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(1) Henry IV, Part I, V, 4, 39–43.
(2) Most notably D. W. Davies, Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortune of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons (United States, 1967), 1–9.
(3)Davies, Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortune of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons, 103–4.
(4) Ibid., 65–66.
(5) Ibid., 89.
(6) Savory, “The Sherley Myth”; and Uruch Beg (or Uruq Beq), Don Juan of Persia: A Shia Catholic, 1560–1640; translated by O. G. Le Strange (Great Britain, 1926). Translated from original Persian, first published in 1604 and republished in Great Britain, 1926. Uruq Beq was the son of a nobleman who was the commander of a regiment and had been killed in battle in 1585 at the Siege of Tabriz. Uruq Beq became the commander of the same regiment after his father’s death.
(7) Ibid., 110–11.
(8) George Manwaring in True Discourse on Sir Anthony’s Travels quoted by Sir E. Denison Ross in his Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventures, 201.
(9) Thomas Herbert, Some Years Travels into Diverse Parts of Africa and Asia – Particularly the Empires of Persia and Hindustan (London, 1677).
(10) Savory, “The Sherley Myth.”
(11) Davies, Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortune of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons, 113–14.
(12) Twelfth Night, II, 5, 80–81.
(13) Davies, Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortune of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons,126–27.
(14) Uruq Beq, Don Juan of Persia. Some sources, including Uruq Beq himself, maintain that the king and queen of Spain selected the name Don Juan for him. Don Juan died without ever returning to Persia.
(15) Davies, Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortune of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons.
(16) Ibid., 226.
(17) Ibid., 274, based on India office documents; Public Record Office.
(18) The Comedy of Errors; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; and TheTempest.
(19) William Parry, A New and Larger Discourse on the Travels of Sir Anthony Sherley (London, 1801).
(20) G. B. Harrison, Shakespeare under Elizabeth (New York, 1933).
