William Camden

Topic: William Camden

Source-Control Update (2026-05-30)

• Local EarlyPrint controls confirm Camden's 1605 Remaines of a greater worke as A17848, printed by George Eld for Simon Waterson. This witness contains a Shakespeare surname hit in the names/surnames section, not the later Carew/Shakespeare/Marlowe comparison claimed in the tweet layer.
• The local topic therefore remains a source map. The Twitter claims about Camden's closeness to the Saviles, Camden/Cuffe, and the 1614 Carew essay need direct extraction before they can become verified facts in this packet.
• A scoped BRO sweep for Camden found no direct BRO transcription hit.

Local EEBO/TCP Hardening, 2026-06-22

• Local TCP A17848 has two different Shakespeare controls that should not be conflated.
• First, the surnames section includes Shake-Speare among action/object surnames such as Long-sword, Broad-speare, Fortescu, Breake-speare, Shotbolt, and Wagstaffe. This is a surname-etymology example, not a literary notice.
• Second, the poetics section names William Shakespeare in a list of "pregnant witts" that also includes Sidney, Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Hugh Holland, Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, Michael Drayton, George Chapman, and John Marston. This is a real Camden-side literary notice in the 1605 text.
• The 1605 local text does not verify the later Carew/Shakespeare/Marlowe comparison claim. A 1614 or later Remaines witness still needs extraction for that specific lead.

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Local EarlyPrint metadata for A17848 identifies Camden's Remaines of a greater worke (1605) and lists George Eld / Simon Waterson as the printer-publisher imprint.
• A local full-text extraction of A17848 finds Shake-Speare in the surname/name section and William Shakespeare in the poetics section's list of contemporary writers.
• A17848 has a Richard Carew emblem-device entry, but it is not the later Carew/Shakespeare/Marlowe comparison claim preserved in the tweet layer.
• The local wiki page lists as available resources:

“Correspondence: Letters involving Thomas Savile, John Savile, George Carleton, and Henry Savile”

• The same page lists:

“Published Works: "Remaines of a Greater Work"”

• The same page lists:

“Manuscript Materials: An epitaph for Katharine Killigrew (wife of Sir Henry Killigrew) composed by Camden”

• The same page lists:

“Archives: Letters to Robert Cotton housed in the British Library”

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A local tweet file preserves the claim that Camden was close to the Savile brothers, close with Henry Cuffe, and that Carew's essay in Camden's 1614 Remaines lists Shakespeare. This is preserved as a lead, not as a verified fact, until the direct 1614 witness and correspondence records are checked.

3. Quoted Source Text

William Camden wiki page

• “Correspondence: Letters involving Thomas Savile, John Savile, George Carleton, and Henry Savile”
• “Published Works: "Remaines of a Greater Work"”
• “Manuscript Materials: An epitaph for Katharine Killigrew (wife of Sir Henry Killigrew) composed by Camden”
• “Archives: Letters to Robert Cotton housed in the British Library”

Local TCP A17848

• "Breake-speare, Shake-Speare, Shotbolt, Wagstaffe"
• "William Shakespeare, & other most pregnant witts of these our times"
• "Master Richard Carew of Anthony"

4. Citations

• “William Camden.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, 16 Aug. 2020, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=William_Camden.
• Camden, William. Remaines of a greater worke. London, printed by George Eld for Simon Waterson, 1605. TCP A17848; local EarlyPrint metadata: A17848_header.xml.
• Feinstein, Ken. Tweet thread on Camden/Carew/Shakespeare, 9 July 2020; local preservation: twitter_William_Camden.md.

5. Notes on Access

• The wiki page links the following public resources:
• Letters (Thomas Savile, John Savile, George Carleton)
• Letter from Henry Savile, page 218
• Letter from Henry Savile, page 312
• *Remaines of a Greater Work*
• British Library search record for Camden epitaph on Katharine Killigrew
• British Library Cotton manuscript page
• The Richard Carew packet carries the direct Carew / France material that sits adjacent to this Camden topic.
• Current status is mixed: the 1605 Remaines Shakespeare notices are source-controlled, but the Savile correspondence, Katharine Killigrew epitaph, and claimed 1614 Carew/Shakespeare/Marlowe passage are still separate extraction tasks.