PEREAM. See PERYAM.
Admitted 9 January, 1590-1.
Second son of Sir John Perrot of Carew, Pembrokeshire. He was born at Harroldston in that county in 1571. He represented Haverfordwest in Parliament in 1604, and took a large part in the debates, particularly in the affairs of the Palatinate (1621). He was knighted by James I. in 1603. He was active in the affairs of his native county, and in 1626 was made Vice-Admiral or representative of the Admiralty there. He died at Harroldston 4 Feb. 1637.
He was a man of literary accomplishments, and in 1596 printed, at Oxford, a book entitled Discovery of Discontented Minds, a work now very rare. He also wrote Meditations on the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments (1630), and a Life of Sir Philip Sidney, which, however, was never printed.
Admitted 30 June, 1739.
Son and heir of Rev. Stackpoole Pery of Limerick, Ireland, where he was born in April, 1719. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1745. In 1751 he was returned for Wicklow, and continued to sit in the Irish Parliament for that and other constituencies till 1785, when he retired from parliamentary life. In Parliament he distinguished himself chiefly by his opposition to the Pension List. In 1771 he succeeded to the office of Speaker, and in the same year was sworn in of the Privy Council. As Speaker, he behaved with great judgment and firmness, and on his retirement he was raised to the Peerage as Viscount Pery, with a pension. He died 24 Feb. 1806. He was the author (anonymously) of Letters from an Armenian in Ireland, published in 1757.
Admitted 28 April, 1553.
Eldest son of John Peryam of Exeter, where he was born. He was called to the Bar in 1565, and to sit as an Associate Master of the Bench 21 June, 1577. Receiving the Serjeants' Coif in 1579, he was appointed a judge of the Common Pleas on 13 Feb. 1581. He was on the commission for the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, and was promoted to the court of the Exchequer as Chief Baron in 1593, over which court he presided till his death in Oct. 1604.
PETITT. See PETYT.
Admitted 27 April, 1567.
Son and heir of Sir William Petre of Ingerstone (Ingatestone), Essex (Secretary of State under Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Mary). He was' knighted in 1576, represented Essex in Parliament 1584 and 1586, and was created Baron Petre of Writtle in 1603. He died at West Horndon 11 Oct. 1613.
