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Pace was held in high efteem by the learned men of his 
time, particularly fir Thomas More and Erafmus, the 
latter of whom llyles him “ utri'ufque literatures calen- 
tiflimus,” and addrefled more letters to him than to any 
one of his learned friends and correfpondents. Stow, in 
his Annales, under the year 1521, calls him “ A right- 
worthy man, and one that gave in counfel faithful advice ; 
learned he was alfo, and endowed with many excellent 
parts and gifts of nature; courteous, pleafant, and de¬ 
lighting in mufic; highly in the king’s favour, and well 
heard in matters of weight.” Pace learned languages 
with extraordinary facility; and not only lpoke leveral 
of the modern tongues, but underftood Latin, Greek, 
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic. Camden, in his Remains, 
under the head of “ Wife Speeches,” relates the follow¬ 
ing anecdote of him: “ A noble man of this time, in 
contempt of learning, faid, that it was for noble men’s 
fons enough to wind their horn, and carry their hawk 
fair, and to leave ftudy and learning to the children of 
mean men.- To whom the forefaid Richard Pace replied. 
Then you and other noblemen mull be content that your 
children may wind their horns, and keep their hawks, 
while the children of mean men do manage matters of 
ellate.” The firll work which he publilhed treats of the 
benefits which are derived from learning, under the title 
of “ De Fruclu qui ex Dodrina percipitur Liber,” 1517, 
4to. and dedicated to dean Colet. This book was written 
by our author at Conlfance, while he was amballador in 
Swilferland ; and, fince he took the opportunity of in¬ 
veighing againft drunkennefs as a great obftacle to the 
attainment or knowledge, the people of that place, who 
were too much addidted to that pradice, coniidered it 
intended to refled upon them; they therefore procured a 
keen anfwer to it to be written, apologizing for them- 
felves, and their cuftoms in drinking. Our author’s next 
printed work, in order of time, was “ Oratio Pace nuper- 
rime compofita et Foedere percuflo inter Henricum An¬ 
glia: Regem, et Francorum Regem Chriftianiflimum, in 
/Ede Pauli Londini habita,” 1518, 4to. This was fol¬ 
lowed by, 3. Epillolas ad Edvardum Leeum, et ad Eraf- 
mum Rot. 1520, 4to 4. Praefatio in Eccleliallicen recog- 
nitum ad Hebraicam Veritatem, et Collatum cum Tranfla- 
tione LXX. Interpretum, et Manifefta Explicatione Cau- 
farum Erroris ubicunque incidit, 4to. 5. ExemplumLi- 
terarum ad regem Henricum VIII. An. 1526 ; inferred in 
Robert Wakefield’s Syntagma de Hebrasorum Codicum 
Incorruptione. 6. A treatife, in 1527, againft the unlaw- 
fulnefs of the king’s marriage with the widow of his brother 
prince Arthur, in which he very honeftly delivered his 
opinion relating to the divorce, without any apprehenfion 
of giving offence. Pace was alfo. the author of feveral 
tranflations, and, among others, one from Englilh into 
Latin of the Sermon of Filher biftiop of Rochefter, 
preached on the day when the writings of Luther were 
publicly burnt, printed at Cambridge, 1521, 4to. and a 
tranflation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch’s piece De 
Commodo ex Inimicis capiendo. Pitjevs de Illuji. Ang. 
Sciipt. Wood's Athcn. Or on vol. i. 
PA'CED, adj. Having a particular gait: 
Revenge is lure, though fometimes {\ow]y pac’d; 
Awake, awake, or fleeping, lleep thy laft. Dryden. 
Perfed in paces; fpoken of horfes, and thence applied to 
perfons, but generally in a bad fenfe, as thorough-paced .—• 
She’s not paced yet; you mull take fome pains to work 
her to your manage. Shahefpeare's Pericles. 
PA'CEM, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Sumatra, the capital of a kingdom of the fame name, de¬ 
pendent on Acheen. It contains about 50.0 families : 120 
miles fouth-eaft of Acheen. 
PA'CER, f. One that paces.—A horfe that is perfed in 
his paces.—His horfe too, which was a pacer, was adorned 
after the fame airy manner, and feemed to fhare in the 
vanity of the rider. Spe&ator, N° 104. 
PACH'A. See Bashaw, vol. ii. 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1233. 
