I have not given the height of the tower, spire, nave, and other portions of the building, as such particulars do not come within the scope of the query. But it may be well to give from another source the "area and dimensious" of St. Mary's, and the same of St. Michael's, Coventry : Area. Length. Breadth. 1761.-SIR JOHN SEYMOUR, KNT., M.P. FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1646. (Reply to No. 1538.) In the absence of more definite information respecting this person whom your correspondent supposes erroneously to have been dead before 1660, the following reference to the will of Sir John Seymour, of Bitton, co. Gloucester, may possibly be of use. It will be found in "Bruce 21" among the registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Dated 14 June, 1663. Directs his "body to be buried in the Chancell of the Church of Bitton." Mentions his daughter Ann Symes; and appoints his son Thomas Seymour sole executor. Proved 17 Feb. 166. My note of the will does not state whether it is long or short; but I take it to be a short one, for the details just given comprise the whole abstract made of it. If your correspondent wants more information, I advise him to consult the register indicated for himself. Wallington, Surrey. D. J. We advise Mr. Pink to consult also the late Mr. Ellacombe's valuable History of the Parish of Bitton (1881-83), from which he may derive abundant information. EDITOR. 1762. PRE-REFORMATION INCUMBENTS OF CONDICOTE.-The following list is made from the diocesan registers at Worcester: 1293, 14 kal. Oct.-Walter de Auneford, acolyte, was instituted to the church of Condicote, and ordained priest in the following year. Giffard, fo. 371. 1360, or 1361, Feb. 5.-Richard Batyn to the church of Condicote, presented by William de Stonore, Lord of Condicote. Sede vacante, fo. 112. 1374, March 14.-Alan de Newton, presented by Edmund de Stonore. Sede vacante, fo. 188. 1375, Aug. 12.-William de Blockeleye, presented by Edmund de Stonore. Sede vacante, fo. 194. 1375, Sept. 28.-Walter Clerkes, presented by Edmund de Stonore. Sede vacante, fo. 196. 1390, Oct. 15.-John Wynrych, presented by Ralph Stonore. Wakefield, fo. 67. 1403, Jan. 24.-John Moryene, rector of Bradele, diocese of Winchester, exchanged with Richard Carpenter, rector of Condicote; presented by the King, guardian of the land and heir of Ralph Stonore, deceased. Clifford, fo. 64. 1404, March 10.-William Curteys, chaplain or warden of the chapel of St. Nicholas of Grafton, diocese of Salisbury, exchanged with John Moryene. Clifford, fo. 83. 1407, Oct. 25.-John Garsyngton, on the resignation of William Curteys, presented by the King (Henry IV.) Sede vacante, fo. 227. 1492, Oct. 26.-William Lye, "in sacerdotali ordine," to hold in commendam the vacant church of Condicote. Moreton, fo. 47. 1493, Jan. 20.-Richard Medowe, presented by Sir William Stonour, knt. Moreton, fo. 54. 1508, March 23.-Hugh Theso, presented by Sir Adrian Fortescue and his wife Anne (Stonor). Silvester de Gigliis, fo. 58. 1513.-Thomas Heithes, rector, taxed vis. viiid.; Thomas Lench, chaplain, vis. viiid. Silvester de Gigliis, fo. 96. 1523, Aug. 5.-Hugh Lydyate, on the resignation of Hugh Eys, presented by Sir Adrian Fortescue, knt. Jerome de Ghinuciis, fo. 12. The will of Hugh Lydyate, parson of Condicote, at Somerset House, confirms the tradition that the church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. In his will he directs that he be buried in the chancel of Condicote, "before the ymage of Saint Nicolas, bitweene the awter and the wall of the Chauncele of the northe parte.""Hogen," fo. 29. 1535, March 14.-Bartholomew Mychell, on the death of Hugh Lydyate, presented by Sir Adrian Fortescue, knt. 1536, Dec. 20.-Nicholas Wyke, on the resignation of Bartholomew Mychell, presented by Sir Adrian Fortescue, knt. Latimer, fo. 1. My learned friend, the Rev. D. Royce, M.A., vicar of Nether Swell, has made a list of Condicote incumbents from the date of the severance of Gloucestershire from the see of Worcester down to the present time. THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A. Naunton Rectory, Pershore. An interesting note on the restoration of the church of St. Nicholas, Condicote, has appeared in the Antiquary, April, 1889, vol. xix., p. 173; but there is nothing to add to what we have given ante, p. 316. EDITOR. 