3. Seventeen small prints for _Hudibras_, with _Butler's_ head. There certainly must have been some mistake concerning this portrait. It never could have been designed for the author of _Hudibras_; but more strongly resembles _John Baptist Monnoyer_, the flower-painter. There is a print of him by _White_, from a picture of Sir _Godfrey Kneller_. This I suppose to have been the original of _Hogarth's_ small _Butler_. The same designs engraved on a larger scale, and with some slight variations, by _J. Mynde_, for _Grey's_ edition of _Hudibras_, published in 1744. Previous, however, to both, appeared another set of plates, eighteen in number, for an edition in _eighteens_ of this celebrated poem. To these it is manifest that _Hogarth_ was indebted for his ideas of several of the scenes and personages both in his larger and smaller performances on the same subject. That the collector may know the book when he meets with it, the following is a transcript of the title-page. "_Hudibras._ In three Parts. Written in the time of the late Wars. Corrected and amended, with Additions. To which is added, Annotations to the third Part, with an exact Index to the whole; never before printed. Adorned with cuts. London. Printed for _R. Chiswel, J. Tonson, T. Horne,_ and _R. Willington_, 1710." Copies from the smaller plates are likewise inserted in _Townly's_ translation of _Hudibras_ into _French_, with the _English_ on the opposite page. He was, I believe, an officer in the _Irish_ brigade. The following is the title-page to his work. "_Hudibras_, Poeme ecrit dans les tems des troubles d'_Angleterre_; et traduit en vers _François_, avec des remarques et des figures. 3 tom. 12mo. A _Londres_, 1757." It seems rather to have been printed at _Paris_. The plates have no name subscribed to them. 4. _Cunicularii_, or the Wise Men of _Godliman_ in Consultation. "They held their talents most adroit For any mystical exploit." HUDIB. This print was published in the year 1726, i. e. about the same time that Lord _Onslow_ wrote the following letter: "To the Honble. Sir _Hans Sloane_. To be left at the _Grecian_ Coffe House, in _Devereux Court_ near _Temple Bar London_. "Sir, The report of a woman's breeding of rabbits has almost alarmed _England_, and in a manner persuaded several people of sound judgt of that truth. I have been at some pains to discover the affair, and think I have conquerd my poynt, as you will se by the Depotition taken before me, which shall be published in a day or two. I am "Yr humble Servant, "ONSLOW. "_Clandon, Dec._ 4_th_, 1726." Soon after, Mr. _St. André_ also addressed this note to Sir _Hans Sloane_: "Sir, I have brought the woman from _Guilford_ to ye Bagnio in _Leicester-fields_, where you may if you please have the opportunity of seeing her deliver'd. I am Sr Your Hum Servt "ST. ANDRÉ.[1] "To Sir _Hans Sloane_ in _Bloomsbury Square_."