Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Engraving of the Reverend Samuel Pegge (1704-1796). (Samuel Pegge was educated at Chesterfield and in 1722 became a scholar of St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in February 1730. In Kent Pegge developed his antiquarian interests, collecting books and coins, corresponding with like-minded contemporaries, researching, and writing. On 14 February 1751 Pegge was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. To the classical and theological compositions of his youth, beginning in 1727 with the publication of a Latin ode on the death of King George I, he had added a body of predominantly antiquarian writings which increased substantially during his remaining forty-five years. Pegge was said to have been the most prolific of all contributors to the journal Archaeologia with more than fifty published articles and memoirs.) Engraving and text c. 1818 By: Elias Needhamafter: and Philip AudinetCurialia 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 Samuel Pegge Published: 1818