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MOR nobility who had hitherto been hostile or neutral, now submitted to his authority, and the courts of England and France were reluctantly compelled to acknowledge his government. He lost no time in securing to himself all the fortresses in the kingdom, despatched the laird of Grange in pursuit of Bothwell, and brought to justice several of the inferior agents in the murder of Darnley; but the guiltier and more powerful accomplices were allowed to escape. It was probably beyond the regent's power, even if he had been inclined, to act with severity towards those who had raised him to power; but his leniency towards those offenders excited the indignation of the people at the time, and has left a permanent stain upon his memory.

On the escape of Mary from Lochleven, Moray acted with his usual sagacity and unflinching courage, and by his prompt and vigorous measures, completely crushed the queen's party at Langside, and re-established his own authority in the short space of eleven days. Her flight into England left him the undisputed possessor of supreme power in Scotland. The events which followed have already been related in the life of Mary, and need not be recapitulated. Suffice it to say here, that Moray became inextricably entangled in the web of Elizabeth's Machiavelian policy, and was compelled to bring forward his charges against his sister in such a way as to promote the crooked and selfish designs of the English queen, rather than to benefit either his party, or his own reputation. After the termination of the conference at Westminster the regent returned to Scotland, and took vigorous and successful measures to compel the submission of the Hamiltons, and other leading supporters of Mary. Some of his own associates, however, headed by Maitland and Kirkaldy, began to intrigue against him for the restoration of the queen, and seriously impaired his authority. In order to strengthen his tottering rule he requested that Elizabeth should deliver the Scottish queen into his hands for safe-keeping; basely offering in return to surrender the unfortunate earl of Northumberland, then a prisoner in Scotland. In the midst of these intrigues the regent's career was suddenly cut short. He was assassinated at Linlithgow (23d January, 1569-70) by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, whose political and family hatred of Moray was inflamed by a private injury inflicted on him by Bellenden the justice-clerk, one of the regent's creatures. Moray was possessed of many great qualities. His personal appearance was manly and prepossessing; he was brave, sagacious, active, and energetic, a patron of learning and an enemy to vice. His impartial and vigorous administration of justice, and suppression of petty tyranny, rendered his government extremely popular among the common people, who bestowed on him the title of the "good regent." But his ambition led him to perpetrate or to acquiesce in not a few deeds which have left a deep stain on his memory.—J. T.  MORAY or MURRAY,, honourably distinguished for his long connection with the Royal Society, of which he was one of the founders, was educated partly at St. Andrews and partly in France. His family was ancient and noble. He entered the service of Louis XIII., and became a favourite of Cardinal Richelieu. He returned to Scotland before the commencement of the civil war, and is said to have acted as general of the ordnance in Scotland against Charles I. However this may be, he did not continue in the ranks of the presbyterians, but joined the royalists, and at Newcastle suggested a plan for the escape of the king, which, however, the irresolute Charles could not be induced to put in operation. After the restoration of Charles II. Moray's fortunes rose rapidly. He was appointed lord-justice clerk, one of the auditors of exchequer, and a privy councillor for Scotland. The king also intrusted him with the management of the royal laboratory. He died at Whitehall in 1673, and was buried in Westminster abbey. Burnet informs us that Moray was the life and soul of the Royal Society. Some of his papers are inserted in Dr. Birch's History of the Royal Society; another, concerning the mineral of Liege, is given in the Philosophical Transactions. Moray laid the Society under great obligations, in the first place, by the share which he had in procuring its charter and in framing its regulations, and yet more by the zeal with which to the end of his life he laboured to extend its usefulness.  