Thomas Perrot

[9] Shortly thereafter Perrot was again imprisoned in the Fleet for his secret marriage to Dorothy Devereux, one of the Queen's ladies in waiting.

In the following year Perrot's father, who had been appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, sought to have Perrot appointed as Master of the Ordnance; however the post went to Sir George Carew, who had the backing of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

[1] In April 1588 Perrot, George Owen, his fellow Deputy Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, and other members of the local gentry were occupied with measures to defend Milford Haven against a landing by the Spanish Armada, and in October of that year Perrot reviewed levies from Wales preparing to defend against a possible landing by the remnants of the Armada in Ireland.

[1] In 1590 Perrot was removed from the Deputy Lieutenancy of Pembrokeshire, allegedly at the behest of Sir Christopher Hatton, who is said to have been his 'unremitting foe'.

In 1592 his father, Sir John Perrot, was convicted of treason and attainted, and died in the Tower of London, not without suspicion that he had been poisoned.

Despite the attainder, Perrot claimed his father's estate, and by an Act of Parliament in March 1593, which was 'rushed through both Houses in four days', Perrot was restored in blood through the efforts of his brother-in-law, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, inheriting Haroldston Mansion and Laugharne Castle together with of the rest of his father's estates with the exception of Carew Castle, which was taken by the Crown.