PACÆUS or PACE, (Richardus) dean of St. Paul 's, in London, and a musical author, was a favourite of king Henry VIII., who employed him on several important services. Cardinal Wolsey was at length the means of his losing his sovereign 's confidence, which affected him so much that he became insane. He died in 1532, being about fifty, though, according to Bayle, only forty years old. He left, besides other works, one entitled “De Restitutione Musices.”

PACCHIAROTTI (Gasporo) was born in the Roman states about the year 1750. He began his musical career in 1770, at Palermo, in Sicily. In 1772, he was the principal singer in the theatre San Carlo at Naples, with De Amicis. For the five following years, he sang at the provincial towns in Italy, and in 1778 came to England. Dr. Burney says, “That the natural tone of Pacchiarotti 's voice was so interesting, sweet, and pathetic, that when he had a long note or messa di voce, he (the doctor) never wished him to change it, or to do any thing but swell, diminish, or prolong it, in whatever way he pleased.”