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ii s. vm. AUG. 23, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

149 —One of my earliest home recollections is that every bedroom in the house was provided with a framed card of rules of life. It began thus:—

I should be much obliged if any reader of 'N. & Q.' could supply the remainder. I was told that it was a translation from a set of rules in some foreign monastery. It was used in many other houses.

FRITH, SILHOUETTE ARTIST. I should like to obtain some information regarding a painter of the name of Frith, who made a number of excellent silhouette portraits of certain persons living in the Highlands of Scotland about 1850-60. He seems to have been in Inverness -shire between the dates mentioned. As far as can be ascer- tained, he is not the Frith of ' The Derby Day.' D. FRASER HARRIS.

THE FAMILY OF BISHOP HOOPER THE MARTYR. The 'Dictionary of National Biography ' states that John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, was born towards the end of the fifteenth cen- tury in Somerset, where his father Was a man of wealth. The exact date and place are not known. He himself usually spelt his name Hoper, others wrote it Houper. He graduated B.A. at Oxford in 1519, but his college is not known. An older kinsman of the same name was elected Fellow of Merton College in 1510, and was afterwards Principal of St. Alban's Hall.

John Hooper (the Bishop's kinsman) was alive in 1550 (Hooper to Bullinger, ' Zurich Letters,! 537-58,' p. 8b, letter xxxix.), and the Bishop's father was then also alive.

A writer (Ethel Lega - Weekes) in Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, vol. vi. p. 142, says that in Queen Mary's time Bishop Hooper, burnt at the stake, was a cousin of the Hooper then lessee of Thome in the parish of Salcombe Regis, Devon, and that the family were lessees of Thome from 1355 to the middle of the eighteenth century.

The present writer would be glad of any information relating to Bishop Hooper's father and his connexion with the Hoopers of Thome. H. CHEAL.

Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham, Sussex.

VANDERVART. Among the Dutch settlers on the Levels in 1635 Was Christian Vander- vart (Hunter's * South Yorkshire,' i. 165). He was probably the father of (1) Philip or Philibert Vandervart of Rawcliffe, will 1693 ; (2) Margaret, married to Thomas Shillito of Purston Jaglin ; (3) Cornelius Vandervart of Kellington; (4) Jane, married to Francis Storke of Althrop ; (5) Christopher Vander- vart of Adlingfleet, will 1697 ; (6) another son. Philibert is mentioned in ' Pryme's Diary ' (Surtees Society). Members of the family have resided at Kellington until recently, when the name became extinct. Can any one say from what place in Holland Christian emigrated, and give further par- ticulars of the family ? G. D. LUMB.

MARSHAL SOULT. In 1854 the Marshal's son published the " premiere partie " of ' Memoires du Marechal-General Soult, Due de Dalmatie.' He promised four other instalments of this work. Did they ever appear ? If not, what became of the docu- ments ? Soult fils writes :

" Mon pere m'y avait employe, pendant plusieurs annees, sous sa direction et sous ses yeux, at il v avait joint des notes recueillies dans ses souvenirs.'

Surely these papers have not disappeared ? The publishers of the three volumes now in this library were " Librairie d'Amyot," of No. 8, Rue de la Paix, Paris. Is this firm extinct ? G. W. RED WAY, Major.

Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, S.W.

THE " ZONA LIBRE " OF MEXICO. There was, less than twenty years ago, a zona libre, or " free zone," running along the northern border of Mexico, into which foreign goods could be brought on paying one -tenth of the regular customs duty.

Has this zona libre been abolished ? and, if so, when ? RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.