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Shireburn, Richard (1591 - 1667)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1591
Death Date: 1667

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Molyneux, Elizabeth ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Walmsley, -- ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Titles

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Lancashire 1612
Sheriff, Lancashire 1613 -11 -10 1614

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Wigglesworth, Yorkshire: West Riding
    Possibly owned this property
  • Stonyhurst, Lancashire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1628
    Divested: 1667
    Patrimony

Lands

  • Lancashire
  • Yorkshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Dunkenhalgh Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire Mr Richard Shireburn's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Richard Shireburn's Players Shireburn, Richard (1591 - 1667) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Stonyhurst House Lancashire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Callow, John, and Michael Mullett. 'The Shireburns of Stonyhurst: Memory and Survival in a Lancashire Catholic Recusant Family.'. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2003 Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare 169-85.
  • Dugdale, William. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Made in the Year 1664--5, part III. Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1873
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Quintrell, B.W. Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace at the Sherrifs Table During Assizes Week, 1578--1694. np: Printed for the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 1981
  • The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. 8 vols. London: Archibald Constable, 1906--14
  • The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. 8 vols. London: Archibald Constable, 1906--14