Foster: Pearce, Robert, s. Joh., of Ermington, Devon, p.p. Lincoln Coll., matric 15 Apr 1698, aged 19; BA 14 Feb 1701-2; MA from St Edmund Hall 1705, and vice-principal;supplied the church of Hhillesden, Bucks, 7 years, rector of Scotter, co. Lincoln, 1722. See Rawl., i. 193b, v. 349, xviii. 188, xxi. 59; Foster's Index Eccl; Hearne, i. 141, ii. 79, iii. 324.