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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; caetera 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 (previously bishop of Salisbury); Lord Chief Justice Glynne; and Sir Thomas Milward, chief justice of Chester. Cassan, in his _Bishops of Salisbury_, mentions one of Henchman; but I mean exclusively of this. Y.Y. _The Butcher Duke._--Can any of your readers furnish me with the rest of a Scotch song of which I have heard these two couplets? "The Deil sat girning in a nook, Breaking sticks to burn the duke. A' the Whigs sal gae to hell! Geordie sal gae there hissel." And who was the writer? MEZZOTINTO. _Rodolph Gualter._-I think I have somewhere seen it stated that Rodolph Gualter (minister at Zurich, and well known as a correspondent of our divines in the age of the Reformation) was a Scotchman. Will any of your correspondents oblige me by supplying either a reference for this statement, or a disproof of it--or both? J.C.R. _Passage in St. Mark._--What Fathers of the early Christian Church have annotated that remarkable text, Mark xiii. 32., "[Greek: oude ho hyios]," "Neither the Son?" As this subject has certainly engaged the attention of many of your readers, it will be a great favour conferred on the present writ
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