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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 246. 



chapter of St. John's Gospel, of our Lord's ap- 

 pearance at the lake of Tiberias ; and there can 

 be little doubt but that such is the scene intended. 

 Some sheep, to which our Lord apparently makes 

 an allusion, occupy a prominent position in the 

 drawing ; while St. John Is so eagerly pressing for- 

 ward, that St. Peter's expression, " What shall this 

 man do?" is clearly represented. It is remark- 

 able, however, that the artist has introduced the 

 figures of the eleven Apostles ; while the account 

 in the Gospel distinctly states there were only 

 seven, and enumerates the names of five of them, 

 with the words " and two other disciples." If the 

 mistake on the part of Raphael is singular, still 

 more so must be the fact, that it appears to have 

 been so generally overlooked, not only by the 

 more uneducated classes who throng Hampton 

 Court, but by those who have professionally 

 studied these remarkable works. E. L. B. 



Twickenham. 



William de la Grace. — Perhaps it is rather late 

 in a subscriber from your first Number now to 

 ask the question ; but in Vol. i., p. 163., a corre- 

 spondent quotes the following from Fenton's 

 History of Pembrokeshire, p. 379. : 



" Richard the First gave Isabella in marriage to 

 William de la Grace, who thus became Earl of Pem- 

 broke," &c. 



Now the Query I would submit to your learned 

 correspondents is as to the name given to the for- 

 tunate William Mareschal — why William de la 

 Grace f Leveret. 



The Old WeeKs Preparation. — The author of 

 A WeeKs Preparation towards a worthy receiving 

 of the Lord's Stipper after the warning of the 

 Church of the celebration of the Holy Communion, 

 published In 1679, is not known; but to whom has 

 it been generally ascribed, and on what grounds ? 



The edition of 1751, which I have, and which is 



the fifty-first, is " corrected throughout and en- 



laro-ed by a clergyman of London." Who was he? 



Wm. Fkaser, B.C.L. 



George III. an Author on Agriculture. — 

 George III., it Is well known, was very eagerly 

 addicted to agricultural pursuits, and towards 

 the close of the last century he caused a large 

 portion of the Richmond New Park to be 

 ploughed up and sown with corn. He also held 

 the whole of the Old Park In hand, and Keel's 

 farm adjoining. In Mortlake parish, and on the 

 latter erected great ranges of farming buildings. 

 Of his husbandry and agricultural experiments 

 in general, however, Mr. James Malcolm, In his 

 Compendium of Modern Husbandry and Survey of 



Surrey, In 3 vols. 8vo., London, 1805, Is not very- 

 encomiastic, and says he had seen every part of 

 the business better and more cheaply conducted. 

 His Majesty, It Is said, also contributed several 

 papers to some publication of agricultural trans- 

 actions. I am very desirous to peruse these com- 

 munications, and would consider It a favour In 

 any reader of " N. & Q." who will point out to- 

 me where they may be found. 2. (\y 



Chinese Proverbs in the Crystal Palace. — 

 Doubtless some of your readers will remember 

 having seen some excellent proverbs, which were 

 among the " treasures " from China, In the Great 

 Exhibition of 1851. They were printed on blue 

 paper, and hung in frames on the sides of the 

 counters. The English translation alone waa 

 given. I do not see any mention of them In the 

 Exhibition Catalogue. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents give me a list of them ? 



F. M. MlDDLETON.. 



Milton's Mulberry Tree. — Does the mulberry 

 tree, planted by Milton In Christ Church garden, 

 Cambridge, when he was a student there, still 

 exist ? and in what condition Is it now ? 



Garlichithe^ 



Clock of Trinity College, Dublin. — The clock of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, is always kept a quarter 

 of an hour slow, and all university examinations 

 and proceedings are regulated by that time. 



Though It may appear strange to seek for an 

 answer at the other side of the Channel, I must 

 ask through your pages the reason of so extra- 

 ordinary an arrangement, and when It originated? 



I have heard It stated that the college time was 

 altered in consequence of a student being killed In 

 endeavouring to cross the railings, having beea 

 late for admission by the gate ; but I can scarcely 

 consider this a sufficient cause for a change in- 

 volving so much confusion and inconvenience. 



J. R. G. 



Dublin. 



*^ Pasquin." — Pasquin has been a convenient 

 peg upon which to hang satires of all kinds. One- 

 of this school Is Pasquin ; a New Allegorical Ro- 

 mance on the Times, with the Fortifivead ; a Bur^ 

 lesque Poem, dedicated to the Earl of Rochford. 

 Published by the editor, Thos. Rowe, Esq., 1769. 

 Anything about this production will be acceptable. 



Andreas Cellarius : '■'•Regni Polonice." — I should 

 feel much obliged If you could give me any in- 

 formation as to the' rarity, &c. of a work which 

 has lately come into my possession, and the prin- 

 cipal points of the title of which I give you below. 



