An Elizabethan Adventurer: The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley

by Dan O'Sullivan

Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of Essex, chose him to lead a group on a mission to Ferrara,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399007424
• ISBN13: 9781399007429
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 184 Pages