Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 by Various
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passed away, against the marriage of the clergy; but surely the descendants
of so great a man, if there be such, have not lost the records or pedigree by which their descent can be verified. C.D.F. _Collections of Pasquinades._--Can any of your correspondents inform me whether a collection has ever been published of the satirical verses affixed to the _torso_ of Menelaus, at the corner of the Palazzo Braschi at Rome, and commonly known as _Pasquinades_, from the name of a tailor whose shop stood near the place of its discovery? (See Nibby _Itinerario di Roma_, ii. 409.) I send you a specimen which I do not remember to have seen in print. It was occasioned by the Pope Pius VI. (Braschi) having placed his own coat of arms in various parts of St. Peter's. They consisted of the double-headed eagle, two stars, a lily, and the head of a boy, puffing at it. "Redde aquilam imperio; Gallorum lilia regi; Sidera redde polo; cætera Brasche tibi." The eagle being restored to the Holy Roman Empire, the lily to the Most Christian King, and the stars to the firmament, there remained for the Pope himself--an empty puff. MARFORIO. _Portraits of Bishops._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of portraits of John Williams, archbishop of York (previously bishop of Lincoln); John Owen, bishop of St. Asaph; George Griffith, bishop of St. Asaph; Lewis Bayley, bishop of Bangor; Humphrey Henchman, bishop of London |
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