Peend was recorded as a scholar at King’s School, Canterbury, in 1556.Mayer and Waters. The master was the antiquary John Tywne (d. 1581); and one of Peend’s class-mates was Twyne’s son, Lawrence Twyne, who would go on to write The Pattern of Painful Adventures (1576), a source for Shakespeare’s Pericles. Peend matriculated as a pensioner (fee-paying student) at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1559.John Venn and John Archibald Venn, ‘Pende, Thomas’, in Alumni Cantabrigienses, part 1, vol. III. (Cambridge 1924), p. 335. He is not known to have taken a degree. He may also have attended Oxford.Anthony à Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Philip Bliss), vol. I.(London 1813), col. 430. Peend does not have a separate entry, but is included in one on Thomas Underdown. On 15 May 1564, he was admitted to the Middle Temple in London, one of the four law schools known as the Inns of Court.Charles Trice Martin, ed. Minutes of Parliament of the Middle Temple, vol. I (London 1904), p. 143. It was now that he wrote A Pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis and A Most Notable History of John, Lord Mandozze. He was briefly expelled from the Middle Temple in the winter of 1566/67 for wounding a fellow-member, Andrew Hemerford (d. c. 1581).Martin, p. 158. In 1577, he was one of those appointed to provide for the Reader’s Feast at the inn; and that is the last we hear of Thomas Peend.Martin, p. 216.
