Lionel Cranfield
TBD Draft evidence packet
Topic: Lionel Cranfield
1. Verified Sourced Facts
- Michelle O’Callaghan’s description of the
Convivium Philosophicumattendee list includes:
“Lionel Cranfield”
- The Middle Temple article describes the tavern/intellectual group near the Temple as including:
“the merchant, financier and government minister Lionel Cranfield (1575-1645)”
- Source-hardening check of the local Middle Temple PDF confirms that Winston uses Cranfield as part of the later Inns/tavern circle near the Temple; O'Callaghan remains the source for Cranfield's appearance in the Convivium attendee list.
2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information
- No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.
3. Quoted Source Text
O’Callaghan
- “Lionel Cranfield”
Middle Temple article
- “the merchant, financier and government minister Lionel Cranfield”
- “broader intellectual and political community”
4. Citations
- O’Callaghan, Michelle. “‘Talking Politics’: Tyranny, Parliament, and Christopher Brooke’s The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614).” The Historical Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 1998, pp. 97-120. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2640146.
- Winston, Jessica. “Literary Associations of the Middle Temple.” In Middle Temple Lawyers and the Law, edited by Richard O. Havery. Local PDF: Literary_Associations_of_the_Middle_Tem.pdf.
5. Notes on Access
- This is a starter packet for Cranfield’s place in the
Conviviumand tavern-circle network. - It should be expanded only from direct witnesses or strong secondary sources, not from general network inference.
- Source-hardening result,
2026-04-27: the Middle Temple PDF should be cited as Jessica Winston's chapter, not as Wilfrid Prest's monograph.