Volume 11

A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

  • Hugh James Rose
Date:
1853
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    I* E A The work by which lie is best known is his Complete Gentleman, 4to, 1022, and reprinted in 1627, 1634, 1054, and 1001. This last edition received some improve- ments in the heraldic part from Thomas Blount, author of the Jocular Tenures. It treats of “ nobilitic in generall; of dig- nitie and necessitie of learning in princes and nobilitie; the time of learning; the dutie of parents in their children’s edu- cation; of a gentleman’s carriage in the universitie; of style in speaking, writing, and reading history ; of cosmography ; of memorable observation in the survey of the earth ; of geometry; of poetry; of musicke; of statues and medalls; of drawing and painting in oyle; of sundry blazonnes both ancient and modern ; of armory or blazing armes; of exercise of body; of reputation and carriage; of travaile; of warre; of fishing.” His other works are, Minerva Britannica, or a Gar- den of Heroical Devises; this is a collec- tion of emblems in verse, with a plate to each; The Period of Mourning, in memory of the late Prince. Together with Nuptial Hymnes in honour of this happyMarriagebetweene Frederick Count Palatine and Elizabeth Daughter of our Sovereigne; A most true Relation of the Affairs of Cleve and Gulick; Thalia’s Banquet; The Valley of Varietie; The Duty of all true Subjects to their King; as also to their native Country in Time of Extremity and Danger; The Worth of a Penny, or a Caution to keep Money; with the Causes of the Scarcity and Misery of the want thereof, in these hard and merciless Times; as also how to save it, in our Diet, Apparel, Recrea- tions, &c.; this was often reprinted; The Gentleman’s Exercise; or, an Exquisite Practise as well for Drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraiture, as also the making of Colours for Limning, Painting, Tricking, and Blazoning of Coats of Arms, &c. 1630, and 1634, 4to. All these are works of considerable merit, Peacham being a man of general knowledge, good taste, and acute obser- vation, and were very popular during the seventeenth century. His Complete Gen- tleman particularly was in high estima- tion with the gentry of that age. Sir Charles Sedley, who had been guilty of an offence against good manners, and was indicted for it, was asked on his trial by the chief justice, Sir Robert Hyde, whether he had ever read the Complete Gentleman ? PEACOCK, or PECOCK, (Reynold,) an English prelate, was born, ns is sup- posed, in Wales, about 1390, and edu- cated at Oriel college, Oxford, of which he was chosen fellow in 1417. Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, the protector, invited him to court. In 1431 he was elected master of the college of St. Spirit and St. Mary, founded by Sir Richard Whit- tington ; and he was also appointed to the rectory of St. Michael in Riola, now St. Michael Royal, in Tower Royal, in Vintry ward, which he resigned in 1444, on being promoted to the bishopric of St. Asaph. In 1447 he preached a ser- mon at Paul's Cross, in which be main- tained that bishops were not under obli- gation to preach or to take the cure of souls, and that their duties consist entirely in the various acts of church government. In 1449 he was translated to the see of Chichester, and now began to express opi- nions which were ill suited to the times in which he lived. Although he had taken great pains both in his preaching and writings to defend the established church against the disciples of Wickliffe, now called Lollards, he gave it as his opinion, that the most probable means of reclaiming them was by allowing them the use of their reason, and not insisting on the infallibility of the Church. These opinions gave great offence ; and in 1457 the archbishop of Canterbury issued his mandate, ordering all persons to appear who had any thing to allege against the bishop of Chichester; and his books being foimd to contain various heretical opi- nions, he read a recantation, first in the archbishop’s court at Lambeth, and after- wards at St. Paul’s Cross, where his books were burnt, as the}’ also were at Oxford. He was likewise deprived of his bishopric, and confined in Thorney abbey, in Cam- bridgeshire, where it is supposed he died about 1460. His Treatise of Faith was published by Wharton in 1688, 4to. He appears to have been a man of learning, and an acute reasoner; and he was one of the first who contended against the infallibility of the Romish church, and in favour of the Holy Scriptures as being the principal guide in matters of faith. In 1744 the Rev. John Lewis, of Mar- gate, published The Life of this prelate, which forms a sequel to the Life of Wickliffe, and is a useful introduction to the history of the English reformation. PEARCE, (Zachary.) a learned pre- late, and distinguished classical scholar, the son of a distiller in Holborn, was born in 1690, and educated at a private school at Ealing, at Westminster school, under Dr. Busby, and at Trinity college
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