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Thomas Perkins ( - c. 1610 or 1620)

Amateur historian and antiquary in the time of Queen Elizabeth and likely associated with the building of Fishlake Hall in 1610. Possibly in the same year, according to the sale catalogue of Ralph Thoreby's collection, Perkins produced a manuscript containing "The Pedigrees and Arms of the Nobility, drawn by Perkins of Fishlake, about the Year 1610 or 1620, the Coats of Arms handsomely express'd" (17).

In his 6 May 1698 diary entry, Abraham de la Pryme records borrowing “[a] book of the arms and pedegrees of many of the Yorkshire nobility and gentry: Collected by Thomas Perkins, of Fishlake, Esq.” from a Mr. John Hall, a local minister who married a Sarah Perkins, relative of one Thomas Perkins, an associate of Ralph Thoresby (180-81). In the same entry, Pryme mentions another work by the same Perkins: “Of the antiquity of Ensigns and Armes, to which is joined a cata[logue], of the Creation of the Nobility of every King since the Conquest to Queen Elizabeth’s days” (181). Relevant locations: Lived at or near Fishlake, Yorkshire
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Fishlake Hall.
as Mentioned or referenced by - Musæum Thoresbyanum. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of that well known antiquarian the late Ralph Thoresby, Gent. F. R.S. Author of Ducatus Leodiensis ... All which will be sold by auction, by Whiston Bristow, Sworn Broker, at the Exhibition Room, Spring Gardends, Charing Cross, On Monday March 5th, and the Two Following Days, beginning punctually at 12 o'Clock. To be viewed on Thursday March 1st, and the following Days, Sunday excepted. Catalogue to be had gratis at the Place of Sale, and of W. Bristow [Publisher of the Public Ledger] St. Paul's Church yard, who sells by Commission Estates, Medals, Books, Pictures, Curiosities, Stocks in Trade, and Household Furniture.
as Mentioned or referenced by - The Diary of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary.
 References in Documents:
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 37 The Pedigrees and Arms of the Nobility, drawn by Perkins of Fishlake, about the Year 1610 or 1620, the Coats of Arms handsomely express'd