Prideaux, Humphrey, English prelate and scholar; remembered chiefly as the author of a learned work entitled “The Connection of the History of the Old and New Testaments”; wrote a “Life of Mahomet,” popular in its day and for long after (1648‒1724).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Prichard, James Cowles * Pride's Purge