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 12 s. ix. SEPT. io, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 205 wide along the two upper edges of the quarry to represent the width, and a fine line to show the thickness of the laths as seen from below, and staining this yellow to represent wood. An orna- mental nail head at the junction of the " laths " and a conventional pattern of a vine or some other climbing plant to imitate the real climbing plants growing up outside the wood trellis window completed the similarity. The all-over diaper pattern termed " fretty " in heraldry, in which, as in the case of stained-glass quarries, the tnickness of the laths is always shown, was evidently also borrowed from wood trellis windows ; and hence the term " fret lead glazier " applied to one who makes plain lead lights. Henry Gyles might, therefore, have been a carpenter making wood lattice, a lead- light glazier, or a glass-painter who did ornamental painted work. However, in 1591, on the occasion of his son Thomas taking up his freedom, Henry Gyles, then deceased, was described as having been a must have been wood. He died in 1572 and was buried in St. Martin-cum-Gregory Church, where both his son and grandson were afterwards churchwardens, and in which parish the family lived for nearly 200 years. Nicholas Gyles. Born 1551 (Registers of St. Martin-cum-Gregory Church, ed. by Rev. Edward Buhner). Free of the city by patrimony in 1578. The entry in the Freemen's Roll reads : " Per Patres. Nicholaus Giles, glasyer, fil. Henrici Giles trellesmaker." Nicholas Gyles married Aelyis -, who died in 1616. By her he had six children Jane, born 1580, died ; Thomas, born 1607 and died the same year ; Robert and Ann, twins, born 1608, died ; Edmund the glass- painter and father of Henry the glass - painter, born 1611, died 1676; and Eliza- beth, born 1613, who subsequently became Mrs. Taylor and was alive in 1676, as shown by the will of her brother Edmund. In 1622, according to the Registers of St. Martin- cum-Gregory Church from which the above particulars are taken, " Nicholes Gylles (' lawyer was buryed the eleventh daye of maye in a Cheist betweine second and third piller sowth syide " of the church. Edmund Gyles. Son of Nicholas Gyles, glazier (born 1551, died 1622), and Aelyis hie wife (died 1616). Edmund Gyles was born in 1611 and in 1634 became free of the city, as appears from the following entry in the Freemen's Roll : " Edmundus Gyles, glasier, fil Nicholai Gyles, glaysier." He married Sarah (born 1620, died 1686), by whom he had six sous and eight daughters, of whom only three survived childhood, viz., Henry, the fifth child ; Rebekah, the fourteenth, and another daughter, who married Samuel Smith, and whose son " Mr. Smith the bell founder" is frequently mentioned in, the 'Diary and Correspondence' of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), the Leeds antiquary, a close friend of both Smith and his uncle, Henry Gyles the glass-painter. Edmund Gyles lived in the house on Micklegate Hill, where most probably his father Nicholas lived before him and his son, Henry after. A stained-glass window, formerly on the stair- case of the house now known as No. 68, Micklegate, but at present in the possession of the Yorks Philosophical Society, was his work, and bears the initials of himself and his wife and of their children, and the date as follows : G (Gyles) E (Edmund) S (Sarah) AF/T 54 AST 45 had issue 6 sonnes and 8 daughters (here follow their names) 1665. A later occupier of the house has added his own initials, R. W. T., the names of seven children, each with the figure of an animal, in the style of a child's picture-book, and the date 1823. These, however, can have no connexion with the Gyles family. Edmund Gyles was, in 1653, elected churchwarden ' for Gregories," i.e., for the parish of St. Gregory united with that of St. Martin's, Micklegate, under the title of St. Martin-cum-Gregory. He again held the office in 1661 (Registers of St. Martin- cum-Gregory Chorch, ed. by the Rev. Edward Bulmer). In 1658 he was one of the cham- berlains of the City. With the exception of the glass previously mentioned, no works of Edmund Gyles have been identified. He was probably chiefly employed on heraldic work such as that in Acomb Church, near York, representing the Royal Arms with initials C. R. for Charles II. and the dated 1663. Edmund Gyles made his will (Reg. Test. Ebor., vol. 57, fol. 152) on June 22, 1676. To his wife Sarah the house on Micklegate Hill, also the! house on Bishophill, " wherein Elizabeth Barrowby now liveth." This was evidently the house
 * ' joyner," so that the lattices he made