Peend matriculated as a pensioner (fee-paying student) at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1559.
[6] 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.
Peend dedicated the work to Nicholas St Leger of Ulcombe, a few miles south of Leeds.
Peend dedicated the work to sir Thomas Kempe of Wye, Kent, whom he claims as his kinsman.
It is a greatly enlarged translation of the sixth story in Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires tragiques (1559).
Boaistuau claimed that he took the story directly from a Spanish source written by 'Valentinus Barruchius'.
[12] Boaistuau in fact translated and enlarged the tale as he found in it the Novelle of Matteo Bandello.
This is a poem defending and commending John Studley and his translation of Seneca’s tragedy Agamemnon (1566).