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Religious houfes were frequent in this county; fome 
of which ftill exhibit fine fpecimens of ancient archi¬ 
tecture. At Culrofs are the ruins of a Ciftertian abbey, 
founded in 1217 by Malcolm earl of Fife; and at 
Scone was a celebrated Auguftine monaftery. The cathe¬ 
dral of Dunblane Hands on an eminence above the town ; 
and part of it is kept in repair as the parochial church. 
That of Dunkeld is one of the fineft piles of ancient buil¬ 
ding in Scotland, and is now undergoing a thorough re¬ 
pair. It is of mixed architecture, having been ereCted at 
different periods. 
Perth, Scone, and Abernethy, having been early royal 
refidences, were each adorned with (lately palaces, which 
are now entirely demolifiied. Thofe of the two firft men¬ 
tioned towns fell a prey to the fanatical fury of the re- 
formifts. Many caftellated manfions, however, yet exift 
in different diftriCts of the county, and would be well 
worthy of defcription, would our limits allow. The 
molt remarkable among them are Caftle Campbell, Fin- 
lanrig Caftle, Caftle Comrie, Doune Caftle, Ballumbri 
Caftle, Garth Caftle, Elcho Caftle, Kinnaird Caftle, Gow- 
rie Houfe, Murthly Houle, Kinfaun’s Caftle, Macbeth’s 
Caftle of Dunfinnan, Hunting-Tower, orRuthven Caftle, 
Balloch Caftle; Blair Caftle and Dunkeld Houfe, feats of 
the duke of Athol; Taymouth Caftle, feat of the earl of 
Breadalbane; Dupplin Caftle, of the earl of Kinnoul ; 
and Dunira, belonging to lord Melville. Some of thefe 
are in ruins; and fome have been fo much modernized as 
to alter in a great tneafure their original appearance. 
Beauties of Scotland, vol. iv. Ency . Brit. Supplement. 
PER'TI (Gio. Antonio), a compofer of church-mufic 
alia Paleftrina, was born in 1656. With his theatrical 
ftyle we are unacquainted; but, as he long continued to 
be employed, not only for the operas of Bologna, but Ve¬ 
nice and other cities of Italy, we may reafonably imagine 
that it was good. Paolucci has printed a good duet by 
this matter, in the church-ftyle; and Padre Martini has 
given feveral admirable fpecimens of his fcience in his 
Saggio di Contrappunto. This great harmonift, however, 
does him ftill more honour, by calling himfelf his difciple. 
Perti, before his deceafe, mull nearly have attained the 
age of 100 ; for his name appears as the compofer of Atide 
in 1679, and, according to Quadrio, he was living in 1744. 
Burney. 
PER'TICA, f. [Latin.] A pole or perch; a pole to 
beat down fruit. A tall candleftick to be fet on an altar 
in a church. 
PERTICA'TA, /'. in our old law-books, is the fourth 
part of an acre, or a piece of ground containing one 
perch in breadth, and forty in length. 
PERTI'CI, a cornic finger and admirable t a6for, came 
hither in 1748 with Larchi, another excellent comic 
finger and after, and Guadagni for the firft time, when he 
was very young, as ferious man in a troop of burletta 
fingers, brought over upon fpeculation by Sig. Croza, 
whole calculations were fo erroneous, that he became a 
bankrupt and a fugitive in a year’s time. Burney. 
PERTIC'ULAS, J'. [Latin.] In old records; a pit¬ 
tance, a fmall portion of alms, a fmall portion of victuals. 
Cole. —The fame term is ufed for certain poor fcholars of 
the Hie of Man. The king granted to “ L. Macguin de 
Infula de Man, fcholari quandam eleemofynam vocatam 
Perticulas, ad fuftentationem cujufdam pauperis fcbolaris, 
de infula predicts ad exercend. fcholas, per progenitores 
noftros quondam reges Anglite datam et conceffam.” 
Pat. Hen. IV. 
PERTI'GI, a town of the-ifland of Sardinia : nineteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Caftello Aragonefe. 
PERTINA'CIOUS, adj. [from perlinax, Lat.] Obfti- 
nate ; ftubborn ; perverfely refolute.—-One of the diflent- 
ers appeared to Dr. Sanderfon to be fo bold, fo trouble- 
fome and illogical in the dil'pute, as forced him to fay, 
that he had never met with a man of more pertinacious 
confidence and lefs abilities. Walton. —Refolute; con- 
ftant; fteady.—Diligence is a fteady, conftant, and perti- 
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nacious , ftudy, that naturally leads the foul into the know¬ 
ledge of that, which at firft feemed locked up from it. 
