SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas I (1542-1612), of Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss. and Blackfriars, London

Family and Education

b. 9 May 1542,Notes of Post Mortem Inquisitions taken in Suss. ed. E.W.T. Attree (Suss. Rec. Soc. xiv), 205. 1st s. of William Shirley of Wiston and Mary, da. of Thomas Isley of Sundridge, Kent. E.P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, 235. educ. Oriel, Oxf. 1554, BA 1557; G. Inn 1559. Reg. Orielense ed. C.L. Shadwell, i. 23; GI Admiss. m. c.1559, Anne (d.1623), da. of Sir Thomas Kempe† of Wye, Kent, 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 7da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1551; Shirley, 235, 258. Kntd. 12 Aug. 1573. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 75. Oct. 1612. Shirley, 256. sig. Thomas Sherley

Offices Held

Fell. Oriel 1557–9. Reg. Orielense, i. 23.

J.p. Suss. 1573–1601; Cal. Assize Recs. Suss. Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 94; C231/1, f. 113v. sheriff, Surr. and Suss. 1577–8; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 137. commr. musters, Chichester, Suss. 1580, APC, 1580–1, p. 8. dep. lt. Suss. 1585–1601; HMC Hatfield, iii. 297; APC, 1600–1, p. 400. commr. recusancy, 1586, 1592, Harl. 703, ff. 21, 67v; R.B. Manning, Religion and Soc. in Eliz. Suss. 148n. subsidy 1589, Harl. 703, f. 1. oyer and terminer, Home circ. by 1595 – d., the Verge 1604–5; CPR, 37 Eliz. I, ed. S.R. Neal and C. Leighton (L. and I Soc. cccx), 122; C181/1, ff. 93v, 117v; 181/2, f. 144v. freeman, Southampton, Hants 1602; HMC 11th Rep. III, 22. commr. sewers, Suss. 1604–10. C181/1, f. 81; 181/2, f. 134.

Capt. foot 1586–97; D.J.B. Trim, ‘Fighting “Jacob’s Wars”. The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion: France and the Neths. 1562–1610’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 2002), pp. 389–90; APC, 1591, p. 30. treas. at war, Neths. 1587 – 97, France 1591. HMC Hatfield, iii. 230; APC, 1591, p. 317; 1597, p. 16.

Servant to James I by 1604. CJ, i. 171b.

Parlimentarian

SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas I (1542-1612), of Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss. and Blackfriars, London

Main residences: Wiston, nr. Steyning, Suss.; Blackfriars, London.

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Commons 1604-1629

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SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Thomas I (1542-1612)