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 three rich London merchants, the last being Sir John Percyvall, who in 1486 was sheriff, was knighted by Henry VII, and in 1498, the year of the marriage, was elected lord mayor of London. He died about 1504, and had a chantry in the church of St. Mary Woolnoth. Dame Percivall survived her third husband, and at his death retired to her native place, where she occupied herself in ‘repairing of highways, building of bridges, endowing of maidens, relieving of prisoners, feeding andappareling the poor,’ &c. . She also built and endowed a chantry and college there, of which some slight remains still exist, including the initial letter of her christian name over a doorway. Here ‘divers of the best gentlemen’s sons of Devon and Cornwall’ were educated. Her will is said to have been dated about the year 1510. The chantry was suppressed temp. Edward VI.

 BOND, DANIEL (1725–1803), painter, is supposed to have been born in London. In 1762 and 1763 he exhibited landscapes at the rooms of the Society of Arts in the Strand. In 1764 he was awarded by that society twenty-five guineas, the second premium, and in 1765 fifty guineas, the first premium, for landscape paintings in oil-colours (A Register of the Premiums and Bounties given by the Society instituted in London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce from the original institution in the year ). For many years he was engaged in a manufactory at Birmingham as superintendent of the decorative department. His productions are described as highly finished landscapes, broad in treatment, after the style of Wilson, R.A. (Gent. Mag. lxxiv. 1101, and ). He seems to have amassed property enough to live a retired life during his latter years. He died at Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 18 Dec. 1803 (Gent. Mag. lxxiii. 1259). In 1804, a few months after his death, a number of his pictures and drawings were sold by auction in London.

 BOND, DENNIS (d. 1658), politician, of a good family belonging to the isle of Purbeck, carried on the business of a woollen-draper in Dorchester, of which town he was among the first fifteen capital burgesses nominated in the new charter granted by Charles I in 1629, bailiff the following year, and mayor in 1635. He was returned to parliament by the borough along with Denzil Hollis in 1640. A casual reference in Clarendon's ‘History of the Rebellion’ shows that at the outset of his parliamentary career he was already a decided adherent of the party of reform. The king having (January to June 1642) filled up certain vacant places on the episcopal bench, the House of Commons resolve to resent a petition deprecating the making of new appointments ‘till the controversy should be ended about the government of the church,’ and a committee was nominated ‘to draw up reasons’ in support of the petition, of which both Falkland’ and Hyde, although they had opposed the resolution, were invited to become members, an offer which was of course declined. On this Clarendon observes: ‘There was a gentleman who sat by, Mr. Bond, of Dorchester, very severe and resolved against the church and the court, who with much passion and trouble of mind said to them, "For God's sake be of the committee; you know none of our side can give reasons."’ What part Bond played during the civil war remains obscure; but we may fairly conjecture that it was a not inactive one, since his name appears in the list of the commissioners nominated by ‘act of the Commons’ (6 Jan. 1648–9) to try the king for high treason. He was not, however, one of those who signed the warrant of execution, nor is he mentioned in the list of commissioners present on any of the days (from 20 to 27 Jan.) during which the trial was in progress. Probably he was deterred by scruples of conscience or want of resolution. On 14 Feb. he was elected a member of the council of state, of which he continued to be a member, being reflected every ear, until 1653. During this period he must have led a busy life, as the records show that he sat on many of the committees into which the council divided itself for the more efficient despatch of business. The most important of those on which Bond sat were the committee for trade and foreign affairs and the admiralty committee, both of course standing committees. He was also from time to time a member of minor committees, constituted to serve temporary purposes, such as disposing of the prisoners taken at Worcester, considering how best to prevent the exportation of coin, or raising money to pay the judges. On two occasions, 12 July 1652 and 23 March 1652–3, he was elected to the presidency of the council, an office tenable for a month only. After the dissolution of the Long parliament