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
Year of the Production; to which are added, a correct Edition of
the Original, with the various Readings, and many Annotations." [81
pages, 4to.] [This publication (well known _now_ to have been one
of the works of Dr. Pegge) was, as we believe, brought forward at
the instance of the Hon. Daines Barrington, to whom it is inscribed.
The number of copies printed was 250.]--No. VI. 1780. "The Forme of
Cury. A Roll of antient English Cookery, compiled about the Year
1390, Temp. Ric. II. with a copious Index and Glossary." [8vo.] [The
curious Roll, of which this is a copy, was the property of the late
Gustavus Brander, esq. It is in the hand-writing of the time, a
facsimile of which is given facing p. xxxi. of the Preface. The work
before us was a _private_ impression; but as, since Mr. Brander's
decease, it has fallen, by sale, into a great many hands, we refer
to the Preface for a farther account of it. Soon after Dr. Pegge's
elucidation of the Roll was finished, Mr. Brander presented the
autograph to the British Museum.]--No. VII. 1789. "Annales Eliæ de
Trickenham, Monachi Ordinis Benedictini. Ex Bibliothecâ Lamethanâ."
To which is added, "Compendium Compertorum. Ex Bibliothecâ Ducis
Devoniæ." [4to.] [Both parts of this publication contain copious
annotations by the Editor. The former was communicated by Mr.
John Nichols, Printer, to whom it is _inscribed_. The latter was
published by permission of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to whom
it is _dedicated_. The respective Prefaces to these pieces will best
explain the nature of them.]--No. VIII. 1793. "The Life of Robert
Grosseteste, the celebrated Bishop of Lincoln." [4to.] [This Work
we have justly called his _chef-d'œuvre_; for, in addition to
the life of an individual, it comprises much important history of
interesting times, together with abundant collateral matter.]--The
two following works have appeared since the Writer's death: No. IX.
1801. "An Historical Account of Beauchief Abbey, in the County of
Derby, from its first Foundation to its final Dissolution. Wherein
the three following material Points, in opposition to vulgar
Prejudices, are clearly established: 1st, That this Abbey did not
take its name from the Head of Archbishop Becket, though it was
dedicated to him. 2d, That the Founder of it had no hand in the
Murder of that Prelate; and, consequently, that the House was not
erected in Expiation of that Crime. 3d, The Dependance of this House
on that of Welbeck, in the County of Nottingham; a Matter hitherto
unknown." [4to.]--No. X. 1809. "_Anonymiana_; or, Ten Centuries of
Observations on various Authors and Subjects. Compiled by a late
very learned and reverend Divine; and faithfully published from the
original MS. with the Addition of a copious Index." [8vo.]]
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