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Pewsey. Town of Wiltshire, 

 England. On the Avon near the 

 Kennet and Avon canal, llm. from 

 Maryborough, it is served by the 

 G.W. Rly. The old church of S. 

 John the Baptist has been restored. 

 It is an agricultural centre. The 

 valley in which it lies is called the 

 vale of Pewsey. Pop. 1,700. 



Pewter. Alloy at one time very 

 largely used for the manufacture of 

 drinking vessels, flagons, salt cel- 

 lars, trays and plates, inkpots, etc. 

 Its preparation in Great Britain 

 was more or less regulated for many 

 generations by the Pewterers' 



Bibliography . 

 Old Pewter, M. 

 Bell, 1906; 

 Pewter Marks 

 and Old Pewter 

 Ware, C. A. 

 Markham, 1909 ; 

 Pewter Plate, 

 H. J. L. Masse, 

 2nd ed. 1910; 

 Silver, Pewter, 

 Sheffield Plate, 

 F. W. Burgess, 

 1921; The Pew- 

 ter Collector, 

 H.Jenkins, 1921. 



Pewterers' 

 Company, THE. 

 London city 

 livery com- 

 pany. With a 

 history going 



Peyotl. Species of spineless cac- 

 tus (Lophophora williamsii), with 

 a large, parsnip-like root. Aztecs 

 cut this root into transverse slices, 

 to be powdered, and ate it, or took 

 it in drink, with religious ceremony, 

 under the name of teonanacatl, or 

 " flesh of God." Under its influence 

 the consumer saw visions, and was 

 said to have the power of pro- 

 phecy. Similar ceremonial use of 

 the plant is made in the present 

 day by various Indian tribes in 

 Oklahoma. 



Peyton, SIR WILLIAM ELIOT (b. 

 1866). British soldier. Born May 

 22, 1866, he entered the 7th Dra- 

 goon Guards in 1885, first saw ac- 

 tive service in 1896 in the Sudan ; 

 was in the Sudan campaign of 1897 

 and 1898, being there wounded and 

 winning the D.S.O. ; and served in 

 the S. African War. From 1903-7 

 he commanded the 15th Hussars, 

 and from 1908-12 a cavalry bri- 

 gade in India. During the earlier 

 stage of the Great War Peyton 

 served in Gallipoli, and he was 

 then transferred to Egypt. There 

 he commanded the force that de- 

 feated the Senussi and reoccupied 

 Sollum early in 1916. From Egypt 

 he went to France, and was. May, 

 1916, to April, 1918, military sec- 

 retary at genera! headquarters, 

 and in 1922 military secretary to 

 the secretary for war. 



Pewter. 1. Examples of church pewter : (A) Chalice, Edinburgh, 1794 ; (B) Flagon, Musselburgh ; (C) and (O) Early 



chalices ; (E) Scottish flagon. 2. Dish with gilded boss, temp. Charles I. 3. Pear-shaped pint measure, Glasgow. 



4 and 6. Flagons. 5. Inkstand with two wells and wafer box. 7. German flagon 



From The Pewter Collector, by courtesy of Herbert Jenkins 



Company of London. While the 

 composition of pewter has varied 

 very much, the commonest variety 

 consists of about 80 p.c. tin and 20 

 p.c. lead ; a class known as "trifle" 

 pewter has tin 79 parts, antimony 

 15, and lead 6 ; while a " plate " 

 pewter is made without lead at all, 

 and consists of tin 90 parts, anti- 

 mony 7, bismuth 2, and copper 

 1 part. As a metal pewter is soft, 

 somewhat resembling tin in colour, 

 but duller and darker. Owing to 

 the risk of poisoning by lead through 

 the constant use of pewter its 

 use has been restricted. Old pewter 

 is a favourite subject of collectors 

 of rare objects. See Alloy; Bri- 

 tannia Metal. 



back to the middle of the 14th cen- 

 tury, its first charter was granted 

 hi 1474, arms being allowed in 



. 1479. It formerly 



had rights of 

 search and assay. 

 The first hall, in 

 Lime Street, 

 E.G., was built 

 in 1497, and de- 

 stroyed in the fire 



Pewterers' 

 Company arms 



of 1666, was re- 

 built 1678, again 

 burnt in 1840, 



and then rebuilt a second time. 



Its corporate income is 5,250 ; 



trust income, 232. See History 



of the Pewterers' Company, C. 



Welch, 1902. 



Pezenas. Town of France. In 

 the dept. of Herault, it stands on 

 the Peyne, near the mouth of the 

 Herault, about 25 m. S.W. of 

 Montpellier. There is a trade in 

 wines and spirits, and there are 

 iron-foundries, oil and brandy re- 

 fineries, and tanneries. Moliere 

 wrote his Pre"cieuses Ridicules here. 

 Pezenas is the Gallic Piscennae. 

 Pop. 7,000. Prow. Paiznah. 



Pezinek. Town in the Slovakia 

 division of the Czecho-Slovak re- 

 public, formerly called Bazin (q.v. ). 



Peziza. Genus of fungi of the 

 natural order Discomycetes. They 

 are fleshy, brittle, cup-shaped, or 

 saucer-shaped fungi, with their 

 spore-producing cells immersed in 



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