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DICTIONARY
OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
EDITED BY SIDNEY LEE
VOL. XLV.
PEREIRA--PocKRICH
LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1896
[All rig41t ruer:11d] Digitized by Goog le Perrot Perrot sacred,' 12mo, 1785; on p. 22 is Perronet's address to the king on the peace of 1763 well-known hymn, 'All hail the power of (HMtcry of the Reign of George III, 1894, Jesu's name,' which first appeared in the i. 222). His curious power of discrimination 'Gospel Magazine,' 1780, without signature. may be estimated by the conclusion of his sum (Life of V. Perronet in Methodist Mag. vol. ming-up on a trial at Exeter as to the right xx1i. January-Apnl 1799; Tyerman's Life of J. to a certain stream of water: ' Gentlemen, Wesley, 2nd edit.; Whit.. bead.'s Life of Wesley; there are fifteen witnesses who swear that J. Wesley's Journal,ap. Works, 1829; J .. ckson's the watercourse used to flo\v in a ditch on Journal, &c., of C. Wesley; Life and Times of the north side of the hedge. On the other Selina, Countess of Huntingdon; Gent. l\Ing. hand, gentlemen, there are nine witnesses Janu:•ry 1749 xix. 44, July 1813 lxxxii. 82; who swear that the watercourse used to flow D..y of Rest, new ser.(1879), i. 765; W. Gadsby's on the south side of the hedge. X ow, gen Companion to Selection of Hymns; J. Gad~hy's tlemen, if ,rou subtract nine from fifteen Memoirs of Hymn-writers, 3rd edit.; Julian's there remam six witnesses wholly uncon Diet. of Hymnology, art. •Perronct, Edward,' by tradicted; and I recommend you to give Dr. Grosart; family papers and other inform&· tion from )!iss Edith Thompson.] W, 11. your verdict accordingly for the party who called those six witnesses' (Foss, Judyn of PERROT, GEORGE (1710-1780), baron England, 186-!, viii. 350). It appears from of the exchequer, born in 1710, belonged to a petition presented by Perrot to the House the Yorkshire branch of the Perrots of Pem of Commons that in 1769 he was the sole hrokeshire. He was the second son of Thomas owner and proprietor of the navigation of 1~errot, prebendary of Ripon and rector of the river Avon from Tewkcsburyto Evesham. Welbury in the North Riding of Yorkshire, [The authorities quoted in the t.ext; Thlrn and of St. :Martin-in-)licklegate in the city well's Perrot Notes, 1867, pp.l08-9; l\Icmorials of York, by his wife Anastasia, daugbte.r of of Ripon (Surtees Soc. Publ. 1886), ii. 315; the ReY. George Plaxton, rector of Barwlck Nash's Worcestcrshiro, 1781, i. 383, H7-S, in-Elmet in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Suppl. pp. 59, 61 ; Burke's Landed Gentry, 1846, After receiving his education at Westminster i. 1:48; l\Iartin's 1\It\Stcrs of the Rench of tho School, be was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, 1883, p. 76; Alumni w.. stmon. Inner Temple in November 1728, and was 1852. p. 5-16; Gent. Mag. 1775 p. 301, I 780 called t.o the bar in 1732. In May 1757 he p. I 02, 1784 pt. i. p. 238; Haydn's Book of wn.s elected a bencher of his inn, and in 1759 Dignities. 1890; Notes and Quorie~, 8th ser. was made a king's counsel. On 16 April1760 v. 347, 411.) G. .F. R. B. he opened the case against Laurence Shirley, PERROT, HENRY 1000-16:?6), epi fourth earlFerrers, who was tried for the mur (fl. der of John Johnson by the House of Lords grammatist. [See PARROT.] (HowELL, Stat~ Trmu,xix. 894). On 24Jan. PERROT,SIRJAMES(157l-1637),poli 1763 he was called to the degree of serjeant, tician, born at Ilarroldston in Pembrokeshire and appointed a baron of the exchequer in in 1571, is stated to have been an illegitimate the place of Sir Henry Gould the younger son of Sir John Perrot [q. v.) by Sybil Jones rq. Y.] He was seized with a fit of palsy at of Radnorshire. He matriculated from Jesus ~IaidStone during the Lent assizes m 1775, College, Oxford, as Sir John's second son, on and shortly afterwards retired from the 8July 1586, aged 14,left the university with bench with a pension of 1,2001. a year. out a degree, entered the Middle Temple in Having purchased the manor of Fladbury lli90, and, 'afterwards travelling, returnetl and other considerable estates in Worcester an accomplish'd gentleman' (Woon). He shire, he retired to Pershore, where he died settled down upon the estate at Ilarroldston on 28 Jan. 1780, in the seventieth year of which had been given him by his father, and his age. A monument was erected to. his seems for a time to have devoted himself to memory in the parish church at Laleham, literary composition. In 1596 was printed ~liddlesex, in pursuance of directions con at Oxford, in quarto, by Joseph Barnes, his tained in his widow's will. He was never exceedingly rare' Discovery of Discontented kni hted. Minds, wherein their several sorts and pur ife married, in 1742, Mary, only daughter poses are described, especially such as are of John Bower of Bridlington Quay, York gone beyond ye Seas,' which wn.s dedicated shire, and widow of Peter Whitton, lord to the Earl of Essex, and had for its object mayor of York in 1728. Perrot left no to ' restrain those dangerous malecontents children. His widow died on 7 March 1784, who, whether as scholars or soldiers, turned aged 82. According to Horace Walpole, fugitives or renegades, and settled in foreign Perrot while on circuit 'wn.s so servile as to countries, especially under the umbrage of recommend' from the bench a congratulatory the king of Spain, to negociate conspiracies c2
Digitized by Goog le Perrot 20 Perrot and invasions' (cf. OLDY&, 'Catalogue of Hutory, iv. 267). In the parliament of 1624 Pamphlets in the Harleian Library,' Harl. Perrot, as representath·e for the county of Mi8c. x. 3i>8). This was followed in 1600 Pembroke, played a less conspicuous part; bv 'The First Part of the Consideration of butinthatofl628,whenheagamrepresented livmane Condition: wherein is contained Haverfordwest, he made a powerful speech the l\Iorall Consideration of a l\lan's Selfe: against Laud. as what, who, and what manner of l\ian he Perrot played a considerable part in his is,' Oxford, 4t.o. This was to be followed by native county. In 162-! he oocame a lessee three parts dealing respectively with the of the royal mines in Pembrokeshire, and political consideration of thin~ under us, the from about that period be commenced acting natural consideration of thmgs about us, as deputy \'ice-admiral for the Earl of Pem and the metaphysical consideration of thin~ broke. In August 1625 he wrote to the above us; none of which, however, appeared. government that Turkish pirates were upon Perrot also drew up 'A Book of the Birth, the south-west coast, having occupied Lundy Education, Life and Death, and singular for over a fortnight, and made numerou~ good Parts of Sir Philip Sidney,'which "rood captives in l\Jounts Bay, Cornwall. From appears to hat"e seen in manuscript, and 16:!6 he acted as the \'ice-admiral or repre which Oldys' earnestly desired to meet with,' sent.ative of the admiral tv in Pembrokeshire, but which was evidcntlv never printed. In and wrote frequently t.o· Secretary Conwav the