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 HistoryPegge, Samuel
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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
Pegge, Samuel
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800; Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796
Independent Publications on Numismatical, Antiquarian, and
Biographical Subjects: 1756. No. I. "A Series of Dissertations on
some elegant and very valuable Anglo-Saxon Remains." [42 pages,
4to. with a Plate.] 1. A Gold Coin in the Pembrochian Cabinet, in a
Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq. late President of the Royal Society,
and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. [Dated Godmersham,
1751.] 2. A Silver Coin in the Possession of Mr. John White.
[Dated Whittington, 1755.] 3. A Gold Coin in the Possession of Mr.
Simpson, of Lincoln, in a Letter to Mr. Vertue. [Dated Godmersham,
1751.] 4. A Jewel in the Bodleian Library. [No place or date.]
5. Second Thoughts on Lord Pembroke's Coin, in a Letter to Mr.
Ames, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries. [Dated Whittington,
1755.] [These Dissertations are prefaced by a Question, candidly
debated with the Rev. George North, Whether the Saxons coined any
Gold?]--No. II. 1761. "Memoirs of Roger de Weseham, Dean of Lincoln,
afterwards Bishop of Lichfield; and the principal Favourite of
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln." [60 pages, 4to.] [This
work (as we are told in the title-page) was intended as a prelude
to the Life of that most excellent Bishop, Robert Grosseteste;
which accordingly appeared (as will be mentioned) in the year 1795.
These Memoirs were compiled soon after Dr. Pegge was collated, by
Bishop [Frederick] Cornwallis, to the prebend of _Bobenhull_, in
the church of Lichfield, 1757, (founded by Bishop Weseham) and
gratefully inscribed to his patron the Bishop of Lichfield, and to
his friend Dr. John Green, then Dean of Lincoln, as Roger de Weseham
had successively filled both those dignities.-- No. III. 1766. "An
Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin; in an Epistle to the Right Rev.
Bishop of Carlisle [Charles Lyttelton], President of the Society of
Antiquaries." [105 pages, 4to.] [This collection of coins is classed
in two plates, and illustrated by a Commentary, together with
observations on the word _tascia_. N. B. The impression consisted
of no more than 200 copies.]--No. IV. 1772. "An Assemblage of Coins
fabricated by Authority of the Archbishops of Canterbury. To which
are subjoined, Two Dissertations." [125 pages, 4to.] 1. On a fine
Coin of Alfred the Great, with his Head. 2. On an Unic, in the
Possession of the late Mr. Thoresby, supposed to be a Coin of St.
Edwin; but shewn to be a Penny of Edward the Confessor. [An Essay
is annexed on the origin of metropolitical and other subordinate
mints; with an Account of their Progress and final Determination:
together with other incidental Matters, tending to throw light on a
branch of the Science of Medals, not perfectly considered by English
Medalists.]--No. V. 1772. "Fitz-Stephen's Description of the City of
London, newly translated from the Latin Original, with a necessary
Commentary, and a Dissertation on the Author, ascertaining the exact
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