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 [1625-62.] Took up his freedom June 9th, 1623. [Arber, iii. 685.] He appears to have had shops in various parts of London, and was the publisher of much of the best literature of the period, including Alexander Brome's Cunning Lovers, 1654; John Cleveland's Poems, 1659; Phineas Fletcher's Sicelides, 1631; Thomas May's version of Lucan's Pharsalia, 1651; Quarles' Divine Fancies, 1632. Sheares was suspected of having had a hand in printing Leicester's Commonwealth, a notorious satire on the House of Lords. [Domestic State Papers, Chas. I, vol. 484 (75).] He died September 21st, 1662. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 56.]

SHELMERDINE (RALPH), bookseller in Manchester, 1661-3. Son of William Shelmerdine, bookseller in Manchester. [Fishwick, Lancashire Library, p. 398, n.] His name occurs in the imprint to the Rev. R. Heyrick's Sermon, 1661. [E. 1088 (9).] Also mentioned as a bookseller in an advertisement of patent medicines in The Intelligencer and Newes of 1663.

SHEPERD, see.

SHEPHEARD, or SHEPERD (HENRY), bookseller in London, (1) Bible, Chancery Lane [Sayle, 1149]; (2) Bible in Tower Street [on Tower Hill]. 1635-46. Took up his freedom September 15th, 1634. [Arber, iii. 687.] Publisher of plays and political tracts. Associated with .

SHERLEY, see.

SHIRLEY, or SHERLEY (JOHN), bookseller in London; Golden Pelican in Little Britain, 1644-66. His name is found on the following among other books: W. Lilly's Prophecy of the White King, 1644, and Saml. Parker's Tentamina Physico-Theologica, 1665. [Ames Collection, 3267.] Smyth in his Obituary (p. 71), has this record, January 23rd,, "Mr. John Shirley, bookseller in Little Britain, hora 10 sub nocte, died."

SHIRLEY, or SHERLEY (REBECCA), bookseller in London; Little Britain (? Golden Pelican), 1666. Probably the widow of. Mentioned in the Hearth Tax Roll for the half-year ending Lady Day, 1666, as a bookseller in Little Britain [P.R.O. Lay Subsidy, $252⁄32$.] N 2