1763. "THE JEWRY" IN BRISTOL: MEDIEVAL NAMES.-In the patent rolls of 3 Edward I., under date 18th October [1275], is a writ appointing one of the judges and Bartholomew le Juvene, constable of Bristol Castle, to make inquisition as to the guilt of a great number of Bristolians, who had been attached to answer before the justices appointed to the custody of the Jews for damage to the extent of £100 done by them, as was alleged, in "the Jewry of the vill of Bristol" at the time of the last fire therein, and farther as to the perpetrator of such damage in case the persons attached should be shown to be innocent. Some of the names of the alleged culprits are remarkable. For example, Walter Deubeneye, William King, Dunning le Teler, Robert le Shibbe, Nicholas de la Peyse, Richard le Paumer, William de Licheford, Reginald Golde, Nicholas le Coppere, Bischop Salekene, Mabel la Gimplere, John le Lung, Nicholas le Ken, Richard le Prestre, Richemann le Mustarder, and Robert le Prestre. The singularly loose manner in which surnames were at that period given to men, is illustrated by two other documents on the same roll. A commission of gaol delivery was issued to four of the king's legal staff to try certain persons at "Middelton "-probably in Warwickshire, and shortly afterwards, for a reason which is not stated, it was determined to add another lawyer to the commission. The names of the prisoners to be tried are given in both patents, and the lists are instructive when compared. They are as follows: Adam le Taillur, Henry le Charpentier. Bateman le Taillur, Robert de la Hulle, Henry le Caretter. A few weeks The Bristol culprits appear to have been fined £36 138. 4d. for the above prank. In the rolls of the following year, under the date 26th December, is an acquittance to the constable of Bristol Castle (here called Le Jeovine) for that sum, "being the amount in which certain burgesses of Bristol were amerced." The Jews, however, had little reason to rejoice over this result. before the date of this acquittance the king appointed the abbot of St. Augustine's and the constable of the castle to open the chest of deeds in the king's Jewry in Bristol, to make scrutiny of the charters and debts found therein, to enrol the said debts, and to send all the documents to the king under seal. Similar commissions were sent to Gloucester, Worcester, Exeter, Oxford, Lincoln, York, Canterbury, and the rest of the Jewries, doubtless to the intense consternation of the despoiled Israelites. The local "Jewry" stood on the site of what is now Quay-street, and retained its old name until the middle of the last century. J. L. Bristol. -- 1764. SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS'S PRINTED PIECES. (See No. 104.) The late Sir Thomas Phillipps, as is well known, printed at his private press, and for private circulation only, a great number of small works, chiefly of an archæological, genealogical, or topographical character. A few copies only of each, as a rule, were printed, and the distribution of these appears to have been so capricious that none of the large public libraries of the country seem to possess a complete set. At Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, I suppose the series could be consulted in its entirety, but Thirlestaine House is not accessible to every one. Even a list of the series is to me a desideratum. Is it going beyond the scope of your publication to ask whether such a list might appear in its pages? D. J. In Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn's edition), vol iv., pp. 1856-1858, and vol. vi., pp. 225-237, there is a very long list of Sir Thomas Phillipps's productions; and to it this note is appended:-"The preceding is as complete a list as we have found it possible to make." To insert it in our pages is what we cannot undertake to do; but not so with regard to the Gloucestershire items, which we here give in the order in which they appear in the list : 1. Agreement between Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., and the Cottage Allotment Tenants in Buckland and Childswickham, commencing from 29th Sept., 1837. 