown identifies that defendant as Henry Nevill of Kent. Folger Digital Collections also now controls the 1615 Farnaby Martial copy record, title page, and A1v Jonson/Briggs witness, although the original 1615 dedication leaf still needs image collation.

BHO/Hatfield update, 2026-06-24: British History Online public pages now directly control several Cecil Papers Lothbury leads. They verify Sir Henry Killigrew's 1594 dwelling house beside the conduit in Lothbury; a 1594/5 Sir Henry Killigrew letter from his brother's house in Lothbury; and the 14 August 1596 "brother's house in Lothbury" wording previously preserved through a tweet-image trail. The deeper source ledger killigrew_bho_hatfield_cspd_archive_source_dossier.md now adds the 6 May 1598 Henry Nevill-from-Lothbury Hatfield control and the 6 March 1601 cabinet-at-Sir-Henry-Killigrew's-lodging control. These BHO pages strengthen the Lothbury household route while still leaving manuscript-image collation as the final source tier.

Direct-letter update, 2026-06-24: the Killigrew route is now stronger than household proximity alone. Neville's own letters place Sir Henry Killigrew in repeated operational roles: a 28 June 1599 embassy-expense request routes information to "mine uncle killigrew" and cousin Savile; the 28 July 1599 Cecil letter names "mine uncle Killigrew" as a witness to Cecil's continuing favor; a 27 June 1600 Jersey-governorship inquiry asks Cecil to signal support or dislike through "mine uncle killigrew"; a 28 December 1600 Winwood letter says the Queen was inquisitive of Winwood through Neville's uncle Killigrew and others; and the 9 July 1601 Tower letter says Neville held a Teller's place in the Exchequer jointly with Sir Henry Killigrew. Use these as a broker/office network, not just a residence trail.

DNB theatre-branch update, 2026-06-24: Robert's son Sir William Killigrew inherited the Lothbury mansion and Kineton Park after Robert's death in 1633. That strengthens the Robert-to-younger-William continuity behind the 1631/2 Sir Robert and Sir William Lothbury grant and confirms why this packet must keep Sir William d. 1622 separate from Sir William 1606-1695.


1. Verified Sourced Facts

A. Henry Killigrew's Lothbury Household

B. William Killigrew's Lothbury Property Trail

C. William Killigrew's Court Position and Hanworth Axis

E. Robert Killigrew's Sons and the Later Theatre Branch


2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

"From my brother's house in Lothbury, this 14 of August, 1596"


3. Quoted Source Text

Folger / Court Calendar

British Library Catalogue

Feinstein Image-Led Trail

Probate / IPM Trail

BHO / Cecil Papers / Hatfield

DNB / CELM


4. Citations


5. Notes on Access

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