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Richard Percivale

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236: 30: 216:'s disgrace as receiver-general of the court of wards, the office was vested in commissioners, of whom Perceval was one. On the death of his patron Cecil, earl of Salisbury, on 24 May 1612, Perceval lost all his posts in England; but on a new settlement of the court of wards being projected in Ireland, he was made registrar or clerk of the court in 1616. He now sold a major part of his patrimony, and invested in purchases and mortgages in 510: 49: 200:
Success won back for Perceval his father's favour, and he inherited a substantial income from property. At the end of the queen's reign, he was sent to Ireland to see if the court of wards could be extended there with profit to the crown; but his report was unfavourable. In 1603–4 he sat in
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Perceval went to Spain, and lived there for four years till his wife's death; he then returned to England, and vainly sought reconciliation with his father. Through his friend Roger Cave of Stamford, who had married
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Secondly to Alice Sherman, a daughter of John Sherman of Somerset, by whom he had two sons and two daughters including:
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and Elizabeth Wadham. His family had inherited the manor of Sydenham by marriage to the heiress of the prominent
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in Yorkshire, and took some part in commercial matters of trade and revenue, and in the business of the
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Sydenham family, which had originated there, junior branches of which were seated in Somerset at
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Bibliotheca Hispanica, containing a Grammar with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English, and Latin
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Richard Perceval was the author (spelt Richard Percyvall) of the Spanish-English dictionary,
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Firstly to a lady of unrecorded name, by whom he had three sons and two daughters;
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.39, pedigree of Bampfield
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Argent, on a chief indented gules three crosses patée of the field
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Richard Perceval (1556-1621), of Twickenham, Somerset (manner of
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on 4 September 1620, in his sixty-ninth year, and was buried in
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He was the eldest son and heir of George Perceval (c1532–1601) (
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Arms of Richard Percivale: Quarterly 1st & 4th:
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It is dedicated to 74:etc.) (1550 – 4 September 1620) of 402:National Heritage List for England 309:Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 25: 274:John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont 58:Barry nebulée of six or and gules 529:Dictionary of National Biography 508: 450:Dictionary of National Biography 1: 276:, contains unreliable detail. 272:and another, commissioned by 266:History of the House of Yvery 241:Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 189:; and Burghley, when his son 35:Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 493:UK public library membership 463:As inscribed on her portrait 177:who brought him no fortune. 571:16th-century English people 56:(Perceval); 2nd & 3rd: 602: 444:"Perceval, Richard"  397:"Nailsea Court (1129104)" 317:St Bartholomew's Hospital 163:St Paul's School, London 551:English lexicographers 485:10.1093/ref:odnb/21914 244: 231:Marriages and children 165:. 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Index

Richard Percevall

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
lord

Sydenham
Bridgwater
John Minsheu
Sydenham
Bridgwater
Poltimore
Devon
Westcountry
Combe Sydenham
Orchard Sydenham
Brympton D'Evercy
Sydenham baronets
Nailsea Court
St Paul's School, London
Lincoln's Inn
Buckhorn Weston
Dorset
Lord Burghley
Duchy of Lancaster
Robert Cecil
court of wards
Richmond
union with Scotland
Sir William Fleetwood
County Cork

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