Shirley, Sir George (1559-1622); 1st Bt, of Astwell, Northamptonshire; for a list of books bought with his donation of £40 in 1601 see Benefactors' Register I 25; Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley, letter 5; Evelyn Philip Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, 2nd edn (Westminster, 1873), 83-101; Alan Davidson, `Roman Catholicism in Oxfordshire from the Late Elizabethan Period to the Civil War (c.1580-c.1640)', unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Bristol, 1970, 691; idem, `Oxfordshire Recusancy 1580-1640', Cake and Cockhorse, 5 (1974), 167-75, at 172. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1559 to 1622. Period: 16th century to 17th century.

2 entries:

• A-475(1) Astesanus de Ast — Summa de casibus conscientiae. — Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 11 May 1482. Folio.
• W-011(1) Wernerus, Abbas Monasterii S. Blasii — Deflorationes patrum. — Basel: [Michael Furter?], 1494. 4°.

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