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reafonable to acquiefce in the verdift of the coroner; 
namely, that the murder was committed by a perfon or 
perfons unknovvn. The moft noble marquis of Bucking¬ 
ham, whofe munificence and kindnefs to thofe confcien- 
tious exiles, the emigrant French clergy, can only be 
conceived by thofe who have been witnefi.es of- the lame, 
with the truly refpedfable corps of the Buckinghamlhire 
militia, then quartered at Winchefter, joined in paying 
the laft mark of refpedl to the unfortunate deceafed, by 
attending his funeral, which was performed at the Roman- 
Catholic burying-ground, called St. James’s, near the faid 
city, on Saturday, Aug. 29. He was jult 38 years of age 
when he was murdered. The editor of this work was 
refident at Winchefter at the time, and well remembers 
the fenfation that tragical event occafioned in the city. 
The cathedral was robbed of its valuable plate about the 
fame time; the perpetrator of neither of thefe facrilegious 
adds has ever been difcovered, though full thirty years 
have elapfed ! 
PIG'EON CREE'K, a river of America, which runs 
into the Ohio in lat. 37.44. N. Ion. 88. 6. W. 
PIG'EON’s-FOOT, or Dove’s-foot, /. in botany. 
See Geranium molle. 
PIG'EON-HEARTED, adj. Timid; frightened.—I 
never faw fuch pigeon-hearted people : what drum ? what 
danger? who’s that that (hakes behind there? Beaum. 
and FI. Pilgrim. 
PIG'EON-HOLES, f. The title of an old Englifh game; 
fo called from the arches in the machine, through which 
balls were rolled, refembling the cavities made for pi¬ 
geons in a dove-houfe. Steevens. 
Threepence I loft at ninepins; but I got 
Six tokens towards that at pigeon-holes. Antipodes, 1638. 
Cavities, or divilions, in which letters and papers are de- 
pofited.—Abbe Sieyes has whole nefts of pigeon-holes full 
of conftitutions ready-made, ticketed, forted, and num¬ 
bered. Burke. 
PIG'EON-HOUSE, f. A building, or houfe, erefled 
for the purpofe of keeping and breeding of pigeons, &c. 
It is fometimes called a dove-cote. See vol. iv. p. 829-832. 
—See the cupola of St. Paul’s covered with both fexes, 
like the outfide of a pigeon-houfe. Addifon's Guardian, 
This building was defign’d a model, 
Or of a pigeon-houfe or oven, 
To bake one loaf, or keep one dove in. Swift. 
PIG'EON-HOUSE, a mountain of New Zealand, fo 
named by Capt. Cook, from its fuppofed refemblance. 
Lat. 35. iq. S. Ion. 209. 42. W. 
PIG'EON I'SLAND, an ifland in Duflcy Bay, New 
Zealand, a little to the fouth of Facile Harbour. 
PIG'EON I'SLAND, a fmall iftand in the bay of Ben¬ 
gal, near the coaft of Cicacole. Lat. 17. 34. N. Ion. 83. 
2 ^, m 
PIG'EON I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the coaft of Canara. Lat. 14. 2. N. Ion. 
74. 5. E. 
PIG'EON I'SLAND, a fortified ifland in Port Royal 
Bay, Martinico. 
PIG'EON I'SLAND, an ifland near the eaft coaft of 
Ceylon : ten miles north-north-weft of Trincomalee. 
PIG'EON-LIVERED, adj. Mild; foft; gentle. 
I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall 
To make oppreffion bitter. Shake[peare's Ilamlct. 
PIG'EON-PEA. See Cytisus cajan. 
PIG'EON RIV'ER, a river of the ftate of Tennaflee, 
which runs into the French Broad River in lat. 35. 46. N. 
Ion. 82. 56. W. 
PIG'GERY, /. A building, or a range or circle of 
buildings, for the rearing and fattening of fwine. See 
the article Husbandry, vol. x. p. 516. 
PIG'GIN, j\ A fmall wooden veflel. It is an old word 
in our language, though Dr. Johnfon has cited no autho¬ 
rity for it. It is alfo in Sherwood’s Dictionary.—Of drink- 
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ing cups, divers forts we have; fome of elm: broad- 
mouthed dilhes, noggins, whifkins, piggins. Heywnnd's 
Drunkard opened, 1635.—At prefent it is a provincial 
term applied to a little pail or tub with an erect handle, 
for milking in, and other ufes. 
