User:Billdup/Sir John Shirley

Sir John Shirley (1569-1631) the Treasurer of the Middle Temple 1602. Entered Middle Temple 1560-3. married Jane Shirley, sister of the two famous brothers, Anthony Shirley and Robert Shirley who had been followers of Robert Devereux the Earl of Essex and had travelled across Europe to the court of the Shah of Persia, known as the Sophy. The connection between Lewes Lewkenor and John Shirley is attested to by their selection to sit on a committee for ‘The Bill for the Frustrating of a Release, unduly procured by Edmund Penning: - Second Reading, and committed to Sir Lewis Lewknor, Sir John Shirley..etc..’ in June of 1604.