Vienna, where he was a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky (b. 1830), the pianist and composer. He made his first public appearance in Vienna in 1887, in Paris in 1889, and in London in 1890, his brilliant playing created a furore which went to almost extravagant lengths of admiration; and his triumphs were repeated in America in 1891. His name at once became synonymous with the highest pitch of pianoforte playing, and society was at his feet. In 1899 he married Baroness de Rosen, and after 1900 he appeared but little in public; but he became better known as a composer, chiefly of pieces for his own instrument. In 1901 his opera Manru was performed at Dresden.
PADIHAM, an urban district in the Clitheroe parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 3 m. W. by N. of Burnley by the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901), 12,205. It hes in a wild and dreary district on the precipitous banks of the Calder. It possesses large cotton mills, and quarries and coal-mines are worked in the immediate neighbourhood. The church of St Leonard, founded before 1451, was frequently altered before it was rebuilt in 1866–1868 in the Perpendicular
style. Padiham in 1251 was a manor in the possession of
Edmund de Lacy.
PADILLA, JUAN LOPEZ DE, insurrectionary leader in the
“guerra de las comunidades” in which the commons of Castile
made a futile stand against the arbitrary policy of Charles V.
and his Flemish ministers, was the eldest son of the commentator
of Castile, and was born in Toledo towards the close of the
15th century. After the cities, by their deputies assembled at
Avila, had vainly demanded the king’s return, due regard for
the rights of the cortes, and economical administration, to be
entrusted to the hands of Spaniards, it was resolved to resort
to force, and the “holy junta” was formed, with Padilla at its
head. An attempt was first made to establish a national
government in the name of the imbecile Joanna, who was then
residing at Tordesillas; with this view they took possession of
her person, seized upon the treasury books, archives, and seals
of the kingdom, and stripped Adrian of his regency. But the
junta soon alienated the nobility by the boldness with which it
asserted democracy and total abolition of privilege, while it
courted defeat in the field by appointing to the supreme command
of its forces not Padilla but Don Pedro de Giron, who had no
recommendation but his high birth. After the army of the
nobility had recaptured Tordesillas, Padilla did something to
retrieve the loss by taking Torrelobaton and some other towns.
But the junta, which was not fully in accord with its ablest
leader, neutralized this advantage by granting an armistice;
when hostilities were resumed the commons were completely
defeated near Villalar (April 23, 1521), and Padilla, who had been
taken prisoner, was publicly executed on the following day.
His wife, Doña Maria Pacheco de Padilla, bravely defended
Toledo against the royal troops for six months afterwards, but
ultimately was compelled to take refuge in Portugal.
See Sandoval, Historia de Carlos V. (Pamplona, 1681); E. Armstrong, The Emperor Charles V. (1902); A. Rodriquez Villa, Juana la Loca (Madrid, 1892); and Pero Mejia, Comunidades de Castilla, in the Biblioteca de autores españoles of Rivadeneyra, vol. xxi.
PADISHAH, the Turkish form of the Persian padshah, a title—equivalent to “lord king”—of the reigning sovereign. Though strictly applied in the East to the shahs of Persia, it was also used of the Great Moguls or Tatar emperors of Delhi, and hence it is now used by the natives of British India of the British sovereign as emperor of India. In Europe it is applied to the sultan of Turkey. The Persian padshah is from pati, lord, master, and shah, king. It is now generally considered to have no etymological connexion with “pasha” (q.v.).
PADSTOW, a small seaport and market town in the St Austell parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, on a branch of the
London & South Western railway. Pop. of urban district
(1901), 1566. It lies near the north coast, on the west shore,
and 2 m. from the mouth of the estuary of the river Camel, a
picturesque inlet which from Padstow Bay penetrates 6 m. into
the land. The church of St Petrock, with a massive rood stone
in the churchyard, is mainly Perpendicular, with an Early
English tower. Within are an ancient font, a canopied piscina,
and a fine timber roof over the nave and aisles. Other interesting
churches in the locality are those of St Petrock Minor,
St Minver, St Michael, St Constantine, and, most remarkable of
all, St Enodock’s. This building, erected in the 15th century
amid the barren dunes bordering the east shore of the estuary
near its mouth, in place of a more ancient oratory, was long
buried beneath drifts of sand. From a httle distance only the
weather-beaten spire can be seen. A Norman font remains
from the older foundation. A monastery formerly stood on the
high ground west of Padstow, and according to tradition was
founded by St Petrock in the 6th and razed by the Danes in
the 10th century. Its site is occupied by Prideaux Place, an
Elizabethan mansion, which contains among other valuable
pictures Van Dyck’s portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria. Pentine
Point shelters Padstow Bay on the north-east, but the approach
to the estuary is dangerous during north-westerly gales. Padstow,
nevertheless, is a valuable harbour of refuge, although
the river channel is narrow and much silted. Dredging, however,
is prosecuted, the sand being sent inland, being useful as a
manure through the carbonate of lime with which it is impregnated.
The Padstow Harbour Association (1829) is devoted to
the rescue of ships in distress, making no claims for salvage beyond
the sums necessary for its maintenance. Padstow has fisheries
and shipyards and some agricultural trade.
Padstow (Aldestowe 1273, Patrikstowe 1326, Patrestowe 1346) and St Ives are the only two tolerably safe harbours on the north coast of Cornwall. To this circumstance they both owed their selection for early settlement. St Petrock, who has been called the patron saint of Cornwall, is said to have landed here and also to have died here in the 6th century. At the time of the Domesday survey Bodmin, which treasured the saint’s remains, had become the chief centre of religious influence. Padstow is not mentioned in that record. It was included in the bishop of Exeter’s manor of Pawton, which had been annexed to the see of Crediton upon its formation by Edward the Elder in 909. Padstow was plundered by the Danes in 981. Until then it is said to have possessed a monastery, which thereupon was transferred to Bodmin. Two manors of Padstow are mentioned later—the prior of Bodmin’s manor, which included the rectory, and a manor which passed from the Bonvilles to the Greys, marquesses of Dorset, both of which were eventually acquired by the family of Prideaux. From the letters patent addressed to the bailiffs of Padstow demanding the survey and delivery of ships for foreign service, the appointment of a king’s butler for the port, and the frequent recourse which was had to the king’s courts for the settlement of disputes of shipping, Padstow appears to have been a port of considerable repute in the 14th century. Its affairs were entrusted to a reeve or bailiff acting in conjunction with the principal men of the town. In 1540 Leland, without sufficient reason, credits Athelstan with the bestowal of such privileges as it then enjoyed, and describes it as a parish full of fishermen and Irishmen. Forty years later Norden describes it as an incorporation and market town. Carew in 1602 states that it had lately purchased a corporation and derived great profit from its trade with Ireland. Some steps towards incorporation were doubtless taken, but it is remarkable that no traces of its municipal character are discoverable in any subsequent records. A prescriptive market is held on Saturdays; two fairs of like nature have disappeared.
PADUA (Lat. Patavium; Ital. Padova), a city of northern Italy, on the river Bacchiglione, 25 m. W. of Venice and 18 m. S.E. of Vicenza, with a population of 82,283. The city is picturesque, with arcaded streets, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls. The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length 26712 ft., its breadth 89 ft., and its height 78 ft.; the walls are covered with symbolical paintings in fresco; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of
