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bap. 13 Sept. 1572,Wilts. RO, Winterbourne Earls par. reg. 3rd s. of Richard Sherfield (d. c.1620) of Winterbourne Earls, Wilts. and Matilda, da. of John Martin of Wilts. Vis. Wilts. (Harl. Soc. cv-cvi), 176-7; P. Slack, ‘Public Conscience of Henry Sherfield’, in Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Cent. Eng. ed. J. Morrill, P. Slack and D. Woolf, 154. educ. L. Inn 1598, called 1606. LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 97. m. (1) pre-nuptial settlement 30 Apr. 1607, Hants RO, 44M69/L41/1. Mary (d. 9 Jan. 1613), da. of William Hodson of Winchester, Hants and wid. of George Bedford (d. Feb. 1607) of Salisbury, 1da.; Vis. Wilts. 177; Hants RO, 44M69/L46/3; PROB 11/109, f. 72v. (2) pre-nuptial settlement 23 Mar. 1616, Hants RO, 44M69/L45/1. Rebecca (d. c.1655), da. and sole h. of Christopher Bailey of Stoford and North Bradley, Wilts. and wid. of Henry Long (d. 1612) of Whaddon, Wilts., s.p. Vis. Wilts. 116, 177; Oxford DNB, l. 291. d. by 27 Jan. 1634. LI Black Bks. ii. 314. sig. Henry Sherfield.
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J.p. Wilts. 1617 – 26, c. 1628 – 30, Hants 1618 – 26, 1628-c.1630; C231/4, ff. 34v, 58, 210v, 261v; 231/5, p. 45; C66/2495, 2536. steward, lands of 2nd earl of Salisbury (William Cecil, Visct. Cranborne*), Dorset, Hants, Som. and Wilts. 1617-at least 1625; Hants RO, 44M69/L2/1; L4/7. commr. gaol delivery, Winchester 1617, Southampton, Hants 1618 – d., piracy, Southampton 1618–19, C181/2, ff. 202v, 309, 340; 181/4, f. 151. Forced Loan, Salisbury and Southampton 1627; C193/12/2, ff. 77, 78v. bailiff, 2nd earl of Hertford’s lands, Amesbury hundred, Wilts. by 1631-at least 1632. Hants RO, 44M69/L18/3–4.

Vestryman, St. Edmund’s, Salisbury c.1617–d., Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Edmund, Sarum ed. H.J.F. Swayne (Wilts. Rec. Soc. 1896), pp. 167, 197. overseer of poor from 1625. Poverty in Early Stuart Salisbury ed. P. Slack (Wilts. Rec. Soc. xxxi), 65.

Recorder, Southampton 1618 – d., Salisbury 1623–d.; Hants RO, 44M69/L31/26; L35/1, 56; W.R. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 251. reader, Furnival’s Inn c.1612, Readers and Readings in Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker, 205. bencher, L. Inn 1620 – d., Lent reader 1624, kpr. of Black Bk. 1633–d. LI Black Bks. ii. 217, 246, 311, 314.

Searcher, trier and sealer of madder, Eng. from 1628. Bodl. Rawl. D809, f. 122.

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SHERFIELD (SHERVILL), Henry (1572-1634), of Lincoln’s Inn, London and Salisbury, Wilts.
Main residences: Lincoln's Inn, London; Salisbury, Wilts.
Shervill
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P.M.H.
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Commons 1604-1629
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SHERFIELD (SHERVILL), Henry (1572-1634)

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Oxford 1644
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