Purchas, Samuel, collector of works of travel and continuator of the work of Hakluyt, in two curious works entitled “Purchas his Pilgrimage,” and “Hakluyt's his Posthumous, or Purchas his Pilgrimmes,” and was rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, and chaplain to Archbishop Abbot (1577‒1626).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Purcell, Henry * Purgatorio