that of the floor inside, so as to take the rain-water away from the building. The white and yellow washes have been carefully cleaned from the walls of the interior. The arcade between the south aisle and the nave has been taken down and re-erected, stone for stone, the roofs of the nave and south aisle have been removed, the chancel roof has been stripped, boarded, and panelled, and the timbers carefully examined and repaired, and the whole church has been re-covered with Broseley tiles. The floors, both stone and wood, have been taken up, and a layer of concrete has been placed over the whole surface of the church, carefully sealing up all vaults and graves. The whole of the pews and west gallery have been removed and the tower arch and west window and groining of the tower exposed to view, a wood screen being placed in the archway. A chancel screen has also been erected, the windows have been re-glazed, and other similar and very necessary works effected.

The works have been executed by Mr. Henry Smith, of Kidderminster, whose contract for the same was accepted at £2,260. The screens were the work of Mr. H. C. Frith, of Gloucester.

At the re-opening the Bishop preached from Hebrews xi., part of the 27th v., "As seeing Him who is invisible," and afterwards administered the Holy Communion, which was partaken of by a large number of communicants.

There was a crowded congregation at the evening service in the church, and the Dean of Gloucester was the preacher, selecting as his text, "To what purpose is this waste," Matthew xxvi., part of the 8th verse. The service concluded with the singing of the hymn, "We love the place, O God."

We are indebted to a correspondent for sending us the following description of the church from the manuscripts of that well-known antiquary, the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., made by him on June 12th, 1868

This church has a nave with south aisle, chancel, south porch and western tower with lofty spire. The south doorway within the porch is a fine Norman one; in the tympanum is a sculpture representing St. George and the Dragon; the doorcase is square; there is one order of Norman shafts and one with imposts; the upper arch is cinquefoiled, and has a band, with the appearance of having been altered in the Edwardian period; within it is a figure (doubtful whether in situ). The porch is of unusually

large size, and its outer doorway has a hood on bold corbels and a head at its apex. The nave is divided from the aisle by four Early English pointed arches on light circular columns with moulded capitals. The nave and chancel are all in one space, wide and equal in width, without dividing arch; the roof is coved, plastered in the nave, but ribbed in the chancel. The south aisle has a new slated roof, and has been much renovated; it has single lancet windows. On the west of the nave is a single trefoliated window, and under it a sepulchral-arched recess in the wall: the walls lean very much. The chancel has on the south a threelight window without tracery of the Herefordshire plain Edwardian kind; on the north a Perpendicular one of three lights, and one of similar character of five lights at the east end. On the south of the chancel is a pointed arch recess, perhaps a sedile, and a very good Edwardian piscina with trefoil-formed arch, having excellent mouldings. Within the sacrarium is a curious sepulchral slab, presenting a cross in relief beneath a trefoiled canopy, surmounted by three crosses and flanked by buttresses. The font bears the date 1657. An ugly west gallery masks the beautiful tower arch, which is lofty and with continuous mouldings of good Perpendicular character. The steeple is a fine Perpendicular composition, resembling, but superior, to the neighbouring lofty spires of Ross, Monmouth, and Mitcheldean. It has a fine stone-groined roof within, and a beautiful west window of three lights, below which is a closed doorway. The tower has corner buttresses, and at the south-east an octagonal stair turret, embattled and rising above the parapet. There are two string courses; the second stage has a single trefoiled window-the windows of the belfry, of two lights, with transoms. The spire is octagonal, of lofty and fine proportions having one band of panelling, crocketed at the angles and connected with the corner pinnacles by flying buttresses. There are six bells.-Gloucester Chronicle, 27 September, 1890.

Queries and Replies.

Portraits of the Stephens Family.-The "European Magazine" for 1809 states that there existed in Southam House, then the residence of the family De la Bere, which was maternally derived from that of Stephens, the portraits of John Stephens, of Lypiat, who died in 1679, by Sir Peter Lely; and of Edward,

son of Thomas Stephens, of Sodbury. Can any reader inform me where these portraits now are?

A portrait of Thomas Stephens, of Lypiat Park, AttorneyGeneral to Prince Charles, was in possession of Lady Bath in 1648. The portrait was engraved by Marshall. Who was this Lady Bath, where is the picture, and where can a print be obtained?

Windlesham, Bagshot.

W. W. BARKER.

Theyer Family.-The Theyers, of Brockworth, Gloucestershire, are considered an ancient family. One of the family was a learned man, and I think has been described in one of the numbers of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries (III., 195). I find in our Probate Court, "Tes' vi. day June second year reign of Edwa VI., Agnes Theyar, of Brockworth, widow, to be buried in Brockworth Churchyard-left to Margery Sandy her best smocke -to Margaret Lytill a kercher, one apronne-to Margett Wylse one smocke-to Elizabeth Ryve, dwelling with a fermor of Brockworth one platter of Pewter."

Gloucester.

H. Y. J. TAYLOR.

Stephens of Frocester and Eastington.-Can any reader give information of the following branches of the old Stephens family of Frocester, Eastington, etc., or inform me of any pedigree including them?

Stephens, of Woodhall, Norton, Worcestershire.
Stephens died about 1711.

