462 PIN 
Anjou, and to the French Law, with Differtations on 
various Subjects. Thefe were reprinted in 2 vols. folio, 
1725. Morei i. 
PINE'DA, a town of Spain, on the coaft of Catalonia : 
twelve miles north-eaft of Mataro. Lat. 41. 37. N. Ion. 
2. 35. E. 
PINE'DA (Juan de), a native of Medina del Campo, 
and author of an univerfal hiftory under the title ot 
“ Le Monarquia Ecclefiaftica,” which was once well 
known. He was an indefatigable writer; his commenta¬ 
ries alone filled 6826 leaves in folio. The moll ufeful of 
his labours, however, was that of editing and abridging a 
very curious book entitled El Pafo Honrofo defeiulido 
por Suero de Quinones, of which a new edition was printed 
at Madrid, 1783. Pineda was a Francifcan, and lived to 
the age of fourfeore: his death mull have taken place 
early in the 17th century. 
There is another writer of the fame name, who lived 
about the fame time. He was a Jefuit, and of fuel) efti- 
mation, that, when he patted through Evoro, and was 
received in the Jefuits’ college there, a monument was 
eredted with this infeription Hie Pinedafuit. The talk 
of compiling the great Index Expurgatorius, publifhed 
in 1640, was his. He alfo publilhed a funeral oration at 
the exequies of that extraordinary woman Dona Luifa 
de Carvajal y Mendoza, in the Englifh fetninary at Seville. 
R, S. in Gen. Biog. 
PI'NEFUL, adj. Full of woe and lamentation: 
And gript the mawes of barren Sicily 
With long conftraint of pineful penury. Bp. Hall. 
PI'NEG, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the Pinega : forty-eight miles eaftof Arch¬ 
angel. Lat. 64. 30. N. Ion. 41. 26. E. 
PINE'GA, a river of Rufiia, which rifes in the province 
of Uftiug, and runs into the Dwina eight miles eaft from 
Cholomgori, in the government of Archangel. 
PI'NEGROVE, a townfhip of America, in Berks- 
county, Pennfylvania, containing 1290 inhabitants. 
PINEL', a town of France, in the department of the 
Ifere : nine miles from Vienne. 
PINEL'LI (Gianvincenzo), an eminent patron of li¬ 
terature, defeended by both parents from noble Genoefe 
families, was born at Naples in 1535. From his youth 
he entered with fo much ardour into literary purfuits, 
that, befides the ancient and feveral of the modern lan¬ 
guages, there was fcarcely any branch of fcience which 
he had not acquired. At the age of twenty-three, he 
left Naples for Padua, in which feat of learning he im¬ 
proved himfelf by an acquaintance with many eminent 
fcholars. His reputation was fo high, that, in 1561, he 
was recommended by Rufcelli to Philip II. as the fittett 
perfon he knew to undertake a hiftory of the emperor 
Charles V. The letters of other learned men are filled 
with the higheft encomiums of his literary and moral 
character. Though from his rank and qualifications he 
might have afpired to the molt important public ftations, 
yet his fondnefs for letters, joined to a delicate habit of 
body, led him to pafs his days in retirement. His houle 
was a kind of academy, frequented by the votaries of 
literature, who found in him a munificent patron, and 
an enlightened director of their ftudies. He colle&ed a 
choice and numerous library of books, printed and ma- 
nufeript; an apparatus of mathematical and aftronomical 
inftruments; a cabinet of foflils and minerals; together 
with maps, plates, and every thing belonging to the 
learned refearch. He had alfo a botanical garden furniflied 
with curious exotic and native plants. Thus he palled 
the remainder of his life at Padua, honoured and beloved 
by its citizens and the whole Venetian republic, and 
refpefted by the molt diftinguifhed charadlers in Italy 
and abroad. The numerous works dedicated to him 
by contemporary writers prove the high rank he held in 
the learned world. He died in 1601, with the fentiments 
of piety that had ever attended him during life. His 
P I N 
modefty did not permit him to appear as a writer, except 
in fome letters printed in different collections. The fate 
of his fine library was remarkable. After his death, the 
fenate of Venice, with its conftitutional jealoufy, fet its 
feal upon his manuferipts, and took away all that related 
to the affairs of the republic, amounting to 200. There 
were befides fourteen chefts of manuferipts, which, with 
116 chefts of printed books, were embarked in three fhips 
to be conveyed to Naples, where his heirs refided. One 
of them fell into the hands of Corfairs, who, confidering 
the books as lumber, threw part of them overboard; the 
reft were fcattered upon the beach at Fermo, which was 
entirely covered with papers. Of thefe many were ufed 
by the filhermen to caulk their barks', or inftead of glafs 
to their windows; till the bifhop of Fermo, having col¬ 
lected all he could, fent them to Naples, where they 
rejoined what of the reft of the library was not difiipated. 
