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THE   BERKELEY  MANUSCRIPTS 


THE 


LORDS    OF    THE 
HONOUR,  CASTLE   AND    MANOR   OF    BERKELEY 

Jn  t\)t  Qlottutg  of  (Gloucester 

From  1066  to  1618 

WITH   A   DESCRIPTION   OF   THE 

HUNDRED    OF    BERKELEY   AND    OF    ITS    INHABITANTS 

BY    JOHN    SMYTH,   OF    NIBLEY 


VOL.   I 


Edited  by   Sir   JOHN    MACLEAN,  F.S.A.,  etc. 

FOR    THE    BRISTOL    AND    GLOUCESTERSHIRE    ARCHAEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY 


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PEDIGREE   OF  SMYTH    OF  NIBLEY 


PEDIGREE    OF    SMYTH 

(from    the   visitations    of 


Anne,  J  eldell  dau.^ 
of  Sr.  Edw.  Brom- 
fieldt  of  Suffolk 
place  in   Co.  Surr. 
Knt.  bur*  2  Da. 
1643  aged  ^6  M.  I. 


=John  Smith  %  of  North  Nibley= 
in  Com.  Glouceflr.  Efqr.  one  of 
His  Mats.  Juflices  of  the  Peace 
for  ye  County  of  Glocefler.  born 
8  Sept.  9  Jac.  l)a/>.*  1 2  Sep.  161 1 
and  is  now  living  jet.  71.  Died 
17  Sep.  1692  aged 82  iur.*  M.I. 


=Anne,  youngefldaur.     Thomas  J  Smith  of=T=Mary  eldeft  dau. 


of  John  Bromfield  of  Stonehoufe  in 

Udimer  in  Co:  Suflex,  Com  :  Glouc.  now 

gent  :  2.  wife.    Died  living  1682.  Bap* 

21  Mar.   1686,  aged  27  Dec.  161 3 
72.  bur*  M.  I. 


and  coheir  of 
Stephen  Fowler 
of  Stonehoufe 
Co.  Glouc.  gt. 


Mary  J  wife  of 
Chriflopher 
PurnellJ  of 
NibleyinCom: 
Gloc.gt.J/an* 
Z  Jan.  1632.  3. 


T 


1 

.1.3 
William    = 
Smith 
obijt. 
apud 
Metllopo- 
tan  in  the 
EaR 
Indies 


1 — 

u 

Anne 
wife  of 
John 
Nourfe 

of 
AVefton 
under 
Penyard 
in  CO. 
Hereford 
Efqr. 


Edward    Smith    of= 
North  Nibleyafore- 
faid  set:  50.  ann  : 
1682.  DiedT,i  on. 
&^  bur.*   4  jVo?'. 
1700  aged  70.     He 
was  a  Bencher  of 
the  Middle  Temple, 
one  of  H.  M.  Judges 
for  the   Circuit  of 
South  Wales,  High 
Steward  of  the 
Borough  of  South- 
wark  d^r.  M.  T. 
Will  dated  4  May 
1692 


I    I    I    I    I 

1  John  btir* 
1  June  1 67 1 

2  Edward 
bur*  8  Feb. 
1680.  I 

3  Jane  bur* 

6  Ofl.  1681  <■ 

4  Rofe  bur. 
29  0^.1681 

5  Heflher 
bur*  8  Feb. 
27  ap.  1681 


:Rofe 
youngefl, 
dau.  of 
Sr.  Edw. 
Leigh  of 
Shipley 
in  Com. 
Derb. 
Knt. 
Mar.* 
20  Jan. 
1658.  9. 
but*  29 

oa.  1689 


John 

died  at 

Naples 

ao. 

1665 

coelebs 


rill 

7  John        ]    ^ 

8  Anne       (    g 

9  Dorothy  (   ^ 

10  Heflher  '    oj 


Cordelia 
daur.  of 
John 
Everett 
of  the 
Citty  of 
Canter- 
bury gt. 
hur*  21 
Mar. 


5  |6 

Thomas   =j=Elizabeth   Margaret 
daur.  of      bap* 

26  Dec. 

Carrick  of  1638  wife 
Ireland       of  Wm. 

Archard  of 


Smith 
baf* 
2  Jan. 
1637.8 
now  liv- 
ing in 
Ireland 
1682. aet. 
44.  ann: 


-I  II 


Nibley  in 
co:Glouc: 
gt.  Mar.* 
22  Dec. 
1658. 
he  bur* 
I  June 
1668 
JJie  bur* 
12  Aug. 
1708 


Elizabeth 

James 

bap* 

bap* 

10  Dec. 

1 1  Jan. 

1639  wife 

1640.  I 

of  Tho  : 

now 

Veel  of 

living  un- 

Simonds- 

married 

hall  in  co: 

1682 

Glouc:  gt. 

set.  40 

Mar.* 

22  Jany. 

1662.  3. 

James  of 

John  Smith 

the  City  of 

ajt :  18.  ann: 

London 

1682. 

now  liv- 

ing 1682 

set :  II 

an:  Will 

dated 

John  ffit  :  8. 
Thomas  a;t :  6. 
Elizabeth  aet :  6. 
and  others 


*  At  Nibley. 


1709 


t  The  names  thus  marked  are  mentioned  in  the  will  of  John  Smyth,  dated  1640. 


OF    NIBLEY 


GLOUCESTERSHIRE      1623     AND      1683) 


Richard  Smith   eldell  fonne 
hath  iffue. 

Grace  dan.  and  heir^ 
of  Willi  Thomas 
and  Alice  his  wife 
dau.  of  Richard 
Hill  and  relifl  of 
John  Drc7t.<  of  Nib  ley 
who  was  bur.  *  3 1 
Mar.  1597.    Mar.* 
by  lie.  J  Oc7.  the 
fame  year.  Died  c)lh 
and  bur.*  nth 
Noil.  1609. 


Wilhnus  Smith  de  Humberflone=i=Emot  one  of  the  5  doughters 
in  Com.  Lincoln.  [      and  heirs  of 

Joane  doughter  of  Richard 
Alan  of  Derbie. 


Thomas  Smith  de  Hooby  in  Com, 
Leiceller  fecond  fonne. 


r- 

=John 

living 

1640. 

1640. 


T 


Smyth  of  Nibley  in  Com.  Glouc.  gen. 
ao.  1623.  Died 2jth  and  bur.*  2"]  Feb. 
I.  aged  73  M.  I.  Wilt  dated  i.  Dec. 
Prov.  16  Akw..,  1641.  (^135  Evelyn.) 


:Mary  |    elded   doughter   of 
trowning  in    Cowley 
Glouc.)   Gen.   mar.  at 
Cowley    9  Jan.    1609. 
Executive  to  hufband's  Will. 


=t=Mary  \    ( 

John    Hr 

I  (Co.   Glc 


daughter  mar 
Stephen 
Fowler  { 


UrfulaJ  bap*  i  May 
i6i8  wife  of  Will. 
ThorpJ  of  Wands- 
well  in  poch.  de 
Berkeley  com. 
Glouc.  Efqr.  mar* 
10  Jany.  1636.  7. 


Elizabethf  wife 
of  Edw.  HillJ  of 
Cam  in  Com. 
Glouc.  gt.  Mar* 
10  Jan.  1636.  7. 


William  Smith  J  bap*     =pCath.  fole  dr.  and  George  SmithJ= 

22  May  1625  of  South-     heir  of  Richd.  born  2%  bap.  ^o 

field  in  poch  de  Kings-      Martin  of  Nibley  May  1629  of 

wood  in  Com.  Wilts  ob:     in  com  :   Glouc.  Twickenham 

cir :    17    Mar:    1681    at     Afar.*  16  Mar.  in  co.  Midd. 

cir.  57.  1646.7.  living  ao.  1682. 


=Mary    fole 
dau. and  heir 
of  David 
Offley  of 
the  City 
of  London 
gent. 


=FAnne 


Anne  fet :  5. 
Mary  set  :  4. 


Smith  a 

eldeft          1 

Druggift 

daur.  of     i 

in  Lon- 

Samuel      i 

don  now 

Symonds 

living 

of  the 

1682  £et. 

Citty  of 

28. 

London 

1 

Druggift 

1    1 

Gabraell 
aetat.  i.  ann  : 


Richard  J  born 
31  Mar.  bap." 
zAp.  1 63 1  and 
Sarah  bap*  23 
Sep.  1627  bur* 
2  Feb.  1642.  3 
ob.  s.  prole 


1  Anne  aet  :  5. 

2  Grace  aet:  3. 


TTTTT 

1  fWilliam  ast. 

2  John 

3  Margaret 

4  ^L1ry 

5  George 
5  Richard 
7  SarahJ 

5    Thomas 


h 


Offley 
Smith 
a;t.  12 
ann: 
1682. 


^^^^ 


Mary  set  :  8 
ann  :  1682. 


*At  Nibley 


+  This  Will.  Smith  is  now  relident  at  North-Nibley,  and  married  Mary  dau.  of  Thos.  White  of  FidlefordV 
in  poch.  de  Sturmiftr.  Newton  in  com.  Dorfet,  widow  of  Edw.  Codrington,  of  Sutton  in  Wiltfli.,  but  hath  as. 
yet  no  iiTue. 


PEDIGREEOF    SMYTH 


I.e.  B.  90.  554. 
I.  33.  290. 
K.  S-  35- 


George  Smyth 
of  North  Nibley 
in  Co  :  GlouC  : 
Efq.  aged  17 
years  in  1682. 


=Margaret,  da  : 
of  Charles 
Dowdefwell 
of  Forthampton 
in  Co  :  Glouc. 


Richard   Mitton : 
of   Haiaon   Co  : 
Salop,  Elquire. 
Ill  Hufbd. 


-Lastitia  Owen,  only  Sifter  &    Heir= 
of  her  Brother  Thomas,  born  5th  & 
bapt.  at  Condover  14th  April   1696 
died  10  &  burd.  20  Aug:  1755.  Will 
dat.  16  Oft.  1750. 


=Traflrord  Barnfton,  of 
Trafford  in  Co  :  Pal  : 
Ceft:  Efq.  2d.  Hufbd. 
Marrge.Covents.dated 
7th  &  8  May.  1735. 


George  Smythe  of  North  Nibley  in=pLucy,   Daur   &    Co-heir  of 


Com.  Glout'.  Efq.  living  1763.  borti 
21  Ap.  bap.*  5  May  18 12  Died  at 
Shreic'Jbiiry  oy  bur*-^\  Jan.  iTJi. 


Biggs  of  Benthall, 
Co.  Salop,  by  Lucy  his  wife, 
buried  at  Nibley, 


Sally  married  at  St.     TheRev.JohnSmythe 

Mary's  in  Shrews-       of  Moretonon  theHill 

bury  13  July  1767  to     in  Com.  Glouc., Clerk.     Son  and  Heir. 

Rev.  Saml.  Sandys     SometimeCornet  in  the  born  i()  and  bap 

Sonof  Edwin  Sandys  Princeof  Wales's  Regt.    27,  AJarch  i']2,6 

Prebendary  of  Wore,   of  Dragoon  Guards. 


George  Smythe  =Anne  only  daur 

of  NiblevEfquire     of  Thomas  Willis 

ofWhaddonHall 

in  Co.  Bucks  Efq. 

ob :  s.  p. 


Nicholas  Smythe^ 
of  Condover  &  of 
North  NibleyKfq. 
High  Sheriff  of 
Co.  Glouc.  died 
3  March  1790. 


^Anna-Maria  fucceeded  to  the 
Condover  Eftates  by  her 
(Grandmother's  Will.  Mard. 
at  St.  Geo:,  Han;  Sq.  19  Jan. 
1767.  Died  27  Feb.  1776 
aged  33.  burd.  at  Condover. 


Edward  Pemberton- 
of  Longnor  in  the 
County   of  Salop 
Efquire. 


c 

:Anna  -  Maria  -  Emma 
eldeft  daughter  bom 
15  May  1770  &  mar- 
ried at  Condover  9 
Feb:  1792  now  eldefl 
Coheir  of  her  Brother 
1814 


1 

Nicholas  -Owen  Smythe-Owen  of  Condover^ 
Efquire  eldeft  Son  &  Heir  born  7  March 
1769  took  the  Surname  &  Arms  of  Owen 
by  virtue  of  the  King's  Royal  Sign  Manual 
bearing  date  24  Feb.  1790  died  without 
Iflue  30  Jan:  1804.  buried  at  Condover. 
Will  dat:  20  Dec.  1797.  proved  with  a  Cod: 
21  Feb.  1S07.     (P.  C.  C.) 


Edward  -  William  -  Smythe  Pemberton  only  Son 
and  Heir  apparent  born  28  Dec.  1793,  affumed 
the  Surname  and  .Arms  of  Owen  inftead  of  that 
of  Pemberton  by  virtue  of  the  Royal  Sign  Manual 
bearing  date  the  24  December  1814  and  is  now 
Edward  -  William  Smythe  -  Owen  of  Condover 
Efquire  181 5.     Died  9  April  1863.     s.  p. 


Harriet    Pemberton 
eldeft  daughter. 


Caroline  Pemberton 
fecond  &  youngeft 
Daughter. 


1 

:Harriet  only  dau:'  of  James 
Townfend  of  Bruce  Caftle  in 
Tottenham  Co  :  Middx.  Efq. 
Alderman  and  fomc-time 
Lord  Mayor  of  London. 
Marrd.  at  'I'ottenham  12  July 
1790.     Living  1815. 


•At  Nibley 


OF    NIBLEY 


c.  37.  141.  c.  35.  92 

Joanna,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph^f^ThomasOwenof  Con-=pIfabella,daughter 


Aslheton  and  Sifter  of  Sir  Ralph 
Asfheton  of  Whalley  Bans  & 
Widow  of  Peter  Bold  of  Bold 
in  Co:  Pal  Lane.  Efq. 


dover  in  Com.  Saloj), 
t.fquire  aged  22  years 
1664  buried  8  June 
1678,  at  Condover. 


of. 

buried 

4  Keby.  1676,  at 
Condover 


Thomas  Owen 
elded  fon  and 
Heir  apparent 
aged  9  years 
in  Augf.  1664. 


Theophilia 
only    daur 
baptized  at 
Condover 
S  Jan.  1674. 


lane  daughter  of =f  Roger  Owen  of  Con-=pCatherine  daui'  of 


William  Owen 


Vaughan  of marrd. 

in  the  Chapel  of  the  Free  School 
Salop  20  May  1694  burd..  24th 
June  1700  at  Condover. 


dover  Efq  :  2d.  Son 
&  Heir  bapt:  there  3d. 
Dec.  1674  died  17 18 
buried  at  Condover. 


Booth  of  3d.  &  youngefl  Son 

2d.  wife  died  bapt :  at  Condover 

at    Weft    Chefter  4   February  1676. 

burd.  25  06t:  1743  burd.  15  0&..  1716. 
at  Condover. 


Edward  Owen  of  Elizabeth  Thomas  Owen  of  Condover 
Condover  Efq.  eldt.  bapt:  at  Efq:  2d.  Son  &  Heir  to  his 
Son  &  Heir  bapt.  Condover  Bror.  Edward  bapt.  at  Con- 
there  S  May  1695  16  July  dover  28  Oa :  1698  died 
buried  16  Julv  1 728  1697.  without  I  flfue,  buried  i  Feb: 
at  Condover.'  s.  p.  1731-  a'  Condover. 


Catherine  Owen 
only  child  by  the 
2d.  venter  died 
unmard.  aged  1 7 
years  at  Condover 


Anna-Maria  Mitton=f  Sir  Charles  Leighton=pEmma,    daughter   of  Sir 


only  Ifiue&heir  of 
her  Father  died  in 
Auguft  1750. 


of  Watlefborough    in 
Co.    Salop    Baronet 
died  5th  May  1780. 


Robert  Maude  of  Ireland 
Bart.  Marrd.  in  Odtober 
1752.  2d.  wife. 


Sir  Charleton  Leighton  Honor 

of  Watlefborough  ]5aronet  died 

eldeft  Son  and  Heir.   Died  young, 
unmarried  in  Dec.  1784. 


Annabella  mard. 
to\\"illiamChilde 
of  Kinlet  inSalop 
Efq.  Living  1815. 


I 


Sir  Robert   Leighton 
of  Watleftjorough 
aforefaid    Bart.    2d. 
Son.    fucceeded  his 
Brother  Sir  Charleton 
1784. 


1 

Other 
Iffue. 


Lastitia- Sophia  2d.  Sifter  and 
Coheir  born  i  Feb:  1772  mard. 
by  Special  Licence  in  Porlman 
Square  16  Feb:  1791  to  Henry- 
Aug.  Leicefter  Efq.  Brother  of 
Sir  John  Fleming  Leicefter 
Baronet  of  Ireland.     =p 


Charles  Cholmondeley  • 
2d.    Son   of  Thomas 
Cholmondeley  of  Vale 
Royal    in    Co  :    Pal : 
Ceftr  :   a/iti  younger 
brother  of   Thomas    ijl 
Lord  Delamcre.     Died 
i8i8. 


^Caroline  -  Elizabeth 
3d,  Sifter  and  Coheir 
married  18  Jan.  1794. 


Louifo  -  Harriet  4th  Sifter  & 
Coheir  mard.  at  St.  George 
Plaiiover  Square  in  May  1798, 
to  Charles  Leii:efter  of  Stan- 
thorne  liill  in  Chefhire  Efq. 


Auguftus  Peter  Leicefter, 
2d.  furviving  Son.  Died 
an  hifant.  Burd.  at  Great 
Budworth  iti  Co  :  Ceftr  : 
12  Aprft  1 80 1. 


Revd.  Charles  Cooper  Cholmondeley^ 
Re6lor   of   Hodnet,    and    Perpetual 
Curate  of  Moreton  Say,  both  Co.  Salop. 
Died  5th  February  1831. 


Thomas  Cholmondeley  of  Condover  Park,  Efq.  b. 
1823,  Major  ift  Adminiftrative  Battalion  Shrop- 
fhire  Rifle  Volunteers,  eldeft  fon  and  heir.  By 
Royal  Licence  dat :  3  June  1863  he  &  his  in"ue  were 
authorized  to  affume  the  Surname  and  Arms  of 
Owen  inftead  of  that  of  Cholmondeley.  Barred 
the  entail  of  eftates  by  deed  dated  i  June  1863. 
Mar.  1864  ViHoria  Alexandrina  dan.  of  John 
Cotes  Efq.  of  Woodcote,  Co.  Salop,  and  god-  dau. 
of  Her  Majejly  Queen  ViHoria,  and  died  the  fame 
year.     s.  p. 


=Mary  Sifler  of  Richard  Hebcr  Ef</.  of  Hodnet 
Hall.  Salop  and  Marlon  Co.  York  and  of 
Reginald    Heber  Biflwp    of  Calcutta  mar. 

I  1822.     She  mar.  fecondly  Rev.  Samuel  H. 

I  Macauley  Reflor  of  Hodnet. 

Reginald   Cholmondeley  0f=^Hon.  Alice  Mary  Egerton 


Condover  Park  Efq.  heir  of 
his  brother  Thotnas,  M.A. 
Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  born  20 
Ap.  1826  Major  i  Bait. 
28///  Salop  Volunteers. 


2  dau.  of  William  ifl  Lord 
Egerton    of   Iditon    mar. 
i-jih  on.  1867.     Died  27 
Novr.  1868. 


Alice  only  child 
died  II  Dec.  1868. 


This  Pedigree  is  an  amalgamation  of  the  entries  at  the  Vifitation  of  1623  (attefted  by  John  Smith  whofe  coat  is  there  impaled 
with  Browning)  and  of  1683— attefted  by  Wm.  Smith  where  the  fimple  ftiield  (not  here  repeated)  of  Smith,  alone  is  1  ricked. 
S  Jany    1883.  Stephen  Tucker,  Somerfet. 


PREFACE 

The  members  of  the  Briflol  and  Gloucefterfhire  Archaeological 
Society  fhould  feel  deeply  grateful  to  Lord  Fitz  Harding  for  his 
obliging  permiffion  to  print  the  long  celebrated  and  moft  valuable 
hiflorical  MSS.  of  Mr.  Smyth,  which  for  two  and  half  centuries  were 
carefully  and  clofely  preferved  by  fucceffive  Lords  Berkeley  in  the 
Muniment  Room  at  Berkeley  Caflle.  For  purpofes  of  Topography, 
Biography,  and  Genealogy,  thefe  works  may  juftly  be  efteemed  as  not 
inferior  to  any  which  have  been  ever  iffued  from  the  prefs. 

During  the  whole  of  a  long  life  Mr.  Smyth  was  Steward  of  the 
Hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  of  all  the  Manors  of  the  great  Berkeley 
Eflate.  It  muft,  however,  be  borne  in  mind  that  his  office  was  very 
different  in  character  from  that  of  noblemen's  ftewards  at  the  prefent 
day.  Under  the  old  manorial  fyftem  the  Steward  flood  in  the  place  of 
the  Lord  himfelf,  as  the  judges  now  ftand  in  the  place  of  the  King.  He 
prefided  as  judge  of  all  the  Courts  leet,  which  were  held  twice  a  year, 
and,  within  their  jurifdidtion,  took  cognizance  of  all  offences  under  high 
treafon.  He  prefided  alfo  at  the  Courts  Baron  of  all  the  Manors,  ufually 
held  every  three  weeks.  Thefe  Courts,  and  their  being  regularly  held, 
were  effential  to  the  exiflence  of  a  Manor.  If  the  Court  Baron  ceafed 
to  be  held,  the  Manor,  ipfo  fa6lo,  ceafed  to  exift.  The  Courts  Baron 
took  cognizance  of  all  injuries,  trefpaffes,  debts  and  other  a(5lions  under 
40/-  between  perfon  and  perfon  ;  and  they  were  charged  with  the  prefer- 
vation  and  maintenance  of  all  the  cuftoms  and  franchifes  of  the  Manor, 
the  prefentation  of  the  deaths,  &c.,  of  tenants,  and  of  all  abufes,  encroach- 
ments, nuifances  and  injuries  which  might  be  to  the  prejudice  of  the 
Lord.     It  is  true  the  free  tenants,  or  homagers,  a(fting  upon  their  oaths, 

were 


ii  PREFACE 

were  the  judges,  yet  the  Steward  prefided  and  regulated  the  procedure. 
In  fad;  the  office  of  Steward  of  a  Manor  was  a  judicial  one  requiring 
legal  knowledge  and  fpecial  training.  In  this  office  Mr.  Smyth  had 
charge  of  the  valuable  evidences  in  the  Muniment  Room  of  the  Caftle. 
To  the  ftudy  of  thefe  rich  treafures  he  devoted  liimfelf,  and  taking  a 
deep  intereft  in  the  honour,  welfare,  and  dignity  of  the  great  family 
which  he  ferved,  he  was  led  to  write  a  hiftory  of  the  lives  of  the  firfl  21 
Lords  of  Berkeley,  extending  from  the  Norman  Conqueft  down  to  1628. 
In  his  original  title-page  Smyth  profeffes  to  have  continued  his  hiftory 
to  the  year  1618  only,  but  he  mufl;  fubfequently  have  added  to  it,  and 
in  fome  inftances  has  brought  it  down  to  1628,  in  writing  having  for  his 
chief  objecft  the  inftrudtion  and  information  of  the  young  lord  George, 
then  a  minor,  pointing  out  for  his  warning,  and  that  of  his  fucceffors, 
the  errors  and  faults  of  their  forefathers,  and  as  an  example  the  good 
deeds  their  progenitors  had  performed.  He  alfo  traced  the  devolu- 
tion of  the  numerous  Lordfliips,  Manors  and  Lands,  which,  during  five 
centuries,  the  family  had  held.  Not  only  did  he,  in  the  profecution  of 
this  and  his  other  works,  altogether  twenty-one  in  number,  of  which  we 
fhall  fpeak  more  in  detail  hereafter,  make  himfclf  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  the  precious  evidences  at  Berkeley,  but  having  become  an  accom- 
plifhed  reader  of  ancient  documents,^  he  alfo  acquired  fuch  ample  know- 
ledge of  the  Public  Records  of  the  kingdom  as  few  have  attained  unto, 
and  confidering  the  fcanty  opportunities  for  examination  afforded  in  his 
time,  the  refult  is  very  furprifing,  and  bears  ftrong  teftimony  to  his 
diligence  and  perfeverance.  Fofbroke,  the  County  Hiftorian,  who  was 
one  of  the  very  few  perfons  who  were  permitted  to  fee  Smyth's  MSS., 
fays  of  him,  and  we  entirely  concur  in  his  teftimony,  that  "  As  a  topo- 
graphical antiquary,  he  is  not  excelled  by  Sir  William  Dugdale  ;  nor  as 
a  genealogift  by  the  Earl  of  Egmont  in  his  elaborate  and  comprehenfive 
Hiftory  of  the  Houfe  of  Ivery    ....     his  Lives  of  the  Berkeleys  is 

moft 

1  He  flrongly  recommended  the  young  Lord  George  "  advifedly  to  read  over  fome  of  thefe  accompts 
of  his  anceflors  courfes  and  fafhions  of  regulating  their  Eflates."  ..."  The  hand,  he  fays,  is  reafon- 
ably  eafy  after  a  Httle  acquaintance,  as  foone  attained  as  the  lawe  ffrench  of  Littleton;  the  latin  fniooth 
and  delightful." — See  page  305. 


PREFACE  iii 

mofl  minute,  and  contain  many  thint^s  rcfpecfling  the  pedigrees  of  fome 
of  our  nobility,  &c.,  not  to  be  found  in  the  Peerages  or  Heralds'  Office." 

John  Smyth,  the  author,  is  fhcwn  in  a  pedigree,  recorded  in  the 
College  of  Arms,  of  the  Heralds'  Vifitation  of  Gloucefterfhire  in  1623, 
as  the  fon  of  Thomas  Smyth  of  Hoby  in  the  county  of  Leicefler,  fecond 
foQ  of  William  Smyth  of  Humberfton  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  he 
is  allowed  the  following  Arms  : — Sa.  upon  a  Chevron  engrailed  between 
fix  croffes  patted  fitchee  or,  three  fleurs  de  lis  az.,  each  charged  with  a 
plate.  Thefe  are  the  fame  Arms  as  were  borne  by  Richard  Smith, 
Alderman  of  London  and  Sheriff  in  1508,  who  was  the  fon  of  Thomas 
Smith  .of  Staffordfhire,  and  anceftor  of  the  family  of  Smith  of  Theddle- 
thorpe,  except  that  in  the  latter  the  fleurs  de  lis  are  not  charged.  This 
would  indicate  his  defcent  from  that  family. 

John  Smyth  was  born  in  1567,  and  educated  at  the  Free  School 
at  Derby,  whence  he  came  in  1584  to  attend  upon  Thomas,  fon  and  heir 
of  Henry,  17th  Lord  Berkeley,  then  aged  9  years,  at  Callowden,  where 
the  Berkeleys  at  that  time  refided.  It  muft  not  be  fuppofed  that  young 
Smyth's  pofition  in  the  family  was  of  a  menial  character  as  we  now 
underftand  the  word.  We  have  fhewn  that  he  was  of  gentle  birth  by 
the  fad:  that  his  family  was  armorial,  and  it  was  the  general  pradlice  at 
that  date,  and  long  before,  for  the  younger  fons,  and  the  daughters  of 
gentlemen  of  good  anceftry,  to  become  members  of  great  houfeholds 
upon  their  entrance  into  life,  the  former  as  pages  and  afterwards  as 
efquires,  and  the  latter  as  waiting  gentlewomen.  This  was  of  great 
advantage  to  the  young  of  both  fexes — to  the  former  not  only  in  obtain- 
ing inflrudtion  in  the  ordinary  branches  of  education  and  training  in 
military  exercifes,  but  to  both  the  acquifition  of  courtly  manners  and  a 
feemly  behaviour,  which  in  young  perfons  is  of  great  importance.  This 
pofition  is  illuflrated  by  the  fadt  that  William  Ligon,  a  fcion  of  the 
ancient  houfe  of  Ligon  of  Madresfield,  now  reprefented  by  the  Lord 
Beauchamp,  and  nearly  related  to  the  Berkeley  family,  was  admitted  to 

the 


iv  PREFACE 

the  houfehold  at  Callowden  at  the  fame  time  as  Smyth  and  in  the  fame 
capacity.  The  two  boys  appear  to  have  been  as  much  the  companions 
as  the  attendants  of  the  young  Lord,  the  three  lads  purfuing  their 
ftudies  under  the  fame  tutor,  and  eventually  together  entering  Magdalen 
College,  Oxford,  where  they  remained  for  three  years,  after  which  Smyth 
removed  to  the  Middle  Temple  as  a  ftudent  of  Common  Law. 

Upon  the  completion  of  his  ftudies  at  the  Temple  Smyth  returned 
to  the  Berkeleys,  and  in  1596  became  Steward  of  the  Houfehold,  but 
exchanged  that  appointment  in  the  enfuing  year  for  the  more  dignified 
and  lucrative  office  of  Steward  of  the  Hundred  and  Liberty  of  Berkeley. 
(Mr.  J.  H.  Cooke,  in  his  interefting  monograph  on  "  The  Berkeley 
Manufcripts  and  their  Author,"  in  Vol.  V.  of  the  Tranfa(5tions  of  the 
Society,  has  given  many  particulars  of  the  early  life  of  Smyth,  to  which 
we  are  indebted  for  this  flight  fketch.)  At  this  time  Smyth  took  up  his 
refidence  at  Nibley,  having  married  Grace,  the  relidl  of  John  Drew,  Efq., 
of  that  place.  She  died  in  1609  without  iffue,  and  he  foon  afterwards 
took  to  his  fecond  wife,  Mary,  the  daughter  of  John  Browning,  of  Cowley, 
an  alliance  in  which  he  took  no  fmall  pride,  the  lady  being  defcended 
from  Nicholas,  fecond  fon  of  Robert  Fitz  Harding,  whofe  iffue  affumed 
the  name  of  Fitz  Nichols.  By  this  marriage  Smyth  had  five  fons  and 
three  daughters.^ 

Smyth  was  evidently  an  able,  intelligent,  and  juft  Steward,  highly 
valued  during  his  fifty  years'  fervice  by  fucceffive  Lords  Berkeley.  Their 
confidence  in  his  ability,  fhrewdnefs,  and  tadl,  was  many  times  exhibited 
in  the  very  important  fpecial  family  commiflions  with  which  he  was 
entrufled  ;  and  in  proportion  as  they  valued  his  fcrvices  were  they  boun- 
tiful in  their  rewards,  which,  accompanied  by  his  prudence,  enabled  him 
to  acquire  a  confiderable  eftate.    Atkyns,  writing  of  Nibley,  fays  "George 

Smyth 

1  It  feems  worthy  of  a  note  that,  as  dated  on  his  monument  in  Nibley  Church,  John  Smyth,  his  fon 
and  heir,  who  died  in  1692  in  the  82nd  year  of  his  age,  by  his  two  wives  had  fixteen  children,  and  lived 
to  fee  feventy  and  feven  perfons  lawfully  defcended  from  his  own  body,  fixteen  of  the  firft,  fifty  and  feven 
of  the  fecond,  and  four  of  the  third  generation. 


PREFACE  V 

SiMYTH,  Efq.,  has  two  very  handfomc  feats  in  this  parifh,  near  one  another, 
adorned  with  gardens  and  groves,  and  has  a  large  park,  well  wooded, 
and  a  great  eflate  in  this  and  other  places." — Ilifl;.  Glouc.,  p.  303. 

Nicholas  Smyth,  the  great  grandfon  of  this  gentleman,  married 
Anna  Maria,  eldeft  daughter  of  Sir  Charleton  Leighton,  of  Loton  Park, 
Co.  Salop.,  Bart.,  by  Anna  Maria,  his  firft  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Richard  Mytton,  of  Halfton  in  the  fame  county,  Efq.,  by  Letitia  his 
wife,  daughter  of  Roger  and  fifter  and  fole  heir  of  Thomas  Owen,  of 
Condover  Hall,  in  the  fame  county,  Efq.,  which  Letitia,  by  her  will, 
dated  in  1750,  devifed  the  Condover  Eftates  to  her  grand-daughter,  the 
above-mentioned  Anna  Maria  Leighton,  in  tail  male.  Mr.  Smyth  took 
up  his  refidence  at  Condover  Hall,  and  was  Sheriff  of  Shropfhire  in  1772. 
He  left  a  fon,  Nicholas  Owen  Smyth,  who  fucceeded  him'at  Condover, 
and  who,  in  purfuance  of  the  will  of  his  grandmother,  who  died  in  1755, 
by  Royal  licence  dated  24  Feb.,  1790,  affumed  the  furname  and  Arms 
of  Owen,  in  addition  to  his  own;  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  the  eldeft, 
Anna  Maria  Emma,  married  Edward  Pemberton,  Efq.,  and  had  one 
fon,  Edward  William  Smyth  Pemberton,  and  two  daughters.  Nicholas 
Owen  Smyth  Owen,  of  Condover,  married,  but  dying  without  iffuc  in 
1804,  devifed  his  eftates  to  his  nephew,  Edward  Willian  Smyth  Pem- 
berton, above  mentioned,  who,  in  compliance  with  the  aforefaid  will, 
affumed  the  furname  of  Owen  in  lieu  of  that  of  Pemberton,  and  the  Arms 
of  Owen.  He  was  Sheriff  of  Shropftiire  in  1819,  and  married  Charlotte 
Maria,  daughter  of  John  Madock,  of  Vron  Iw,  Co.  Denbigh,  Efq.,  but 
died  in  1863  without  iffue,  when  the  eftates  devolved  upon  Thomas 
Cholmondley,  Efq.,  born  1823,  fon  and  heir  of  Charles  Cholmondley, 
Efq.,  by  Caroline  Elizabeth  Smyth,  3rd  daughter  of  Nicholas  Smyth, 
of  Nibley,  and  Anna  Maria  Leighton.  Mr.  Cholmondley,  in  fucceeding 
to  the  Condover  Eftates,  affumed  the  furname  of  Owen,  but  dying  in 
1864  without  iffue  the  faid  eftates  devolved  upon  his  brother,  Reginald 
Cholmondley,  Efq.,  now  of  Condover  Hall,  and  the  heir  general  and 
reprefentative  of  our  author  John  Smyth.  We  have  troubled  our 
readers  with  this  defcent  becaufe  Mr.  Cholmondley  has  inherited  feveral 

of 


vi  PREFACE 

of  the  volumes  of  Smyth's  MSS.,  which  are  now  at  Condover  Hall,  and 
of  which  there  are  no  copies  at  Berkeley  Caftle.  Of  thefe  we  fliall  have 
to  fpeak  more  particularly  hereafter.  A  table  fhewing  the  defcent  is 
annexed,  compiled,  chiefly,  from  records  in  the  College  of  Arms,  cour- 
teoufly  furniflied  by  Stephen  I.  Tucker,  Efq.  (Somerfet  Herald.) 

The  volume  which  we  now  fubmit  to  the  Subfcribers  is  of  great 
importance. 

Irrefpedlive  of  public  events — the  Barons  Wars  in  the  reigns  of 
John,  Henry  HI.,  and  Edward  H.,  and  attainders,  forfeitures,  executions 
and  pardons  thereupon,  with  the  atrocious  murder  of  the  lafl-named  un- 
fortunate monarch  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  the  wars  in  France,  Scotland,  and 
Wales,  with  the  battles,  fieges,  &c. — there  is  much  of  intereft  and  value 
as  reflecting  the  fecial  condition  and  manner  of  life  of  all  claffes  of  the 
community  during  the  period  over  which  this  volume  extends.  This  is 
illuflrated  by  the  liberties,  franchifes,  and  cufloms  which  obtained  in  the 
Boroughs,  Manors,  &c.  The  ftate  of  agriculture,  and  the  methods  of 
cultivation  adopted  by  the  Lords  of  Berkeley  on  the  extenfive  demefne 
lands  of  their  numerous  Manors,  the  greater  portion  of  which  they  kept 
under  their  own  hands,  and  the  extreme  regularity  and  minutiae  with 
which  the  various  bailiffs  rendered  their  accounts,  is  moft  interefting 
and  inflrud;ive.  If  bailiffs  in  thefe  days  pradtifed  fuch  careful  economy 
and  rendered  their  accounts  with  fo  much  exadlnefs  and  detail,  it  would 
be  greatly  to  the  advantage  of  their  lords.  The  enormous  number  of 
cattle,  fheep,  poultry,  &c.,  bred  and  brought  to  account  is  aftonifhing. 
The  fimplicity  of  manners  and  the  care  and  attention  devoted  to  houfe- 
hold  affairs,  efpecially  to  the  management  of  the  dairy,  by  that  high-born 
dame,  Jone,  the  wife  of  Thomas  II.  Lord  Berkeley,  and  after  her  death 
by  her  daughters,  is  worthy  of  notice. 

The  houfehold  eftablifhment  of  thefe  great  lords  was  very  large, 
confifling  of  fome  300  perfons  of  all  grades,  from  knights  to  fcullery 

boys 


PREFACE  vii 

boys,  the  cofi;  for  which  in  liveries  and  diet  alone  was  neccffarily  great 
(fee  p,  306.)  But  there  is  no  more  interefling  detail  than  the  relative 
prices  of  corn,  cattle,  and  poultry  during  the  reigns  of  the  three  Edwards. 
Again  we  have  to  notice  the  foundation  of  various  Monafteries,  Priories, 
and  Chantries,  and  a  great  number  of  other  matters  of  intereft  which  it 
would  be  too  tedious  to  enumerate. 

The  author's  ftyle  is  quaint  and  fimple,  but  its  fimplicity  and  ftrong 
good  fenfe  are  not  more  confpicuous  than  the  tone  of  genuine  piety 
which  pervades  the  whole  work.  It  has  been  ftated  that  he  was  tinged 
a  little  by  the  rifing  puritanifm  of  the  age,  but  there  are  paffages  in  his 
later  works  which  exhibit  an  entirely  different  feeling,  and  inftead  of 
fhewing  him  to  have  been  of  a  morofe  and  afcetic  difpofition,  bear  evi- 
dence that  he  was  of  a  cheerful,  affectionate,  and  happy  temperament. 
His  remarks  in  his  Hiftory  of  the  Hundred  of  Berkeley  (fo  344)  on 
Blu-mead  Sunday  are  worth  quoting  in  illuflration  of  his  generous 
and  genial  character  : — 

"  Heere  in  Stinchcombe,  is  a  parcell  of  ground  called  Blu-mead  ;  from  whence 
wee  hundredors  in  theis  parts  have  amongfl  vs  the  name  of  Blu-mead-Sunday,  the 
fecond  Sunday  after  the  ffeaft  of  Penticoft,  A  place,  where  the  younger  fort  of  both 
fexes  accuftomed  in  the  afternoone  of  that  day,  to  meete  from  the  Townfhips 
adioyninge,  to  dance,  leape,  wraftle,  and  difport  themfelves  till  eveninge,  of  late 
years,  by  meanes  of  fome  fevere  and  rigid  Catoes  exclaiminge  againft  fuch  recrea- 
tions, quite  difcontinued.  My  opinion  whereof,  and  of  other  like  fociable  meetings, 
Churchales,  Wakes,  Saints  feaft  daies  &c.  I  purpofed  in  this  place  to  have  left  to 
you,  as  a  plain  legacy  of  my  minde  therin  :  As  alfo  I  did  in  the  defcription  of 
Alkington,  fo.  30,  when  I  wrote  of  Ram-mead-Sunday,  which  is  the  Sunday  next 
before  this  of  blu-mead  :  and  the  rather  becaufe  I  throughout  this  defcription  have 
expreffed  to  what  Saints  each  Church  was  dedicated,  and  the  feaft  kept ;  But  nowe 
through  the  great  length  wherto  this  booke  is  growne,  and  of  what  more  I  am 
neceffarily  to  write,  I  will  herein  fave  paper  and  paines,  and  refer  you,  my  fonne, 
(amongft  many  others)  to  Mr.  Carewes  Survey  of  Cornwall,  fol.  68.69  ^-^d  forwards: 
And  to  Mr.  Burtons  booke  of  Melancholly .  fol.  256.  257  and  forwards,  in  his  third 
edition  ;   with  whom  I  ioyne  in  opinion,  and  fubfcribe  to  the  Kings  Declaracon  ; 

and 


viii  PREFACE 

and  like  well  in  this  my  decrepid  age  to  walke  in  fofner  time,  on  Sundaies  after 
Eveninge  praier,  with  my  wife  to  Hadleis  Greene,  betweene  our  two  houfes,  and 
there  to  behold  my  neighbours  childrin  and  fervants,  with  yours  and  mine  owne, 
to  runne  at  Barly-breakes,  dance  in  a  ringe,  and  fuch  like  fports,  as  they  like  befl  : 
A  laudable  recreation,  which  hath  noe  repugners  fave  wayward  difpofitions,  and 
men  of  too  fterne  a  Judgement,  as  though  the  text  of  Solomon  where  apochriphall, 
That  there  is  a  time  for  all  things." 

In  editing  the  volume  we  have  endeavoured  to  adhere  as  clofely 
as  poffible  to  the  literal  text  and  pundluation  of  the  author.  His 
orthography  is,  for  an  educated  man  of  the  period,  very  irregular,  and  it 
would  not  be  eafy  or  defirable  to  reduce  it  to  modern  ufage.  He  gives 
numerous  references  in  his  text  to  his  own  folios,  both  preceding  and 
fubfequent,  and  inafmuch  as  it  would  not  have  been  pradlicable  to  give 
fuch  references  to  the  printed  pages,  we  have  marked  the  original  MS.* 
folios  in  the  margins,  fo  that  reference  may  be  eafily  made.  We  have 
added  copious  indices  to  fubjeds  and  names  of  pcrfons  and  places,  but 
to  fave  fpace  only  one  reference  is  given  to  the  fame  name  on  any  page, 
though  it  may  occur  feveral  times,  and  we  have  not  attempted  to  in- 
dividualize thofe  of  the  Berkeleys  bearing  the  fame  Chriftian  name. 
Such  additions  as  we  have  made  are  enclofed  in  square  brackets. 

In  conclufion,  we  have  to  tender  our  befl  thanks  to  Edward  Peacock, 
of  Bottesford  Manor,  near  Brigg,  Efq.,  F.S.A.,  for  his  courtefy  in  perufmg 
the  proofs  on  behalf  of  Lord  Fitz  Harding  ;  to  J.  H.  Cooke,  of  Berkeley, 
Efq.,  F.S.A.,  for  his  kindnefs  in  collating  the  text  of  the  MS.  with  that 
of  the  volumes  prefented  to  George  Lord  Berkeley  by  Smyth  himfelf, 
which  are  now  at  Berkeley  Caflle  ;  to  Stephen  I.  Tucker,  Efq.  (Somerfet 
Herald)  for  the  elaborate  pedigree  of  Smyth  ;  to  Mr.  J.  A.  C.  Vincent  for 
the  extreme  accuracy  and  clearnefs  with  which  he  has  made  the  tranfcript; 
and  to  the  printer,  for  the  great  care  he  has  taken  in  the  execution  of  his 
portion  of  the  work. 

J.  M. 


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PURCHASES,  sales,  DONATIONS,  SUITES  IN  LAWE,  FORRAIGNE  IMPLOYMENTS  IN  WARRES 

AND  EMBASSES,  AND  DOMESTICALL  IN  CIUILL  AFFAIRES  AT  HOME,  THE  MANNER 

OF  THEIR  DEATHS,  AND  PLACES  OF  BURIALL,  WITH  THEIR  ARMES,  SEALES, 

ATCHIUEMENTS  OF  HONOR,  EMBLEMES  AND  EPITAPHES, 

WITH  SUCH  OTHER  MEMORABLE  OCCURRANCES,  AS  HAUE  BEFALLEN  THAT  ANTIENT  AND 

HONORABLE   FAMILY  IN  THE   VARIOUS  MOTIONS  AND  ACCIDENTS   THEREOF,  FROM 

THE  VEARE  OF  CHRISTS  INCARNATION  :  1066  :  THE  FIRST  OF  THE  RAIGNE  OF 

KING  \VILLIAM   CALLED  THE  CONQUEROR,  UNTILL  THE  YEARE  :  1618  : 

THE  SIXTEENTH  OF  THE  RAIGNE  OF  KING  lAMES  OF  ENGLAND. 

