This Ralph Sheldon was Anthony Wood's friend: see Clark's Wood's _Life
and Times_, ii. 227, iii. 98.
=John Sherburne= (1616-1635).
[967]Sir Edward Shirbourn, knight, natus 18º Sept. A.D. 1616, hora 10
A.M. A little past halfe an hower after was born his twin brother John,
who died anno aetatis 19º.
Both were borne before eleaven a clock; both excellent scholars; and
excellent poets.
John, before he dyed, translated Ovid's Epistles, and better (I am
informed, by Sir Edward, and John Davys of Kidwelly) then any we have
in print.
=James Shirley= (1594-1666).
[968]James Shirley:--capt. <Edward> Shirburne, and Mr. <Thomas> Stanley
(<author of> _de vitis philosophorum_, who was his scholar), say that
he was of no University: bred a Paule's schole scholar.
He taught in Shoe lane: quaere.
=Thomas Shirley= (1638-1678).
[969]Thomas Shirley[BQ], M.D., of Weston-neston in Suffolk, edidit[BR]
'A true and perfect account of the examination confession tryall and
condemnation, and execution of Joan Perry and her two sonnes for
the supposed murther of Mr. William Harrison, being one of the most
remarkable occurrences that hath happened in the memory of man': Lond.,
for Rowland Reynolds next Arundel gate opposite to St. Clements Church,
1676, stitch't, 4to.
Vide in <Sir Thomas> Herbert's travells, where are honourable
remembrances of his relations in Persia.
_Notes._