Robert Phelips

Topic: Robert Phelips

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Julian T. S. Neuhauser writes that the 14 knights who wrote for Coryate included:

“Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Goodere and Sir Henry Neville.”

• Neuhauser's fuller argument is that Coryate grouped the Panegyricke Verses contributors intentionally and that the Sireniacal Gentlemen functioned as a mock-guild organized around literary production. Phelips's appearance beside Goodere and Neville is therefore meaningful literary-social placement, not just a stray dedication-list overlap.
• Michelle O’Callaghan’s description of the Convivium Philosophicum attendee list includes:

“Sir Robert Phelips”

• Source-hardening check of O'Callaghan's PDF confirms that Phelips is not just a Convivium list-name. O'Callaghan places Phelips in the parliamentary-political Sireniac environment with Brooke, Hoskyns, Martin, and Donne, and notes the group's overlap with parliamentary debates and Virginia Company business.

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3. Quoted Source Text

Neuhauser

• “Sir Robert Phelips, Sir Henry Goodere and Sir Henry Neville”
• “Panegyricke Verses”
• “mock-guild”

O’Callaghan

• “Sir Robert Phelips”

4. Citations

• 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.
• 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.

5. Notes on Access

• This is a starter packet for Robert Phelips in the Coryate/Convivium network.
• It preserves only the direct Neville-adjacent evidence currently in hand.
• Source-hardening result, 2026-04-27: Neuhauser supports the Coryate/Sirenaick writing context; O'Callaghan supports the political-parliamentary Sireniac context. Neither should be inflated into direct Phelips/Neville collaboration without a separate witness, but together they make Phelips a more substantial member of the same literary-political social field.