TY - JOUR
AU - Bratcher, James T.
AB - June 2005 NOTES AND QUERIES 227 seems to have been a Catholic, and, in later life parish. Peele assigns to him the unflattering at least, Verney was noted for his opposition name Steven (perhaps intending it to be 15 1 to Catholicism. Moreover, it has previously Simon) Loach. been thought that Hill fled abroad on account Loach as a pejorative epithet may have of the Basset plot and stayed there until his been fashionable among Peele’s circle of death by suicide some years later. Hill was acquaintances. OED records its use to mean also married with a young son, the Laurence to ‘simpleton’ (citing the jestbook). Although its whom the Philosophia Epicurea is dedicated, reappearance in the jestbook must be looked and so perhaps not as likely to abandon his upon as extremely slight and possibly even family to accompany a young gentleman on worthless as evidence, the resurfacing is his grand tour. Finally, there was one other consistent, at least, with an assumption that Nicholas Hill, like the philosopher the son of one or more of Peele’s acquaintances produced a London plebeian (i.e. perhaps a merchant the jestbook. or tradesman), who matriculated at Magdalen JAMES T. BRATCHER San 
TI - Loach in the Peele Jestbook
JF - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/notesj/gji237
DA - 2005-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/loach-in-the-peele-jestbook-XA0nKVmIyh
SP - 227
EP - 227
VL - 52
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -