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HOPPNEB AND Sm THOMAS FBANKLAND'S DAUGHTEBS (10 S. x. 168, 233, 294, 374; xii. 232). The identities of the two Frank- land sisters which I gave in a former com- munication may be taken as absolutely authentic, in spite of Burke and Chaloner Smith. My authority is a gentleman who was for many years a trustee of the picture. I have the dates of their birth and of their death. The work on John Hoppner which will appear in a month or so will contain a most interesting letter written by Hoppner to Sir Thomas Frankland in September, 1795, soon after the death of the younger daughter. W. ROBEBTS.

There appears to be little, if any, doubt that MB. ROBEBTS at the second reference is right. According to William Beth am' s ' Genea- logical Tables,' 1795, Table 716, Sir Thomas Frankland, the sixth Baronet, married Doro- thy, daughter of Sir William Smelt, by whom he had issue Henry, Robert, Amelia, and Marion. This Sir Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Thomas, the fifth Baronet, to whom Betham attributes five sons and eight daughters.

As MB. ROBEBTS says, Amelia and Marianne are the grand-daughters, not the daughters, of Admiral Sir Thomas Frank- land, the fifth Baronet.

ROBEBT PlEBPOINT.

MBS. ALFBED MELLON (10 S. xii. 266). The passing away of this talented actress and estimable woman must have revived many pleasant memories amongst the older generation of playgoers, and not least the prominent part Mrs. Mellon played off the stage when she assisted at the Dramatic Fete held annually in the centre transept of the Crystal Palace. Thereat bevies of fair artists were wont to coax visitors into making all sorts of expensive purchases in the cause of charity : I have seen cigars, their ends bitten off by fascinating stall- holders, sold at fancy prices.

To the list of associates with Mrs. Mellon given by MB. RUTTON I am inclined to add the name of John Lawrence Toole, mention of whom recalls recollections of Mrs. John Billington, another old Adelphi favourite happily still with us.

To supply a part of the information sought by MB. RUTTON, I find from the news- papers that Mrs. Mellon's last address was Varden's Road, New Wandsworth ; also that her final appearance on the stage was as Mrs. Candour in ' The School for Scandal.'

CECIL CLABKB.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

DEAN TTJCKEB OF GLOUCESTEB (10 S. xii. 289). Josiah Tucker became famous by his writings upon the American troubles. He maintained that a separation from the Colonies was desirable, and that the supposed advantage of the colonial trade to the mother country was a delusion. On the other hand, he declared that the Colonies turned adrift would fall out with each other, and be glad to return to political union. This policy pleased nobody in England, and Tucker, although his views were approved in later years by many of the laissez-faire economists, was for a time treated a^ a " Cassandra," under which name he pub- lished some contributions to the news- papers. The most popular of his American tracts was ' Cui Bono ? ' in the form of letters addressed to Necker (1781), arguing that the war was a mistake for all the nations concerned. See ' D.N.B.,' Ivii. 283.

A. R. BAYLEY.

GASPAB MANOB, STOTJBTON, SOMEBSET (10 S. xii. 268). Stourton is not, I believe, entirely in Somerset. It is on the Wilts border. It is possible that the wills sought for may be among the Salisbury wills pre- served at Somerset House. F. P.

MAYOBS ELECTED IN CHUBCHES (10 S. xii. 148). ArchcBologia Cantiana, vol. xiii. p. 441, published 1880, in an article on Lydd Church, Romney Marsh, has the following :

" The latest monumental brass is that of Clement Stuppeny, who died in 1608. It lies upon a large altar-tomb in the middle of the north chancel (now used as a vestry). This tomb formerly stood in the south chancel. Around it assemble the Jurats of Lydd, annually, on the day of St. Mary Magdalen, to elect the bailiff of their town. In New Romney Church there is a similar tomb, which was erected in 1622 by another Clement Stuppeny, in memory of Richard his great-grandfather. Around that tomb the Jurats of New Romney annually elect their Mayor."

At p. 475, in a description of the memorials in St. Nicholas's New Romney, a foot-note gives a copy of the inscription, which states :

"Here lyeth buryed the bodye of Richard Stuiv penye jurate of this towne in first yeare of K. Hy. viij. who dyed in the xviij yeare of the sayde kynges reigne of whose memorye Clement Stuppenye of the same port his great-grandsonne hath caused this torn be to be new erected for the use of the ancient meeting and election of maior and jurats ot this port towne June the 10 th Anno Dm. 1622."

Dover at one time elected its Mayor in St. Mary's Church ; see Lyon's ' Hist. Dover,' vol. i. p. 97 :

" As their minds were enlightened with the knowledge of the Scriptures, their reverence for their place of worship decreased, and they soon