serves him in his Ancient Ballads, iii. 276, n. 2;
    visits him, i. 49, 486;
    Vision of Theodore, i. 192;
  Levett, account of, iii. 220, n. 1;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479;
  loses by a fire, iii. 420;
  neglected parishes, iii. 437;
  Newport School, at, i. 50, n. 2;
  Northern Antiquities, iii. 274;
  Pennant, attacks, iii. 272;
  professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
  Reliques, quoted, iv. 307, n. 3;
  Spectator, projects an edition of the, ii. 212, n. 1;
  wolf, is writing the history of the, ii. 455;
  mentioned, i. 142, 319, n. 3; ii. 63, 3l8, 375. n. 2; iii. 256;
iv. 98, 344, 402, n. 2.
Peregrinity, v. 130. 
PERFECTION, to be aimed at, iv. 338. 
PERIODICAL BLEEDING, iii. 152. 
PERKINS, Mr..  Account of him, ii. 286, n. 1;
  Johnson’s letters to him.  See JOHNSON, letters;
    likeness in his counting-house, ii. 286, n. 1;
  manager of Thrale’s brewery, iv. 80, 85, n. 2;
  mountebanks, on, iv. 83;
  mentioned, iv. 245, n. 2, 402, n. 2. 
PERKS, Thomas, i. 95, n. 3. 
PERREAU, the brothers, ii. 450, n. 1. 
PERSECUTION, the test of religious truth, ii. 250; iv. 12. 
PERSECUTIONS, The Ten, ii. 255. 
PERSEVERANCE, i. 399. 
PERSIAN EMPIRE, iii. 36.
Persian Heroine, The, iv. 437. 
PERSIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 68.
Persian Letters, i. 74, n. 2. 
PERSIUS, quotations, Sat. i. 7, iv. 27, n. 6;
  Sat. i. 27, v. 25, n. 2. 
PERSONAGE, a great, i. 219; v. 125, n. 1. 
PERTH, Duke of, Chancellor of Scotland, iii. 227. 
PERUVIAN BARK, i. 368; iv. 293. 
PETER THE GREAT, worked in a dockyard, v. 249. 
PETER PAMPHLET, i. 287, n. 3.
Peter Pindar, v. 415, n. 4. 
PETERBOROUGH, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, iv. 333. 
PETERS, Mr., Dr. Taylor’s butler, ii. 474. 
PETHER or PEFFER, an engraver, iii. 21, n. 1. 
PETITIONS, Dodd’s case, iii. 120;
  how got up, ii. 90, n. 5;
  Johnson on petitioning, ii. 90; iii. 120, 146;
  Middlesex election, ii. 103;
  mode of distressing government, ii. 90. 
PETRARCH,
  Aeglogues, i. 277, n. 2;
  read by Johnson, i. 57, 115, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. 
PETTY, Sir William,
  allowance for one man, i. 440;
  employment of the poor, iv. 3;
  Quantulumcunque, i. 440, n. 2. 
PETWORTH, iv. 160. 
PEYNE, Mr., of Pembroke College, i. 60, n. 5. 
PEYTON, Mr.,
  Johnson’s amanuensis, i. 187; ii. 155;
  death, ii. 379, n. 1. 
PHAEAX, iii. 267, n. 4. 
PHALLICK MYSTERY, iii. 239. 
PHARAOH, ii. 150. 
PHARMACY, simpler than formerly, iii. 285. 
PHILIDOR, the musician, iii. 373.
Philip II, History of, by Watson, v. 58. 
PHILIPPS, Sir Erasmus, Diary, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2. 
PHILIPPS, Sir John, v. 276. 
PHILIPPS, Lady, v. 276. 
PHILIPS, Ambrose,
  Blackmore’s Creation, describes