A Hot Pocket would have been EPIC!
Ok, so I’ve been seeing this ‘story’ a lot lately on the Internetz…
But, there’s one thing other BLoGs have been getting wrong.
Sir Jeffery Hudson WAS NOT BAKED IN A PIE!
…In ‘reality’ he was hidden inside a venison pie and presented as a gift during a banquet…
According to Guardian.co.uk:
He came to the attention of Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, when he was hidden inside a venison pie at a banquet in her honour held at the Duke of Buckingham’s home near Oakham, where he was a page.
Per Wikipedia.org:
The climax of the lavish banquet was the presentation of Jeffrey to the Queen, served in a large pie. When the pie was placed in front of the Queen, Jeffrey arose from the crust, 18 inches tall and perhaps dressed in a miniature suit of armour. The Queen was delighted and the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham offered Hudson to her as an amusing gift.
BUT, there are a few things that I am still unclear about:
- Many websites have the spelling of his name as Jeffrey, but the headstone reads Jeffery.
Anyone want to clear this one up? Is the headstone original or a remake? - Was he presented to King Charles I? or to his wife Oueen Henrietta Maria?
It’s not really important, but there is a conflict between the web articles I’ve read.
Perhaps, I will run with the information presented on the Guardian website.
Weird!
-Ego
Spelling was not so ridged in 17th Cent, there are a number of verients on his name including Geaforry!
As to the pie, The crusts of the pie was not as we would think it, but more like a salt dough hard and uneatable, as in the nursery song about ‘birds flying out of a pie’.The dish was cold he lay inside all 18 inches of him and this was placed before the Queen .He would wait until her spoon tapped the pie and then push the unsealed glazed crust aside and so bring a startling ending to a feast.
Thanks for commenting! Now it makes sense! Now that you mention it I have seen other variations of the spelling of Jeffery, such as Geoffrey Chaucer.
-Ego