PACHACA'MA, or Pachacamac, a town of Peru, 
in the audience and jurifdidion of Lima, fituated in a 
Valley of the fame name. This valley is about twelve 
miles fouth from Lima, and was celebrated before the 
conqueft of Peru, on account of a temple dedicated to 
the Sovereign Creator of all things, whom the yncas 
called Pachacamac. Pizarro is faid to have taken from this 
temple an immenfe quantity of gold, befides what the fol- 
diers had pillaged. It is thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Lima. Lat. 12. 30. S. 
PACHAMAC'LI, a town of European Turkey, in 
Romania: forty miles fouth of Filippopoli. 
PACHE'A, a final 1 ifland in the Bay of Panama. 
PACHE'CO (Francifco),a Spanilh painter, who owes his 
celebrity more to the ingenuity and talents of his fcholars 
Cano and Velafquez, and to his theory and writing, than 
to his fuperiority as an artift. He was the pupil < 5 f Luis 
Fernandez ; but, though partial to the great ftyle, does 
not appear to have ftudied it in Italy. With fufficient 
corrednefs of outline, judgment in compolition, dignity 
of character, propriety of coftume, obfervance of chiaro- 
fctiro, and perfpedive, Pacheco difpleafes by want of co¬ 
lour, timidity of execution, and drynefs of ftyle. Seville 
poftefles the bell of his hiftoric performances; of his nu¬ 
merous portraits, thofe of his Wife and Miguel Cervantes 
were the rnoft praifed. As a man of literature, he poflefl’es 
confiderable erudition, and wit and humour as a writer 
of epigrams. Fufeli's Pilkington. 
PACHE'QUE, a fmall ifland on t^lae fouth-weft fide of 
the Bay of Panama. 
PACHER'RY, a town of Mecldey : ninety miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Munnypour. 
PACHE'TE, a circar of.Bengal, bounded on the north 
by Curruckdeah ; on the eaftby Burwan and Biffunpour; 
on the fouth by Midnapour, and on the weft by Si 1 lee, 
Tomar, and Ramgur: about feventy miles long, and from 
twelve to forty broad. Rogonatpour is the capital. 
PACHE'TE, a fort of Bengal, which gave name to the 
above circar: fix miles north-eail of Rogonatpour. Lon. 
86. 55. E. 
PA'CHI, or Pa'gi-hou'TOC, a town of Thibet: fe¬ 
venty miles fouth-eaft of Hami. 
PACHI'CA, a town of Peru, in the government of 
Buenos Ayres, on the coall: 100 miles weft of Lipes. 
Lat. 22. S. 
PACHI'NUS, or Pachynus, now Pajjaro, a promon¬ 
tory of Sicily, projeding about two miles into the fea, in 
the form of a peninfula, at the fouth-eaft corner of the 
ifland, with a fmall harbour of the lame name. 
PACHI'RA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Trux- 
illo, fix miles north of Payta. 
PACHI'RA, / in botany. See Cauolinea. 
PACHITE'A, a river of South America, which joins 
the Maranon at 8° 26', and is efteemed the mpft beautiful 
of all its tributary ftreams. It rifes in io° 46', firll run¬ 
ning eaft, then north, and in the early part of its progrefs 
it is called the Pozitzu, efpecially at its confluence with 
the Mayro, where it forms a noted haven, from which 
there is an open navigation to the Maranon. 
PACFIIUT'LA, a town of Mexico, in the province 
of Tlafcala. 
PACHO'MIUS, a faint in the calendars of the Greek 
and Latin churches, and the inftitutor of the cenobitic 
life in the fourth century, was a native of Thebais, or 
Upper Egypt, and born of Gentile parents, wdio educated 
him in their religion. When he was twenty years of age, 
he was forced to bear arms in the war of Conllantine 
againft Maxentius, and by that means had the firll op¬ 
portunity of meeting with many Chriftians, whofe ex¬ 
traordinary hofpitality and kindnefs to himfelf and fome 
of his fellow-foldiers in dill refs, made a powerful im- 
preflion upon his mind. No fooner, therefore, was the 
war at an end, than he ;i ade it his bufinefs to enquire 
particularly concerning the principles and manners of this 
fed ; with which he was fo well fatisfied, that he became 
Z z a convert 
