Sir Edward, descended from a good family at Stainhurst in Lancashire, was born in London on the 18th September 1618. He received his early education from the celebrated Thomas Farnaby, and subsequently from Charles Aclen. In 1640 he accomplished the grand tour, as it was called, of Europe, and returned just in time to follow his father to the grave in 1641. He was appointed to his father's office of clerk of the Ordnance, but the rebellion which subsequently ensued removed him from this post. It did more. Fastening on him as a royalist and staunch Roman Catholic, the usher of the black rod held him in durance during a long and expensive confinement. On his release he was as active as ever in behalf of the king, who appointed him commissary-general of his artillery. He fought for the king, attended him at Oxford, and he took his master's degree there in 1642. On going up to London in 1646, he was compelled to hide himself for a space about the chambers of the Middle Temple. Freed from this annoying surveillance, he was appointed by Sir George Saville, in 1651, superintendent of his affairs, and afterwards was chosen travelling tutor to Sir John Coventry. Sherburne regained his old office at the Ordnance on the Restoration, only to lose it again at the Revolution of 1688. He had been knighted in 1682; but it is to be feared his later years were clouded with poverty. In 1696 we find Sherburne presenting a supplicatory memorial to the Earl of Romney, then Master-General of the Ordnance, and an humble petition to the king. Whether any of these memorials was attended to, or whether this loyal subject was left, as thousands of others were, to drag out a life of penury, invoking the public for a bit of bread or a drop of water in the name of the king, cannot now be determined. Sheridan. He was compelled to observe a very strict retirement, until death, in November 4, 1702, put an end to all his sorrows. Sherburne, who had been a man of a very amiable temper, made the acquaintance of Thomas Stanley, author of the History of Philosophy, 1655-60, and of James Shirley, the dramatist, with whom he remained in close friendship during the rest of their lives. Sherburne translated the Medea (1648), and the Troades (1679) of Seneca. He is now best known by his version of Manilius, which contains a valuable appendix, comprising notices of the translator's contemporaries.