meantime Perrot had represented the respecting the predatory habitsofthe 'Velsh borough of Haverford west in the parliament wreckers, and the urgent necessity of forti ofl597-8, and during the progress of James I (ving Milford Haven. He was a member of to London he was in July 1603 knighted at the Virginia Company, to which he su~ the house of Sir William Fleetwood. He sat Jscribed 37 l. lOa. In 1030 he issued his' 1\ledi again for Haverford west in the parliament tations and Prayers on the Lord's Praver and of 1604, and in the 'Addled parltament' of I Ten Commandments,' London, 4to. lie died 1614, when he took a vigorous part in the at his house of Harroldston on-! Feb. 1636-7, debates on the impositions, and shared to and was buried in the chancel of St. Mary's the full the indignation expressed by the Church, Haverfordwest. He married 1\Iary, lower house at the speech of Bishop Richard daughter of Robert Ashfield of Chesham. Neile ~q . v.], questioning the competence of Buckinghamshire, but left no issue. Some the commons to deal with this subject. When commendatory yerses by him are prefixed to parliament met again in 1621 it contained few the 'Golden Grove' (1608) of his friE>nd members who were listened to with greater Henry Vaughan. '!illingness than Perrot, who combine~ expe- [Barnwell's Perrot Notes (reprinted froa r1ence w1th a popular manner of speakmg. It Arcbll!ol. Cambr.), 1867, p. 69 ; Wood'e Athenre, was he who on 5 Fob. 1621 moved that the ed. Bliss, ii. 606-6; F08ter's Alumni Oson. house should receive the communion at St. 1600-171-l; Metcalf.. ' a Book of Knights; Le :Margarct's,andwho,inJune,movedadeclara- Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights, p. 165; Old tion in favour of assisting James's children Parliamentary Hist. v. 525, viii. 280: Cobbett's in the Palatinate, which was received by the Pari. Hist. i. 1306,1310, 1313; Gardiner's Hist. house with enthusiasm, and declared bv Sir of Engl. iv. 28, 67, 128. 235, 25.5; Spedding's Edward Cecil to be an inspiration 'from :&_<'o.n, xi_ii. 65; ~illiam~·s E~inent Welshmen; heaven and of more etfect 'than if we had I WIIhams s ParhamentRry H1story of Walt'S; ten tbo'usnnd soldiers on the march.' Later Madan's Early Oxford Press (Oxford Hitlt. Soc.), on, in November 1621, he spoke in favour of PP· 40, 49.] T. S. a war of diversion and attack upon Sfain in PERROT, SIR JOHN (1527?-1592), the Indies. Hitherto he had successful y com- lord deputy of Ireland, commonly reputed to bined popularity in the house with favour at be the son of Henry VIII, whom he re court, and had specially gratified the king sembled in appearance, and Mary Berkley by supporting his plan to try Bacon's case (aft.erwards the wife of Thomas Perrot, esq., before a special commiSI!ion; but. in December of Istingston and Harroldston, in Pembroke thewarmthofhisdenunciationoftheSpanish shire), was born, probably at Harroldston, marriage, and his insistence upon fresh about 1527 (NA.UNTON, Fragmenta Regalia: guarantees against popery, caused him to be Archaologia Cambremu, 8rd ser. vol. xi.) numbered among the 'ill-tempered spirits.' He was educated apparently at St. David's He wa.~, in consequence, subJected to an (Cal. State Papera, Ire!. Eliz. ii. 549), and at honourable banishment to Ireland, as a mem- the age of eighteen was placed in the house her of Sir Dudley Digges's [see DIGGES, SIR hold of William Paulet, first marquis of Win DuDLEY]commission for investigating certain chestcrrq. v.] U nitinggreat.yhysicalstrength grievances in Ireland (WooD; cf. G A.RDINEB, to a violent and arbitrary disposition, he was
Digitized by Goog le Perrot 21 Perrot much addicted to brawling, and it was to a 27 Feb. 1571. A day or two afterwards fracas between him and two of the yeomen of Fitzmaurice burned the town of Kilmallock, the guard, in which he was slightly wounded, and Perrot, recognising the importance of that he owed his personal introduction to reaching the seat of his government with :Henry VIII. The king, whether he was out loss of time, hastened to Dublin, and, acquainted with the secret of his birth or having taken the oath before Sir Henry Sid whether he merely admired his courage and ney [q. v.l, proceeded immediately to Cork. audacitv, made him a promise of preferment, From Corli: he marched directly to Kilmal but died before he could fulfil it. Perrot, how lock, where he took up his quarters in a half ever, found a patron in Edward VI, and was by burned house, and issued a proclamation to \him, at his coronation, created a knight of the the fugitive townsmen to return and repair Bath. His skill in knightly exercises secured the walls and buildings of the town. While him a place in the train of the Marquis of thus engaged, information reached him one Korthampton on the occasion of the latter's night that the rebels bad attacked Lord visit to France in June 1551 to negotiate a Roche ; whereupon, taking with him his own marriage between Edward VI and Elizabeth, troop of horse, he pursued them as far os the infant daughter of Henry II. He fully Knocklong. But finding they were likely maintained the reputation for gallantry he to make good their escape among the neigh had acquired at home, and by his bravery in bouring bogs, he caused his men to dismount the chase so fascinated the French king that and to foUow them in their own fashion, be offered him considerable inducements to and had the satisfaction of killing fifty of enter his serYice. them, whose heads he fixed on the market UetumingtoEngland,he found himselfin cross of Kilmallock. Having placed the volved in considerable pecuniary difficulties, town in a posture of defence, Perrot pursuP.d from which he was relieved by the generosity his journey to Limerick, capturing a castle of Edward. The fact of his bein~ a pro belonging to Tibbot Burke on the way. testant did not &t first militate agamst him From Limerick, where the Earl of Thomond, with Queen l\lary; but, being accused by one O'Shaughnessy, and Sir Thomas of Desmond Gadern or Cathern, a countryman of his, of came to him, he proceeded to Cashel, where sheltering heretics in his house in Wales, and, he hanged several ' grosy merchants, being among others his uncle, Robert Perrot, reader such as bring bread and aquavita or other in Greek to Edward VI and Alexander Xowell provisions unto the rebels,' and so by way of [ q. v.] (afterwards dean of Lichfield), he was Fethard, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, nnd Lis committed to the Fleet. His detention was of more, near where he captured Mocollop short duration, and, being released, he served Castle, back to Cork, which he reached on under the Earl of Pembroke in France, and the last day of l\lay. was present at the capture of St. Quentin Fixing his headquarters at Cork, he made in 1057. His refusal, however, to assist excursions into the territories of the '\Vhite Pembroke in hunting down heretics in south Knight' and the l\lcSwineys, and' slew many ·wales caused a breach in their friendly re of the rebels end hanged as many as he might lations, though it did not prel""ent