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Notes on Anthony and Robert
Sherley
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- Brithish Mercenaries and Pirates who served Shah
Abbas.
- 1563 "Anthony Sherley born to Thomas the elder". The
Shirleys of Wiston
- 1571/81 "Robert Sherley born to Thomas the elder
(Wiston church records lost. No official date of birth for Robert)". The
Shirleys of Wiston
- Sir Anthony was in Persia from Dec 1, 1599 to May
1600. He was given 25,000 foot and 5,000 horse to train according to
the rules and customs of the English militia. He was also commanded to
reform and retrain the artillery. When he left Persia, he left his
brother, Robert Sherley, behind with 14 Englishmen who lived in Persia
for years. The
Shirleys of Wiston
- "1609 Robert Sherley was employed, as his brother had
been, by the Persian monarch, as ambassador to several princes of
Christendon, for the purpose of uniting them in a confederacy against
the Turks. He first went into Poland, where he was honorably
entertained by Sigismond the Third. In June of this same year he was in
Germany, and received from the Emperor Rudolph II the title of Earl
(Count) palatine and knight of the Roman Empire. Pope Paul the Fifth
also conferred upon him the title of Earl (Count).
From Germany Sir Robert went to Florence and from thence to Rome, where
he entered, attended by a suite of eighteen persons, on Sunday, the
27th of September, 1609. He next visited Milan, and then proceeded to
Genoa, from whence he embarked to Spain, arriving in Barcelona in
December 1609. He sent for his Persian wife and they remained in Spain,
principally at Madrid, until the summer of 1611." The
Shirleys of Wiston
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