PARKINS (PERKINS), Sir Christopher (c.1543-1622), of the Gatehouse, Lambeth Palace, Surr.; formerly of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, London and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.; later of Cannon Row, Westminster

Family and Education

b. c. 1543, s. of one Perkins of Reading, Berks. educ. Winchester 1555, aged 12; Oxf. BA 1565; Rome 1566, DCL (Rome) c.1570; G. Inn 1597.T.F. Kirby, Winchester Scholars, 133; Al. Ox.; Eng. and Welsh Jesuits ed. T.M. McCoog (Catholic Rec. Soc. lxxv), 265; GI Admiss. m. lic. 5 Nov. 1617, Anne, da. of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leics., wid. of James Brett (d.1616) of Hoby, Leics., s.p. London Mar. Lics. ed. J. Foster, 1045; Vis. Leics. (Harl. Soc. ii), 170-1, 206; PROB 11/128, f. 163v. Ordained [Jesuit] 1575, discharged 1581. Eng. and Welsh Jesuits, 265. Kntd. 23 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 114. bur. 1 Sept. 1622 1 Sept. 1622. Reg. Westminster Abbey ed. J.L. Chester, 119. sig. Ch[ristopher] Parkins.

Offices Held

Envoy, Denmark and Poland 1588–9; Cott. Nero B.II, ff. 172–4, B.IV, f. 29; HMC Hatfield, iii. 411. amb. Denmark, Poland and the Baltic 1590 – 91, Germany and Holy Roman Empire 1593, Poland 1594 – 95, Denmark (jt.) 1598, 1600. Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives comp. G.M. Bell, 30, 31, 59, 138, 214.

Dean, Carlisle 1596–d. J. le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, iii. 246; C66/1455/49.

Acting Latin sec. 1596 – 1601, Latin sec. 1601–3; APC, 1601–4, p. 179; C66/1550/4. commr. piracy 1599, 1601; C66/1511 (dorse); 66/1554, m. 10 (dorse); CSP Dom. 1598–1601, pp. 147, 271. master of Requests (extraordinary) 1603 – 17, (ordinary) by Jan. 1618–d.; APC, 1601–4, p. 499; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 131. commr. naval inquiry 1608–9. Jacobean Comms. of Enquiry ed. A.P. McGowan (Navy Recs. Soc. cxvi), 2.

Member, Doctors’ Commons 1605. G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 167.

Freeman, Clothworkers’ Co. aft. 1605; PROB 11/140, f. 176. member, Virg. Co. 1609. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 464.

Parlimentarian

PARKINS (PERKINS), Sir Christopher (c.1543-1622), of the Gatehouse, Lambeth Palace, Surr.; formerly of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, London and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.; later of Cannon Row, Westminster

Main residences: the Gatehouse, Lambeth Palace, Surr.; St. Christopher-le-Stocks, London; Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.; Cannon Row, Westminster.

Perkins

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S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

PARKINS (PERKINS), Sir Christopher (c.1543-1622)

Will

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Oxford 1644

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