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 epistle of Jude, containing threescore and sixe sermons,’ &c. 18. ‘A frvitfvll dialogve concerning the ende of the World.’

The treatises not included in the ‘Collected Works’ are: 1. ‘An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer,’ London, 1582, 1593, 1597. 2. ‘Perkins's Treatise, tending to a declaration whether a man be in a state of Damnation or a state of Grace,’ London, 1589, 1590, 1592, 1595, 1597. 3. ‘Armilla aurea, a Guil. Perkins; accessit Practica Th. Bezæ pro consolandis afflictis conscientiis,’ Cambridge, [1590], 1600; translation of same, London, 1591, 1592, Cambridge, 1597; editions of the Latin original also appeared at Basel, 1594, 1599. 4. ‘Spiritual Desertions,’ London, 1591. 5. [His Catechism under the title] ‘The foundation of Xtian Religion: gathered into sixe principles to be learned of ignorant people that they may be fit to heare Sermons with profit,’ &c., London, 1592, 1597, 1641, Cambridge, 1601; translated into Welsh by E. R., London, 1649, and into Irish by Godfrey Daniel. 6. ‘A Case of Conscience, the greatest that ever was,’ &c. … ‘Whereunto is added a briefe discourse, taken out of Hier. Zanchius,’ London, 1592, 1651; Cambridge, 1595, 1606; also in Latin by Wolfgang Meyer, Basel, 1609. 7. ‘A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to God's Word,’ Cambridge, 1593, 1595; in Latin by Thomas Drax, Oppenheim, 1613. 8. ‘Salve for a Sickman, or a treatise containing the nature, differences, and kinds of Death,’ &c., Cambridge, 1595 (with Robert Some's ‘Three Questions’); with other works, Cambridge, 1597. 9. ‘An Exposition of the Symbole or Creede of the Apostles,’ &c., Cambridge, 1595, 1596, 1597; London, 1631. 10. ‘Two Treatises: I. Of the nature and practice of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and the spirit,’ Cambridge, 1595 (two editions), 1597. 11. ‘A discourse of Conscience,’ &c. (with ‘Salve,’ &c.), Cambridge, 1597. 12. ‘The Grain of Mustard seed, or the least measure of Grace that is, or can be, effectual to Saluation,’ London, 1597. 13. ‘A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified’ (with other works), Cambridge, 1597. 14. ‘A reformed Catholike: or, a Declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of Religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them,’ &c., Cambridge, 1597, 1598; in Spanish, by William Masson, 1599, Antwerp, 1624; in Latin, Hanau, 1601. 15. ‘How to live and that well: in all estates and times,’ &c., Cambridge, 1601. 16. ‘Specimen Digesti sive Harmoniæ Bibliorum Vet. et Nov. Testamenti,’ Cambridge, 1598; Hanau, 1602. 17. ‘A warning against the idolatory of the last times. And an instruction touching religious or divine worship,’ Cambridge, 1601; in Latin by W. Meyer, Oppenheim, 1616. 18. ‘The True Gaine: more in Worth than all the Goods in the World,’ Cambridge, 1601. 19. ‘Gulielmi Perkinsi problema de Romanæ fidei ementito catholicismo, etc. Editum post mortem authoris opera et studio Samuel Ward,’ Cambridge, 1604; translation in ‘Collected Works.’ 20. ‘The whole treatise of the cases of Conscience,’ Cambridge, 1606 and 1608; London, 1611. 21. ‘A Garden of Spiritual Flowers. Planted by Ri. Ro[gers] = Will. Per[kins],’ 1612. 22. ‘Thirteen Principles of Religion: by way of question and answer,’ London, 1645, 1647. 23. ‘Exposition on Psalms xxxii. and c.’ 24. ‘Confutation of Canisius's Catechism.’ 25. ‘The opinion of Mr. Perkins, Mr. Bolton, and others concerning the sport of cockfighting,’ &c. … ‘now set forth by E[dmund] E[llis],’ Oxford, 1600 (in ‘Harleian Miscellany’). 26. ‘An Abridgement of the whole Body of Divinity, extracted from the Learned works of that ever-famous and reverend Divine, Mr. William Perkins. By Tho. Nicols,’ London, 16mo, 1654. 27. ‘Death's Knell, or, The Sick Man's Passing Bell,’ 10th edit., b.l., 1664.

[Information supplied by Dr. Peile, master of Christ's College, and F. J. H. Jenkinson, esq., university librarian; Baker MS. B. 269; Fuller's Holy and Profane State; Colvile's Worthies of Warwickshire, pp. 573–6; Dyer's Cambridge Fragments, p. 130; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabrigienses, ii. 335–41; Bowes's Catalogue of Books printed at or relating to Cambridge; Mullinger's Hist. of the University of Cambridge, vol. ii.; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. vol. i.] 

PERLEY, MOSES HENRY (1804–1862), Canadian commercial pioneer and man of science, was son of Moses and Mary Perley, who were cousins. They came of an old Welsh family which settled in 1630 in Massachusetts. This son, born in Mauger Ville, New Brunswick, on 31 Dec. 1804, was educated at St. John. In 1828 he became an attorney, and in 1830 was called to the bar; but his tastes took him to outdoor life, and he went into the milling and lumbering (i.e. timber-cutting) business. Active in efforts for attracting capital into New Brunswick, and in advertising the capabilities of the province, he was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs and emigration officer. In this capacity he made several tours among the Indians, the first of which began in June 1841, and took him through the territory of the Melicete and Micmac Indians. The Micmacs at Burnt Creek Point elected him head chief. 