[1] He matriculated from King's College, Cambridge in 1607, and that he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn Court in November 1608.
He sailed in March in the Rose, an East Indiaman, for Gombrun (Bandar Abbas), in the Persian Gulf.
[4][5] Prior to the ill-fated mission to the Safavid dynasty, Beg, who had been a failure in England, denounced Shirley.
After touching at the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and Swali in Surat, the three Englishmen arrived in Gombrun on 10 January 1628.
[7] Herbert wrote that "the trials of the journey, and mortification over its fruitless result" no doubt contributed to the deaths.