E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Purchas, Samuel
(b. Thaxted, Essex, 1577; d. London, September 30th, 1626). “Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World, and the Religions Observed in all Ages and Places discovered from the Creation to this Present” (1613); “Microcosmus; or, the Historie of Man” (1619); “The King’s Tower and Triumphant Arch of London” (1623); “Haklytus Posthumus; or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages and Lande Travels, by Englishmen and Others” (1625–26).
