than good. A portrait of him by Mrs. Beale, circa 1672, was at Melbury, Dorset, the seat of the Earl of Ilchester.
Among Pierce's other works were:
- 'The Signal Diagnostic, whereby to judge of our Affections and present and future Estate,' 1670.
- 'A Decade of Caveats to the People of England,' 1679; against popery and dissent, and mostly preached in Salisbury Cathedral.
- The first of 'Two Letters containing a further Justification of the Church of England against Dissenters,' 1682.
- 'Pacificatorium Orthodoxæ Theologiæ Corpusculum,' 1683 and 1685, a treatise for young men entering into holy orders.
- 'The Law and Equity of the Gospel, or the Goodness of our Lord as a Legislator,' 1686.
- 'Articles to be enquired of within the peculiar Jurisdiction of Thomas Pierce, Dean of Sarum, in his Triennial Visitation, 168' (sic).
- 'A Prophylactick from Disloyalty in these Perilous Times, in a letter to Herbert, bishop of Hereford,' 1688; in support of the declaration of James II, and signed 'Theophilus Basileus.'
- 'An effectual Prescription against the Anguish of all Diseases,' 1691; apparently posthumous.
As a popular preacher Pierce was the author of many printed sermons. With the exception of three–(a) 'The Badge and Cognisance of God's Disciples, preached at St. Paul's before the Gentlemen of Wilts,' 1657; (b) 'The Grand Characteristic,' 1658; (c) 'A seasonable Caveat against Credulity, before the King at Whitehall,' 1679–the whole of them were included in 'A Collection' issued in 1671.
Pierce corrected, amended, and completed for the press the 'Annales Mundi,' 1655, and compiled the 'Variantes Lectiones ex Annotatis Hug. Grotii, cum ejusdem de iis judicio,' which forms the fifteenth article in the last volume of Walton's 'Polyglot Bible.' He contributed verses to the Oxford collections, 'Horti Carolini rosa altera,' 1640; 'On Queen Henrietta Maria's Return from Holland,' 1643; and on the death of that queen, 1669. He was also the author of the anonymous poem 'Caroli τοῦ μακαρίτου Παλιγγενεσία, 1649,' which was included in the same year in 'Monumentum Regale, a Tombe for Charles I,' pp. 20-30. This poem was also appended to Pierce's Latin translation (1674 and 1675) of 'Reasons of Charles I against the pretended Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice, 22 Jan. 1648,' along with Latin epitaphs on Charles I, Henry Hammond, Jeffry Palmer, and several friends; and some hymns, which are said to have been set to music by Nicholas Lanier [q. v.] and others. Wood asserts that the music of the 'Divine Anthems' of William Child was set to the poetry of Pierce. Arthur Phillips [q. v.] is also said to have composed music for his poems.
[Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. iii. 407, iv. 299-307, 598; Wood's Fasti, ii. 266, 297, 307; Jones's Fasti Eccles. Salisb. pp. 323, 371; Le Neve's Fasti, i. 55, ii. 167, 618, 663, iii. 563; Bloxam's Magd. Coll. Register, passim; Halkett and Laing's Pseudon. Lit. iii. 2033, iv. 2696; Fell's Life of Hammond, 1684, pp. xxxv-vi; Hammond's Works (Libr. Anglo-Cath. Theology), vol. i. pp. cxix, cxxi-iii; Wood's Life and Times (Oxford Hist. Soc.), i. 420, 460, 473, 487-9; Todd's Walton, i. 276-82; Oxford Visitation, ed. Burrows (Camden Soc.), pp. 28-9, 89, 114, 137; Cartwright's Saccharissa, pp. 125, 172; Walton's Life of Sanderson, 1678, pp. 1-3; Letters of Henry More, 1694, pp. 37-46, 54; Evelyn's Diary, 1827, iv. 116-18, 121-4.]
PIERCE, WILLIAM (1580-1670), bishop of Peterborough. [See Piers.]
PIERREPONT, EVELYN, first Duke of Kingston (1665?–1726), was third son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Evelyn, knt., of West Dean, Wiltshire [see under Pierrepont, William]. Evelyn was returned to the Convention parliament in January 1689 for East Retford. At the general election in March 1690 he was again returned for Retford; but on 17 Sept. 1690 he succeeded his brother William as fifth Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and took his seat in the House of Lords on 6 Nov following (Journals of the House of Lords, xiv. 541). He was appointed one of the commissioners for the union with Scotland on 10 Apr 1706, and was created Marquis of Dorchester on 23 Dec 1706, with remainder in default of male issue to his uncle Gervase, Baron Pierrepont of Ardglass, afterwards created Baron Pierrepont of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. Dorchester was admitted to the privy council on 26 Jun 1708, and on 19 Nov following was ordered by the House of Lords to present the address of condolence and thanks to the queen (ib. xviii. 582-3). In 1711 he joined in several protests against the resolutions which had been carried in the House of Lords with reference to the disasters in Spain (Rogers, Complete Collection of Protests of the House of Lords, 1875, i. 198-206). On 28 May 1712 he signed a strongly worded protest against 'the restraining orders' sent to the Duke of Ormonde, which, together with a protest against the peace, in which he joined on 7 Jun, were subsequently expunged by order of the house (ib. i. 209-17). On
