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found in P.R.O., E.211/393C. The second is a quitclaim by William Hubert alias Hoskyn of property enfeoffed to him by his late master Thomas Perrot esquire, to William Perrot son of the above dated 21 September 1474. The original can be found in P.R.O., E.211/ 393D but there exists a copy (possibly dating from the late sixteenth century) in P.R.O., E.101/524/6 m. 1-2. The third document from which a full transcription was made concerns the last will and testament of John Perrot of Morton-on-Lugg, founder of the Herefordshire Perrots, dated 28/9 June 1526 which can be found in P.C.C., PROB., 11/22. However, if the author is to be identified as Robert Perrot then the aforementioned will may have already been in his possession forming part of his family's ° private archive. 32 Robert's son and heir Herbert followed his father to Brasenose College where he matriculated in February 1634 aged 16. J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxoniensis: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714 (4 vols, Oxford, 1891-2), vol. III, 1149. 33 Fortune was the daughter of Richard Tomkins of Monington (d. 1603) and the widow of Walter Pembridge of Mansel. Pembridge was still alive in July 1610 but had evidently died some time before 2 July 1611 when the marriage settlement of his widow was confirmed and properties conveyed to her new husband Robert Perrot of Morton. B.C.R.L., Cal. of Hampton Coll., 435: 484507; P.W. Hasler (ed.), History of Parliament: The Commons, 1558-1603 (3 vols, London, 1981), III, 196; B.D. Henning (ed.), ibid., 1660-90 (3 vols, London, 1983), III, 228-9. J. Price, An Historical Account of the City of Hereford (Hereford, 1796), 257. 34 In his will dated 23 March 1638 Francis Perrot (d. 1642) refers to his two surviving elder brothers John and Robert to whom he intended to bequeath £ 1 and £ 10 respectively, within a year of his death. P.C.C., PROB., 11/190. It is possible that John may have been either incapacitated or handicapped in some way. 35 For details of Cranfield's life and career, see M. Prestwich, Cranfield: Politics and Profits under the Early Stuarts (London, 1966). 36 In his absence on business to Middelburg in 1600 Cranfield entrusted the running of his affairs in London to Perrot. M. Prestwich, Cranfield., 53, 120-1; Historical Manuscripts Commission, Calendar of Manuscripts of Lord Sackville of Knole, ed. F.J. Fisher (2 vols, London, 1966), I, 30, 39; II, 149. 37 M. Prestwich, Cranfield, 50-1. 38 Ibid., 53; H.M.C., Sackville/Knole, vol. I, 228-9; II, 22. 39 M. Prestwich, Cranfield, 328, 375. 40 A. R. Wagner, English Genealogy, 317, quoting Augustine Vincent, A Discoverie of Errours in the first Edition of the Catalogue of Nobility Published by Ralph Brooke, York Herald (1622). 41 L. C. Hector, The Handwriting of English Documents (3rd edn, Dorking, 1988), 16. 42 The Life was originally published in volume one of The Cambrian Register in 1796. Ibid., (3 vols, London, 1796-1818), I, 49-144. A new edition of the Life with copious notes and valuable commentary has recently been published, see R. A. Griffiths, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, 142-3. 43 The Latin transcriptions of the records tend to be fuller in the pedigree than those in the Life. For examples of the Latin transcriptions, see R.A. Griffiths, ibid., 162, 168. 44 R. A. Griffiths, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, 173 and n. 8. There are two references to Perrot in the Life given here in full; 'This gentlewoman (as I find in the collection of one Perrot, of Herefordshire), was daughter to Francis, second sonn to Phillip, Duke of Burgundie' and 'Perrott likewise says, she was one of the Maides of Honour to Queene Katherin, in her time, who was Dowager to Henerie the Fifth'. Since Lewys Dwnn, but possibly also the herald Thomas Jones of Fountaingate (d.1607), alone refers to a marriage between