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 He was a benefactor to Exeter College, Oxford, a fact celebrated in a small quarto entitled Threni Exoniensium in obitum D Johannis Petrei, Baronis de Writtle, 1613, preserved in the British Museum.

Admitted 18 May, 1656.

Eldest son of Peter Pett of Chatham, master-shipwright. He entered the Middle Temple from Gray's Inn, where he was admitted in 1650. He entered at Cambridge, but graduated at Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of All Souls', 1648. He was called to the Bar 25 Nov. 1664. He was one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society. He was knighted by the Duke of Ormonde (q.v.) in Ireland, where he held the office of Advocate-General. He died 1 April, 1699.

During his life he was much engaged in literary work, and has left behind him a Discourse on Liberty of Conscience (1661), a treatise on the Oath of Supremacy (1687), and several other political tracts.

Admitted 8 June, 1660.

"Eldest son and heir apparent of William Petty, alias Petitt of Skipton, CO. York, gent., deceased." This was the well-known keeper and cataloguer of the Tower Records. After his admission he seems to have passed on to the Inner Temple, where he was called to the Bar in 1670 "for service done in asserting and defending the rights and privileges of that Society," and where he was Autumn Reader in 1694, and Treasurer in 1701. In 1698 he presented a number of books to the Middle Temple, but all his MSS. he bequeathed to the Inner Temple Library. He died 3 Oct. 1707.

PEVENSEY, VISCOUNT. See COMPTON, SPENCER.

Admitted 14 February, 1571-2.

Fourth son of Thomas Phelips of Montacute, Somerset. He was Autumn Reader at the Middle Temple in 1596. In 1601 he represented his native county in Parliament, and in 1603 became Serjeant-at-Law and King's Serjeant with the honour of knighthood. He took part in the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh (q.v.). In March 1604 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, and was one of those appointed to examine into the Gunpowder Plot. In 1611 he became Master of the Rolls, retaining that office till his death, 11 Sept. 1614. He was admitted to the Temple from New Inn.

Admitted 1 February, 1605-6.

"Son and heir of Edward Phelipps (Phelips), Knight, King's Counsel" (q.v.) He was knighted along with his father by James I. in 1603. He sat in Parliament for various constituencies during most of his life, and took an