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

Rev. Samuel Pegge, LL.D F.S.A. Born 1704; Died 1796. Engraved by Philip Audinet from an Original Painting by Elias Needham 1788 in the Possession of Sir Christopher Pegge, M.D. Published by Nichols, Son & Bentley, Jan. 1, 1818.
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Author of the CURIALIA, AND OF ANECDOTES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ——— PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, SON, AND BENTLEY, AT THE PRINTING-OFFICE OF THE NOTES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET, AND 10, KING STREET, WESTMINSTER; SOLD ALSO AT THEIR OLD OFFICE IN RED LION PASSAGE, FLEET STREET, LONDON.
1818.
Mr. Pegge had, in his life-time, published 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.

Mr. Pegge was led into the investigation, he says, by a natural and kind of instinctive curiosity, and a desire of knowing what was the antient state of the Court to which he had the honour, by the favour of his Grace William the late Duke of Devonshire, to compose a part.
Two more Portions were printed in 1806 by the present Editor. Long, however, and intimately acquainted as he was with the accuracy and diffidence of Mr. Pegge, he would have hesitated in offering those posthumous Essays to the Publick, if the plan had not been clearly defined, and the Essays sufficiently distinct to be creditable to the reputation which Mr. Pegge had already acquired, by the Parts of the Curialia published by himself, and by his very entertaining (posthumous) Anecdotes of the English Language; —a reputation which descended to him by Hereditary Right , and which he transmitted untarnished to a worthy and learned Son.
It was the hope and intention of the Editor to have proceeded with some other Portions of the Curialia; but the fatal event which (in February 1808) overwhelmed him in accumulated distress put a stop to that intention. Nearly all the printed Copies of the Curialia perished in the flames; and part of the original MS. was lost.