South. 
PERTIN A'CIOUSLY, aelv. Obftinately; ftubbornly. 
>—They deny that freedom to me, which they pertina- 
cioufly challenge to themfelves. King Charles. —Others 
have fought to eafe themfelves of all the evil of affliction 
by difputing fubtilly againft it, and pertinacioujly main¬ 
taining that afflictions are no real evils, but only in ima¬ 
gination. Tillotfon. —Metals pertinacioujly refill all tranf- 
mutation ; and, though one would think they were turned 
into a different fubftance, yet they do but as it were lurk 
under a vizard. Rat/. 
PERTINA'CIOUSNESS, or Pertinac'ity, f. Obfti- 
nacy ; ftubbornnefs.—In this reply was included a very 
grofs miltake, and, if with pertinacity maintained, a 
capital errour. Brown.-— Refolution ; conftancy.—Fear¬ 
ing left the perthiacioufnefs of her miilrefs’s lorrows fliould 
caufe her evil to revert. Bp. Taylor's Holy Dying. 
PER'TIN ACY, J\ [from pertinax, Lat.] Obltinacy ; 
ftubbornnefs; perfiltency.—Their pertinacy is fuch, that, 
when you drive them out of one form, they affume ano¬ 
ther. Duppa. —It holds forth the pertinacy of ill fortune, 
in purfuing people into their graves. Ejirange. —Refo¬ 
lution ; fteadinefs ; conftancy.—St. Gorgonia prayed with 
paftion and pertinacy, till (he obtained relief. Bp.Taylor. 
PER'TINAX, Emperor of Rome after the death of 
Commodus. See Rome. 
PER'ITNENCE, or Pertinency, f. [from pertineo , 
Lat.] Juftnefs of relation to the matter in hand ; propri¬ 
ety to the purpofe ; appofitenefs.—I have (hown the fit- 
nefs and pertinency of the apoftle’s difeourfe to the per- 
fons headdreffed to, whereby it appeareth that he was no 
babbler, and did not talk at random. Bentley. 
PER'TINENT, adj. [ pertinens , Lat.] Related to the 
matter in hand; juft to the purpofe; not ufelefs to the 
end propofed : appolite; not foreign from the thing in¬ 
tended.—I fet down, out of experience in bufinefs and 
converfation in books, what I thought pertinent to this 
bufinefs. Bacon. —Here I (hall feein a little to digrefs ; but 
you will by and by find it pertinent. Bacon. 
My caution was more pertinent 
Than the rebuke you give it. Shahefpeare's Coriot. 
Relating; regarding; concerning. In this fenfe the 
word now ufed is pertaining. —Men dial I have juft caufe, 
when any thing pertinent unto faith and religion is doubt¬ 
ed of, the more willingly to incline their minds towards 
that which the fentence of fo grave, wife, and learned in 
that faculty, (hall judge moft found. Hooker. 
PER'TINENTLY, adv. Appofitely; to the purpofe.— 
Be rnodeft and referved in the prefence of thy betters, 
fpeaking little, anfwering pertinently, not interpofing 
without leave or reafon. Bp. Taylor's Rule of Holy 
Living. 
PER'TINENTNESS, f Appofitenefs. 
PER'TINENTS, J’. [ pertinentia , Lat.] The Scotch 
term for Appurtenances, which fee. 
PERTIN'GENCE, or Pertingency,/. The (late of 
being pertingent. Scott. 
PERTIN'GENT, adj. [ pertingens , Lat.] Reaching to; 
touching. 
PERTISTA'GNO, a town of Italy, in Friuli: feven 
miles north-north-weft of Friuli, and nine north-eaft of 
Udina. 
PERT'LY, adv. Brifkly ; fmartly.—I find no other 
difference betwixt the common town wits and thedown- 
right country fools, than that the firft ar t pertly in the 
wrong, with a little more gaiety; and the laft neither in 
the right nor the wrong. Pope. —Saucily ; petulantly.— 
Yonder walls that pertly front your town. Shaltrjpeare. 
When you pertly raife your fnout. 
Fleer, and gibe, and laugh, and flout; 
This, among Hibernian affes, 
For (heer wit and humour palfes. 
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Swift. 
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