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Rev. Edward, of Alderley, co. Gloucester, born about 1654, of the MiddleTemple, London, Barrister at Law, who eventually was ordained a priest ofthe Church of England.1 He was an author of note in his time, writing onpolitical and theological subjects, and publishing many books andpamphlets, mostly of a controversial character. His learned work "Liturgyof the Ancients", issued in 1696, was republished in 1848. He marriedMary, daughter of the celebrated Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., Lord Chief Baronof the Exechequer, 1660, and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench,1671. Sir Matthew Hale, whose Gloucestershire residence was near that ofthe Stephens family, was counsel for Archbishop Laud at his trial. Hisposition, universally recognized to-day as that of one of the greatestjurists of Anglo-Saxon law, needs no mention. With Sir Edward Stephens hewas of Parliament for Gloucestershire, (Knights of the Shire) at therestoration of King Charles II, and he was intimately associated with theStephens family in the events of that critical period of English history.His grandchildren who were Stephens on the fathers' side, were: John, born July, 1682, who died without male heirs; Elizabeth, whomarried Garrett Estcourt, Esq., of Cambridgeshire; Rachel, who marriedthe Rev. Robert John Bull, son of the celebrated Bishop Bull; and Hester,who married John Somers, Esq. ----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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