Rev. Samuel Pegge, LL.D F.S.A.
Born 1704; Died 1796.
Engraved by Philip Audinet from an Original Paintingby Elias Needham 1788 in the Possession of Sir Christopher Pegge, M.D.
Published by Nichols, Son & Bentley, Jan. 1, 1818.
Curialia Miscellanea,
OR
ANECDOTES OF OLD TIMES;
REGAL, NOBLE, GENTILITIAL,
AND
MISCELLANEOUS:
INCLUDING AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES OF
THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD,
AND THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE COURT,
AT AN EARLY PERIOD OF THE
English History.
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By SAMUEL PEGGE, Esq. F.S.A.
Author of the "CURIALIA,"
AND OF
"ANECDOTES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE."
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PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, SON, AND BENTLEY,
AT THE PRINTING-OFFICE OF THE NOTES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
25, PARLIAMENT STREET, AND 10, KING STREET, WESTMINSTER;
SOLD ALSO AT THEIR OLD OFFICE IN RED LION PASSAGE,
FLEET STREET, LONDON.
1818.
LIST OF PLATES.
| Portrait of the Rev. Samuel Pegge, LL.D. | Frontispiece. |
| Whittington Church | lix. |
| Whittington Rectory | lxii. |
| Whittington Revolution House | lxiii. |
ADVERTISEMENT.
The publication of this Volume is strictlyconformable to the testamentary intentions ofthe Author, who consigned the MSS. for thatexpress purpose to the present Editor[1].
Mr. Pegge had, in his life-time, publishedThree Portions of "Curialia, or an Accountof some Members of the Royal Houshold;"and had, with great industry and laboriousresearch, collected materials for several otherPortions, some of which were nearly completedfor the press.
Mr. Pegge was "led into the investigation,"he says, "by a natural and kind of instinctivecuriosity, and a desire of knowing whatwas the antient state of the Court to whichhe had the honour, by the favour of hisGrace William the late Duke of Devonshire,to compose a part."
Two more Portions were printed in 1806by the present Editor. Long, however, andintimately acquainted as he was with the accuracyand dif