drawn up over-against Somerset House in the Strand, on the twenty-seventh of April, An. 1742," there is a somewhat curious representation of the north front of Somerset House as it then appeared; together with the buildings on each side, from the sixth house eastward, to the neighbourhood of the Savoy towards the west. The houses are all thronged with spectators, and there is a triple row of people in the street, of which the middlemost forms the line of the Procession itself. In this mock solemnity some of the principal officers wear fools-caps and others horns; and the carts, &c. are either drawn by starveling ponies or asses, At the bottom, the print is stated to be "Invented and Engraved by A. Benoist;" and the following explication is given; with reference to the different figures and groups in the Procession.

1. The grand Swoard Bearer, or Tylor; carrying y Swoard of State, a Present of Ishmael Abiff to old Hyram, King of y' Saracens, to his Grace of Wattin, Grand Master of y Holy Lodge of St. John of Jerusa» lem in Clerkenwell.-2. Tylers, or Guarders.—3. Grand Chorus of Instruments. -4. The Stewards, in three Gutt Carts drawn by Asses.-5. Two famous Pillars, Jachin and Boaz.-6. Three great Lights; the Sun, Hieroglyphical to rule the Day, the Moon Emblematical to rule the Night, a Master Mason Political to rule his Lodge.-7. The Entered Prentices' Token.-8. The letter G, famous in Masonry for differencing the Fellow Craft's Lodge from that of Prentices. 9. The Funeral of a Grand Master according to y° Rites of y Order, with the 15 Loving Brethren.-10. A Master Mason's Lodge.-11. Grand Band of Music.-12. Two Trophies; one being that of a Black Shoe-Boy and

Link-Boy, the other that of a Chimney Sweeper.-13. The Equipage of the Grand Master, all y' Attendants wearing Mystical Jewels."-The latter group exhibits an open car drawn by six horses, in which is the Grand Master with a Ass's head, and his Deputy, with a Dog, or Monkey's head."

This print measures three feet ten inches in length, and nine inches in width. The annexed engraving merely includes that part of the Procession immediately before Somerset House, but the front row of spectators has been omitted, in order to shew the building of the same size as in the original.

MEMOIR OF JEFFREY HUDSON, THE DWARF.

This celebrated little personage was born in the year 1619, at Okeham, in Rutlandshire. John Hudson, his father, who "kept and ordered the baiting bulls for George, Duke of Buckingham," the then possessor of Burleigh-on-the-Hill, in that county,

was a proper man," says Fuller, "broad shouldered and chested, though his son never arrived at a full ell in stature."* Wright, also in his History of Rutlandshire, speaking of the father, remarks, that "he was a person of lusty stature, as well as all his children, except Jeffrey, who, when seven years of age, was scarcely eighteen inches in height;"* yet "without any deformity, and wholly proportionable." t Between the age of seven and nine years he was taken into the service of the Duchess of Buckingham, at Burleigh; where, says Fuller, "he was instantly heightened (not in stature, but) in con

History of Rutlandshire, p. 105. + Fuller's Worthies.

dition, from one degree above rags into silks and satins, and had two tall men to attend him." Shortly afterwards he was served up in a cold pye, at an entertainment given to Charles the First and his consort Henrietta Maria, in their progress through Rutlandshire; and was then, most probably, presented to the Queen; in whose service he continued many years. At a masque, given at Court, the King's gigantic porter drew him out of his pocket, to the surprise of all the spectators. Thus favoured by royalty, the humility incident to his birth forsook him; "which made that he did not know himself, and would not know his father; and which, by the king's command, caused, justly, his sound correction."t

In 1630, he was sent into France to fetch a midwife for the Queen; but, on his return, he had the misfortune to be taken at sea by a Flemish pirate, who carried him a prisoner to Dunkirk: on this occasion, he lost property to the value of 25001., which he had received in presents from the French Court. This event furnished a subject for a short poem, in two cantos, to Sir William D'Avenant, who intituled it "Jeffereidos," and has described our diminutive hero as engaged in a battle with a turkeycock, from whose inflated rage he was preserved by the midwife! In this whimsical production, the poet has described our dwarf as close hidden, at the time of the capture,

Granger's Biographical History, vol. ii. p. 403.
+ Worthies, p. 394.

D'Avenant's Works, p. 224: edit. 1673.