the earl take.' Though greatly harassed by his in from generousl:y using his inlluence to bring cessant warfare, Fitzmaurice had managed to a successful1ssue a suit of Perrot's for the to enlist a large body of redshanks, and with castle and lordship of Carew. At the coro these he scoured the country from Aharlow nation of Elizabeth, Perrot was one of the to Castlemaine, and from G lenftesk to Bal ti four gentlemen chosen to carry the canopy of more. Perrot, who spared neither himself nor state, and being apparently shortly after his men in his effort~ to catch him, in vain wards appointed vice-admiral of the seas tempted him to risk a battle in the open, but, about south Wales and keeper of the gaol meeting him on the edge of a wood, he at at Haverfordwest, he for some years divided tacked and routed him, and forced his allies his time between the court and his estate across the Shannon. On 21 June he sat down in Pembrokeshire. before Castlemaine, but after five weeks was Since the outbreak of the rebellion in Ire compelled, by lack of provision~, to raise the land of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald [q. v.J siege. II is eagerness to terminate the rebel in 1568, it had been the settled determination lion led him to countenance a proposal for of Elizabeth and her ministers to establish a the restoration of Sir John of Desmond as a presidential government in 1\lunster similar counterpoise to Fitzmaurice [see FITZG ERA I.D, to that in Connaught. In November 1570 the SIRJOUN FITZEDMUND, 1528-1612J,and even post was offered to Perrot, and was eomewhat induced him to listen to o. prCipoMl of Fitz reluctantly accepted by him. Ile sailed from maurice to settle the question by single Milford Haven and arrived at Waterford on combat. Fitzmaurice, as the erent proved,
Digitized by Goog le Perrot 22 Perrot had no intention of meeting Perrot on equal self, he could ill brook to be reprimanded by terms; and, after deluding him with one ex- the privy council for his conduct in regard cuse and another, finally declared that a duel to the Peter and Paul, a French vessel hailing was out of the question. 'For,' said he,' if from Portugal with a valuable cargo of3pic(>8, I should kill Sir .John Perrot the queen of which he had caused to be detained at. Cork. England can send another P.resident into A graceful letter of thanks from Elizabt>th, this province; but if he do kill me there is desiring him to continue at his post, failed none other to succeed me or to command as to alter his resolution; and in .July 1573 he I do '(R.nvLINSON, Lffe, p. 63). Perrot swore suddenly returned to England without lea~·e. to 'hunt th~ fox out of his hole' without His reception by Elizabeth was more grn further delay. Shortly afterwards he was cious than he had reason to expect; and drawn by a trick into a carefully prepared pleading ill-health as an excuse for not re ambush. Outnumbered by at least ten or turning to Munster, where he was e>cn twel>e to one, he would certainly have lost tuallv superseded by Sir " 'illiam Drury his life had not. the opportune arrival of Cap- rq. Y.j, he retired to Wales. To Burgh ley he tain Bowles with three or four soldiers caused declared that it was his intention to lead a }.'itzmaurice, who mistook them for the ad- countryman's life, and to keep out of debt. Yance gu~rd of a larger body, to withdraw But as one of the council of the marches, hastily. Even this lesson did not teach Perrot and vice-admiral of the 'Velsh seas, he found prudence. For having, as he believed, driven plenty to occupy his attention, especially in Fitzmaurice into a corner, he allowed himself suppressing piracy along the coast ( cf. Gent. to be deluded into a parley, under coYer of Mag. 1839, ii. 35.!). In .May 15i8 a com which Fitzmaurice managed to withdraw his plaint was preferred against him by Hie hard men into safety. In .June 1572 he again sat Vaughan, deputy-admiral in South ·wales, down before Castlemaine, and, after a three of tyrannical conduct, trafficking with pi months' blockade, forced the place to sur- rates, and sub>ersion of justice. Perrot had render. He encountered Fitzmaurice, who was apparently lit tie difficulty in exonerating him advancing to its relief at the bead of a body self; for he was shortly afterwards appointed of Scoto-Irish mercenaries, in l\lacBrian Coo- commissioner for piracy in Pembrolteshire. nagh's count~ . Fitzmaurice, however, with In August 15i9 he was placed in commnnd the bulk of hts followers, managed to make of a squadron appointed to cruise off the good his escape into the wood of A barlow. western coast of Ireland, to intercept and de Perrot's efforts to expel them were crippled by stroy any SpRni~h vessels appearing in thoso the refusal of his soldiers to serve until thev waters. On29 Aug. be sailed from the Thames received some of their Rrrears of pny. nut on board the Revenge with his SOD Thomas. the garrison at Kilmallock, assisted by Sir On14 Sept. beancltored inBalt.imore Bay; and Edmund and Ed ward Butler, rendert)d admir- after spending a few days on shore,' whereth(•y able sen ice; RndFitzmaurice, finding himself were all entertained as well as the fashion of at the end of his tether, sued for mercy. Per- that. country could alford,' he sailed to Cork, rot reluctantly consented to pardon him. He and from Cork coasted along to 'Vaterford, was somewhnt reconciled to this course by where be met Sir "'illiam Drury, who shortly Fitzmaurice's submissive attitude, and com- before his death knighted his son Thomas and forted himself with the hope that the ex- Sir William Pelham [q. v.J After coasting rebt>l, having Aeen the error of his ways, about for some time, and .the season of the would e\·entually prove 'a second St. Paul.' year growing too late to cause any further Having thus, as he vainly imagined, re- apprehension on the part of Spain, Perrot. stored tranquillity to Munster, he begged to determined to return home. In the Dovms be allowed to return home. During his tenure lie fell in with one Deryfold, a pirate, whom of office hfl bad killed or hanged at least be chased and captured otf the Flemish coast; eisrbt hundred rebels, with the loss of only but on trying to make the mouth of the eighteen Englishmen, and had done some- Thames he struck on the Kcntish Knocks. thing to substitute English customs for Irish Fortunately be succeeded in getting otf the in the province. But the service had told I sand, and reached Harwich in 11afety. During severely on his constitution; and for every his absence his enemies had tried to undermino white hair that he had brought over with him Ihis credit with the queen; and early in 1580 he protested he could show sixty. He was one Thomas Wyriott, a justice of the peace, dissatisfied with Elizabeth's determination to formerly a yeoman of the guRrd,exhibited cer restore Gerald Fitzgerald, fifteenth carl of I tain complaints agRinst 'his intolerable dool De~mond [ q. Y.]: he was annoyed by reports I ings.' Wyriot.t's complaints were submitted that reached him of Essex's interference with I to the privy council, and, being pronounced his tenantry; and, though able to justify him- slanderous libels, Wyriott was committed to
