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 8 NOTES AND QUERIES. 2. Thomas Reynolds, b. Nov. 11, 1838, at The Mullens, and bapt. Nov. 30, 1838 (Kilbarron Par. Reg.) ; died, Feb. 22, 1901, in Dublin. 3. Elizabeth Reynolds; bapt. Feb. 22, 1840 (Kilbarron Par. Reg.). Living at Portrush. 4. Mary Anne Reynolds ; bapt. July 24, 1841 (Kilbarron Par. Reg.) ; married Arthur Mann, and by him had issue a dau. who died young. 5. Robert James Reynolds, b. May .11, 1843, at The Mullens. A J.P. for Co. Donegal. Married, Nov. 4, 1891, at Whitley, Northumberland, Kate Isabella, eldest dau. of Mark William Lambert of Whitley Hall, Northumberland. 6. Letitia Jane Reynolds; bapt. Feb. 20, 1845 (Kilbarron Par. Reg.), and died July 13, 1905, in Dublin. 7. Charlotte Frances Reynolds ; bapt. Sept. 1, 1846 (Kilbarron Par. Reg.). 8. William Reynolds, b. 1848. 9. Jemima Reynolds, who married John Chapman Judge, only son of Poyntz Chap- man Judge of Gageborough, Horseleap, Co. Westmeath. He died Dec., 1902, in Dublin, aged 47 years, leaving issue by her. 10. James Johnston Reynolds, b. 1852 ; died Aug. 15, 1903, in Australia. HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS. He (Parker) interrupted the Commissioner, and, in a loud voice, distinctly heard by the three thou- sand sailors crowded on the deck or in the rigging, said to him : " What, my Lord ! When we receive you like the dove bringing the branch of peace and unity to the Ark, you come with a threat in your mouth and sentiments of hateful revenge in your heart ! You, who ought to be the Father of the Seamen you call for their chastisement, and are ready to order them to be Hogged ; you must have blood to wash away your sins ! Very well, you shall have some ! But may the blood of the innocent that you will spill fall on your head ! And may it leave an in- delible mark on your farthest descendants, so that all that see you may cry, ' There goes the executioner of the Fleet at The Nore ; may he be accursed ! ' Adieu, my Lord. You persist in m J us tice and oppression ; we persist in doing all we can to free ourselves ; and may God judge between us ! " De Jonnes attests that the effect of these words was indescribable ; that " a shout of approval and support went up from the crowd " ; and that later he saw Parker swing from the yardarm. The circum- stances in which the widow contrived to THE MYSTERY OF RICHARD PARKER OF THE NORE. THE native -bora and educated White - chapelers retain through many of their school-teachers, old and new, and not a few ancient English Freemasons of sorts re- tained for long, a sentimental interest in all that relates to Richard Parker, the leader of the ever -memorable Mutiny of the British Fleet at The Nore. There has just been t published a new translation of the ' Adventures in Wars of the French Republic and Consulate ' of Moreau de Jonnes, a sort of D'Artagnan of his day, who compiled his memoirs during his years of captivity in the English hulks, which began in 1809. In 1797 De Jonnes, during an extraordinary adventure in the English Channel, fell in with some of the British mutineers of the Naval rebellion. He met Parker, the leader, and of course gives a most sympathetic account of him ; and he declares he was aboard Parker's ship when the British Admirals came " to parley." to London Port and eventually to inter it in Whitechapel Church vaults, make a sorry story of East London ; but it seems to have been unknown to De Jonnes or he would certainly have exploited it. But no authorized " parley " such as English records, and he probably refers to the trial by Court Martial on June 23, 1797, ! and the four following days of Richard I Parker, then 30 years of age, who was the President of the Committee of Delegates which ruled for the nonce the very natu- i rally discontented and mismanaged Fleets at j of death was carried out on June 30, 1797, ! any foreign outsider witnessed the exe- ' cution. Under date of Monday, July 4, 1797, a news-sheet has the following : The body of Parker, the Mutineer, which was taken out of the New Naval Burying Ground at Sheerness, was brought to The Hoop and Horse- shoe public-house, Queen Street, Tower Hill, on Saturday evening. So large a concourse of persons assembled before the House next day premises ; and the corpse in the afternoon was j removed to the Workhouse in Nightingale Lane by order of the Parish Officers. Mistress Parker was taken before the sitting Magistrates at j the Goodman's Fields area) and examined touch- j i ng the object of her taking up the body. Her
 * De Jonnes writes of is known to the official
 * The Nore and Spithead. The sentence
 * and it is in the last degree improbable that
 * Lambeth street (the Police Offlce of the time5 i n