MORCELLI,, a profound Latinist and author, born at Chiari, 17th January, 1737; died in the same place, 1st January, 1821. At an early age he joined the Society of Jesus, and notwithstanding the bull launched against it in 1773 by Clement XIV., continued its devoted disciple to the end of his days. In 1781 he published "De stilo inscriptionum Latinarum libri tres," a critical work on ancient Latin inscriptions, full of erudition, and illustrated by copious and curious examples. This was succeeded in 1783 by "Inscriptiones commentariis subjectis," a collection of his own Latin epigraphs. After a while, however, deeming such profane matter unsuited to the priestly character, Morcelli translated, elucidated, and published an inedited Greek comment on Ecclesiastes, composed by S. Gregory of Agrigentum. In 1791 he entered on a cure of souls in his native Chiari, and from that moment until the day of his death, after five years of torturing illness, was the devoted pastor of his flock.—C. G. R.  MORDAUNT. See.  MORE,, a French protestant divine, born at Castres in 1616, and died at Paris in 1670. He was professor of Greek and divinity at Geneva, and subsequently at Middleburg and Amsterdam. In 1654 he was in Italy, and received a gold chain for writing a Latin poem on a victory over the Turks.  MORE or MORO,, known in England as Sir Antonio More, was born at Utrecht in 1525, studied under Jan Schoorel, and afterwards visited Italy and studied Titian. He was early recommended to the notice of the Emperor Charles V., who took Moro into his service; and in 1552 Charles sent him to Madrid and Lisbon to paint some portraits for him. He came also to England, and was appointed her painter by Queen Mary, and remained in this country till the queen's death in 1558, when he entered the service of her husband, Philip II. of Spain, who took Moro with him to Madrid. He fled from Madrid through fear of the Inquisition, having been denounced for his familiarity with the king. He returned to his own country, entered the service of the famous duke of Alva at Brussels, and eventually died rich at Antwerp in 1581. Moro was almost exclusively a portrait painter, and he was, at the height of his career, the most distinguished of his class of all the Dutch and Flemish painters of his period. His heads have an Italian character, holding a middle place between the laboured works of the early Flemings of the Van Eyck school, and the masterly but often careless portraits of the later schools of Rubens or Rembrandt.—(Van Mander; Walpole.)—R. N. W.  MORE or MOORE, F., a lawyer, was born in 1558, educated at Oxford, joined the Middle temple, and obtained some reputation at the bar. He was a member of several of Elizabeth's and James' parliaments; was made a serjeant-at-law in 1614, and was knighted in 1616. His "Cases Collected and Reported" were published in 1663, and abridged by W. Hughes in 1665. Lord Ellenborough calls him "a very accurate reporter." Referring to his "Learned Reading in Middle Temple Hall concerning Charitable Uses, &c., abridged by himself," published in 1676, Anthony Wood "thinks" that Sir F. More was the "penner" of the contemporary statute concerning those uses. He died in 1621.—F. E.  MORE,, a popular writer on moral and religious themes, as well as the authoress of some dramas which attracted considerable attention at the time of their production, was born in 1745 at Stapleton, near Bristol. Her father, who was in very humble circumstances, had the charge of the charity school at that place; but soon after Hannah's birth he removed to Bristol, where he had a private school. Hannah had four sisters; she was the cleverest of them all, but all were endowed with more than ordinary talent. The family attracted notice and found patrons; and whilst still in their youth, the girls found themselves established at the head of a school, which long continued to be more flourishing than any other in the west of England. Hannah wrote verse at a very early age, and in 1773 she was persuaded by her friends to publish a pastoral drama entitled "The Search after Happiness." In the next year followed a five-act tragedy—founded on the story of Regulus, and named "The Inflexible Captive"—as well as two tales in verse. Her friends, seeing her bent upon the drama, obtained for her an introduction to Garrick, by whom she was very kindly received. Other introductions followed, and the young west country schoolmistress soon became the associate of Dr. Johnson, of Oliver Goldsmith, of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and of Burke. During this period she produced two other tragedies, "Percy," and "The Fatal Falsehood," of which the former was received with great applause. The natural seriousness of her character, however, now began to develop itself. Step by step she was led to doubt whether the life she was then leading, blameless though it was, <section end="490Zcontin" />