Digitized by Goog le Perrot 23 Perrot the Marshalsea. But he had powerful friends learned that the Scots had evaded the ships at court; and shortly after Perrot's return to sent to intercept them at Lough Foy~e and "\Vales he was released, and letters were ad- had returned whence they came. Half a dresaed to the judges of assize in South Wales, mile outside the town Turlough Luineach authorising them to reopen the case. Though O'Neill rq. v.J met him, and put in his only suffering from the sweating sickness, Perrot son ss pledge of his loyalty, ss did also Ma at once obeved the summons to attend the gennis, MacMahon, and O'Hanlon. But assizes at Haverfordwest. He successfully having come so far, Perrot determined to cut exculpated himself and obtained a verdict of at the root, ss he believed, of the Scoto-Irish a thousand marks damages against \Vyriott. difficulty, and to make a resolute effort to He had acquired conMiderable reputation as expel the MacDonnells from their settle president of Munster, and a plot or plan which menta along the Antrim cosst. An attempt, he drew up at the command of the queen in at which he apparently connived (State 1581 'for the suppressing of rebellion and the Paper8, Ire!. Eliz. cxii. 00, ii. ), to sssassinate well-governing oflreland' marked him out as Sorley Boy MacDonnell [q. v.J failed, and a suitable successor to the lorddeputy,Arthur Perrot, resorting to more legitimate methods Grey, fourteenth lord Grey de Wilton r q. v.], of warfare, divided his forces into two divi who was recalled in August 1582. Kever- sions. The one, under the command of the theless, he was not appointed to the post till I Earl of Ormonde and Sir John Norris, ad- 17 Jan. 1584, and it was not till 21 June that vanced along the left bank of the Bann and he received the sword of state from the chan- scoured the woods of Glenconkein; while - cellor,Archbishop Adam Loftus [ q. v.] From !himself, with the other, proceeded through his acquaintance with the southern province 1 Clandeboye and the Glinnes. On 14 Sept. he was deemed well qualified to supervise he sat. down before Dunluce Castle, which the great work of the plantation of .Mun-~ surrendered at discretion on the second or ster. His open instructiOns resembled those third day. Sorley Boy escaped to Scotland, given to former viceroys; but among those but Perrot got possessiOn of 'holy Columb privately added by the privy council was one • kille's cross, a god of great veneration with directing him to consider how St. Patrick's 1 Sorley Boy and all Ulster,' which he sent to Cathedral and the revenues belonging to it \Valsingham to present to Lady 'Valsing might be made to serve 'as had been there- ham or Lady Sidney. A mazer garnished tofore intended' for the erection of a college with silver-gilt, with Sorley Boy's arms en in Dublin. His go,·ernment began propi- graved on the bottom, he sent to Lord Burgh tiously, and a remark of his expreasive of his I ley. An attempt to land on Rathlin Island desire to see the name of husbandman or was frustrated by stormy weather, and, feel yeoman substituted for that of churl was, 1 ing that the season was growing too advanced according to Fenton, widely and favourably . for further operations, Perrot returned to commented upon. The day following his 1Dublin. installation order was iasued for a general Meanwhile he had not been unmindful hosting at the hill of Tara, on 10 Aug., for . of his charge re~arding St. Patrick's. On six weeks. In the interval Perrot prepared to 121 Aug. he subnutted a plan to Walsingham make a tour of inspection through Connau~ht for converting the cathedral into a court and l'tlunster for the purpose of establishmg / house and the canons' houses into inns of Sir Richard Bingham [q. v.] and Sir John court, and for applying the revenues to the Norris (1Mi?- 1597)[q. v.l in their respective I erection of two colleges. When the prqject go,·emments. He had afready received the ~ became known, as it speedily did, it was vehe submissionofthechieftainsofConna~htand t mentlyopposed by Archbishop Loftus [q. v.J Thomond,andwason hiswayfromL1merick ; On 3 Jan. 1585 Perrot was informed that to Cork when the news reached him that a . there were grave objections to his scheme, and large body of Hebridean Scots had landed in ~ that it was desirable for him to consult with O'Donnell's country. Norris was inclined 1 thearchbishop. Perrotforatimerefusedtode to think that rumour had, as usual, exag- ; sist from his project, and never forgave Loftus gerated the number of the invaders; but for op~sing him. There can be little doubt Perrot, who probably enjoyed the pro~pect ; thathisblunderinghostilitytowardsthearch of fighting, determined to return at once to bishop was a principal cause of his downfall. Dublin and, as security for the peace of 1\Iun- I Another scheme of his for bridlinl\' the ster, to take with him all protectees and I Irish by building seven towns, seven br1dges, suspected persons. and seven fortified castles in different parts On 26 Aug. he set out for Ulster, accom- of the country fared equally unpropitiously. panied by the Earls of Ormonde and Tho- Given 50,000!. a year for three years, he mond and Sir John Norris. At Newry he .1 promised to permanently subjugate Ireland
Digitized by Google Perrot Perrot and took the unusual course of addressing the turned to Dublin at the beginning of Sep parliament of England on the subject. But tember. Six weeks later Sorley Boy re W alsingham, to whom he submitted the letter captured Dunluce Castle, and resumed his (printed in the 'Government of Ireland,' pp. overtures for denization. Perrot, who wa.s 44 sq.) promptly suppressed it, on the ground ' touched with the stone,' and provoked at that the queen would certainly resent any one the coolness of his colleagues, felt the dis but herself moving parliament. Nor indeed grace bitterly, and begged to be recalled. did his manner of dealing with the Hebridean Eventually he consented to pardon Sorley Scots argue well for his ability to carry out Boy, and to grant him letters of denization his more ambitious project. Scarcely three on what were practically his own terms. In months had elapsed since the expulsion of one respect Perrot could claim to have been Sorley Boy before he again succeeded in fairly successful. The composition of Con effecting a landing on the coast of Antrim. naught and Thomond with which his name He was anxious, he declared, to become a is associated, though prov.ing by no means loyal subject of the crown, if only he could commensurate with his expectations, and obtain legal ownership of the territory he due in a large measure to the initiative oi claimed. But Perrot insisted on unqualified Sir Henry Sidney, was a work which un submission, and, despite the remonstrances of doubtedly contributed to the peace and the council, began to make preparat.ions for stability of the western province. Parlia a fresh expedition against h1m. 