 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 Seiten
...freely, like Snyder or Rubens. The following is given as the hiftory of this diminutive perfonage. " He was born at Oakham in Rutlandshire, in 1619, and about the age * Particularly a large Picture of the trained bands of Amfterdam, wiih their Captain, Herman Rodenburg... | |
 | 1763 - 552 Seiten
...diflike the digreflion. t He was born at Oakham in Rutlandlhire in 1619; and about the age of feven or eight, being then but eighteen inches high, was retained in the fervice of the duke of Buckingham, who rrfided af Burleigh on the Hill. Soon after the marriage of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1787 - 554 Seiten
...diflikc the digrcffion. •fr He was born at Oakham in Rutlandwire in 1619; and about the age of fcven or eight, being then but eighteen inches high, was retained in the fervice of the duke of Buckingham, who reftded at Burleigh on the Hill. Soon after the marriage of... | |
 | 1805 - 556 Seiten
...digresión. t He was born at Oakham in Rutlandshire in 1019 » and abo<j: the age of seven or eight, beir,¿ then but eighteen inches high, was retained in the service of the duke of Buckingham, who resided ai Burleigh on ' h« 1 1 ill. Soon after the marriage of Charles I. the king and queen being entertained... | |
 | G. H. Wilson - 1807 - 442 Seiten
...celebrated dwarf, was born at Oakham iu Rutlandshire, in l6l<), and about the age of seven or eight years, being then but eighteen inches high, was retained...the service of the Duke of Buckingham who resided at Barleigh on the Hil1. Soon after the marriage of Charles I. the king and queen being entertained at... | |
 | 1823 - 896 Seiten
...generality of our readers. Jcffery. rf. JeflVry Hudson, the famous English dwarF, was born ment». '••-' at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, in 1619; and about the age of seven or eight, being then but 1 8 inches high, was retained in the service of the duke of Buckingham, who resided at Burleigh on... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 Seiten
...novel of Peveril of the Peak, we think a brief notice of him may not he uninteresting. Jeffery Hudson was born at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, in 1619; and about the age of seven or eight, heing then but eighteen inches high, was retained in the service of the Duke of'Buckingham, who resided... | |
 | 1824 - 458 Seiten
...amusements of the court of Charles II., was born at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, in the year 1619. When about the age of seven or eight, being then but eighteen inches high, be was retained in the service of the Duke of Buckingham, who resided at Burleigh on the Hill. Soon... | |
 | 1832 - 644 Seiten
...putting an end to his life, in the flower of his age. •• JEFFERY HUDSON. THIS celebrated dwarf was born at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, in 1619, and, about the age of seven or eight years, being then but eighteen inches high, was retained in the service of the duke of Buckingham,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 Seiten
...Oakham in Rutlandshire. At about seven or eight years old, being then only eighteen inches high, he y. He spent two years at this abbey in Burleigh-on-the hill. On a visit from king Charles I. and his queen, Henrietta Maria, the duke caused... | |
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Soon after the marriage of Charles I., the king and queen being entertained at Burleigh, little Jeffery was served up to table in a cold pie, and presented by the duchess to the queen, who kept him as her dwarf. 
