Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
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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 |
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