'Vhen ment reassembled on 26 April 1586, and~ Elizabeth heard of his intention, she was after passing acts for the attainder of the Earl greatly provoked, and read him a sharp le~ of Desmond and Viscount Baltinglas, wa.s ture on 'such rash, unadvised journeys with d.issoh·ed on 14 lllay. out good ground as your last journeb~ the With ~ftua_and Wallop Perrot had long north.' As it happened, Sir Hen11 enal been on terms of open hostility, and e\"en and Sir William Stanley were- qULte able to Sir Geoffrey Fenton, who at firat found him cope with Sorley Boy, and the Irish parlia ' affable and pleasing,' had since come to ment bein~ appointed to meet on 26 April, change his opinion in that respect. Perrot, after an mterval of sixteen years, Perrot it is true, could count on the devotion or found sufficient to occupy his attention in Sir Nicholas White and Sir Lucas Dillon; Dublin. but their influence in the council was com A German nobleman who happened to be paratively small, and their ~oodwill exposed visiting Ireland was greatly imfressed with him to the charge of pursumg an anti-Eng his appearance at the opening o parliament, lish policy. Nor were his relations outside and declared that, though he had travelled all the council much better. Sir John Norris over Europe, he bad never seen any man com and Captain Carleil had long complained or parable to him 'for his port and majesty of his overbearing and tyrannical behaviour. personage.' But Perrot's att(>mpt to' manage' Perrot's conduct towards Sir Richard Bing parliament proved a com,Plete failure. A ham added him to the long list of &\"owed bill to suspend Poynings Act, which he enemies. Early in September 1586 a large regarded as necessary to facilitate legisla body of redshanks invaded Connaught at tion, was rejected on the third reading by a the invitation of the Burkes of county Mayo. majority of thirty-five. Another bill, to and Bingham, who felt himself unable tD substitute a regular system of taxation in cope with them, sent to Perrot for rein lieu of the irregular method of cess, shared forcements. The deputy not only complied a similar fate, and Perrot could only pro with his request, but., in opposit10n to the rogue parliament, and advise the punish advice of the council, went to Connaught ment of the leaders of the opposition. himself. He had, however, only reached Tired of his inactivity, Perrot resumed his l\lullingar when he received information plan of a northern campaign, and having that the Scots and their allies had been appointed Loftus and ·wallop, who strongly completely overthrown and almost an d1sapproved of his intention, justices in his nihilated by Bingham at Ardnaree on the absence, he set out for Ulster on 16 July. river Moy. But instead of returning to But misfortune dogged his footsteps. For Dublin, he continued his journey to Galway. hardly had he reached Dungannon when wet though by so doing he inflicted a heavy and weather rendered further progress impossible. unnecessary expense on the country. His. His time, however, was not altogether wasted. own statement that he had been invited For besides settling certain territorial diffe thither was manifestly untrue. But whether rences between Turlough Luineach O'Neill he was jealous of Bingham's success, as and Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone [q. v.J, he seems likely, or whether he really disap reduced Ulster to shire ground. He re- proved of his somewhat arbitrary method of
Digitized by Google Perrot Perrot government, his presence had undoubtedly Philip master of England and Ireland. The the effect of weakening the president's au letter was a manifestfor~ery, but it derived a thority and stimulating the elements of certain degree of plausibility from the recent discontent in the r.rovince. Ilis language betrajal of Deventer by Sir William Stanley towards the council was certainly most re r'},· v. J One Charles Trevor, an accomplice of prehensible, and unfortunately he did not 0 Roughan's, knew the secret of the forgery, confine his abuse to words. In January and, according to Bingham, Fitzwilliam could 1587 he committed Fenton to the Marshal have put his hand on him bad he liked to do sea on pretext of a debt of 70/. owing to so. But in a collection of the material points him. But though comr.elled by Elizabeth against Perrot, drawn up by Burghley on instantly to set him at hberty, he seemed to 15 Nov. 1591, O'Rougban's charge finds no have lost all control over h1mself. Only a place, though the substance of it was after few days afterwards he committed the indis wards incorporated in the indictment. Still, if cretion of challenging Sir Richard Bin~ ham, there was no direct evidence of treason against and on 15 May he came to actual blowsm the him, there was sufficient matter to convict council chamber with Sir Nicholas Bagenal. him of speaking disparagingly of the q_ueen. The fault was perhaps not alto~ether on his Notwithstanding Burghley's exertions m his side, but government under the Circumstances favour, there was an evident determination suffered, and in January Elizabeth announced on the part of Perrot's enemies to push the her intention to remove him. matter to a trial, and there is a general concur In .May one Philip Williams, a former rence of opinion in ascribing the pertinacity secretary of Perrot, whom be had long kept with which he was prosecuted to the malice in confinement, offered to make certain reve of Sir Christopher Hatton ( cf. Cal. Swte lations touching his loyalty, and Loftus took Papera, Eliz. Add. 12 l\iarch 1591 ). Accord care that his offer should reach Elizabeth's ing to Sir Uobert Nnunton, who married ears. This was the beginning of the end. Perrot's granddaughter, Perrot had procured 1Villiams was released on bail, not to quit Hatton's enmity by StJMking scornfully of the country without special permission, in him as haYing made h1s way to the queen's J nne; but he steadily refused to reveal his favour 'by the galliard,' in allusion to his information to any one except the 9.ueen her proficiency in dancing. But Naunton was un self. In December Sir William Fitzwilliam aware that Hatton owed him a deeper grudge [q. v.l was appointed lord deputy, but six for having seduced his daughter Elizabeth months elapsed before he arrived in Dublin. (Archaol. Cambr. 