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Songs Of The Ceaft.
cavalcade of theyPree-Masons ¦' . * who ever afterwards discontinued , their annual procession . Hogarth was alwajs ready to avail himself of any popular subject that afforded a scope to ridicule . Among * The Print , representing a view of Somerset House and of the Strand , is 3 feet 11 ^ inches in length , and 10 inches inwidth ; and thus intituled , A Geometrical
" View of the Grand Procession of the scald-miserable Masons , designed as they were drawn up over against Somerset House in the Strand , oa the Twenty-seventh of April , Anno . 1742 . Invented and engraved by A . Benoist , at his Lodgings , at Mr . Jordan ' s , a Grocer , the North-east Corner , of Comp ton-street , So— -ho ; and sold by the Printsellers of London and Westmititer . — -Note ^ A . Benoist teaches Drawing abroad . "
JN o . 1 . 1 he grand Swoara-Bearer , or Tyler , carrying the S woard of State , ( A Present of Ishmael Abiff to old Hyram , King of the Saracens ) to his Grace of Wattin , Grand Master of the Holy Lodge of St . John of Jerusalem , in Clerkenwell . 2 . Tylers , or Guarders . 3 . Grand Chorus of Instruments ; A . The Stew * ards , iri three Gutt Carts , drawn hy Asses . 5 . Two famous Pillars . 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 ——Lodged 7 . The Entered
Prentice ' s Token , 8 . The letter G . famous in Masonry for diflferencing the Fellow Crafts' Lodge from that of Prentices . 9 . The Funeral of a Grand Master , according to the Bites of the Order , Avith the Fifteen Loving Brethren . 10 . A Master Mason ' s Lodge . 11 . Grand Band of Musick . 12 . Two Trophies ; one being that of a Black-shoe Boy and a Link Boy , the other that of a Chimneysweeper . 13 . The Equipage of-the Grand Master , all the Attendants wearing Mystical Jewells . "
A different , but smaller , print of this mock procession was printed in May , 1742 , with the following memoranda : — "The Free-Mason ' s Downfall , or the Restoration of the Scald-Miserables . (( From my oion Apartments in Spring i Gardens . " Though I do not belong to the Fraternity mentioned in the following piece , and therefore am but little concerned in the annual disputes , I think it my duty
as a Watchman of the City of Westminster , to preserve the memory of the late extraordinary Cavalcade , the like to which hath never happened since I have been in office . As more solemn processions have of late years been very rare , it cannot surely he taken amiss , either by the Free-Masons or the Scald-Miserables , that I give so much distinction to this . T . ToucmT . "
. After the Print follows : — "A Key , or Explanation of the solemn and stately Procession of the Scald-Miserable Masons , as it was martial'd on Tuesday the 27 th past , by their Scald-Pursuivant Black Mantle—set forth by Order of the Grand Master Poney . " Printed by J . Mechell , at The King ' s Arms , in Fleet-street , and sold by the Pamphlet-shops ., & c . Price Two-pence . Extracts from the London Daily Post , March 20 , 1740-1 . " Yesterday some mock Free-Masons marched through Pall Mall and the Strand as far as
Temple-Bar , in procession ; first went fellows on jack-asses , with cows' horns in their hands ; then a kettle-drummer on a jack-ass , baring two butter-firkins for kettle-drums ; then followed two carts drawn by jack-asses , having in them the stewards with several badges of their order ; then came a mourning coach drawn by six horses , each of a different colour and size , in which were the Grand Master and Wardens ; the whole attended by a vast mob . They stayed without Temple-Bar till the
Masons came by , and paid their compliments to them , who returned the same with an agreeable humour that possibly disappointed the witty contriver of this mock scene , whose misfortune is , that though he has some wit , his subjects are generally so ill chosen that he loses by it as many friends as other people of more judgment gain . " Ibid ., April 28 th , 1742 . " Yesterday being the annual feast of the antient and honourable society of Free and Accepted Mason * , they made a g rand procession
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Songs Of The Ceaft.