&c.  AND  OF  SCOTLAND  THE  ONE  AND  FIFTIETH 

WITH  A  DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  HUNDRED  OF  BERKELEY,  AND  OF  THE  INHABITANTS 
THEREOF  IN  THE  SAID  COUNTY  OF  GLOUCESTER, 

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Co  tljc  nicmorp  of  ti)c  niojeft  3llnticnt  anD  Ijonorablc  fiiniilp  of  tljc 

6erkclcg0  of  ficrltclcg  tflastle 

in  tljc  Countp  of  ^BlouccjJtcr,  €l)c  oblntion  of  a  ^crljantjef  mptc  anti  Dutp. 


'  I  ^HK  Cuftome  of  thofc  who  write  hiftories,  is  to  propofe  in  the 
begininge  a  modell  of  the  fubiedl  they  meane  to  handle :  ^ine 
is,  of  noble  men  apd  noble  mindes,  whom  I  will  not  celebrate  aboue  the 
merit :  .^Stanli  or  ftoope  they  fhall  unto  themfelues  :  %abot  I  will  through 
all  the  monthes  of.  550.  yeares  to  refledt  to  this  family,  the  image  of  it 
felfe,  in  all  or  the  moft  remarkeable  adtions  and  accidents,  changes  and 
chances,  which  in  the  raignes  of  24  princes  of  this  <JEnglMl)  monarchy 
have  fallen  upon  the  difcendants  thereof. 

Ambitioufly  He  take  a  tafke  in  hand, 
Whofe  greatnes  with  my  weaknes  cannot  ftand  : 
He  walke  a  wayles  way,  with  untrod  pace, 
Which  yet  noe  former  man  with  foot  did  trace. 
He  travel!  where  noe  path  is  to  bee  feene, 
Of  any  humane  ftepp  that  there  hath  beene, 

%\t  ftriue  to  tell  that  noble  family  in  generall,  311nli  particularly  that 
matchles    Lady  mother,  the   noble    Lord    George   her   fonne,  and   his 


virtuous  fifler  the  Lady  Theophila,  (all  the  frutes  which  the  laft  uintage 
of  their  parents  hath  Left  ripened  from  pofterity,  That, 

Their  race  was  not  of  yefterday  or  lately  brought  to  paffe, 

Of  old  it  was,  And  know  they  fhall,  whence  it's  begininge  was. 

Prefent  them  I  will  with  my  gleanings  of  forty  yeares  vacant  houres, 
howe  unboundfoeuer  thofe  handfulls  bee,  gathered  out  of  the  vafl;  feilds 
of  theire  evidences,  the  Kings  feuerall  Courts,  Defolated  Monafteries, 
the  priuate  flores  of  more  then  fowerfcore  men,  with  an  hundred  other 
manufcripts  &  chartularies. 

Sound  warranties,  for  this  my  worke  and  mee, 
To  bring  them  truth  fetcht  from  antiquitee, 
Whereby  theire  lives  from  ftroke  of  death  feeme  free 
And  they  as  borne  of  immortalitee  :  | 

01Ic  begg  noe  further  fauor  or  protection,  then  as  upright  and  fayth- 
full  writinge  fhall  deferue.  In  a  playne  and  home-bred  flile  cleere  from 
paffion  or  partiallity,  He  freely  write  the  truth  I  know,  And  beginne  my 
ftory  thus  : 


®l)c  Cifc  of  i^avMng 


The     life     of    Harding     fonne     to     the     King     of   Domefday  booke. 
Denmarke,    the    firft   Anccflor  or    Moch^fat^ct    of   this    chron-iherufai : 

diuerlae  carta;  in 

noble   family  of  the  Berkeleys,  fliled  in  writings   Herd,    catirode Berkeley 
Herdig,  Hardine,  Herdine,  but  mofl  ufually  Herding,    Aug :  pedeg : per 
Hardingus,  and    Harding,  which    Laft    I    wifh    to    bee    NewiandVetus 

,  ^  iA  1  111TT  iT^  manufcript  in 

oblerued.      And  may  bee  called  Harding  the  Dane.  Caftr:deBerket:et 

Contcmporarp  with  William  the  Conqueror,  Witfm  Rufus,    aiij. 
and   King    Henry  the  firft,  from  the  yeare  :   1066 :  to  the 
yeare  :   1 1 1 5. 

KINGE     EDWARD,  furnamed  the  Confeffor,  being  dead  without  iffue,    5 
in  January,  1066  The  Crowne  was  taken  up  by  Duke  Harrold,  fonne  to    1066 
Earle    Goodwyn  :    whereof   fcarce    poffeffed,    before    Wittm    Duke    of 
Normandy  vrged  a  refignation,    Howbeit,  Crownes  once  affumed,  are  not  accuf- 
tomed   to  bee    layde    downe    by  papers    or   parly :    The    Sword    (that   prince   of 
weapons)    muft   bee    Arbitrator  betweene  theis   potent   Competitors,   The   Dukes 
preparations  for   invafion  are   quicke  and  greate,  fame    inlargeth  their  greatnes, 
from    Normandy   it  flyeth   into   Denmarke,    from  thence    (as  from  the  Courts  of 
other   princes)    it    draweth    the    boldeft  of  martiall  fpirits.  And  to  the  rcitbCtJOUjef 
of  Duke  Witim,   hafteth    Harding,  a  yonger  fonne    of  the    King   of   Denmarke 
SDuhc   Wittm    loytereth    not,    for  upon  the   xxviij'*"  day  of  September    following. 
Anno.    1067.'  hee  with  his  Army  landeth  at  Pevenfey  in  Suffex,   And  upon  the    Anno.  1067 
xiiij""  of  the  next  month  flriketh  a  blouddy  batde  with  King  Harrold,  where  hee, 
with   more  than  60000  of  his  people,  fell  :   whereby  perifhed  the  royall  bloud  of 
the  Saxon  Kings. 

n^tntani,  from  a  Duke  of  Normandy,  by  the  fucceffe  of  this  battle  (howfo- 
euer  miferably  loft,  yet  mofl  nobly  fought)  is  become  Kinge  of  England,  And 
as  an  Augment  of  his  honor,  is  by  poflerity  called  the  Conqueror,  whom  as  a 
Conqueror  of  Harrold,  a  valiant  Kinge  and  Captayne  I  heere  leave,  accompanied 

with 
I  This  date  would  feem  to  be  a  Clerical  error.     The  battle  of  Senlac  was  fought  on  14th  October,  1066. 


Cf)c  Eitocjef  of  tfjc  25crhrifp^ 


1066 


with  I^airbinS  a  partaker  of  this  fortune,  with  my  hopes  in  the  god  of  Hoftes,  the 
giver  of  this  vi6lory.  That  as  a  royall  fucceffion  from  the  loynes  of  the  Con- 
queror, And  an  honorable  pofterity  from  this  Harding,  haue  already  continewed 
550 .  yeares,  Soe  the  laftinge  dayes  of  both  may  bee  whileft  the  two  great  lights 
of  Heaven  have  theire  movings  :  SCjlb  returne,  to  write  of  Harding,  who  cafi:  of 
6    his  thoughts  of  home-returne,  and  after  three  yeares  fetled  at  Briftowe.  [ 

In  Berkeley  %    icXQCt    relation    whereof,    read    out    of   an    antient    Manufcript,    tranflated 

^^'^'  out  of  Latin  into  Englifh  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  Seauenth  by 
John  Newland  then  Abbot  of  y'  Monaflery  of  S'  Auguftines  by  Briftowe  afore- 
fayd  in  his  owne  wordes. 

S    S'oftn    Newland  Abbot   of  the    Monaflery  of  S'  Auguftines  by   Brifiiowe 
aforefayd,    for    my    more    larger    knowledge,    and    informacon    of   my    bretheren, 
Channons,  prefent  and  for  ever  after  to  come,  have  taken  vpon  me  to  put  into 
writing,  the  lirieall  and  true  defcent  of  S'  Robertt  65  Herding,  the  fone  and  eire 
of   Herding,  which   Herding   was   the   fonne  of  the   King  of   Denmarke,   which 
Robertt  aforefayd  was  firft  created  lord  of'  Berkeley,  and  foe  lineally  from  him, 
Created  Marques    I   fhall  continew  unto  william  now   Marques   Berkeley  from  whom  and  all  others 
Berkeley    Qf  h{g    noble    Anceftors,   who  ben  bound    fpetially  to  pray :   And   or  that    I    fhall 
in  3.  H :  7.    ^ggjj^  j-j^jg  f^■^^  noble  petegree  ;  firft  I  fhall  declare  how  the  fayd  Robert  fi3  Herding 
was   firft   made  lord   of  the   Baroney  of  Berkeley,   And   fhall  expreffe  followingly 
certaine  conventions  made  atwixt  S'  Robert  fi3  Herding,  And  S'  Roger  of  Berke- 
ley lord  and  Baron  of  Durfeley. 

Siing  Harri  the  firft,  the  third  fonne  of  Kinge  William  Conqueror,  had  iffue 
remayning  one  daughter  named  Maude,  which  was  firft  marryed  unto  the  Emperor 
of  Almayne,  And  where  all  the  other  children  of  the  fayd  Kinge  Henry  lawfully 
begotten  were  drowned  in  the  See  coming  out  of  Normandy,  and  had  none  other 
heire  ;  the  fayd  Kinge  Harry  fend  for  his  forefayd  daughter  Mawde  the  Emparice 
into  England,  And  in  open  Parliament  declared  and  ordeyned  her  to  bee  his  eire : 
To  whom  then  and  there  were  fworen  all  the  lordes  of  England,  and  made  unto 
her  fewte,  admittinge  her  for  his  eire  :  Amongs  whom  principally  and  firft  was 
fworen  Stephen  Earle  of  Boleyn  nevowe  of  y'  fayde  Kinge  Harry  the  firft:  This 
foe  done  the  fayde  Mawde  the  Emparice  was  after  maryed  to  Galfride  Plantagenet 
Earle  of  Angewe,  which  begate  of  her  one  fonne  which  was  named  Harry,  which 
after  was  named  Kinge  Harrye  the  Second,    But  fone  after  that  King  Harry  the 

Firft 


1 1 15  ,  life  of  Ipar&iiig 

Firft  was  difeafcd,  the  forcfaid  Steven  Earle  of  Bolein,  prefumed  and  vfurped  the 
Crowne,  and  was  made  Kinge  contrary  to  his  oath  and  promifc  made  unto  y' 
forefayd  Mawde  the  Emperyce,  But  when  then  after  |  Harry  the  fonne  and  eire 
of  y°  fayde  Mawde  the  Emparyce,  And  alfo  the  fayd  Galfride  Earle  of  Angewe 
was  growen  unto  manis  eflate,  hee  with  his  fayd  Moder  Mawde,  with  a  fmale 
power  came  over  into  England  and  claymed  theire  right  and  heneritance  in  the 
fifth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  the  fayd  King  Steven,  And  foe  continued  greate 
difcorde  and  bataill  atwixt  them  by  the  fpace  of  twoe  yeares,  And  in  the  vij'*"  yeare 
of  the  raigne  of  the  fayd  King  Steuen,  there  was  a  bade  made  at  Lyncolne  at 
Candlemas,  where  the  fayd  Kinge  Steven  was  taken  by  the  Earle  of  Chefler,  And 
fro  thence  was  brought  to  BriRowe  to  the  fayd  Mawde  the  Emperice,  and  to  her 
fone  and  eire  Harry,  where  then  thi  were  in  this  wife  agreid  and  finally  accorded, 
That  the  fayd  Steven  fhould  regne  kynge  during  his  life,  And  he  that  overlyveth 
other  of  the  fayd  Steven  or  Harry  fhould  heneritt  the  Relme  and  Crowne,  And 
foe  the  fayd  Harry  overlived  Kinge  Steven,  And  then  after  was  Crowned  King 
of  England,  and  named  Kinge  Harry  the  fecond,  unto  whome  in  his  firfl  entree 
and  werres,  the  forefayde  S'  Robert  fi3  Herding  gaue  and  lende  grete  Subflance 
of  goods  to  the  fupportation  and  maintenance  of  his  werrs  3in&  when  this  Harry 
had  obtayned  his  right,  he  remembred  the  grete  kyndnes  and  benefites  of  the 
fayd  S'  Robertt  63  Herding,  And  gaue  unto  him  and  to  his  eires  foreuer,  the 
Barony  of  Berkeley  which  Barony  Roger  of  Berkeley  Baron  of  Durfely  helde  of 
y'  kinge  in  fee  farme  :  And  for  foe  much,  the  fayd  Kinge  Harry  the  fecond  toke 
fro  the  fayd  Roger,  bothe  the  Barony  of  Durfeley,  and  alfo  the  Barony  of 
Berkeley,  forafmuch  as  he  toke  partie  with  King  Steven  ayenfl  King  Harry, 
And  alfo  forafmuch  as  hee  refufed  to  pay  the  fee  farme  of  the  Barony  of  Berkeley 
vnto  the  fayd  King  Harry  25ut  then  after  the  fayd  King  Harry  entretid  by  the 
noble  Lordes  of  his  Realme,  gave  againe  unto  the  fayd  Roger,  the  Barony  of 
Durfeley  as  his  owne  heneritance,  And  the  Barony  of  Berkeley  he  gave  and 
confirmed  unto  the  fayd  S'  Robertt  fij  Herding  and  his  heires  for  ever  in 
recompence  of  his  grete  coftes  and  kindnes  3tntl  when  after  this  S'  Robertt  fi5 
Herding  was  lord  and  Baron  of  Berkeley,  The  fayd  Roger  lord  and  Baron  of 
Durfeley  vexed  and  trobled  with  him  foe  grevoufly.  That  he  came  unto  the  fayd 
King  Harry  and  prayde  him  to  refume  his  gefte  againe,  But  then  after  the  fayd 
King  Harry  made  a  peace  and  a  finall  concorde  atwixt  the  fayd  Roger  and  Robert, 
foe  that  the  fayd  Roger  and  Robert  fliulde  geue  his  daughter  Alice  to  wife  unto 
Morice  the  fonne  and  eire  of  S'  Robert  63  Herding  with  the  Towne  of  Slimebrigg 
vnder  certeine  conditions  as  followingly  fhall  appere. 

E   2  CtjijBE 


4  €f)c  %i\ic0  of  tljc  23cchdcpjef  1066 

Covenants        8  'CJjiiBf  bin  the  Covenants  that  were  made  atwixe  S'  Robertt  fi3  Herding  ]  Lord 

and  Baron  of  Berkeley,  And  S'  Roger  of  Berkeley  lord  and  Baron  of  Durfeley 
And  in  the  Houfe  of  S'  Robertt  fij  Herding  at  Briftowe,  And  in  the  prefence  of 
King  Steven,  and  of  Harry  then  Duke  of  Normandye  and  Earle  of  Angewe, 
and  by  his  affent.  And  in  prefence  of  many  others  both  Clarkes  and  laymen 
a^orifC  the  fonne  and  eire  of  S'  Robertt  fij  Herding  fhall  take  to  his  wife  Alice 
the  daughter  of  Roger  of  Berkeley  Baron  of  Durfley,  And  the  fayd  Roger  hath 
geven  to  the  fayd  Morice  in  manage  with  his  fayd  Daughter,  Slimebrigge,  which 
is  of  his  heneritance,  that  is  to  wete.  Ten  pownds  worth  of  land,  5llul)  this  Morice 
with  the  confent  of  S'  Robertt  his  fader  hath  geven  unto  the  daughter  of  Roger 
that  hee  fhall  take  to  wife  for  her  dower,  twenty  pound  of  land  of  the  ffee  of 
Berkeley  bi  the  affent  of  the  forefaid  Lord  Duke  Harry,  And  vnder  this  Conditions 
and  Covenants,  Ctjilt  if  foe  Morice  the  fonne  and  eire  of  S"'  Robert  63  Herding 
fhall  happen  to  decefe  ere  he  fhall  wedde  the  daughter  of  the  fayd  Roger,  That 
then  his  next  brother  and  eire  fhall  take  the  fayd  Alice  to  his  wife  accordinge 
to  all  the  forefayd  conventions,  5llnli  if  foe  the  fecond  fone  of  the  fayd  S""  Robert 
63  Herding  fliall  happen  to  decefe  before  hee  fhall  wedde  the  daughter  of  the 
fayde  S'  Roger,  That  then,  whofoeuer  of  the  fonnes  of  the  fayd  S'  Robert  fi3 
Herding  fhall  remayne  to  bee  his  heire,  fhall  take  to  wife  the  daughter  of  the  fayd 
S'  Roger,  911iib  of  likewife  if  the  elder  daught  of  the  fayd  S'  Roger  fhall  fortune 
to  decefe  afore  that  fliee  be  wedded  to  Morice  the  fon  and  eire  of  S'  Robert  f[j 
Herding  or  to  any  other  of  his  bretheren  that  fhall  remayne  eire  after  him.  That 
then  the  elder  daughter  leving  &  remayning  of  the  fayd  Roger,  fhall  geve  to  wife 
vnto  the  fon  of  S'  Robertt  65  Herdinge  which  levieth  and  fhall  remayne  his  eire. 

5purtl)crniorc  the  fon  and  eire  of  Roger  of  Berkeley  Baron  of  Durfeley  fhall 
take  to  wife  in  like  forme,  one  of  the  daughters  of  S'  Robertt  63  Herding,  And 
the  fayd  Roger  fhall  geue  in  manage  I.0  the  daughter  of  S'  Robert  63  Herding 
for  her  dowery  the  Maner  of  Siflon  by  Briftowe  the  which  Maner  is  of  the 
heneritance  of  the  fayd  Roger,  311  lib  S'  Robert  63  Herding  fliall  giue  in  manage 
with  his  daughter  to  the  fon  of  the  faid  Roger,  ten  pounds  and  ten  fliillings  worth 
of  land  at  Durfeley  5llnJ)  with  this  condition.  That  if  on  of  y''  daughters  of 
S'  Robertt  63  Herding  deceffe  afore  fheq  be  wedded  to  the  fonn  &  eire  of  the 
fayd  Roger,  That  then  the  other  daughter  of  the  fayd  S'  Robertt  fi3  Herding  fhall 
be  geuen  wife  unto  him,  3ilnlJ  if  it  foe  fhall  fortune.  That  both  the  daughters  of 
9  S'  Robert  65  Herding  deceffe  afore  |  eny  of  them  fhall  bee  maryed  to  the  fon  and 
heire  of  the  fayd   Roger,  That  then  his  eyre  fliall  take   to    wife  the  daughter   of 

Hew 


"15 


jUifr  of  J^nrbmg 


Hew  of  Hafele  nece  to  the  fayd  S'  Robert  fi3  Herding,  <jr>f  lihctDijE^C,  if  the  firft 
gotten  fon  and  eyre  of  Roger  of  Berl<elcy  Baron  of  Durfeley  deceffe  afore  that 
hee  marry  with  eny  of  y'  daughters  of  S'  Robert  63  Herding,  or  of  the  fayd  Hew 
of  Hafele,  Then  that  brother  that  fliall  remayne  to  be  eyre  of  the  fiiyd  Roger 
(hall  talce  to  wife  on  of  the  daughters  of  the  fayd  S'  Robert  fi5  Herding  5llllJj  if 
they  decefe  all,  or  that  any  of  them  fhalbe  maryed,  That  then  the  eyre  of  y'  fayd 
Roger  fhall  take  to  his  wife  the  daughter  of  the  fayd  Hew  of  Hafele  nece  of  the 
fayd  S'  Robert  fi}  Herding  according  unto  all  the  forefayd  Couenants,  3llnl)  all  thes 
forefayd  Couenants  have  fworen  faythfully  to  hold  kepe  &  performe.  without 
any  fraude  or  deceite,  the  forefayd  S'  Robert  Fitz  Herding  and  Roger  of  Berkeley 
Baron  of  Durfeley,  And  thei  have  putt  Hary  Duke  of  Normandy  aforefaid  for 
plegge  and  for  iuge  atwixe  them  :  Co  tfjrij^  covenants  wele  and  truly  to  be 
obferued,  have  fworen  alfo  viij  noble  men  of  y'  party  of  S'  Robert  63  Herding, 
And  alfo  other  viij  noble  men  of  the  party  of  the  fayde  Roger,  whofe  names  ben 
thes  of  the  party  of  the  fayd  Roger  :  Wittm  the  fon  of  Duke  Harry  of  Normandy 
aforefayd,  Roger  of  Schay,  Rafe  of  Juley,  Walberyne,  Engewald  of  Gofynton, 
Guydo  of  Stone,  Gwayfere  of  Planca,  and  Hew  of  Planca  his  brother  :  5Cnb  of 
the  party  of  S'  Robt  Fi3  Herding  thes  ben  the  namis.  Hew  of  Hafelee,  Nigelle 
63  Arthure,  Robert  of  S'  Maryes,  Elias  the  brother  of  S'  Robert  63  Herding,  and 
Jordane  his  brother  Jurdaine  le  faire,  Richard  63  Robertt  and  David  Duncepouche. 
3tllb  thef  forefayd  men  with  all  their  ftrength  fhall  holde  and  kepe  the  forefayd 
S'  Robert  63  Herding  and  Roger  in  all  thes  forefayd  Covenantf  truly  to  be 
obferued,  That  if,  foe  the  forefaid  Robert  and  Roger  would  goe  from  the  forefaid 
covenants,  thei  fhould  conftraine  them  with  all  their  power  and  might,  to  holde  and 
kepe  them,  And  if  they  would  at  anye  time  diffent,  thes  forefayd  Noble  men  of 
their  fervice  and  love  fliall  reduce  them  unto,  3tntJ  for  thes  covenants  aforefaid 
wreten,  the  forefayd  Roger  of  Berkeley  Baron  of  Durfeley  hath  releafed  and  quiete 
claymed  all  manner  of  challenge  and  right  that  he  had  in  the  fee  ferme  of  y° 
Barony  of  Berkeley. 

€l)uiS  tfjc  %bhot 

3n  recitinge  theife  authentike  covenants  (taken  almoft  verbatim  out  of  the 
manufcript  Cronicle  of  Robert  de  Ricarte  Towne  clarke  of  Briftoll,  |  written  in  the 
tyme  of  Edward  the  fourth)  I  have  rather  chofen  to  expreffe  them  in  the  Abbotts 
owne  manner  of  writinge,  then  to  haue  tranflated  them  out  of  the  latin  Deed  it 
felfe,  which  yet  remayneth  under  feale,  teftified  (to  the  honor  of  y"  houfe)  to  bee 
an  ineflimable  peece  of  evidence  by  the  Judges  of  the  Comon  pleas  in  the  nyne 
and  thirtieth  ycare  of  Queene  Elizabeth,  At  what  time  it  was  given  in  evidence  to 

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a  Jury  then  at  barre  upon  a  triall  in  a  writt  of  particion  brought  by  Anne  the 
See  after,  fol :  88.  widowe  of  Ambrofe  Dudley  Earle  of  warwicke  againft  Henry  Lord  Berkeley  for 
the  third  part  of  the  faid  Manor  of  Slimbridge  mentioned  in  the  faide  Deed, 
which  hath  the  Seale  hanginge  in  a  filke  ftringe  in  the  top,  and  the  Indented 
part  downwards,  after  the  fafhion  of  Indentures  of  fines  at  this  day. 

Newl :  Pedeg :  in  '^fjC  forefaid  manufcript  or  pedegree  of  Abbot   Newland   layeth  downe  an 

Caftro  de  Berkley    other  kinde  of  caufe  and  manner  of  cominge  of  this  Harding  into  England  fome- 
what  varyeing  from  the  former  relation,  in  theis  wordes. 

CljC  kinge  of  Denmarke  had  a  fecond  fone  named  Harding,  which  he  fend 
unto  William  Conqueror  unto  whom  this  king  wiltm  Conqueror  gaue  grete  riches, 
and  fend  him  to  Briflow  there  to  inhabite,  the  yeare  of  our  lord  1069  CI^C  caufe  of 
his  comynge  into  this  iande  of  England  was  this,  as  hit  is  written  in  Policronicon ; 
Cljcrc  was  fometyme  an  ordinance  made  in  Denemarke,  That  if  foe  the  king  of 
that  land  had  any  more  fonns  then  on.  Then  fhulde  the  eldeft  fonne  and  eire 
remaine  within  the  land,  And  the  younger  bretheren  fhuld  be  fend  with  a  fubflance 
of  goodis  into  other  landes,  and  there  to  leve  in  evoyding  all  inconveniences  of 
debatis  that  might  chance  atwixe  them  within  theire  owne  Iande.  And  for  this 
caufe  this  Harding  a  fecond  fonne  of  the  King  of  Denmarke  was  fend  into  this 
land,  as  it  is  afore  written. 

€1)11^  tlje  3ltjbot. 

3'n  conference  with  diuers  lerned  gentlemen  ftudious  in  antiquities  of  this 
kind,  fome  of  them  have  doubted  whether  it  might  fiibflantially  bee  proued,  that 
this  Harding  was  the  fonne  of  any  king  of  Denmarke,  they  fuppofing,  this  regall 
progeny  to  bee  the  flattery  of  the  Abbots  of  the  Monaftery,  And  this  Abbot 
Newland  the  firfi;  in  this  colle6lion  of  his,  that  avowed  the  fame  in  Flattery  of 
Anno:  1489.  William  Lord  Berkeley  created  Marques  Berkeley' the  yere  before,  being  his 
II    founders  heire  male.  | 


Roftt  Cotton  miles 

et  Barronet. 

Camden 

Vincent,  et  alij 


Campd  :  Englifh 


I.      jpor  fatisfyinge  of  which  doubt,   I  am  only  inabled  to  fay,   That  there  is 

fo :  238.    (befides  what's    before  written)  an    antient    marmoriall    infcription    ingraven   over 

the  gate  of  this   Monaftery  in  theis  wordes  Hex  Henricus  fecundus  et  dominus 

Robertus   filius    Hardingi    filij    Regis    Dacise,   huius    monafterij   primi    fundatores 

See  after  fol:  45.    extiterunt,  Ctjat  is  King  Henry  the  fecond  and  Lord  Robert  the  fonne  of  Harding 

the  King  of  Denmarks  fonne,  were  the  firft  founders  of  this  Monaftery. 

Campd :  fo :  239.  2.     CiinipdClt  himfelfe   in   his    Britania  (nowe  Clarencieux)  fayeth,  That  this 

in  EnghOi.    Robert   called    by  the    Normans   fit3    Harding,   difcended    of  y'  bloud    royall    of 

Denmarke.  ^H 


•'15 


2  Iff  of  J^arbing 


3.  5fn  Berkeley  Caaie  is  an  old  Latin  Pedegrce,  made  (as  it  fclfc  flieweth)    Vetus  Manufcr: 
in   the   tyme   of    Henry  the    vj""  before    the    fayd    Manjues    Berkeley  was   borne,    '"^,^1'''^ 
contayninge  the  effeft  of  Abbot  Newlands  pedegree,  €t\C  title  whereof  is,  Proceffus 

pro  notitia  habenda  &c.  A  declaration  how  Robert  the  fonne  of  Harding  was 
made  Lord  of  Berkeley,  as  appeares  in  an  old  writinge  preferued  in  the  euidence 
houfe  of  y'  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  by  Briftowe,  And  beginneth  thus,  l^arDingiliSf 
ex  regia  profapia  regni  Daciae  oriundus,  tempore  &c.  Harding  difcended  of  y' 
royall  bloud  of  y'  Kingdome  of  Denmarke,  in  the  tyme  of  Wittm  the  Conqueror 
inhabited  at  Briftowe,  To  whome  the  Conqueror  gaue  grete  riches  in  the  yeare 
1069.     And  foe  proceedeth. 

4.  Co  which  effeft  alfo  in  an  other  like  colledion  in  leather,  fomcwhat  more    Vetus  manufcr : 
antient  then  the  former,  which  is  in  velam.  '^^'"• 


5.  3Ilnb  further  in  the  fame  Caftle,  there  is  a  more  antient  manufcript  (the  Vetus  manufcr : 
lafl  lines  whereof,  as  by  it  appeares,  were  written  in  January.  1351,  being  the  xxvj'''  '^''"• 
yeare  of  King  Edward  the  third,  which  fayeth.  That  this  Harding  was,  ex  regia 
profapia  regum  Dacise,  of  the  bloud  royall  of  the  kinges  of  Denmarke  :  And  this 
was.  138.  yeares  before  Abbot  Newlands  pedegree,  And  now.  270.  yeares  paft. 
And  feemes  to  haue  bene  the  worke  of  that  great  learned  man  Venerable  Trevifa 
vicar  of  Berkeley,  Of  whofe  life  and  labors  read  after  in  the  life  of  Thomas  Lord 
Berkeley  the  third  of  that  name. 


fol: 


6.      ^1^0  Robertt  de  Ricart  fometyme  Towne  clarke  of  Briftowe  in  his  manu-  Regiftr:  Ro^ti 

fcript  regifter  of  the  memorialls  of  that  Citty,  who  floriflied  in  y'=  tymes  of  Kjng  ^^  ^'cart  cum 
Henr}'  the  fixt,  and  of  King  Edward  the  fourth,  expreffly  affirmeth  this  Harding 

to  bee  fonne  to  the  King  of  Denmarke.  |  12 


Maiore  BrifloU  : 


1615. 


[7.]  %\0ti  Bifhop  Godwin  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Biftiops  of  Briftoll  hath  Godwin,  fol :  500 
thus,  fiobcrt  furnamed  fit3  Harding,  becaufe  his  father,  that  was  fonne  to  the  King  P"n'ed  m  EngUfti 
of  Denmarke,  was  called  Harding,  This  Robert  being  a.Citi3en  of  Briftoll  and 
fometymes  Maior  there,  founded  the  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  neere  unto  the 
fayd  Citty  and  placed  Canons  in  the  fame,  Anno.  1 148.  being  the  xiiij"'of  the  raigne 
of  King  Stephen,  ^t}i0  foundacon  was  afterwards  confirmed  and  augmented  by 
King  Henry  the  fecond,  whoe  foe  greatly  favoured  the  aufthor  of  the  fame,  as 
hee  preferred  him  to  the  marriage  of  the  daughter  &  fole  heire  of  the  lord 
Berkeley,  of  whom  are  defcended  all  the  lord  Berkeleys  fincethat  time,  And  many 

of 


3ri}t  Hitc^  of  tf^c  2BcrhricpjS 


1066 


Camden,  f o  :  132. 

133  imprefs  : 

1587. 

Brooke,  fol : 


Stow,  fol :  207. 


How  fo  :  146. 


13 


of  them   as  challenging  an   intereft   in  that  foundation  of  their  Anceftors,  have 
chofen  the  Church  there  for  the  place  of  theire  buriall  : 

CIjU^  the  Bifhop,  B^fjcrchl  let  me  note,  That  the  Bifhops  error  in  y*^  forefaid 
mariage,  feemes  occafioned  by  Camdens  miftake  in  the  firft  edition  of  his  Britannia, 
which  in  his  fecond  hee  reformed,  after  Brooke  yorke-herald  had  bitterly  taxed 
him  for  makeinge  the  father  to  marry  his  fonnes  wife.  31  JDtiSl)  this  alfo  might  foe 
bee  in  the  next  reprintinge  of  this  Catalogue  of  y'  Bifhops. 

8.  3111^0  induftrious  Stowe  in  his  Cronicle  printed  in  Anno.  1592  hath  thus, 
Cfjtjaf  yeare  1148.  in  the  xiiij'*' of  the  raigne  of  Kinge  Stephen,  Robert  fit3  Harding 
fometymes  Maior  of  Briftoll,  whofe  father  was  Kinge  of  Denmarke,  founded  &c. 

3Clltl  How  hath  thus,  Robert  fit3  Harding  fometimes  Maior  of  Briftoll  whofe 
father  was  a  Dane,  hauing  founded  the  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  in  the  Towne 
of  Briftoll  this  yeare.  1148  placed  Canons  there,  which  foundation  was  after  con- 
firmed by  King  Henry  the  fecond  :  which  alfo  is  avowed  by  many  other  moderne 
hiftoriographers  :  Slliitl  it  hath  in  all  ages  bene  received  both  in  this  family  and 
in  the  tranfcripts  of  Heralds,  as  an  vnqueftionable  tradition  of  truth  ;  2But  for 
writeings  more  antient  then  theis,  averring  the  lineage  of  this  Harding,  I  haue  not 
hitherto  met  with  any,  though  I  haue  fearched  many  manufcripts,  and  all  the 
antient  recordes  in  euery  of  y'  kings  Courts.  ||5citl)CC  haue  I  found  what  kings 
fonne,  or  ex  qua  profapia,  from  what  parentage,  or  from  whofe  loynes,  this 
Harding  was,  But  by  probable  conieftures  hee  was  the  fonne  of  Harold,  or 
Hard-cinty,  for  patrimonicall  wordes  deriued  from  the  father,  with  the  Englifti 
Saxons  and  Danes,  end  in  htO  :  As  Penda,  Pending,  Harold,  Harolding,  Hardi, 
Harding,  and  many  the  like  in  theis  old  tymes  :  3^^n  like  fence,  as  from  Ducke, 
wee  derive  Duckling,  from  Goofe,  Goflinge,  from  Cat,  Kitlinge,  from  Browne, 
Browning,  from  ffeild,  ffeilding,  from  Dunn,  Dunning,  |  from  Bill,  Billing,  and  from 
Home,  Homeling,  a  naturall  Inhabitant,  And  many  other  the  like,  Cl)C  probability 
whereof,  though  it  bee  not  caft  into  the  chanon  of  the  text,  yet  may  it  bee  bound 
vp  next  after  y'  Apocripha  of  the  Bible. 


Stow,  in  How  SfijBf   for  that  valiant   Ednothus,  of  a   noble   and   antient   family  amongft   the 

fo :  109.  et  ah:  Saxons,  Maftors  of  the  Horfe  to  King  Harold,  of  whofe  famous  memory  is  honor- 
able mention  in  diuers  au6thors  in  the  raignes  of  King  Edward  the  Confeffor, 
and  of  Wittm  Conqueror,  as  being  (they  fay  a  man  Excellent  in  the  tyme  of  y* 

Englifhmen 


I1I5 


%iic  of  j^iirbing 


Engliflimen,  both  at  home  in  his  owne  Country  and  alfo  abrode,  And  was  father 
of  Harding,  who  hued  in  the  tynie  of  King  llt-nry  the  fecond,  I  leave  him  that 
will  leane  that  way  thus  further  informed.  €l)nt  the  wife  of  that  Ednothus  was 
daughter  or  neece  to  the  Kinge  of  Denmarke,  And  that  Harding  his  fonne,  was 
inriched  by  the  Conqueror  for  the  great  Service  his  father  did  to  him,  in  whofe 
defence,  and  of  his  new  gotten  Kingdome  of  England,  Hee  in  the  fecond  of  tiis 
raigne,  by  his  owne  death,  obtayned  the  Vidliory  in  a  blouddy  battle  againft 
Godwin,  and  Edmund,  furnamed  the  great,  fonnes  to  King  Harold. 

<Df  which  Hardingus  thus  alfo  writeth  Robt  de  Glouc  :   in  his  old  manufcript    Manufcr :  Robti 
of  the  life  of  this  Wittm  Conqueror.     25ut  at  laft,  they  of  King  Wittms  pt  had    de  Gloc :  in  Vita 
the  Viftory,  but  that  many  of  them  natheles  were  flay  [n],  and  her  Cheeftayne  alfo 
Ednod,    Hardings  fader,   that  better   coude  wehette  luther  tonges,    to  flrife  and 
chidig,  thanne  in  battaill  wepene  yweld. 

^CitijCC   am    I    certaine,    whether  that  which   is  written  in    y'  Chronicle    of   Chron  :  Jherufa : 
Jherufalem,  bee  of  the  one  or  other  Harding,  where  the  wordes  are  theis  Interea     '  '  ^"     P" 
dum  hsec  obfidio  agerutur  &c.  whilefl  the  Saracens  contynued  theire  feige  againfl 
Joppa  two   hundred   faile  of   Chriflian   Shipps  arriued   at  Joppa  that   they  might 
performe  their  devotions  at   Jherufalem,    The    cheife    men    and    leaders   of  theis 
Chriflians  are   reported  to  have  bene,   Bernard  Witrazh  of  the  land  of  Galatia, 
Hardine  of  England,  &c.     This  Chriflia  power  through  gods  fpetiall  power,  arrived    Anno:  2.  H  :  i. 
there  for  the  Succor  &  releife  of  the  deftreffed  and  befeidged  Chriftians  in  Joppa,    Regis  Angliae. 
the  third  day  of  July  1102.  and  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  Baldwine  King  of  Jherufa- 
lem,  whereupon   the  multitude  of  the    Sarazens  feeing  that  the  Chriftian  power 
ioyned  themfelves  boldly  clofe  by  them,  even  face  to  face  in  a  lodging  hard  by 
them,  the  very  next  night  at  midnight  removed  theire  Tents,  and  pitched  them  more 
then  a  mile  of,  that  they  might  the  next  morninge  be  advifed  whether  they  fhould 
returne  to  Afcalon,  or  by  often  affalts  vex  the  Citizens  of  Japhet. 


get  notwithftandinge  after  the  fayd  third  daye  of  July,  the  Sarazens  |  perfifted    14 
high  mynded  and  infolent  by  reafon  of  theire  great  multitude,  and  much  annoyed    Kod :  lib :  9 :  cap : 
the  Chriftian    people  with  theire  many  forcible  &  terrible  weapons,   whereupon    jj^^, . 
on  the  fixth  day  of  y'  fayd  July  early  in  y'  morninge  King  Baldwine  iffued  out  of   2  volii:  fo:  12.  13. 
Japhet,  his  trumpets  and  Cornetf  yealding  a  great  and  loud  found.  And  with  a 
very  ftrong  Army  afwell  of  Horfmen  as  of  footemen,  who  on  every  fide  making 
greate  fhouts   and  outcryes,  with   feirce  and  fharpe  battle,   fet  upon   the  mayne 

c  power 


€I)c  Hite^  of  tf)c  23crhricp;Bf 


1066 


power  of  theire  Enemyes  :  The  Chriftians  alfo  who  arrived  in  the  Navy,  rearing 
«.  great    clamors    and    noyfes,    with    loud    voyces    and    (howtings    in    horrible    wife, 

togeather  with  King  Baldwine  affaulted  likewife  with  ftronge  battle,  the  Babilon- 
ians,  and  afiflitled  them  with  mofl  fore  and  deadly  wounds,  vntell  the  Sarazens 
being  wearied  with  feightinge,  nor  able  longer  to  endure,  or  hold  out  againft  the 
valor  of  the  Chriflians,  fled  towards  Afcalon,  And  other  of  them  hoping  to  efcape 
from  them  that  purfued  them,  leapt  into  the  Sea,  and  were  fwallowed  up  in  the 
waues  thereof,  And  foe  the  Citty  of  Joppa  with  the  Inhabitants  thereof,  were  freed 
from  theire  Enemyes  :  There  were  flayne  this  day  3000  Sarazens,  And  but  a 
few  of  the  Chriftians  perifhed. 

Chron:  Jher :  1ft  "^  QCllb  if  I  conie6lure  not  amiffe,  this  Harding  went  againe  to  Joppa  in  the  holy 

10  in  principio  :    land,   in  that  fecond  fleete,   fix    yeares   after,  And  thence    to  Jherufalem,   whofe 
Hackl:  fo :  15.    j-gadines  for  the  feidge  of  Sidon  ats  Sagitta,  hath  honorable  menti5  in  the  hiftories 
of  thofe  tymes. 

|^0ttt)cr  will  I  fpeake  againft  the  probable  obie6lion  of  thofe,  That  obferve 
the  names  of  this  Hardings  eldeft  fonnes  to  bee  written,  both  by  Kings,  Dukes 
and  Subiedls,  in  the  eldeft  Charters,  Deedes,  recordes,  and  pipe  rolls  that  are 
extant,  thus :  Robertus  filius  Hardingi  :  3llnt!  his  fonne,  Mauritius  filius  Roberti, 
filij  Hardingi  :  31Illb  his  fonne,  Robtus  filius  Mauritij,  filij  Robti  filij  Hardingi  5ilnll 
foe  in  like  manner  alfo  for  the  yonger  fonnes  and  daughters  of  this  Harding,  and 
of  Robt  fonne  of  Harding  %^  Nicholaus  filius  Hardingi,  Elias  filius  Hardingi, 
And  Matilda  filia  Hardingi,  yonger  fonnes  and  daughter  of  this  Harding. 


