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tertia AngUccma, or the Antiquarian Annals of Stamford 
in Lincoln, Rutland, and Northamptonfhires,” folio. 
His inquiries relative to this objeft led him to extend liis 
refearches 5 and in 1729 lie printed a fheet of “Queries 
concerning the Natural Hiftory and Antiquities of Leicef- 
terfhire and Rutland,” which were reprinted, in 17405 
but, though he made a great progrefs in collecting.mate- 
rials for a work on thole fubjeCts, it never made its ap¬ 
pearance. In 1732 he publilhed the firft volume of the 
work by which he is molt known, entitled “ Defiderata 
Curiofa, or a ColleStion of divers fcarce and curious 
Pieces, relating chiefly to Matters of Englilh Hiftory ; 
conlifting of choice Trafts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, 
Epitaphs, &c.” A fecond volume followed in 1735 ; and 
the whole was reprinted in one 4-to. volume in 1779, by 
Mr. Thomas Evans. This collection has been quoted 
by later biographers and antiquaries. In 1735 he dif- 
played his induftry in “A complete Catalogue of all the 
Difcourfes written both for and againlt Popery in the 
Time of King James the Second and in 1739 l ,e edited 
“ Nineteen Letters of the truly reverend and learned 
Henry Hammond, D.D.” Two volumes in 4to. came 
from his fertile pen in 1740 : one entitled “Memoirs of 
the Life and ACtions of Oliver Cromwell, as delivered in 
three Panegyrics of him written in Latin ; with a Col¬ 
lection of divers curious hiftorical Pieces, relating to 
Oliver Cromwell and a great Number of other remark¬ 
able Perfons;” the other, “New Memoirs of the Life 
and Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton,” with a great 
variety of critical illuftrations and other additions. This 
was the lalt of his publications. Plis life and labours 
terminated together in 1743. He left behind him a great 
number of materials for nine different works which he 
had in contemplation. Of his MSS. the greater part 
came into the poffeffion of fir Thomas Cave, of which 
the mod valuable were five vols. in 4to. fairly written 
out for the prefs, under the title of “ Monafticon Angfli- 
canum, Supplements novis adauCtum,” and particularly 
relating to the Prasmonftratenfian order in England. 
Thefe were prefented to the Britifh Mufeum in 1779, by 
the laft fir Thomas Cave. Nichols's Anecd. of Bowyer. 
New Biogr. Di€t. 
PECK'ELSHEIM, a town of Weftphalia, in the bifliop- 
ric of Paderborn : fifteen milCs fouth-eaft of Paderborn. 
Lat. 51/ 34. N. Ion. 9.15. E. 
PDCK'ER, f. One that pecks.—-A kind of bird : as, 
the wood-pecher. 
The titmoufe and the pecker's hungry brood, 
And Progne with her bofom ftain’d in blood. Dryden. 
PECK'HAM, a hamlet in the parifli of Camberwell, 
hundred of Brixton,and county of Surrey, is fituated at 
the diftance of 4^ miles fouth-fouth-eaft from St. Paul’s 
cathedral. In Domefday book, the manor is mentioned 
as belonging to Batterfea, and being the property of Odo 
bifhop of Bayeux, haif-brother to the Conqueror. At a 
later period it appears to have been divided into two 
manors, called Bredinghurft and Bafynges, from perfons 
of that name who poflefled them in the reigns of king John 
and Edward I. The manor of Bredinghurft is novv 
vetted in the widow of William Shard, efq. but the ma- 
nor-houfe has been lately demoliflied, and the fcite let on 
buiiding-leafes. At Peckham are meeting-houfes for 
the Anabaptifts.and Prefbyterians. Here is annually held 
a large fhow-fair during the fummer feafon : hence the 
common faying, “ All holiday at Peckham.” It is held 
on the 2ill, 22d, and 23d, days of Auguft; and fucceeds 
that of Camberwell, which concludes on the 20th. Peck¬ 
ham. has recently been embellifhed by many gentlemen’s 
feats; and a new and neat chapel has been ereCted. The 
houfes have been greatly augmented of late years. Here 
is a whimfical building, called the Folly, which, at Lome 
diftance, forms a confpicuous object. The number of 
inhabitants in 1821 was 6419. 