Thomas

Stephens, of Frampton and Pitchcomb, living about 1700. Rev. Dr. Stephens and his brother Philip, succeeding owners of the Manor of Hinton and the Jason estate, near Evesham, in 1750.

Were the following of the Eastington family?

William Stephens, of Littleton (died about 1725); Will established in Chancery 1726.

The Eastington registers give the following marriages and baptisms:

Edward Stephens, Gent., and Katherine, six children, 16811701.

John Stephens and Elizabeth Blanch, 1702, six children, 1702-1720.

Nathaniel Stephens and Sarah King, 1702, seven children, 1704-1722.

Edward Stephens and Ann, three children, 1708-1714. William Stephens and Mary, two children, 1709-1712. Can any reader inform me whom Sir Philip Stephens married? Sir Philip's daughter, Caroline Elizabeth, married Ranelagh, and is buried in the parish church at Fulham? Windlesham, Surrey. W. W. BARKER.

Lord

The Trotmans of Winchcombe.-The following additional information about a Trotman family is copied from my list of names taken from the old churchyard in Winchcombe which is arranged alphabetically, so that at any time it may be of use as a reference. The notes are added by Mr. E. S. Wood. Sudeley Castle, EMMA DENT.

28th Jan., 1893.

Here lieth the body of Scanderbeg Trotman, Feb. ye 16th, 1752, aged 52.

In Winchcomb Parish Registry the date of his burial is given as "1753, January 16." By his wife Edith he left three children, viz.:

John Trotman, who died 1802, see below.

Rebecca, buried at Winchcomb 12 Sept., 1798, unmarried.
William, mentioned next.

Also in memory of William, the son of Scanderbeg and Edith Trotman, who [according to Bigland] died in the Plains of Scurburgh, near Duchland, Germany, Nov. 28th, 1760, aged 38 years.

In memory of James Trotman, who died MDCCCLIV.
Inside Winchcombe Church:

John Trotman, died Sept. 30th, 1802, aged 79.
This was a son of Scanderbeg Trotman, and in Winchcomb
Register the dates are-Bapt. 4 March, 1725; married 14
February, 1765, to Ann Mason. By her he had issue six
children, marked below 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Three daughters of John and Ann Trotman, viz.:
2. Mary, died Nov. 29th, 1820, aged 55.

3. Ann, died Dec. 4th, 1820, aged 52.

6. Susanna, died in her infancy.

1. William Trotman, died March 31, 1850, aged 87. He
was an illegitimate son, and is entered in register as
"Bapt. 1763-Dec. 26, William son of Ann Mason."
4. George Scanderbeg Trotman, died Sept. 25th, 1793, aged

22.

5. James Trotman, died Jan. 31, 1859, aged 84. He was the last surviving member of the family in Winchcomb, and the name is now extinct there.

Mary Trotman, of Bishop's Cleeve, died April 7th, 1806, aged 81.

A Bower of Delights; being interwoven verse and prose from the works of Nicholas Breton: the weaver, Alexander Grosart. London, Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. 1893, 12mo. cloth pp. xxii. 176.

This little volume is the third issued in the Elizabethan library. We have already noticed those of Sydney and Raleigh but the present one, albeit composed of writings little known, quite equals, even if it does not exceed them, in interest. Nicholas Breton was a landowner, his father lived in Red Cross Street, and he himself was born about 1542. The date of his death is unknown, but the Editor tells us that all but certainly he died in 1626. He was a man of education, trained in Oriel College, Oxford, and evidently travelled much over Europe. He was a voluminous writer both of prose and poetry; his powers of description and word-painting are very considerable, and his proverbial philosophy shows the possession of much dry wit which will be readily appreciated even by the nineteenth century reader. This volume will especially interest antiquaries for the numerous pictorial descriptions he gives of the manners and customs of his time. Dr. Grosart speaks of difficulty he has had in making these selections, but to give any adequate idea of the beauties of Breton by extracts from these selections is a well-nigh impossible task. We must refer the reader to the book itself. The antiquary will be interested in the descriptive accounts of various characters, such as the country physician, a worthy merchant, etc., taken from "Good and Bad." His satirical account of Elizabethan clergy is very quaint. He meets a country vicar, "a little old man in a gown, a wide cassock, and a corner cap, by his habit seeming to be a divine," whom, beginning to salute with a few Latin words, "My friend," quoth he, "do not deceive yourself, I understand not your Greek." The vicar then proceeds to allege that his parishioners are "a kind of people that love a pot of ale better than a pulpit, and a corn rick better than a church door." Incidentally he shows that the church was used for secular notices for the people "stay till the banns of matrimony be asked, or the clerk hath cried a pied stray bullock, a black sheep, or a stray mare." A "day in Merry England" shows by his description of each hour, how changed we are in the matter of early rising; thus, at two o'clock, "the earnest scholar is now at his book, and the thrifty husbandman will rouse towards his rising." At three, "the porridge pot is on for the servants' breakfast, the ploughman falls to harness his horses." At four," the servants are at breakfast, the quick witted man will be quoting of places, and the cunning workman will be trying of his skill." At five, "the bells ring to prayer, the streets are filled with people and the highways are thronged with travellers, even the lawyer now begins to look on his case."