SHURLEY, John (c.1546-1616), of The Friars, Lewes, Suss. and Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1546, Age calculated from date of admiss. to Queens’, Camb. 2nd s. of Edward Shurley (d.1558) of Isfield, Suss. cofferer to Henry VIII, and Joan, da. of John Fenner of Crawley. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1562; Clifford’s Inn; M. Temple 1565, called by 1575. m. (1) Elizabeth (bur. 30 May 1580), da. and coh. of Richard Kyme of Lewes, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 14 Sept. 1585, Frances (d.1642), da. of Henry Capell† of Little Hadham, Herts., 1s. 2da. Suss. Gens.: Lewes Centre comp. J. Comber, 252-4; Al. Cant.; M. Temple Admiss.; W.H. Challen, ‘Kyme Fam. of Lewes’, Suss. Arch. Colls. c. 119-21. d. 2 Oct. 1616. Notes of Post Mortem Inquisitions taken in Suss. ed. E.W.T. Attree (Suss. Rec. Soc. xiv), 206.

Offices Held

Reader, New Inn 1578 – 79, M. Temple 1588, 1597, Readers and Readings in the Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 168, 170, 211. bencher 1587 – 1603, treas. 1601–2; MTR, 413, 422, 430. fee’d counsel, Hastings, Suss. 1605, Rye, Suss. by 1607; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 137, 140, 360. sjt.-at-law 1603–d. Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 537.

J.p. Suss. by 1585–d.; Cal. Assize Recs. Suss. Indictments, Eliz. ed. J.S. Cockburn, 194; Cal. Assize Recs. Suss. Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 70. commr. sewers, rape of Pevensey, Suss. 1602 – at least05, Kent 1603, Suss. 1604, 1610, Kent and Suss. 1604, C181/1, ff. 27v, 57, 81, 95v, 96, 108v, 134v. subsidy, Suss. 1608, aid 1609. SP14/31/1; 14/43/107.

Parlimentarian

SHURLEY, John (c.1546-1616), of The Friars, Lewes, Suss. and Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, London.

Main residences: The Friars, Lewes, Suss.; Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, London.

Author

A.D.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

SHURLEY, John (c.1546-1616)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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