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  Robert Sherley
Sir Anthony Sherley was in Persia from Dec 1, 1599 to May 1600.
"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.
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.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn1747 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
In 1596 Sir Anthony Sherley undertook, under Lord Essex's patronage, an expedition against the Isle of St. Thomas and the settlements of the Spaniards in the West Indies.
In the year 1609 Sir Robert was employed by the Persian monarch as ambassador to several princes of Christendom, for the purpose of uniting them in a confederacy against the Turks.
Sir Robert Sherley arrived in Barcelona in December 1609 and remained in Spain mostly at Madrid.
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 July 23rd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
As soon as Robert Sherley was of sufficient age he set off on his travels, and wishing to understand the politics of various European courts, he attached himself to their sovereigns, and, for five years, was employed by them in various missions.
After this, Sir Robert seems to have left the army, and returned to his former life as ambassador to various countries; among the rest, to Rome, where he went in 1609, and was received with every mark of distinction, magnificent entertainments being given to him.
Whether the ambassador felt himself in the wrong, and durst not face his master, certain it is that he poisoned himself on the way; and Sir Robert being unable to gain a hearing and proper satisfaction from the court, died of a broken heart at the age of sixty-three.
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 Sir Robert Sherley
The Sophy (1642), Robert Baron's Mirza, A Tragedy (1647), William Cartwright's The Royall Slave (1639).
Sherley, and other travellers, interested European kings greatly and sometimes prompted them to wear Persian costumes on special occasions.
Sherley was employed, as his brother had been, by the Persian monarch, as ambassador to several princes of Christendom, for the purpose of uniting them in a confederacy against the Turks.
www.shirleyassociation.com /OldShirleySite/sir_robert_sherley.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Abbas I of Persia - LoveToKnow 1911
He encouraged commerce, and, by constructing highways and building bridges, did much to facilitate it.
To foreigners, especially Christians, he showed a spirit of tolerance; two Englishmen, Sir Anthony and Sir Robert Shirley, or Sherley, were admitted to his confidence.
His own family, especially, suffered from his fits of jealousy; his eldest son was slain, and the eyes of his other children were put out, by his orders.
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 Robert Sherley
ROBERT SHERLEY was born in Oldham County, Ky., July 25, 1839.
Zachary T., Samuel, Andrew, Green H., Mattie B., Elizabeth L. and Zula May. His father, Thomas Sherley, was a native of Kentucky, a trader and pork packer, and died near Natchez, Miss.
Our subject's grandfather, Louis Sherley, was a native of Virginia, but located in Jefferson County, Ky., in an early day and died in Texas.
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 Amazon.com: "Robert Sherley": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Meanwhile Robert Sherley, who had been held hostage in Persia during his brother's mission, was entrusted with a second embassy,...
Robert Sherley at the turn of the seventeenth century ventured a total yield of 34,000 bales, Olearius in the 1630s claimed that...
In 1599 Shah Abbas sent to Europe Hseyin Ali Bey along with Sir Anthony Sherley, brother of Sir Robert Sherley, both of whom were active during the next thirty-five years in attempting to establish European-Persian trade.
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 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Quakerisme the path-way to paganisme, or, A vieu of the Quakers religion being an examination of the theses and apologie of Robert Barclay, one of their number, published lately in Latine, to discover to the world, what that is, which they hold and owne for the only true Christian religion / by John Brown...
Sir Thomas Sherley his trauels, vvith his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie: his inlargement by his Maiesties letters to the great Turke: and lastly, his safe returne into England this present yeare, 1607.
Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes, with his marriage to the Emperour of Persia his neece.
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 Robert Shirley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When he left Persia, he left his brother, Robert, behind with fourteen Englishmen who lived in Persia for years.
Having married a Circassian lady he stayed in Persia until 1608 when the Shah sent him on a diplomatic errand to James I and to other European princes.
From Germany Sir Robert went to Florence and from thence to Rome, where he entered, attended by a suite of eighteen persons, on Sunday, 27 September 1609.
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 Behistun Inscription - Cyrus Cylinder - Crystalinks
It was not until 1598, when the Englishman Robert Sherley saw the inscription during a diplomatic mission to Persia on behalf of Austria, that the inscription first came to the attention of western European scholars.
His party came to the conclusion that it was a picture of the ascension of Jesus with an inscription in Greek.
