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NOTES AND QUERIES, tn s. vm. JULY 26, 1913. mercenary views; its basis was to give the defendants popularity, and restore mutual amity. Lord Mansfield paid Mr. Macklin very high compliments on the honourable complexion and singular moderation of this proposal; his lordship declared, it did him the highest credit; that generosity was universally admired in this country, and there was no manner of doubt but the public at large would honour and applaud him for his lenity; his lordship added further, that not-withstanding his acknowledged abilities as an actor, he never acted better in his life than he had that day. The proposal was accepted by the parties, and the matter was thus ended.—During the course of the business lord Mansfield took occasion to observe, that the right of hissing and applauding in a theatre was an unalterable right, but that there was a wide distinction between expressing the natural sensations of the mind as they arose on what was seen and heard, and executing a preconcerted design, not only to hiss an actor when he was playing a part in which he was universally allowed to be excellent, but also to drive him from the theatre, and promote his utter ruin."

—Sir John Moore was the eldest of three brothers, their father being Dr. John Moore, who died in 1802. The second son, James (or, as he called himself, James Carrick), was born in 1763, and died in 1834, and it is an interesting fact, little known, that, like his eldest brother's, his place of burial is unique, while it is equally honourable. In the island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples—a wholly volcanic island—are many craters, and at the bottom of one is a white marble tombstone, recording the burial there, in that strange position, of Surgeon James Moore. The island had been visited with the scourge of cholera, and most of the inhabitants fled to the mainland, but Dr. Moore remained to attend the sick. He, too, eventually fell a victim to the dread plague, and was buried in the place of honour at the bottom of an extinct crater, while the other victims of the epidemic were interred in ascending circles round the sides.

—In The Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1825 (p. 424), is an interesting letter from a correspondent named W. Uvedale, addressed from Scremby, near Spilsby, intimating that in his possession then was "an original half-length portrait (in pontificalibus)" of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, painted by Holbein. The portrait was on board, marked "J. H. 1551," and is stated to have been in good preservation. The Uvedale family appears to have owned the portrait "from time immemorial," and it would be of great interest to learn whether the family still possesses it, and also whether it is the original of the engraving by Houston, published in Holt's 'Lives of the Principal Reformers' (1759).

Another portrait of Hooper was published in 'A Short Narrative of Facts, relative to the Five Protestant Bishops of the Church of England,' issued in 1839 by C. Richards, 100, St. Martin's Lane, London. This was engraved by H. B. Hall from a drawing by J. Childe "From the original Portraits." The Bishop is here represented in full episcopal dress, and the drawing gives the impression of being copied from Houston, with the addition of various details, though the word "Portraits" would suggest that more than one had been studied, and possibly the Uvedale portrait was among them.

desirous of obtaining the assistance of your genealogical readers to enable me to identify this lady, who is described as "daughter and heir of Walter de Ridelesford" (vide De Laci, 'Burke's Extinct Peerage,' ed. .1840, p. 300), and as "Emmeline, Countess of Ulster, daughter and heir of Walter de Ridelsford, Baron of Bray" (vide D'Evereux, 'B.E.P.,' p. 175).

The only reference I have been able to find to Walter de Reddesford is the following:—

His so-called daughter and heir married, first ('B.E.P.,' p. 300), Hugh de Laci, who was created Earl of Ulster, and died 1242; and, secondly ('B.E.P.,' p. 175), Stephen de Longespee, Chief Justice of Ireland. Both these marriages are also recorded in Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage' (vol. i. p. 105).