Richard Martin

Topic: Richard Martin

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Michelle O’Callaghan’s description of the Convivium Philosophicum attendee list includes:

“Richard Martin”

• O’Callaghan also writes that members of the Sireniacs included:

“Brooke, Donne, Martin, Hoskyns, Holland, Jones, the Phelips family”

• The Middle Temple article notes that Ben Jonson dedicated:

“his play Poetaster to Richard Martin.”

• The same article describes the tavern/intellectual group near the Temple as including:

“the ‘Mitre’ and ‘Mermaid’ taverns, near the Temple”

• Source-hardening check of the local Middle Temple PDF confirms that Martin's placement in this packet should be read through two separate source lanes: O'Callaghan for the Sireniac/parliamentary-political network, and Winston for the Inns/tavern literary community around the Temple.
• James Doelman writes that 1614 parliamentary and literary circles overlapped through Brooke’s world, in which:

“Brooke was known to frequent” the Mermaid Tavern

• Source-hardening check of Doelman's PDF confirms that the Martin packet should keep Doelman narrow: he is useful for Brooke's Mermaid setting and the Addled Parliament literary-political context, while O'Callaghan remains the stronger source for Martin's core Sireniac/parliamentary network placement.

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

• “Richard Martin”
• “Brooke, Donne, Martin, Hoskyns, Holland, Jones, the Phelips family”

Middle Temple article

• “his play Poetaster to Richard Martin”
• “‘Mitre’ and ‘Mermaid’ taverns, near the Temple”
• “broader intellectual and political community”

Doelman

• “Brooke was known to frequent” the Mermaid Tavern
• “the Addled Parliament of 1614”

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: GhostRichard.pdf.
• 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.
• Doelman, James. “Born with Teeth: Christopher Brooke’s The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614).” The Seventeenth Century, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999, pp. 115-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.1999.10555459. Local PDF: Born with Teeth Christopher Brooke s The Ghost of Richard the Third 1614.pdf.

5. Notes on Access

• This is a network packet for Martin’s place in the Sireniac and Inns-of-Court milieu around Neville.
• It should be expanded from direct witnesses or stronger Martin-specific scholarship as more local material is mined.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: the Middle Temple PDF should be cited as Jessica Winston's chapter, not as Wilfrid Prest's monograph.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: Doelman adds Brooke/Mermaid/Addled Parliament context but should not be used alone as direct Martin/Neville evidence.