Chapter Perceforest to Peregrine of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

killed the serpent, but gave the stone to his companion, earl Etlym of the east country. These exploits over, sir Peredur lived fourteen years with the empress Cristinobyl the Great.

Sir Peredur is the Welsh name for sir Perceval of Wales.—The Mabinogion (from the Red Book of Hergest, twelfth century).

Peregrine , a sentimental prig, who talks by the book. At the age of 15, he runs away from home, and Job Thornberry lends him ten guineas, “the first earnings of his trade as a brazier.” After thirty years’ absence, Peregrine returns, just as the old brazier is made a bankrupt “through the treachery of a friend.” He tells the bankrupt that his loan of ten guineas has by honest trade grown to 10,000, and these he returns to Thornberry as his own by right. It turns out that Peregrine is the eldest brother of sir Simon Rochdale, J.P., and when sir Simon refuses justice to the old brazier, Peregrine asserts his right to the estate, etc. At the same time, he hears that the ship he thought was wrecked has come safe into port, and has thus brought him £100,000.—Colman: John Bull (1805).