Rot  pipae.  5.  et. 
14.  H :  2 


3llllll  Robertus  filius  Robti,  filij  Hardingi  SCiil)  Nicholaus  filius  Rofcti,  filij 
Hardingi :  And  his  fonne  Rogerus,  filius  Nicholai,  filij  Roberti,  filij  Hardingi  : 
Rot:  pipae  7.  RI  And  foe  euer  reftinge  vpon  this  Harding,  As  though  noe  Anceftor  of  theirs,  had 
bene  more  remarkeable  in  their  generation,  nor  any  fuperior  or  more  eminently 
honorable  then  this  Harding,  drawing  downe  their  defcents  in  femblable  manner 
to  the  fourth  generatio  2E^Ut  the  fayd  JSollcrt  in  none  of  his  Deeds,  of  Kinge 
Henry  |  the  firft,  or  of  Stephen,  or  of  Henry  the  fecond  theire  tymes,  neither  in 
his  Scales  of  thofe  tymes,  nor  his  fonne  Maurice  in  the  tymes  of .  H  :  2 .  or  of  R  : 
I  .  or  in  his  Seales  of  thofe  tymes  ;  nor  any  of  theire  younger  fonnes  or  daughters, 
are  ever  found  to  have  remembred  the  name  of  the  Father  of  this  Harding  ^ot 
this  Harding  himfelfe  to  have  ever  mentioned  himfelfe  (or  any  other  for  him)  to 
have  bene  a  Kings  fonne  l^citljcr  (as  they  obiedl)  can   any  notice  be  had,  from 

the 


Glouc  : 


15 


III5 


Hifc  of  i!;)nrlihi5 


II 


the  booke  of  Domefdei,  or  from  any  other  record  or  Hiftory  printed  or  manufcript, 
in  profe  or  verfe  in  any  language,  any  other  certaine  intimation  (duringe  eight 
kings  raignes  after  the  Conqueft)  who  fhould  bee  the  father  of  this  Harding,  other 
then  that  great  and  noble  Saxon,  Ednothus  :  concluding  upon  thofe  and  the  like 
inftances,  That  if  this  Harding  had  bene  the  fonne  of  a  Kinge,  that  neither 
himfelfe,  nor  his  fonne  Robert,  nor  his  Grandchilde  Maurice,  nor  theire  iffues, 
having  foe  many  iuft  caufes  in  foe  many  donations  and  endowments  of  Churches, 
and  collegiate  places.  And  in  advancem'  of  themfelves  in  marriage,  and  otherwife, 
would  haue  omitted  (or  rather  reiecfled)  the  honorable  memory  of  a  regall  Anceftor, 
foe  neer  to  them  as  a  kinge  or  a  kinges  fonne  :  311nb  urge  further,  That  in  all  the 
Charters  and  grant's  which  Henry  the  fecond  made  to  the  faid  Robert,  either 
whileft  he  was  Duke,  his  play  fellowe  and  familiar  companion,  And  then  both  he 
and  Mawd  the  Empres  his  Mother,  gready  beholdinge  to  his  purfe;  or  whileft  he 
was  Kinge,  and  of  whom  (as  many  authors  haue)  the  fayd  Robert  was  entirely 
beloued,  Hee  in  any  of  them,  ever  vfed  anye  other  Style  or  appellation  of  him, 
then  Robertus  filius  Hardingi,  whereas  (fay  they)  if  hee  had  bene  a  Kings  fonne, 
he  would  not  haue  omitted  that  hoiible  addition,  efpetially  when  hee  intended  to 
honor  him  :■  3llltl)  to  that  fuperfcription  over  the  gate  of  S'  Auguftines  monaftery 
formerly  mentioned,  which  ftileth  him,  Robertus  filius  Hardingi  filij  Regis  Daciae, 
they  anfwere.  That  the  characfter  and  fhape  of  the  letter  wherein  the  fame  is  in- 
graven  fheweth  playnly  (as  alfo  the  ftone  it  felfe)  That  it  was  fett  upp  and  written 
about  the  tyme  of  Henry  the  fixth  at  fooneft,  vpon  the  reedifyinge  of  that  gate 
SfinD  laftly  they  doe  obie6t.  That  Abbot  Newland  hath  falfly  alleadged  Policronicon 
for  the  Ordinance  of  Denmarke  from  whence  hee  drawes  the  caufe  of  this  Hardings 
cominge  into  England,  which  (fay  they)  is  not  found  either  in  the  latin  Originall 
Manufcript,  compiled  by  Ranulph  a  Monke  of  Chefter  in  the  xxxj'*"  of  Edward 
the  third  .  Anno .  1357  .  Nor  in  Trevifa  vicar  of  Berkeley  his  tranflation,  dedicated 
to  Thomas  Lord  Berkeley  in  the  fame  yeare,  |^0t  in  winken  de  woord,  Nor  in 
Caxtons  fuplement,  who  in  the  tenth  of  Henry  the  Seaventh  in  a  new  edition, 
fomewhat  mollified  the  old  Englifh  of  Trevifa  ^m  in  any  other  3©l^crcupon  they 
inferr,   That  |  noe  fuch  yonger  fonne  of  any   Kinge  of  Denmarke  was  fent  into 


Newl  :  ped  :  faith 
it  was  redified  by 
Wittm  Hunt  the 
19th  Abbot  elect 
i7.Sei)t.,andruled 
8  yeares  and  died 
14  Marcij  1481. 
21.  E  :  4  : 


Treuifa  inproemio 


16 


1  In  the  fair  tranfcript  of  this  MS.  prefented  by  Smyth  to  George  Lord  Berkeley,  the  following  lines 
are  here  interpolated  :— "  And  to  give  more  life  to  their  coniedlures  they  fhewe  the  Deeds  of  King 
"  Edward  the  Confeffor  made  to  the  Abbot  of  Waltham  in  Anno  1062,  five  yeares  before  the  Norman 
"  Conquefl,  whereto  Hardingus  is  a  witnefs  with  Eadgida  that  Kinges  wife."  The  words  in  this  fair 
Copy  are  all  extended  and  there  are  many  literal  and  verbal  differences  of  no  importance  which  it  has 
not  been  confidered  defirable  to  follow.     [Ed.] 

c  2  England 


€l)c  %i\yc0  of  tl)c  25crhckpj^ 


1066 


England  at  all :  |i)citljcr  (fay  they)  did  thofe  hoftile  tymes  betwene  the  Nations 
of  England  and  Denmarke,  then  broyled  in  warrs,  as  hiflories  fhewe,  permit 
fuch  trufl  and  frendfhip  SCnll  confequently  they  conclude,  That  fith  noe  other 
record,  Hiflory,  or  Deed,  is  extant  or  to  bee  found,  to  warrant  the  Abbotts 
affirmation  herein.  That  therefore  it  is  a  meere  fi6lion,  either  of  this,  or  fome 
other  flatteringe  Abbot,  to  pallyate  and  comply  with  theire  founders,  whereof 
the  Lord  William  Barkeley  was  then  newly  created  Marques  Barkeley  31InD  becaufe 
Vetus  manufcnpt  in  theis  relations  the  name  of  this  Abbot  Newland  is  often  mentioned,  vpon  whofe 
Berkley  credit  alfo  the  fidelitye  of  the  firft  Entrance  of  this  family  into  this  Kingdome 
feemeth  to  depend,  efpetially  for  the  regall  parentage  of  this  harding,  I  will,  by  a 
pardonable  digreffion,  thus  inlarge  him  :  That  hee  was  chofen  Abbot  the  fixt  of 
Aprill.  1481  .  being  the  xxj'''yeare  of  King  Edward  the  4*  And  ruled  his  Monaflery 
thirty  fower  yeares,  And  dyed  the  fecond  daye  of  June  15 15  being  the  feaventli 
yeare  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth,  And  that  during  his  gou'm.'  of  that  Monaflery 
hee  built  five  of  y"  eight  Tyth  barnes  in  y"  parifh  of  Berkeley,  and  two  other 
great  Tythe  Barnes  in  the  parifli  of  Afhelworth,  And  new  built  the  two  Mannor 
houfes  of  Almondfbury,  and  Horefeild,  and  many  other  great  Acts  in  buildings, 
repayring  of  Chancells  &c.  And  alfo  new  built  the  Dortor,  and  frator,  and 
the  Pryors  lodgings,  and  the  gatehoufe  and  the  Amery  with  the  lodgings 
adioyninge,  And  many  other  greate  buildinges,  for  the  which  (fayth  this  antient 
manufcript  roll)  God  rewarde  him  with  eternall  bliffe  :  Amen,  which  Roll 
contayneth  alfo  the  names  of  all  the  Mayors,  Sheriffs,  and  Baylyes,  that  had 
bin  in  Brifloll,  as  they  fucceded  other :  As  alfo  of  all  the  Abbotts  of  that 
Monaflerye  from  the  firfl  foundation  thereof  And  doubtles  now  at  the  reedifying 
of  the  fayd  Gatehoufe  was  the  fayd  infcription  of  new  fett  up,  but  whether 
in  the  old,  or  not,  let  thofe  tell  that  can,  I  cannot.  Co  lBt)tcl^  obieftions  I  leave 
to  replye,  Takeing  it  as  one  of  myne  ill  haps.  That  amongfl  more  then  200 . 
Deedes,  hiflories  and  Records  of  thofe  kinges  tymes,  I  could  not  meete  with 
any  to  cleere  this  doubt.  Intendinge  my  felfe  (notwithftandinge  the  former  con- 
ieftures)  to  hold  the  old  tradition  of  this  family.  That  harding  fhould  bee  the 
fonne  of  a  kinge  of  Denmarke  SClltl  I  haue  euer  refelled  theis  and  other  theire 
17  like  inferrences  and  conie6lures,  which  labored  to  |  make  the  forefaid  Ednothus 
father  of  my  Harding,  (though  a  more  noble  roote  from  whence  to  bee  defcended, 
cannot  in  Saxon  race  be  eafily  found)  with  this  reply  :  That  from  Ednothus  death 
in  the  fecond  of  y°  Conqueror,  till  the  death  of  Robert  eldefl  fonne  of  this 
Harding  in  the  xvij.''' of  Henry  the  fecond,  are  more  then.  102.  yeares,  whereby 
in  noe  probability  hee  can  bee  his  fonne,   foe  long  to  have  outlived  his  father, 

as 


1115  ^jff  of  IJardiug  ^3 

as  fome  would  make  him,  nor  well  his  Grandchild,  as  others  would  hauc  him  ; 
efpetially  when  Ednothus  himfelfe  was  farr  ftricken  in  yeares  when  hee  was  flayne 
in  the  fecond  yeare  of  Wittm  the  Conqueror,  And  Harding  his  fonne  man  growne 
in  the  dayes  of  the  Conqueror.  And  therefore,  neither,  my  Harding,  nor  Robert 
fit5  Harding,  not  Ednothus  fonne,  nor  alyve  in  Henry  the  feconds  tyme,  but 
happely  another  of  the  Hime  name  and  alliance,  3finb  verified  herein  feems  to  bee 
the  old  Tenet,  That  the  heades  of  great  houfes  are  often  found  as  vncertaine, 
as  the  beginnyngs  of  great  rivers  ;    or  as  the  firft  founders  of  Cities, 

i&OniC  fmall  labor  I  lofl  in  fearchinge  after  the  line  of  Squantiber  the  firft. 
Prince  of  Vandalls,  Sclavony,  Duke  of  Pomcrand,  and  Stetin,  one  of  y"  prime 
Progenitors  and  rootes  of  the  royall  houfe  of  Denmarke,  whoe  lived  in  tyme 
proportionable  to  bee  father  to  this  Harding,  And  dyed  in  the  yeare  of  Chrift, 
1 107.  the  firft  of  the  raigne  of  Henrj^e  the  firft  of  England,  the  Conquerors 
fonne.  But  not  being  ftored  with  fittinge  materialls,  I  was  inforced  to  leaue  the 
certainty  of  that  pticular,  to  the  number  of  thofe,   I  could  not  attayne  vnto. 

25ut  if  a  more  happy  eie  than  mine  fhall  finde  out  the  Kinge,  father  of 
this  our  Harding,  then  may  the  afcent  of  this  Berkeleyan  race  bee  made  in  the 
male  line,  out  of  the  approued  hiftories  of  thofe  Northerne  Countries  pf  Den- 
marke, Sweden,  and  Norway,  vnto  Dan,  whoe  lived  longe  before  the  tyme  of 
Chrift  Jhefus  |  incarnation,  who  being  Lord  of  Denmarke,  gave  his  name,  as  18 
fome  haue  written,  to  the  wholl  Country,  whereby  may  bee  treblye  enobled, 
what  I  have  but  weakly  fet  vpon.  SUntl  to  incite  unto  that  defired  labor, 
let  this  family  affure  it  felfe,  I  have  not  foe  reaped  my  fields,  but  that  I  have 
left  many  ritch  eares  to  gather,  wherein  diligence  and  curiofity  may  bee  exercifed, 
And  a  ftudious  hand  filled  with  my  omiifions,  havinge  in  my  courfe  Imitated 
that  M after  that  may  bee  faid,   to  teach  well,  though  hee  teach  not  at  all, 

Boni  venatoris  eft,  aliquid  capere,  non  omnia,  Hee  is  held  a  good  Huntf- 
man  that  can  catch  fome  game,  though  not  all,    (See  note  A  page  ig.) 

li)dt!)CC  is  it  perfectly  knowne  what  the  Armes  of  this  Harding  were  but 
over  the  Veftry  doore  in  S'  Auguftines  Monafterye  founded  by  his  fonne  (the 
trueft  library  of  theire  honor)  are  foure  Efchocheons  ftanding  quarterly,  The  firfl 
and    third   w.*  Cheurons  onely   rather  thought   his,    then  the  blue  lyons  <0r  a^ 

others 


H 


€f)c  %iMt0  of  tljc  25crhctepitf 


1066 


fol:  20. 


Others  will,  Gules,  three  danifh  Axes,  ore  :  SfijS  for  any  Deed  vnder  Seale  I 
fuppofe,  None  remayneth  to  give  further  fatisfaftion  to  this  family  J^otoficit  Roger 
Kemis  of  Wickwick  fometymes  Receiv'  generall  to  Henry  Lord  Berkeley  A  gentle- 
man greately  delighted  in  fearches  of  that  kinde,  hath  left  among  his  broken 
colle(^lions,  to  have  feene  a  Deede  of  this  Harding  (not  telling  where)  fealed 
with  a  great  Seale,  hauing  the  figure  of  two  lyons  indorfed,  but  not  in  Efchocheon  : 
but  hee  was  deceived  as  after  is  declared 

Lingua  file,  non  eft  ultra  narrabile  quicquam. 

Tongue  hold  thy  peace,  tyme  hath  deflroyd,  what  fhould 

More  of  the  regall  race  of  this  great  lord  bene  told. 


19 

Stow 
Newland  : 
Old  Manufcript  rr>-'i\T-Aii 

Campden    name  of  Patncius,  Maior,  Alderman,  Praepofiturus,  Confull,  and  the  like  attributes, 

RoBt  de  Ricart    ^^  feverall  writers  have  diverfly  filled  him,  and  his  place  of  office,  in  feuerall  ages 


'Cl^t^  Harding  hauing  fet'led  himfelfe  in  Baldwinftreet  in  Briftow,  The  Con- 
queror conferred  upon   him  the  gouerm!  of  that  Towne,  |  which  he  held  by  the 


Orderic  :  hiil 

lib:   13.  pag:  917 

Policron  :  lib  :  7 

cap  :  17  :  et :  19. 


3Ilnll  by  the  name  of  Patricius,  or  by  the  dignity  of  being  a  patrician,  I 
underfland,  (with  others,  after  the  Romaine  manner)  That  hee  was  not  onely 
a  noble  man  of  Briftoll,  but  of  England  alfo,  or  an  Englifh  noble  man,  though 
not  fuch  a  Peere  of  the  Realme  or  Baron  by  tenure,  as  after  this  family  fhall 
fee  in  the  creation  of  the  lord  Robertt  his  fonne,  And  by  the  name,  Confull, 
was  ufually  meant  in  theife  tymes,  Earle  of  that  place.  As  Robt  the  Confull  of 
Glocest,  was  the  Earle  of  Glouc  :  And  Robert  de  Ferrars  Derbicise  Confull,  was 
thereby  created  Earle  of  Derby  by  William  the  Conqueror  :  Reynulph  Confull 
of  Chefter  was  in  this  tyme  Earle  of  Chefler,  and  many  other  the  like. 

%n  ttji^  place  of  his  magiftracy,  this  Harding  tooke  to  wife  one  Livida  of 
whome  I  cann  onely  fay,  That  theife  are  thofe  two  fingular  perfons,  the  parents, 
from  whome  the  generations  whereof  I  have  to  write,  even  thowfands  of  thowfands 
are  defcended,  and  theire  numbers  long  fince  growne  numberles  ;  Betweene 
whom  was  iffue,  five  fonnes,  Robert,  Nicholas,  Elias,  Jurden,  and  Maurice  ;  And 
three  daughters,  Agnes,   Mawd,  and  Cicely  ;  of  each  of  whom  as  followeth 

I.  lHobcrt  whofe  memorable  A6ls  are  more  amply  tranfmitted  to  pofteritye 
was  created  Lord  Berkeley,  as  after  followeth  in  his  life. 


II15 


Hife  of  ]|)arDinjj 


15 


2.  jPtd[)Ola£(  was  ufually  ftiled,  Nicholaus  filius  Hardingi,  And  had  an  eftate 

in  lands  litlc  inferior  to  his  elder  brother,   vntill    the   grant  of  Henry  the  fecond 

to  him  of  Berkeley  :    The  greater  part  whereof  lay   in  the  County  of  Somerfett,     Red  booke  in  the 

£xchcQucr 
where  hee  payed  Cjeftungc  in  the  vij-''  and  viij'*"  yeares  of  the  fayd   Kinge  Henry 

the  fecond,  then   affeffed    at    two   markes  for  a  Knights  ffee,  towards  the  Kings 

warrs  in  his  feidge  of  Tholoufe  :    And  in  which   County  alfo   hee  payd  npbc  in 

the  xiij'"'  of  that  King  towards  the  manage  of  Mawd  the  Kings  eldeft  daughter 

to  the  Duke  of  Saxony.  |  20 


^CC  had    alfo    the    land  of   one    Knights  ffee  in  the  County  of  Gloc,   which    Red  booke  in  the 
hee  held  of  William  Earle  of  Glouc  by  that  feruice. 

%nb  was  alfo  owner  of  diuers  lands  in  the  County  of  Deuon  :  3CnJl  other 
glimpfes  there  are  of  many  other  poffeffions  of  his  in  other  Countyes  which  I 
infift  not  upon. 

Ct|ttt  antient  manufcript  in  the  Exchequer  called  the  Jflfb  {lOoKc  fetteth  downe    Red  booke  in  the 
this    Nicholas    certificat  to   King    Henry  the  fecond  in  the  xiij'*'  of  his  raigne  in      ^ 
theis  wordes.       Carta  Nicholai  filij  Hardingi.  Ego  Nicholaus  filius  Hardingi  teneo 
de  rege  feoda  duoi^  militum  et  dimidij   Et  de  hoc  feodo  tenet  wittus  filius  Ofberti    R°'=  P'P*-  '4  = 
duas   ptes   militis,   et  Wimundus    tertiam   ptem  :  Iftos   duos   feoffavit  pater   meus    Somerfett. 
tempore    Regis    Henrici    et    refiduii  mihi   remanet  in  dominico  meo,  prseter  tres 
virgatas  terrae  quas  duo   milites  tenent  viz'  :    Baldwinus  et  Hildebrandus,  vt  eas 
dedit    pater    meus,    et  iuvant    me   ad  ferviciu    meum  :    Ego   nullum  feoffavi  pofl 
mortem  patris  mei. 

W'hich  certificat  becaufe  it  is  honored  with  his  cote  of  Armes  in  y'  margent 
I  will  here  Englifh  3[  IjJicljoIajS  the  fonne  of  Harding  hold  of  the  Kinge  two 
Knights  fees  and  a  halfe,  whereof  Wiitm  the  fonne  of  Ofbert  holds  two  parts, 
and  Wymond  the  third  part  of  one  Knights  ffee,  And  theis  two  my  father 
enfeoffed  in  the  tyme  of  Kinge  Henry  the  firfl  And  all  the  refidue  I  hold  in 
myne  owne  hands,  except  three  yard  land  which  Baldwine  and  Hildebrand  two 
Knights  doe  hold,  which  my  Father  gave  them,  who  contribute  to  mee  towards 
my  feruices,  But  my  felfe  haue  not  enfeoffed  any  perfon  of  any  part  of  my  land 
fince  my  fathers  death. 

3.  <e\ia^   the    third  fonne  was  vfually  ftiled,   Elias  filius  Hardingi,  hee  was    ^'f^,^"™  ^j^° 
•  ^  o'  Berkeley  de  Stoke 

one  of  his    eldeu    brothers    eight   pledges   for   performance  of  the  agreement  at    fealed  W-  2  lions 

Briftowe    ^""^^  *''"" 


i6 


€f)c  %iMc0  of  tijc  25crhricpjS 


1066 


Carta  cu  Rico 
Bridges  de  comfe. 

ptita  in  banco, 
term  Mictiis  :  17  : 

H  :  3.  rot :   i. 


Finis  in  banco 

.  H  :  3.  Glouc  : 

21 

Rot  :  pip  :   H  : 

3  in  Scio. 


Briflowe  in  Kinge  Stephens  tyme,  as  before  hath  bene  faid,  31!nl)  was  after 
enfeoffed  by  his  fayd  eldeft  brother  Robert,  of  one  hide  of  land  in  Combe 
by  Wotton  vnderedge,  To  hold  of  him  by  the  fifth  part  of  one  Knights  ffee 
which  is  nowe  the  inheritance  of  Richard  Bridges,  Anno.  1618.  J^CC  was  alfo 
enfeoffed  by  his  faide  eldefl  brother  of  one  other  hide  of  Land  in  Hunteneford 
on  the  other  fide  of  wotton  vnderedge,  To  hold  by  Knights  fervice  as  aforefaid, 
which  is  nowe  the  inheritance  of  Wittm  Throgmorton  Baronet,  Anno  161 8. 
3tnb  if  it  bee  this  Elias  filius  Hardingi  (and  not  his  grandchild)  who  by  fine  in 
the  fifth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third  fold  |  a  yard  land  in  Stapleton  to  william 
Albury  for  two  markes,  which  was  .  76  .  yeares  after,  hee  then  furviued  his 
childrens  children,  and  dyed  in  extreame  old  age  :  Ct)ii6(  Elias  filius  Hardingi, 
had  iffue,   William,    Harding,   and   Margaret. 


ptita  in  banco  -^fje    faid    William   had    his   fathers   land   in   Combe,   About   the   wardfhip  of 

Term  miciiis!  whofe  fonne,  called  alfo  william,  was  a  fute  in  the  xvij'*'  yeare  of  of  King  Henry 
the  third,  betwene  Thomas  then  Lord  Berkeley  the  firft  of  that  name,  and  the 
Abbot  of  Kingefwood,  which  is  all  I  have  found  of  him,  or  of  Margarett  his  fifler. 


Rot:  chart.  7.  Joh. 
n."  80.  mem^.  9. 

Carta  cum  Rico 
Bridges  de  comb. 

Carta  cum  witto 
Throkmorto  milit. 


Rot:  cart  :   7. 

Joftis  memB.  9. 

n.°  8." 


I^(ltbin0  fecond  fonne  of  the  faid  Elias  had  his  faid  Fathers  land  in  Huntene- 
ford, from  which  place  of  his  abode,  Hee  was  called  Harding  of  Hunteneford, 
who  by  Dionifia  his  wife  had  iffue  Matilda,  who  was  maryed  to  Galfridus  Vitulus 
(ats  Geffry  Veel)  A  gentleman  much  favoured  by  King  John,  and  of  fpetiall 
acceptation  with  many  great  lords  of  that  tyme.  As  the  confirmation  of  that  Kinge 
made  to  him  in  the  Seauenth  of  his  raigne,  doth  of  it  felfe  fpeake  aloud  :  To 
which  Geffry  Veel  alfo  the  Lord  Robert  de  Berkeley  the  fecond  of  that  name, 
did  about  y"  begininge  of  that  kings  raigne,  giue  in  franke  mariage  with  the  faid 
Matilda  his  Cozen,  divers  other  pcells  of  land  in  Hunteneford  and  in  the  fkirts 
of  his  chace  (or  forreft,  as  there  is  called)  of  Mikelwood,  whereby  that  hyde, 
farme,  or  litle  Manor  of  Hunteneford,  was  much  enlarged  : 


ptita  aflis :  coram  And  this  Geffrye  and   Mawde  had   iffue  Robert  Veel,  father  of  S"^  Robertt 

5  :  H :  3.  in    ^^  Veel   Knight,  who  by  Hawifia  his   wife  had   iffue   Peter  Veel,  who  dyed  in 

banco    the  life  tyme  of  his   Father,   leaving  iffue  by  Cecily  his  wife  Peeter  Veel,  who 

Efch:  20:  H:  7    by  Cecily  his  wife  had   iffue   Peeter  Veel,  who  by  Elizabeth   his  wife  had   iffue 

Mathew  militis.    Thomas  le  Veel   Knight,  who  by  Hawifia  his  wife  had  iffue  John  Veel,  who  by 

Alice    his   wife   had    iffue  Robertt  and  William  :    The  faid    Robert    by  Elizabeth 

his  wife  had  iffue  Alice  marry ed  to  David  Mathew  Knight,  who  had  iffue  fower 

daughters 


III5 


%ik  of  J^arDiuff 


17 


daughters,  viz!  Elizabeth  marycd  to  Hurd,  Anne  firft  marryed  to  John  Bainhani 
of  Weftbury,  and  fecondly  to  Thomas  Morgan,  Katherinc  maryed  to  Henry  Ogan, 
and  Margarett  mar  :  to  Wittm  fonnc  of  Chriflophcr  Throgmerton  :  of  each  of 
which  fower  daughters  is  plentifull  iffue,  witli  Ample  poffeffions  at  this  daye,  | 
Anno  1620  :  pticularly  named  with  the  proofcs  in  my  Regifler  of  the  Lord  Berke-  22 
leys  tenures  by  Knights  fei-vice. 

CljC  faid  William  Veel  brother  of  Robert,  by  Suzan  his  wife  daughter  of 
James  Berkeley  of  Bradley,  had  iffue  William  Veel,  who  by  Margaret  his  wife 
daughter  of  William  Fettiplace  had  iffue  Edward  Veel  of  Over,  and  William  Veel 
of  A6lon,  which  Edward  had  iffue  Edward  Veel  and  others,  of  whom  is  iffue  at 
this  daye,  Anno  1620.  And  the  fajd  William  Veel  of  Acton  had  iffue  Nicholas 
Veel  of  Allefton  who  by  Margarett  his  wife  daughter  of  Richard  Bridges  of  Combe 
aforefaid  hath  iffue  Thomas  Veel  that  now  is  Anno.  1626.  and  others  of  remarke- 
ablenes  in  the  County  of  Glouc  : 

4.  3furbain  the  fourth  fonne,  was  an  other  of  his  eldefl  brothers  eight  pledges    q^^^^  j,^  ^.j^,^^^ 
in    the    faid    agreement    at    Briflowe,    And   a   wittnes    to    the   firft   Chartar   which    de  Berkeley. 
Henry  the  fecond  made  to  his  fayde  eldeft  brother,  And  after  dyed  without  iffue 
the  xxvij'*'  of  February  but  what  yeare   I   finde  not. 

5.  #f  Maurice  I   can  fay  nothinge. 

6.  SUgnCjGf  was    marryed    to    Hughe  de    Hafele  one  other  of  y*  faide   eight    Newl:  pedeg: 
pledges,  by  whome  fhee  had   iffue,   And    died    the    twentieth  of  July,  but  what    ^   J°, 
yeare  I   find  not. 

7.  £l^atDtl,  written  Matilda  filia  Hardingi,  dyed  the  xxij-''  daye  of  March, 
which  is  all   I   can  faye  of  her. 


8.  <£)f  Cicely  I  can  fay  noe  more,  Then  that  fhee  dyed  the  five  and  twentieth 
of  November,  311nll  as  the  Aniverfary  dayes  of  theis  three  fifters  celebrated  in 
the  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  till  the  diffolution  thereof  have  told  mee  the 
dayes  and  months,  Soe  I  wifh  I  could  haue  found  the  yeares  whearein  each  of 
them  dyed,   and  their  brothers,   with  their  iffues.  | 

f$i0  Statlj 
CljiiSi    Harding  the  King  of   Denmarkes  fonne,  deceafed  at  Briftoll  the  fixt    23 
of   November  in   the   xvj'.'' of  King    Henry  the  firft.  Anno.  11 15  or  neer  there- 
D  abouts 


Newl :  pedeg  :  in 
Caft.ro  de 
Berkley. 


i8 


€l^e  Eitoc^  of  tl}c  25cirhdcpitf 


1066 


Corn:  gallus 
Ovid.  4  de  pont : 


Liber  Domefd  : 
in  Co  ;  Glouc  : 


The  vfe. 


abouts,  where  he  lyeth  buried,  from  whofe  dayes,  I  fit  far  of,  And  hauing  with 
much  fearch  found  noe  clerer  Hght,  I  mufl  complayne  of  tyme  and  fay  with 
the  Poet,  That 

Cun6la  trahit  feciim  devoratque  volubile  tempus 
Tabida  confumit  ferrum,  lapidemque,  vetuflus. 
Tyme  doth  confume  each  fublunary  thinge, 
It  ftrikes  as  death,  but  ne're  returne  doth  bringe. 

3Cnti  for  this  Hardings  Lands,  which  by  his  death  difcended  to  his  heire, 
ther's  noe  record  or  other  evidence  leaft  vnconfumed,  that  can  declare  them, 
further  then  as  aforefayd,  and  as  after  followeth  in  the  Hfe  of  his  eldefl  fonne 
the  Lord  Robert,  Saue  that  hee  held  Witenhort  (nowe  Whetenhurft)  of  Earle 
Britric  in  mortgage,  as  the  booke  of  Domefdaye,  vnder  the  title  of  Gloucefler- 
fhire  fheweth. 

€l)e  ^UpplicationiBf  anb  u0t  of  ^i0  %ik 

I.  SltttCnlJnigC  in  theis  relations  to  apply  each  Anceftors  actions  and  life  to 
the  vfe  and  benefitt  of  theire  prefent  pofterity  ;  I  find  noething  leaft  vndeavoured 
by  tyme,  more  then  to  aduife  the  prefent  Lord,  who  nowe  hath  the  guidinge 
of  theire  honor  and  flerne,  (and  in  him  his)  That  hee  turne  that  wheele  &  motion 
to  thrift  and  vertue  :  what  otherwife  hee  reareth,  tyme  in  fewe  ages  will  cafl; 
downe  with  him.  As  by  this  his  firft  Anceflor  appeareth.  | 


24 


Prov  :  2.  V.  20.  2 1 

And.  10.  V.  7 

And  :  1 2.  V.  3 

And.  21.  V.  21. 


2.  ^gainc,  that  feeing  from  the  large  circumference  of  his  life,  fcarce  the 
Center  now  remaynes  ;  That  his  pofterity  may  foe  write  theire  A6lions  in  iuflice 
and  righteoufnes,  That  theire  memory  may  endure  foreuer.  According  to  the 
promife  of  the  Almighty  who  hath  fayde,  and  cannot  lye,  That  the  iuft  man 
fhall  dwell  in  the  land  for  ever,  and  his  memoriall  fliall  be  bleffed  :  And  that 
the  root  of  y*"  righteous  man  fliall  not  be  moved,  but  his  houfe  fhall  ftand  for- 
ever :  yea,  that  his  memoriall  fhall  flourifli  like  a  greene  bay  tree  that  neuer 
fadeth .  And  that  hee  that  followeth  after  righteoufnes  and  mercy,  fhall  find  life, 
righteoufnes  and  glory. 


fillip  ^^artlin0i 


NOTK     A.  19 

The  zeal  and  indudry  of  the  Author  in  his  endeavour  to  trace  the  defcent  of  his  illuflrious  fubject 
are  beyond  all  praife,  but  the  refult  of  his  laborious  argument  will  not  bear  a  critical  examination.  It 
is  evident  the  tradition  that  Harding,  the  founder  of  tlie  great  and  noble  houfe  of  Berkeley,  was  the  fon 
of  the  King  of  Denmark  or  of  the  Royal  Race  of  that  country  cannot  be  any  longer  maintained.  The 
highefl  authority  we  poffefs  for  the  genealogy  of  the  great  men  who  flouriflied  in  the  age  in  which 
Harding  lived  is  the  Domefday  Survey,  and  recent  refearches  into  that  venerable  and  valuable  record,  by 
Mr.  A.  S.  Ellis,  and  the  Rev.  R.  \V.  Eyton,  the  late  eminent  hiflorian  of  Shropfliire,  who  has  done  much 
for  the  correction  of  the  Baronial  jiedigrees  of  that  diflri6t  as  given  by  Dugdale,  fliew  that  Harding 
was  an  Englifhman  the  fon  of  an  eminent  Englifh  Thane  named  Alnod,  or  EInod,  or  Ednothus  as  he  is 
called  in  the  text.  There  is  however  flill  fome  little  difficulty  in  determining  exadlly  his  parentage  becaufe 
there  were  as  appears  from  Domefday  feveral  Englifh  Thanes  who  bore  this  or  a  like  name. 

Upon  this  matter  there  has  been  much  difculTion  in  "  Notes  and  Queries,"  but  the  fubje(5t  is  too 
large  to  be  treated  of  fully  in  a  foot-note  and  we  mufl  refer  our  readers  for  details  to  that  periodical,  and 
to  Mr.  Eyton's  Analyfis  of  the  Domefday  Survey  of  Somerfet.  It  may,  however,  be  remarked  that  neither 
did  Harding  nor  his  poflerity  for  feveral  centuries  prefer  any  claim  to  a  Royal  Danifh  defcent,  nor  is 
there,  as  admitted  by  Smyth,  any  indication  of  it  to  be  found  in  any  contemporary  record  or  writer,  nor  in 
any  of  the  Royal  grants  made  to  Harding  himfelf.  The  earlieft  fuggeftion  of  the  kind  was  made  by 
John  Trevifa,  Vicar  of  Berkeley,  in  1351 — 236  years  after  the  fuppofed  date  of  Harding's  death. 

It  is  to  the  critical  acumen  of  Mr.  Ellis  we  are  indebted  for  having  in  his  Domefday  (ludies  brought 
to  our  knowledge  certain  facfls  which  feem  to  be  conclufive  that  Harding  was  the  fon  of  Alnod,  varioufly 
written  Elnod  and  Ealnoth  one  of  King  Edward's  greatefl  Thanes,  who  in  that  King's  reign  held  large 
poffeffions  in  various  counties.  He  was  Stallere,  or  Mafler  of  the  Horfe,  fucceflively  to  Edward,  Harold 
and  William.  Two  years  after  the  Conquefl  (1068)  he  led  the  men  of  Somerfet  to  refill  the  attack  made 
by  the  fons  of  Harold  upon  the  Coafls  of  that  County,  when  he  fell  in  battle,  a  circumflance,  according 
to  William  of  Malmefbury,  not  regretted  by  the  Conqueror,  who  immediately  feized  upon  his  lands  and 
beflowed  them  upon  Hugh  de  Abrincis  who  was  aftersvards  advanced  to  the  Earldom  of  Chefler. 
Mr.  Eyton  fuggefts  that  Harding  was  probably  at  that  time  a  Minor,  at  all  events  he  did  not  inherit  any, 
of  his  father's  eflates,  but  he  was  endowed  with  other  lands  by  the  Conqueror,  inter  alia,  the  Manors  of 
Meriet  and  Lopen  with  four  other  Manors  in  Somerfet,  and  Eyton  calls  him  "  one  of  the  greatefl.  of 
the  Anglo-Thanes  in  that  County."  He  firfl,  appears  in  the  Gild  Inquert.  of  1084,  where  he  is  called 
"  Hardincus  de  Meriet  "  from  his  Manor  of  Meriet  and  in  other  places  "  Hardincus  filius  Elnodi." 
He  never,  however,  attained  to  the  wealth  and  eminence  of  his  father.  There  is  little  doubt  he  was 
Provofl  of  Brlrt.ol,  then  a  fifcal  Officer  of  the  Crown.  He  was  certainly  a  lawyer.  William  of  Malmef- 
bury, a  contemporary,  fays  he  throve  rather  by  forenfic  than  martial  genius.  He  was  one  of  the  Juflices 
Itinerant  to  Devon  and  Cornwall  in  1096.  In  all  probability  he  was  in  Holy  Orders  though  perhaps  not 
a  Priefl,  as  he  married.  Ellis  fuggefls  that  his  wife  was  a  niece  of  Maurice  Archdeacon  of  Maine, 
afterwards  Bifhop  of  London,  and  that  this  connecflion  is  the  origin  of  the  name  of  Maurice  in  the  family, 
and  the  adoption  of  a  Mitre  as  a  Crefl.  He  had  feveral  fons  as  flated  in  the  text,  and  Smyth  makes 
Robert  the  Elded,  but  both  Ellis  and  Eyton  concur  in  flating  that  Nicholas  was  Harding's  heir.  It  is 
not  at  all  unnatural,  even  in  our  own  day,  for  a  younger  fon  to  become  more  wealthy  and  eminent  than 
his  elder  brother,  and  to  carry  off  the  honours  of  the  houfe.  It  is  clear  that  Nicholas  inherited  his  father's 
Manors,  including  Meriet  and  Lopen  in  Somerfet,  of  which  he  made  a  return  in  1166,  as  cited  by  Smyth. 
"  He  certainly  was,"  Mr.  Ellis  says,  "  the  Ancedor  of  the  family  of  Meriet  and  as  certainly  his  father  was 
Harding  the  fon  of  Alnod."  WTien  Nicholas  made  this  return,  Mr.  Ellis  fays,  he  mud  have  been  about  76 
years  of  age,  which  would  fit  very  well  with  his  being  the  elder  brother  of  Robert  Fitz  Hardinge  of  Bridol 
— Mr.  Ellis  has  given  many  other  particulars  of  the  younger  fons  of  Hardinge  as  fhewn  in  the  accompany- 
ing pedigree  which  he  has  compiled. 

D    2 


m  of  Malmeftjury  (8  254)  in  recording  the  death  of  Ealdnoth, 
ler,  adds  that  "he  was  the  father  of  Harding,  -who yeifurviveSt 
more  accuftomed  to  kindle  ftrife  by  his  malignant  tongue  than 
Id  arms  in  the  field  of  Battle."      This  was  probably  written 
11^0.     Smyth  gives  the  date  of  Harding's  death  about  1115, 
is  IS  too  early.     Harding,   fon  of  Ealdnoth,  held  land  of  the 
of  Glaftonbury.  which   he  refufed  to  furrender,  until  Abbot 
A-ine  (iioi— I  r2o)  obtained  judgment  againft  him.     Robert  fitz 
ng  gave  to  the  abbey  he  founded,  Fifehide  (Magdalen)  in  Dorfet, 
it  feems  he  held  of  the  Earl  of  Chefter,  ^.Tiiwhich  had  belonged 
od  in  the  days  0/  Edward  tti£  Con/ejfor.     In  1096  "  HardinuS 
Belnoldi"  (Jlc)  was  one  of  the  juftices  in  itinere  in  Devon 
ornwall. 

■■<r^ 

!aVICIA       THOMAS 
d.  of  Robert     a   prieft, 
de    Gaunt      archdea- 
and    heirefs    con     of 
of  her   mo-     Worcef- 
ther,  Alice      ter. 
Paynel,  ob. 
v.p.  1 192. 

Wo 

a;  a 
S 

widow  of       the  firft 

Ralph  de       "  mafter 

Someri.        almoner" 

She  fur-          of   St. 

vived             Mark's 

Maurice,        Hospital 

and  was         refigned 

living    in        through 

1247.            infirmity 

1268  ;  bu. 

in  the 

chapel. 

1  1  1  1               1 

=  ..  MAURICE             JORDAN 

(?  father    of    Jordan 

AGNES        "de    Were,"    David 

wifeofHugh     "Were,"   of    Briftol, 
de  Hafeley      and  Arthur,  nephews 

of  Robert  fitz  Hard- 

MAUD.         ing.     Anceftor  of  the 

Lords  de  la  Warr.) 

CECILY. 

ROBERT  FITZ  HARDING 

ELLIS. 

=ROBERT'deWere/= 
CO.     Som.,    had    his 
father's      manors     of 
BiUefwyck,  juxta 
Briftol,  Kingfwefton, 
Redwick,    Beverfton, 
CO.  Glou.  :  dead  1195. 

1 
,    M.\URICE       'de,. 
Gaunt,'   once    occurs 
as  '  Paynel,'  came  of 
age  in   1207,   an   im- 
menfe        inheritance 
fell   to   him    through 
his  mother,  the  great 
Barony    of     Paynel, 
chiefly    in    Yorkfhire 
and    Line,    died    f.p. 
at      Portfmouth,     30 
April.      1230,     Foun- 
der   of    St.    Mark's 
Hofpital,     BiUefwick 
and  of  the  Dominican 
Priory,  Briftol. 

,ALA,dau.and  HAWISE.dau.^ 
coh.  of  Guido    and  h.  of  Robt. 
filij.   Tecii,  of    de  Goumay  of 
Tickenham,       Barrow,  widow 
whowasliving    of     Roger    de 
1 158,  had  Ids.     Clare  and  (?)  of 
in  Elmore.          RogerdeBaal- 
un:dead  1168. 

=   ..     JORDAN  .\LA     EVA'deGour-    MATILDA    , 

wifeof    nay,'  fole  heir    only  child    of 

Ralph     of  her  mother,     Henr>-dOyly 

Bloet.       had    Barrow      of     Hooknor- 

and      Englifh-    ton,  CO.  Oxf., 

combe,     CO.            but  died 
Som.    died    in     1219,  without 
her    half    bro-     ifl"ue    in     her 
ther  Maurice's     father's      life- 
lifetime.  Marr.     time. 
1    Thomas   de 
Tilly,  of  Rich- 
mont  Caftle,  in 
Somerfet  ;      a 
RogerdePeau- 
ton. 

,EVA,  dau.  of ELIAS  FITZHAR- 

had  a  brother  named     DING,  ?  of  Beving- 
Durand,    founded    a    ton  in  Berkeley,  had 
priory  of  nuns  on  S.     lands   from    his   bro- 
Michaels  Hill,  Briftol     ther  Robt.  in  Combe  : 
wherein  fhe  took  the    witnefted  the  found- 
veil,  and  died  priorefs    ation  charter  of  the 
12  March,  1170,  but    abbey, 
was    bur.    with    her 
hulband 

1 
:NA      NICHOLAS, 
^oger     FITZ  ROBT; 
keley    of  Tickenham 
rfley,     co.  Som.  gave 
of    the  advowfon 
d.    12     to  the  abbey, 
.      ..     died  1189. 

|. 

, ROBERT   FITZ  HARDING  of  Briftol,   Provoft  of  the  town. 

Niece  of      apparentlya  merchant  there  of  great  wealth  and  influence  in  the  reign 
RogerBilhop    of  King  Stephen,  but  pariifan  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Gloucefter,  on  the 
of  Salilbury,     fide  of  the  Emprefs  Matilda,  obtains  grant  of  Berkeley  harnefs  in  fee 
lands  in              from  herfon  Henry;  from  the  Earl  the  manorsof  Billefwickjuxta  Briftol 
Atram,  Dor-     and  Bedminfter;  held  lands  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun  and  William, 
fet  given            Earl  of  Warwick,  1166.      Founder  of  the  Abbey  of  St.  .\uguftin  in 
with  her  by     1142,  became  a  canon  therein,  and  died  on  the  feaft  of  St.  .'\gatha, 
him.                    5  Feb.,  1170  ;  bur.  between  theftalls  of  the  abbot  and  the  prior. 

1                               1 
ALICE        MARGARET       ALDENA          HEL 
dau.      of       wife    of    Otho    wife   of    Nigel    wifeof 
Roger    de    fitz        William    fitz  Arthur,   of    de    Be 
Berkeley        who  had  lands    Clapton,  Som.,     of     Di 
of    Berke-     in  Durfley  with    who  had  lands    brothe 
ley.                 her.                        in       Kingfcote     Alice, 
with  her.              Jan. 

H 

OF  THE  FAMILY  OF 

COMPILED  BY  A.  S. 

=  ..  NoTB.-Willia 
thefta 

to  wie 
about 
but  th 
abbey 

Hardi 
which 
to  A  In 
filius 
and  C 

-JOAN       MAURICE       HENRY       ROGER  , 

dau.  of     de  Berkeley.        died  s  p.          FITZ 

Ralph             —                            NICHOLAS, 

de          WILLIAM                              of  Ticken- 

Someri,     de  Berkeley.                              ham,    died 

marr.               1230,    held 

about          HENRY                                a    knight's 
1216.                and                                     fee  of   the 
RICHARD                                honor  of 
faid  to  have                                Berkeley 
gone  to  Scot-                                1205. 
land. 

wife 

of    Oftiert 
GiflTard. 

ALNOD  [Ealdnoth,  ftaller,  or,  horfe  thane,  under  King- 
Edward  the  Confeflbr,  and  after^vards  under  King  Harold 
and  the  Conqueror.     Slain  in  the  autumn  of  1086  at  the  head 
of  the  men  of  Somerfet,  in  an  engagement  with  the  fons  of 
Harold  when  devafting  the  fea  board  of  that  ftiire,  after 
their  repulfe  at  Briftol. 

HARDING,   SON   OF   ALNOD,   held  in  1085-6  a= 
manor  in    Meriet,  co.  Somerfet  (Godwin's  in  the  time  of 
King  Edward,)  and  the  manors  (Tovi's  in  King  Edward's 
time)  in  Lopen,  Bradon,  Capland,  Buckland  and  Difhcove. 
The  father  of  Nicholas  fitz  Harding  enfeoffed  in  the  time  of 
Henry  I.  William  fitz  Ofbcrt  in  two  parts  of  a  knight's  fee 
and  Wimund  in  the  third  part,  and  gave  lands  to  Baldwin 
and    Hildebrand.      Harding,    the   father  of    Robert,    died 
6th  Nov. 

