Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
page 37 of 56 (66%)
woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sedley's
mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems (but is not) modest."

On this Lord Braybrooke has the following note:--

"Pegg must have been Margaret Hughes, Prince Rupert's mistress,
who had probably before that time lived with Sir Charles
Sedley."

And then follows some account of Mrs. Hughes. But, _query_, was the
"Pegg" of the _Diary_, Peg Hughes? was she not rather as I belived her
to have been, Katherine Pegg, by whom king Charles II. had a son,
Charles Fitz-Charles, created Earl of Plymouth, 29th July, 1675, died
1680?

Katherine Pegg has escaped Lord Braybrooke. Can any of your
correspondents tell me who she was?

PETER CUNNINGHAM

* * * * *

QUERIES IN MEDIÆVAL GEOGRAPHY.

What are the modern names of "Watewich," "Portum Pusillum," "Mare de
Saham," "Perpessa," and "Northmuth?" They are not to be found in
Ferrario's _Lexicon_ (a geographical dictionary so defective that it has
not even the Latin name for Aix-la-Chapelle), nor in Baudrand's _Lexicon
Geographicum_ (a good dictionary for the mediæval Latin names in France,
but not so perfect as the _Index Geographicum_ attached to the volumes
DigitalOcean Referral Badge