“Yet a few months, and the quiet village of Tod- 
dington, in Bedferdshire, witnessed a yet sadder fune- 
ral. Near that village stood an ancient and stately 
hall, the seat of the Wentworths, The transept of the 
parish church had long been their burial-place. To 
that burial-place, in the spring which followed the 
death of Monmouth, was borne the coffin of the young 
Baroness Wentworth of Nettlestead. Her family 
reared a sumptuous mausoleum over her remains ; ‘but 
a less costly memorial of her was long contemplated 
with far deeper interest: her name carved by the hand 
of him she loved too well, was, a few years ago, still 
discernible on a tree in the adjoining park.” 
In further proof of identity, Dr. Anster pointed 
out several charms and recipes which the manu- 
script volume contains. The conjurations are in 
general for the purpose of learning the results of 
sickness in any particular case, and of determining 
whether friends will be in certain circumstances 
faithful. ‘There are also incantations for the use 
of several maladies, and one to make gray hair 
grow black. No “charms against being wounded 
in battle,” such as Sir John Reresby mentions, 
are to be found in the volume; but there are some 
prayers against violent death, which have the ap- 
pearance of having been transcribed from some 
devotional book. ‘There is evidently a mistake in 
supposing that this book contains any charm for 
breaking open prison doors, and it is likely that 
Sir John Reresby was misled in this way :— There 
is in page 7. a charm in French to procure repose 
of body and mind, and deliverance from pains ; 
and the word for “ pains” is written in a con- 
tracted form; it might as well stand for prisons; 
but, examining the context, it is plainly the former 
word which is meant. 
The rest of the entries consist of extracts from 
old recipe-books, mixed in the oddest way with 
abridgments of English history, and the most 
trifling memorandums, chiefly of a private and 
personal kind. Altogether, this commonplace work 
is highly indicative of the weakness, vanity, and 
superstition which stood forward so prominently 
in the character of the rash but unfortunate Duke 
of Monmouth. 
QUERIES. 
CATHERINE PEGGE. 
Mr. Cunningham was mistaken in supposing 
that I had overlooked Catherine Pegge, for I was 
well aware that she could not have been Pepys’s 
“pretty Lady.” She must, in fact, have attained 
her fortieth year, and there is no record of her 
being on the stage; whereas Margaret Hughes 
had, when Pepys saluted her, recently joined the 
Theatre Royal, and she is expressly styled “ Peg 
Hughes” by Tom Browne, in one of his “ Letters 
from the Dead to the Living.” Having disposed of 
this question, I am tempted to add that -Morant 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 13. 
does not confirm the statement that Catherine 
Pegge married Sir Edward Green, for he says that 
4 Sir Edward Greene, created a Baronet, 26 July, 
1660, was seated at Little Sampford in Essex ; he had 
3 wives, the first was Jeronyma, daughter and coheir 
of William Everard, of Linsted, Esq., and by her he 
had 6 daughters, by Mary, daughter of. Tasborough, 
he had a son; and by tbe third lady , daughter of 
Simonds, he had a daughter. He was the last of 
the Greenes that enjoyed this estate, having lost it by 
gaming.”—Morant’s Essez, vol. ii. p. 525. 
This account of the Greene family is stated in a 
note to have been taken from a fine pedigree on 
vellum, penes T. Wotton, Gent. 
If Catherine Pegge was one of the three ladies 
mentioned above, she must have changed her name 
previously to her marriage, in hopes of concealing 
her former history; but the circumstance of the 
baronetcy being conferred upon Sir Edward is 
very suspicious. Probably some of your corre- 
spondents can settle the question. 
Audley End, Jan, 19. 1850. 
BrayBROOKE. 
WILLIAM BASSE, AND HIS POEMS. 
Can any of your readers inform me where a 
perfect or imperfect copy is to be found of a poem, 
of which I possess only a single half sheet, under 
the following title :— 
“ Great Brittaines Svnnes-set, bewailed with a 
Shower of Teares. By William Basse. At Oxford, 
Printed by Ioseph Barnes. 1613”? 
It is one of the many poems published on the 
death of Prince Henry; and although Ihave been 
in search of it, or of a fragment of it, for more 
than twenty years, I have never been able to 
obtain tidings of more than of that small portion 
in my possession; nor am I aware of the mention 
of it in any bibliographical authority. I have 
not at hand Sir H. Nicolas’s edition of Walton’s 
Angier, in which Basse is spoken of, but I re- 
member looking at that beautiful and costly work 
a long time ago, and, as far as I recollect, not 
finding in it anything to my purpose. I observe 
that a William Basse (or Bas, as the name is 
there spelt) printed in 1602, 4to., a tract called 
Sword and Buckler, or Serving Man's Defence ; 
but I know no more of it than that it was sold in 
Steevens’s sale; and among the MSS. of the late 
Mr. Heber was a volume of poems called Poly- 
hymnia, apparently prepared for the press, and 
dedicated by William Basse to Lady Lindsey, 
which contained an “ Elegie on a rare Singing 
Bull-finch,” dated 19th June, 1648; so that he 
was still living nearly half a century after he had 
printed his earliest known performance. 
The production that Izaac Walton refers to 
must be the ballad preserved in the Pepys Col- 
lection at Cambridge, under the heading “ Maister 
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