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Three miles from Peel is Tinwald Mount, where the 
Manks parliaments and great councils were convened, 
and where alfo the fuperior courts held judicial proceed¬ 
ings at Hated periods. It is an artificial eminence of 
very lingular appearance, and of unknown antiquity. 
According to fome etymologifts, its name is a com¬ 
pound of the Danifh word tin or ting, fignifying an af- 
fembly or meeting, and wald, a field or fenced place. 
Modern authors, however, derive it from the Britilh 
words tyng and val, fignifying “The Juridical Hill.” 
The approach to the fummit of this mount is by a flight 
of turf fteps on the eaftern'lide : the diameter at the top 
is about feven feet, and three feet below it is an annular 
plot four feet wide, which is fucceeded by another fix 
feet broad, and this by a third ftill wider. The circum¬ 
ference of the outer circle is nearly eighty yards; all the 
angles are rounded, and almoft the whole furface is of 
turf. 
At a fliort diftance from the Tinwald is a fmall chapel 
dedicated to St. John, rebuilt about fourteen years ago, 
after the model of the former chapel, which had fallen 
completely to ruin. But it has no pews, never being 
tiled for divine fervice except on the day of the promul¬ 
gation of the laws. Woods's IJle of Man , p. 151-162. 
PEEL OF FOU'DREY, a little illand near the illand of 
Walney and the town of Dalton in Lancalhire. Here 
Hand the remains of an ancient caftle; concerning the 
foundation, ufe, and diffolution, of which, there are no 
records extant: all is conjecture. It appears to have been 
a ftrong fortification, and furrounded by two ditches ; 
the walls are how as firm as the folid rock; it may be 
feen at many miles difiance on the fea, and ufed to be a 
good land-mark till a light-houfe was lately erefted on 
the fouth end of the illand of Walney. The port of Peel 
of Foudrey is very large and commodious, and would 
float a large man-of-war at low water. Upon the main 
land, oppofite the illand, is fituate Rampfide, a molt de¬ 
lightful village, and excellent place for lea-bathing. 
Willies's Britijh Directory, vol. v. 
PEE'LAS, a fmall illand in the Sooloo archipelago. 
Lat. 6. 32. N. Ion. 121. 45. E. 
PEELE (George), a dramatic writer who flourilhed in 
the reign of queen Elizabeth, was a native of Devonlhire. 
He became a Undent of Chrifi-Church college, Oxford, 
about the year 1573, and was admitted M. A. in 1579. 
After this he removed to London, where he became 
the city-poet", and had the ordering of the pageants. 
He lived on the Bank Side, over againft Black Friars ; 
and maintained the eftimation in his poetical capacity 
which he had acquired at the univerfity, and which feems 
to have been of no inconfiderable rank. He was a good 
pafioral poet; and Wood informs us, that “his plays 
were not only often ailed with great applaufe in his life¬ 
time, but did alfo endure reading, with due commenda¬ 
tion, many years after his death.” The titles of the 
plays written by this author, of which five’only are 
known, are, i.The Arraignment of Paris, 1584. a. Ed¬ 
ward the Firft, 1593. 3. The Old Wives’ Tale, 3 comedy, 
1595. 4. The Love of King David and Fair Bethfabe, a 
tragedy, 1599. 5. The Turkilh Mahomet and Hirers the 
Faire Greek. Wood and Winftanley, mifguided by 
former catalogues, have attributed to him another trage¬ 
dy, entitled, Alphonfus, Emperor of Germany. But this, 
Langbaine afi’ures 11s, was written by Chapman, he him- 
lelf having the play in his pofleflion, with that author’s 
name to it. 
About the year 1593, Peele feems to have been taken 
into the patronage of the earl of Northumberland, to 
whom he dedicated, in that year, “The Honour of the 
Garter, a Poem Gratulatorie ; the Firftling confecrated 
to his noble name.” He was almofi as famous for his 
tricks and merry pranks as Scoggan, Skelton, or Dick 
Tarleton ; and, as there are books of theirs in print, fo 
there is one of his, called “ Merrie conceited Jells of 
George Peele, Gent, fome time Student in Oxford; where- 
P E E 
in is fhewed the Courfe of his Life, how he lived, &c. 410. 
