3. PAYNE, William, i. 317. PEARCE, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, Johnson, sends etymologies to, i. 292; iii. 112; writes the dedication to his posthumous works, iii. 113; wishes to resign his bishopric, iii. 113, n. 2; mentioned, i. 135. PEARSON, John, Bishop of Chester, edits Hales's Golden Remains, iv. 315, n. 2; Johnson recommends his works, i. 398. PEARSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 471; iv. 142, 256. PEATLING, i. 241, n. 2. PEERS, creations by Pitt, iv. 249, n. 4; influence in the House of Commons, v. 56; interference in elections, iv. 248, 250; judges, as, iii. 346; Temple's proposed reform, ii. 421. See HOUSE OF LORDS. PEKIN, v. 305. PELEW ISLANDS, v. 276, n. 2. PELHAM, Fanny, iii. 139, n. 4. PELHAM, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick's Ode on his Death, i. 269; pensions Guthrie, i. 117, n. 2; Whiggism under him and his brother, ii. 117. PELISSON, i. 90, n. 1. PELLET, Dr., iii. 349. PEMBROKE, eighth Earl of, 'lover of stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1. PEMBROKE, tenth Earl of, Boswell visits him, ii. 371; iii. 122, n. 2; Johnson's bow-wow way, describes, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1; author of Military Equitation, v. 131. PENANCE in churches, v. 208. PENELOPE, v. 85. PENGUIN, v. 225. PENITENCE, gloomy, iii. 27. PENN, Governor Richard, iii. 435, n. 4. PENNANT, Thomas, Bach y Graig, v. 436, n. 3; bears, ii. 347; Bolt Court and Johnson, mentions in his London, iii. 274-5; Fort George described, v. 124; rents racked in the Hebrides, v. 221, n. 3; Tour in Scotland, praised by Johnson, iii. 128, 271, 274, 278, v. 221; censured by Percy, iii. 272; and Boswell, iii. 274; v. 222; Voltaire, visits, i. 435, n. 1; a Whig, iii. 274-5; v. 157. PENNINGTON, Colonel, v. 125, 127. PENNY-POST. See POST. PENRITH, ii. 4, n. 1; v. 113, n. 1. Pensioner, defined, i. 294, n. 7, 374-5. PENSIONS, defined, i. 294, 374-5; French authors, given to, i. 372, n. 1; George III's system, ii. 112; Johnson, conferred on, i. 372-7; not for life, i. 376, n. 2; ii. 317; nor for future services, i. 373, n. 2, 374; ii. 317; not increased after his Pamphlets, ii. 147, 317; proposed addition, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348-50; 367-8; attacked, i. 142, 373, 429; ii. 112; iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 116; in parliament, iv. 318; Beauclerk's quotation in reference to it, i. 250; effect of it on Johnson's work, i. 372, n. 1; on his travelling, iii. 450; effect had it been granted earlier, iv. 27; entry in the Exchequer Order Book, i. 376, n. 2; 'out of the usual course,' iv. 116; Johnson unchanged by it, i. 429; Strahan his agent in receiving it, ii. 137. PENURIOUS GENTLEMAN, a, iii. 40. PEOPLE, the judges afraid of the, v. 57. PEPYS, Sir Lucas, iv. 63, 169, 228. PEPYS, Samuel, Lord Orrery's plays, v. 237, n. 4; Spring Garden, iv. 26, n. 1; tea, i. 313, n. 2. PEPYS, William Weller, account of him, iv. 82, n. 1; Johnson, attacked by, iv. 65, n. 1; over-praised by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 82; attacked again, iv. 159, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 228, n. 1; iii. 425. Perce-forest, iii. 274, n. 1. PERCEVAL, Lord (second Earl of Egmont), i. 508; iv. 198, n. 3. PERCEVAL, Lady Catharine, v. 449, n. 1. PERCY, Earl, iii. 142, 276-7. PERCY, Dr. Thomas, Dean of Carlisle, afterwards Bishop of Dromore, Alnwick, at, ii. 142; anecdotes, full of, v. 255; Boswell, letter to, i. 74; Dean of Carlisle, made, iii. 365; 'very populous' there, iii. 416, 417; death, on parting with his books in, iii. 312; dinner at his house, iii. 271; Dyer, Samuel, describes, iv. 11, n. 1; Easton Maudit, rector of, i. 486; iii. 437; Goldsmith and the Duchess of Northumberland, ii. 337, n. 1; epitaph, settles the dates in, iii. 81; lodgings, i. 350, n. 3; quarrels with, iii. 276, n. 2; visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3; Grainger's character, draws, ii. 454, n. 1; reviews his Sugar-cane, i. 481; admires it, ii. 454, n. 2; 'Grey Rat, the History of the' ii. 455; Hawkins, draws the character of, i. 28, n. 1; heir male of the ancient Percies, iii. 271; Hermit of Warkworth, ii. 136; Johnson attacks him about Dr. Mounsey, ii. 64; about Percy's calling him short-sighted, iii. 271-3; Percy's uneasiness, iii. 275; Boswell's friendly scheme, iii. 276-8; at variance for the third time iii. 276 n. 2; conversation, iii. 317; first visit to Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1; Garrick's awe and ridicule of, i. 99, n. 1; method in writing his Dictionary, i. 188, n. 2; parodies his poems, ii. 136, n. 4; 212, n. 4; praises him in a letter to Boswell, iii. 276, 278; projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1; questions his daughter about Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 238, n. 5; serves him in his Ancient Ballads, iii. 276, n. 2; visits him, i. 49, 486; Vision of Theodore, i. 192; Levett, account of, iii. 220, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; loses by a fire, iii. 420; neglected parishes, iii.

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