Neville to Richard Beaumont (1606)

Topic: Neville to Richard Beaumont (1606)

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Neville Research wiki page for this letter identifies the source as:

“Beaumont papers. Letters relating to the family of Beaumont, of Whitley, Yorkshire, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.”

• The same page links an Archive.org witness:

“Archive.org”

• A local transcription path preserved in the project gives the letter text:

“I am very sorry that it lies not in my power to send you a half a buck; my keepers tell me that there is none in my walk; sure I am that have not seene a pasty of venison of this yeere. I did adventure to send you the side of a stag”

• The same local transcription path gives the signature and address:

“Hen Neville Billingbeare Wensday night”

“To my honorable friend and kinsman Sir Richard Beaumont knight at London”

• The v8 timeline index includes:

“letter_beaumont_1606”

• The same index identifies the recipient as:

“Richard Beaumont”

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• The preserved 22 Jan. 2019 Ken Feinstein blog post pairs the venison passage in this letter with Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1, specifically:

“Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner”

3. Citations

• “Neville to Richard Beaumont 1606.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=Neville_to_Richard_Beaumont_1606. Local preservation: wiki_beaumont_letter_1606.md.
• Beaumont papers. Letters relating to the family of Beaumont, of Whitley, Yorkshire, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Archive.org witness, https://archive.org/details/beaumontpapersle00roxb/page/12.
• Feinstein, Ken. “Henry Neville, Shakespeare, and Merry Wives of Windsor.” kenfeinstein.blogspot.com, 22 Jan. 2019, https://kenfeinstein.blogspot.com/2019/01/reason-1-henry-neville-lived-most-of.html. Local preservation: blog_henry_neville_shakespeare_merry_wives_2019-01-22.md.
• neville_letters_v8_timeline_index.csv, row for letter_beaumont_1606.
• scene_letter_event_alignment.csv, local preserved transcription path for the full Beaumont letter wording.
• play_merry_wives_of_windsor.md, related play packet.

4. Notes on Access

• This packet is anchored by the Archive.org Beaumont volume, the local wiki page, and a fuller local transcription path preserved in the scene-workflow outputs.
• The legal/estate continuation of the letter beyond the venison passage is still not freshly re-extracted here from the book page image.
• The Shakespeare parallel is preserved as Ken Feinstein interpretation rather than restated as anonymous fact.