But yet I imagine
that the _application_ of the term "_Gothic_" may be found to be quite
distinct, in its origin, from the first rise of the Pointed Arch. The
invention of the Pointed Arch cannot, surely, be attributed to the
_Goths_; whence then the origin and the _meaning_ of the term _Gothic_?
R. VINCENT.
Winchester, Nov. 12.
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KATHERINE PEGG.
Sir,--I think you may safely add Pepys's _Diary_ to the list of books in
illustration of which you are willing to receive both Queries and
Answers. There is not a passage in the _Diary_ that does not deserve to
be understood. {60}
At vol. iv. p. 435. of the new edition is the following entry:--
"7 May, 1668. Here [at the King's Theatre] I did kiss the pretty
woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sedley's
mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems (but is not) modest."
On this Lord Braybrooke has the following note:--
"Pegg must have been Margaret Hughes, Prince Rupert's mistress,
who had probably before that time lived with Sir Charles
Sedley."
And then follows some account of Mrs. Hughes. But, _query_, was the
"Pegg" of the _Diary_, Peg Hughes? was she not rather as I belived her
to have been, Katherine Pegg, by whom king Charles II. had a son,
Charles Fitz-Charles, created Earl of Plymouth, 29th July, 1675, died
1680?
Katherine Pegg has escaped Lord Braybrooke.
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