Ui 

o 

5 
w 

1                               1 
-..     ..       HENRY,     a        MAURICE     _ 
prieft,  dean  of    FITZ  ROBERT 
Moreton,    dio.     FITZ  -  HARD- 
Exeter,      after     ING,  or  "de  Ber- 
arch-deacon  of    keley,     died      26 
Exeter,  named    June,   rioo,   bur. 
after  Henryfitz     Brentfortf       ch-, 
Emprefs.  (?)         Middlesex. 

t/j  ^^ 

<^' 

'-■a'; 

U    . 
S  n 

c-"  £'; 
ai^.-. 

)out     re-mar.      brother    and 
nfta-     Hughde    heir  of  Robt. 
iftol       Gour-       1221,  died  29 
und-        nay.        Nov.     1243, 
St.                        bu.    S.    aifle 
e's                          of  the  Abbey 
Bed-                        Church, 
died 
lay, 
flip 

NICHOLAS    FITZ    HARDING. 
Ton  and  heir  of  Harding,  having  inherited 
his  fief  which  he  certified  in  1166  to  be 
two  knights'  fees  and  a  half  in  Somerfet- 
(hire.     He  alfo  held  one  knight's  fee  of 
the   old   fcoflTment  of    William.   Earl   of 
Gloucefter.     Muft  have  been  76  at  leaft 
in  1166  ;  dead  1171. 

NICHOLAS  =  .. JULIANA  =  ROBE 
DE                  dau.  of  Wil-    de  Berk 
MERIET,  of        liamdePont     of  Berk 
Meriet,    1205,        de    I'arch,        born      a 
died    .220,              niece  of  Wil-     1,65,  co 
"held  Meriet        liam.    Mar-      ble  of  B 
in    capite    by        (hall.  Earl  of    Caftle.fo 
de/cent  from        Pembroke.        er      of 
tlu  Conqurft"                                   Katherir 
(Tefta.  de  Ne-                                   Hofp., 
vill,    p.    163,)                                   miniler, 
alfo  the  lands                                   s.p.  13  ft 
in  Lopen,  and                                   1221,  ?  e 
a     knt.'s    fee                                   in  Rede 
of  the  Earl  of                                Church. 
Gloucefter. 

"S 

HENRY  DE  MERIET. 
gave    a    virgate   of   land 
at    Meriet    to    the    Kts 
Templars    before    11 85. 
Paid    fcutage    1171  :     in 
the   roll   as   "  Henry  fitz 
Nicholas." 

•c 

tlobcrl  tl)c  Jivst 


27 


H; 


„         diuerfse  cart  :  in 

Cljc  life  of  Robert  the  Sonne  of  Harding,  vluall  ?nicD   diuerf.s  tempore 
in  writings,  Rob  fit  Hardig,  And  S'  Robert  fitz  Hard  And    Rot  :pipa  temp 
Robert   fitz    Harding,  And    Robtus  filius   Hardingi,  And 
Robtus  filius  Hardingi  filij  Regis  Daciae,  311iiD  was  the  firft 
Lord  of  Berkeley. 

5Cni>  may  bee  called  Robert  the  Devout. 
Contcmporarp  with   King  Henry  the  firfle,  Kinge  Stephen, 
and  King  Henry  the  fecond  ;  from  the  yeare  11 15  to  the 
yeare  1170. 

WWc  'ife  I  deliver  to  his  pofterity  vnder  theis  fowertene 
titles,  viz* : 

I. — j^i^  birth  and  Education  :  fol :  28. 

2.—^Ziit  old  Chartars  of  Berkeley,  And  this  Lords  firft  Creation  of 
Lord  Berkeley  :  fol  :  28  : 

3. What  the  Manor  of  Berkeley  and  Berkeley  herneffe  of  old  w^s, 

and  is  :  fol  :  32. 

4. — (g)f  55aron3S  fpirituall  and  temporall,  fol  :  ^7. 

5. — (0f  what    Lands   this    Lord  was  feized,   and  died  feized    of  : 
fol  :  42.  72. 

6._Ipijf  founding  of  S'  Auguftines  Abby  :  fol  :  43. 

7—^10  wife,  fol  :  54. 

8.— ]^i^  iffue,  fol  :  55. 

9.— ^crKlcp  of  Durfley  .  fol  :  66  .  67  .  68  .  69. 
10. — 2BcrhcIcp  of  Coburley  .  fol  :  67  .  68. 
1 1.— J^ingCjeiCOt  of  Kingefcote  .  fol  :  70. 
12. — CljijSf  Lords  feale  of  Armes,  fol  :  71. 
13. — J^ij^  Dcntl)  and  place  of  buriall .  fol  :  71. 
J 4. — ^tjc  application  and  vfe  of  his  life  ,  fol  :  73. 


22 


Zt^e  %i\ic^  of  ti)c  25ccftricpiSf 


1115 


28 

Augufl. :  chartul : 
fo  34.  in  cad.  Bark: 


Robt  de  Ricart 
Maniifcript. 


c 


jl^i^  btctl)  mix  (lE&ucation 

t^tS  ^OP^rtt  was  borne  in  Briflowe,  towards  the  end  of  William  the 
Conquerors  raigne,  bred  up  in  that  Towne  with  Harding  his  father, 
And  after  his  death  (poffeffing  the  mofl  of  his  eflate,  which  (as  the 
effe6ls  poynt  out)  was  great,  dwelled  in  Baldwineftreet  there,  {a  name  to  this 
day  retayned)  from  whence  hee  after  removed,  Ad  magnam  domum  lapideam  quam 
fecit  fuper  fromam,  to  a  great  houfe  built  by  him  of  Stone  vpon  the  River  of 
Frome,  as  theis  wordes  of  an  old  Deed  of  that  tyme  are  ;  part  of  which  houfe  to 
this  daye  remayneth  vndemolifhed. 


Holiingfhed,  W^llt^t  Mawd  the  Empreffe  and  Henry  Plantagenet  her  fonne  were  contend- 

alij.    inge   with  the  vfurpur  Stephen  for  the  Crowne,   much  of  their  refidence  was  at 

Briflowe,  as  alfo  was  the  Education  of  the  faid   Henry,  there  brought  up  in  Learn- 

inge  from  the  fowrth  to  the  viij'*"  yeares  of  Stephen,  which  prefented  one  of  y°  many 

occafions  of  that  great  familiarity  and  Love,  which  alwayes  after  continewed  betwene 

the  fayd  Henry  and  this  Robert,  And  perhaps  alfo  theire  affe6lions  (befides  theire 

Newl:  Fed:  et  3.    neer  alliance  in  bloud)  fomewhat  the  more  fympathized,  by  being  both  of  them  the 

Rotj :  de  Ricart    grandchildren  of  Kinges  3llnD   foe  far  forth  ere  that  Crowne  Clayme  was  fettled, 

manufc :  cum    (\[^  jj^g   Empreffe  and  her  fonne   Henry  make   ufe  of  the  purfe  of  this  Robertt  in 

that  wantfull  tyme  of  theirs,  That  from  Roger  of  Berkeley  Lord  of  Durfley  were  his 

fee  farme  Lands  of  Berkeley  taken  by  this  Duke  Henry  and  Mawde  his  Moother 

for  the  Caufes  formerly  mentioned.     3Ilnb  for  an  hanfell  (as  it  were)  of  that  lumpe 

which  followed,  one  hundred  pounds  land  of  that  of  Berkeley  with  the  Manor  of 

Bitton,  was  given  to  this  Robertt  and  his  heires  by  Deede  (yet  remayneinge  vnder 

feale)  in  theis  wordes 


Cart :  in  caRro 
de  Berkeley. 


f$:  2DU)C    Norrti   et  Comes   And,    Qibus   Archiepis,   Epis,   Abbib5,   confulibj, 
baronib5,  et  amicis  fidelibus,  Francis  et  Anglicis:  Sal: 


29  ^ctatt^  me  dediffe  Roberto  filio  Hard  et  heredibus  fuis,  manlium  |  Betthone 

cu  oibus  appendicijs  fuis,  Et  infuper  centum  libratas  terre  in  manerio  de  Berkelai, 

ita 


Hifc  of  iiobcvt  rt)c  fit^t 


23 


ita  libere  et  quiete,  in  bofco,  et  piano,  et  pafcuis,  et  pratis,  et  aquis,  et  vijs,  et  terris    ^^^^'^j*; ""^^/^^f  j^ 

arrabilibus,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  confuetudinibus,  cu  Tol,  et  them,  et  zoch,    the  Englifh  booke 

et   Sache,   et    Belle,  et   Burgiet,'  et  infankenethef,  et  omnibus  quietantijs  que  ibi    ^j^/j^l^.g''™"  ^ 

fuerunt  in  tempore  Henrici   Regis  avi  mei,  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  illi  et  heredibus 

fuis,  Ad  Tenendu  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  per  fervitiu  duo^  mutato^  accipitrum 

fmgulis  annis  m'  et  meis  heredibus  reddendorum,  Et  pepigi  ei  firmare  ibi   caftellii 

fecdm   voluntatem  ipfius  Robti.      Et  propter  haec  fup'di6la  dona,  Rodbertus  filius 

Hardingi    devenit    meus    homo,    et    ego   per   fidem    meam    affidaui    ei    pa6liones 

fup'didas  tenere  illi  atque  heredib3  fuis.     Et  hoc  idem  affidauit  Reginaldus  Comes 

Cornubiae,  et  Rodbtus  de  Dunfta[n]villa,  et  Ric:  de  Humez  Conftabularius  et  Manefer 

Bifeth  dapifer,  et  Guarinus  filius  Geraldi  Camerarius,  et  Wittus  filius  Hamonis,  et 

Philippus  de  Columbers,  qui  huius  pa6lionis  teftes  exiftunt:  Et  prefer  iftos,  teftes 

funt  inde   Abbas  ici    Auguftini   de    Briftou,   et  frater  Adam    Canonicus    eius,   et 

Henricus  filius  Rodbti,  et  Wittus  Cumin,  et  Jordanus  frater  Rodbti,  et  Jordanus  et 

Dauid  nepotes  eius,  et  Ric:  de  Hanam  apud  Briftou. 

I^otDC  great  a  reputation  a  Charter  of  fuch  an  extraordinary  quality  brought  to 
this  Robert,  and  what  an  opticke  glaffe  it  remaynes  to  fhowe  the  honor  of  his 
perfon  and  greatnes  of  his  purfe,  let  others  obferue: 

3IIctortltl10ip  the  Caftle  was  built  at  Berkeley  where  yet  it  ftandeth  in  the  moft 
confpicuous  and  convenient  place  for  ayre,  water,  pafture,  meadowe,  wood,  and 
benefitt  of  the  great  River  of  Seaverne,  that,  that  fruitfull  vale  could  then  affourd, 
31l^  to  fee  the  buildinge  thereof,  the  fayd  Duke  Henr>^  came  in  perfon.  As  by  his 
Deed  of  Confirmation  of  Bedminfter  to  this  Robert  dated  at  Barkeley  may  probably 
be  gathered  Howbeit  at  the  firft  eredion  of  the  Caftle,  it  onely  comprehended  the 
inmoft  of  the  three  gates  and  what  is  within  the  fame:  The  two  vtmoft  and  all  the 
buildings  within  them,  being  the  additions  of  Maurice  eldeft  fonne  of  this  Robertt,  FoI  :  [83] 
and  of  Thomas  the  fecond  in  the  fixth  of  Edw:  the  fecond,  and  of  Thomas  the 
third  in  the  xviij'*'  of  Edward  the  third,  as  after  in  their  lyves  appeareth. 

I^Ot  two  yeares  had  paffed  after  the  former  grant,  before  the  fayde  |  Duke    30 
made  a  larger  to  this  Robert  in  theis  wordes. 


Cart :  in  CaAro 
de  Berkeley. 


1^:  Si  gfa  dux   Norm  et  Aquitanie  et   Comes  And,   Omib3  Archiepis   Epis,    Cartam  Caftro 


Abbib),    Confulib3,   vicecoiS,   baronib3,    Jullicijs,    et    amicis    fidelibus,    Francis,    et 
Anglicis:  Sat.     J>ciatij9i  me  dediffe  et  conceffiffe  Rodbto  filio  Hard  et  heredibus 

fuis 
1  See  Note  B,  page  62. 


de  Berkeley. 


24 


Ztft  Hibc^  of  tJ)c  25ccftcIfpjS 


iirS 


Carta  in  Callro 
de  Berkeley  fig  : 
cum  rubea  csera. 

31 


ct  totam  Berkelai 

hemefTe,  id  efl  all 

the  Nookes  and 

Corners  of 

Berkeley 


fuis,  Berkelai  et  totam  Berkelai  herneffe,  maneriii  cu  omib3  appendicijs  fuis,  plene 
et  integre  ficut  erat  in  tempore  Henrici  Regis  avi  mei  'CcilCllllU  in  feodo  et  heredi- 
tate  fibi  et  heredibus  fuis,  de  me  et  heredib3  meis  per  ferviciu  Vnius  militis,  vel  fi 
Robtus  aut  heredes  fui  melius  voluerint,  centum  folidos  reddant  pro  feruitio  mittis 
per  Anil  tjUfllTC  volo  et  precipio  vt  ipfe  Rodbtus  et  heredes  fui  pra;di6lum  manerium 
et  omnia  pertinentia  fua,  in  ecclefijs,  in  nemoribus,  in  planis,  in  pafcuis,  in  terris,  in 
aquis,  in  vijs,  in  femitis,  et  in  placitis,  et  in  oiiiibj  rebus  et  eventibj  teneant  et  im- 
perpetuu  habeant  libere  quiete  et  honorifice  cii  Tol,  et  Tem,  et  Soch,  et  Sache,  et 
Infanckenethef,  et  cu  oiiiibus  libertatibus  et  liberis  confuetudinibj  fuis  et  quietancijs 
que  ibi  fuerunt  in  tempore  Henrici  Regis  avi  mei.  Et  preterea  dedi  et  conceffi  eis 
habere  in  pdifto  manerio  liberum  Marcheium^  cum  oibus  libertatibus  quae  ad 
Marcheium  pertinent  quacunque  die  feptimane  voluerint,  et  monetam  cum  proprio 
monetario  fuo:  Et  quando  feci  banc  donationem  predco  Rodbto,  ipfe  dedit  mihi 
quingentas  marcas  argenti  de  recognitione.  <^.  Abbate  Sci  Auguflini  de  Briflou, 
et  Henrico  Thefaurario,  Witto  Cumino,  Rogero  Comite  Hereford,  Ricardo  de 
Humez  Conftabut,  Manfier  Bifeth  Dapif",  Robto  de  Saltemareis 

3llnlJ  about  two  yeares  after,  vpon  the  death  of  Kinge  Stephen,  (the  fayd  Duke 
Henry  then  being  King)  Hee  in  the  firfi;  of  his  raigne  made  a  third  grant  to  this 
Robertt  by  his  Deed  in  theis  wordes — viz' 

f$  :  bi  gtfl  Rex  Angt  et  Dux  Norin  et  Aquit  et  Comes  And,  oibus  Archiepis, 
Epis,  Abbatibus,  confulibj,  vicecoiri,  Baronib-j,  Juftic  et  amicis  fuis  fidelibus,  Francis 
et  Anglicis,  Sattm  ^ctattj^  me  dediffe  et  conceffiffe  Rodbto  filio  Hard  et  heredibj 
fuis,  Berkelai  |  et  totam  Berkelai  herneffe  manerium  cu  omnib3  appendicijs  fuis, 
plene  et  integre  ficut  erat  in  tempore  Regis  Henrici  avi  mei  <<JtcncnDn  in  feodo  et 
hereditate  fibi  et  hseredibus  fuis  de  me  et  hseredibus  meis  per  ferviciu  quinque 
militum,  quacc  volo  et  firmiter  precipio  vt  ipfe  Robertus  et  heredes  fui,  predidlum 
maneriii  et  omnia  pertinentia  fua  in  ecctijs,  in  nemoribus,  in  planis  in  pafcuis,  in 
terris,  in  aquis,  in  vijs,  in  femitis,  in  placitis,  et  in  oinibus  rebus  et  eventib3  teneant 
et  imppetuii  tleant,  libere,  quiete  et  honorifice,  cu  Tol:  et  Tem,  et  Soch  et  Sache,  et 
Infanckenethef,  et  cu  oibus  libertatibus  et  liberis  confuetudinibus  et  quietantijs  que 
ibi  fuerunt  in  tempore  Henrici  Regis  avi  mei,  Et  preterea  dedi  et  conceffi  eis  habere 
in  predco  manerio  liberum  Marcheium  cum  oinibus  libertatibus  que  ad  Marcheium 
pertinent  quacunque  die  feptimanae  voluerint,  et  monetam  cum  proprio  monetario 
fuo  :  Et  quando  feci  banc  donationem  predco  Rodbto,  ipfe  dedit  mihi  quingentas 
marcas   argenti    de    recognitione.       C   Abbate    Rico    Sci    Auguflini    de    Briflou, 

Reginald 
1  See  Note  B,  page  62. 


1  I/O 


aiifc  of  Bdbat  tljc  f  itieft 


25 


Reginald  Comite  Cornubie,  Rogero  Comite  Heref,  Rico  de  Humes  Conftabulario, 
Manifier  Bifeth  Dapifer,  Wittmo  filio  Haimindi,  Guarino  filio  Geraldi,  Robto  de 
Salteniaries. 

3Iln&  this  is  that  Deed  which  hath  many  tymes  in  the  raignes  of  feverall  Kinges 
bene  inrolled  and  confirmed,  as  the  marginalls  declare,  from  w**  the  Barony  of 
Berkeley  and  dignity  of  being  a  Baron  or  peere  of  the  Realme,  is  by  this  family 
derived  to  themfelves,  And  from  which,  ought  to  bee  the  precedency  of  the  now 
Lords  place,  as  after  more  at  large  will  be  related  in  the  lives  of  James  the  firft, 
and  of  Maurice  the  fixth  :  fot  this  grant  was  his  very  Creation  of  Baron,  And  by 
it  refuked  to  the  fayd  Lord  Robert,  the  dignity  of  Baron,  and  to  bee  a  Baron  and 
peere  of  y'  Realme,  viz'.  Baronem  nobilitatis  gradu  ornatum,  hauing  by  it,  regularly 
and  originally  the  true  effentialls  of  a  Baron  and  Barony,  viz',  Jurifdi(5lion  and 
territory  holden  by  Knights  feruice  in  Capite,  both  for  Ciuill  and  Criminall  caufes. 
not  beinge  created  a  Baron  by  writt,  or  patent,  but  by  tenure  as  aforefayde,  which 
is  the  moft  noble  and  antient  of  y'  three  kinds  of  Barons  that  are  at  this  daye  of 
whome  I  fhall  hereafter  write  fomcwhat  more.  I 


I  H  :  2.  bis 
Mauricio 
I  et  10  R  :  2 
Rot :  cart  i.  Jotiis 
pars  2.  n"-  100  ff. 
Pafch  :  rec  :   4  E  : 
3.  in  Sccio  rot  : 
7.8.  et  Pafch:  fin: 
4  :  E :  3  rot :  2  bis. 
Cartae  4  :  E  :  3.  m. 

25 

pat:  i2:E:4.m:  21. 

pars.  1. 

Pat  :  3.  et  4  Ph  : 

et  Mariae. 

ptita  in  recept. 

Sccij. 

8  :  E  :  I .  de  quo 

warrant. 


311^  for  the  two  former  graunts,  I  efteeme  them  but  as  matter  hifloricall,  and  as  32 

fecurities  for  the  monies  and  fupplyes  which  the   Duke  &  Emprefs  his  Mother,  at  P"'^  '^^  1"° 

'  ^  -^  *    _  warranto  in 

feuerall  tymes  drewe  from  this  Lord  Robert,  |3citljCt  can  this  family  haue  any  legall  Coin :  Glouc : 
caufe    hereafter    to    mention    them:    And   were    made  betweene  the   feauenth    of     ^^   '^^' 

September   11 50.  (on  which  daye  the  fayd  Henry  by  the  death  of  Geoffrey  Plan-  Hollinglh  :  fol :  58 

taginet  his  father  became   Duke  of    Normandy)  and  the  five  and  twentieth  of  64.384. 

Oclober    11 54.   (on   which   day  the  fayd    Henry  by  the  death  of  King  Stephen,  ^^^'.^ui^etSij. 
became  King  of  England)  when  forthwith  after,  hee  made  the  latter  grant,  whereby 
he  was  created  Baron  as  aforefayd. 


SHiUj  if  this  family  meet  with  two  or  more  Deeds  of  theis  lands  made  to 
Maurice  eldefl  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robertt,  by  the  fayd  Henry  whileft  hee  was 
Duke,  at  the  fame  tymes  his  father  had  the  former,  let  it  bee  conceived.  That  either 
they  were  made  to  Maurice,  when  his  Father  Robertt  became  a  Channon  of  y' 
Monafter)^  of  St.  Auguftines  as  after  followeth  :  Or  were  made  upon  the  conclufion 
of  Maurice  mariage  with  the  daughter  of  Roger  Berkeley  of  Durefley  (whereof  I 
haue  already  writen)  the  more  fairely  to  drawe  on  that  peace,  Or  (if  you  take  them 
not  as  confirmations)  were  made  in  the  nature  of  duplicates,  being  y*  fame  in  tyme 
and  lands,  onely  differinge  in  the  perfons  to  whome  they  were  made,  %  CCUV^C 
ufuall  in  thofe  dayes.  <©f 


26 


€i)c  Hibc^  of  tijc  25crhclcp^ 


1115 


Mapteus  nianufcr. 

in  Campden  fo  : 

362 

Originall  Manu  : 

in  biblioth.  Oxon. 

riot :  pip  :  I  H  :  2 

in  Sccio 

Rot :  pip  :  6  :  R  :  2 

in  arce  Londin  : 


33 


Domefday  book 
in  com.  Glouc  : 

WoodcheRer  8 
miles  fro  Berkeley. 


<&(  tfjc  manor  of  2Bcrhclcp  anb  25crlidcp  ^cnxt^ 

i^liat  old  manufcript  of  Walter  Mape  an  Hiftorigrapher  of  that  tyme  fhall 
declare,  what  this  Manor  of  Berkeley  and  Berkeley  Herneffe  was  at  the  Conquefl, 
and  at  the  times  of  their  grants  ;  In  theis  words  turned  into  Englifh  :  25arhckp 
neere  unto  Seaverne  is  a  Towne  of  five  hundred  pounds  revenew,  In  it  there  was  a 
Nunnery.  And  the  Abbeffe  ouer  theis  Nunnes  was  a  noble  woeman  and  a 
beautifull,  Earle  Goodwine  by  a  cunninge  and  fubtile  wit,  defireing  not  herfelfe,  but 
hers,  as  hee  paffed  that  way  left  with  her  a  Nephewe  of  his,  a  very  proper  and 
beautifull  yonge  gentleman  (pretending  that  he  was  fickly)  untill  hee  returned  back  : 
him  hee  had  given  this  leffon,  That  hee  fliould  keepe  his  bed,  and  in  noe  wife  feeme 
to  bee  recovered  vntill  hee  had  got  both  her  and  as  many  of  y°  Nunnes  as  he  could 
I  with  child,  as  they  cam  to  vifit  him,  3llnt>  to  the  end  the  yonge  man  might  obtayne 
theire  favore  and  his  full  purpofe  when  they  vifited  him,  the  Earle  gaue  unto  him 
prety  ringes  and  fine  girdles  to  beftowe  for  fauours  vpon  them,  and  thereby  to 
deceive  them  j^cc  therefore  beinge  gladly  and  willingly  entred  into  this  courfe  of 
libidinous  pleafure  (for  that  the  way  downe  to  hell  is  eafy)  was  foone  taught  his 
leffons,  and  wifely  playeth  the  foole  in  that  which  feemed  wife  in  his  owne  conceit 
toitt)  him  were  reftant  all  thofe  thinges  that  the  foolifh  virgins  could  wifh  for, 
beauty,  dainty,  delicates,  riches,  faire  fpeeches  ;  And  carefull  hee  was  now  to  fingle 
them  alone  ;  The  Deuill  therefore  thruft  out  Pallas,  brought  in  Venus,  and  made 
the  Church  of  our  Saviour  and  his  faints,  an  accurfed  temple  of  all  Idolls,  and  the 
(hryne,  a  very  ftewes  :  And  foe  of  pure  lambes  hee  made  them  fowle  fhee  wolves, 
and  of  pure  virgins  filthy  Harlots,  Ji^olDC  when  as  many  of  theire  bellies  bare  out 
bigge  and  round,  this  youth  beinge  by  this  tyme  over  wearyed  with  Conquefl  of 
pleafure,  getteth  him  gone.  And  forthwith  bringeth  home  againe  vnto  his  lord  and 
mafter  a  vicflorious  enfigne  worthy  to  haue  the  reward  of  Iniquity,  And  to  fpeake 
playne,  relateth  what  was  done,  |^oc  fooner  heard  hee  this,  but  hee  hieth  him  to  the 
kinge,  informeth  him  howe  the  lady  Abbeffe  of  Barkeley  and  her  Nunnes  were  great 
with  child,  and  comonly  proftitute  to  euery  one  that  would,  fendeth  fpetiall  Meffengers 
of  purpofe  for  inquiry  thereof,  proveth  all  that  hee  had  faid,  hee  beggeth  Berkeley 
of  the  king  his  lord  after  the  Nunnes  were  thrufl  out,  and  obtayned  it  at  his  handes, 
311ltlJ  he  left  it  to  his  wife  Gueda,  but  becaufe  fhee  her  felfe  would  eat  noethinge  (foe 
faith  Domefday  booke)  that  came  out  of  this  Manor,  for  that  the  Nunnery  was 
deftroyed,  hee  purchafed  for  her,  Vdecefler,  That  thereof  fhee  might  live  foe  longe 
as  fhee  made  her  abode  at  Berkeley. 


Rot  ■  pipa:  i  H  2  JDifliaill  de   Berchelai   in   his   Accompt   in  the   Exchequer,   for  the  farme  of 

in  Sccio.    Berchelai  made  in  the  firft  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  Anno  11 54.  hath  an 

allowance 


1I70  aiifc  Of  Robert  tl)f  if ir^t  ^7 

allowance  of  three  pownds  by  him  layd  out,  in  vcftitura  trium  monialium,  (for  the 
garments  of  three  Nunnes)  had  a  kindc  of  hold  or  remainderniipp  at  Berkeley  till 
King  Stephens  death,  when  this  Accompt  ended,  when  alfo  ended  all  further 
allowance  or  memoriall  of  y'  Nunnes  or  Accompts  of  y'  Farme  of  Barkeley  ;  At 
what  tyme  was  remayninge  in  the  handes  of  the  faid  William,  the  fome  of  234^'  — 
13'  —  S**  which  hce  then  payde  ;  "JUiib  this  is  the  eldefl:  accompt  in  this  Kingdome, 
that  remayneth  at  this  day  vnconfumed  by  tyme.  | 

f^CClXC  alfo  what  the  booke  called  Domefdaye  remayninge  in  the  receipt  of  y*^    34 
Exchequer,  compiled  in  the  xiiij'"'  of  y*"  Conquerors  raigne,  more  particularlie  fpeaketh 
of  this  manor  of  Berkeley  and  of  Berkelai  Hernefs  in  its  owne  latin  wordes,  though 
in  an  other  character. 

<(5lotDcci6ftcr;tfcirc  :  ^crra  ♦  Hcgx^. 

3In  Berchelai  habuit .  E  .  rex  5  .  hidas  ,  et  in  Dnio  .  5  caruc  ,  et  20  villan  ,  et .    p^^gf^j     ^ooke 
5  .  Bordar,  cum  .11.  caruc  ,  et  9  fervi ,  et .  1 1  .  molini  de  .  12  folid  .  Ibi  .  10  Radche-    in  thefau  :  Sccij. 
niflres  habentes  .  7  hid  .  et  7  caruc  ,  Ibi  vnu  forum  in  quo  manent  .  17  .  holes,  et 
reddunt  cenfum  in  firma. 

j^ae  23crcto  pertinen  ad  Berchelai 

9[lt  Hilla  .  4  .  hidae  %n  Almintune  .  4  .  hidae  .  %n  Hinetune  .  4  .  hidae  ,  3In 
Camma .  6  .  hidae  .  et  alie  .11.  hidae  ^iW  Gofmtune  .  4  .  hidae  .  5(n  Derfdege  .  3 
hidae  .  %n  Covelege  .  4 .  hidae  ,  3fn  Euuelege  .  2  .  hidae  ^llt  Nimdesfelle  .  3  .  hidae  3In 
Vittune  .15.  hidae  ,  et  dimid  3fn  Simondefhale  dimid  hida ,  ^fn  Chingefcote  .  4  .  hidae 
et  dimid  31"  Beureftune  .  10  .  hidae ,  ^[n  Ofleuuorde  dimid  hida ,  3In  Almodelterie . 
2  .  hidae  ,  '^ix  Horefelle  .  8  .  hidae ,  ^in  Wc^ttmC .  7  •  hidae  et  vnu  virg.,  '^n  Eldbertone . 
5  .  hidae  .  3fn  Cromale  .  2  .  hidae  ,  5fn  Erlingehame  .  9  .  hidae  ,  ^iH  Efceleuuorde  .  3  . 
hidae.  Haec  fupradifta  membra  omnia  pertinent  ad  Berchelai.  311U  theis  villages  are 
members  belonging  to  Berkeley. 

3[ntcr  totum 

3[n  his  ,  Terr  Regis  Edri  in  dnico  .  49  .  carucat  et  dimid  ,  et .  242  .  villani ,  et . 
142  .  bordai',  cu  .  126  .  caruc  ;  Ibi  .  127  .  fervi ,  Lbi .  19  libi  hoies  Radcheniftr.  hentes, 
48  carucat  cum  fuis  hoibu5  ,  Ibi  .  22  .  colibti  et  .  15  .  ancillae  ,  Ibi  8  molini  de  57 
folid  et  fex  denar.^  Clje  Englifhing  whereof  I  leave  to  the  lovers  of  fuch  venerable 
Antiquities,  yet  w""  purpofe  in  my  Defcription  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  to  fpeake 
Alphabetically  of  the  Etimologies,  derivations,  and  fignifications  of  thofe  villages 
Townefhipps,  and  Auntient  wordes.  %\00 

1  Thefe  extrafts  have  been  collated  with  the  original  and  fome  errors  correifled.  [Ed.] 
E    2 


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€t)c  %i\ie0  of  tl)e  25crhclcp^ 


1115 


Quo  warrant,  in 

thefaurr  :  recepta 

Sccij  15.  E:  I. 


35 


Pafch  :  4.  E  :  3. 

rot :  7.  8  in  Sccio 

Pafch  :  fin  :  4.  E  : 

3  rot.  2.  bis  ifim 

HiUar  :  37  E  :  3. 

rot  8  in  Sccio 

fol: 

Trin  :  rec  :  8  Eliz: 
rot :  41  in  Sccio 
after  the  plea  of 

weRon  Baldocke. 
fol: 


Red  Booke  in  y° 
Excheqs :  fo  :  in. 


QUI.i^O,  a  triall  in  a  quo  warranto  brought  by  King  Edward  the  firfl  in  the 
fifteenth  of  hi.s  raigne  againfl  Thomas  the  fecond  then  Lord  Berkeley  not  onely 
manifefteth,  That  by  the  fayd  Chartar  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  the  forefayd 
Townefhipps  with  theire  hambletts  paffed  to  this  lord  Robert  and  his  heires,  But 
alfo  an  Hundred  called  the  Hundred  |  of  Berkeley  is  appendant  to  the  fayd  Manor 
of  Berkeley,  And  alfo  a  leet  of  all  refiants  in  the  faid  villages  and  Townefhipps,  as 
parcell  of  y^  fayde  hundred,  or  rather  as  incident  thereto. 

iCo  which  effect  alfo  are  two  other  excellent  records  in  the  Office  of  the 
Remembrancer  to  the  Lord  Treafurer,  the  one  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  King  Edward 
the  third,  And  the  other  in  the  xxxvij*  of  the  fame  Kinge,  of  both  which  I  fliall 
agayne  make  a  fecond  mention  in  places  more  proper ;  And  if  the  eye  of  this  family 
be  cafl  upon  a  Judgm'  in  y"  fame  Court,  given  upon  an  other  quo  warranto  or  writt 
of  prerogativa  regis  in  Anno  Octavo  Eliz :  Regine,  touching  this  Manor  and 
hundred  of  Berkeley  and  the  liberties  thereof,  Then  hath  it  feene  the  choyfeft 
peeces  in  that  behalfe  which  doe  remayne  of  record,  fave  the  grant  of  liberties  in 
xiiij'°  Jacobi  mentioned  in  the  life  of  the  lafl  George. 

IDfjcn  King  Henry  the  fecond  married  Matilda  his  eldeft  daughter  to  the 
Duke  of  Saxony,  hee  leavied  xiij'  iiij!^  of  every  knights  fee  throughout  the  land, 
And  in  that  xiij'*'  of  his  raigne,  comaunded  that  every  man  by  his  publique  inflru- 
ment  vnder  his  feale,  fhould  fignifie  what  knights  fees  hee  held  of  him,  which 
(being  in  his  grandchildes  dayes  King  Henry  the  third,  compiled  into  one  booke 
by  Allexander  Archdeacon  of  Salop)  is  that  remarkable  booke,  which  at  this  daye 
is  called  the  Red  booke  in  y^  Exchequer,  whereto  this  my  Colleflions  are  behold- 
inge  ;  what  tyme  this  Lord  Robert  certified  in  theis  words 


Cartfl  Roberti  filij  Hardingi  :  I^ciiriCO  dei  gratia  Regi  Anglie  &c.  Robtus  filius 
honor de Berkeley.  Hardingi  Sattm  5§)CWtii6f  quod  vobis  debeo  de  Berkelai  fervicium  quinque  millitum, 
Sed  Rogerus  de  Berkelai  tenet  terram  de  honore  de  Berkeley,  vnde  nullum  mihi 
facit  fervicium,  fctt  Ofelvordam,  et  dimidiu  Newenton,  et  totum  feodum  Bernardi 
Capelli  ;  "^n  Englifh  thus:  Co  Henry  by  the  grace  of  god  Kinge  of  England  &c. 
Robert  the  fonne  of  Harding  fendeth  greetinge,  hnoU)C,  that  I  owe  to  you  the 
fervice  of  five  knights  fees  for  Berkeley,  But  Roger  of  Berkeley  holds  Owfelworth, 
and  halfe  Newenton,  and  the  lands  of  Bernard  Caple,  for  which  hee  doth  to  mee 
noe  fervice  at  all. 

%Viti  alfo  this  Manor  of  Berkeley  was  for  the  eminency  thereof  in  thefe  antient 
36    tymes  (and  foe  continueth  to  this  day  enobled  with  the  |  name  of  an  Honor  or  the 

honor 


II70 


Uifc  of  Hobcvt  tJjc  fim 


29 


honor  of  Berkeley  as  feverall  bookes  in  the  office  of  the  Kings  Remembrancer  in 
the  Exchequer  in  many  feverall  leaves  of  them  doe  witnes :  As  alfo  one  other  old 
bookc  of  knights  fees  in  the  fame  Court,  wherein  under  the  title  of  Com  Gloc, 
diuers  Knights  fees  are  found  to  bee  holden  de  honore  de  Berkeley  %vX}  as  by 
many  other  Deeds  and  records  hereafter  mentioned  in  the  life  of  this  lord,  and  of 
Maurice  his  fonne,  and  of  Robert  and  Thomas  his  fonnes,  and  others,  in  theire  due 
places,  will  appeare. 

3IIsf  for  the  fignification  of  thefe  wordes  of  liberty  and  Jurifdicflion,  as  Tol, 
Tern,  Soche,  Sach,  Infankenethefe,  &c.  mentioned  in  the  fayd  Charters,  they  are 
expounded  in  the  booke  of  the  Tearmes  of  the  lawe,  more  then  tenne  tymes  re- 
printed and  inlarged,  But  for  theis  generall  and  boundles  wordes,  in  omnibus  rebus 
et  eventibus,  (in  all  things  and  happenings,  or  which  may  happen  or  chance)  lett  his 
family  (if  it  may  bee)  expound  them  after  the  old  meaningc,  by  theis  and  the  like 
in  other  Charters  and  grants  made  by  the  fame  and  other  kinges  in  diuers  ages,  as 
well  before  y'  Conqueft  as  fmce,  And  then  the  iurifdi^lion  will  be  large  enough  for 
a  fubieft,  and  (perhaps)  larger  then  the  allowed  vfage  can  well  bee  proved  to  have 
bene,  viz' 


honor  de  Berkeley 
Red  book  in  Sccio 
TeRa  de  Neuill 
in  Sccio:  temp: 

H:3 

lib  :  feod  ;  mil :  in 
Colli  :  Glouc  : 
Rot  pip  :  2.  Jotiis. 
Aug  :  chartular. 
fol.  21.  33. 
Claus:4:H.3.m:8 
Claus:  II  E:  2. 


f^f^e  Charter  of  Kinge  Athelftan  to  the   Monaftery  of  Si  John  of  Beverlac,    Pat:4.H:  s.m.  24. 
gives  (with  the  lands)  liberties,  in  theis  words.  As  free  make  I  thee,  as  hert  may 
thenk  or  eigh  may  fee. 

f^C  Charter  of  Wittm  the  Conqueror  made  to  the  Abbot  of  Batde  gives  (with    Cart:  22.  E:  3 
the  lands)  liberties,  as  large,  vt  rex  dare  poteft,  et  quieta  ab  ornibus  que  humana 
mens  excogitare  poteft,  As  the  Kinge  can  give,  free  from  a<l  thinges  that  the  mind 
of  man  can  imagine. 


CI)C  Charter  of  Kinge  Henry  the  firft,  to  the  Abbott  of  Redinge  gives  (with    Cart:  12.  E:  3 
the  landes)  omnes  libertates  quas  regia  poteftas  alicui  Abaciae  conferre  poteft,  all    ^ '  ''*" 
liberties  which  regall  power  can  give. 

3Illltl  in   the  grants  of  fubiefts,  viz!  Wittm   Earle   Marifchall,   in  the   tyme  of    Cart:  17.  E:3 
King  John,  gave  lands  to  the  Channons  of  Kirktemell  in  the  County  of  Lancaftar,    ™  =  9- 
with,  quicquid  libertatis  os  loqui  poteft,  aut  cor  homines  cogitare,  |  To  hold  in  land    37 
and  liberty  as  freely  as  the  mouth  can  fpeake,  or  hart  can  thinke,  IDJjicfj   fewe 
(amongft  many  others  the  like  in  the  Chartar  rolls  in  the  Tower)  I  held  fittinge  to 

mention 


30 


€l)c  %iMe0  of  tfjc  20erhdcp^ 


1115 


MapsBUs  Manufcr: 
in  biblioth.  Oxon. 

Rotipipajin  Sccio 

I  H  :  2.  Glouc  : 

Rot  :pip£e.  6.  R:  i. 

in  arce  londinef). 

Vetus  manufcr  : 

cii  Rotito 

Oldefworth 

liber  Domefdai. 


fol: 


38 


midegemot;  the 

great  affembly 

Witena-gemot 

the  aflembly  of 

wife  men. 

comune  confilium 

Magna  curia 

generalis 

conuentus. 


mention,  that  the  poflerity  of  this  family  may  bee  provided  of  femblable  materialls, 
when  hereafter  they  fhall  renue  theire  Charters,  or  bee  driven  to  defend  theire 
claymes. 

3Cnb  as  it  is  certaine,  that  the  lands  that  paffed  by  this  grant  to  this  Lord 
Robert  were  the  fame  which  Roger  Berkeley  of  Durefley  held  in  fee  farme  from  the 
Crowne  at  500*  17?  2f  rent  p  Annu,  Soe  I  am  affured.  That  the  fame  at  this  daye  in 
the  hands  of  thofe  lords  and  Tennants  that  nowe  hold  them,  are  much  more  worth 
then  fifty  thoufand  pownds  per  Annu,  there  being  at  that  tyme  not  ten  fmall  free 
holds  in  all  thofe  Townefhipps,  parifhes,  and  Manners,  as  elfwhere  in  theis  relations 
appeare  :  |pcitl)cr  is  it  otherwife  conceived,  by  men  wifer  then  my  felfe,  but  that 
50ot  1 7^  2"^.  in  the  tyme  of  y'  Conqueror,  and  till  this  grant  in  the  firfl  of  Kinge 
Henry  the  fecond,  payd  in  that  kind  of  money  noted  to  bee  251 :  and  nuo^  in  the  pipe 
rolls,  befides  fuch  vi6tualls  and  other  workes  and  accruments  as  arofe  out  of  theife 
lands  (above  the  500^  1 7'  2"!  in  money)  was  as  much  in  the  effeft,  and  would  each 
way  have  gone  as  farr,  and  done  as  much,  as  fifty  (nay  almoft  as  twice  fifty)  thoufand 
pownds  will  doe  or  compas  at  this  daye  wherein  I  write,  ^flllD  let  not  this  paffage 
bee  reproved,  but  by  the  iuditious,  And  then  I  hould  it  vnreproveable :  3IlnD 
befides  the  lafl  title  of  this  lords  life,  will  fhewe.  That  hee  was  owner  of  a  third 
part  of  land  more,  befides  what  my  weakenes  in  tymes  foe  remote,  hath  not  bene 
able  to  finde  out. 

#f  25acon^  tcnigomn  anb  jtfpiritiial 

<©niittin0C  to  faye  any  thinge  of  Barons  by  prefcription,  as  thofe  whofe 
Anceftors  tyme  out  of  mynd  have  bene  called  to  the  parliament  by  writ,  whereof 
none  nowe  remayne.  ^Baroil^Sf  by  tenure,  are  thofe  whoe  hold  anye  honor,  Caflle 
or  Manor,  as  the  head  of  theire  Barony,  in  capite  per  baroniam,  which  is  grand 
Serieantye,  as  the  Lord  Berkeley  doth,  as  after  followeth  in  the  life  of  this  Lord 
and  his  Succeffors  till  James  the  firfl  :  3£nD  theife  Barons  by  tenure  are  either 
Barons  fpirituall  or  Temporall  :  dDf  Barons  fpirituall  ^f  I  will  fay  noe  more  (for 
it  is  befides  my  purpofe)  Then  that  Archbifhoppes  and  Bifhopps  are  peers  of  the 
Realme,  and  have,  both  before  and  fince  the  Conqueft  (in  regard  of  their  tempo- 
ralties)  both  in  y'  antient  Brittaynes  and  Saxons  Kinges  dayes,  bene  called  to  their 
parliam'.'  or  other  affemblies  of  flate.  I^otDbctt  not  foe  much  (in  thofe  Ante-conquefl 
dayes,)  in  refpe6l  of  their  tenures,  for  then  all  were  in  Frankalmaine,  but  efpetially 
becaufe  the  lawes  and  Counfells  of  men,  were  then  held  moft  currant  and  comend- 
able,  and  had  a  more  bleffed  iffue  and  fuccefs,  when  they  were  grounded  vpon  the 

feare 

1  Blank  and  Numero — In  the  mofl  ancient  times,  next  after  the  Conqueft,  Payments  at  the 
Exchequer  were  made  ad  scalam  and  ad  pcnsum  ;  and  in  Blank  (i.e.  dealbated  or  blanched)  Silver,  and 
Money  numero,  or  by  tale.     (See  Madox  "  Hiftory  &c.,  of  the  Exchequer."  i.  275.)  [Ed.] 


