Richard Sherrey

or Shirrie became a Demie or Semi-commoner of Magd. Coll. about the Year 1522, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated 1531. About which time he was either Usher or Master of the School joyning to the said College; but whether ever Fellow thereof, I find not. He was a Person elegantly learned, as (*)(*) Int. Script. Maj. Britan. p. 107. int. cent. 12. & 13. Bale saith, and hath written,

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes. Lond. 1550. (oct.) gathered out of the best Grammarians and Orators. He hath also translated from Lat. into English. (1) A declamation shewing that Children should from their Infancy be gently brought up in learning. Lond. 1550. (oct.) (2) Homilies on the sixth of St. John. Lond. 1550. in oct. Written by John Brentius. Clar. 1550. (3) The Letter of St. Basil the Great to Gregory Nazianzen, shewing that many hundred years ago, certain godly Men used the life commonly called monastical. Clar. 1550. Lond. in oct. This our Author Shirrie hath written and translated other things, which made him to be much esteem’d by learned Men in the Reign of K. Ed. 6.