Purchas
SAMUEL, an English clergyman; born in Thaxted, Essex, England, in 1577. He was educated at Cambridge, and was rector of St. Martin's, London. His great works were "Purchas, His Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages" (1613); and "Hakluyt's Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes:
Containing a History of the World, in lishmen and Others" (1625). Another work is "Purchas His Pilgrim: Microcosmus, or the History of Man; Relating the Wonders of His Generation, Varieties in His Degeneration, and Necessity of His Regeneration" (1619). He died in London, in September, 1626.