1 170 


Hifc  of  Hobcvt  tl)c  fir^t 


3» 


feare  of  god,  the  roote  and  begininge  of  wifdome  and  ena6led  by  the  advife  of  fuch 
principall  grave  and  learned  pfons.  25ut  fliortly  after  the  Norman  Conqucfl  the 
Conqueror  altered  the  tenure  of  theire  Blfliopricks  as  Matthew  Paris  hath,  in  Anno 
1070.  311nll  nowe  they  have  noe  title  to  have  conilant  place  or  voyce  in  parliam!,  but 
onely  in  rcfpcft  of  their  temporall  baronies  &  poffcffions  And  by  holding  as  Tenants 
per  Baroniam,  And  foe  thereby  Barons  and  they  fit  at  this  day  as  temporall  Barons 
and  not  as  Bifliopps,  or  under  that  fpirituall  and  pfonall  Charatler  of  being  Bifhops, 
And  nowe  may  be  faid  to  have  theire  Originall,  in  theis  pofl-conquefl  dayes,  of 
theire  being  fuch  conflant  barons  of  parliament  as  wee  now  fee  them,  onely  from 
their  feilin  and  inveftiture  of  theire  baronies,  wherein  much  might  be  amplified  out 
of  y'  bookes  and  Statutes  vouched  in  the  margent,  and  many  others.  23ut  as 
touchinge  the  temporall  Barons  by  tenure,  theire  Releifes  were  vncertayne  3Ilnll  in 
the  tyme  of  this  Henry  the  fecond,  and  before,  were  ratable  at  the  pleafure  of  the 
kinge,  iuxta  voluntatem  et  mifericordiam  domini  regis,  faith  Glanvile  that  then  lived, 
which  was  one  pretence  for  the  Barrons  warres  that  after  raged  :  A  queftion 
betweene  the  Kinge  and  the  Subieft,  not  reduced  into  certainty  till  the  Statute  of 
Magna  Charta  in  y'  ninth  yeare  of  kinge  Henry  the  third  3lnD  concerninge  this 
very  poynt  in  the  particular  cafe  of  Thomas  the  third,  the  trinepos,  or  great- 
great-great-great  grandchilde  of  this  Lord  Robertt  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  King 
Edward  the  third,  for  the  twoe  Releefes  there  demanded  of  him,  payable  after  the 
deaths  of  his  father  and  Grandfather  there  is  a  iudgment  in  the  poynt,  3llnb  alfoe 
one  other  in  the  xxxvij'*"  yeare  of  y^  fayd  Kinge,  declaringe  that  the  tenure  of  this 
Manor  of  Berkeley,  is  per  baroniam,  and  the  lord  thereof  a  |  Baron  by  tenure  3Ciii) 
howe  thofe  releefes  were  made  certaine  at  an  hundred  markes  the  peece,  by  the 
fayd  liatute  of  Magna  Carta,  after  which  rate  the  fayd  Lord  Thomas  then  payd  for 
his  Father  and  grandfather,  3fintl  for  further  proofe  of  this  tenure  of  y'  manor  of 
Berkeley  to  bee  per  baroniam,  is  the  confirmacon  of  Quene  Alienor  in  the  firft 
yeare  of  King  Richard  the  firft,  to  the  lord  Maurice  fonne  and  heire  of  this  Lo  : 
Robert,  To  hold  this  Mano'^of  her  fonne  Kinge  Richard,  in  baronia,  by  five  knights 
fees,  fhee  then  (in  her  fonnes  abfence  in  y"  holy  land)  beinge  Regent  of  this  king- 
dome.  511nD  alfo  an  Office  after  the  death  of  William  de  Albamara  in  the  fortieth 
yeare  of  King  Henr}^  the  third,  finding  his  lands  in  Stinchcome  within  this  Manor 
of  Berkeley  to  be  holden  de  dno  baronia;  de  Berkeley  ;  %^  al0O  part  of  the  land  of 
Robert  Wither  in  Bevington  within  the  piflie  of  Berkeley,  alyened  by  him  in  the 
fecond  yeare  of  Edward  the  fecond  to  the  Abbott  of  Kingefwood,  is  found  by  Jur)^ 
to  bee  holden  of  Thomas  then  Lord  Berkeley,  who  (fayth  this  record)  holds  the 
fame  with  his  other  lands  and  tenements  of  the  Kinge  in  capite,  per  baroniam  3tnD 

alfo 


Mathew  Paris. 

1070 

conflit.  clarendon. 

10.  H  :  2.  1 164 

art.  1 1. 

Coke.  8  pars,  (o: 

19.  20. 

Jewel,  con :  Hard. 

to  :  620. 

Provis  :  mcrton. 

1272.  Stat  :  II  R; 

2.  cap :  3. 


Stat  19.   H  :  3 
cap  :  2. 

Pafch  :  4  E  :  3. 
rot:  7.  8.  in  Socio 


Hillar  :  37.  E :  3  • 
rot :  8.  in  Socio 

39 

Baronia  lib  : 

relior  :   cum  rem: 

thefaur:  in  hillar. 

term  :  37.  E  :  3  in 

Socio. 

Carta  in  Cailro  de 

Berkeley. 

3oO(ftob:  i.R:  I. 

baronia. 


Efcaet :  40.  H  :  3. 
in  arc :  londini. 

Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

Ad  quod  damnfi 
2  :  E  :  2 

n"  n  2.  in  arc :  Ion: 
Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


32 


€l)c  %i\)e^  of  tijc  25crhdcjjsf 


1115 


Rot:efcaet:inarce, 
London.  5:  E:  i. 


alfo  the  deede  of  releafe  of  Henry  de  Berkeley  lord  of  Durefly  in  the  fixth  yeare  of 
King  Edward  the  firft  to  Maurice  the  fecond,  the  pronepos  or  great  grandchilde  of 
this  Lord  Robertt  of  all  his  right  and  clayme  in  tota  baronia  de  Berkeley,  51!ntJ  the 
Efcuage  roll  in  the  fifth  of  Edward  the  firft,  whereby  Maurice  Lord  Berkeley 
recognized  the  feruice  of  three  Knights  fees  for  his  Caftle  and  barony  of  Berkeley, 
3llntl  diuers  others  which  in  their  proper  places  in  the  life  of  James  the  firfl,  and  of 
fol :  [495]  other  Lords,  I  fhall  haue  caufe  to  mention.  To  which  tymes  I  will  referr  what  more 
hereof  I  intended  to  haue  written  ;  %i\ii  this  Henry  Lord  of  Dureflye  was  heire  to 
the  faid  Roger  Berkeleye  who  in  King  Stephens  tyme  contended  with  this  Lord 
Robert  about  this  barony  as  afore  is  mentioned,  whofe  pedegree  fee  after  in  the 
Title  of  the  iffue  of  this  Lord  Robert. 


fol  :  [65] 

Cart  in  Coll ; 

Briftoll.  Antiq  : 

manufcr:  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

Newl :  pedegree 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Domefday  booke 

in  Sccio. 

Cart:  libere 

warrenne  regis 

Step :  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

40 

Carta  in  Cafl :  de 

Berkley. 

Domefday  book 

in  Sccio, 

fub  titulo  Rogeri 

de  Berkeley. 

Rot.  pipae  tempof 

H  :  2  :  in  Sccio. 

Red  booke  in 

Sccio,  fo.  109. 

Rot:  pip.  9:  Joftis 

in  Sccio. 

Glouc  :  manufcr  : 

nuper  cil  Edro 

Stephens  modo 

cu  decano  Glouc : 

Aug  :  chart  fo. 

64.  in  CaRro  de 

Berkeley. 

Cartae  2.H:  5  pars 

I.  m  :  6, 

Cartae.  11  H  :  3 

pars  I.  m  : 

Cartae  in  caRro 

de  Berkeley  : 

cart  cum  Georgio 

Harding  de  Came. 


51inb  it  is  further .  to  bee  obferved.  That  the  fayd  Roger  Berkeley  lord  of 
Durefley,  was  an  antient  Saxon  baron,  and  ex  fanguine  regis  Edwdi  confefforis,  of 
the  fame  bloud  with  King  Edward  the  Confeffor,  And  held  in  fee  farme  in  capite 
of  William  the  Conquerror,  and  William  Rufus,  and  Henry  the  firft  his  fonnes,  and 
of  Kinge  Stephen,  the  barrony  and  Manor  of  Berkeley  as  amply  as  in  the  fayde 
booke  of  Domefdaye  it  is  expreffed,  with  all  the  herneffe,  that  is  the  Nookes  and 
Corners  thereof  lt)l)crcBp  he  had  a  long  and  |  fetled  poffeffion  in  all  thofe  Manors, 
parifhes,  and  hambletts  (with  difcents  from  father  and  grandfather)  which  made 
the  fayde  great  Manor  of  Berkeley,  And  the  fame  lately  before  with  the  grant  of 
free  warren,  confirmed  to  him  by  King  Stephen;  himfelfe  alfo  then  lord  (as  alfo  was 
Ralph  his  brother)  of  many  other  Manors  and  faire  poffeffions,  as  Sifton,  Doding- 
ton,  Stanly,  Coberley,  Wapley,  Newenton,  Owfelworth,  Slimbridge,  and  diuers  other 
Manners  in  the  fame  County  :  3llnD  dwelling  at  Durelly  within  the  fayd  Manor  of 
Berkeley  then  a  village  and  member  thereof,  where  hee  had  a  Caftle,  (the  ruines 
whereof  not  yet  altogether  perifhed)  ftill  retayninge  the  name,  flrongly  alfo  allyed  to 
many  of  y°  antient  Lords  of  this  land.  %l\ii  King  Stephen  (which  was  not  his  lead 
advantage)  who  then  wore  the  Crowne,  his  faft  frend.  And  hee  agayne  as  faft  to  the 
kinge  in  his  prefent  warres  againft  the  fayd  Empres  and  her  fonne.  5llnll  howe 
alfo  vpon  confidence  of  his  fayd  eftate,  and  of  his  long  poffeffion,  hee  had  given  the 
Churches  of  Owfelworth,  of  Cowley,  of  Erlingham,  of  Slimbridge,  and  of  Came, 
and  divers  lands  alfo,  parcell  of  y'  faid  Manor  of  Berkeley,  to  the  Abbot  of  the 
monafteryes  of  S'  Peeters  of  Glouc  ;  of  Readinge,  and  of  S'  Mary  of  Kingefwood, 
in  frankalmaigne  (of  which  later  his  Anceftor  was  founder)  5Cntl  had  alfo  made 
diuers  feofm'*  in  fee  of  part  of  the  fayd  Manor  of  Berkeley,  refervinge  tenures  by 
knight  fervice,  and  rents  thereupon,  to  bee  holden  of  himfelfe  and  his  heires.     %0 

of 


1 170 


Uifc  of  (iobat  tljc  f  itisft 


33 


of  Draycots,  Planches,  and  others,  ^if  then  the  contentions  betweene  him  and  this 
Lord  Robert  were  ftiffe  and  violent,  before  that  either  by  the  power  of  the  faid 
Emprefs  or  of  Henry  Duke  of  Normandy  her  fonne,  or  of  the  fayd  Robert,  hee 
would,  with  the  lofs  of  his  honor  and  Barony,  his  Almes  to  the  Monafleries,  and  of 
foe  great  a  Maffe  of  land,  efpetially  King  Stephen  yet  raigninge  (for  whofe  fake  this 
ftorme  was  raifed  againft  him)  bee  difpeered,  or  give  footing  to  this  Lord  Robert 
his  adverfary,  is  not  to  be  marvelled  at ;  ^citljCt  (as  Abbott  Newland  before  hath 
faid)  That  this  Lord  Robert  fliould  come  vnto  y'  faid  King  Harry  and  pray  him  to 
refume  his  guift  agayne  I^otD  bc  it  king  Stephen  being  taken  in  battle,  and  brought 
as  prifoner  to  Briftowe  to  the  fayd  Emprefs  and  her  fonne.  And  Stephen  and  they 
reconciled,  the  peace  was  alfo  vndertaken  by  both  the  princes,  for  their  two  freinds 
and  favorites,  the  faid  Robert  and  Roger,  3lln&  they  by  theire  mediation  attoned,  A 
crofs  mariage  betwene  theire  Children  concluded,  and  celebrated,  the  right  and  pre- 
tence of  Roger  |  releafed,  ceafmg  thenceforward  to  be  Baron,  SCnD  Robert  in  his 
Manor,  honor,  and  barony  of  Berkeley  in  y=  prefence  and  with  the  affent  of  Kinge 
Stephen  quietly  eftablifhed  (Durefly  only  excepted)  which  being  before  related  in 
the  life  of  Harding,  would  more  properly  here  haue  bene  prefented,  Saue  that  I 
was  vnwillinge  of  thofe  favery  and  well  relifhed  Covenants  to  make  a  fraftion.  ^[n 
which  agreement  alfo  the  grants  of  Roger  made  to  the  faid  Abbotts  of  Glouc  : 
Readinge  and  of  Kingefwood,  and  to  y'  fayd  lay  perfons,  were  preferved,  though  in 
y'=  faid  Agrem'  they  bee  not  expreffed  ;  for  all  of  them  were  enioyed  vnder  the 
grants  of  y'  fayd  Roger,  and  never  after  queftioned  by  the  fayd  Robert  or  his 
poflerity,  onely  the  Abbot  of  Readinge  three  yeares  after  the  lord  Roberts  death, 
drewe  into  fute  the  Churches  of  Berkeley  and  Wotton,  both  before  the  pope,  and  his 
delegates,  which  in  the  end,  were  by  the  labor  of  Henry  the  fecond,  ended,  and 
eflablifhed  to  this  Monaftery  of  Si  Auguftines,  but  with  payem'  of  a  pention  to  the 
Abbot  of  Readinge  of  twenty  nikes  per  Annu  :  ^ct  the  Abbotts  of  Readinge  never 
omitted  in  many  generations  to  preferve  their  title  (at  leaft  the  memory)  to  the 
Church  of  Berkeley  and  the  Chappells  thereof  with  the  Tythes  and  other  appur- 
tenances, whereto  they  claymed  to  haue  right  by  the  guift  of  Maude  the  Empres 
their  foundres.  As  appeareth  by  the  fucceffive  confirmations  of  Henry  the  fecond, 
and  of  Richard  the  firft,  and  of  Henry  the  third,  and  of  divers  other  Kino-es  after- 
wards, made  unto  them,  As  the  Marginalls  doe  wittnes,  511n&  as  for  the  fayd  double 
manages  they  proved  profperous,  havinge  multiplyed  theire  branches  into  many 
familyes,  inioying  many  opulent  inheritances  at  this  day,  as  in  due  places  in  theis 
relations  is  delivered  :  511nll  from  this  firft  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  fecond.  Anno 
1 1 54.  doth  the  lord  George  Berkeley  take  his  place  and  precedency. 


Rot5t  de  Ricart 
f?dic  t : 


Newland  pede  :  in 
Caftro  de  Berkley. 

Mathew  Paris 
fo:  104.  115. 


fol:  [8,51] 
41 


Aug:  chart:  fo:  64 
in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 

Cartae  antiquae : 
n^ioet  u.literax. 
Cart :  1 1  H :  3 :  m : 

22. 

Cart:  8  E:  2.  m:  1. 

Cart:  i:H:5pars.i. 

m:43. 

Cart.  5.  6.  R  :  2 

merabrana  vltima. 

Cartas.  i.H:4pars: 

2  m  :  26. 

Patent  4  H  6  ps.  2 

M:is. 

pat  3  E :  4  pars  3. 

m:  25. 


34 


€f)c  %i\ie^  of  tftc  25nrhclcpi8f 


1115 


Jufttinian  :  tit :  i 

4  annot  in  lege 

12  tan  : 


42 


9Cllt),  I  hope  I  may  without  offence,  affirme,  That  fith  the  Scite  place  of  this 
Caftle  of  Berkeley  (the  lively  image  and  Character  of  y'  Barony)  was  fometymes  as 
before  appeares)  the  Scite  place  of  an  holy  Nunnery,  where  God  (efpetially  in  thofe 
purer  tymes)  was  worfhipped,  and  his  holy  name  devoutly  called  vpon,  And  not 
demolifhed  by  any  aft  or  affent  of  this  family  ;  And  that  fith  y=  ruled  cafe  in 
Papinian  is  held  for  true,  \)o\XiC  a  facred  place  loofeth  not  the  holynes  by  the 
demolifhinge  of  y'  Walls  '^ifat  it  flill  remayneth  as  holy  ground,  And  will  the  more 
happily  contynue  to  that  family,  whereunder  thofe  |  facred  ruines  have  bene  pre- 
ferved  for  more  then  550.  yeares  3lllllJ  two  confecrated  chappells  erected  out  of 
part  of  that  earth  and  rubbifh,  as  after  will  appeare,  3lltttl  thus  haue  I  limmed  out 
this  Baronye  of  Berkeley  which  exceeded  the  moft  I  have  obferved  ;  ffor  it  was 
not,  like  buildings  of  many  peeces,  patched  vp  from  tyme  to  tyme  according  to 
occafions  without  frame  or  modle  ;  as  favor  of  tyme  miniflred  the  materialls.  But 
folidly  out  of  merit  and  vertue,  intirely  layd  and  perfited  at  firft,  whereby  through 
the  bleffinge  of  y'  mofl;  high  it  yet  contynueweth  with  thofe  flones  tempered  with 
the  morter  of  more  then  one  thoufand  pownds  yearely  revenewe,  at  this  daye. 


Aug  :  chart  : 

pdict. 

Aug :  charta : 

p'dict. 


<©f  tDijat  lanD^  tljijGi  lorb  tDa^  gca^cli 

3lon0C  before  the  tyme  of  this  Compofition  made  at  Briftowe,  this  Lord  Robert 
was  owner  of  much  faire  land,  part  by  difcent  fro  his  father  Harding,  and  part  by 
his  owne  purchafe  ;  %0  (amongll  other)  of  the  manor  of  Bylefwicke  which  hee 
purchafed  of  the  Earle  of  Glouceftre 


Cart :  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 

Pafch  :  rec  :   in 

Sccio  22.  E  :  3. 

rot :  1 2. 


Rot  pipae.  i.  2.  3. 

H  :  2  et  poflea 

in  Co  :  Som'^fett 

43 

Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


CfjC  manor  of  Lega  neer  Brifloll  being  a  member  of  his  Manor  of  Bedminfter 
in  Somerfetfhire. 

'CljC  manor  of  Fifhide  in  Dorfetfhire. 

i^ljC  manor  of  Cerney  in  Glouceflerfhire. 

CIjC  manor  of  Bray  in  y"=  County  of  Devon,  which  hee  purchafed  of  William 
de  Braiofa. 

.  CI)C  manor  and  Advowfon  of  Portbury  in  y"  County  of  Somerfett,  which  hee 
purchafed  of  Richard  de  Morevill,  And  which  alfo  Henrye  the  fecond  confirmed 
vnto  him.      Mictias.  28  et  29  .  Eliz  .  in  Sccio. 

•^JjC  manor  of  Bedminfter  neere  Brifloll,  which  he  purchafed  of  Robertt  Earle 
of  Glouc  :  vnckle  to  King  Henry  the  fecond.  And  w'^''  hee  alfo  confirmed  to  him  | 

Cl)C   manor   and  advowfon  of  Were   in   y'  County  of   Somerfet,   which    hee 
purchafed  of  Julian  de  Banton,  and  which  Henry  the  fecond  confirmed  vnto  him. 


1 170 


Hifc  of  lHobm  tijc  fix^t 


35 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 

Red  Book  in  y* 
Exch  : 


Red  Book 
aforefaid. 


^CIjC  three  hundreds  of  Portbury,  Bedminfter,  and  Hareclyve  in  y'  County  of 
Somerfet  which  hee  purchafed  of  y"  Earle  of  Glouc,  and  w"*"  Henry  the  fecond 
confirmed  vnto  him. 

'^f|C  manor  of  A^ton  in  the  County  of  Glouc;  which  hee  purchafed  of  Richard 
Foliot,  And  which  Humphry  de  Bohun  regis  Dapifer,  confirmed  to  him. 
(^!)C  manor  and  Advowfon  of  Tykenham  in  y'  County  of  Somerfett. 
i^tjC  manor  and  Advowfon  of  Powlett  in  y°  fayd  County  of  Somerfett. 

SDitrr^Sf  lands  in  Wiltfliire  which  he  held  of  Humphry  de  Bohun  by  halfe  a 
knights  fee. 

SDitJCr^ef  lands,  Tenements,  and  Rents  in  Briftowe,  and  Radeclyve. 
SDitJCt^  lands  in  y'  County  of  warwicke,  which  hee  held  of  y'  Earle  of  warwicke 
by  the  fourth  part  of  a  knights  fee. 

SCllD  nowe  alfo  of  the  great  manor  and  honor  of  Berkeley  and  Berkeley 
Herneffe,  which  at  that  tyme  confifled  of  22  Mannors  and  parifhes,  many  of  them 
more  then  ten  miles  about,  in  a  fruitfull  foyle. 

3CnD  what  further  poffeffions  this  lord  Robert  had,  efpetially  by  difcent,  I  am 
removed  too  farr  out  of  fight,  to  behold;  onely  this  I  have  found  in  recordes,  Deeds, 
and  Chartularies. 

I^i;^  founbing  of  ^t.  SHugu^tinc^  5lB6p. 
3©irtj  theis  poffeffions,   it  feems   this   Lord  Robert   had  a  mind  of  gratitude 
towards  God  the  giver  :   CfjC  hiflory  of  old  Jacob,  what  the  God  of  his  fathers  had 
done  for  him  in  a  flrange  land,  feemes  to  have  bene  part  of  his  meditations  :  311ftct    ^^""^^ 
the  example  of  king  David,  he  refolved  to  build  to  y"  honor  of  him  that  rewardeth 
every  good  worke,   an   houfe  of  prayer  :    ©CC  choofeth   a  place  vpon   the  faireft 
mount  and  fweeteft  aire   about  Briftoll,  within  his  fayd  Manor  of  Bylefwike,  by    ^.ug  :  chartut 
S'  Auguftins  greene,  on  the  other  fide  the  river  of  frome,  not  500  paces  from  the    ^°^  '■  *5-  28. 
houfes  where  harding  his  father  firft  fetled,  and  himfelfe  had  bene  brought  vp,  and 
then  dwelt  in.  I 


Domefday  book. 


In  caftro  de 
Berkeley  et  in 
Monafterio  Scti 
Aug :  Briftoll. 


Gen  :  chap  :  32 
10.  II.  12 

1  Chron  cap  :  1 7 

2  Sam  :  cap :  7 
I  Kings  cap.  5. 


'3'n  tIjC  yeare  of  grace.  1 140  the  fifth  of  y°  raigne  of  King  Stephen,  hee  layeth  aa 

the  foundation  of  that  Church  and  monaflery,  which  with  all  the  houfes  of  office  Carta  in  Caftro 

theirto  belonging,  hee  ftnifhed  in  fix  yeares  after  ;  *^^  Berkeley. 

°     °  •'  Aug :  chartular. 

%l\ti  iJpon  Eafler  day  being  the  then  eleaventh  of  Aprill,  Anno  .  1 148  .  in  the  vetus  manufc  : 

thirteenth  of  the  fayd  king,  the  fower  Bifhops  of  Worcefler,  Exceter,  Landaffe,  and  RoBt  de  Ricart  cu 

*^  ,,      '       ,  maiore  BriftoH. 

F   2  b'  Afaph 


z(> 


€|)e  %\\it^  of  tl)c  25crhdcpi6f 


1115 


cart,  in  caft:  Berk. 

Cart  :  epifc  :  in 

caftrode  Berkeley. 

Aug:  chart:  fo:  33 

Cart  in  Caflf  de 

Berkeley. 

Pat:  12.  E:i. 

pars  2  m  :  16. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


S'  Afaph,  (thither  by  him  affembled)  confecrated,  and  dedicated  the  fayd  Church 
and  buildings,  to  God,  and  to  S'  Auguftine  the  Englifhe  Apoftle,  And  indu6led 
the  Abbot  and  Channons  ;  #n  which  daye  alfo,  hee  endowed  the  fayd  Church  and 
Monaflery  (by  his  deeds  which  hee  humbly  prefented  and  layd  downe  vpon  the 
Aulter)  with  theis  Manors,  lands,  Advowfons,  and  Churches  :  viz'  : 

<^^t  manor  of  Almondefbury 

CijC  manor  of  Horfeild 

i^tjC  manor  of  Aflileworth 

CtjC  manor  of  Chromall,  fmce  called  Chromall  Abbotts 

SDibcrii  lands  and  tenements  in  Erlingham,  with  half  of  y^  fifhings  there,  and 
the  Tyth  of  y'  other  halfe. 

^f)C  manor  of  Lega  neere  Briftoll,  a  member  of  Bedminfter. 

'CijC  manor  of  Fifhide  in  Dorfetfhire. 

SDitlCtifif  lands  and  tenements  at  S'  Katherines  of  the  ffee  of  Portbury. 

SDitlCtiS  lands  and  tenements  at  Blakenford 

'CljC  manor  of  Cerney. 

i^f)C  manor  of  Bilefwike,  wherein  the  faid  monaflery  was  feated. 

/CljC  Churches  and  Advowfons  of  Tykenham,  of  Were,  of  Powlet,  and  of  Port- 
bury  in  y*"  County  of  Somerfett. 


tres  Cartas  cum  Cl)C  Churches    and    Advowfons    of    Berkeley,    of    Wotton,    of    Cromall,    of 

Beuerfton,   of  Afhelworth,   of  Almondefbury  and  of  all  other  his  Churches  and 
Aug:  chart- fo- ?t     Advowfons  of  Berkeley  Herneffe,  withall  their  Chappells,  and  lands  in  y'  County 
of  Gloucefter,  which  hee  wills  upon  his  bleffmg  to  be  quietly  enioyed.  | 

45  5finll  with  divers  burgages,  houfes,  lands,  and  rents  in  Brifloll,  and  in  places 

Carta  in  Caftro    neere  thereto  adioyninge,  as  his  Deedes  of  Feoffments  doe  declare  :  #110  of  which 
de  Berkeley  .  . 

Aug  :  Chart :  fol :    devoutly  concludeth  with  this  prayer.  That  God  the  giver  of  all  good  thinges,  would 

34-  35-  37-  &c.    preferve  him  that  increafeth  theis  good  guifts. 


Cart  in  Caflro  ^'^  which  alfo  out  of  the  Deedes  of  the  Bifhop  of  worcefler  for  the  invefliture 

de  Berkeley    of  y"  Advowfons  and  Churches  within  his   Dioces,   according  to  the  ceremony  of 
thofe  tymes,  might  bee  much  inlarged. 

Aug:  chartul:  ^TtjC  lafl  of  this  devout  lords  devotions  to  this  Monaflery  that  I  find,  and  as  I 

^°^  ■  33-    thinke  in  y'  lafl  A61  of  his  life,  was  the  guift  of  ten  fhillings  rent  of  inheritance  to 

provide  a  Candle  to  burne  for  ever  in  the  Church  of  that  Monaflery,  coram  deo  et 

fan6la 


1 170 


llifc  of  rtobm  tljf  f  icjtft 


fandla  Maria  et  beato  Auguflino  Angloruin  apoftolo^  et  in  prefentia  omnium  fan6lor  : 
et  elect  :  dei,  before  god  and  S'  Mary  and  bleffed  Auguftine  the  Englifhemens 
Apoftle,  and  in  the  prefence  of  all  the  Saints  and  elccfl  of  god, 

Nobilitas  morum  plus  ornat  quam  genitorQ, 

A  gratious  guift  of  god  it  is, 

from  princes  to  proceed, 

yet  greater  far,  good  Anceftors 

in  goodnes  to  exceed. 


37 


Ctji?  Monaftery  at  the  fuppreffion  thereof  in  the  xxxj'*'  yeare  of  Henry  the    Speed,  fo :  797. 
viij'^  was,  by  the  Comiffioners  therein  imployed,  certified  to  value  in  old  rent — y6y^i 
— 15^  —  S**  per  ann,  And  the  monks  there  were  called  blacke  Channons,  and  by 
profeffion  were  of  S'  Vigors  Order,  which   fpeed  calls  Vi(5lorines  :   And   in   that 
general!  deluge  of  Monafteries,  this  had  farre  above  mofl  others,  this  good  happ,  to 
bee  recomforted,  by  being  converted  into  a  BiHiops  Cathedrall  Church  and  endowed 
with  fix  prebendaries  by  the  fame  Kinge  that  rayfed  the  invndation  :    The  Colledge 
gate  whereof  (faith  Camden)  workemanly  built,  carryeth  in  the  Front  this  infcrip- 
tion.  Rex  Henricus  fecondus.  &c.     Thus  engliflied  :   Kinge  Henry  the  fecond  and    Antea :  fol :  n. 
Lord  Robert  thee  fonne  of  Hardinge  the  Kinge  of  Denmarkes  fonne,  were  the 
firft  founders  of  this  Monaftery  :  learned  |  Camden  adding,  That  this  Robert,  called    46 
by  the  Normans  Fit3  Harding,  difcended  of  the  bloud  royall  of  Denmarke,  was  an    t;amdcn  239. 
Alderman  of  Briftow  and  of    King  Henry  the  fecond  foe  entirely  beloved,  That 
by  his  meanes  Maurice  his  fonne  maryed  the  daughter  of  y°  lord  Berkeley,  whereby 
his  pofterity,  whoe  flouriflied  in  great   honor,   are  vnto  this  day  called   Barons  of    tlamden  fawe 
Berkeley,  and  fome  of  them  haue  bene  buryed  in  this  church,  Thus  Camden  :  in  a  mirt  and 

farre  off. 

Cljtjtf  infcription  over  the  gate,  which  makes  King  Henry  the  fecond  Joynt 
founder  of  this  Monaftery  with  this  Lord  Robert,  is  viewed  of  many  and  being 
divulged  in  print  both  in  Latin  and  Englifli  hath  (to  the  dimynution  of  Berkeleys 
honor)  poffeffed  many,  both  in  this  and  other  Nations,  that  the  truth  is  foe,  which 
not  onely  diminiflieth  the  honor  of  the  founders  memory,  but  robbeth  alfo,  both  him 
and  his  pofteritye  of  theire  iuft  intereft  in  the  rightfull  place  of  theire  fepultures. 
J©fjcrcajS  without  queftion,  this  Lord  Robert  was  the  onely  founder,  at  the  onely 
charges  anb  the  fole  endower  of  the  poffeffions,  %vSx  Kinge  Henry  the  fecond  a 
benefactor  and  confirmer  onely,  As  were  the  Earles  of  Gloucefter  and  of  Hereford, 
the  fonnes  of  the  fayd  Lord  Robertt,  and  fome  other  and  noe  otherwife  :  511nb  for 

fatisfyinge 


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fatisfyinge  all  men  therein,  and  reftoringe  due  honor  to  the  duft  of  this  Lord 
Robert,  I  prefent  his  pofteritye  with  theis  twelue  manifefts  thereof,  convincinge  all 
Contradiction,  viz'. 

Prior  of  Ofwald  iPttS't,  That  by  the  Comon  lawe  of  this  Realme,  if  the  Kinge  and  a  Comon 

cafe  44.  £13:    pf-Qj^  ioyne  in  a  guift  at  the  firfl  foundation,  The   Kinge  alone  fhall  bee  taken  for 
fol.  24.  25  in  fine.  .  . 

Ouicks  cafe  Cokes    Sunder,  which  King  Henry  the  fecond  never  was,  other  then  by  this  Infcription  : 
9.  reports,  fo:  129.    And  befides  when  this  Robert  in  the  fifth  of  Stephen,  began  the  foundation,  this 
Henry  was  not  nyne  yeares  of  age.  And  both  his  Father  and  Mother  then  lyveinge, 
which  makes  it  more  improbable.  | 


47 


.Stamford  i)rerog  : 
ca  :  7 
Coke  :  2  part  :  80 
ptita  de  quo  war  : 
in  Sccio.  15.  E  :  i. 
rot :  29. 


2.  ^CCOntllp  thee  deed  of  this  Lord  Roberts  endowment,  is  quod  ego  ad 
honorem  dei  et  fan6la;  religionis,  dedi  et  confirmavi  (thofe  manors  and  lands  before 
mentioned)  per  cartam  meam,  quam  et  ipfe  rex  manu  fua  fuper  altare  Sci  Auguftini 
pofuit.  That  I,  to  the  honor  of  god  and  of  holy  religion,  have  given  and  confirmed 
(the  fayd  Manors)  by  my  deed  which  the  king  himfelfe  with  his  owne  hand  layd 
downe  upon  St.  Auguftines  Altar :  And  ego  Robertu-s  haec  feci  pro  falutae  animse 
meae  et  dni  mei  regis,  I  the  fayd  Robert  have  done  all  this  for  the  health  of  mine 
owne  foule  and  of  my  Lord  the  Kinges  ;  which  as  it  was  an  honor  to  the  Kinge, 
and  a  Courtly  Civility  in  this  lord  Robert,  foe  withall,  an  A(5l  of  wifdome  :  for  this 
confent  of  y"  Kinges  (in  thofe  good  meaning  tymes)  amounted  to  a  licence  for  the 
alienation  of  thofe  Mannors  and  lands,  which  were  parcell  of  the  fayd  lord  Robertts 
barony  and  holden  in  Capite  per  baroniam,  which  otherwife  might  haue  bene 
forfeited  to  the  Kinge. 


Carta  in  Caftro  3.    STtjitlJlp,  to  the  fayd   Deeds  (whereby  the  Abbat  and  Chanons  had  their 

e    er  eey    ^^^^^  jj^  jj^g  f^J.^  endowment  and  foundation)  the  faid  Kinge  Henry  the  fecond  is  a 
witnes,  which  noe  man  is  to  his  owne  grants. 


Stow  :  chron  :  fo  : 

207.  imprinted 

1592. 


4-  jffoUCtljlp,  Stowe  hath  thus.  This  yeare.  1140.  Anno  Regis  Stephani  xiiij'° 
Robert  fitj  Harding  fometymes  Maior  of  Brifloll,  whofe  ffather  was  Kinge  of 
Denmarke,  havinge  founded  the  Monaflery  of  St.  Augufline  in  y"  Towne  of  Brifloll, 
placed  Chanons  there,  which  foundacon  was  after  confirmed  by  King  Henry  the 
fecond  :  Thus  Stowe. 


Aug  :  chartut :  5.  jfflftljlp,  the  confirmations  afterwards  made  by  this  Kinge  Henry  the  fecond, 

^^33  34  36  37'    ^""^  ^y  ^'"^  Richard  the  firft,  to  Richard  the  firft  Abbot  of  this  Monaftery  and  to 

his 


1 1 70  life  of  iJloticrt  tfjc  fvc^i  39 

his  next  fuccclTor  Abbot  John,  Ami  to  his  next  fucceffor  Abbot  Dauid,  of  the  guifts    pt'ta  de  .juo  war 

and  grants  of  the  fayd  Lord  Robertt  fliortly  after  the  foundation,  declare  this  lord    J^J^.  ,^ 

Robertt   to   bee   the   fole   founder,   and   thofe   twoe    Kinges   but   confirmes   of   his 
foundation  and  guifts. 

6.  i§>irtl)lp,  Nicholaus  fecond  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert,  for  the  health  of  his    carta  in  CaAro  dc 
owne  foule  and  of  the  foule  of  his  lord  and  Father,  and  of  his  Mother,  and  of  his    '^"'^^y 

wife  and  children,  giveth  lands  to  this  Monaftery  of  St.  |  Auguflines  quam  dominus    48 

pater  meus  ad  honorem  dci   fundauit,  which   my  lord  (Father  (fayeth  hee)  to  the    Aug :  chartul :  fo  : 

honor  of  god  hath  founded  ;  The  like  grants  are  from  the  other  fonnes  of  this  lord 

Robert,  and  from  his  grandchildren  alfo  in  the  next  generation,  many  of  which  are 

after  mentioned. 

7.  i&caticntf)lp,  The  Abbots  of  this  Monaflery  in  theire  Chartularies  and 
Colletlions  of  the  difcents  and  pofterity  of  this  Lord  Robertt,  have  acknowledged 
him  for  their  founder,  wherein  Abbot  Newland  hath  theis  wordes  :  This  S'  Robert 
fitj  Harding  was  firfl  Lord  of  Berkeley  and  primer  fundator  of  our  monaftery  of  St. 
Auguftines,  and  deceafed  a  Chanon  of  the  fame,  It  foe  appeareth  by  his  obite  in 
our  martilloge  which  is  yearly  in  our  Chapiter  houfe  in  this  forme  reherfed,  viz' 
This  fifth  of  February  S'  Agathes  daye.  1 170  deceafed  Robert  fit5  Hardinge  Chanon 
and  our  fundator ;  This  wittneffeth  alfo  his  fonne  and  heire  Mawrice  fecond  lord  of 

Berkeley  in  his  fealed  Chartar  on  this  wife  written  :  Bee  it  knowne  to  all  Chriften  Newl :  pedeg :  5. 
men  that  I  Morice  fonn  and  eire  of  S'  Robertt  63  Harding  have  granted  and  ^^  r^ 'i"!*^^^"^"^ 
confirmed  for  my  foule  helth  and  of  all  myne  Ancetrie ;  to  the  Church  of  S' 
Auguftines  by  Briftoll,  the  which  my  lord  and  fader  hath  founded,  all  fuch  thinges 
the  which  my  faid  Fader  hath  geven  and  granted  to  the  Channons  of  the  fame 
Church  of  S'  Auguftines,  That  is  to  witt,  within  Berkeley  Hernefs,  Almondefbury, 
Horefeld,  Afhelworthe,  and  Cromehale,  the  which  he  gave  vnto  them  when  hee 
became  and  was  made  a  Channon,  and  every  of  them  with  all  their  apertinences  ; 
2EI)U.S  the  Abbot :  And  in  an  other  place,  tl^u^gf.  And  for  this  good  lord  S'  Robert 
fit5  Harding,  our  primer  fundator  and  the  good  lady  Eve  his  wife,  theis  bene  the 
fpetiall  thinges  done  for  them,  befides  the  generall  prayers  continually  done  in 
divine  fervice  by  daye  and  night,  firft  dayly,  there  is  a  maffe  faid  for  them  and  al 
other  Fundators  and  benefactors  at  the  houre  of  Seaven  in  the  morning,  And  alfo 
they  bene  prayed  for  dayly  by  name  openly  in  our  Chapiter  houfe,  Alfo  they  have 
theire  placebo  and  dirige  folemly  fonge  with  ringinge  in  the  eve  of  their  Ani- 
verfary.    And  on   the   morrowe,    comendations   and    Maffe ;    The   Abbot   for  the  |    .q 

fundator 


40  '  €l^c  HibCiSf  Of  t^c  2B>crhdepiBf  1115 

5.  February  fundator  and  the  prior  for  the  foundreffe  executing  the  fervice,  And  on  the  day  of 
our  fayd  fundator  is  Aniverfary  there  fhall  bee  one  hundred  poore  men  refrefhed 
in  a  dole  made  vnto  them  in  this  forme,  Every  man  of  them  hath  a  Chanons  loafe 
of  bread  called  a  myche  and  three  hearings  thearewith,  there  fhalbe  doaled  alfo 
amongfl  them  two  bufliels  of  pefys,  And  an  other  dole  alfo  that  daye  fhall  be  made 
in  money,  cakes  and  loafes  of  three  to  a  penny  vnder  this  forme  ;  The  Abbot  fhall 
haue  a  Cake  price  iiij?  with  two  cafts  of  bread,  and  iiij^  for  wine,  Alfo  the  prior  and 
Superior  and  the  Almoner,  every  of  them  fliall  have  two  Cakes  price  of  euery  cake 
ij?  with  one  caft  of  bread,  and  ij^  for  wine  ;  And  every  Chanon  after,  both  of  preifts, 
and  alfo  of  Novices,  fhall  have  a  Cake  of  ij''  with  a  Caft  of  bread  and  ij?  for  wine  ; 
Moreover  every  fecular  fervand  of  houfhold  within  the  Monaftery  fhall  haue  a 
Cake  of  j?  with  a  Caft  of  bread,  Alfo  every  Fryar  in  every  houfe  of  y'  fower  Orders 
of  Briftowe  fhall  haue  a  loafe  of  bread.  And  in  likewife  every  prifoner  within  the 
gaole  of  Newgate  in  Briftowe,  And  all  the  remnant  of  bread,  not  divided,  fhall  bee 
doaled  at  the  gate  of  our  fayd  Monaftery  vnto  poore  people  ;  And  every  man 
takeing  part  of  this  doale,  fhall  haue  forty  dayes  of  pardon. 

12  Marcij  ^fillb  in  the  Aniverfary  daye  of  Dame  Eve  our  Foundreffe,  a  dole  fhalbe  made 

in  this  forme,  That  daye  fhall  bee  doled  to  fifty  poore  men  fifty  loafes  called  miches 
and  to  each  three  hearings.  And  amongft  them  one  bufhell  of  peafe. 

8.  <!Bigl^tIp  in  the  two  next  ages  after,  Robert  Lord  Berkeley  fonne  of  Maurice 
Carta  in  Caftro  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert,  confirmed,  Jeo  et  ecclefiae  fan6li  Auguftini,  onmes 
de  Berkeley,  donationes  quas  avus  fuus  Robertus  filius  Hardingi  ad  honorem  dei  edificavit,  To 
god  and  S'  Auguftine  all  the  grants  which  his  grandfather  Robertt  the  fonne  of 
Hardinge  to  the  Honor  of  god  had  given  to  that  Church  when  hee  founded  the 
fame,  And  foe  alfo  faith  the  Deed  of  the  Lord  Thomas  brother  and  heire  of  this 
Robert. 

511nl)  fower  other  the  like  Deeds  from  others,  as  after  in  theis  relations  doth 
appeare.  | 

50  9-  ^intfjlp,  this  Lord  Robert  by  his  other  Deed,  with  the  Confent  of  King 

Carta  in  Caftro    Henry  the  fecond,   gave    the    Churches  of   Berkelai-herneffe  viz' the  Churches  of 

de  Berkeley,    ggj-kelai,  of  Wotton,  of  Beverftone,  of  Afhelworth  and  of  Almondefbury  with  theire 

Chappels,  lands,  and  liberties  to  the  Church  of  S'  Auguftine  of  Briftoll,  and  to  the 

Channons  regular,  in  perpetuall  Almes,  for  the  health  of  his  owne  foule,  and  of  the 

faid 


II70 


Sifc  of  Hobctt  tUt  f  irrft 


4' 


faid  kings,  and  of  his  ovvne  Anteceffors,  and  of  his  wife  and  Children,  as  the  words 
thereof  are. 

lo.    ^mtf)Ip,  vpon  a  writ  of  quo  warranto  brought  by  King  Edward  the  firft 
in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  his   raigne  againfl;   the  then  Abbot  and   Covent  of   S"    Ptita  de  quo  warr : 
Auguftines,  they  plead  againft  the  Kinge,  both  the  originall  guifts  and  endowments    ;„  jec  •  Scoij : 
of  the  faid  Lord  Robertt  at  the  tyme  of  their  Monafleries  foundation,  and  alfo  the 
feverall  confirmations  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  which  is  allowed. 


Rotil  de  Glouc 
Manufc :  tpe  : 
H  :  6. 