3rd ser. xi. 117). Meanwhile, racked with the stone, and feeling After a short confinement in Lord Burgh his authority slipping away from him inch ley's house, Perrot wa11 in March 1591 removed by inch, Perrot's position was pitiable in the to the Tower . .More than a year elapsed before extreme. But it must be said in his favour his trial, and on 23 Dec. he complained that that when he surrendered the sword of state his memory was becoming impaired through on 30 J nne 1588, Fitzwilliam was compelled grief and close confinement. On 27 April to admit that he left the country in a state 1592 he was tried at \Ve11tminster on a charge of profound peace. Shortly before his de of high treason before Lord IIunsdon, Lord parture he presented the corporation ofDublin Buckhurst., Sir Robert Cecil, and other spe with a t~ilver-gilt bowl, bearing his arms and cially constituted commissioners. Aceordmg crest, with the inscription' Relinquo in pace' to the indictment he was charged with con (cf. GILBERT, Cal. Municipal R~rds, ii. temptuous words against the queen, with 220). He sailed on Tuesday, 2 July, for relieving known traitors and Romish priests, Milford Haven, leaving behind him, accord with encouraging the rebellion of Sir Brian ing to Sir Henry Wallop, a memory 'of so O'Rourke (q. v.l, and with treasonable cor hard usage and haughty demeanour amongst respondence with the king of Spain and the his associates, especially oft he English nation, prince of Parma. Practically the prosecution, as I think never any before him in this place conducted by Popham and Puckering, con hath done.' After his departure Fitzwilliam fined itself to the charge of speaking con eomplained that, contrary to the express orders temptuously of the queen. Perrot, who was of tlie privy council, he had taken with him extremely agitated, did not deny that he might his parliament robes and cloth of state. have spoken the words attributed to him, but . Among others a certain Denis Roughan or resented the interpretation placed upon them. O'Roughan, an ex-priest whom Perrot had Being found guilty, he was taken back to the prosecuted for forgery, offered to prove that Tower. lie still hoped for pardon. ' God's he was the bearer of a letter from Perrot to death I' he exclaimed. 'Will the queen suffer Philip of Spain, promising that if the latter her brother to be offered up a sacrifice to t.he would give him Wales, Perrot would make envy of his frisking adversary?' His last will
Digitized by Goog le Perrot Perrot and testament, dated 3 .May 1592, is really a · (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1636-7 p. 398, vindication of his conduct and an appeal for 1639-40 pp. 271, 277). mercy. He was brought up for judgment on ; Before 1656 Perrot joined the quakers, 26 June, but his death in the Tower in Sep- . and was preaching in Limerick. The next tember spared him the last indignities of the year he started, with the full authority of law. A rumour that the queen intended to the quaker body and at ita expense, with one pardon him derh·es some colour from the fact John Love, also an Irishman, on a mission to that his son, Sir Thomas, was restored to his Italy, avowedly to convert. the pope. Perrot estates. Two engraved portraits of Perrot passed through Lyon~, and on 12 Aug. 1607 are in existence, one in the 'History of W or- he was at Leghorn. There he wrote a trea
cestershire,' i. 3ii0, the other prefixed to the 1 tise concerning the Jews, and both tra,·ellers 'Government of Ireland • by E. C. S. (cf. . were examined by the inquisition and dis BRoMLEY). ! missed. In September, diverging from their Perrot married, first, Ann, daughter of ' original route, they reached Athens, whence Sir Thomas Cheyney of Thurland in Kent, · Perrot wrote an' Address to the People called by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Perrot, Baptists in Ireland.' A manuscript copy is who succeeded him, and married, under mys- in the librnry of Devonshire House. He also terious circumstances(STRYPE, Life of Bishop wrote an epistle tot be Greeks from 'Egripos,' Aylmer, and Lansdowne MS. xxxix. f. 172), that is the island of Nt>groponte (now called Dorothy, daughter of \Valter Devereux, earl i Eubrea). Returning to Venice, he inter of Essex. Perrot's second wife was Jane, viewed the doge in his palace, and presented daught.er of Sir Lewis Pollard, by whom ; him with books and an address, afterwards l1e had 'Villiam, who died unmarried at St. printed. A work dated from the Lazaretto Thomas Court, near Dublin, on 8 July 1597; · m Venice indicates either that he had fallen Lettice, who married, first, Roland Lacharn ill or was in prison. Iof St. Bride's, secondly, Walter Vaughan of · On arriving in Rome, probably in 16i"l8, St. Bride's, and, thirdly, Arthur Chichester Perrot and Love commenced preaching fc1 . v .], baron Chichester of Belfast, and lord against the Hom ish church, and were arre@ted. ileputy of Ireland; nnd Ann, who married Love suffered the tortures of the inquisition John Philips. Among his illegitimate chil- and died under them. Perrot, whose zeal dren be had by Sybil Jones of Hadnorsbire n knt~w no bounds, was more appropriately son, Sir James Perrot, separately mentioned, sent to a madhous<>, where he was nllowed and a daughter, who became the wife of some liberty and wrote numerous books, ad David !\I organ, described as a gent Ieman. By dresses, and epistles. These be was suffered Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Hat- to send to England to be printed, and many ton, be bad a dnughter, also called Elizabeth, of them appeared before his release. · His who married Hugh Butler of Johnston. 1 detention excited much sympathy in Eng- [Barnwcll's Notes on tho Perrot Family in ' land. SamuelFiMher(l~ ·j-1655) [ q.v.],.John Archreol. CamLrensis, 3rd ser. l"ols. xi. xii.; ~tubb~. and other friends went h> Home Dwnn's Heraldic Visit>
sectary, born in Ireland, was possibly de- 1 notiongainedgroundrapidly,andwasadopted ~cended, though not legitimately, from Sir for a time by Thomas Ellwood[q. v .] and llen .John Perrot [9; v.], lord-deputy of Ireland. jamin Furly [q. v.l: but Fox at once nttacked It is hardly hkely that he was the John 1t in a tract. issued in 1661 (Journal, ed. 1765, ]>errot. fined 2,0001. in the Star-chamber on p. 332). Perrot was unconvinced, although 27 Jan. 1637, and arraigned before the court many of his friends soon forsook him. He of high commission on 14 and 21 Nov. 1639 1 was indefatigable in preaching his opiniona
Digitized by Goog le Perrot Perrot in various parts of England or Ireland, and well had any friend (brother-like) whom they attracted large audiences. He was arrested, offended turned the sence of them into prose with Luke Howard (1621-1699) [q. v.l, at a when he sent them from Rome.' meeting at Canterbury on 28Aug.1661, and Besides a preface to the ' Collection of Se again at the Bull and .Mouth, Aldersgatt.> veral Books and Writings of George Fox the Street, on a Sunday in .Tune 1662, when he Younger' [see under Fox, GEOROEj, London, was brought before Sir Richard Browne (d. 1662, ~nd edit. 1665, his chief tracts (with 1669) rq. v.J, lord mayor. abbreviated titles) are: 1. 'A Word to the In the autumn of 1662 Perrot and some 'V orld answering the Darkness thereof, con of his followers emigrated to Barbados, cerning the Perfect Work of God to Salva where his wife and children joined him later, tion,' London, 4to, 1658. 2. 'A Visitation and where he was appointed clerk to the of Love and Gentle Greeting of the Turk,' magistrates. He seems to have still called London, 4to, 1658. 3. 'Immanuel the Sal himself a quaker, but gave great offence by vation of Israel,' London, 4to1 1658; re wearing ' a veh·et coat, gaudy apparel, and printed with No. 2 in 1660. 4. (With a sword,' while he was now as strict in ex George Fox and \Villiam !