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 a diplomatic letter to the speaker on his behalf. In December, upon his own petition, he was removed to Somerset House, on condition of his not going near the court. Subsequently, in March 1642, he and another priest accompanied Henrietta Maria to The Hague. Foley states that he died at Paris about 1650 at a ripe old age.

 PHILIPS, ROWLAND (d. 1538?), warden of Merton College, was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and was proctor of the university in 1496. He became a ‘great divine and a renowned clerk,’ being especially famed as a preacher. He held the rectory of St. Margaret Pattens until 1515. On 14 Aug. 1517 he was appointed rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill, and on 28 Nov. following prebendary of Neasdon in St. Paul's. In 1521 he was elected warden of Merton, being the first warden who was neither scholar nor fellow of the College previously. He was admitted D.D. 2 June 1522, and became vicar of Croydon in the same year.

Philips took a prominent part in convocation in 1523 in opposing Cardinal Wolsey's proposals for a subsidy. He preached at the funeral of Thomas Ruthal, bishop of Durham, ‘in St. John Baptist Chapel adjoining the Abbey of Westminster,’ in 1522. In 1524 he was made precentor of Hereford Cathedral (26 Nov.). At the end of that year he offered to resign his wardenship of Merton on condition that Dr. Moscroffe's name should be among the three to be submitted to the visitor in his place, but on the fellows rejecting this compromise he resigned absolutely in 1525. His religious opinions were not those of Cromwell. He resigned the rectory of St. Michael's, Cornhill, and the vicarage of Croydon in May 1538, receiving a pension of 12l. in consideration of his advanced years. He probably died in the same year (, i. 185, 483).

 PHILIPS, WILLIAM (d. 1734), dramatist, was son of George Philips of Londonderry [q. v.], and at an early age applied himself to writing for the stage. A tragedy, entitled ‘The Revengeful Queen’ (London, 1698, 8vo), acted at Drury Lane in 1698, is the first ascribed to him. The subject was taken from Machiavelli's ‘History of Florence,’ and the scene was laid in Verona. The piece has resemblances to D'Avenant's ‘Albovine, King of the Lombards,’ of which Philips, in the printed edition, says he was ignorant until he had completed his own work (, Hist. Account, ii. 142). Philips's next play was ‘St. Stephen's Green, or the Generous Lovers,’ a comedy in five acts; it was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, and printed in that city in 1700. In the last act a musical dialogue in verse was introduced; the scene throughout was in Dublin. The author, in a dedication to William O'Brien, earl of Inchiquin, mentioned that the play had been favourably received by the public. Copies of this work are rare. A tragedy, by Philips, entitled ‘Hibernia Freed,’ was produced with success, on 13 Feb. 1722, at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and published in 8vo, London, 1722. The subject was the liberation of Ireland and its monarch, O'Brien, from the tyranny of ‘Turgesius,’ a Danish invader. The capture and deaths of the Dane and his associates were represented to have been effected by armed young men, attired as maidens. The part of ‘Turgesius’ was acted by Quin, who also spoke the prologue, and the epilogue was delivered by Mrs. Bullock (ib. iii. 79–80). Philips dedicated this play to Henry O'Brien, earl of Thomond. On 14 April 1722 another of Philips's tragedies, ‘Belisarius’ (London, 1724, 8vo), was performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and repeated six times. It contains the line, spoken by the hero, ‘Who will give an obolus to relieve my wants?’ which seems to have become a slang phrase in the form ‘Give a penny to Belisarius the general.’ Gibbon quotes the expression in his account of Belisarius, and says it is due to an historical misconception (ib. iii. 146–7). Another tragedy, ‘Alcamenes and Menelippa,’ is ascribed to Philips in William Mears's ‘Catalogue of Plays’ (1713). He died on 12 Dec. 1734 (Gent. Mag. 1734, p. 703).

 PHILLIMORE, GREVILLE (1821–1884), divine and author, born in London on 5 Feb. 1821, was the fifth son of Joseph Phillimore [q. v.], regius professor of civil law, and brother of Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore [q. v.], judge of the admiralty court. He was educated successively at 