11.  <EIcaunt£t)Ip,  Robert  de  Glouc  :  in  his  old  rithmicall  Chronicle,  hath  thus 

A  burgeis  of  Briftow  tho  Robert  Harding 

for  great  treafure  and  ritches  foe  well  was  with  the  kinge, 

That  he  yaff  him  and  his  heires  the  noble  barony 

That  foe  ritch  is,  of  Berkeley,  with  all  the  feigniorie ; 

And  thulke  Robert  Harding  arered  fuch  I  wys 

An  Abby  of  Briftow,  that  of  S'  Auflin  that  is.^ 

12.  CtDCl\)tl)Ip,  Robert  de   Ricart  fometyme  Towneclarke  of  Briftowe  in  his    Regiftr :  Rofcti  de 
manufcript  regifter  of  the  old  monuments  of  that  Citye  Carefully  preferved  by  his 

fucceffors  in  that  Office,  hath  theis  words,  ^IjJoUlC  to  fpeake  of  y"  foundation  of  y' 
Abby  of  S'  Auftens  of  Briftowe,  begining  firft  at  Harding  fonne  unto  the  kinge  of 
Denmarke,  who  dwelled  in  Briftowe  in  Baldwineftreet,  And  he  had  to  his  fonne, 
the  lord  Robert  Harding  Lord  of  Berkeley  and  founder  of  the  fayd  Abbey  of  S' 
Auftens,  addinge  hereunto  certaine  covenants  made  betweene  the  faid  Lord  Robert 
Harding,  and  Roger  of  Berkeley  lord  of  Durefty,  followinge  here  the  conveyance  of 
the  fame:  firft  King  Henry  Beauclarke  fonne  of  William  Conqueror  had  a  Daughter 
called  Mawd,  that  was  his  heire,  |  which  was  wedded  to  the  Emperor  of  Almaine, 
And  after  the  deceafe  of  the  fayd  Emperor,  King  Harry  fent  for  his  daughter 
home  into  England,  And  becaufe  hee  had  noe  other  heire,  hee  willed  and  defired 
all  the  Barons  of  England  to  doe  fealty  vnto  the  fayd  Mawd,  and  to  Admitt  her  for 
his  heire,  Amonge  whome,  the  firft  that  ever  fwore,  was  Stephen  Earle  of  Boloigne 
the  Kings  Nephewe,  Soe  it  befell,  that  after  that,  Geffry  Plantagenet  Earle  of 
Angeon  marryed  the  fayd  Mawd,  and  begat  on  her  a  fonne  called  Harry  which 
afterward  was  called  King  Harry  the  fecond,  And  anon  after  the  deceafe  of  King 
Harry  the  firft,  the  fayde  Earle  Stephen  brake  his  oth,  and  tooke  on  him  the 
Crowne  of  England  vniuftly  againft  his  fayth  and  feauty  that  hee  had  made  to  the 
fayd  Mawd,  unto  whom  of  right  the  Realme  ought  to  bee  preferved,  whofe  fonne 
Harry  grewe  dayly  vnto  mans  eftate  and  came  into  England  to  purfue  his  Moders 
G  inheritance 

^  Heame's  Edition,  p.  479,  but  this  quoted  from  a  MS.  is  a  better  text. 


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inheritance  and  his  owne  right,  vnto  whome  Robert  the  fonne  of  Harding  affifted  by 
his  power,  departed  largely  with  his  gold  &  filver  to  the  fufteyninge  of  his  Armies : 
And  when  Harry  the  fecond  was  King,  Hee  forgott  not  the  great  kindnes  of  the 
fayd  Robert,  but  for  the  fame  hee  gave  him  the  Barony  of  Berkeley-herneffe,  which 
that  Roger  of  Berkeley  lord  of  Durefly  held  in  fee  farme  of  the  kinge.  And  the 
fame  the  kinge  tooke  fro  him  becaufe  he  payd  not  his  farme,  And  alfo  becaufe  he 
tooke  part  with  King  Stephen  againfl  the  Kinge  :  Nevertheleffe  the  fayd  King 
Harry  at  the  inflance  &  prayer  of  Divers  of  his  Lords,  hee  graunted  vnto  the  fayd 
Roger  the  barrony  of  Durefley  as  his  inheritance  :  Howbeit  the  fayd  Roger  vexed 
and  trobled  in  many  and  fundry  wifes  the  fayd  Lord  Robertt,  for  the  which  the  faid 
Robert  befought  the  kings  good  grace  to  take  fro  him  ayen  the  fayd  Barony  of 
Berkeley  herneffe  which  hee  had  geve  him,  feeing  he  could  not  keepe  it  in  eafe  for 
troblinge  of  the  faide  Roger :  But  then  the  fayde  Kinge  Harry  made  a  peace 
betweene  Roger  and  Robert,  Soe  that  Roger  gaue  his  daughter  Alice  to  wife  vnto 
Maurice  fonne  of  Robert,  and  gave  with  her  the  Towne  of  Slimbrugge,  and  made 
doble  mariages  betweene  both  theire  Children,  and  finall  peace  betweene  them  ; 
which  mariages.  Covenants,  and  peace  betweene  the  fayd  Robert  fonne  of  Harding 
and  Roger  of  Berkeley  Lord  of  Durefley  were  made  in  the  houfe  of  the  Lord 
Robert  fonne  of  Harding  at  Briflowe  in  prefence  of  King  Stephen  |  and  of  the  lord 
Harry  Duke  of  Normandy,  and  of  Guyan,  and  Earle  of  Angeon,  in  prefence  of 
many  other  lords  and  knights  fpirituall  and  temporall.-'    Thus  Ricart. 


Regiftr  :  Robti 
de  Ricart  pdict. 


Anno 


5llnD  in  an  other  place  of  his  regifter,  the  fayd  Robert  de  Ricart  hath  thus  : 
25e  it  remembred  that  Robert  the  fonne  of  Harding  knight  the  firft  lord  of 
Berkeley  and  founder  of  the  Abby  of  S'  Auftines  by  Briflowe  being  both  Chanon 
and  founder  of  the  fame,  founded  and  newe  built  the  fame  Monaftery  with  all  the 
houfes  of  Office  of  y'  fame  in  the  yeare  of  our  lord  God.  1140.  in  the  feaventh 
yeare  of  the  raigne  of  King  Stephen  And  after  that  in  the  yeare  of  our  lord  god. 
1 146.  the  Bifhops  of  worcefter,  Exceter,  Landaffe  and  S!  Affe,  hallowed  the  faid 
Church  of  S!  Auftens,  And  after  that  Alrued  Bifhop  of  worcefler  fend  fix  Cannons 
Anno.  13.  Regis  from  Wigmore  and  brought  to  S'  Auflens  by  the  fayd  Founder  on  Eafter  daye  in 
Steph :  (.j^g  yeare  of  our  lord.  1148.  which  Robertt  fonne  of  Harding  had  by  his  wife  Eve 
divers  fonnes  and  daughters,  and  hee  lived  and  contynnued  Chanon  of  S'  Auftens. 


12  Steph  : 
Regis  : 


%VS)  Eve  his  wife  founded  the  Mawdlines  of  Briftowe,  and  liued  and  contynued 
there  prioreffe  ;  And  the  fayd  Robert  deceafed  the  yeare  of  our  lord  god.  1 1 70.  And 

lyeth 

1  See  alfo  "Ricart's  Kalendar,"  printed  by  the  Camden  Society  1872,  p.  20 


1 170 


Hifc  of  dobm  rtje  5FirjB(t 


43 


lyeth  buried  with  Eve  his  wife  in  the  entringe  of  the  Quere  of  S|  Auftens  betweene 
the  twoe  ftalls  of  y'  Abbott  &  the  Prior  of  y'  fayd  Monaftery  there.^    Thus  Ricart. 

311nD   to  make  the  dozen   compleat,    by  a   meafure  running  over  and  preffed    pat :  1 1  K :  2 

downe,  and  for  twoe  convincinge  proofes,  that  this  lord  Robert  folely  founded  this    pat:  12  E:  4.  pars 

monaftery  and  endowed  it  with  the  forefaide  poffeffions,  Take  for  one,  the  twoe    zm:  16. 

•^  f  '  ,        .       ,        Carta.  11.  E;  2 

patent  rolls,  the  one  in  the  eleaventh  of  Edward  the  fecond,  and  the  other  in  the    m:  5.  n":  17. 

xij'*'  of  Edward  the  fourth,  In  which  are  recorded  alfo  the  Confirmations  of  King    P^'-  "S-  E:  3  pars. 

■'  °     I.  m  :  13  in  arce 

Stephen  and  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  and  alfo  of  his  eldeft  fonne  King  Henry    Londo. 

(crowned  in  the  life  of  his  father) ;  and  And  alfo  one  other  Deed  of  this  Lords  (not 

before  mentioned)  wherein  hee  declares,  howe  that  hee  for  the  honor  of  god  and  of 

holy  religion,  had  given  to  the  Chanons  of  S'  Auguftines  of  Briftoll,  whofe  Church  by 

the  grace  of  god,  and  helpe  of  his  lord  the  Kinge,  hee  had  founded,  All  the  forefayd 

lands  which  (fayth  this  Deed)  hee  hath  done  for  the  helth  of  his  owne  Soule,  and 

of  his  lord  the  Kings,  and  of  his  owne  wife,  and  of  his  parents  |  as  well  lyveing  as    53 

dead,  And  after  a  coniuration  to  his  heires  for  performace  of  theis  grants,  concluds 

with  a  prayer.  That  god  who  is  the  rewarder  of  all  good  men,  would  preferve  them 

foreuer,  who  doe  add  to  theis  his  guifts,  5Cnb  to  this  deed  makes  his  fowre  fonnes, 

Henry  Archdeacon  of  Exceter,  Maurice,  Nicholas,  and  Robert,  witneffes ;  where  I 

note  by  the  way.  That,  Henry  being  a  Clergy  man  preceedes  his  elder  brother;  Sfiitb    Caru :  13.  E  :  i. 

theis  records  contayne  alfo  a  confirmation  of  theis  Manors  &  lands  made  by  King    ™" 

John  to  the  effects  aforefaid  ;   311ntl  alfo  a  grant  made  to  the  then  Abbot  in  the 

thirteenth   of  Edward  the  firft  to  have  free  weirren  in  all  his  demefne  lands  in 

Almondefbury,  Horefeild,  and  Cromehall  aforefayd.   And  to  have  a  market  each 

wednefday,  and  a  faire  each  whitfonnday,  and  for  fix  dayes  after,  in  his  faid  Manor 

of  Almondefbury. 


5tnl>  for  the  other  convincinge  proofe,  the  Abbot  himfelfe  with  the  confent  of   Claus :  13.  E :  3. 

his  Covent,  in  a  monftrance  de  droit,   exhibited  to  King  Edward  the  third  in  the  ' 

°  _  pat :  15.  E:  3. 

fifteenth  yere  of  his  raigne,  tells  the  Kinge  (as  before  in  the  thirteenth  yeare  hee    pars.  i.  ra :  15. 

had  done)  That  hee  doth  not  hold  his  Abby  of  him  by  Barrony  nor  by  any  other 

manner  of  waye,  neither  was  his  Monaftery  of  his  foundation,  or  of  the  foundation 

of  any  of  his  progenitors  Kings  of  England,  And  thereby  had  wrong  done  vnto  him 

to  bee  fomoned  to  his  parliam'  or  to  other  his  great  Counfells,  which  of  late  yeares 

hee  had  bene  to  his  manifeft  greevance  and  difquiet.  And  therefore  prayeth  that  in 

right  and  Juftice  hee  may  bee  henceforth  forever  difchardged ;  which  (faith  the 

King 
^  See  alfo  "  Ricart's  Kalendar,"  printed  by  the  Camden  Society  1872.  p.  22 


44 


€f)c  Hibc^  of  rtje  25crhcicp^ 


1115 


King)  hauinge  bene  by  fearch  into  the  rolls  and  Recordes  of  our  Chancery  found 
to  be  true  ;  Therefore  wee  doe  difcharge  the  faid  Abbot  and  tiis  Succeffors  from  all 
fomons  of  coming  to  our  Parliam*^  or  other  Counfells,  which  records  the  wit  of  man 
cannot  anfweare. 


Claus  :  39.  E  :  3 

mis- 
Pat  :  40  :  E  :  3 
par  :  1.  m  :  36 
claus  :  45.  E  :  3 
pars   I.  m  :  11 
pat :  45  E  :  3 
pars  :  I.  m  :  26, 
et  pars  2  in  dorfo. 
pat :  6  :  H  :  6. 
ps.  2.  m.  9.  15. 

54 

Claus.  9.  R  :  2. 

ra.  23. 

pat :  17.  R  :  2. 

pars.  2.  m.  vlt. 

pat  :  22.  R  :  2.  ps. 

3.  in  dorfo  m  :  9. 

pat  ;  2 1 .  E  :  4. 

ps.  2.  m  :  9. 


Colle6l.  Gloveri 
cu  Jotie  Philepot 
herald  nepote  fuo : 

vetus  rentale 

de  Portbury  in 

Caflro  de  Berkeley 

Regia  :  Ro^ti 

de  Ricart  cu 

maiore  BrifloU. 

Newl :  Pedegree 

et  at  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


i^Otocbtit,  the  marginalls  here  quoted,  doe  warrant  mee  to  thinke,  That  fome  of 
thofe  Abbotts  (at  leafl  theire  folliciters)  had  for  a  tyme  forgot  the  name  and  family 
of  Berkeley  to  bee  theire  founder,  which  might  occafion  the  forefaid  infcription 
over  their  Monafterye  gate  at  the  reedifyinge  thereof  about  the  fame  tymes,  (one 
erroneous  prefident  drawing  on  an  other)  ;  The  obfervation  whereof,  is  likely  to 
have  bene  a  prime  motive  to  Abbot  Newlands  forementioned  Pedegree,  thereby  as 
in  the  entrance  theirto,  hee  fayth,  to  informe  aright  his  bretheren  Chanons  prefent 
and  for  ever  after  to  Come,  of  theire  right  founders,  for  whome  (as  hee  faith)  they 
are  ever  bounden  |  fpecially  to  pray :  3tnll  the  rather  perhaps,  becaufe  at  his  owne 
admiffion  to  the  place  of  Abbot  feaven  yeares  before,  the  Monafterye  was  acknow- 
ledged to  bee  of  the  foundation  of  King  Edward  the  fourth  his  progenitors  :  ^dtlitl 
t|)U0  is  difpelled  from  over  S5  Auguftines  gate  the  fogge  of  that  mifty  infcription, 
which  had  long  clouded  the  memoriall  of  this  noble  lords  defervings,  by  fuch  and 
foe  many  vnrefiftable,  irrefragable,  luculent,  and  vncontroulable  proofes,  as  are 
capable  of  noe  other  reply  but  this.  That  they  that  ingraved  that  infcription,  never 
heard  foe  much  before. 

'C|10  wife  of  this  Lord  Robert,  was  Eva  daughter  of  one  S'  Eftmond  and  of 
the  lady  Godiva  his  wife,  whome  the  colledlions  of  Glover  fometymes  Somerfett 
Herald  (if  wee  may  beleeue  him)  maketh  to  bee  fifter  of  William  the  Conqueror  by 
Robert  theire  father  Duke  of  Normandy ;  And  in  fome  other  Colle6lions  of 
Heralds,  this  Eva  is  fayd  to  bee  neece  to  William  the  Conqueror,  which  confirmeth 
the  former  :  By  this  Eva  hee  had  iffue  five  fonnes  and  twoe  daughters,  as  followeth  : 
%fSet  her  hufbands  death  fhee  founded  that  religious  place  to  this  daye  called  the 
Magdalens  of  Briftoll,  And  haveinge  endowed  it  with  competent  poffeffions, 
fhee  herfelfe  became  prioreffe  thereof,  where  (hee  dyed  prioreffe  the  xij'*'  of  March 
Anno.  1 1 73.  or  neer  thereabouts.  And  is  buryed  in  the  Monaftery  Church  of  S' 
Augufline  by  her  hufband,  beetwene  the  flails  of  the  Abbot  and  Prior,  as  followeth  : 


And  greev'd  I  am  that  tyme  hath  left  mee  more  to  tell. 
Of  thofe  great  workes,  this  pious  lady  did  foe  well  | 


m^ 


II70 


llifc  of  Robert  tijc  f  itisit 


45 


l|)i^  S^si0m  55 

1.  ffbr  Maurice  the  eldeft  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert,  his  life,  as  Lord 
fucceedeth. 

2.  jlittjoUlje^  the  fecond  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert  is  often  written  Nicholaus, 
fihus  Roberti,  filij  Hardingi.  And  fometymes  Nicholaus,  frater  Mauritij,  But  mod 
vfually  Nycholaus  lOnus  de  Tykenham. 


jfrom  his  father,  for  his  portion,  he  had  at  one  tyme  the  villages  of  Hull  and 
Nimdesfeld  members  of  his  faid  Barony  by  a  Deed  in  theis  words:  Robt^:  fit  Hard, 
oiiiibus  amicis  et  hominibus  fuis,  Sattem  :  Sciatis  me  dediffe  et  conceffiffe  Nichot 
fit  meo,  Hulls  et  Nimdesfeld  cu  oibus  pertinen  fuis  quas  t)nus  rex  mihi  dedit  pro 
fervitio  meo  in  feodo  et  hereditate,  fibi  et  haeredibus  fuis,  faciend  illi  in  ferviciu 
dimid  militis,  libas  et  quietas  ab  omni  alio  fervic,  Tefle  Rico  Abt3e  fci  August :  &c. 
tDt)TtI)  deed  Nicholaus  fonne  of  Ralph  great  grandchilde  of  y°  fayd  Nicholaus  fonne 
of  this  Lord  Robert,  in  the  fifteenth  of  King  Edward  the  firfi;  vpon  a  quo  warranto 
brought  againft  him,  pleads  at  large,  %0  alfo  hee  there  doth  the  confirmacon  of 
King  Henry  the  fecond  of  y"  faid  grant,  made  at  the  fame  tyme  ;  3!ln&  howe  that 
thereby  hee  had  the  corre6lion  of  the  breaches  of  Affize  of  bread  and  Ale,  which 
hee  punifhed  per  denarios  by  the  purfs,  becaufe  hee  had  noe  tumbrill  or  pillory. 
Soke,  Sake,  Thol,  Them,  nor  Infangetheefe  ;  3inll  at  other  tymes,  for  his  further 
portion,  this  Nicholas  had  from  his  father,  the  Mannors  of  Cokerford  and  Langflane, 
and  divers  lands  in  Tykenham  in  Somerfetfhire,  from  whence  hee  tooke  his  ufuall 
appellation  of  Lord  of  Tykenham,  becaufe  his  mofl  refidence,  after  his  mariage, 
was  there  ;  And  diuers  lands  and  Tenements  in  Briftoll,  CheOuill,  Porthafhed, 
Rualach  and  other  places  in  that  County,  with  fome  others  in  that  and  other  Countyes. 

'Ct)i^  Nicholaus  was  a  liberall  benefa6lor  to  his  Fathers  Monaflerye  of 
S'  Auguftines,  whereto  hee  gaue  thee  Churches  of  Chefliull,  Porthafhed,  Langflane, 
and  Rualach,  and  diuers  houfes,  lands,  and  rents  in  thofe  places  in  Briftoll,  part 
whereof  hee  gave  thee  day  of  y°  dedicacon  of  that  Monaftery  by  laying  downe  his 
deed  vpon  the  Altar  before  thee  faid  Bifhop  of  worcefter,  and  all  the  people  then 
prefent,  And  other  partf  at  other  feverall  tymes  after,  as  hath  before  bene  touched.  | 

Clje  red  booke  in  the  Exchequer  fheweth.  That  this  Nicholaus  payd  feuerall 
Efcuages  to  King  Henry  the  fecond  in  the  vij'^  viij'^  and  xxxij^  yeares  of  his  raigne 
toward  his  warrs  in  Tholous,  Ireland,  and  Galway,  And  alfo  Ayde  in  the  thirteenth 

of 
^  The  Inquil'ition  pofl.  mortem  of  this  Thomas  does  not  now  feem  to  be  extant  in  the  Record 
Office.   [Ed.] 


Carta  cum  Edro 
C^oke  mil  it 
capitaU  Juflic  : 
Anglire. 

EfchKt.   28.  H  :  3 
pofl  mort.  Tho : 
dni  Berkeley 
vide  fol :  1 

ptita  de  quo  warr. 
in  rec  :  Sc('-ij.  15. 
E  :  I.  rot  :  7. 
Pafch  :  rec.  in 
Sct-io  I  E  :  3.  rot : 
7.  et  8. 


liber  feodorQ 
milit :  in  Sccio  : 


Aug :  chartul : 
fol :  36.  37.  38. 


diverfx  cartx  in 
Caflro  de 
Berkeley 
fol :  [44.  45] 

56 

Red  Booke  in  the 
Excheq, : 


46 


€|)e  Itibcief  of  tjjc  25cthdep^ 


1115 


of  that  Kinge  to  marry  Mawde  his  eldeft  daughter  to  the  Duke  of  Saxony,  for  the 
Seebeforefol:[ss]    lands  hee  held  in  the  County  of  Somerfet. 


Rot :  pipje  in 
Sccio  33  :  H  :  2 


Rot.  pipae  :  4.  5  : 

6  7.  et  9  :  R:  I. 

in  Canibr :  et 

Hunt : 
Eadem  :    i.  et.  2 

Johis : 


Rot:  pip:  i.  R.  i. 
in  Cantbr : 


-CfjE  pipe  roll  in  Anno.  33.  H  :  2  under  the  title  of  Scutagiu  baronu  of  the 
Efcuage  payd  by  the  Barons,  fhewes  this  Nicholaus  payd  ten  fhillings  towards  the 
Kings  Army  into  wales. 

51lntl  the  pipe  rolls  in  the  ffourth,  fifth,  Sixth,  and  Seaventh  yeares  of  Richard 
the  firft,  fhewe  howe  :  i8oti  and  fifteene  markes,  were  drawne  by  the  Kinge  from 
this  Nicholas,  that  hee  might  quietly  hold  his  wives  lands  in  the  County  of  Cambridge 
which  were  of  Wido  fit  Tieci  vntill  the  Kings  returne  from  Jerufalem,  againfl 
Reginald  de  Argenton  who  claymed  the  fame  againft  him. 

Slntl  in  the  firfi:  of  that  Kinge,  hee  gave  the  King  :  ten  markes,  pro  feflinando 
iudicio  fuo  de  terra  de  Stanbridg  &c.  to  haue  expedition  in  his  fuit  againft  Alice J;he 
wife  of  Robertt  Giffa'rd  for  land  in  Stanbridg  &c. 


Aug :  chartul :  fo.  'Cljiifif  N  icholaus  had  to  wife  Ala  daughter  and  coheire  of  Guido  ats  wido  fonne 

3  ■  37-  3  •    qJ-  'PgQJus  lord  of  Tykenham,^  by  which  mariage  his  eflate  in  Tykenham  and  in 

diuers  faire  lands  in  y'  Countyes  of  Somerfett,  Cambridge  &c.  was  greatly  advanced. 


Aug: chart:  fo.:39. 


cart :  cu  decan  : 

BriftoU.  cart,  in 

Cafl.  de  Berkeley. 

Newl :  pedegree 

ibm. 

Rot:  pip.  6.7.  R:  I. 

in  Sccio,  et  in 

Arce  london. 

Rot :  pipe,  6.  7.  8. 

R  :  I.  in  Sccio  et 

Arce  london. 

57 

Eode.  9.  R  :  I 
Eode.  I.  2.  4. 
Jofiis. 

Rot :  pip.  8.  9.  R: 
I  in  Sccio,  Glouc : 


Cl)!^  Ala  in  many  of  her  Deedes  of  widowhood  reverenceth  her  hufbands 
memory  with  theis  words,  dominus  vir  meus  Nicholaus,  and  dominus  meus 
Nicholaus  my  lord  and  hufband  ;  my  lord  Nicholas,  and  the  like. 

25p  her  this  Nicholas  had  iffue  Henry,  who  after  mans  eflate,  dyed  without 
iffue.  And  Roger,  Jordan,  and  Ala  marryed  to  Ralph  Bloet  with  whom  her  fayd 
Father  gave  in  mariage  the  forefaide  Manor  of  Langflan,  And  hee  dyed  the  fifth 
of  May  in  the  fixth  yeare  of  Richard  the  firft,  Anno.  11 89. 

i^JjC  faid  Roger  fonne  and  heire  of  this  Nicholaus,  by  the  name  of  Rogerus 
filius  Nicholaij,  filij  Robti,  filij  Hardingi,  payd  five  hundred  markes  pro  habendis 
terris  patris  fui,  to  enter  upon  the  lands  that  were  his  Fathers  |  And  this  was  for 
the  releefe  after  his  fathers  death.  And  in  the  viij'"'  yeare  of  King  Richard  the  firft, 
pay'd  threefcore  markes  for  the  Kings  licence  to  marry  Hawifia  mother  of  Raph  de 
Somery  then  a  widowe  and  endowed  of  lands  holden  of  that  Kinge  in  Capite. 

€f)e 

1  Two  Manors  of  Tickenham  are  mentioned  in  the  Somerfet  Domefday.  One  was  held  by  William 
de  Ou,  in  demefne  and  the  other  by  Amulph  de  Hefding.  The  firft.  was  afterwards  held  of  the  honour 
of  Striguil,  and  the  other  was  parcel  of  the  honour  of  Gloucefler.  One  was  purchafed  by  Robert 
Fitzharding,  (fee  ante.  p.  35)  and  the  other  acquired  by  marriage  with  the  co-heir  of  Guido  fon  of  Tecius. 
[Ed.] 


I  I/O 


Sifc  of  Hobcrt  t^c  fivgt 


47 


Rot :  pip  :  IS  :  H: 
3  in  Sccio : 


CIk  faid  Roger  dyed  in  the  fifteenth  of  King  Henry  the  third  Anno  1230 
leavinge  iffue  Nicholas,  which  Nicholas  the  fonne  of  Roger  (as  the  pipe  roll  of  that 
yeare  faith)  reddit  compm  de  100'  pro  retio  fuo  de  terra  que  fuit  Rogeri  filij  Nicholaij 
patris  fui,  payd  fiue  pounds  for  his  rdeefe  for  the  lands  that  were  Rogers  fonne  of 
Nicholas  his  father ;  whereby  appeares  the  operation  of  the  Statute  of  magna 
charta  enabled  fix  yeares  before. 

25cttoccn  this  Nicholaus  and  Maurice  Lord  Berkeley  the  fecond  of  that  name 
arofe  fuits  in  lawe  for  fervices  which  that  Lord  required  of  him  out  of  his  forefayd 
Manors  of  Hull  and  Nymesfeild  to  his  lawe  dayes  at  Berkeley  whicli  were  ended    fol :  [152] 
by  compofition,  as  amongft  the  lawe  fuits  of  that  lord  appeareth. 


'CI)t^  Nicholas  had  to  wife  Sibill  heire  to  the  Manor  of  Elmore  and  dyed  in 
the  fix  and  fortieth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third,  Anno.  1261.  leaving  iffue  Raph,  which 
Raph  by  the  name  of  Raph  fonne  of  Nicholas  fonne  and  heire  of  Roger,  did  his 
homage  in  the  46''' of  Henry  the  third,  And  dyed  in  Anno.  19  :  E  :  i.  leaving  iffue 
Nicholas. 

Ct|C  lefaitl  ipicljolaiSf  fonne  of  Raph  by  Matilda  la  Ram  his  wife  had  iffue  John, 
and  died  in  the  fixth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  Anno.  1312  ^[n  iihc  manner  betweene 
this  Nicholas  fonne  of  Raph,  And  after  betweene  this  John  fonne  of  Nicholas, 
arofe  other  futes  about  the  fame  fervices  of  the  faid  Manors  of  Hull  and  Nymes- 
feild with  the  lord  Thomas  fonne  of  the  faid  Maurice,  and  with  other  lords  after 
him.  As  in  the  life  of  the  faid  Lord  Maurice  vnder  the  faide  title  of  lawe  fuites,  is 
declared. 

d^  faid  John  lyved  for  the  mofl  part  a  Martiall  life.  And  for  his  prowes  was 
very  deere  unto  John  Duke  of  Brittaine  and  Richmond  whoe  rewarded  him  with 
one  hundred  and  twenty  markes  p  Annu  for  his  life  ;  311n&  by  Jone  his  firfl  wife  had 
iffue  Reginald,  And  dyed  in  the  nyne  and  fortieth  yeare  of  Edward  the  third. 
Anno.  1375.  whofe  fecond  wife  was  Eva.  | 

CljC  faid  Reginald  dyed  in  the  life  tyme  of  John  his  father,  And  leaft  iffue  S' 
Thomas  fit5  Nicholl  Knight,  which  Thomas  by  the  name  of  Thomas  fonne  of 
Reginald  fit3  Nichol,  fonne  and  heire  of  John  fitj  Nicholl,  did  his  homage  to  King 
Edward  the  third  in  the  nyne  and  fortieth  yeare  of  his  raigne.  And  payd  releefe  in 
the  firfl  year  of  King  Richard  the  fecond  for  the  faid  Manors  of  Hull  and 
Nymdesfeild. 


Aug:  chart:  fol.  i. 
fin:  II:  H:  3.  m:  7. 
Rot:  fin:  46.  H:  3. 
Claus.  8E:  i.m:8. 
Trin:  fin:  20.  E:  i. 
in  Sccio  cii 
rein  thes : 
Trin:rec:  20.  E:  i: 
il5m. 

Efchffit.  33.  E:  I. 
n?  206.  et  6.  E  : 
2-  n°  S3. 
Mich  :  fin :  in 
Sccio  8  :  E  :  2 
cum  rein  thelaure: 


Claus.  5.  R  :  2. 
m  :  14.  Pat :  S-  R  : 
2  m  :  27.  ps.  2. 
liberat  32.  E :  3. 
m  :  6. 

Ad  quod  dainn. 
29.  E  :  3.  n?  47. 
Efchaet :  49.  E  :  3. 
n?  so  pars.  [2.] 


58 


Rot  :  fin  :  49.  E  ; 
3.  m  :  21. 
Pafch.  fines,  i  : 
R  :  2  in  arce 
londini. 


48 


€l)C  %i\ie0  of  tljc  25crhe!cp3ef 


i"5 


Efchaet :  6  :  H  :  s 

nf  44.  pod  mort. 

Tho:Fit3Nicholl. 


Claus  : 

:  9  :  R  :  2. 

m  :  21 

Claus 

:  10:  R:  2. 

dorfo. 

Claus. 

16  :  R  :  2. 

dorfo. 

Claus  : 

;  i8:R:  2. 

dorfo 

Claus. 

I.  H  :  4. 

dorfo 

Claus. 

2.  H.  4. 

ps.  I.  dorfo 

Claus. 

9  :  H  :  4. 

dorfo 

Claus. 

I.  H  :  5. 

dorfo 

Claus 

:  4.  H  :  4. 

dorfo  : 

59 

pat:  5.  H:  4  dorfo. 
pat:  12.  H:4m:26. 
Efchaet :  6  .  H  :  5 
n?  44.  pofl  mort. 
Tho:  FitsNichoU. 


5I!nl)  becaufe  my  wife  and  children  and  many  others  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Berkeley  Caftle,  clayme  their  difcents  from  this  S'  Thomas  fit3  Nicholl,  who  was 
the  Nynth  from  Hardinge  the  Dane  as  before  appeares,  And  with  whom  ended  the 
iffue  male  of  this  fecond  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert,  I  will  fomewhat  inlarge  vpon 
this  S'  Thomas,  thus.  Jpcc  maryed  for  his  firft  wife  Margarett  one  of  y*  daughters 
and  coheires  of  [  blank  ]  whereby  in  her  right  he  had  the  moietyes  of  y' 

Manors  of  Filton  in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  of  Harry-Stoke  neere  Briftoll  in 
y'  County  of  Glouc ;  by  whome  hee  had  iffue  Katherine  and  Alienor,  as  after 
followeth,  Sinll  after  her  death  hee  maryed  Agnes  who  alfo  dyed  before  him,  but  by 
her  had  noe  iffue. 

3In  the  Nynth,  tenth.  Sixteenth,  and  eighteenth  yeares  of  Richard  the  fecond, 
this  S'  Thomas  was  one  of  y""  knights  for  y'  County  of  Glouc  :  for  the  feuerall 
parliam"  holden  thofe  yeares. 

CijC  like  hee  was  in  the  firft,  fecond,  and  Nynth  yeares  of  Henry  the  fourth,  In 
which  fecond  yeare,  John  Browninge  (of  whome  after)  was  his  fellowe  knight  for 
that  parliament. 

3llnb  the  like  hee  was  in  the  firft  yeare  of  Henry  the  fifth  ;  Soe  eight  tymes 
Knight  of  y'  Shire  at  foe  many  Parliaments. 

3[n  the  fourth  of  Henry  the  fourth,  he  was  high  Sherife  of  the  County  of 
Glouc : 

5[n  the  fifth  of  Henry  the  fourth,  hee  and  the  faid  John  Browning  by  a 
fpetiall  Comiffion  named  and  arrayed  for  the  warrs,  all  able  men  in  that  County  of 
Glouc  : 

«3[n  the  xij'*"  of  Henry  the  Fourth,  hee  intayled  his  Manor  of  Hull  |  ats  Hill 
(where  hee  moft  comonly  lyved,  feldome  at  Nymesfeild)  to  himfelfe  and  Agnes 
his  wife  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body,  The  remainder  to  Robertt  Poynt3 
and  Katherine  his  wife  daughter  of  him  the  faid  S'  Thomas  for  theire  lyves,  The 
remaynder  to  Nicholas  Poyn3  fonne  of  the  fayd  Robert  and  Katherine  and  to  the 
heires  males  of  his  body,  The  remainder  to  Thomas  Poyn3  his  brother  and  to  the 
heires  males  of  his  body.  The  remainder  to  Maurice  Poyn3  his  other  brother  and  to 
the  heires  males  of  his  body,  The  remainder  to  Blanch,  Ifabell,  and  Joane,  fifters  of 
y*  faid  ^l^urice  and  to  the  feverall  heires  males  of  theire  bodies,  The  remainder  to 
the  right  heires  of  him  the  faid  S'  Thomas  Fit3  Nicholl  for  ever. 


1 1 70  Hifc  of  Robert  tijc  f  ir^eft  49 

C^ijBf  S'  Thomas  Fit5  Nicholl  fix  yeares  after  this  entayle  in  the  fifth  of  King  Efchaet.  6.  H  :s. 
Henry  the  fifth,  Anno  141 8.  dyed  without  iffue  male  of  his  bodye,  leavinge  the  faide 
Katherine  wife  of  Robertt  Poynj  and  Elianor  wife  of  the  fayde  John  Browninge 
his  twoe  daughters  and  heires ;  betweene  whome  hee  left  his  other  Manor  of 
Nymesfeild  with  the  Chantry  of  Kinly  within  the  fame,  to  difcend  in  Coparcinary 
as  followeth,  which  then  valued  eight  markes  per  Ann  : 

jfCOin  which  Nicholas  Poyn5,  the  firft  remainder  man,  the  fayd  entayle  came  to 
S'  John  Poyn3,  Father  of  S'  Robert  Poynj,  father  of  S'  Anthony  Poyn5,  father  of 
S'  Nicholas  Poyn5  who  maryed  Jone  daughter  of  Thomas  Lord  Berkeley  the  fifth  fol :  [683] 
of  that  name,  whoe  had  iffue  betweene  them,  S'  Nicholas  Poyn5,  and  divers  others, 
as  amongft  the  iffues  of  that  Lord  appeareth,  which  lafl  S'  Nicholas,  was  father  of 
S"  John  Poyn5,  whoe  about  twenty  yeares  agone,  alyened  this  Manor  of  Hull  ats 
Hill,  which  is  now  the  inheritance  of  Edward  Fuft,  And  is  himfelf  yet  living, 
Anno.  1628. 

3tliCltOr,  the  yonger  daughter  of  y*"  fayd  S'  Thomas  Fit3  Nicholl,  was  marryed    Efchaet :  6  :  H  :  5 
to  John  Browninge  aforefayd,  who  both  dyed  in  the  life  of  the  fayd  S' Thomas,    Fin'*6:H:5:m:4. 
leavinge  iffue  John  then  twenty  yeares  old,  and  William  ;  which  John  fhortly  after    ^o'  ■  P"^""-  '5- 
dyed  without  iffue,  leavinge  the  fayd  William  his  brother  and  heire,  whoe  afterwards 
by  his  Deed  in  the  Tenth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  fixth  alyened  his  moietye  | 
of  the  fayd  Manor  of  Nymesfeild  to  Thomas  Poyn3  and  Joane  his  wife  in  taile,    60 
with  a  remainder  to  the  fayd  Robert  Poyn3  his  father  in  ffee,  To  which  Thomas    Pat :  10 :  H.  6. 
and  Jone  the  fayd  Robert  and  Katherine  had  in  like  fort  the  fame  yeare  conveyed 
theire  other  moyetie  of  the  fayd  Mannor  of  Nymesfeild,  whereby  it  became  agayne 
vnited  in  one. 

Cljiitf  William  Browninge,  hauinge  by  fale  of  his  patrimony  as  aforefayd,  and 
otherwife,  much  fhortned  his  eflate,  became  farmer  and  Tenant  to  the  Abbot  of 
S-  Peters  of  Glouc  :  for  his  reftory  of  Cowley,  a  parifh  next  adioyninge  to  Nymes- 
feild, where  hee  dyed,  leavinge  iffue  John,  whoe  as  his  pardon  in  the  fixteenth  yeare  pardon.  16  :  E  :  4. 
of  King  Edward  the  fourth  fheweth,  contynued  the  fame  poffeffion,  by  the  name  of  |^n'(jo^"  ^*^^' 
Farmer  of  y'  re6lory  of  Cowley,  manens  apud  Churchend  in  eadem  villa,  dwelling 
at  Church  end  in  the  fame  Towne,  the  place  of  habitation  of  his  poflerity  to  this 
daye,  Anno.  1628.  IBJ^tcf)  ^Ol^n  had  iffue  SJo^"  ^"^  IBilliam,  John  was  a  Clarke 
and  dyed  without  iffue,  And  William  his  brother  had  iffue  John,  who  by  Margarett 
his  wife  daughter  of   William   Hardinge  of   Came,   had   iffue,   Richard,  who  by 

H  Elizabeth 


50 


€I)c  HibejBf  of  tl^e  flbctMtp^ 


1115 


diuers :  cartae  cu 

Jolie  Browning 

de  Cowley  : 

liber  :  M  :  S  :  cum 

Decano  :  Glouc  : 

fol :  284. 

diuerfae  rot:  Curias 

Manerij  de 

Cowley  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley 


61 


Aug  :  chart :  fo  : 

3.  40.  41- 42- 

diuers  :  cartae  in 

Caflro  deBerkeley. 

Rot:pip:tenip.H.2. 

et  R  :  I. 

Liber  feod  mit  in 

Sccio.  Rot :  pip  : 

6.  R  :  I.  in  arce 

londini :  et  at : 


Elizabeth  his  wife,  daughter  of  Edward  Parfons  of  Stanley  had  iffue  John  and 
Richard  and  five  daughters,  from  each  of  whome  is  iffue,  'CljC  faid  John  fonne  of 
Richard  by  Chriftian  his  wife,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Webbe  of  Kingefwoode,  hath 
iffue,  3fo5w>  3l9atp>  and  Vt0u\a  all  of  them  now  livinge.  1628.  And  haue  iffue; 
which  Mary  hath  iffue  five  fonnes  and  fower  daughters  by  author  of  theis  col- 
le6lions,  who  acknowledgeth  that  the  favors  of  this  noble  Family  haue  forty  yeares 
and  more  fhined  vpon  him,  through  all  the  darke  and  fhadowy  chances  of  his  life, 
whileaft  hee  hath  beene  binding  togeather  theis  his  gleanings.  DuttllS  which  difcents 
in  this  name  of  25rotonnigC  they  have  by  feverall  leafes  held  the  faide  Re6lorye  of 
Cowley  from  the  faid  Abbotts  of  Glouc :  till  the  diffolution  of  that  Monaflery,  And 
after  from  the  Crowne,  till  the  lafl;  John  Browninge  in  the  xiiij'^  yeare  of  King 
James,  purchafed  the  Inheritance  thereof,  tDl)ic{)  Indentures  doe  plainly  lay  downe 
the  difcent  as  aforefaid  (as  alfo  doe  the  fucceffive  Copies  |  of  Cancourt  held  alfo 
by  them  of  y^  lord  Berkeleyes  lords  of  that  Manor)  All  which  are  in  the  poffeffion  of 
the  laft  mentioned  John  Browninge,  Anno  1628. 

SCntl  for  further  illuftration  of  the  difcents  of  this  Nicholas  fecond  fonne  of  this 
lord  Robert,  and  of  the  variable  fortunes  which  in  the  motions  of  neere.  500  yeares 
have  befallen  his  pofterity,  theis  records  here  under  vouched,  will  fatisfye  therein, 
none  of  which  are  formerly  quoted  in  the  margents,  vi3:': 

Rot :  finiu.  20 :  E  :  3.  m  :  2  :  /  pat :  29  :  E  :  3.  pars  3.  m  :  3  :  /  claus.  49  :  E  :  3 . 
m  :  2  :  /  pat :  5.  R.  2.  pars  2.  in  dorfo :  /  claus.  6  R  :  2  pars  i.  dorfo  :  /  Rot.  Scotiae. 
9  R :  2.  /  Fin.  6.  H  :  5.  m.  i.  et  4  :  /  claus :  6.  H  :  5.  m  :  5:  /  pat  :  10  :  H  :  6.  pars 
a.  m  :  15  :  /  Rot.  pardon.  15.  H  :  6  m  :  25.  et  27  /  fiii  26.  H  :  6.  m  :  2  :  /  claus  :  35. 
H  :  6.  pars  :  i.  m  :  i.  et  pars.  2  m.  1 1  :  /  fin  :  37  H  :  6.  m.  i  :  /  fin  :  39.  H  :  6.  m.  i.  et 
4  :  /  fin  :  49  :  H  :  6.  m  :  4  :  /  claus.  7.  E  :  4.  m.  i  :  /  pardon.  16.  E  :  4.  m.  3.  /  claus  : 
5.  R  :  2.  pars.  2.  m.  27.  /claus  :  21  R  :  2.  m.  10.  in  dorfo.  /  claus.  8.  E  :  i.  m  :  8.  /  Brevia 
regis.  13.  E  :  3.  pars  :  2.  /  Efchaet  2,3-  E  :  i.  n?  206  :  et  2  E  :  2.  n?  56  et.  112.  et  14. 
E  :  2.  n?97:  et.  15.  E:  2.  n?6o:  et  17  E  :  3.  n?  8.  et.  7.  R  :  2.  n.  / 

3.  Hobttt  the  third  fonne  of  this  Lord  Robert,  is  often  written,  Robertus  filius 
Roberti,  filij  Hardingi,  And  fometymes  Robertus  iuvenis  (not  iunior)  but  mofl 
comonly  Robertus  de  Were,  and  Robert  Lord  of  Were. 

5prorn  his  father,  for  his  portion,  hee  had  at  feuerall  tymes  by  feverall  convey- 
ances, the  Caftle  and  Manor  of  Beverflon,  the  Manor  of  Wefton  ats  Kingefwefton, 
the  Manors  of  Aylberton,  Over,  Radewike,  and  Northwike,  and  other  lands  in  the 
County  of  Glouc  :  %V^ 


Hifr  of  Hobcrt  tijc  f  tr^t 


51 


3li»b    the    Towne   and    Manor   of   Were  neere  Axbridge  in   the  County  of   Cartai  in  Caftro 

dc  Bcrkclcv. 
Somerfett,  from  whence  hee  took  his  vfuall  appellation,  of  Socll  of  Were,  the  grant 

whereof  was  confirmed  vnto  him  by  King  Henry  the  fccond,  and  after  by  John 

Earle  Moreton,  before  hee  was  King. 