\I orris) 'Severall acting oaths as he had formerly been against "r arnings to the Baptized People,' 4to, 1M9. them. Proceeding on a visit to Virginia, he 5. 'To all Baptists everywhere, or to any induced many quakers there to dispense with other who are yet under the shadows nnd the formality of assembling for worship, and wat'ry ellement, and are not come to Christ otherwise to depart from the judicious rules the Substance,' Loudon, 4to, 1660; reprint I'd laid down by Fox. in 'The 1\listery of Bapt.ism,' &c., 1662. J>errot formed many projects for improving 6. 'A Wren in the Burning Bush, Waving the trade of Barbados by tobacco plantations; the Wings of Contraction, to the Congregated he built himself a large house, surmounted by Clenn Fowls of the Heavens, in the Ark of o. reservoir of water brought from a distance God, holy Host of the Eternal Power, Salu of some miles; he was also presented with tation,' London, 4to, 1600. 7. 'J. P., the a sloop, to carry freight to Jamaica. Rut follower of the Lamb, to the Shepheards his schemes came to no .Practical result. Flock, Salutation, Grace,' &c., London, 4to, He died, heavily in debt, m the island of 1660, 1661. 8. •John, to all God's lmpri Jamaica, some time before October Wi 1. His Roned People for his Names-Sake, whereso wife Elizabeth and at least two children ever upon the Face of the Earth, Saluta sun·ived him. tion,' London, 4to, 1660. 9. 'John, the Perrot's 'natural gifts' were, says Sewel, Prisoner, to the Hisen Seed of Immortal ' great,' and he possessed a rare power of Love, most endeared Salutation,' &c., },on fascination. His following was at one time don, 4to, 1660. 10. 'A Primer for Chil considerable ; but the attempts made by dren,' 12mo, 1660, 1664. 11. 'A Sen of the John Pennymnn rq. v.J and others to give Seed's Sufferings, through which Runs a it permanence faifed. His unbalanced and River of Rich Rejoycing. In Verse,' Lon rhapsodical mysticism caused Fox, with his don, 4to, 1661. 12. 'To all People upon the horror of' ranters' and the warning of James Face of the Earth,' London, 4to, 16m . .Naylor's case fresh in his mind, to treat. him 13. 'Discoveries of the Day-dawning to the as a dangerous foe to order and system within Jewes,' London,4to, 1661. 14. 'An Epistle the quaker ranks. A believer in perfection, to the Greeks, especially to those in and J>errot held that an inspired man, such as about Corinth and Athens,' London, 4to, himself, might even be commanded to com 1661. 15. 'To the Prince of Venice and all mit carnal sin. According to Lodowicke his Nobles,' London, 4to, 1661. 16. 'Rlesse1l Muggleton [q. v.], with whom Perrot had Openings of a Day of good Things to the many talks, he had no personal God, but an Turks. Writt.en to the Heads, Rulers, An indefinite Spirit(Neckofthe Quakers Broken, cients, and Elders of their Land, and whom p. 22). Martin Mason [q. v.], although he de soever else it may concern,' London, 4to, clined to accept his vagaries, celebrated his 1661. 17. 'Beames of Eternal Brightness, or, talents in some lines-' In Memoriam '-pub Branches of Everlasting Blessings; Spring lished in the' Vision.' ing fort.h of the Stock of Salvation, to he Perrot's works were often signed' John, srread over India, and all Nations of the the servant of God,' 'John, called a Quaker,' Earth,' &c., London, 4to, 1661. 18. 'To the and 'John, the prisoner of Christ.' Some are Suffering Seed of Hoyalty, wheresoever Tri in verse, a vehicle of expression o~jected to bulated upon the Face of the whole Earth, by Fox as frh·olous and unbecoming. To the Salutation of your Brother Under the this o~jection Perrot cautiously replied that oppressive Yoak of Bonds,' London, 4t.o, 'he believed he should have taken it dearly 1661. 19. 'A Narrative of some of the
Digitized by Goog le Perrot Perrot Sufferings of J. P. in the City of Rome,' Qllllkers, 1889, p. 1/iO; Beck and Ball's Hist. of London, 4to, 1661. 20. 'Two Epistles.•.. Friends' Meetings, pp. 45, 88 ; Sewel's Hi st. of The one Touching the Perfection of Hu the Rise, &c., ed. 1799, i. 433, (80, (91; Smith's mility. . • . The other Touching the Catalogue, ii. 398-404; Ell wood's Autobiography. Righteous Order of Judgement in Israel,' ed. 1i91, pp. 220-3. Infonnation about Perrot. London, 4to, 1661. 21. 'Battering Rams and hie disciples is to be found in the manu script collection of Penington's Works,ft: 68-62, against Rome: or, the Batte! of John, the at Devonshire House.l C. F. S. Follower of the Lamb, Fought with the Pope, and his Priests, whilst he was a Prisoner in PERROT, ROBERT (d. 1560), organist the Inquisition Prison of Rome,' London, of Magdalen College, Oxford, second son of small 8vo, 1661. 22. 'Propositions to the George Perrot of Ilarroldston, Pembroke Pope, for the proving his Power of Remitting shire, by Isabel Langdale of Langdale Hall Sins, and other Doctrines of his Church, as in Yorkshire, was born at Hackness in the Principles destroying Soules in Darkness, North Riding of Yorkshire. He first ap and undeterminable Death. To Fabius peared at Magdalen College as an attendant Ghisius, Pope, at his Pallace in l\Ionte Ca upon John Stokysley or Stokesley [q. v.], vallo in Roma,' broadside, June 1662. afterwards bishop of London (who was sup 23. 'John Perrot's Answer to the Pope's posed t<1 have been too intimate with his feigned Nameless Helper; or, a Reply to the wife). By one of the witnesses at the visi Tract Entituled, Perrott against the Pope,' tation of Bishop Fox in 1506-7 he is men London, broadside, 1662. 24. 'The Mistery tioned as having condoned the offence for & of Baptism and the Lord's Supper,' London, substantial consideration. In 1510 Perrot 4to, 1662. 25. 'A Voice from the Close or was appointed instructor of choristers, and Inner Prison, unto all the Upright in Heart, in 1515, being about that time made organist, whether the~ are Bond or Free,' London, he applied for a license ' to froceed to the 4to, 1062. !.6. 'To the Upright in Heart, degree of Bachelor of Music. His request and Faithful People of God: an Epistle was granted on condition of his composing written in Barbados,' London, 4to, 1662. a mass and one song, but it does not appear 27. ' Glorious Glimmerings of the Life of from the college register whether he was Lm·e, Unity, and pure Joy. " ' ritten in admitted or licensed to proceed. Tanner, Rome ... 1660, but conserved as in ob however, states that he eventually proceeded scurity until my arrival at Barbados in the doctor of music. lie was not only an emi year 1062. From whence it is sent the nent musician, but also a man of business, second time to the Lord's Lambs by J. 1'.,' and he appears to have been t.rusted by the London, 4to, 1063. 28. 'To all Simple, college in the purchase of trees, horses, and Honest-intending, and Innocent People, various commodities for the use of the col without respect to Sects, Opinions, or dis lege. lie was at one time principal ofTrinity tinguishing Names; who desm•, &c. I send Hall, a religious house before the dissolution, greeting,' &c., London, 4to, 1664. 29. 