Richard Percivale

[6] 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.

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 parliament for Richmond in Yorkshire, and took some part in commercial matters of trade and revenue, and in the business of the union with Scotland.

[6] In 1610, on Sir William Fleetwood's disgrace as receiver-general of the court of wards, the office was vested in commissioners, of whom Perceval was one.

In 1618 he returned to England to secure his appointment against the claims of a competitor, and, though obliged to resign part of his salary, he saved his post and obtained a discharge of all his debts to the crown.

Much of the preliminary work was done by Dr Thomas D'Oylie, a physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and himself an accomplished linguist in Spanish.