Cartas  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 

Claus:  15.  H  :  3. 
m  :  13.  Cart  in 
Caftro  de  Berk, 
rot.  pip.  6.  R :  1 
in  arce  londin : 
duae  cartas  in 
Caftro  de  Berkeley 

62 


Aug :  chart ; 
predifl : 


trae  patent,  in 
Caftro  de  Berkeley 


3Clltl  alfo  had  the  Manors  of  Berewe  and  Inglefcumbe  in  the  faid  County  of 
Somerfett,  wherein  hee  after  obtayned  of  the  fayd  Earle  John,  to  have  two  parkes 
with  Deere  leapes  into  them,  and  free  warren,  becaufe  they  were  within  the  limits 
of  his  Forreft. 

3CnlJ  had  alfo  the  Manors  of  Powlet,  ywis,  Cantokefhed,  Schochland  in  the  fame 

Countye.  | 

3Cnl>  Ijab  alfo  the  three  hundreds  of  Portbury,  Bedminfter  &  Hareclyve  in 
the  fame  County,  which  his  fayd  father  purchafed  of  y*  Earle  of  Glouc : ,  To  hold 
to  him  under  a  marke  rent  per  Annu. 

9Cl0"O  this  Robert  had  more  from  his  father,  the  church  of  S'  Nicholas  by 
Briftoll,  and  diuers  lands  there,  and  diuers  other  Manors  and  lands  in  the  forefaid 
Countyes. 

SHrib  from  King  Henry  the  fecond  hee  had  the  Towne  and  Caftle  of  Malmef- 
bury  in  Wiltfhire  withall  the  lands  and  hundreds  to  the  Towne  and  Caflle  belonginge, 
To  hold  at  the  rent  of  xiijti  x^  for  which  hee  payd  one  hundred  markes  in  filver, 
fayth  the  tres  patentf . 

25p  manp  paffages  it  appeareth,  That  this  Robert  lyved  in  great  reputacon    Aug ^ chart: 
litle  inferior  to  his  elder  brother  the  lord  Maurice,  and  was  attended  with  knights 
and  other  fervants,  of  eminent  familyes  and  eftimacon     3llnb  that  hee  was  a  Baron 
and  peere  of  the  Realme,  the  pype  Rolle  of  33.  H  :  2  doth  fufficiendy  intimate  vnto    Rot.  pips  in  Sccio 
vs ;  where  (as  in  fome  other  yeares)  vnder  the  tide  of  Scutagium  baronum,  hee    ^^' 
payd  one  hundred  {hillings  efcuage,  becaufe  hee  then  went  not  with  the  Kinge  in 
his  Army  againfl   the  welfh  with  other   Barons,  accordinge  to  the  tenure  of  the 
lands  hee  foe  held  of  the  Kinge  ;  which  dignitye  alfo  difcended  to  Mawrice  de  Gant 
his  fonne,  as  after  followeth. 

'^0  tfjC  monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines,  both  at  the  tyme  of  his   Fathers  firft    Aug:  chart  :fo: 
foundinge  thereof,   and  afterwards,  this   Robert  was  a  liberall  benefaftor,  giving    39-  4o-  4i-  4a-  43- 
thereto  the  faid  Church  of  S'  Nicholas,  and  divers  landes  and  rents  in  Briftowe, 
Pawlet  and  other  places,  befides  what  hath  before  bene  mentioned. 

H  2  C^ 


52 


€|)c  Eitociof  of  tjjc  ^ttMe^^ 


1115 


Rot  :  pip  :  28  : 

39  :  et  30.  H  :  2 

in  Sccio  : 


Rot :  pip  :  6.  7.  8. 

9  :  R  :    I  in  Sccio 

et  in  arce  londin 

63 

in  Co  :  Glouc  : 

Rot :  pip  :  5.  6. 
R  :  I.  in  Co : 
Ebora  dorfo. 

Pat :  15.  E.  I.  m  : 

15.  rot.  claus  :  14. 

H  :  3.  m:  2.  et  15. 

H  :  3.  m  :   13.  20. 

Rot.  fin.  14  :  H: 

3.  ps.  I.  m.  I.  et 

15.  H  :  3.  pars  i. 

m:  8. 

Rot :  cart :  1 6. 

Jo!iis  m  : 

ptita  Mich  :  14. 

et  15.  H  :  3. 

Carta  in  Caftro  de 

Berk.  Claus:  15. 

H:  3.  m:  20.  rot. 

pip:  15:  i8  H:3: 

Rot:  cart:  41.  H: 

3  pat:  15.  E:  i: 

m:  15.  claus:  27. 

E:  I.  m:  14  pat. 

27  E:  I  in  dorfo. 

Cartae  6:  E:  2.  m: 

4.  Rot.  fin.  19.  E: 

I.  m:  16. 

Rot.  fin:  16.  H:  3. 

pars.  I.  m:  2. 

Rot.  pip.  15.  16. 

H:  3  in  Sccio. 

Claus:  7.  H:  3. 

m:  3  in  dorfo. 

Claus.  5:  H:  3 

pars  2  m:  17  in 

dorfo. 

Aug:  chart  fo:  41. 

42 

Rot  fin:  16.  H:  3. 

pars.  I.  m:  3. 

cart:  16.  Jotiis. 

Rot:  pip:  15  Jotiis, 

et  5.  et  9.  H^3. 

in  Sccio: 


C|)C  pipe  rolls  of  28.  29.  and  30.  H  :  2.  haue  thus  of  him,  Robertus  filius  Robti 
filij  Hardingi,  reddit  compu  de  quingent  marcis  et  vfi  cuppa  aurea  prec.  40.  marcar 
pro  habenda  filia  Robti  de  Gant  (vi3!)  Robert  the  fonne  of  Robert  fonne  of 
Harding  hath  payd  500  markes  and  a  Cup  of  gold  of  forty  markes  price,  for  the 
wardfhip  of  the  daughter  of  Robert  de  Gant : 

3llnlJ  the  pipe  rolls  in  6.  7.  8.  et  9.  R :  i.  fhewe  that  hee  payd  threefcore  mkes 
for  not  goeing  with  the  Kings  Army  into  Normandy,  which  money  hanged  in  | 
proces  many  yeares  in  the  tyme  of  King  John  before  it  was  difcharged  ;  And  in 
the  fifth  and  fixth  of  Richard  the  firft,  payd  thirty  three  markes  pro  habenda  terra 
Aliciae  Paynell,  to  have  the  lands  of  Alice  Paynell,  which  I  thinke  was  a  purchafe 
hee  made  in  yorkefhire. 

j^CC  maryed  Hawifia  de  Gurney  a  great  lady  and  very  remarkeable  in  her  tyme, 
by  whom  hee  had  iffue  Mawrice,  called  Mawrice  de  Gant,  and  Eve  called  Eva  de 
Gurney,  Maurice  de  Gant  marryed  Margaret  Somery  who  furuived  her  hufband, 
and  dyed  without  iffue  in  the  xiiij'*'  of  Henry  the  third,  And  leaft  his  Manors  of 
Beverfton,  Kingefweflon,  Over,  Radewike,  North wike,  Aylberton,  Were  and  others 
to  difcend  to  Robert  de  Gurney  his  faid  fillers  fonne  and  heire ;  311nb  reconveyed 
his  three  hundreds  of  Portbury,  Bedminfler,  and  Hareclyve  to  Thomas  Lord 
Berkeley  his  Cozen  and  his  heires,  as  in  his  life  appeares. 

'STIjijf  Maurice  de  Gant  founded  the  faire  hofpitall  of  S'  Marke  of  Billfwike  by 
Brifloll  (nowe  called  S!  Auguftines  greene)  neere  to  his  Grandfathers  Monaftery,  en- 
dowing it  with  ample  poffeffions,  whofe  honorable  memorialls  are  there  yet  preferred. 

311ntl  that  this  Mawrice  alfo  was  a  Baron  and  a  peere  of  the  Realme  after  the 
death  of  his  father  Robert,  the  hundred  pound  releefe  payd  by  his  nephewe  and  heire 
Robert  de  Gurnay  after  the  death  of  this  Mawrice  his  vnkle,  befides  other  marginal! 
proofs,  doe  as  fully  intimate  as  before  in  his  fathers,  which  dignity  alfo  remayned 
to  his  pofteritye  as  foUoweth. 

(gbC  fifter  of  the  faid  Maurice  de  Gant,  and  the  onely  daughter  of  her  Father 
was  firft  marryed  to  Gurnay  by  whom  fliee  had  iffue  Robert  de  Gurnay, 

And  after  was  remarryed  to  Thomas  fonne  of  William  fonne  of  John  de  Harpetree, 
Againft  which  William  (hee  in  the  fifteenth  of  King  John  recouered  the  Manor  of 
Ferenton  in  Dower. 

^^tC  gave  alfo  (amongft  other  things)  halfe  an  hide  of  land  in  Ferneberg  to 
her  grandfathers  Monaftery  :    ^f)CC  in  fome  Deeds  ftiled  herfelfe  by  the  name  of 

Eve 


1 1  70 


life  of  ilobcrt  tt)c  Jririflft 


53 


Eve  daughter  of  Robert  iuvenis,  And  in  fonie  other,  Eve  daughter  of  Robert  fonne  Trin:  rec:  in  banco 
of  Robert  fonne  of  Harding,  And  dyed  about  the  latter  end  of  y'  raigne  of  King  in  dorfo  Somerfet 
John.  I 


l!lobcrt  de  Gurnay  was  not  onely  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  Eve,  but  alfo 
heire  to  Maurice  de  Gant  his  vncle,  And  alfo  grandchilde  and  heire  to  the  faid 
William  fonne  of  John  de  Harpetre,  poffeffinge  all  their  lands  before  mentioned  and 
many  others,  311nll  had.  21.  knights  ffees  in  the  Counties  of  Somerfett  and  Glouc:  as 
the  roll  of  47.  H  :  3.  fliewes,  l^cc  maryed  Hawifia  de  longo  campo,  by  whom  hee  had 
iffue  Anfelme  de  Gurnay,  And  dyed  in  the  liij"' of  Henry  the  third  ;  In  which  yeare 
alfo  after  her  hufband  dyed  the  faid  Hawifia.  Cl^ijSf  Robert  de  Gurnay  had  a  yonger 
brother  called  Hugh  de  Gurnay  of  great  eflimation  with  King  Richard  the  firfl:,  as 
the  grants  to  him  made,  declare;  To  whome  came  the  Inheritance  of  divers 
manners  and  lands  after  the  death  of  Mawrice  de  Gant  his  vncle,  from  whome  by 
Lucia  his  wife  proceeded  divers  iffues  of  remarkeablenes  in  theire  generations. 

CljC  faid  Anfelme  de  Gurnay  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  Robert,  held  by 
difcent  from  his  father  the  forefayd  Manors  of  Beverfton,  Kingefwefton,  Over, 
Aylberton  &c.  The  Advowfon  of  S!  Markes  hofpitall  &c.,  and  And  many  other 
great  poffeffions  in  the  countyes  of  Glouc.  Somerfett,  Dorfett,  and  Wiltefli. ;  And 
was  alfo  a  Baron,  And  accordingly  payde  one  hundred  pownd  in  the  five  and  fiftieth 
of  Henry  the  third  for  his  Fathers  reeleefe,  And  by  Sibell  his  wife  had  iffue  John 
de  Gurnay  and  Thomas  de  Gurnaye,  whofe  grandchilde  Thomas  de  Gurnay  was 
the  murtherer  of  King  Edward  the  fecond  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  as  will  be  written 
in  the  life  of  Thomas  the  Third  And  dyed  in  the  xiiij'*'  of  Edward  the  firfl  ; 
i&tbin  furviued.  And  after  dyed  towards  the  end  of  that  Kinge,  Hee  hauinge 
a  little  before  in  the  fame  yeare  wherein  hee  dyed,  alyened  the  Advowfon  of  y' 
Church  of  Beverflon  to  the  Abbott  of  S!  Peters  of  Glouc  :,  As  in  my  defcrip- 
tion  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  more  largely  is  delivered  ;  4&f  tDt)icI)  Anfelme 
more  is  after  to  bee  read  in  the  life  of  Mawrice  Berkeley  the  fecond,  touchinge  a 
fuite  that  fell  out  betweene  them  for  Jurifdi6lion  in  the  fayd  Manners  of  Beverfton, 
Ailberton,  &  Kingefwefton  within  the  hundred  of  Berkeley.  | 


64 

Rot:  fin:  16.  H:3. 
pars:  i.  m:  2.  3. 
Rot:  ])i|):  2.  5.  9. 
H:  3  in  Sccio. 
Claus:  47.  H:  3. 
Claus.  53.  H:  3 
pars.  I.  m:  5. 
Fin:  53.  H.  3  pars. 

1.  m:  7. 

Claus:  15.  H:3.  m: 
20.  Cart:  25.  H:  3. 
pat:  5.  E:  3.  ps. 

2.  dorfo. 

Efchset.  53.  H:  3. 
n°:  23. 

AntiquEe  cartae  in 
tra.  p. 

Efchaet.pofl.mort: 
Anfel :  de  Gurnay. 
14.  E.  I.  [No.  11] 
fine  roll.  S3-  H  :  3. 
pars.  1.  m:  7.  et 
14. 15. E:  I.  m:  17. 
Rot.  pip.  55.  H  : 

3.  Pat:  13.  E:  3. 
pars  :  2  in  dorfo. 
Rot.  Scutag  :  10  : 
E:  I.  Pat:  14.  E: 
I.  m  :  17. 

Claus  :  14.  E  :  3. 
pars  i.m  :  18:  19: 


fol:[99] 


Ct)C  fayd  John  de  Gurnay  fonne  and  heire  of  Anfelme  was  twenty  yeares  old  at  "5 

the  death  of  his  father,  And  after  maryed  with  Oliva,  and  dyed  in  the  Nyneteenth  i.  n-i:  16:  17. 

of  y'  fayd  Kinge  within  five  yeares  after  his  father,  leavinge  Elizabeth  his  onely  Rot :  fin:  15.  E;  i. 

daughter  and  heire,  and  in  the  xxiiij'^  of  that  kinge,  died  the  fayd  Oliva.  Rot:  fin:  24.  E:  i. 

Ctjc 


54 


€l)c  %iMt0  of  t|)c  ^ctMep^ 


1115 


Rot:fin:s.  E:2  ^fjj  jefaibc  <!Eli§aJlCt|)  was  maryed  to  S' John  Ap-Adam  fonne  of   Reginald, 

Claus.i8.E:2m:i.    which  John  dyed  in  the  fifth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  leavinge  iffue  by  his  wife, 

Claus.19.  E:2dor.    Thomas  ap-Adam  knight  within  asre,  whofe  wardfhip  for  body  and  lands,  was,  for 
Claus.  ":  E:  ^  dor  sr  j  >  > 

Pat:  5.  E:  2  ps.    2500  markes  granted  by  the  kinge  to  Hugh  le  Defpenfer,  And  after  vpon  a  refump- 

C\       's^F-^^     '''^"'  g''a"ted  for .  6000  markes  to  Raph  de  Monthermer,  which  Thomas  comeing 

in :  I.    to  full  age,  fued  his  liuery  in  y*  Eighteenth  of  that  Kinge  for  his  Fathers  landes 

difcended  vpon  him  in  the  Countyes  of  Wiltes,  Southton,  Oxon,   Berks,   Bedford, 

and  Buckingham. 


Pat:  5.  E:  3 
pars  :  2  in  dorfo. 


pat. 
pars : 


E:3. 
n  :  32. 


pat:  p'didt:  in  ead: 


^'fyi^  S'  Thomas  Ap-Adam  maryed  Margery,  betweene  whom  was  foe  litle 
love,  That  in  the  fifth  of  King  Edward  the  third,  hee  complayned  in  Chancery, 
That  Thomas  the  fonne  and  heire  of  Hugh  de  Gurnay  and  others,  had  ftollen  her 
away  from  him  at  Beuerflon,  and  with  her  divers  of  his  goods  and  chattels.  And 
thereupon  had  a  Comiffion  out  of  that  Court  to  enquire  thereof. 

BDUtinge  which  difcontent,  hee  fould  in  the  fourth  of  that  Kinge,  to  Thomas 
the  third  then  Lord  Berkeley,  the  faid  Caftle  and  Manor  of  Beverfton,  and  the 
Manor  of  Over  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  and  the  Manor  of  Monewedon  in  the 
County  of  Suffolke. 

%Vii  at  the  fame  tyme  (but  a  daye  betweene)  fold  to  Mawrice  de  Berkeley  the 
^^A^^  u^f "^^    ^^'*^  lords  fecond  brother,  the  Manors  of  Kingefwefton,  and  Aylberton,  as  in  theire 
lives  is  more  largely  to  bee  read. 

5llnb  thus  returned  theis  Manors  and  Caflle  of  Beuerflone  &c.  into  the  eldeft 
line  of  Robert  fit3  Harding,  after.  170.  yeares  poffeffion  in  the  iffues  of  this  third 
fonne  Robert  de  Were,  which  I  haue  the  more  largely  purfued  by  invincible  matters 
of  Record,  and  Deedes,  omni  exceptione  maiores,  for  that  fome  old  Pedegrees 
gathered  in  the  tyme  of  Henry  the  fixt,  refting  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  would 
without  any  warrant,  obtrude  vpon  vs.  That  the  iffue  of  the  fayd  Robert  de  Were 
ended  |  in  Eve  his  daughter,  which  is  utterly  vntrue,  %viti  I  fhall  take  occafion  in 
theis  relations  to  deduce  downe  the  iffues  of  this  S'  Thomas  Ap-Adam  alfo  untill 
this  day  as  I  have  in  Nicholas  his  brother. 


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Newl :  ped :  et  2.  4-  €!)0maj9i  the  fourth  fonne  of  this  Lord   Robert,   was  a   clergy  man,   and 

at :  in  Caftro  Archdeacon  of  Worcefter,  And  as  I  conceive,  dyed  before  his  midle  age. 

de  Berkeley. 

Aug:  chart:  fo:  17  5-  J^Clttp  the  fifth  fonne,  was  alfo  a  clergy  man,  and  Archdeacon  of  Exceter,  as 

^^'•ii-  before  is  faid.  And  was  alfo  Treafurer  to  the  faid  Henry  Duke  of  Normandy  3llntl 

it 


II70 


Hifc  of  Bohnt  tlje  jpir^t 


55 


Berkeley. 
Honor  de 
Berkeley. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


67 


it  is  not  vnvvorthy  the  obfervinge,  That  in  his  youth  hee  was  by  Richard  the  firft 

Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines,  fhortly  after  the  firft  dedication  of  that    Monaftery  pre-    duae  Carts  in 

fented  to  the  churches  of  Berkeley,  Wotton,  Beverfton,  Almondefbur>',  Afhelworth 

and  Chromale,  and  to  all  other  the  Churches  of  the  Honor  of  Berkeleye  :  which 

prefentacon  of  y'  Abbot,  this  Lord  Robert  his  Father  by  his  Deed  confirmed  ;  Hee 

was  alfo  a  witnes  to  the  two  firft  Charters  which   Henry  the  fecond  made  to  his 

Father  Robert,  as  before  appeareth  :  which  fhewe  him  alfo  to  bee  then  Treaforer 

to  that  King.^  ^ 

6.  S)c{ma  eldeft  daughter  of  this  Lord  Robert,  was  accordinge  to  the  fayd    Carta  in  Caftro 

dc  Berkeley. 
agreem!  at  Briftoll  maryed  to  Robertt  fonne  and  heire  of  the  fayd  Roger  of  Berkeley    Rofet  de  Ricart. 

in  the  tyme  of  Kinge  Henrye  the  fecond  at  her  fathers  houfe  in  Briftowe,     ^I^CC 

brought  to  her  hufband  (amongft  other)  the  Manor  of  Durefley  in  ffee  as  part  of  her 

marriage  portion,     3ilntl,  for  her  dower,  had  affigned,  by  her  hulbands  Father,  the 

Manors  of  Sifton  accordinge  to  the  faid  Articles  of  Agreement.     3Bt|tCl)  Robert 

and  Helena  had  iffue  Roger,  who  by  Hawifia  his  firft  wife  had  iffue  l^cncp,  which 

Henry  by  Agnes  his  wife  had  iffue  3lo()n,  which  John  by  |  Sibill  his  wife  had  iffue 

J^enrp,  which  (Henry  by  Jone  his  wife  had  iffue  J^intani,  S'oljn  and  j^cnrp  -.^  which 

John  maryed  Hawifia,  but  died  without  iffue,  leavinge  the  fayd  Henry  his  brother 

and  heire  ;)'  which  Henry  had  iffue  3'0'^n>  which  John  by  Hawifia  his  wife  had  iffue 

Nicholas  and  Mawd  :     Nicholas  maryed  Cicely  fifter  and  heire  of  S'  John  de  la 

More  fonne  of  William  de  la  More  of  Bitton,  And  after  the  faid  Nicholas  Berkeley 

dyed 

1  He  was  alfo  Dean  of  Moretain,  and  was  elefled  Archbifhop  of  Dol,  and  died  at  Rome  in  Augull 

1 188,  whither  he  had  gone  for  Confecration.    (Eyton's  "  Itinerary  of  Henrj'  II."  p.  291)  [Ed.] 

*  Smyth  is  inaccurate  here.  William  was  bom  Sept.  1269;  had  Seizin  of  Durlley  19  Edw.  I. 
(Calendarium  Genealogicum  p.  756.)  died  28  Edw.  I.  1300.  in  which  year  his  writ  diem  Clausit  Extremum 
was  ifTued.  (Rot  Orig.  28.  Edw.  I.  m.  7.)  The  cuflody  of  the  Manor  of  Durfley  was  granted  by  the  King 
to  John  Buteturte  until  the  legal  age  of  the  heir  of  the  faid  William  (Id.  29.  Edw.  I.  m.  7.)  He  left  two 
fons.  John  the  eldefl  marr.  circa  7  Edw.  II.  13 13  (Fed.  Fin.  Divers  Co^  7  Edw.  II.  No.  84)  Hawifia 
dau.  of  Thomas  de  Tinworth  of  Bratton  near  Okehampton,  Co.  Dev.  (Pole's  Coll.  for  Devon,  pp.  346.  7) 
She  died  s.  p.  before  Michs.  19  Edw.  II.  1325.  (Ptta  Coram  Rege,  Pafche  6  Edw.  III.  m.  104)  John 
de  Berkeley  did  homage  for  his  lands  15  Aug.  8  Edw.  II.  1315.  (Rot.  Marefc.  8  Edw.  II.  m.  9.  dors.) 
and  died  s.  p.  10  Edw.  II.  1316.  7,  in  which  year  his  writ  dietn  Clausit  Extremum  was  iffued.  (Rot.  Orig. 
10  Edw.  II.  ra.  3)  but  the  Inquifition  taken  thereupon  is  not  extant.  He  was  fucceeded  by  Henry  his 
brother  and  heir  who  was  under  age  in  1318.  (Rot.  Orig.  12  Edw.  II.  m.  8.)  who  died  1334,  leaving 
John  his  fon  and  heir.  (Efch.  8  Edw.  III.  2nd.  No?  No.  13.)     [Ed.] 

3  In  the  tranfcript,  or  fair  copy,  prefented  by  Smyth  to  George  Lord  Berkeley,  and  which  hereafter  we 
(hall  cite  as  the  "  Berkeley  Copy,"  the  paffage  we  have  placed  within  brackets  reads : — "  Henry  by  Jone 
his  wife  had  iffue  William,  John,  and  Henry,  which  WUliam  and  John  died  without  iffue  leaving  the  faid 
Henry  their  brother  and  heire."     [Ed.] 


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€l)e  %i\ic0  of  tl)c  25crhdcpjtf 


1115 


dyed  without  iffue  in  the  fixth  of  Richard  the  fecond,  Anno.  1382  :  3(n  whom 
ended  all  the  iffue  male  of  the  fayd  Roger  de  Berkeley  lord  of  Durefly,  with  whom 
this  lord  Robert  fit3  Harding  had  the  contention,  and  agreement,  as  is  aforefaid : 
5fn  which  eight  difcents  from  him,  the  faid  Manor  of  Durefly  and  almofl;  all  the 
other  Manors  formly  mentioned,  whereof  hee  was  then  poffeffed,  had  contynued, 
which  nowe  came  to  the  fayd  Mawd  After  and  heire  to  the  faid  Nicholas  Berkeley, 
who  was  maryed  to  Robert  de  Cantelo,  by  whom  fliee  had  iffue  Robertt  de  Cantelo, 
who  leaft  iffue  ^BU^ObCtf)  his  ogly  daughter  and  heire  marryed  to  Richard  Chedder, 
which  Richard  and  Eli3abeth  in  the  thirteenth  yeare  of  Henry  the  fourth  Anno. 
1420.^  fold  to  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  the  fourth  of  that  name  (as  followeth  in  his  life) 
the  Advowfon  of  the  Abbathy  of  Kingefwood,  whereof  Wittm  de  Berkeley  lord  of 
Durfely  father  of  the  faid  Roger  was  Founder,  which  in  this  antient  Saxon  family^ 
had  likewife  contynued  till  this  tyme. 


Berkeley  of 
Coburley. 


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3llnb  in  the  fixth  yeare  of  Henry  the  fourth,  Anno  1404  twoe  and  twenty 
yeares  after  the  death  of  the  faid  Nicholas  de  Berkeley  by  the  death  of  S'  Thomas 
Berkeley  of  Coberly,  ended  alfo  all  the  male  pofterity  of  that  antient  yonger  branch 
of  theis  Berkeleys  of  Durfeley,  who  had  longe  contynued  in  great  reputacon  and 
remarkeablenes  in  this  County  of  Glouc:  and  of  Worcefter,  and  were  diftinguifhed 
from  the  former  Berkeleys  of  Durfeley  by  the  name  of  the  Berkeleyes  of  Coiiuriji, 
which  nowe  fell  into  the  family  of  Brugge  ats  Bridges  by  the  mariage  of  Alice 
fecond  daughter  and  co-heire  of  the  faid  S'  Thomas  de  Berkeley  of  whome  the 
nowe  Lord  |  Chandois  of  Sudeley  Caftle  is  difcended,  whofe  difcent  from  the  faid 
S'  Thomas  de  Berkeley  here  to  lay  downe  is  befides  my  purpofe.  As  not  difcended 
from  this  Helene,  for  that  the  faid  S'  Thomas  Berkeley  of  Coburley  was  fonne  of 
S'  Thomas,  fonne  of  Giles,  brother  and  heire  of  Nicholas,  fonnes  of  Giles,  fonne  of 
Domefday  booke.  Robert,  fonne  of  William,  fonns  of  William,  fonn  of  Raph  mentioned  with  Roger 
of  Durfely  his  brother  in  the  booke  of  Domefday,  and  who  lived  in  the  tyme  of 
King  Edward  the  Confeffor,  And  which  Roger  was  father  of  the  faid  William  that 
founded  the  fayd  Abby  of  Kingefwood,  father  of  Roger  that  lined  in  the  tyme  of 
King  Steephen,  father  of  Robert  that  maryed  this  Helena,  as  is  before  faid  ;  which 
Helena  dyed  the  xij"^  of  January  about  the  tenth  of  the  raigne  of  King  John. 

I^otoc 

1  In  the  "  Berkeley  Copy"  this  date  ftands  1410,  but  neither  of  them  can  be  exa(5l  if  the  regnal  year 
is  correaiy  dated,  for  as  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  commenced  on  30  Sep.,  1399,  his  13th  year  would  begin 
on  30  September,  141 1.     [Ed.] 

2  Mr.  A.  S.  Ellis  has  given  good  reafon  for  doubting  the  Saxon  defcent  of  thefe  more  ancient  Berkeleys. 
See  his  "  Domefday  Tenants  of  Glouceflerfhire  "  (Trans.  Briaol  and  Glouceaerfh.  Archseol.  Soc.  vol  iv. 
p.  145  et  feq.)     [Ed.] 


1 170 


mic  of  Robert  t!)c  f  irsft 


57 


jPotDC  for  proofe  of  all  the  forefayd  difccnts  of  the  Berkcleys  of  Durfely,  take 
theis,  too  many  for  the  Margent  hereof,  tDi)tci)  likewife  will  manifeft  many  various 
accidents,  which  fince  the  Norman  Conqueft,  befell  that  family  in  the  length  of. 
315.  yeares,  whileft  the  iffue  male  did  lafl;.  vi3'  Domefday  booke:  Red  booke  in  the 
Excheq^  fo  :  109  :  /  Rot  pipse.  i.  H  :  2.  et.  1 7  H  :  2  :  /  et  2.  7.  8  R  :  i.  /  et.  i.  9.  17 
Johis :  /  Aug  :  chart :  fo  :  54.  55  :  /  Rot.  pip  :  2.  3.  4.  1 1.  12.  H  :  3.  /  Rot.  claus  :  5 
H  :  3.  pars.  i.  m  :  2.  /  et  1 1.  H  :  3.  pars.  i.  m  :  12  :  /  et  11:  H  :  3.  pars  3.  m  :  i.  / 
et  21.  H:  3.  m  :  13:  /  et  29  :  H  :  3.  m.  9.  et.  19  :  E  :  i :  m  :  9:  /  et  8.  E  :  3.  m  :  13:/ 
et  23.  E  :  3.  m  :  8.  /  et  17  R  :  2.  m  :  29  :  /  et  21.  R :  2.  pars  i.  m.  4.  et.  8  :  /  Liber 
nominu.  villa?.  9.  E  :  2.  in  Sccio  :  /  Rot.  fin.  30  H  :  3.  m  :  13.  et  28.  E  :  i.  m  :  10.  et 
23.  E  :  3  m.  :  et  24  E  :  3.  m  :  49  :  et.  9.  R  :  2  :  m  :  3.  /  Rot.  paten.  30.  H  :  3.  m: 

et  19.  R  :  2.  in  dorfo :  /  et  3.  E  :  4.  m  :  20.  /  Fines  in  banco  Corn  33.  H  :  3. 
et  15.  E  :  3.  /  ptita  in  banco  Trin :  4.  H  :  3  rot.  16.  et  Pafch.  26  H  :  3.  rot.  i.  /  et 
Mich  :  S3  ■  et.  34-  H  :  3.  rot :  25  :  /  et  Mich  :  34.  et  35.  H  :  3.  rot :  9. 

And  the  Inquificons  in  the  County  of  Glouc.  found  after  mofl;  of  theire  deaths, 
which  I  omit,  becaufe  they  are  calendred  in  the  Tower,  and  obvious  to  euery 
ordinary  eye. 

"Ktlb    for   proofe   of  all  the    forefaid  difcents  of  that  yonger  branch  of  the    Berkeley  of 

Coburley. 
Berkeleyes  of  Coburly,  take  theis,  too  many  alfo  for  the  margent  hereof,  |  which    gg 

likewife  will  manifeft   many  other    variable   accidents,  which    fince    the    Norman 

Conqueft  befell  this  branch  in  the  length  of  337.  yeares,  As  alfo  of  many  yonger 

brothers  and  Nephewes  of  both  familyes  whileft  iffue  male  did  laft,  which  nowe  are 

all  fpent  and  gone,  As  pat :  3.  E  :  4.  m  :  20 :  /  Rot.  pipse.  12.  13.  14.  15.   16.  Johis 

in  Sccio  :  /  claus  16.  Johis.  pars.  i.  et  2  :  et  27  H  :  3  :  /  pat.  38.  H:  3.  pars  2.  m.  2. 

et.  6.  /  pat.  39.  H  :  3.  /  pat.  16.  H  :  3  :  m  :  4.  /  pat.  23.  H  :  3.  m.  /       claus  :  15.  H  : 

3.  m.  /  et  47.  H  :  3  m  :  13  :  /  fine.  47.  H  :  3.  m.  10.  /  Finis  in  banco.  10.  E:  2:/ 

Rot :  Fin  :  6.  H  :  4.  m.  9  :  /  Rot.  claus.  8.  H  :  6.  m  :  vltima  /     Togeather  with  the 

Offices  in  the  Countyes  of  Glouc  :  and  Worcefter,  found  after  many  of  their  deaths, 

here  by  mee  omitted  for  the  caufe  aforefayd. 

%nti  to  fatisfy  this  noble  family  of  the  Berkleyes  of  Berkeley  Caftle,  touchinge    Berkeley  of 
the  iffue  generall  of  this  of  Durfely,  (It  fell  from  the  forefayd  Eli5abeth  wife  of   ^^^^^y 
Richard  Chedder  into  the  name  of  Wike  ats  Wikes,  who  contynnued  owners  of 
Durfely  till  the  Nynth  year  of  Queene  Eli5abeth  in  which  yeare  that  Mannor  by 
M'  Wikes  was  aliened  in  ffee  to  Edmund  Woolworth  ats  Webbe.')  And  is  in  this  yeare. 

1624.  the 
1  In  the  "  Berkeley  Copy  "  this  paflage  reads  : — "  It  fell  by  difcent  from  the  forefayd  Elizabeth  wife 
of  Richard  Chedder  unto  Thomas  Wyke  ats  Wikes,  who  died  13  Edw.  IV.,  father  of  John,  father  of 
I 


S8 


€|ie  Eibeji  of  tijc  Obtvhdep0 


"15 


70 


Kingefcote  of 
Kingefcote. 

Cartse  cu  Antho- 

nio  Kingefcote. 

Claus.  iH.  3  m.  14. 

Carta  cum  Rico 

Bridges  deCombe. 

Fines:  in  banco. 

25.  H  :  3  from 

Richard  fil:  Adae 

of  2  yard  land  in 

Combe  to  waiter 

fil:  Agathae. 

diverfse  cartae  cu 

Antho:Kingefcote. 

Reg:  of  Knights'. 

fees  fo:  19. 

Ward :  at  releefe 

fo :  15. 


1624.  the  inheritance  of  S'  Tho:  Eflcourt,  And  that  family  of  Wike,  live  in  obfcure 
poverty ;  And  (to  fliewe  what  the  hand  of  heaven  worketh  amongft  the  fonnes  of  men 
and  princes)  I  haue  diuers  tymes  within.  26  yeares  part,  beheld  [the  faid  Robert] 
Wike  (the  heire  of  this  antient  line)  then  not  more  old  then  poore,  in  Chancery  lane, 
and  in  Fleet  flreet  London,  picking  up  the  fhreds  of  rags  caft  into  the  ftreetf  from 
the  fweepingf  of  Taylors  and  Seamfters  fliopps,  to  get  thereby  a  farthing  token  for 
his  Suflenance,  (fomewhat  harfh  to  be  written  by  mee)  when  my  felfe  and  others 
then  in  company,  knowinge  his  honorable  difcent,  and  feeing  his  prefent  condicon, 
haue  given  him  fix  pence  or  twelve  pence  from  amongfl  us,  concealinge  our  felues, 
and  eake  our  knowledges  of  him  ;  Howbeit  (confcious  of  his  Anceflors,  and  difcent, 
and  of  the  mount  from  whence  he  was  tumbled  downe)  hee  would  never  begg  of 
any,  for  ought  I  could  ever  fee  or  learne.  %\\ti  theis  vouchers  of  Records  followinge, 
will  fully  prove  all  the  difcents  from  the  faid  Elijabeth  Chedder  to  the  faid  old  and 
poore  M""  Wike.  vi3'  patent.  10.  H  :  6.  m  :  10.  /  pat  :  1 1.  H  6.  m  :  24  :  /  pat  :  24. 
H  :  6.  pars.  2.  m.  17  :  /  Rot.  pardon,  i.  E  :  4.  m.  42  :  /  pat.  13.  E  :  4 :  pars.  2,  m  : 
5  :  /  Mictlas  Fin.  :  16.  H  :  8.  2.  /^|  Togeather  with  the  Offices  after  theire  feverall 
deathes,  callendred  in  the  Chappell  of  the  Rolls  in  Channcery  Lane  obvious  (as 
before  I  fayd)  to  the  eye  of  every  ordinary  fearcher. 

7.  3illtinia  (in  fome  colle6lions  called  Alditha  but  erronioufly)  yongefh  daughter 
of  this  lord  Robert,  was  marryed  in  the  tyme  of  Henry  the  fecond  alfo,  to  Nigell  of 
Kingefcote,  fonne  of  Arthur,  then  owner  of  divers  lands  in  Combe  in  the  pifhe  of 
Wotton  vnderedge  (which  were  her  Joynter)  and  one  of  the  eight  pledges  of  this 
lord  Robert  in  the  agreement  at  Briflowe,  with  whom  this  lord  Robert  her  father 
gave  in  marriage  the  manor  of  Kingefcote  neer  adioyninge  to  Combe,  To  hold  of 
him  by  halfe  a  knights  ftee,  which  grant  King  Henry  aforefayd  confirmed,  <©Ut  of 
the  frutes  of  which  mariage,  came  two  fonnes,  Adam  &  Robert,  Adam  had  iffue 
Richard,  who  dyed  without  iffue  after  full  age;  Sfiltb  Robert  had  iffue  Nigell  and 
Richard  [Nigel  died  without  iffue  and  Richard  had  iffue  Nigel]  (who  tooke  part  with 
Mawrice  Lord  Berkeley  in  his  rebellion  againfl  King  Edward  the  fecond  in  the 
fifteenth  yeare  of  his  raigne)  And  hee  was  father  of  William,  Father  of  Nicholas, 
father  of  Henry,  Father  of  John,   Father  of,  [William]  (whoe  for  this  Manor  of 

Kingefcote 
Edmund,  father  of  Nicholas,  father  of  John,  father  of  Robert,  who  in  the  Nynth  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
alyened  this  Manor  of  Durfeley  to  Richard  Bird,  Gent,  and  he  to  Edmund  VVoolworth  ats  Webbe." 

1  The  following  are  the  references  in  this  place  in  the  "  Berkeley  Copy,"  viz. — "  Patent  10  H.  6 
patent  11  H.  6.  pars  i.  m.  3.  /  Rot.  pardon.  15  H.  6.  m.  22.  /  Claus.  21  H.  6.  m.  7.  /  Rot.  pardon.  24  H. 
6.  m.  24  /  Pat.  24  H.  6.  pars.  2.  m.  17  /  Rot.  pardon,  i  E.  4.  m.  22  /  Pat.  13  E.  4.  pars  2.  ra.  5  /  Mich.  fin. 
16  H.  8.  rot.  2." 


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Hife  of  iiobat  rt)c  Jfirjeft 


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Kingefcote  was  in  ward  to  William  Lord  Beri<cley  in  the  xiij'!"  of  Edward  the 
fourth)  And  was  father  of  William,  Father  of  William,  Father  of  William,  [Father 
of  William]  Father  of  Chriftopher,  Father  of  Anthonye  Kingefcote,  that  now  is, 
who  by  Katherine  his  wife  daughter  of  Robertt  Chambers  of  Bath  hath  iffue 
William,  Chriflopher,  Mathewe,  John,  Mary,  Eli3abeth,  Jone,  Anne  and  Heftre. 
Anno:  1629:  |  [Still  owner  of  this  Manor  of  Kingefcote  where  hee  and  all  his 
anceftors  have  lyved  till  this  day.]  ^ 

CljC  feale  which  this  lord  Robert  ufed  both  in  greene  and  yellowe  waxe  hath 
the  impreffion  of  a  knight  armed  and  mounted  as  for  prefent  onfet  in  the  warrs, 
And  is  circumfcribed  about  the  ringe  w""  theis  words.  S.  Rob  :  fil  :  Hard  :  in  bredth 
about  three  inches  ;  behold  the  forme  in  true  dimenfion. 


Note. — This  is  not  the  feal 
defcribed  by  Smyth,  which  is 
not   now   extant,  but  it   is  a 


fac  fimile  of  that  which  he  has 
tricked  for  Robert  Fitz  Hard- 
ing in  the  "  Berkeley  Copy." 
[Ed.] 


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^10  bcotl)  anb  place  of  buriaH 

C|)t^  Robert  fate  lord  Berkeley  about  twenty  yeares  after  the  quiet  eftablifh- 
ment  of  his  barony,  And  from  the  death  of  his  Father,  fifty  five  yeares,  And  dyed 
the  fifth  daye  of  February  Anno  .  1 1 70 .  in  the  feaventeenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of 
King  Henry  the  fecond,  of  whom  (as  Camden  hath  truly  written)  hee  was  entirely 
beloved,  then  beinge  of  the  age  of .  75  .  yeares  or  thereabouts. 

I&CC  lived  to  fee  his  childrens  children  growne  to  maturity  of  yeares,  His  body    Regid:  Roberti  de 
.  fii  1         Ricart  cu  niaiore 

was  buried  m  the  Church  of  S'  Auguuines,  whereof  hee  was  founder,  betweene  the    srifloll. 

Stalls  of  the  Abbot  and  Pryor  there,  and  next  to  the  Abbots  ftall  in  the  entringe 

into  the  quire  :  by  whom  was  after  layde  the  body  of  the  lady  Eve  his  wife. 

Theire 

1  The  words  in  this  paragraph  inchided  within  brackets  are  interpolated  in  the  "  Berkeley  Copy." 

I    2 


6o 


€|)c  ai\)C^  of  tijc  25crftcl(cpief 


1115 


Of  Robert  and 
Rve  his  wife ; 


Theire  Riches  were  like  corne,  lent  to  the  feild, 
What  it  received,  it  manifold  did  yeald  : 
Theire  bodies  have  a  grave,  theire  vertues  none 
But  doe  with  tyme  growe  greene,  now  they  are  gone. 

Amor  coniugalis  aeternus. 
One  mind,  one  Fayth,  one  hope,  one  grave, 
In  life  and  death,  they  had,  and  ftill  they  have.  | 

J^i^  \av330  to!|crcof  l)c  Dpcli  jSci^cb 

'  25p  tfie  bcatt)  of  this  lord  Robert,  difcended  to  Mawrice  his  eldeft  fonne,  theis 

Manors  and  lands,  befides  Slimbridge  and  divers  other  which  Mawrice  enioyed  in 

his  Fathers  lyfe  tyme.  viz' 

The  manor  of  Portbury  )  ,      ,     ^  r  r-  r 

_,  r  -n,    ^    ■   n  M "  the  County  of  bomerfet 

The  manor  01  Bedmmlter      ) 

The  manor  of  Berkeley  burrowe 

The  manor  of  Hame 

The  manor  of  Alkington 

The  manor  of  Hinton 

The  manor  of  Hurft 

The  manor  of  Came 

The  manor  of  Cowley 

The  manor  of  Simondfhall 

The  manor  of  Arlingham 

The  manor  of  Gofington 

The  manor  of  Vley 

The  manor  of  A6lon 

The  manor  of  Hannam  in  the 
pifhe  of  Bitton 

The  manor  of  Bray  in  y^  County  of  Devon 
Vnles  I  fhould  fuppofe  that  this  Mawrice  entred  formerly  vpon  them  when  this  lord 
Robert  his  Father  entred  into  religion,  by  becoming  a  Chanon  of  this  Monaftery 
of  S'  Auguftines. 

jfor  all  other  his  Manors  and  lands  before  mentioned,  I  conceive  them  to  bee 
conveyed  by  the  fayd  lord  Robert  to  his  yonger  children  and  theire  iffues. 

^C0i1iC0  theis  poffeffions,  this  Lord  Robert  leaft  a  greater  portion,  which  his 
73    offpringe   hath   enherited,    By  buildinge   of  a   houfe   to  God  |  at    Briftowe,    hee 

eftablilhed 


In  the  County  of  Glouc 


I170  Uifc  of  ilobm  tfjc  firjeit  6i 

eftabliflied  the  foundation  of  his  Caftlc  at  Berkeley  25p  a  cheercfull  guift  of  part  to 
God,  hee  refumed  back  that  guift  againe  much  inlarged,  wittneffed  by  the  bleffing 
powred  from  heaven  vpon  him-felfe  and  his  poflerity  ;  IlDf)ift)  to  bee  true,  hath 
nowe  the  teftimony  of  twenty  honorable  generations  from  his  owne  loynes. 

Of  his  greate  worth  to  knowe,  who  feeketh  more, 

Muft  mount  to  Heaven,  where  hee  is  gone  before. 