'The and then converted into an inn. Having ob Vision of John Perrot, wherein is contained tained a lease of the house and chapel from the Future State of Europe . . . as it was the municipality of Oxford, Perrot de shewed him in the Island of Jamaica a little molished them both, and ' in the same place before his Death, and sent by him to a Friend built a barn, a stable, and a hog-stie '("'oon, in London, for a warning to his N o.tive City of O.rford, ed. Peshall, p. 77). About Country,' London, 1682, 4to. A tract, •Some 1530, upon the dissolution of the monas Prophecies and Revelations of God, con teries, he purchased Rewley Abbe;r, near cerning the Christian V\' orld,' &c., 1672, Oxford, and sold the fabric for buildmg ma translated from the Dutch of 'John, a ser terials in Oxford. In 1534 he was receiver vant of God,' is not Perrot's, but by a Fifth general of the archdeaconry of Buckingham monarchy man. ('VILLis, Cathedrals-O.rford, p. 119), and receiver of rent.s for Christ Church, Oxford. [nidden Things brought to Light, &c., printed He was also receiver of rents for Littlemore in 1678, a pamphlet containing lett<>rs by Per Priory, near Oxford. 'He gave way to fate rot in defence of himHtlf; Taylor's Loving and 20April1550,and was buried in the north isle Friendly ln'l'itation, &c., with a brief account of the latter part of the life of J obn Perrot and or alley joining to the church of St.. Peter-in his cud, 4to, 1683; Fox's Journal, ed. 176.), pp. the-East in Oxford' (WooD, Fasti). By his 32.5, 332; 390 ; Rutty's Hist. of Friouds in Ire will (dated 18 Aprill550, and printed in full land, p. 86; The Truth exalted in the Writinga by Bloxam) he left most of his property to his of John Burnyeat, 1691, pp. 32, 33, 60; Besse's wife Alice, daughter of Robert Gardiner of Sufferings, i. 292, ii. 394, 395; Bowden's Hi•t. Sunningwell, Berkshire; and Alice Orpewood, of ~-riends in America, i. 360; Storrs Turner's a niece of Sir Thomas Pope [ q. v. ], founder of
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Trinity College, Oxford. He does not appear 1 fordshire. On 28 Mav 1717 he was admitted in his will to have been a benefactor to his at CaiusCollege, Cambridge, as a scholar, and college (as stated by Wood); but his widow, graduated M.B. in 1722 and M.D. in 1727. -who died in 1588, bequeathed • twenty He was a junior fellow of his college from Rbillings to be bestowed amongst the Pre- .Michaelmas 1723 to Lady-day 1731. On sident and Company' of the foundation. 5 Feb.1728 he also graduated at Leyden. Be Perrot had issue six sons and seven daugh- tween 1739 and 1i42 he travelled m France, ters. Among his sons were: Clement, or- Italy, and the East, visiting Constantinople, ganist of Magdalen College 1523, fellow of Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. On his return Lincoln 1530, rector ofFarthingstone, North- he published his valuable ' View of the Le amptonshire, 154l,and prebendary of Lincoln vant, particularly of Constantinople, Syria, lo.JA; Simon (1514-1584), Fellow of Mag- E~ypt,andGreece,'l743,fol.,illustratedwith dalen 11>33, founder of the Perrots 'on the th1rty-three plates; it was twice tran8lated Hill' of N orthleigh, Oxfordshire ; Leonard, into German, viz., in 1754 (Erlangen, 3 vols. ), clerk of Magdalen in 1533, and founder of the and in li65 (Rostock, 2 vols.) A reissue of second Perrot family of North leigh; and the original, in three quarto volumes, in Robert, incumbent of Bredicot, 'Vorcester- 1770, was dedicated to John Montagu, earl shire, 1562-&5. of Sandwich. Tanner says that Robert Perrot composed Perry appears to have practised as a pby- and annotated 'Hymni Varii Sacri,' while, sician after his return to England in 17 42. according to Wood,' be did compose several He died in 1780, and was buried at the east church services and other matters which end of the nave in Xorwich Cathedral. An have been since antiquated;' but nothing of elderbrotherwasburiedinl795nearthespot. his appears to be extant. The tablet, with a laudatory Latin inscriptiOn, Among the probable descendantsofRobert seems to have been removed, and Blomefield Perrot, tbougli the pedigree in which the sue- misprints the date of death on it as 1730. cession is traced from the Harroldston branch Perry published the following medical is very inaccurate, was SIR RICHARD PERRO'IT works: 1. ' Essay on the Nature and Cure (d.1796), bart., eldest son of Richard Perrott of Madness,' Rotterdam, 1723. 2. 'Enquiry of Broseley in Shropshire. He was in per- into the Nature and Principles of the Spaw sonal attendance upon the Duke of Cumber- Waters ... To which is subjoined a cursory land at Culloden. He then entered the Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Prussian service, and fought in the seven the Hot Fountains at Aix-la-Chapelle,' Lon years' war, obtaining several forei~ decors- don, 1734. 3. 'Treatise on Diseases in tiona, and being employed in var1ous confi- General, to which is subjoined a system dential negotiations by Frederick the Great. of practice,' 2 vols., 1741. 4. 'Account of He succeeded his uncle, Sir Robert, first ba- an Analysis made of the Stratford Mineral ronet, in May 1759, and died in,l796, leaving 'Vater,' Northampton, 1744, severely criti issue by his wife Margaret, daughter of Cap- cised, from a chemical J.lOint of view, by tain William Fordyce, ~ntleman of the bed- William Bay lies [ q. v.l m his 'Short Re chamber to George III (BURKE, Peerage). A marks,' 174•3. 5. 'ME'clianical Account and portrait of Sir Richard was engraved by V. Explanation of the Hysterica Passio, with Green in 1770 (Bnoxr.EY). The scandalous Appendix on Cancer,'1755,8vo. 6. 'Disqui ' Life, Ad ventures, and Amours of Sir R[ich- sition of the Stone and Gravel, with other ard] P[errott],' published anonymously in Diseases of the Kidney,' 1777, 8vo. He also 1770, may possibly be taken as indicating communicated to the Royo.l Society' Experi that the services rendered by the founder of ments on the Water of the Dead Sea, on the the family were of a delicate nature, but was Hot Springs near Tiberiades, and on tho more likely an ebullition of private malice. Ilammarn Pbaroan Water' (Phil. Tran~. [&rnwell's Notes on the Perrot Family, 1867, Abridgment, viii. 505). pp. 80-90; Bloxam's Register of Magdalen [Blome6eld's Hist. of Norfolk (continued by College, Yols. i. and ii. passim; Warton's Life P11rkin), 1805, it'. 197; information kindly enp· of Sir Thomas Pope, 1760. app. p. xxi; Wood's plied by Dr. Venn and the librarian of Caius Fasti, ed. Bliss, i. 42; Tanner's Bibliotheca, College; Peacock's Index of English Students at p. 693.] Leyden; Bib!. Univ. des Voyages, 1808, i. 220 PERRY, CHARLES (1698-17RO), tra- !by G. B. d~ 11\ R_ich~erie); Wat~'s ~~bl. ~rit. veller and medical writer, born in 1698, was 1. 74.7,; Alhbones D1ct. Engl. L1t. 11. lo66; a younger son of John Perry, a Norwich Perrys Works.) G. LB G. N. attorney. He spent four years at Norwich PERRY, CIIARLES (1807-1891), first grammar school, and afterwards a. similar bishop of Melbourne, the youngest son of period at a school in Bishop's Stortford, Hert- John Perry, a shipowner, of Moor Hall, Essex,
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