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1796 ] Memoirs of Dr. ?egge.—Mfs.Dchnj .-^Jhp. Herring. 8c>
fermons comoofed bv himfelf, and in
his own hand wr'-ing, befiles a few
;(ndt cxcctdins; 26) Which he kad
tranfcribed (in fubftance on1v, as ap-
pears bv collation) from the printtd
works of emir erit divines. Thtl'e liber-
tits, however, were r.otrakenin his early
days from motives cfidlentfs, or other at-
tachments, but in la'cr life, to favour
the fatigue of compofuionj all which
obliv'atlc.nK he acknn^vie<Jged at the end
■of each fuch fermon.
Though Dr, Peo^e's life was feden-
tary, from his turn to ftwdious retire-
ment, his love of antiquirie?, and of li-
terary acqi.iiements in general, yet thefe
applications, which he purlued with
tgreiit ardour and peiteverance, did not
injure his healrii. Vigour of mind, in
proportion to lus bodily llrengtb, cojiti-
nued unimpaired tlirougha verv extend-
ed courfc ot tire, and nearly till he had
reached ^*ui'ima lines rerum :" for he
never iiad an>- chtonical difssfe;. but
gradually and gently funk intoihe grave
under tlie weight of yens, after a fort-
night's illnets, Feb. 14, 1796, in the
5 id year of his ace*.
Ha«ing clofed the fcene, it mufl be
€oaftlTcd, on the one hand, that the bio-
graphical hiftory of an individual, how-
ever learn'-d, or en^aj^ini; to private
friends, wlio had palfed the major pare
of his days in fecluded retreats froi«
what is called tke lUftrlJ, can afford but
little entertainment to the generality of
readers. On the ctlier hand, ntverthe-
lefs, let it be allowed that every !Ti3.n of
^ackitowlec'ged literary merit, had he
nude no other imprelTion, cannot but
have left many to regret his death.
^ Though Dr. Pegge had exceeded even
his ^'' four (core years and ten." and had
out-lived all his more early friends ?.nd
acquaintance, he h.td the addrefs to m'.ke
new ones, who noiJO furvivc, and who,
it is humbly hoped, will not be f .rry to
lee a mt'de'l remenibrance of him pre^
ferredby this little memoir.
Epitj* PH in ike Chancel ef St. James's
Church, WeRminfter.
« Near this Place lie tlie Remains of
Marv Delaky,
Daushier of Bermrd Gr.inville, efq.
and Niece < f
George Grmiville, Lord Lpafdowne,
She was married, firft, to
Alexander I'endai ves. of llofcrow,,
in the co'.iiity of Cornwall, efq.
and, fecondly, to Patrick Delany, D. D.
De.in of Down, in Ireland.
She was born the I4tli of May, 17003
and died the 15th of April,' 17S8.
She was a Lady
of fmguhr Ingenuity and Politenefs,
and unaffeifled Piety ;
thofe qualities
bad endeared her through life
to mnny nohle and excellent perfons,
and made the clofe of it illultrious
by procuring for her
many fignal marks of Grace and Honour
fiom tl.eir M.'.jerties."'
Mr. Urb.^n, (X7. 12,
nn HE fo! lowing dcfcription of Bi {hop-
■*• thorp, by a relation of Archbifhop
Herrii-.o-, in 1743, may not hs. incon-
fiflent with the plan oi voureistertaining
Mifceliany. ' M.Green.
"I am .at prefent urjder'the hofpit.-^bie
roof of aaArclibifhop; of vvliich Icanf&:)d
you no regular accoiMit, for it was built st
a time of day when men ;*aid more regard
to ctnivenicnce than to unifjrmi'y; aa.^
therefore it would be v'.iin to atten)pt a:i
exaft defct ipciori of it. The rooms are
very l.irse, and furndhed in charafter; and
that apartment, xvhere 1 now fit to vvnte.
Is ornamei:£ed with the adventures of Samp-
fon, cunoufly wroug!,; in old tapeftry, the
work, perhaps, of fuino religions damq.
In one of the bed-cliamhcrs, on eacii fide o?
the cliimney, there are two cherubim, weep-
ing nofl bitterly • and tire ^fta'-y fj.ys, that
when the carver was zficed by fomeho4'jr^
how it entered into bi& be*d 50 reprefcnt
them cryinr, his aiifwer w.as, that he a;>-
pealed to the Te Deum for the propriety of
what he !iad cone. iJpiin the whole, j£
is a moft agreeable houfe, :}rid [iJe-ifes rae
better :h,'.n if it had been defign*' by L'TJ
BurhniTton, or any other genius of tlie age."
What follows is a letter from Abp.
Herring, when prortioced to Cmterburv ;
«< To tic Rev. Mr. CafiL-, >/i,;f.ir af Sen'et
ct^'^gc, Cambridge.
DearMifler, Kerji.tgton, Dei. •^, 1747,
Your Fellows have heeu wish nie to -<!-iy,
* He was buried, according to his own defue, ir; tlie ch.tncel at Wb-ttington, whe'e a
mural tablet of bl.ick marble (a voluntary tribute of filial rei^edl) has been placed, over
■Clieeaft window, with the following Jhort iid-ript;on :
** At tiie North F.nJ of t'le Akar Table, within t'ne Rails,
liethVjReaiain'^'.f
Samuel Pegge, I^L.D.
who was iadui-^'-d to ins R^ftary Nov. rr, 1751,
and iiicd Feb. 14, 1796;
in the gzd year of his Agi."
and