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PEN 
Two Satyrs giving Wine to Bacchus; Leda drawing Ar¬ 
rows from Cupid’s Quiver; Sufannah at the Bath furpri- 
fed by the Elders; all of which are from Roffo. But the 
four following are from Primaticcio : Abraham facrifi- 
fing Ifaac ; The Marriage of St. Catharine; Jupiter meta- 
morphofing Califto into a Bear; and Penelope at work 
with her women ; and are of folio dimenfions. 
PENNIG'EROUS, aclj. [from the Lat penna, a wing, 
and gero, to carry.] Winged, feathered. Cole. 
PENNIGON'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Rajamundry : thirty-eight miles eaft of Rajamundry. 
PENNING, f. [from To pen.] Written work; com- 
pofition.—Read this challenge; mark the penning of it. 
Shakefpeare's Tw. Night. —I may the better be encouraged 
to go on with my plain manner of penning, though it be 
unpolifhed. Bryjliett's Difc. of Civ. Life. —How (hall he 
be thought wife, whofe penning is thin and (hallow ? 
li. JonforCs Difcoveries. 
PEN'NINGTON, a town of Lancafhire, with 1739 in* 
habitants, including 441 employed in trade and manu- 
faftures : ten miles north of Warrington. 
PEN'NINGTON, or Pennytown, a pleafant and 
flourifliing village in Hunterden county, New Jerfey, 
nine miles weft of Princeton, containing a church and 
about forty-two houfes. 
PEN'NINGTON (Ifaac), a member of the fociety of 
Friends, or Quakers, and a confiderable writer among 
that people, was the fon of an alderman of London, w'ho 
repeatedly filled the office of chief magiftrate, was a no¬ 
ted member of the long parliament, and nominafed one 
of the judges of king Charles I. though he did not take 
his feat among them. Ifaac was born about the year 
1617; and, having the profpedl of fucceeding to a large 
eftate, he was furnifhed with the means of obtaining the 
belt education. As he grew up, he had, from his father’s 
fitnation in life, opportunities of mixing with forne of the 
moft confiderable men of the age; and, if he had been of 
an ambitious turn of mind, he might have occafionally 
indulged hopes of rifing very high in the world. But 
from a very early age he was under ftrong religious im- 
preftions ; and, as he grew up to manhood, difcovered 
an increafing attachment to retirement, ferious contem¬ 
plation, and the reading of the Scriptures. While he 
was in this ftate of mind, he met with fome of the wri¬ 
tings of the Friends; “which,” fays he, “I call: an 
eye upon, and difdained, as falling very (liort of that wifi- 
dom, light, life, and power, which I was fearchingafter.” 
There was, however, fomething in them that roufed his 
attention, and he went to one of their public meetings 
at which George Fox preached, whofe dilcourfe produced 
on him a fudden and complete converfion to the princi¬ 
ples of the new fe£f. From this time he joined the foci- 
cty, in oppofition to the influence of his connexions, as 
well as unmoved at the profpedt of reproaches and lolles 
to which his profeflion would unqueftionably expofehim. 
In the years 1661 and 1662, Mr. Pennington was called 
forth to be a confeftor for the profeftion which he had em¬ 
braced. For the crime, as it was called, of holding 
meetings for the worfhip of God in his own houfe, he 
was committed to Aylefbury gaol, where he was kept in 
clofe cuftcdy for feventeen weeks, great part of which 
was in the winter feafon ; and, to aggravate the (everity of 
his treatment, he was confined in a cold and very incom¬ 
modious room, without achimney, by which cruel ufage 
he contracted fo violent a diforder, that forfeveral weeks 
after his releafe he was not able to turn himfelf in his 
bed. From this time till the year 1670, he buffered fix 
different imprifonments. Thefe repeated calamities, to¬ 
gether with heavy pecuniary Ioffes, arifing, in many in- 
ltances, from the oppreffive fines which were levied upon 
him, Mr. Pennington fuftained with firmnefs and ferenity, 
believing himfelf to be a fufferer for obeying God rather 
than man. With the fame equanimity and fortitude he 
bore the attacks of a painful diftemper, which terminated 
his life in the year 1679, in the 63d year of his age. His 
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character procured him the refpe&and efteem of all good 
men, as it exhibited an excellent pattern of piety, virtue, 
and the ftri&eft morality. He was moft faithful in the 
difcharge of all the duties of life ; and was author of nu¬ 
merous writings, which were highly prized by the people 
with whom he affociated. They were collected and pub- 
lifhed in a folio volume in 1681. They have fince been 
reprinted in 4to. and 8vo. and in the year 1796 fome of 
his Letters were publifhed. Bevan's Memoirs of Penning¬ 
ton, 1807. 
