Lionel Cranfield

Topic: Lionel Cranfield

JSTOR PDF Integration Update (2026-06-26)

• Batch pass: AI_TOPICS_JSTOR_CHROME_HARDENING_PASS_2_2026-06-26.md.
• O'Callaghan is now controlled by local JSTOR PDF OCallaghan-TalkingPoliticsTyranny-1998.pdf and extracted text OCallaghan-TalkingPolitics-1998.txt.
• The article-body pass confirms Cranfield's Convivium-list placement inside the same Sireniac/Mermaid political conversation; Neuhauser remains the better source for the separate Sireniac finance/cashbook angle.
• Book-use guardrail: Cranfield is a contextual Convivium/Sireniac network figure unless a direct Neville/Cranfield financial, court, or letter witness is found.

Source-Control Update (2026-05-30)

• Local PDF checks confirm O'Callaghan for Cranfield's Convivium attendee-list placement and Winston for Cranfield in the later Inns/tavern intellectual community.
• Neuhauser adds a separate Sireniac-finance context: Cranfield appears in the cashbook/financial-association discussion of the mock-guild model. That strengthens Cranfield as a Sireniac-network figure, not as direct Neville evidence.
• A scoped BRO sweep for Lionel Cranfield/Cranfield found no direct BRO transcription hit.

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Michelle O’Callaghan’s description of the Convivium Philosophicum attendee 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. Local PDF: OCallaghan-TalkingPoliticsTyranny-1998.pdf. Extracted text: OCallaghan-TalkingPolitics-1998.txt.
• 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.
• Neuhauser, Julian T. S. “Sirenaicks, Guilds and a New Coryate Manuscript.” The Review of English Studies, vol. 74, no. 313, 2023, pp. 31-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac061. Local PDF: hgac061.pdf.

5. Notes on Access

• This is a starter packet for Cranfield’s place in the Convivium and tavern-circle network.
• JSTOR/PDF hardening result, 2026-06-26: O'Callaghan now has a local JSTOR PDF and extracted text sidecar for Cranfield's Convivium/Sireniac context.
• 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.