The celebration of this Jubilee, on Nov. 5, 1788, is related at large in the Gentleman's Magazine of that month[27]; on which day Mr. Pegge preached a Sermon[28], apposite to the occasion, which was printed at the request of the Gentlemen of the Committee who conducted the ceremonial[29], which proceeded from his Church to Chesterfield in grand procession. [27] See the Appendix to this Memoir. [28] In this Discourse the venerable Preacher, taking for his text Psalm cxviii. 24, first recites, in plain and unaffected language, the blessings resulting from the event here commemorated to Church and State; and then points out the corruptions of the present age, with advice for their reformation. [29] This solemnity took place on _Wednesday_; and, the Church being crowded with strangers, the Sermon was repeated to the parochial congregation on the following _Sunday_.--Mr. Pegge was then very old, and the 5th of November N. S. was his birth-day, when he entered into the 85th year of his age. In the year 1791 (July 8) Mr. Pegge was created D. C. L. by the University of OXFORD, at the Commemoration. It may be thought a little extraordinary that he should accept an advanced Academical Degree so late in life, as he wanted no such aggrandizement in the Learned World, or among his usual Associates, and had _voluntarily_ closed all his expectations of ecclesiastical elevation. We are confident that he was not ambitious of the compliment; for, when it was first proposed to him, he put a _negative_ upon it. It must be remembered that this honour was not conferred on an unknown man (_novus homo_); but on a _Master of Arts of_ CAMBRIDGE, of name and character, and of acknowledged literary merit[30]. Had Mr. Pegge been desirous of the title of _Doctor_ in earlier life, there can be no doubt but that he might have obtained the superior degree of D. D. from Abp. Cornwallis, upon the bare suggestion, during his familiar and domestic conversations with his Grace at Lambeth-palace. [30] Mr. Pegge, at the time, was on a visit to his Grandson, the present Sir Christopher Pegge, M. D. then lately elected Reader of Anatomy at Christ Church, Oxford, on Dr. Lee's foundation. Dr. Pegge's manners were those of a gentleman of a liberal education, who had seen much of the world, and had formed them upon the best models within his observation. Having in his early years lived in free intercourse with many of the principal and best-bred Gentry in various parts of Kent; he ever afterwards preserved the same attentions, by associating with respectable company, and (as we have seen) by forming honourable attachments. In his avocations from reading and retirement, few men could relax with more ease and cheerfulness, or better understood the _desipere in loco_;--could enter occasionally into temperate convivial mirth with a superior grace, or more interest and enliven every company by general conversation.