Sheryngham

One-named English composer Sheryngham is known by two works in an early Tudor manuscript of part songs known as the Fayrfax manuscript or Fayrfax Book (GB-Lbl Add. 5465). The text to Sheryngham's four-voice carol Ah, gentle Jesu has been tentatively identified as the work of poet John Lydgate, who died around 1451; if so, Sheryngham's setting of this long poem was most likely composed some time after Lydgate's death. Dr. Charles Burney thought enough of Sheryngham's two-voice part song My woeful heart to include it in his General History of Music, published in 1789. Beyond that, nothing else about Sheryngham is known, although the Fayrfax manuscript itself dates to roughly 1485-1500, so it can reasonably be assumed that Sheryngham was active during, or before, that time.