BUDGE BACHELORS.--BUDGE-ROW.

In the old lord mayors’ processions of London, there were, in the first

division, the “_budge_ bachelors marching in measured order.”[326] These

_budge_-bachelors go in the “Lord Mayor’s Show” to the present day,

dressed in blue gowns trimmed with budge coloured fur, white. Bishop

Corbet, in his “Iter Boreale,” speaks of

----------- a most officious drudge,

His face and gown drawn out with the same _budge_;

implying, that his beard and habit were of like colour. _Budge_-row,

Cannon-street, according to Stow, was “so called of _budge_-fur, and of

skinners dwelling there.”

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[326] See the “London Pageant” of 1680, in “Hone on Mysteries.”

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