Italian explorer Pietro della Valle visited the inscription in the course of a pilgrimage in around 1621, and German surveyor Carsten Niebuhr visited in around 1764 while exploring Arabia and the middle east for Frederick V of Denmark, publishing a copy of the inscription in the account of his journeys in 1777.
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 THE IRANIAN: Shapespeare and Persia, Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
The lives of the Sherleys were also dramatised, as in Nixon's The Three English Brothers...
The accounts of the travels of Robert Sherley, and other travellers, interested European kings greatly and sometimes prompted them to wear Persian costumes on special occasions.
In 1609 Robert Sherley was employed, as his brother had been, by the Persian monarch, as ambassador to several princes of Christendom, for the purpose of uniting them in a confederacy against the Turks.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on HACKED BY TURK-SOPHİA
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 The Last of the Safavids
Shah Abbas was open to the idea of an alliance with Europeans in common cause against the Ottomans.
He welcomed to his court two young Englishmen with military training, Anthony and Robert Sherley, and employed them as military advisors.
Thanks to Robert Sherley, in a short time Shah Abbas created a formidable army.
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 A General History of the Near East, Chapter 13
He sent Anthony Sherley back to Europe with letters for Queen Elizabeth, the Holy Roman emperor, the pope, the king of Spain, and other western heads of state.
Robert stayed behind as a military advisor and taught modern artillery and tactics to the troops.
In 1611 Robert Sherley returned to England, to learn if a new Anglo-Persian trade route could be opened in the Persian Gulf, so that the Shah would no longer have to export his silk overland through Turkish territory.
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 Robert P. Sherley > Professionals > Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Sherley is a senior associate in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's corporate and securities group.
Sherley represents publicly and privately held companies in various aspects of their businesses, including public and private equity and debt securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and general securities and corporate governance matters.
Sherley also counsels companies on matters relating to periodic reporting under federal securities laws.
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 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Thomas Peacock, batchelour of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford published by E.B. from the copy of that famous divine Mr Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.
Vindication of Robert III, King of Scotland from the imputation of bastardy, by the clear proof of Elizabeth Mure (daughter to Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan) her being the first lawful wife of Robert the II, then Stewart of Scotland and Earl of Strathern by George, Viscount of Tarbat, andc.
Made, and ordained to trample on and to treade downe Edomites; to teach in briefe, what is Edoms doome; what the carefull condition of the king, what the loyall submission of a subiect, and what proiects are onely to best purpose.
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 County Research Source
Records show that Thomas Sherley, merchant of Charles Town, was heavily involved in the Slave Trade.
In 1633, Robert Sherley journeyed with 140 other colonists on the Ark from London to Maryland.
It also includes links to early Robert Sherley abstracts in Maryland and Virginia, the passenger list of the Ark, and biographies of important Ark passengers.
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 Shakespeare At The Middle Temple Contemporary Review - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mr Arlidge links the name of Shurley to the 'Sophy' (Shah) references in the play, for Robert and Anthony Sherley, family connections of Shurley, journeyed to Persia in 1599.
Robert Sherley, 'Fencer to the Sophy', was painted by Van Dyck in 1622.
Thus the 'Sophy' references are a compliment to the Treasurer and his renowned kin.
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 History of Iran: Safavid Empire 1502 - 1736
To finance the new army, Shah Abbas converted large pieces of land traditionally granted to tribal chiefs as assignments into crown lands that he taxed directly.
This new military force was trained on European lines with the advice of Robert Sherley.
Sherley was an English adventurer expert in artillery tactics who, accompanied by a party of cannon founders, reached Qazvin with his brother Anthony Sherley in1598.
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 Safavid dynasty
Realizing the limits of his military strength, Abbas made peace with the Ottomans on unfavorable terms in 1590 and directed his onslaughts against the Uzbeks.
Meeting with little success, Abbas engaged in 1599 the English Sir Robert Sherley to direct a major army reform.
Three bodies of troops were formed, all trained and armed in the European manner and paid out of the royal treasury: the ghulams (slaves), the tofongchis (musketeers), and the topchis (artillerymen).
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 Kentucky Overstreet Family Page
Robert Dale Overstreet b 1789, Culpeper Co., VA, d July 30, 1855, Mercer Co, KY, m April 25, 1815 in Jessamine Co, KY Jane Lowry (1797-1879); he was a 4th Sgt. in the KY militia in the War of 1812.
