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SIR HENRY NEVILLE - THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP SOLUTION  

 

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What Kind of Man was Sir Henry Neville? (part 2) 

by Brenda James

As the inheritor of an iron works producing ordnance, Neville was almost bound to come into some sort of conflict with the establishment. Unlike other armaments manufacturers of the day, he was not willing to tolerate the ‘usual’ corrupt practices. For instance, he refused to pay Ambrose Dudley, the then Earl of Warwick, what amounted to bribes. Dudley reported to the Queen on matters concerned with the export of ordnance, and Sir Henry’s refusal to pay Dudley in order to ensure that he kept the Queen on Henry’s side, automatically put Neville on a collision course with Queen Elizabeth.  However, it was a course he had not personally sought out, so it must have seemed unjust to him to find the Queen was prone to take the word of those near to her favourite - the Earl of Leicester - whose brother Ambrose was.