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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 4. 
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 
Pegs, 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 :— 
“« Peoo 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 
believe 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 Bray- 
brooke. Can any of your correspondents tell 
me who she was? PETER CUNNINGHAM. 
QUERIES IN MEDILZVAL GEOGRAPHY. 
What are the modern names of “ Wate- 
wich,” “Portum Pusillum,” ‘Mare de Saham,” 
“ Perpessa,” and “ Northmuth?” They are 
not to be found in Ferrario’s Lexicon (a geo- 
graphical dictionary so defective that it has 
not even the Latin name for Aix-la-Chapelle), 
nor in Baudrand’s Lexicon Geographicum (a 
good dictionary for the medieval Latin names 
in France, but not so perfect as the Index 
Geographicum attached to the volumes of 
Bouquet), nor in Martiniere’s Grande Dic- 
tionnaire Geographique, nor in the Index to 
Wright’s Courthand, a miserable and imper- 
fect compilation. 
[These Queries are addressed to our corres- 
pondents in a very. flattering review of “ Norns 
AND Qurries” which appeared in the Morning 
Herald of the 16th of November, and we shall be | 
very glad to receive such answers to all or any of 
them as it may be in the power of any of our 
friends to supply. ] 
MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOME- 
FIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY. 
Sir,—I have had intrusted to me a MS. 
metrical book on Alchymy, “wrytten by me 
Myles Blomefylde, late of Bury Saynet Ed- 
-munde in y® Countye of Suffolke, Physy- 
tione;” but I can find no account of the 
/ author. Warton, Ritson, and Tanner, men- 
tion a “ William Blomefield, born at Bury, 
Bachelor in Physic and a Monk of Bury,” 
who wrote inter alia a metrical work called 
Bloomefield’s Blossoms, or the Camp of Phi- 
losophy. 
Were there two metrical writers on al- 
chymy of the name of Bloomfield, temp. Eliz., 
and connected with Bury? BuRIENSIS. 
[The following Note by Park, which first ap- 
peared in the edition of Warton published in 
1840, iii. p. 83., coupled with the fact that William 
Blomefield is described as a Bachelor of Physic, 
would seem to show that there is but one writer, 
whose proper name is not William, but Myles: 
“From Ashmole’s Notes on Theatrum Chemicum, 
1652, p. 478., it seems doubtful whether his name 
was not Myles.” ] 
THYNNE’S COLLECTION OF CHANCELLORS. 
Mr. Editor,—Can any of your corre- 
spondents inform me who was the “ streict 
laced” gaoler of the records, alluded to in 
the following passage in the Collection of 
Chancellors of England, by Francis Thynne, 
inserted in Holinshed (ed. 1808) iv. 351. 
“ John, Chancellor of England in the time of 
king Henrie the second, but what he was or in 
what, yeare of king Henrie he lived I doo not 
know, and therefore leaue it to him that both can 
and ought to giue life to these persons whom he 
imprisoneth in the east castell of London; not 
doubting but in time he will doo his countrie 
good, and correct other men; though now he be so 
streict laced, as that he will not procure anie fur- 
therance of other men’s trauels.” > 
COLD HARBOUR. 
Mr. Editor,—In examining the Ordnance 
Survey of Kent, I was quite surprised at the 
recurrence of the name “Cold Harbour ;” 
and again, in Wyld’s Map of London in 1550. 
I believe the point has been explained be- 
fore, but perhaps some of your readers could 
give me some information as to its origin, 
G. H. B. 
Novy. 8. 1849. 
[The Society of Antiquaries was a good deal 
oecupied, we scarcely know whether we may say 
interested, in the question, raised by our corre- 
| Spondent, during the last session: and consider- 
