John Shepley (1575–1631), Embroiderer to the High and Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales

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• P. Wardle, ‘The King’s Embroiderer: Edmund Harrison (1590–1667), Textile History, 25 (1) (1994 ), 29–59, and ibid. ‘Part II: His Work’, Textile History, 26 (2) (1995), 139–84. Edmund Harrison’s date of birth has since been discovered to be 1591: he was christened on 23 May that year at St. Margaret’s, Westminster (information from Harrison File at the Institute of Genealogists).
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• W. Money, The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks. (London, 1887), p. 502. Dates of birth of members of the Shepley family are taken from a transcript of the earliest Newbury parish register of baptisms in the library of the Society of Genealogists.
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• There were also three daughters, born in 1579, 1582 and 1588.
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• The inscription is given in full in The History and Antiquities of Newbury and its Environs (London, 1839), p. 34.
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• Public Record Office, Probate 11/110.1 am grateful to Nicolas Brewster, who transcribed this will for me.
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• Ibid., p. 366.
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• Guildhall Library, London, MS 878/1, fol. 83.1 am indebted to Nicolas Brewster for the references from this source.
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• Ibid., fol. 69.
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• Ibid., fols. 52, 62, 114, 131V.
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• Ibid., p. 34.
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• This definition of the colour, like those given below, comes from M. Channing Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Oxford, 1936). Santina M. Levey kindly referred me to this publication.
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• P.R.O., E. 101.434.9, fols. 20–21, 22. For two cloaks of the first half of the seventeenth century embroidered ‘chevron fashion’ see A. Hart and S. North, Historical Fashion in Detail. The 18th and 18th Centuries (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1998), pp. 168–69 and 172–73. Santina M. Levey kindly pointed these out to me.
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• Ibid., fols. 57, 86.
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• Ibid., fol. 36.
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• For all this see Linthicum, op. cit. (note 22), pp. 21, 23.
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• Ibid., p. 552.
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• Ibid., p. 562.
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• Ibid., p. 566.
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• Ibid., p. 569.
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• Nicholas Brewster found this will and transcribed it for me.
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• See note 9.
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• For Harrison’s will see Wardle, op. cit. (note 1), 25 (1) (1994 ), pp. 56–59.
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• ‘Grantees of Arms named in Docquets and Patents to the end of the seventeenth century’, Harleian Society, LXVI, 1915, p. 34 for William Broderick with the family genealogy, p. 116 for the grant to Edmund Harrison’s father.
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• There was also a John Shipley of the parish of St. Michael Basinshaw, who was an embroiderer, but he appears to have been unrelated to John Shepley (whose name is often spelt Shipley in the royal accounts), since he had a brother Hugh, who was still alive when he died on 13 June 1640. Society of Genealogists, Boyd’s Citizens of London, no. 41034.
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• See P. Wardle, pp. 140 (Wilson was not Shepley’s apprentice, as stated there), 142.
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