PEN'NINGTON (Lady), wife of fir Jofeph Penning¬ 
ton, bart. of Water Hall, Yorkfhire. Family mifunder- 
ftandings having feparated this lady from her children, 
(he wrote for their ufe “ An Unfortunate Mother’s Ad= 
vice to her Abfent Daughters ;” a work of great merit, 
and which all parents ought to put into the hands of 
their female offspring. Lady P, died Sept. 3, 1783. Jones's 
Biog. 
PENNISE'TUM, f. [from the Lat. penna, a feather, 
and feta, a bridle.] A name given by Richard in Perf. 
Syn. i. 72. and Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. i. 195. to the 
fpecies of the firft divifion of the genus Panicum. The 
name alludes to the feathery ftructure of the briftles 
which compofe the involucrunt. See Panicum. 
PEN'NON, or Penon, /l A ftandard with a triangular 
tail, anciently borne before knights bachelors who brought 
a certain number of followers into the field. Some 
inftances occur of pennons being carried before efquires ; 
but they were only fuch as poffeffed certain eftates or fiefs, 
or who could bring a fufficient fuite of vaffals into the field. 
The pennon was in figure and (ize like a banner, which 
was fmalland of afqttare figure, with the addition of a tri¬ 
angular point. They w'ere charged with the armorial bear¬ 
ing of their owner. On the performance of any gallant 
a&ion by the knight and his followers, the pennon was 
converted into a banner by the king, or commander-in¬ 
chief, cutting off the point, by which the knight was 
railed to the degree of a banneret. Both knights and 
bannerets were bound to appear in the field at the head 
of a certain number of men, whence ancient hiftorians 
frequently exprefs the ftrength of an army by the num¬ 
ber of banners and pennons of which it confided. 
PEN'NOT (Gabriel), an Italian canon-regular of the 
order of St. Auguftine, in the 16th and early part of the 
17th century. Of his perfonal hiftory we are furnifhed 
with no other particulars than that he was a. native of 
Verona, and flourifhed under the pontificate of pope Ur- 
ban VIII. that he diftinguifned himfelf by his learning, 
and by his virtues; and that, on account of his extraor¬ 
dinary merits, he was chofen to fill the moft important 
and honourable offices belonging to his congregation. 
Befides fome theological and controverfial works, he 
wrote a curious hiftorical account of the order of which 
he was a member, which will be of ufe to the ecclefiafti- 
cal hiftorian, and claims for the author this brief notice 
in our pages. It is entitled, “ Generalis totius Ordinis 
clericorum canonicorum Hiftoria tripartita,” and was 
pubiifned at Rome in 1624, and reprinted at Cologne in 
1645. Gen. Biog. 
PENN'SBOROUGH (Weft), a town of America, in 
Cumberland county, Pennfylvania ; famous for a remark¬ 
able flow of water from a ridge of lime-done, called The 
Big Spring, which, after turning fix mills, difcharges it- 
felf through Conidogwinnet-creek into the Sufquehanna. 
Population, 2635. 
PENN'SBOROUGH (Eaft), a townfliip of the fame 
county, containing 1264 perfons. 
PENN'SBURY, a fmall town of Pennfylvania, in Buck’s 
county, on a fmall creek of Delaware river. This was a 
manor which Mr. Penn referved for himfelf, where he 
built a houfe, and planted orchards and gardens; which, 
with many additional buildings and improvements, (till 
continue. 
PENNSYLVANIA, one of the principal provinces of 
the United States of America, extending in length 228 
3 and 
