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Shirley Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | According to Stemmata Shirleiana, this ancient family appears to have taken its name from Shurley, a manor in the parish of Lingen, near Presteign, in the county of Hereford, but was of Isfield in Sussex, early in the reign of Henry the Eight, their first recorded ancestor in that county, John Shurley, esq. |
 | | There are numerous notices of this John Shurley, the cofferer, among the State Papers of the reign of Henry VIII and mentions also of Richard Shurley, bailiff of the town of Ware in Hertfordshire, who, may be his brother. |
 | | John Shurley, coffer to the King, died Aug 3, 1527. |
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