i. 264. 
PATTEN, Dr., iv. 162. 
PATTISON, Mark, General Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4;
  Oxford in 1770, ii. 445, n. 1;
  Bishop Warburton, v. 81, n. 1. 
PAUL, Father.  See SARPI. 
PAUL, Sir G.O., v. 322, n. 1. 
PAUSANIAS, v. 220. 
PAVIA, ii. 125, n. 5. 
PAYNE, Mr. E.J., defends Burke’s character, iii. 46, n. 1;
  describes his love of Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3. 
PAYNE, John, account of him, i. 317, n. 1;
  Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 435;
  Johnson’s friend in 1752, i. 243;
  publishes the first numbers of The Idler, i. 330, n. 3;
  mentioned, iv. 369, n. 3. 
PAYNE, William, i. 317. 
PEARCE, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester,
  Johnson, sends etymologies to, i. 292; iii. 112;
    writes the dedication to his posthumous works, iii. 113;
  wishes to resign his bishopric, iii. 113, n. 2;
  mentioned, i. 135. 
PEARSON, John, Bishop of Chester,
  edits Hales’s Golden Remains, iv. 315, n. 2;
  Johnson recommends his works, i. 398. 
PEARSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 471; iv. 142, 256. 
PEATLING, i. 241, n. 2. 
PEERS, creations by Pitt, iv. 249, n. 4;
  influence in the House of Commons, v. 56;
  interference in elections, iv. 248, 250;
  judges, as, iii. 346;
  Temple’s proposed reform, ii. 421. 
  See HOUSE OF LORDS. 
PEKIN, v. 305. 
PELEW ISLANDS, v. 276, n. 2. 
PELHAM, Fanny, iii. 139, n. 4. 
PELHAM, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick’s Ode on his Death, i. 269;
  pensions Guthrie, i. 117, n. 2;
  Whiggism under him and his brother, ii. 117. 
PELISSON, i. 90, n. 1. 
PELLET, Dr., iii. 349. 
PEMBROKE, eighth Earl of,
  ‘lover of stone dolls,’ ii. 439, n. 1. 
PEMBROKE, tenth Earl of,
  Boswell visits him, ii. 371; iii. 122, n. 2;
  Johnson’s bow-wow way, describes, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1;
  author of Military Equitation, v. 131. 
PENANCE in churches, v. 208. 
PENELOPE, v. 85. 
PENGUIN, v. 225. 
PENITENCE, gloomy, iii. 27. 
PENN, Governor Richard, iii. 435, n. 4. 
PENNANT, Thomas, Bach y Graig, v. 436, n. 3;
  bears, ii. 347;
  Bolt Court and Johnson, mentions in his London, iii. 274-5;
  Fort George described, v. 124;
  rents racked in the Hebrides, v. 221, n. 3;
  Tour in Scotland,
    praised by Johnson, iii. 128, 271, 274, 278, v. 221;
    censured by Percy, iii. 272;
      and Boswell, iii. 274; v. 222;
  Voltaire, visits, i. 435, n. 1;
  a Whig, iii. 274-5; v. 157. 
PENNINGTON, Colonel, v. 125, 127. 
PENNY-POST. See POST.
PENRITH, ii. 4, n. 1; v. 113, n. 1.
Pensioner, defined, i. 294, n. 7, 374-5. 
PENSIONS, defined, i. 294, 374-5;
  French authors, given to, i. 372, n. 1;
  George III’s system, ii. 112;
  Johnson, conferred on, i. 372-7;
  not for life, i. 376, n. 2; ii. 317;
  nor for future services, i. 373, n. 2, 374; ii. 317;