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 396 NOTES AND QUERIES. [^S.VIII.MAVH, i,. CREAM-COLOURED HORSES (12 S. viii. to them, excited by some absurd stories called 338). The breed of cream-coloured horses, ' prophecies,' which were disseminated amongst maintained for so long in the Home Park, J? u T ^ y f de ^ n. in g *?* wicked men." And in Hampton Court, for* the provision of a ^^^^^f^J^^^^ team to draw the sovereign s coach on returns to the subject. " In like manner, my occasions of full state, has come to an end. ; dearest Brethren, I have only to remind you of It was the habit of newspapers invariably y fo, rmer charges to you on the subject of to refer to these animals as "the oream absurd predictions and silly tales called pro- Team- i p hec ies. It was only necessarv for us to have coloured ponies, a ludicrous misnomer, as pointed out to you these absurd fictions, these they were mostly sixteen hands in height ravings of distempered minds in order to induce and upwards. y u to despise them as you ought. Continue to do It is understood that when orders were s % d IT?> st ? r< r th , ren ; and a ^ ove ali ' those fictions issued that the stud should be discontinued ^^oVfpSatlo^'STn JSEiTSS his Majesty presented some of the breed , To us they are a subject of regret because they to the King of Spain, who intends to con- i were written by a Catholic clergyman." tinue it in his own country, which is believed, The pamphlet is undoubtedly very rare, there to have been their original home, whence ! ^emg no copy in the British Museum. But it was exportations took placebo Germany in ^ M?3^ %'J!3^V$3R sixteenth or seventeenth century. H. 1822, and we possess a copy in I2mo, pp. 32, " Printed and Sold by Thomas Conolly, 36 PASTORINl's PROPHECIES (12 S. viii. Camden Street, and Robert Conolly, 9 Mary's 251, 313). The following extract from Abbe ^ Price 5<L " N - D - 'The Irish Book Lover,' vol. ix., p. 61, EDITOR I.B.L.' 1918, will add some information on this ! subject _ CAREW FAMILY OF BEDDINGTON, SURREY, ' BART. (12 S. viii. 308, 357). The arms in the Evans Crowe's " To-day in Ireland," 3 vols., fe^'ed to are for Hoo. Lysons, in vol. i. of Lond., 1825, there is a reference to this work his 'Environs of London,' gives a pedigree (p. 112, vol. i.), as having been privately printed ; of the Carew family, fronting p. 53, which and difficult to procure. Where was this printed, shows that James de Carew, died 8 Hen. TxtlntT 8 G ' 1S ^^ any C Py VII., married Eleonora, one of the daughters Ardrigh, Belfast. F. J. BIGGER. of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings, by his %*CharlesWalmesley(1722-1797),B.C.prelate, second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Leonard titular Bishop of Rama, published in 1771 a Lord Welles. See also sub "Hoo" in " General History of the Christian Church," ' Burke's ' Armory,' 3rd edn. under the name of Signior Pastorini, which is HTTAO TT*TT r^^TT^-wr really an exposition of the " Book of Revelations." >HAS * *****' URO1 ^ Of this the 6th edition was printed at Belfast ^ in 1816, by Joseph Smyth for M. Dawson. At l DOUBLE FIRSTS AT OXFORD (12 S. vm. 249, p. 204 of that edition he says " when one reflects j 294, 334). The late Alfred Barratt, of Bugby that of the three hundred years allowed to the and Balliol, got five Firsts 1st Classical reign of the locusts there remain only 50 or 55 i Mods lst Mathematical Mods., both in 1864 ; h eart n that e t^eopYe* ^S&V^J | Classical Greats and 1st Math. Greats in insects would enter into a serious consideration! 1865; and 1st in Final Schools (Law and of that circumstance." This was considered j History) in 1866. E. T. B. to refer to the Established Church and the tithe j system, and as the time 1820-25 drew near! When writing of "quadruple firsts" extracts from the work were printed in pamphlet _ -,-L i j ;:+ form and scattered broadcast throughout the we, sh ould not forget the one and country. " No small stimulant," writes W. J. only case of a quintuple first Alfred Fitzpatrick in his Life of Dr. Doyle, "to the j Barratt, of Balliol, who, besides "doubles" turbulently illiberal spirit which prevailed was | i n Mods, and Greats in Classics and Mathe- the reprint and circulation of a curious old work j -r^t^c, r>rnTvnf>A V*<* flnflr1p.i'nal narppr entitled ' Pastorini,' which prophesied the down- ' J 1 ^ 10 . 8 '. ^ ro ^ n J 1 cl fi . academical ca fall of Protestantism about the year 1822." by taking a fifth first, in Law and History. Bishop Doyle, in his famous " Whiteboy j The ' Mods. nrsts were taken in the Pastoral," 1822, says : " I have been credibly i same term of 1864, and the three others in informed that during the course of the past year three succeeding terms in 1865-6. This, when great numbers of you yielding to our y t v-, uni/me reoord In 1870 he remonstrance, and to those of our clergy had J tnm f "bf Un r 1( l ue withdrawn yourselves from these mischevious was als Lldon Law Scholar, and then, a -associations, you were prevailed on to return Fellow of B.N.C. W. A. B. C.