PALMERANUS or PALMERSTON, THOMAS (fl. 1310), Irish monk. [See Thomas Hibernicus.]
PALMERSTON, Viscounts. [See Temple, Henry, second Viscount, 1739–1802; Temple, Henry John, third Viscount, 1784–1865.]
PALMES, Sir BRYAN (1599–1654), royalist, born in 1599, was eldest son of Sir Guy Palmes of Ashwell, Rutland, and Lindley, Yorkshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stafford (Foster, Yorkshire Pedigrees, vol. ii.). On 17 March 1614–15 he matriculated at Oxford from Trinity College (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, iii. 1111), but did not graduate. He was elected M.P. for Stamford in 1625–6, and for Aldborough, Yorkshire, in 1639–40. An intimate friend of [[Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Browne, William (1591–1645)|William Browne]] (1591–1645) [q. v.], he made a tour in France with him. Browne addressed to Palmes, who was then staying at Saumur, his humorous poem, written at Thouars, on the ‘most intolerable jangling of the Papists' bells on All Saints' Night’ (Browne, Poems, ed. Goodwin, ii. 229). At the outbreak of the civil war Palmes raised a regiment for the king (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640–1). He was knighted on 21 April 1642 (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 198), and created D.C.L. at Oxford on 1 or 2 Nov. following. On 20 Oct. 1646 he was forced to compound for his estate for 681l. (Cal. of Comm. for Compounding, pp. 861, 1316, 1643), and on 1 Sept. 1651 was assessed at 200l., but no proceedings were taken (Cal. of Comm. for Advance of Money, iii. 1388). Palmes died at Lindley about August 1654 (Administration Act Book, P.C.C., 1653–4, vol. ii. f. 647). By his wife Mary, daughter and coheiress of Gervase Teverey of Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, who died before him, he had three sons and four daughters.
[Wood's Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 41; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640–1, pp. 492, 577; Yorkshire Archæolog. and Topograph. Journal, i. 95.]
PALSGRAVE, JOHN (d. 1554), chaplain to Henry VIII, was a native of London, where he received his elementary education. Subsequently he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and proceeded to the degree of B.A. (Addit. MS. 5878, f. 63). He then migrated to the university of Paris, where he graduated M.A., and acquired a thorough knowledge of French. From the privy purse expenses of Henry VIII in January 1512–1513, it appears that Palsgrave, who had been ordained priest, was ‘scolemaster to my Lady Princes,’ i.e. Mary, the king's sister, who afterwards married Louis XII of France. On 29 April 1514 he was admitted to the prebend of Portpoole in the church of St. Paul, London (Le Neve, Fasti, ii. 428). Having instructed the Princess Mary in the French tongue, he accompanied her to France on her marriage, and she never forgot his services (Brewer, Letters and Memorials of Henry VIII, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 1459, 1460). On 3 April 1515 she wrote from Paris to Wolsey begging that Palsgrave might have the living of Egylsfeld in the diocese of Durham, or the archdeaconry of Derby. In 1516 he was collated by Atwater, bishop of Lincoln, to the benefice of Ashfordby, Leicestershire, vacant by the death of Henry Wilcocks, D.C.L., whose executors were ordered in 1523 to pay him 68l. for dilapidations. He also obtained the rectories of Alderton and Holbrook in Suffolk, and Cawston, Norfolk. Sir Thomas More, writing to Erasmus in 1517, mentions that Palsgrave was about to go to Louvain to study law, though he would continue his Greek and Latin; and Erasmus, in a letter from Louvain, dated 17 July the same year, informs More that Palsgrave had left for England. In 1523 he entered into a contract with Richard Pynson [q. v.], stationer of London, for the printing of sixty reams of paper at 6s. 8d. a ream; and there is another indenture for printing 750 copies of Palsgrave's ‘Lesclarcissement de la langue Francoyse,’ one of the earliest attempts to explain in English the rules of French grammar. Pynson engaged to print daily a sheet on both sides, and Palsgrave undertook not to keep him waiting for ‘copy.’ This curious contract has been printed, with notes, by Mr. F. J. Furnivall, for the Philological Society, London [1868], 4to.
In 1525 among the officers and councillors appointed to be resident and about the person of Henry Fitzroy, duke of Richmond, natural son of Henry VIII, then six years of age, who had been appointed lieutenant-general north of the Trent, was Palsgrave, his tutor, who was allowed three servants and an annual stipend of 13l. 6s. 8d. (Nichols, Memoir of the Duke of Richmond, 1855, pp. xxiii, xxiv). His signature is attached to several of the documents issued in that and subsequent years by
