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 officer, careful of the moral and physical needs of his men His personal courage was displayed on innumerable occasions, but never more conspicuously than in the rescue of the Button East Indiaman on the rocks near Plymouth. When no one could be induced by offers of reward to take a rope on board the sinking vessel, Pellew himself volunteered, and never left the wreck until the whole crew were saved.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1833.]

WILLIAM PEMBLE,

DIVINE,

Was born, according to Fuller, in Sussex, but according to Anthony à Wood, in Kent, "at Egerton, as I have been informed." He was educated at Magdalen College, where he became "a famous preacher, a well studied artist, a skilful linguist, a good orator, an expert mathematician, and an ornament to the society in which he lived." He was a zealous Calvinist, but not a Noncomformist. He died at the early age of 32, 14th April, 1623. During this short life, however, he was the author of several learned works, which were collected and published in 1635. His Latin treatise "De Formarum Origine," is said, by Wood, to have been largely drawn up by Adrian Heerebord, in his work on the Aristotelian philosophy, entitled "Meletemata Philosophica." He was buried at Eastington, in Gloucestershire.

[''See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss, "Fuller's Worthies," and "Moreri's Dictionary."'']