In this ftate it was purchafed by cardinal Frederic Bor- 
romeo at the price of 3400 gold crowns. This library, 
(comprifing an aftonilhing number of MSS.) augmented 
by his defendants, was purchafed complete by an emi¬ 
nent Englifh bookfeller, (Mr. Robfon, of Bond-ftreet,) in 
1790, and fold by auCtion in London. Jones's Biog. Dili. 
PIN'ENDEN or Pennenden HEATH, a place of Eng¬ 
land, famous in the hiftory of Kent, where moft of the 
great county-meetings have been held from the earlieft 
times. Here the fheriff holds his county-court monthly, 
and takes the poll for county-members, and for coroners ; 
though, after a few votes are taken, the poll is ufually 
adjourned to Maidftone. The county-houfe is a poor 
mean cottage. An affembly was held here in the year 
1076, fummoned by archbifhop Lanfranc, to enquire into 
fome frauds and dilapidations committed on the church, 
principally aimed againft Odo earl of Kent and bifhop of 
Bayeux. This heath is fituated in the parifh of Boxley : 
twelve miles north-eaft of Maidftone. 
PINERO'LO. See Pignerolo. 
PI'NERY, f. A place where pine-apples are raifed. 
PINES, Pi'nez, or Pi'nas, an ifland in the Caribbean 
Sea, near the fouth-weft coaft of Cuba, about 25 miles 
long, and fifteen broad. Lat. 21. 30. N. Ion. 83.25. W. 
PINES (Bay of), a bay on the coaft of Weft Florida . 
Lat. 30. 20. N. Ion. 88. 21. W. 
PINES (Ifland of), a fmall ifland near the coaft of 
South-America. Lat. 8. 35. N. Ion. 77. 36. W. 
PINES (Ifland of), an ifland in the South Pacific Ocean, 
near the coaft of New Caledonia. This ifland, fays Capt. 
Hunter, is not lefs than fourteen or fifteen miles over, 
in a fouth-eaft and north-weft diredlion, high in the 
middle, and Hoping towards the extremities. Lat. 22. 
38. S. Ion. 167. 38. E. 
PINES (Ifland of), a fmall ifland on the north-weft of 
Terra Firma, about forty-one leagius ealt of Porto Bello, 
which forms a good harbour, with two other fmall iflands 
and the main land. Lat. 9. 12. N. Ion. 80. 15. V/. The 
river of Pines is five miles from the above harbour. 
PINE'T (Anthony du), lord of Noroy, and a various 
writer, who flourifhed in the 16th century, was a native 
of Befangon, in the Franche Comte, concerning w'hofe 
perfonal hiftory w’e have no other information than that 
he was zealoufly attached to the proteftant religion. 
This he fliowed by his treatife entitled, “ The Conformity 
of the Reformed Churches of France and of the Primitive 
Churchin Policy and Ceremonies, 1564, 8vo.” his “Ser¬ 
mons upon the Book of Revelation and more parti¬ 
cularly by the Notes which he added to a French tranf- 
lation of the Tax-book of the Roman Chancery. This 
work is entitled, “ The Tax of the cafual Forfeitures of 
the Pope’s Shop, in Latin and French, with fome Anno¬ 
tations taken from Decrees, Councils, and Canons, either 
ancient or modern, for the Verification of the Difcipline 
anciently obferved in the Church, the whole enlarged 
and revifed by A. D. P.” 1564, 8vo. The keennefs of 
his ftridtures on a performance which afforded fuch matter 
for triumph to the proteftant world, fecured to his work. 
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