Sual. p. ix. 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. By SAMUEL PEGGE, Esa. F. S. A. AND OF "ANECDOTES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, SON, AND BENTLEY, SOLD ALSO AT THEIR OLD OFFICE IN RED LION PASSAGE, ADVERTISEMENT. THE publication of this Volume is strictly conformable to the testamentary intentions of the Author, who consigned the MSS. for that express purpose to the present Editor *. Mr. Pegge had, in his life-time, published 66 Three Portions of " Curialia, or an Account of some Members of the Royal Houshold and had, with great industry and laborious research, collected materials for several other Portions, some of which were nearly completed for the press. * See the Extract in page vi. |