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PEN 
In. attacking Che hierarchy it was determined that he 
ihould die; and archbiftop Whitgift was the firft man 
who figned the warrant for his execution. The treat¬ 
ment of him in his laft moments, likewife, was as unfeel¬ 
ing and cruel as his fentehce was unjuft. After the war¬ 
rant had been figned, it was immediately fent to the 
fheriff, who, on the very fame day, gave directions for 
ereCting a gallows at St. Thomas Waterings, and, while 
the priloner was at dinner, fent his officers to bid him 
prepare to die that afternoon. Accordingly, he was 
carried in a cart to the place of execution ; and, when he 
came thither, the fheriff would not permit him to fpeak 
to the people, nor to make any profeffion of his faith to¬ 
wards God, or of his loyalty to the queen; but ordered 
him to be turned off in a hurry, on the 29 th of May 1593, 
when he was in the thirty-fourth year of his age. 1 , 
His learning and piety are highly extolled by his 
friends ; and Mr. Strype fays of him, that “ he was well 
difpofed to religion, but miftaken in his principles, and 
very hot in his temper; and fo became bufy in church- 
controverfies, to his own deftruCtion. He had ftudied 
the arts and the tongues, and attained to fome know¬ 
ledge and learning therein.” He had connected himfelf 
with that branch of the Puritans denominated BrowniJ'ts, 
who maintained the difeipline of the Church of England 
to be popiffi and anti-chriftian, and all her ordinances 
and facraments invalid ; and who held, that every fociety 
of Chriftians meeting in one place conftituted an inde¬ 
pendent church, having full power within itfelf to ad¬ 
mit and exclude members, to choofe and ordain officers, 
and, when the good of the fociety required it, to depofe 
them, without being accountable to claffes, convoca¬ 
tions, fynods, councils, or any jurifdiCtion whatfoever. 
Befides the articles already noticed, Mr. Penry was the 
author of, 3. An Appellation to the High Court of Par¬ 
liament, from the bad and injurious Dealing of the 
Archbifhop of Canterbury, and other his Colleagues of 
the High Commiffion, 1589,8vo. 4. Dialogue, wherein is 
plainly laid open the tyrannical Dealings of the Lords 
Bifhops againft God’s Children, 1589,410. 5. A Treatife, 
wherein is manifeftly proved, that Reformation, and 
thofe that fincerely favour the fame, are unjuftly charged 
to be Enemies to Her Majefty and the State, 1590, 4to. 
Wood's At/ien. Oxon. v ol.i. Neal's Hijl. Pur it. vol. i. ch. 
6 and 8.—The learned and venerable Dr. Rees, editor of 
the New Cyclopedia, traces his genealogy, by the maternal 
branch, to the family of Mr. Penry. 
PENRYN', a borough and market-town in the pariffi 
of St. Gluvias, and county of Cornwall, is fituated three 
miles from Falmouth, on the fide of a hill, and bank of 
a river, called the King’s Road, which unites with Fal¬ 
mouth harbour. The town formerly poffeffed a college, 
which, according to Leland, was caftellated, and had 
three ftrong towers: parts of this were lately to be feen, 
but are now enveloped by modern buildings. The ma¬ 
nor was an appendage to the fee of Exeter; and the town 
appears to have been made a borough by one of the bi¬ 
fhops towards the end of the reign of Edward I. anno 
1270. Three weekly markets are held, Wednefday, Fri¬ 
day, and Saturday; and three fairs annually, viz. May 
12, July 7, and December 21. 
Penryn is exceedingly well watered, having ftreams of 
water running through it, and being bounded by a 
ftreain on each fide. Upon thefe Itreams are four 
grift-mills and a paper-mill; and in the town are 
three very good porter and beer breweries. This 
place is the granary of the fouth-weft of the county, 
the warehoufes for flour and grain being very numerous, 
and the fupply from the Ifle of Wight and Hants being 
confiderable. An extenfive woollen-manufa&ory was 
once fet on foot near the old abbey-lands of Glafney, 
but for want of proper management did not fucceed. 
From the peculiar Situation of the town, it poffeffes an 
extenfive fiffiery. 