cavalcade of theyPree-Masons ¦' . * who ever afterwards discontinued , their annual procession . Hogarth was alwajs ready to avail himself of any popular subject that afforded a scope to ridicule . Among * The Print , representing a view of Somerset House and of the Strand , is 3 feet 11 ^ inches in length , and 10 inches inwidth ; and thus intituled , A Geometrical
" View of the Grand Procession of the scald-miserable Masons , designed as they were drawn up over against Somerset House in the Strand , oa the Twenty-seventh of April , Anno . 1742 . Invented and engraved by A . Benoist , at his Lodgings , at Mr . Jordan ' s , a Grocer , the North-east Corner , of Comp ton-street , So— -ho ; and sold by the Printsellers of London and Westmititer . — -Note ^ A . Benoist teaches Drawing abroad . "
JN o . 1 . 1 he grand Swoara-Bearer , or Tyler , carrying the S woard of State , ( A Present of Ishmael Abiff to old Hyram , King of the Saracens ) to his Grace of Wattin , Grand Master of the Holy Lodge of St . John of Jerusalem , in Clerkenwell . 2 . Tylers , or Guarders . 3 . Grand Chorus of Instruments ; A . The Stew * ards , iri three Gutt Carts , drawn hy Asses . 5 . Two famous Pillars . 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 ——Lodged 7 . The Entered
Prentice ' s Token , 8 . The letter G . famous in Masonry for diflferencing the Fellow Crafts' Lodge from that of Prentices . 9 . The Funeral of a Grand Master , according to the Bites of the Order , Avith the Fifteen Loving Brethren . 10 . A Master Mason ' s Lodge . 11 . Grand Band of Musick . 12 . Two Trophies ; one being that of a Black-shoe Boy and a Link Boy , the other that of a Chimneysweeper . 13 . The Equipage of-the Grand Master , all the Attendants wearing Mystical Jewells . "
A different , but smaller , print of this mock procession was printed in May , 1742 , with the following memoranda : — "The Free-Mason ' s Downfall , or the Restoration of the Scald-Miserables . (( From my oion Apartments in Spring i Gardens . " Though I do not belong to the Fraternity mentioned in the following piece , and therefore am but little concerned in the annual disputes , I think it my duty
as a Watchman of the City of Westminster , to preserve the memory of the late extraordinary Cavalcade , the like to which hath never happened since I have been in office . As more solemn processions have of late years been very rare , it cannot surely he taken amiss , either by the Free-Masons or the Scald-Miserables , that I give so much distinction to this . T . ToucmT . "
. After the Print follows : — "A Key , or Explanation of the solemn and stately Procession of the Scald-Miserable Masons , as it was martial'd on Tuesday the 27 th past , by their Scald-Pursuivant Black Mantle—set forth by Order of the Grand Master Poney . " Printed by J . Mechell , at The King ' s Arms , in Fleet-street , and sold by the Pamphlet-shops ., & c . Price Two-pence . Extracts from the London Daily Post , March 20 , 1740-1 . " Yesterday some mock Free-Masons marched through Pall Mall and the Strand as far as
Temple-Bar , in procession ; first went fellows on jack-asses , with cows' horns in their hands ; then a kettle-drummer on a jack-ass , baring two butter-firkins for kettle-drums ; then followed two carts drawn by jack-asses , having in them the stewards with several badges of their order ; then came a mourning coach drawn by six horses , each of a different colour and size , in which were the Grand Master and Wardens ; the whole attended by a vast mob . They stayed without Temple-Bar till the
Masons came by , and paid their compliments to them , who returned the same with an agreeable humour that possibly disappointed the witty contriver of this mock scene , whose misfortune is , that though he has some wit , his subjects are generally so ill chosen that he loses by it as many friends as other people of more judgment gain . " Ibid ., April 28 th , 1742 . " Yesterday being the annual feast of the antient and honourable society of Free and Accepted Mason * , they made a g rand procession