(Dr Peter), an eminent English writer, was born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, in 1600. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford; where he took his degrees in arts and divinity, and became an able geographer and historian. He was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to King Charles I. Was presented to the rectory of Hemingford in Huntingdonshire, made a prebendary of Westminster, and obtained several other livings: but of these he was deprived by the parliament, who also sequestrated his estate; by which means he and his family were reduced to great necessity. However, upon the restoration, he was restored to his spiritualities; but never rose higher than to be subdean of Westminster. He died in 1662; and was interred in St Peter's church in Westminster, where he had a neat monument erected to his memory. His writings are very numerous: the principal of which are, 1. Microcosmus, or a Description of the Great World. 2. Cosmographia. 3. The History of St George. 4. Ecclesia Vindicata, or the Church of England Justified. 5. Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, &c.