The principal ftreet of Penryn is fpacious and airy; 
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and thereare many very good houfes. Tile market-houfe, 
which is alfo ufed as a town-hall, (lands near the middle 
of the principal ftreet, from which others diverge at right 
angles. In the population returns of the year 1821, 
Penryn is dated to contain 2933 perfons. There is no 
church within the borough ; but the inhabitants attend 
divine fervice at the village of St. Gluvias, on the oppo- 
fite fide of the river, where the fituation of the church and 
parfonage-houfe is exceedingly beautiful. Lillo’s “ Pen¬ 
ryn Tragedy,” which title Colman changed to “Fatal 
Curiofity,” was founded in truth ; the horrid feene was 
really afled at this village of St. Gluvias. 
This borough never fent members to parliament till 
the ill of Mary, and was incorporated by James I. in the 
18th year of his reign. A new charter was granted by 
James II. which veiled the eleftion of members in the 
magirtracy only ; but this they refufed to accept. A 
cuftom is faid to have prevailed here for the fteward of 
the bifliop of Exeter, who is lord of the manor of this 
borough and its forrens, or out-borough, to fend his 
precept to the portreve, or mayor, to return two elizors, 
or principal men of the place, who were to eleft twenty- 
two more, to make up a jury upon all law court-days, to 
execute the town-bufinefs, and choofe the members; 
but this has been long rejected. The (heriff’s precept is 
ftill directed to the portreve, who for many years has 
been the fame perfon who executed the office of mayor. 
Under the charter of James I. the corporation confifts 
of a mayor, eleven more aldermen, and twelve burgeffes, 
with power to choofe a recorder, fteward, town-clerk, 
two conftables, and two mace-bearers. The right of 
election is in the inhabitants at large who pay fcot and 
lot. Returning officer, the mayor, who is alfo portreve. 
Number of voters, 140. 
In 1784, this borough was under the joint influence 
of the duke of Leeds, and fir Francis Baffet, now lord 
de Dunftanville ; but an agreement was faid to have been 
entered into between thefe two noblemen not to interfere 
in each other’s boroughs of Hellion and Penryn ; in con- 
fequence of which, lord de Dunftanville became foie pa¬ 
tron of the latter borough. His lordlhip’s intereft was 
however difturbed at the general election in 1802, by 
John Milford, of Exeter, efq. and Henry Swan, efq. who 
oppofed his lordfhip’s nomination of the late fir Stephen 
Lufhington and fir John Nicholl, and obtained a majo¬ 
rity of legal votes upon the poll. A number of names 
however were by fome means intruded into the poor- 
rate the night before the eleftion, and admitted the next 
day to vote, which made the numbers on the poll appear 
as follow; 
Sir Stephen Lufhington 94 I John Milford, efq. 8t 
Sir John Nicholl . . 89 j Henry Swan, efq. 62. 
A petition was accordingly prefented againft the return, 
and actions for bribery to an enormous amount were 
commenced ; but a compromife was afterwards effe£ted 
before either of them came to trial; for which the in¬ 
jured party is faid to have received ten thoufand pounds 
befides having all their expenfes reimburfed. Lord de 
Dunftanville, to whom many of the voters are tenants 
upon leafes for lives, has ftill the controling intereft in 
this borough ; but Mr. Swan has continued one of its 
members. His eleftion, however, in the laft parliament 
of the late king, which met in Jan. 1819, was declared 
void on account of bribery and corruption, which were 
proved to fuch an extent, that a bill was moved in the 
houfe by fir C. Burrell, to disfranchife the borough, and 
to admit the freeholders of the adjoining hundreds of 
Penrith and Ferrier to the right of voting. The bill was. 
not perfilted in ; but Mr. Swan was profecuted at the in- 
ftance of the houfe, and at the enluing affiles for Corn¬ 
wall, held at Bodmin in July, was fuliy convidted, and 
fentenced to a year’s imprifonment. We may juft men¬ 
tion that, about the fame time, fir M. M. Lopez, bart. 
member for the borough of Grampound, was lentenoed, 
7 -E upon 
