PARKINS (PERKINS), Christopher (c.1545-1622), of London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1543. educ. Winchester 1555; Oxf. BA 1565; DCL presumably abroad. m. 1617, Anne, da. of Anthony Beaumont of Glenmore, Leics., wid. of James Brett of Hoby, Leics., s.p. Kntd. 1603.HMC Hatfield, vi. 122; Chester, Reg. Westminster Abbey, 119.

Offices Held

Intelligence agent in Poland 1588/9; envoy to Poland, Prussia, and the princes of Eastland 1590, to Denmark 1591, 1592, to the Empire 1593, to Denmark 1598 and 1600.CSP Ven. 1592–1603, pp. 78 n, 83, 99, 116, 410 n; HMC Hatfield, iii. 411; iv. 324; v. 90–1; viii. 187, 235; x. 129; CSP Dom. 1581–90, p. 664; 1591–4, pp. 138, 232; 1595–7, p. 64; 1598–1601, pp. 54–5, 57, 130, 134, 135, 415.

Dean, Carlisle 1596; master of requests extraordinary 1598; member of two commissions for piracy 1599; Latin sec. 1601; commr. suppressing unauthorized books 1603; member, Doctors’ Commons ?1605; master of requests 1617; member, Clothworkers’ Company. Chester, 119; W. B. J. Allsebrook, ‘Court of Requests in reign of Eliz.’ (London MA thesis 1936), pp. 28–30, 34; CSP Dom. 1598–1601, pp. 147, 271; APC, xxxii. 179, 499; Chamberlain Letters ed. McClure, i. 323; PCC 84 Savile; DNB.

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 residence: London.

Author

N.M.S.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

PARKINS (PERKINS), Christopher (c.1545-1622)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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