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fey. Sir Thomas More, &c. treafured up 

 thofe of Will. Soiners, Saxton, Tom. Derry, 

 (queen Anne'-, jeiter) Tarlton, (queen Eli- 

 zabeth's) Pace, another fool in that reign, 

 Archee, the difturber of Laud's greatnefs j 

 Muckle John, who fucceeded j Patch, 

 Wolfey*s fool ; Harry Patenfon, Sir Thomas 

 More's ; and of Bifquet and Amaril, the 

 jefters of Francis I. not to mention Hitard, * 

 king Edmund's buffoon ; Stone, f and Jef- 

 fery Hudfon, the dwarf of Henrietta Maria. 

 Of fome of thefe perfonages I have found 

 the following anecdotes : Saxton is the firfl 

 perfon recorded to have worn a wig : In an 

 account of the treafurer of the chambers in 

 the reign of Henry VIII. there is entered, 

 *' Paid for Saxton, the king's fool, for a 

 wig, 20 J." in the accounts of the lord 

 Harrington who was in the fame office un- 

 der Jam.es I, there is, *' Paid to T. Mawe 

 for the diet and lodging of Tom Derry, her 

 majefty's jefter, 13 v/eeks, 10/. — 18 s, — ScU* 

 Patch and Archcc were political charaders : 

 The former, who had been Wolfey's fool, 



* See Dart's antiq. of Canterbury, p. 6. 

 f A fopi mentioned in Seidell's table-talk. 



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