cathedral, and inscribed to his much-respected friend, Thomas Knight, Esq. of _Godmersham_, in _Kent_.--A Sermon, preached also at _Canterbury_ Cathedral during the Rebellion, 1746. [The avowed design of the Discourse was, to prove that "Popery was an encouragement to vice and immorality." This Sermon attracted the civilities (mentioned in p. xxxi.) which Dr. Pegge received from _Archbishop_ Herring. These are the principal _professional_ Publications by Dr. Pegge; to which ought to be added some short _pastoral_ and _gratuitous_ printed distributions at various times; _viz._ 1755. A Discourse on Confirmation (of 23 pages, octavo), being an enlarged Sermon, preached at _Chesterfield_ previously to the Bishop's triennial Visitation, and dispersed.--1767. A brief Examination of the Church Catechism, for the Use of those who are just arrived at Years of Discretion.--1790. A short Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (4 pages octavo), first addressed to his Parishioners of Brindle, in Lancashire, 1753; and afterwards reprinted and distributed in his three parishes of Whittington, Heath, and Wingerworth, in Derbyshire, 1790. and a fund of knowledge, more than would have displayed itself in any greater work, where the subject requires but _one_ bias, and _one_ peculiar attention[33]. [33] An accurate list of these detached publications may be seen in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1796, pp. 979, 1081. Frivolous as many detached _morsels_, scattered up and down in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, may appear to some Readers, they may be called the ruminations of a busy mind; which shews an universality of reading, a love of investigation, It is but justice to say, that few men were so liberal in the diffusion of the knowledge which he had acquired, or more ready to communicate it, either _vivâ voce_, or by the loan of his MSS. as many of his living Friends can testify. In his publications he was also equally _disinterested_ as in his private communications; for he never, as far as can be recollected, received any _pecuniary_ advantage from any pieces that he printed, committing them all to the press, with the sole reserve of a few copies to distribute among his particular Friends[34]. [34] We shall here specify Mr. Pegge's several Memoirs printed (by direction of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries) in the Archæologia, as being the principal _combined_ work to which he contributed. Herein we shall proceed as they successively occur in those volumes, rather than by the times at which the communications themselves were actually read before the Society.