The parifli of Camberwell is bounded by the parifli of 
Newington-Butts, St. George’s Southwark, and Rother- 
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hitlie, on the eaft; by Deptford and Beckenham, in Kent, 
on the fouth; by Croydon, and a detached part of Bat¬ 
terfea, on the weft; and by Lambeth on the north. At 
the time of the Domefday furvey it comprehended one 
manor only, which was held of the Conqueror by Haimo, 
the fheriff; but it was foon afterwards 1 divided, and 
eventually became feveral diftinCt manors, called Cam- 
berwell-Buckingham, Milkwell, Camberwell-Frerne or 
Fryen, Dowdale or Uredale, and Deptford Strand. There 
were alfo two inferior manors, Camberwell and Cold- 
Abbey, both of them held of Camberwell-Buckingham. 
The land iji this parifli is moflly poffeffed of great ferti¬ 
lity, and, exclufive of the fcites of the houfes, is laid out 
in nearly an equal proportion between arable, pafture, 
and gardens. 
The village of Camberwell is difiant about three miles 
and a quarter from St. Paul’s cathedral. The church 
here was ereCted about the commencement of the reign 
of Henry VIII. and confifts of a nave, chancel, and two 
aides, with a fmall embattled tower at the weft end ; the 
whole compofed of flints and rough done, except the 
fouth-weft part, which is of brick. The chancel is of a 
very fingular fliape, being the feCtion of a hexagon. In 
the eaft window of the north aide are feveral full-length 
figures painted upon glafs : thefe are now much muti¬ 
lated, as well as the infcription beneath, which however is 
fufficiently entire to inform us, that they were intended 
to reprefent fome members of the Mufcamp family, who 
had their burying-place in this aide. There are befides, 
in the fame window, two imperfeCt reprefentations of fe¬ 
male faints. This church contains many monuments of 
the Scotts, Bowyers, and others who have been interred 
within its walls. In the parifh-regifter here are feveral 
very curious entries : one of which records an inftance 
of a woman bearing a child at the age of fixty-three. In 
this parifhare feveral charity-fchools, which are fupported 
chiefly by fubfcription, except the free grammar-fchool. 
This was founded and endowed by the Rev. Edward 
Wilfon, in the reign of James I. and now affords educa¬ 
tion to twelve boys. But the chief charitable foundation 
of which it has to boaft is Dulwich-College, fituated in the 
hamlet whence it derives its name. Camberwell parifli 
contains, according to the population returns, 2060 
houfes, and 11,309 inhabitants. See Dulwich, vol. vi. 
PECK'LED, adj. [corrupted from fpecltled.'] Spotted ; 
varied with fpots.—Some are pechled, tome greenilli. Wal¬ 
ton's Angler. 
PECK'WACKET. See Pigwacket. 
PECK'WELL (Dr. Henry), a very eminent Englidi 
divine, and popular preacher among the Calviniftic Me- 
thodifts, born 1747, died 1787, having palled an aCtive life 
in the exercife and promotion of charity. He was founder 
ofacharitable inftitution called“The Sick Man’s Friend,” 
whofe objeCt is, to relieve the bodily^ wants of the fick 
poor of every denomination, and to convey knowledge 
and inftruCtion to the mind. Jones's Biog. 
PEC'ORA,/. [from pecus, Lat. cattle.] In zoology, 
the fifth order of the clafs Mammalia, which fee, vol. 
xiv. p. 236. 
PEC'ORGUS, adj. Abounding in cattle. Cole. 
PEC'QUENCOURT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the North, on the Scarpe : five miles eaft of 
Douay. 
PEC'QUET (John), a diftinguifhed anatomift, was a 
native of Dieppe. He ftudied phyfic at Montpellier, at 
which place, in 1647, he made accidentally the difeovery 
of the receptacle of the chyle and the thoracic duCt, 
which has rendered him famous. He took the degree of 
M. D. at Montpellier; and afterwards came to Paris, where 
he employed himfelf in anatomical refearches, with 
Mattel and other able men. It was in 1651 that he firft 
made known his difeovery, which may rank among the 
molt brilliant acceffions to fcience of that age. It was 
publifhed in a work entitled, “ Experimenta nova Ana- 
tomica, quibus incognitum Chyli Receptaculum, et ab eo 
per thoracem in ramos ufque fiibclavios Vafa LaCtea de- 
5 Y teguntur.” 
