Sharp, Lionel, Dd

Sharp, Lionel, D.D., an English clergyman, was chaplain to Henry, Prince of Wales; also rector of Malpas, minister of Tiverton, and in 1605 archdeacon of Berks. He died in 1630. His published works are, Oratio Funebris in Hon. Hen. Wall. Principis (Lond. 1612, 4to): — Novum Fidei Symbolum, sive de Novis (1612, 4to); Speculum Papae, etc. (1612, 4to);. Nos. 2 and 3 were translated into English and published under the title of A Looking-glass for the Pope (1623, 4to). He also published a Sermon (1603, 8vo): — and other sermons. See Bliss's Wood's Fasti Oxon. 1, 385; also Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.