2. Buckland and Laverton Tenants, 1834; Childswickham Tenants, 1834. Folio, single sheet. 3. Child's Wickham Farm-Tenants, March, 1835: Broadway Farm-Tenants, 1835. Folio, single sheet. 4. Pedigree of Freeman of Eberton, Blockley, Campedon, Batsford, Evenlode, Oventon, and Bushley (from MSS. Harl.). Large folio, double page. 5. Winchcomb Cartulary abridged. Folio, lithograph. 6. Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1569, ex MSS. Ph. Folio. 7. Bigland's Gloucestershire Collections continued, N. to P. Folio. 8. Pedes Finium: Index pro Com. Glouc., temp. Geo. I. Folio, zincograph. 9. Extracts from Gloucestershire Parochial Registers. Folio, lithograph. 10. Index to Gloucestershire Wills. 12mo. In the Press [1864]. 11. Views of Seats and Churches in Gloucestershire, &c. Folio, lithograph. With reference to No. 7 it should be stated that the unpublished MSS. having become the property of Sir Thomas Phillipps, he printed, in 1839, a small impression of the particulars of eighteen parishes, from Newington Bagpath to Pauntley, inclusive, and ending at p. 316; of which portion sixty-five copies have not long since been "privately reprinted for Mr. T. Fitz Roy Fenwick," of Thirlestaine House. After a considerable interval, the publication was resumed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, in 1870, and, in accordance with directions in his will, the second volume is almost completed. The first of the later portions, comprising nine parishes, appeared in 1870, and the second, comprising fourteen, in 1871; both prior to his death in February, 1872. See ante, vol. i., pp. 73, 111. A summary of the contents of No. 9 has been given ante, p. 263, and to it the reader is referred. EDITOR. 1765.-FAMILY OF MACE, OF NEWENT.-Can anyone give me particulars of the family of Mace, of Newent, in addition to what appears in Hutchins's History of Dorset (3rd edition), vol. i., p. 122, in the pedigree of Gigger? I am acquainted with the pedigrees of Mace in Berry's Kent Genealogies, and Tuckett's edition of Devonshire Pedigrees; but there is no mention of a Gilbert Mace, son of Mark Mace, the former having been born in 1642. Mark Mace was a Northamptonshire man, but perhaps connected with the Newent Maces, if one may judge by christian E. A. FRY. names. King's Norton, Birmingham. 1766. JOHN STRADLYNGE, OF STANLEY ST. LEONARDS, 1558. -Among the wills registered in the District Court of Gloucester are those of John Stradlynge, of Stanley St. Leonards, and Anne, his wife; his being dated and proved in the year 1558, and her's proved in 1563. I think this John Stradlynge must have been one of the numerous base issue of Sir Edward Stradling, Knt., of St. Donats, Glamorganshire, and of Combe Hawey, Somerset, whose names appear in the pedigrees, and some of whom became heads of recognized branches of the family. Of the John of this generation nothing is recorded in the pedigree but the christian name. Is anything to be found respecting him in the local records? If his parentage should prove to be that surmized, then a sister of his, Grisognon, married Anthony Porter, of Ashton-under-Edge, co. Gloucester, and had issue male. John Stradlynge, the subject of this query, had issue, a son and daughter. William, the son, had issue (as appears by his mother's will), three daughters: Elizabeth (married to Gylford), Christian, and Jane. The daughter who is designated simply as "my daughter Walkley," had issue two daughters, Julyan and Katherine. I give these details on the chance of their proving useful to some local investigator. D. J. 1767.-RUDHALL FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE :—` -William Rudhall was a justice of the peace for the county of Gloucester temp. Hen. VIII, Where can I see a pedigree of the Rudhall family? Were the Rudhalls of Herefordshire connected with |