Lucinda "Lulu" Overstreet was born in 1861 in McLean Co, KY. In 1881 she married Robert E. Watts in Shackelford Co, TX.
Robert Edwin FIELD9 was born in 1927 in Daviess Co, KY. He died in 1932 in Daviess Co, KY.
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 Iranica.com - AUSTRIA
By coincidence, the British subjects Anthony and Robert Sherley arrived in Persia in 1598 and met Shah ¿Abba@s I in Isfahan.
Anthony Sherley, a well experienced traveler with a command of several languages, served not only as the guide but also, more or less, as the head of the legation (Du Mans, pp.
It can be taken for granted that Ambassador H®osayn-¿Ali Beg returned disappointed and embittered, because Anthony Sherley had ruined the purpose of the legation by stealing nearly all the gifts for the European rulers (Le Strange, p.
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 Notes on Anthony and Robert Sherley
1563 "Anthony Sherley born to Thomas the elder".
1571/81 "Robert Sherley born to Thomas the elder (Wiston church records lost.
Pope Paul the Fifth also conferred upon him the title of Earl (Count).
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 LLAÚHVERDÈ KHAN (d
By this act, Alla@hverd^ Khan became the most powerful man in the Safavid state after the shah.
From 1008-09/1600 onwards, Alla@hverd^ Khan, in conjunction with Sir Robert Sherley, undertook the reorganization of the army, which meant among other things increasing the number of g@ola@ms from 4,000 to 25,000 (L.-L. Bellan, Chah Abbas I, Paris, 1932, pp.
In 1010/1601-02, Alla@hverd^ Khan was in charge of operations which resulted in the annexation of Bahrain to the Safavid empire (Eskandar Beg, II, pp.
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 Behistun inscription - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He took Darius' bow to be a whip, used to punish the boys.
In 1598, the British diplomat in Austrian service Robert Sherley traveled east, hoping to speak the Persian shah Abbas the Great about the war against Turkey.
One of his servants was a Frenchman, Abel Pinson, who wrote that the serail of Behistun was situated under a very high cliff on which he had seen a representation of 'the ascension of our Lord' with an inscription in Greek.
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 Captain Christopher Newport
Building a small pinnace rather than await rescue (if it even arrived), they set sail, arriving in Virginia in May 1610.
Upon conclusion of this service to the London Company, and still not ready to settle down, he was employed by the East India Company in 1612 to carry Sir Robert Sherley to Persia.
This obligation was carried out between January 7, 1613, to July 10, 1614, when in command of "the Expedition of London of about 260 tunnes burthen," he made his first voyage to the East Indies.
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 The Safavids
Between 1501 and 1587 much of Shah Ismail I's empire had been lost to the Ottomans, he himself suffered a serious defeat at Chaldiran in 1514.
With the aid of the British mercenaries, Robert Sherley and his brother, Shah Abbas I developed the use of artillery and succesfuly regained much of the lost land.
Although Abbas I was just and benevolent towards his subjects he was so afraid of his own family that he blinded his sons or incarcerated them in the harem.
www.isfahan.org.uk /glossary/hist8.htm   (727 words)

  
 Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Country Gentleman : A “lost” Play And Its Background
tags: buckingham, george villiers, duke of, 1628-1687, howard, robert, sir, 1626-1698, hume, robert d, scouten, arthur hawley, 1910-
Elizabethans Errant; The Strange Fortunes Of Sir Thomas Sherley And His Three Sons, As Well In The Dutch Wars As In Muscovy, Morocco, Persia, Spain, And The Indies, By D. Davies
The Sherley Brothers; An Historical Memoir Of The Lives Of Sir Thomas Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley, And Sir Robert Sherley, Knights.
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1045401   (349 words)

  
 CARTWRIGHT, John, The Preacher's Travels; Wherein is set down a True Journal to the Confines of the East-Indies, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Containing a full Survey of the Kingdom of Persia: and in what Terms the Persian Stands with the Great-Turk, at the Day.
Also a true Relation of Sir Anthony Sherley's Entertainment There: and the Estate that his Brother, Mr.
Robert Sherley, Lived in, After his Departure for Christendom.
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