I leave to the Determination of all good Christians: I cannot but say, it raises my Indignation, when I see these Paunch-gutted Fellows usurping the Title and Atchievements of my dear Sir _John_, whose Memory I so much venerate, I cannot always contain my self. I remember, to my Cost, I once carry'd my Resentment a little farther than ordinary; in furiously assaulting one of those Rascals, I tore the Gridiron from his Back, and the Spectacles from his A--e; for which I was Apprehended, carried to Pye-powder Court, and by that tremendous Bench, sentenc'd to most severe Pains and Penalties. This has indeed a little tam'd me, insomuch that I keep my Fingers to my self, but at the same time let my Tongue run like a Devil: Forbear vile Miscreants, cry I, where-e'er I meet these Wretches? forbear to ascribe to your selves the Name and Honours of Sir _John Pudding_? content your selves with being _Zanies_, _Pickled-Herrings_, _Punchionellos_, but dare not scandalize the noble Name of _Pudding_: Nor can I, notwithstanding the Clamours and Ill Usage of the Vulgar, refrain bearing my Testimony against this manifest piece of Injustice. What Pity it is therefore, so noble an Order should be lost, or at least neglected. We have had no Account of the real Knights of the Gridiron, since they appeared under the fictitious Name of the _Kit-Kat Club_: In their Possession was the very Gridiron of Gold worn by Sir _John_ himself; which Identical Gridiron dignified the Breast of the most ingenious Mr. _Richard Estcourt_ that excellent Physician and Comedian, who was President of that Noble Society. _Quis talia fando temperet a Lachrymis?_ What is become of the Gridiron, or of the Remains of that excellent Body of Men, Time will, I hope, discover. The World, I believe, must for such Discoveries be obliged to my very good Friend _J---- T----_ Esq; who had the Honour to be Door-keeper to that Honourable Assembly. But to return to Sir _John_: The more his Wit engaged the King, the more his Grandeur alarm'd his Enemies, who encreas'd with his Honours. Not but the Courtiers caress'd him to a Man, as the first who had brought Dumpling-eating to Perfection. King _John_ himself lov'd him entirely; being of _Cesar_'s Mind, that is, he had a natural Antipathy against Meagre, Herring-gutted Wretches; he lov'd only _Fat-headed Men, and such who slept o' Nights_; and of such was his whole Court compos'd. Now it was Sir _John_'s Method, every _Sunday_ Morning, to give the Courtiers a Breakfast, which Breakfast was every Man his Dumpling and Cup of Wine; for you must know, he was Yeoman of the Wine-Cellar at the same time.