Sir James Perrot was a Welsh

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 writer and Member of Parliament

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 (MP).

He was the illegitimate son of Sir John Perrot

John Perrot

Sir John Perrot served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland...

, who was himself rumoured to be an illegitiamte son of Henry VIII. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford

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 in 1586. He became a member of Middle Temple

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 in 1590. When his father died, in 1592, Perrot took legal action to obtain a share of the estate, but he did not obtain as much as he hoped as a result. He wrote Discovery of Discontented Minds (1596) and The First Part of the Considerations of Humane Conditions (1600). He also wrote, in later life, Meditations and Prayers on the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments (1630).

He was Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire

Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Pembrokeshire.* John Vaughan bef. 1544 – bef. 1558* Thomas Cathern bef. 1558 – bef. 1562* Sir John Perrot bef. 1562–1592...

 between 1601 and sometime after 1608. He was knighted in 1603 and was first on the list of aldermen when Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest

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 received its charter at the beginning of the reign of James I

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. He was MP for the borough of Haverfordwest

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 in the Parliaments of 1597–98 (under Elizabeth I

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), 1604–11 and 1614 (under James I). In the 1621 Parliament, he was a prominent critic of the proposed marriage

Spanish Match

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 between Prince Charles

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 and Maria Anna, Infanta of Spain and lost royal favour. He was honourably banished to Ireland with a position in the commission of enquiry being held by Sir Dudley Digges

Dudley Digges

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. He was MP for the county of Pembroke

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 for the 1624–25 Parliament and for Haverfordwest for 1628–29 (under Charles I). He leased the royal mines in Pembrokeshire in 1624. He served as deputy vice-admiral, then vice-admiral, for the Earl of Pembroke. He advocated action against wreckers

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 and the fortification of Milford Haven

Milford Haven

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. He subscribed £37 10s to the Virginia Company

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. Perrot was buried in St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest.