* * * * * _Whittington, Dec. 22, 1788._ DEAR SIR, By this time I hope you are in possession of my Sermon, as I desired my Son to send one copy to you, and another to Mr. Nichols. If I know you, your sentiments in politics coincide with mine; so that I have no fear of your concurrence in that respect and have only to wish that the composition may please you. I am, dear Sir, your truly affectionate and much obliged servant, S. PEGGE. SEQUEL TO THE PARENTALIA. BY THE EDITOR. Samuel Pegge, Esq. the only surviving Son[50] of the venerable Antiquary whose Life has just been recorded, was born in 1731. After an excellent classical education, at St. John's College, Cambridge, he was admitted a Barrister of the Middle Temple; and was soon after, by the favour of the Duke of Devonshire, then Lord Chamberlain, appointed one of the Grooms of His Majesty's Privy-Chamber, and an Esquire of the King's Household. [50] Another son, Christopher, died an infant in 1736. Mr. Pegge married Martha, daughter of Dr. Henry Bourne, an eminent Physician, of Spital, near Chesterfield, in Derbyshire[51], and sister to the Rev. John Bourne[52], Rector of Sutton, and Vicar of South Wingfield, co. Derby. [51] Who died in 1775, in his 89th year. [52] Who married Anne-Katharine, Mr. S. Pegge's only sister. By this lady, who was born in 1732, and died in 1767, he had one son, Christopher, of whom hereafter; and one daughter, Charlotte-Anne, who died, unmarried, March 17, 1793. Mr. Pegge married, secondly, Goodeth Belt, daughter of Robert Belt, Esq. of Bossall, co. York, by whom he had no issue[53]. [53] She died Oct. 23, 1807, in her 82d year. After the death of his Father, Mr. Pegge, though somewhat advanced in life, was desirous of becoming a Member of the Society of Antiquaries. He was accordingly elected in 1796; having previously shewn that he was well deserving of that distinction, by the accuracy and intelligence displayed in the "Curialia." He survived his Father little more than four years; during which period he enjoyed but an indifferent state of bodily health. His mental faculties, however, were, to the last, strong and unimpaired; his manners truly elegant; his conversation always sensible and pleasant; and his epistolary correspondence[54] lively and facetious. [54] A few extracts from his Letters are given in p. lxxxiii. His death is thus recorded on an upright stone on the West side of Kensington church-yard: "SAMUEL PEGGE, Esq. died May the 22d, 1800, aged 67 years. MARTHA, Wife of SAMUEL PEGGE, Esq. died June 28, 1767, aged 35 years. CHARLOTTE-ANNE, the only Daughter of SAMUEL and MARTHA PEGGE, died March 17, 1793, aged 31 years. Mrs. CHRISTIANA PEGGE died July 1, 1790."