Career
Born in York, he converted when young, and made his priestly studies at the English College, Valladolid. He was ordained in 1604, and returned to England in 1606, where a trial awaited him. While his mother begged him to yield, his father begged the authorities rather to keep him under house arrest in England, than to let him go into exile.
But the "Annals" of his College state that Sharpe was a man "of great courage and learning".
He was eventually taken to the archbishop"s prison, then deported. (sl, 1630).