about thirteen acres ;* they now contain at least eighteen acres. The kitchen garden occupies between three and four acres, and has been walled in at a great expense.

These grounds have been long remarked for containing two uncommonly fine fig-trees, traditionally reported to have been planted by Cardinal Pole, and fixed against that part of the palace believed to be founded by him. They are of the white Marseilles sort, and still bear delicious fruit. They cover a sur-’ face of more than fifty feet in height and forty in breadth. The circumference of the southernmost of these trees is twenty-eight inches, of the other twenty-one. On the south side of the building, in a small private garden, is another tree of the same kind and age; its circumference at bottom is twenty-eight inches.†

OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.-PROCESSION OF THE

SCALD MISERABLE MASONS.

In the singular and now scarce Print, called "A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were

* See Ducarel's "History," where there is a plan of the palace and grounds, taken from a Survey made in 1750.

✦ Many important events have taken place within the venerable walls of Lambeth Palace, which are intimately connected with our domestic annals, and with the deeds and characters of several of our Sovereigns, and the most eminent of our forefathers. But the great length to which this article has already been necessarily extended, renders it expedient to terminate the subject here; lest it should exceed its" fair proportion."

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.

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"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 Jerusalem 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 Frocession 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,

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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 Rutland. shire, 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.