1627.” Thefe jells, as they are called, might with more 
propriety be termed the tricks of a lharper. Peele died 
before the year 1598. Meres, in his Wit’s Treafury, p. 
286, fays, “,As Anacreon died by the pot, fo George Peele 
by the pox.” Oldys fays, he left behind him a wife and 
a daughter. He feems to have been a perfon of a very ir¬ 
regular life; and Mr. Stevens, with great probability, 
fuppofes that the character of George Pieboard, in The 
Puritan, was defigned as a reprefentative of George Peele. 
An extradl, with fome remarks on Peele and his Merrie 
conceited Jells, will be found in the lalt number of the 
Gent. Mag. for 1820. and the account there given agrees 
in the main with what we have extrailed above from the 
Biographia Dramatica. 
PEE'LER, /’. One who ftrips or flays.—A robber; a 
plunderer.—As ’tis a peeler of land, fow it upon lands that 
are rank. Mortimer. 
Yet otes with her fucking a peeler is found, 
Both ill to the maillerand worfe to fome ground. Tuffer. 
PEE'LING,_y’. The outward rind, that which is peeled 
off. 
PEE'LING, a town on the north part of New Hamp- 
fhire : eighty miles north-weft of Portfmouth. 
PEEM, a town of the duchy of Holftein : nine miles 
weft of Huytyn. 
PEEMDAHAT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Ruttunpour : twenty-five miles north-north-eall 
of Dumdah. 
PEENANG', Pinang, or Pu'lo Pinang. See Prince 
of Wales’s Island. 
PEE'NDA,./. A cake prefented at the Hindoo temples 
as an offering on account of the dead: which ceremony 
is performed on the days of the new and full moon. 
Roberts's Indian Gloffary. 
PEENE, a river of France, which joins the Yperlee at 
Fort Kenoque. 
PEENE, a river which runs into the Baltic a little to 
the weft of the illand of Ufedom. This river, for a confi- 
derable part of its courfe, feparates Hinder Pomerania 
from Anterior Pomerania. Lat. 54. 10. N. Ion. 13. 50. E. 
PEE'NEMUNDE SCHAN'Z, a town and fort in the 
illand of Ufedom, which it commands entirely, as it does 
alfo the entrance and mouth of the Peene, near which it 
Hands : fix miles north of Wolgaft. Lat. 54. 10. N. Ion. 
13. 48. E. 
PEE'NPACK, a town of New-York, in Orange county: 
twenty-five miles weft of Newburgh. 
To PEEP, v. n. [derivation unknown.] To make the 
firft appearance.— Printing and letters had juft peeped 
abroad in the world ; and the rellorers of learning wrote 
very eagerly againft one another. Atterbury. 
The timorous maiden-blofioms on each bough 
Peept forth from their firft bluflies ; lb that now 
A thoufand ruddy hopes fmil’d in each bud, 
And flatter’d every greedy eye that Hood. Cra/haw. 
Earth, but not at once, her vifage rears, 
And peeps upon the feas from upper grounds. Dryden . 
Fair as the face of nature did appear, 
When flowers firft peep'd, and trees did blofloms bear. 
And winter had not yet deform’d th’ inverted year. 
Dryden. 
The increafing profpefl tires our vvand’ring eyes : 
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arile. Pope. 
To look fiily, clofely, or curioufly ; to look through any 
crevice.—Thofe remote and vail bodies were formed not 
merely to be peept at through an optick giafs. Bentley's 
Serm. —Who is the fame, which at my window peeps’! 
Spenfer. 
Come thick night! 
That my keen knife fee not the wound it makes; 
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark. 
To cry hold. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
Nature 
