Dear Sir,
I am really so much engaged (for I am not half through my Herculean labour) that I have not leisure to think of my late nearest Friend, so as to erect any memorial in the Gentleman's Magazine at present.
I have written to Lord Leicester and to Mr. Topham by this post, to request that I may be hung up, according to Law, at the Society of Antiquaries, in hopes of being honourably cut down, and receiving Christian Burial. The Director[61], I trust, will appear to character when my Trial comes up. God send me a good deliverance! What I write to you, I write to Mr. Gough also through you.
Your obliged Friend, &c.
S. Pegge.
To George Allan, Esq. Darlington.
Whittington, May 2, 1796.
Sir,
In the course of the last year my late Father (Rev. Dr. Pegge) among other Books made me a present off "The Northumberland Household Book;" which he told me (as I since find by his memoranda) was lent to you. I take the liberty of wishing to have it returned soon, directed to my Friend Mr. Nichols.