Sylvanus Scory

Sylvanus Scory (also Silvanus)[1] (c. 1551 – 1617) was an English courtier and politician, known as a soldier, covert agent, and dissolute wit.[2]

  1. ^ Surname also Skory, forename Silvan or Sylvan.
  2. ^ A. L. Rowse, Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age (1974), pp. 195–6.