James Perrot

, natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland, was born in Pembrokshire, became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll. in 1586, aged 15, left it without a degree, retired to the Inns of Court for a time, and afterwards travelling, return’d an accomplish’d Gentleman, lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire, was dub’d a Knight, and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the raign of King James 1. in which shewing himself a frequent and bold, if not a passionate speaker, especially in that dissolved 6. January 19. Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbred among the ill temper’d spirits therein (as the King usually call’d them) he was not imprison’d in London or Southwark as some of them were, but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment, joyned in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesties service, as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil, as in point of revenue and otherwise, within that Kingdom. He hath written,

The first part of the consideration of humane conditions, wherein is contained the moral consideration of a mans self: as what, who, and what manner of man he is. Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic. to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellour of the Univer. of Oxon, Whether any other parts followed, I know not.

Meditations and Prayers on the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements.—Printed 1630. in tw. besides other things which I have not yet seen. He ended his days at Haroldston before mention’d on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six,1636-37. and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west, to which place Haroldstone adjoyns. This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her.