alleged, "notification"
seems to be the drift of the word.

"Of this vnreuerent religi[=o], Mahomete, a noble ma[=n]e, borne in
Arabie, or, as some report, in Persie, was authour: and his father
was an heathen idolater, and his mother an Ismaelite; wherfore she
had more _perceuerance_ of the Hebrues law."--_Id._, fol. cxlii.

"Where all feelyng and _perseuer[=a]ce_ of euill is awaie, nothyng
there is euill or found a misse. As if a manne {401} be fallen into
a sound slepe, he feleth not the hardenesse or other incommoditie of
his cabon or couche."--"The Saiynges of Publius, No. 58.," _The
Precepts of Cato, &c., with Erasmus Annotations_: London, 1550.

"Wherfore both Philip and Alexander (if ye dead haue anie
_perceuerance_) woulde not that the rootes (rooters) out of them
and theyre issue, but rather that the punnishers of those traitors,
should enioye the kingdom of Macedone."--"The XVI Booke of
Justine," fol. 86., Golding's Translation of the _Abridgement of
the Historyes of Trojus Pompeius_: London, 1578.

"And morouer bycause his setting of vs here in this world is to
aduaunce vs aloft, that is, to witte to the heauenly life, whereof
he giueth vs some _perceyuerance_ and feeling afore hande."--Io.
Calvin. "Sermon XLI., on the Tenth Chap. of Job," p. 209.,
Golding's Translation: London, 1574.

"And so farre are wee off from being able to atteine to such
knowledge through our owne power, that we flee it as much as is
possible, and blindfold our own eyes, to the intent we might put
away all _perceyuerance_ and feeling of God's judgement from
vs."--_Id._, "Sermon XLII.," p. 218.

"For (as I haue touched already) God of his goodnesse doth not
vtterly barre vs from hauing any _perceyuerance_ at all of his
wisdome: but it behoueth vs to keepe measure."--_Id._, "Sermon
XLIII.," p. 219.

I shall not cite any more from Golding, but simply observe that the word
occurs again and again in his translations. The remaining three examples
exhibit the noun in a somewhat different sense, viz. "notification," or
"means of discerning:"

"The time most apt in all the yeare, and affoording greatest
_perseuerance_ for the finding out of the heads of wells and
fountaines, are the moneths of August or September."--_The First
Booke of the Countrie Farme_, p. 8., by Stev