PIG'HIUS (Albert), a learned Dutch mathematician 
and Catholic divine, who flouriflied in the 16th century, 
was defeended from a refpedtable . family, and born at 
Campen in Overyffel, but in what year we are not in¬ 
formed. He purfued his academical ftudies at the uni- 
verlity of Louvain, where he diftinguiflied himfelf by his 
proficiency in polite literature, philofophv, and the ma¬ 
thematics ; and he ingenioufly applied his theoretical 
knowledge to practice, in the conftrudtion of armillary 
fpheres made of copper or brafs, which illuftrated the 
movements of the heavenly bodies. But, notwithftand- 
ing his attachment to the mathematical fciences, he was 
induced by the perfuafion of his friends to pay particular 
attention to the ftudy of divinity ; in which faculty he 
took the degree of bachelor at-Louvain, and of doftor 
at Cologne. He now began to publifti his controverfial 
writings againft the Lutherans and Calvinifts. By his 
learning and talents he recommended himfelf to the ac¬ 
quaintance and efteem of Adrian of Utrecht, tutor to the 
emperor Charles V. whom he accompanied intoSpain, and 
from thence to Rome, when Adrian went to take pollef- 
fion of the papal throne. After the death of that pontiff 
he continued at Rome, where he enjoyed the favour of 
his fucceflors, Clement VII. and Paul III. w ho employed 
him in various important legations. Paul ftudied the 
mathematics under his inftrudtions, and rewarded his fer- 
vices with-a prefent of two thoufand ducats, and the pro- 
voftfhip of Sr. John the Baptift at Utrecht, to which he 
promoted him in 1535. He died in that city in 1542. 
Though a zealous champion for the church of Rome 
againft the Proteftants, he maintained the oppofite opi¬ 
nions to thofe of St. Auguftine and Aquinas on the lub- 
jedts of predeftination and grace; and, with refpedt to the 
doftrine of original fin, the orthodox accufed him of con¬ 
curring in fentim.ent with Pelagius. Hence arofe the 
curious anomaly, that his treadles againft Calvin were 
placed in the lift of prohibited books by the Spanifh in- 
quifition. The mathematical treatifes of Pighius are, 1. 
De Ratione Pafchalis Celebrationis, de que Reftitutione 
Kalendarii Ecclefiaftici, 1520. 2. De Asquinoctiorum 
Solllitiorumque Inventione. 3. Apologia adverlus 110- 
vam Marci Beneventani Monachi Ceeleltini Aftrologiara, 
in defence of the Aiphonfine tables. 4. A defence of 
that Apology. 5. Aftrologite Defenflo, adverfus Prognof- 
ticorum vulgus, qui annuas Praedidfiones edunt, et fe 
Aftrologos mentiuntur, 1518, 8vo. The moft coniidetv 
able of his other works is entitled, 6 . Aflertio Hierarchise 
Ecclefiafticse, in folio, which is analyzed by Dupin, and 
will be found tojuftify the cenfure which he has paffed 
upon-the author, for the extravagant claims fet up by 
him on behalf of the papal fee. The titles of the reft of 
the author’s works, which are chiefly controverfial, may 
be feen in Valerii Andrea Bill. Belg. and Dupin. 
PIG'HIUS (Stephen-Vinand), a learned antiquary, was 
born in 1520 at Campen in Overyfiel. He was maternal 
nephew of Albert Pighius, whofe family-name he a flamed. 
A refidence of eight years at Rome gave him an accurate 
knowledge of the remains of antiquity in that capital. 
On his return to Germany he attached himfelf to cardi¬ 
nal Granvelle, whom he lerved as fecretary for fourteen 
years. He finally became a canon-regular in his own 
country, and died in 1604. Pighius obtained a high re¬ 
putation for his antiquarian knowledge, and the purity 
of his Latin ftyle. He com poled two Roman Calendars 
from fragments in the Capitol, and wrote Commentaries 
on the Fafti. He alfo publifhed a work entitled “Her¬ 
cules Prodicius, Anttv. 1587,” containing the hiftory and 
travels of Charles duke of CJleves, propofing it as a kind 
of model of the education of a young prince: it is re¬ 
plete with his own obfervations on Roman and German 
antiquities. 
