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. 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…