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terminate on strong gates \ exactly a situation for a corps
de garde. In that room they show you a cast of a face in
plaster, and tell you it was taken from Edward's. I was
not quite so easy of faith about that, for it is evidently the
face of Charles I. The steeple of the church, lately rebuilt
handsomely, stands some paces from the body: in the latter
are three tombs of the old Berkeleys, with cumbent figures.
The wife of the Lord Berkeley⁵ who was supposed to be
privy to the murder has a curious headgear: it is like
a long horseshoe, quilted in quaterfoils, and, like Lord
FoppingtonV wig, allows no more than the breadth of a
half-crown to be discovered of the face. Stay, I think I
mistake; the husband was a conspirator against Eichard II,
not Edward; but in those days loyalty was not so rife as
at present*

From Berkeley Castle I went to Thornbury⁶, of which
the ruins are half ruined. It would have been glorious, if
finished—I wish the Lords of Berkeley had retained the
spirit of deposing till Harry the VHIth's time I The
situation is fine, though that was not the fashion, for all
the windows of the great apartment look into the inner
court—the prospect was left to the servants. Here I had
two adventures. I could find nobody to show me about.
I saw a paltry house that I took for the sexton's, at the
corner of the close, and bade my servant ring and ask who
could show me the castle. A voice in a passion flew from
a casement, and issued from a divine—* What! was it his
business to show the castle ? Go look for somebody else!
What did the fellow ring for, as if the house was on fire?*

⁵ Thomas Berkeley(d. 1861), eighth, "before the accession of Richard II.

Baron Berkeley. The effigy is that ^€ The remains of a castle "begun

of his second wife, Catherine Olive- "by Edward Stafford (1478-1521),

don, widow of Sir Peter le Veel. third Dtiie of" BucMngham, executed

Lord Berkeley figured in the reigns for high treason in the reign of

of Edward II and HE. He died Henry VICE.



	1774] To tie Rev. William Cole 31 terminate on strong gates \ exactly a situation for a corps de garde. In that room they show you a cast of a face in plaster, and tell you it was taken from Edward's. I was not quite so easy of faith about that, for it is evidently the face of Charles I. The steeple of the church, lately rebuilt handsomely, stands some paces from the body: in the latter are three tombs of the old Berkeleys, with cumbent figures. The wife of the Lord Berkeley⁵ who was supposed to be privy to the murder has a curious headgear: it is like a long horseshoe, quilted in quaterfoils, and, like Lord FoppingtonV wig, allows no more than the breadth of a half-crown to be discovered of the face. Stay, I think I mistake; the husband was a conspirator against Eichard II, not Edward; but in those days loyalty was not so rife as at present* From Berkeley Castle I went to Thornbury⁶, of which the ruins are half ruined. It would have been glorious, if finished—I wish the Lords of Berkeley had retained the spirit of deposing till Harry the VHIth's time I The situation is fine, though that was not the fashion, for all the windows of the great apartment look into the inner court—the prospect was left to the servants. Here I had two adventures. I could find nobody to show me about. I saw a paltry house that I took for the sexton's, at the corner of the close, and bade my servant ring and ask who could show me the castle. A voice in a passion flew from a casement, and issued from a divine—* What! was it his business to show the castle ? Go look for somebody else! What did the fellow ring for, as if the house was on fire?* ⁵ Thomas Berkeley(d. 1861), eighth, "before the accession of Richard II. Baron Berkeley. The effigy is that ^€ The remains of a castle "begun of his second wife, Catherine Olive- "by Edward Stafford (1478-1521), don, widow of Sir Peter le Veel. third Dtiie of" BucMngham, executed Lord Berkeley figured in the reigns for high treason in the reign of of Edward II and HE. He died Henry VICE.