Ci)r  application  nnb  u0c  of  I)ijei  life 

1.  CljC  life  of  this  lord  deferves  to  have  bene  written  in  braffe,  that  afwell  the 
excellency  of  his  mind,  as  the  nobility  of  his  bloud,  might  have  bene  perpetuated  to 
his  pofterity,  leaft  iniurious  tyme  fliould  have,  as  now  for  the  greatefl;  parte  it  hath, 
deprived  it  of  due  eternity:  JLiib  it  may  inftru6l  his  pofterity  to  place  god  and  re- 
ligion in  the  upper  roome  of  their  hartf ,  |j5ot  to  bee  proud  or  high  minded,  lifting 
vp  high  thoughts,  when  they  fee  many,  dependant  vpon  them,  humbled  in  their 
prefence,  and  ready  to  execute  what  they  comaund  ;  knowinge  that  honor  and 
greatnes  have  their  bounds,  %vJi  that  the  very  memory  of  it,  may  in  fhort  tyme 
ceafe  amongfl  men,  when  vertu  and  godlines  growe  greene  with  tyme  and  fuffer 
noe  decay. 

2.  311ffninc,  the  life  of  this  Lord,  convinceth  the  vanity  of  thofe  that  hope  to 
purchafe  an  endlefs  memorial!  vnto  their  names,  by  workes  proceeding  rather  from 
theire  greatnes,  then  from  their  vertue,  which  therefore  are  noe  longer  theire  owne, 
then  themfelues  contynue  greate ;  Whereas  this  Lord  lyves  in  vertuous  remembrance 
in  after  ages,  after  the  death  of  greatnes  ;  A  prefident  mofl  worthy  of  memorial! 
and  imitation. 

3.  3ll0tline  from  the  wicked  plot  of  Earle  Godwin,  whereby  hee  gayned  a  ritch 
booty  of  vnhappy  treafure,  that  belonged  to  the  Service  of  the  |  living  God,  This    74 
noble  Family  may  obferve  howe  fmall  a  while  it  remayned  in  the  poffeffion  of  that 
potent  man,  who  quickly  after  fell  into  his  grave  ;  And  in  fewe  yeares  after,  howe 
Harold  his  fonne,  not  onely  was  bereaved  of  this  land  thus  wickedly  gotten,  but  of 

all  other  his  poffeffions,  with  his  fonnes,  and  theire  lyves  to  boote  ;  And  thereby 
make  vfe,  to  fquare  their  defires  by  rules  of  iuftice  and  righteous  dealinge ;  And  to 
remember,  That  the  iuft  God,  who  liveth  and  governeth  all  thinges  forever,  doth  in 
theis  our  tymes  (as  hee  hath  of  old)  throwe  downe  kingdomes  and  familyes  for  the 
fame  offences  which  were  comitted  of  old,  and  are  comitted  in  the  prefent. 

4.  3(l0aine,  from  the  pradlice  of  this  pious  and  prudent  Lord,  his  poflerity  may 
bee  inftruded,   not  to  deferr  theire  workes  of   piety,  nor  portions   intended  for 

yonnger 


62  €f)e  %i\je^  of  tlje  ^ttMtp^  1115 

yonnger  fonnes  till  after  death  ;  but  to  fee  them  perfitted  whilefl;  themfelves  are 
perfitt  in  memory  and  vnderflanding ;  And  as  far  as  may  bee  with  Affent  of  the 
eldeft,  as  this  lord  did,  whereby  hee  preevented  vnbrotherly  iealoufies,  that  often 
arife  about  partages ;  and  leaft  a  fetled  peace  in  his  pofterity ;  And  when  their 
fonnes  are  man-growne,  foe  to  impart  vnto  them,  that  they  may  not  think  their 
parents  lyves,  their  bondage ;  A  fault  too  frequent  both  w""  parents  and  children  in 
theis  tymes,  which  this  lord,  to  his  comfort,  avoyded. 

jfarctodi  thrice  bleffed  Lord,  bleffed  in  thy  pofterity,  for  they  inherite  the  land 
thou  leauefl,  Bleffed  in  thy  memory,  for  thy  good  deedes  are  had  in  everlaflinge 
memory  ;  And  bleffed  in  thy  death,  for  thou  reftefts  from  thy  labors.  And  thy  pious 
workes  followe  thee.  I 


75  &  76  blank 


fm^  Ilotjcrt  tfje  fit^t 


Note  B.  pp.  23,  24. 

£e//e,  et  Burgiet. — Thefe  terms,  which  occur  in  the  firfl  Charter  of  Henry  Duke  of  Normandy  &c., 
by  which  he  granted  to  Robert  Fit?  Harding  the  Manor  of  Bitton  and  lands  in  the  Manor  of  Berkeley  of 
the  value  of  ^^loo,  relate  to  franchifes  which  are  very  rarely  fpecifically  fo  dated,  and  confequently  the 
terms  are  fo  obfcure  as  to  render  a  note  defirable. 

The  fignification  of  the  term  belle,  or  bell,  is,  in  itfelf,  fufficiently  evident,  and  both  terms  are  found 
in  "The  Ancient  Laws  and  Inflitutes  of  England."  Hinder  "Ranks"  §  2p.  8i,we  find  that  "if  a  Ceorl 
thrived  fo  that  he  had  fully  five  hides  of  his  own  land.  Church  and  Kitchen,  bell-hus  and  burh-geat-fetl, 
(bell-houfe  and  burgh-gate-feat)  and  fpecial  duty  in  the  King's  hall,  then  was  he  thenceforth  of  thane-right 
worthy." 

Berkeley  is  a  very  ancient  borough,  if  not  by  prefcription,  and  we  do  not  find  any  burgeffes  men- 
tioned in  Domefday,  it  would  feem  to  be  recognifed  as  fuch  in  the  franchifes  fpecified  by  the  terms  under 
confideration.  Burgiet  is  doubtlefs  equivalent  to  Burh-geat,  burgata — a  town-gate,  and  we  confider  the 
franchife  under  this  term  confifted  of  the  power  to  have  a  town-gate  and  the  privilege  of  clofmg  it,  at 
pleafure,  for  defence  or  exclufion  ;  and  that  the  bell  was  a  Common-bell  to  call  the  burgeffes  together  when 
circumflances  demanded  it.  Comfuon  Bells  flill  exifl,  in  various  boroughs.  At  Chefler — At  Shrewfbury 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  VI  fome  Ordinances  were  referred  to  by  which  it  was  diredled  that  the  Commons, 
affembled  together  on  the  ringing  of  the  Common-bell,  fhould  choofe  the  burgeffes  to  be  fent  to  Parliament 
At  Monmouth  a  court  is  held  on  the  ringing  of  the  Town-bell  for  the  fame  purpofe.  Wallingford  may 
alfo  be  mentioned,  ^  and  we  believe  the  fame  pra<5lice  exifls,  or  did  exifl,  at  Briflol.  The  terms  are  not 
repeated  in  the  fubfequent  Charter  by  which  Henry  granted  to  Robert  Fits  Harding  the  whole  Manor  of 
Berkeley  and  Berkeley-Hemeffe,  but  the  franchifes  were  doubtlefs  included  in  the  liberties  and  cuftoms 
which  exifted  in  the  time  of  King  Henry  I.  as  granted  in  that  Charter.  In  this  Charter  we  have,  however, 
another  unufual  word  in  Marcheium.  This  is  doubtlefs  equivalent  to  "mercatum,"  as  (hewn  in  the  context. 
Du  Cange  gives  the  fame  word  as  Marcheyum  and  "  mercatum"  as  its  equivalent. 

1  Edited  by  B.  Thorpe,  and  printed  by  the  Record  Comminioa  in  1840. 
2  See  Stephens's  Hiftory  of  Boroughs. 


®l)e  ffifc  of  ittaaricc  tl)e  JFirst 


77 


€hc  Hifc  of  Maurice  lord    Berkeley  the  firfl;  of  that    Rot  pip*  temp. 

ri-1     1  •  •    •  Ti  H  :  2  :  et.  R:  I. 

name,  itiled  in  writings,  Mauric  nlius  Robert! ;  ant  Mauricius    ,.     , 

films  Roberti,  filij  Hardingi;  anli  Mau?  de  Beret ;  anb  Mauri-   CaftrodeBerkeicf. 

cius  de  Berkelei ;  anb  diis  Mauricius  de  Berket ;  Slnb  was 

the  firft  that  had  the  firname  of  Berkeley,  or  de  Berkeley. 

31nb  may  bee  called,  Maurice  the  make  peace 

Contaiiporarp  with  part  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  from  the 

yeare  .  1 170.  to  the  yeare  1 189. 

tBf^o0t  life  I  deliver  to  his  pofterity,  vnder  theis  thirtene 

titles  .  viz'. 


— 1$i^  birth  and  education,  fol  :  78  : 

. — The  confirmations  of  the  Manor  and  barony  "If,      „ 

of  Berkeley  made  to  him  )     ^°^  •  7«  •  79- 

—i$i^  liberality  to  the  Abby  of  S'  Auguftins  .  fol  :  80. 

— <Jf|C  fame  Abbotf  ingratitude  to  him  .  fol  :  80. 

— Berkeley  Caftle  becomes  this  lords  dwelling  houfe  "I    r  1    o 
and  the  name  changeth  from  Harding  to  Berkeley  )         '  ^" 

— f^i0  Almes  and  devotions,  fol  :  83. 

— J^iitf  foundinge  the  hofpitall  of  Longbridge  neere  Berkeley,  fol : 84. 

—^10  toife,  fol  :  87. 

— I^^Sf  iffue,  fol  :  89. 

— l^ijef  feale  of  Armes,  fol :  91. 

— j^iitf  death  and  place  of  buriall,  fol  :  92. 

■Clje  latfb^  whereof  he  dyed  feafed  .  fol :  92. 

— Cfie  application  and  ufe  of  his  life .  fol :  93. 


64 


%i\ie0  of  t^c  2&crhriepje{ 


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78 


j^i^  6ict||  anti  c&ucation. 


Anlig  :  manufcript 

Aug  :  chart  :  in 

caflro  de  Berkeley. 


c 


1}\S  Corb  ZTIaUriC^  was  home  in  Brifloll  not  long  after  the  death  of 
Harding  his  Grandfather  ;  bred  up  with  his  father  the  lord  Robert  in  his 
great  flone  houfe  built  by  him  vpon  the  banke  of  the  River  of  ffrome  there, 
Hollingefh:fol:5s  where  hee  fpent  part  of  his  life  after  his  Fathers  death:  Age,  tyme,  place,  occafion, 
et  poftea :  affe6lion  of  parents,  and  other  circumflances,  foe  iumply^  concurre,  that  I  feeme 
warranted  to  fay,  That  when  that  kinge,  then  not  Duke,  followed  his  mother  the 
Emparice  in  the  viij""  yeare  of  king  Stephen  into  England,  and  was  for  his  educa- 
tion fetled  at  Briftoll  for  fower  yeares  vnder  one  Mathewe  his  Schoolmafler,  That 
if  hee  and  this  Maurice  were  not  schollers  together  vnder  the  fame  mafter,  yet 
vpon  the  Dukes  fecond  abode  there  for  two  yeares  more  in  the  fowerteenth  and 
fifteenth  of  King  Stephen,  there  were  many  affe6lionate  relations  and  paffages 
betweene  them,  which  relifhed  to  this  lord's  iffue  alfo,  as  after  followeth  :  CilTlCjEt 
wherein  Maiefty  was  free  from  pride,  and  humility  held  to  bee  the  higheft  honor. 


I^Ot  longe  after  the  death  of  his  Father,  about  the  eighteenth  of  Kinge  Henry 
the  fecond,  this  lord  obtayneth  of  that  kinge  a  confirmation  of  his  Manor  of 
Berkeley  and  of  all  Berkeley  herneffe,  which  for  the  finall  faftninge  of  this  noble 
cornerflone,  whereupon  their  barony  is  built,  I  will  out  of  the  Deed  it  felfe,  fet 
downe  verbatim. 


Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

ptita  de  quo  warr. 

Pafch:is.  E;i. 

rot  :  12. 


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f$  :  Oi  gfa  rex  AngJ  et  Dux  Norman  et  Aquit  et  Coin  And,  oiiiibus  Archiepis, 
Epis,  Abbibus,  confulibus,  vicecofii,  baronibus,  Juftic,  et  oibus  fuis  fidelibj,  ffrancis, 
et  Anglicis,  Sat.  ^ctati^  me  dediffe  et  conceffiffe  Mauritio  filio  Rodbti  filij  Hard' 
et  heredibus  fuis,  Berkelai  et  totam  Berkelai  Herneffe  quam  donavi  pri  fuo  in  feodo 
et  hereditate  pro  fuo  magno  fervitio,  maneriii,  fch,  cu  6ib3  appendlcijs  fuis  plene  et 
integre  fie  erat  in  tpre  Henrici  reg  avi  mei  ;  Tenendu  in  feod  et  hereditate  fibi  et 
hered  fuis,  de  me  et  de  hered  meis,  per  fervic  quinque  militu.  Et  accepi  pro  ifla 
fup'^didta  donatione  ^dcte  terre,  homagiii  Mauricij  filij  Rodbti  filij  Hard  Quare  volo 
et  firmiter  praecipio  vt  Maurlcius  |  et  heredes  fui  fJdictm  maneriu  et  oia  pertinentia 
fua  in  ecctijs,  in  nemorib3,  in  planis,  in  pafcuis,  in  terris,  in  aquis,  in  vijs,  in  femitis, 
et  in  placitis,  et  in  oibus  rebus  et  eventibus,  teneant  et  imppetuu  tieant  libe  quiete 
1  Nicely,  Exaftly.     See  Hallhvell.      [Ed.]  et 


Uife  of  ^tiuricc  tt^t  f  ir^^t 


65 


et  honorifice  cu  Tol,  et  Them,  et  Soch  et  Sach,  ct  infankenethef,  cu  oibus  libertati- 
bus  et  litis  confuetudinib5  fuis  et  quietantijs  que  ibi  fuerunt  in  tpre  Henrici  regis 
avi  mei  ;  Et  preterea  dedi  et  conceffi  eis  tiere  in  fujydcfto  mancrio,  liberii  marcheu 
cu  oibus  libertatib3  que  ad  marclied  pertinent  quacunque  die  Septimane  voluerint, 
et  monetum  cii  proprio  monetario  fuo.  T.  Ricardo  Abbe  Sci  Auguftini  de  Briftow, 
Reginaldo  Comite  Cornubie,  Rogero  Comite  Hereford,  Ricardo  de  Hume^  Con- 
ftabulario,  Manafero  Bifeth  Dapifero,  Wittmo  filio  Hamundi,  Guarino  filio  Geroldi 
Robto  de  Saltmareis.  Wherein  note  that  the  words  dedi  et  conceffi,  implye  noe 
more  in  this  place,  then  confirmavi,  a  confirminge  of  a  former,  and  noe  newe  grant, 
as  fometymes  alfo  fundavi  and  fundator  denote  a  benefadlor  onely  or  confirmer  of  an 
others  AA  and  guift,  as  after  will  appeare  ;  neither  did  he  pay  any  thinge  to  the 
kinge  for  this  confirmation,  that  can  bee  found  in  the  great  roll  of  the  pipe  or  elf- 
where,  but  obtayned  the  fame  vpon  the  doinge  of  his  homage. 


2Cl)C  like  confirmation  this  lord  had  a  little  before  his  death  dated  the  thirtieth 
day  of  Oclob'  in  the  firfl  of  King  Richard  the  firfi;,  made  by  Queene  Alienor 
mother  to  that  King,  And  in  his  then  ab fence  Regent  of  the  land.  To  hold  in 
baronia  of  King  Richard  her  fonne  by  the  Service  of  five  knights  fees,  for  which 
this  Jord  payd  one  thoufand  nikes.  The  entry  whereof  in  the  great  roll  of  the  pipe 
is:  Mauricius  de  Bercheley  debet  1000  marcas  pro  fine  terre  fue,  et  pro  confirmacoe 
dni  Regis  habenda  ;  Maurice  de  Bercheley  owes  1000  markes  for  the  fine  of  his 
land  and  the  Kings  confirmacon  :  tDl^tcI)  in  the  next  yeare  is  all  payd. 


baronia 

Cart :  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
Rot:pip:in2.et  3. 
R  :  I.  in  Sccio 
Glouc  : 


]^at)ingt   thus   fetled  his  eflate,   hee  confirmeth  to  his  two  yonger  bretheren  Cartae  in  caftro 

Nicholas  and  Robertt  and  to  their  heires,  by  his  feuerall  Deedes,  fuch  partf  of  his  ^    ^^  ^^^' 
faid  Manor  of  Berkeley  as  his  father  the  lord  Robert  had  feverally  given  unto  them, 
viz'  To  Nicholas  the  manors  of  Hill  and  Nimpesfeild  and  to  Robt  the  Manors  of 

Beuerflon  and  Kingefwefton,  as  before  in  the  relation  of  theire  lyves  is  touched  ;  carta  cu  Anthonis 

3Ilntl  the  like  confirmation  hee  made  to  Adam  de  Kingefcote  his  nephewe  ;  fonne  |  Kingefcote: 

and  heire  to  his  fifter  Aldena,  of  y°  Manor  of  Kingefcote  given  to  her  in  Fee  80 

Simple  vpon  her  mariage  with  Nigell  father  of  the  fayd  Adam,  as  formerly  is  Seefol:[7o] 
mentioned. 


9£nil  about  the  fame  tyme,  grants  and  confirmes  to  his  meh  and  Tenants  of   Carta  cum  Rotto 
Radclifeftreet,  all  fuch  cuftomes  and  liberties  which  they  had  in  the  tj-me  of  his    Bath"^^"^^  *^^ 
father.  And  which  his  father  by  his  deed  confirmed  vnto  them,  whereto  the  fayd 
Nigell  the  fonne  of  Arthure,  and  Adam  his  fonne,  are  witneffes. 


66 


€J)c  HiMt^  of  tlje  ^ctMci^g 


1 170 


Carta  in  Callro 
de  Berkeley. 

/ 
Aug:chari:fol:34. 
35.  in  Callro 
de  Berkeley. 


Aug :  chart  :fo:  36. 

Rol3t  de  Ricart 

cum  Maiore 

BriftoU  : 


81 


The  Antiquity  of 

the  Towne  mill. 

Aug: chart  :  fo  :  35 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Carta  cum  decano 

Briftoll  in  the 

Chapter  houfe. 


^Ijifif  Maurice  in  the  day  of  the  dedication  of  his  fathers  faid  church  and 
Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftine,  layeth  meekly  downe  vpon  the  altar,  his  deed,  whereby 
hee  alfo  (afwell  as  the  reft  of  his  bretheren)  gaue  to  god  and  S!  Auguftine  the 
Englifh  Apoftle,  (in  dotem)  towards  the  fayde  churches  mariage  portion  (they  are 
the  very  words)  in  prefence  of  the  fower  Bifhops  of  Worcefter,  Exeter,  Landaph, 
and  S;  Afaph,  one  hide  of  land  at  Hinton  in  the  parifli  of  Berkeley:  %ixti  afterwards, 
gave  more  to  the  Abbott  and  Covent  of  the  fame  Monaftery,  one  yard  land  at 
Alkynton,  and  one  other  at  Oldminftre  in  Hinton  aforefayd,  and  divers  other  lands 
in  other  of  his  Manors,  which  at  this  day  are  worth  .  200^-  .  per  Ann.  ^Uttwhich 
hee  alfo,  by  his  Deed  nowe  confirmeth  vnto  them,  as  formly  hee  had  to  his  two 
brothers  and  Nephewe :  3llnD  alfo  by  his  other  Deede  confirmeth  to  the  fayd 
Church  of  S'  Auguftines  (quam  dns  pater  fuus  ad  honorem  dei  fundavit)  which  his 
lord  father  to  the  honor  of  god  had  founded)  all  whatfoever  his  father  had  given  to 
them  in  Berkeley  Herneffe,  Almondefbury,  Horefeild,  Effelworth,  Chromale,  and 
other  places  when  hee  became  a  Chanon  of  y"  fayd  Monaftery. 

€l)c  3llt>&ot;6f  ingrfltitubc 

I^Ottoit^ttinbingC  which  and  many  other  rjtcljc  and  liberall  almes,  given  to  that 
Monaftery  (for  all  lands  were  was  allwayes  given  vnto  them  in  puram  elemofinam) 
when  this  lord  Maurice  had  fhortly  after  fomewhat  enlardged  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley, 
and  had  for  the'  better  fortification  thereof,  by  making  of  a  ditche  on  the  North  fide, 
cut  a  little  of  the  ground  |  of  the  Church  yard,  belonging  to  the  Church  of  Berkeley 
(which  on  that  part  adioyneth  ;  the  Abbott  and  Covent  foe  purfued  him  by  ecclefi- 
afticall  cenfures,  (as  though  the  offence  had  bene  inexpiable);  the  merits  of  his 
Father,  himfelfe,  and  bretheren  towards  them  quite  forgotten)  That  they  make  him- 
felf  to  caft  durt  vpon  his  owne  face,  and  like  a  fchoolboy  by  his  Deed  to  faye.  That 
pro  emendatione  culpae  meae  de  foffato  quod  feci  de  cimeterio  de  Berkeley  circa 
caftellum  meum,  for  redemption  &  pardoning  of  my  offence  comitted  by  mee 
vpon  the  Church  yard  of  Berkeley  in  making  the  ditch  about  my  Caftle,  I  doe  give 
unto  the  Church  of  Berkeley  five  fhillings  rent  for  euer  iffuing  out  of  my  mill  under 
my  Caftle,  And  I  give  alfo  to  the  faid  Abbot  and  Monaftery  for  ever  (being 
patrons  of  the  faid  Church)  the  Tythes  of  the  pawnage'  of  my  Chace  of  Michael- 
wood,  and  of  Appleridge,  and  of  Okeley,  and  of  Wotton  parkes,  and  pafture  for  as 
many  of  theire  oxen  as  will  till  one  plowe  land,  to  feed  with  fuch  of  myne  as  doe 
till  my  demefne  lands,  in  pure  and  perpetuall  Almes  for  ever.  HDtjicf)  ingratefull 
returne,  this  lord  foe  deeply  tooke  to  hart,  Cl)at  hee  never  after  looked  fairely  vppon 
the  faid  Abbot  and  Covent,  nor  conferred  any  benefits  vpon  them,  neither  would 

bee 

1  Pannage,  Pannagium,  that  is  food  for  fwine  fuch  as  beech-mafl  and  acorns.     [Ed.] 


II89 


life  of  ^Jl^auricc  tljc  fk^t 


67 


bee  buryed  within  their  Monaflery,  nor  haue  any  Aniverfary  there  celebrated,  or 
other  devotions  for  his  foule  done  amonsrft  them. 


JLct  nice  have  leaue  a  litle  to  digreffe,  Cf)e  tythes  of  Wotton  parke,  and  woods, 
in  the  forementioned  deed,  are  not,  nor  at  any  tyme  were  in  Berkeley  parifh,  but  in 
the  parifh  of  Wotton,  as  antient  a  parifh  as  Berkeley,  and  honored  with  as  many 
Chappels  belonging  to  it,  Cljat  none  were  payde  before  this  grant  of  the  thinges 
therein  contayned,  the  Deed  it  felfe  affures  us,  Cljnt  this  lord  had  power  to  grant 
or  not  to  grant  theis  Tythes,  and  to  whome  he  would,  dwellinge  in  or  out  of 
the  faid  parifh  is  as  playne  by  the  Deed  ;  Of  which  kind  alfo  theis  relations  will 
prefent  others  more  ;  311nll  therewith  alfo  agrees  the  record  in  the  feaventh  of 
Edward  the  third  in  the  cafe  of  the  pryor  of  Lewes  :  jfconi  hence  I  purpofed,  to 
have  taken  the  occafion  of  openinge  to  this  family  howe  the  cafe  for  payement  of 
tythes  within  their  barony  of  Berkeley  flood  in  theis  antient  tymes.  And  how 
it  ftandeth  at  this  day,  the  rather  fith  controverfies  about  payement  of  Tythes  out 
of  the  lord  Berkeleys  parkes,  woods,  and  chafes,  are  moved  at  this  inflant,  wherein 
I  have  vndergone  a  litle  paynes  :  And  to  haue  concluded  with  the  Hebrewe 
proverbe  mentioned  in  y^  J  ewes  writings  at  this  daye,  pay  tythes  juftly  that  thou 
mayefl;  bee  ritch  :  But  when  I  fell  upon  the  bookes  of  Carleton,  |  Eburne,  Ridley, 
Chancellor  of  Winton  and  fome  other,  And  laflly  vpon  Butler  fometymes  my  fellow 
ftudent  in  Magdalen  Colledg  in  Oxford)  and  in  the  end  of  his  treatife  of  bees, 
which  hee  calleth  his  feminine  monarchy,  find  him  (with  others)  cenforioufly  to 
proclaime,  Cljilt  for  laymen  which  wayt  not  at  the  Aultar,  to  lay  their  prophane 
hands  upon  the  lords  portion,  and  receive  Tythes,  is  fuch  a  fmne  as  the  man  of 
fmne  himfelfe  would  not  attempt,  and  fuch  an  abbominacon  as  in  former  ages 
amongfl  Chriflians  or  heathen,  the  world  never  heard  of,  nor  ever  was  heard  of  in 
this  famous  He,  fince  it  firfl  imbraced  the  fayth  of  Chrifl,  vntill  that  flrange  A(51; 
whereby  the  church  was  vnmercifully  fpoyled,  not  onely  of  her  lands  the  guiftf  of 
men,  but  of  her  Tythes  alfo  the  guiftf  of  god,  and  given  to  the  Robbers  themfelves, 
calling  them  Thefts,  accurfed  evills,  irreligious  Sacriledges,  and  the  like  ;  I  then 
retraced  my  intent.  And  fend  him  that  defireth  further  fatisfaftion  to  the  Hiflory 
of  Tythes  written  by  John  Selden  of  the  Inner  temple  given  mee  by  the  lady 
Elizabeth  Berkeley  with  her  motto,  non  eft  mortale  quod  opto  :  And  to  an  other 
treatife  alfo  of  his  in  fewe  months  after  written  in  confutation  of  Doctor  Tillefly  his 
refuter,  with  the  Do6lors  reply.  Then  which  none  more  learned  in  that  argument, 
have,  I  fuppofe,  bene  prefented  to  the  world.  3lln&  feeing  I  am  a  little  digreffed  take 
a  glymps  of  the  Acflions  of  this  Abbot,  wheather  any  beame  was  in  his  owne  eye, 
K  2  when 


Rot  :claus  :  7.  E:3 
m  :  13  in  dorfo 
pro  priore  de  lewes 


82 

Butler  in  prima 
editione. 


the  pope. 


A6t  of  parliament 
3i:H:8: 


Selden 

See  doctor 

Mountegu  his 

booke  agaynfl 

Selden. 

See  alfo  S'  James 

Semple : 


68 


€f)c  %.iyic^  of  tftc  23crhricp^ 


1 170 


when  thus  hee  quarrelled  at  the  moth  in  his  lord  and  patrons  ;  CfjC  church  of  Wotton 
Carta  in  Caftro    becometh  voyd,  The  Abbot  prefents  one  Wittm  Clarke  to  the  Bifhop  of  Worcefter, 
^      "^  (within  whofe  Dioces  it  then  was)  whom  the  Bifhopp  admitteth  to  the  fayd  church 

and  to  her  two  Chappells  of  Simondfall  &  Nibley,  vppon  condicon  (accordinge  to 
the  fimonicall  contra6l  aforehand  made)  ^tjat  hee  fhould  duringe  his  incumbency 
pay  an  yearly  penfion  of  three  markes  to  the  faid  Abbot  and  Covent  out  of  the  fame 
benefice,  for  the  better  feedinge  of  himfelfe  and  his  monckes,  accordingly  was 
inftituted  and  indu6led. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


83 


%nti  by  an  other  Deed  of  the  fame  tyme,  This  Bifhop  of  Worcefter  (faith  this 
other  Deed)  taking  confideration  of  the  honeft  converfation  of  this  Abbot  and 
Cannons,  and  of  the  poverty  of  theire  houfe,  and  of  theire  diligent  care  afwell  in 
receivinge  ftrangers,  as  in  nourifhinge  of  poore  people,  doth  take  theire  whole 
houfe,  churches,  and  ecclefiaflicall  goods,  into  his  prote6lion  ;  And  to  the  end,  the 
benefitts  of  charity  which  from  the  firft  |  foundation  of  theire  houfe  have  bene 
beftowed  on  them,  might  more  abundantly  to  gods  honor  be  dilated,  doth  by  his 
epifcopall  authority  grant  vnto  them  that  they  may  convert  to  their  proper  vfe  the 
fruits  of  the  churches  of  Berkeley,  Wotton,  Almondefbury  and  Afhelworth  for  the 
fuftentation  of  the  faid  Cannons,  receivinge  of  guifts,  and  releefe  of  poore  people, 
fauing  alwayes  the  dignity  of  the  Church  of  of  Worcefter,  and  honeft  fuftentation  of 
the  vicars  fervinge  in  the  faid  churches  :  5Jnt)Cr  which  pretext,  theis  fower  noble 
Advowfons  w'^  theire  chappells  were  appropriated  to  that  monaftery  and  to  the 
feeding  of  the  monkes  bellies,  more  worth  then  one  thoufand  pownds  by  the  yeare 
at  this  daye  :  ^tltl,  three  of  the  Cures  in  thofe  great  and  populous  parifhes,  nowe 
ferved  by  poore  hirelings  with  beggerly  ftipends ;  'Ci)i$f  with  thofe  religious  men  in 
the  fence  of  thofe  tymes,  was  noe  offence  in  comparifo  of  this  lords  digging  a  little 
morfell  of  Berkeley  Church  yard  in  a  needfull  tyme,  to  a  neceffary  vfe,  leavinge  the 
refidue  of  more  then  a  fufficient  largenes  :  And  nowe  I  returne  : 


CljijflE  Caftle  of  Berkeley  by  this  lord  Maurice  thus  enlarged  and  fortified, 
became  his  dwelling  houfe.  And  hee  from  Somerfetftiire  &  Midlefex,  became 
a  Gloucefterftiire  man ;  And  thenceforth  his  ftile  or  Name  of  Maurice  the  fonne 
of  Robertt,  began  filently  to  flipp  away  from  him,  3llnb  hee  alfo  ftiled  himfelfe 
Mauritius  de  Berkelei,  Maurice  of  Berkeley  and  lord  Maurice  of  Berkeley  (as  alfo 
the  Deeds  of  other  men  did,  which  were  made  to  him,)  But  the  finall  funerall  of  the 
SeefoL:  [99,  100.]    name  of  Harding,  fee  in  the  next  life  of  Robert  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice. 


Stile  changeth. 
Rot ;  pip :  in  Sccio. 

divers  :  cartae  in 
Caftro  de  Berkeley. 


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Uifc  of  ^a^uritt  tljc  fit0t 


69 


I^iirf  3CImc^  anb  SDcuotion.tf 

JTlji.ef  lord  was  founder  of  the  hofi)it;dl  of  the  Mafter  and  bretheren  of 
Lorwinge,  feated  in  the  way  betweene  Berkeley  and  Durfeley,  at  this  daye  called 
Lorenge  farme,  endowing  it  with  a  competency  of  land,  which  in  his  deed  of 
foundation,  hee  expreffeth  to  be  done  by  him  for  the  profperity  and  foules  helth  of 
his  two  yonger  fonnes,  Thomas  and  Maurice,  which  Thomas  (by  the  death  of  his 
elder  brother  Robert  without  iffue)  cominge  afterwards  to  bee  lord  Berkeley,  gave 
the  fayd  hofpitalt  of  Lorwenge  to  God  and  to  the  Abbot  of  S!  Peeters  of  Glouc ;  as 
being  Prior  of  the  Church  of  S!  Leonard  of  Stanley,  and  to  the  Monkes  of  Glouc ; 
there  ferving  God  ;  IJCntl  withall  gaue  divers  other  lands  in  Cowley  for  the  love  of 
God,  and  the  foules  health  of  himfelfe  and  of  his  anteceffors,  3Ilnll  afterwards  alfo 
in  appeafinge  of  a  Sute  in  an  Affife  of  darreine  prefentment  rayfed  by  the  fayd 
Abbot  of  S!  Peters  |  againfl:  him  for  the  church  of  Slimbridge  (under  pretext  of 
Roger  of  Berkeleis  grant)  which  this  Abbot  nowe  releafeth  ;  the  fayd  Lord  agayne 
confirmed  and  made  more  perfitl;  to  the  fayd  Abbot  and  Covent  of  S5  Peeters,  his 
former  grant  of  Loringe,  As  by  a  Fine  leavyed  between  them  in  the  Nynth  yeare 
of  King  Henry  the  third  appeareth  wherein  the  fayd  lord  agreeth  to  recompence 
with  equal!  value  to  the  Abbot,  if  that  of  Lorwenge  by  his  heires  fhould  be  evi6led, 
which  farme  and  lands  are  at  this  day  more  worth  then  220''-  per  Ann. 


Aug  :  chart  ;  fol  : 
S3.  54.  in  caRro 
de  Berkeley. 

Carta  in  Caflro  de 
lierkeley. 


Fine  9  :  H  :  3.  in 
thes :  receptSccij. 


Glouc:  manufcript 
cu  decano  Glouc  : 


84 


Fine.  9  :  H  :  3  in 
oftab  :  hillarij. 

Lorwenge. 


'Cf)tj6(  lord  was  alfo  founder  of  the  hofpitall  of  S'  Trinity  of  Longbridge  at  the    Carta  in  Caftrode 
North  end  of  Berkeley,  The  ruinous  walls  whereof  I  remember  (landing  amidfl  the      ^"^  ^  ^^' 
banckes  of  divers  fifh  ponds  there,  which  for  the  moft  part  are  nowe  cultivated  into    iuxta  Berkeley, 
a  plaine  meadowe  ground,  the  inheritance  of  John  Atwood  :  XOt^cttof^  take  here 
togeather,  all  I  knowe. 

Clpon  the  foundation  of  which  hofpitall,  it  was  agreed  betweene  this  Lord  carta  in  caftro 
Maurice,  the  Church  of  Berkeley,  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines,  and  the  Pryor  of  this  ^  •■  ^y 
hofpitall,  That  the  Chaplein  of  this  Hofpitall  for  the  tyme  being,  called  afterwards 
the  pryor  or  Cuflos,  fliould  doe  fealty  to  the  Church  of  Berkeley  in  the  prefence  of 
the  faid  Abbot  and  of  this  lord  their  heires  and  Succeffors,  And  (hould  doe  noe 
damage  to  the  faid  Church  in  offrings,  Tythes,  or  other  thinges  which  of  parochial! 
right  doe  belonge  to  the  faide  Church  of  Berkeley :  But  that  it  fhall  be  lawfull  for 
the  Bretheren  of  the  fayd  hofpitall  to  have  and  retaine  in  the  Feafts  of  S!  John  the 
Baptift  and  of  bleffed  Mary  Magdalen,  the  Offerings  of  the  parifhioners  of  Berkeley 
which  came  to  thofe  Feafts,  3lln&  that  the  fayd  Bretheren  fhall  have  their  owne 
fepultures  there,  And  that  the  fayd  Abbot  fhall  bee  their  vifitor  and  Corredlor. 

atftcrtoacbii 


70  €ljc  %Voc0  of  tJ)c  ^evMci^0  1170 

Carta  in  Caftro  de  5llftcrtortrllSf   the   lord    Maurice,   this    Lords   grandchilde   in  y'  tyme  of  King 

Henry  the  third,  for  the  health  of  his  owne  foule,  and  of  Ifabell  his  wife,  and  of 
their  parents,  anteceffors,  and  fucceffors,  gave  divers  other  landes  in  the  parifh  of 
Berkeley  to  this  hofpitall,  to  the  end  they  fliould  finde  a  Chaplen  to  fing  in  their 
hofpitall  for  their  Soules,  which  if  hee  fayled  at  any  tyme  to  doe,  they  fliould  for 
every  Offence  forfeite  fix  loaves  of  white  bread  of  their  proper  goods,  which  fhould 
bee  diftributed  to  the  vfe  of  poore  people  for  the  good  of  the  foules  aforefaid.  | 

85  Sftt  t|)C  fortieth  yeare  of  the  fayd  Kinge,  Anno  .  1255  .  vpon  newe  controverfies 

Regiflrm :  Wigorn  arifeing,  an  other  compofition  was  made  for  the  further  indemnity  of  the  Church  of 
"  ■  "  ■  ■  Berkeley,  That  all  the  feculars  in  the  hofpitall  of  Longbridge,  exceptinge  a  Cooke, 
and  one  perfon  to  kepe  fick  folkes,  fliould  in  the  fpetiall  folemne  dayes,  come  to 
Berkeley  Church,  and  there  fhould  receive  all  the  ecclefiaflicall  Sacraments,  (except 
holy  bread  and  holy  water^)  vnles  it  bee  by  the  difpenfation  and  leave  of  the  Vicar 
of  Berkeley  for  the  tyme  beinge. 

Regiftrm  jpotDCttCtlC  yeares  after  this  in  the  fower  and  fiftieth  yeare  of  the  falde  Kinge 

Wigornie.  .  .  , 

Henry  the  third,  Anno.  1269.  An  other  controverfy  arofe  betweene  this  lord,  and 

the  Bifhop  of  Worcefter  which  of  them  fhould  prefent  to  this  hofpitall,  wherein  the 
agreement  at  lafl;  was  made,  That  the  fame  beinge  now  voyd,  this  lord  Maurice 
fhould  firft  prefent,  and  the  Bifliop  the  next  turne,  And  foe  each  of  them  by  alter- 
nate courfes,  the  faide  lord  and  his  heires,  and  the  faid  Bifhop  and  his  Succeffors : 
In  which  agreement,  the  ftile  of  the  lord  is,  Nobilis  vir  Mauricius  de  Berkeley,  And 
that  the  prefentation  fhould  runne,  ad  cuftodiam  five  curam  hofpitalis  san6lae 
trinitatis  de  Longbridge  extra  Berkeley,  To  the  Cuflody  or  cure  of  the  hofpitall  of 
S'  Trinity  of  Longbridge  without  Berkeley. 

Carta  in  Caflro  de  '^tX  the  xxiij'^  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  third,  the  lord  Maurice  the  fourth 

Berkeley,    ^f  ^^^^  name,  gave  to  this   Hofpitall,  All   his  meffuages,  lands  and  Tenements  in 

Arlingham,  or  elfewhere  within  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  which  hee  had  purchafed 

Carta  in  caflro    of  Richard  Ferror,  SUlttJ  in  the  fame  yeare,  fomewhat  increafed  his  liberality  to  the 

de  Berkeley,    f^yd  hofpitall  with  the  guift  of  ij?  vj?  rent  out  of  the  lands  of  John  Neell  in  Wanifwell, 

and  of  certaine  lands  in  Berkeley,  and  enioyned  the  Pryor  and  Bretheren  of  this 

Hofpitall 
1  The  "  Holy  Bread  "  here  mentioned  is  not  the  bread  for  the  Holy  EuchariR  or,  as  it  is  fometimes 
called,  the  "  finging  bread,''  but  the  "  Eulogia  "  or  "  Holy  loaf,"  which  was  made  of  ordinary  bread,  and 
cut  up  and  diRributed  to  the  people  by  the  Priefl  after  the  Mafs  was  finifhed.  "  Holy  Water"  was  the 
water  bleffed  by  the  Priefl  and  placed  in  the  Roups  at  Church  doors  with  which  the  people  crolTed  them- 
felves  on  entering  the  Church.     [Ed.] 


1 1 89  aifc  of  iH^nuncc  tl)c  fir^t 

Hofpitall,  to  celebrate  yearly  the  aniverfary  day  of  his  Father,  And  then  to 
dillribute  to  euery  Chaplen  there,  one  penny;  And  amongll  the  Clarkes  two  pence; 
And  to  the  poore  fix  pence;  And  upon  the  Aniverfary  daye  of  himfelfe  to  diflribute 
to  everie  Chaplen  one  penny,  And  amongfl  the  Clarkes  two  pence  ;  And  to  the 
poore  thirteene  pence,  And  vpon  every  of  the  Aniverfary  dayes  of  Eli5abeth  his 
wife,  and  of  Katherine  lady  Berkeley,  And  of  S'  Nicholas  Poyn3,  And  of  S'  Tho: 
Dittewell  Chaplen  of  our  lady  of  Berkeley,  to  dillribute  to  every  Chaplen  one  penny 
And  to  the  Clarkes  two  pence  ;  And  upon  fayling  of  theis  duties.  This  Lord  and 
his  heires  to  re-enter,  And  to  have  his  lands  agayne.  3tlllJ  in  the  xxv'l'  yeare 
increafed  his  former  liberalities  by  the  guift  of  a  meffuage  in  Berkeley  to  the  faid 
hofpitall,  for  the  more  ample  pformance  of  the  faid  |  deuotions. 


71 


86 


3[ntf)C  fower  and  fortieth  of  King  Edward  the  third,  Nicholais  Jeffrais  cuflos    pat:44. E:3pars.2 

ITI ;  8. 

hofpitalis  fctae  trinitatis  de  longbridge  iuxta  Berkelay,  And  Thomas  Munday  parfon 
of  Beckbrooke  in  Lincolnefhire,  exchanged  benefices  ;  whereby  Mundy  had  this  of 
Longbridge,  whom  the  kinge  prefented  by  reafon  of  the  minority  of  Thomas  lord 
Berkeley  his  ward. 

IBintarn   Marquis   Berkeley  by  his  laft  will  made  in  the  feauenth  of  Kinge    Vltima  Volunt 
Henry  the  feaventh,  ordayned  that  his  Executors  fhould  purchafe  two  and  twenty    Barkeley  in  reg : 
markes  rent  by  the  yeare  to  find  two  preifls  in  this  Chappie  of  longbridge,  whereof    London : 
one  to  finge  in  Trinity  Chappie  there,  And  the  other  in  the  Chappie  of  Berkeley 
Church,  where  his  Father  and  his  fonne  S^  Thomas  lye  bur)^ed,  or  els  that  his  rent 
of  two  and  twenty  markes  out  of  Frampton  vpon  Seaverne  bee  difpofed  to  thee 
performance  of  the  fame,  And  that  his  Executors  fhould  fpend  one  hundred  markes 
in  buildinge  of  an  houfe  here  at  Longbridge  for  two  preifts  to  inhabite  in.   And  to 
laye  out  forty  markes  more  to  buy  veflments  and  Ornaments  for  the  faide  Chappie, 
And  (hould  purchafe  a  pardon  from  the  Court  of  Rome,  as  large  as  may  bee  had, 
for  this  Chappie,  from  evenfonge  to  evenfonge,  in  the  feaft  of  S!  Trinity  for  ever, 
for  pleyne  remiffion  to  them  that  will  be  confeffed  and  contrite,  And  there  then  fay, 
three  pater  nofters,  and  three  Aves,  for  his  foule,  and  for  the  foules  aforefaid. 


f^i^  hofpitall   being  diffolved  and  cominge   into  the    Kings  hands  by  the 
Statute  of  Chantries  made  in  the  firft  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  fixth,  was  after- 
wards by  the  tres  Patents  of  Oueene  Eli5a5abeth  dated  the  xxxi'I'  of  December  in    j     y^^  Sc~io 
the  fourth  yeare  of  her  raigne,  granted  to  Edward  Warner  and  his  heires,  wherein  is    cum  rem  thes: 
recited  howe  the  fayd  Quene  by  her  former  tres  patents  dated  the  fifteenth  of 

September 


72 


€f)c  Hibc^  of  ti)c  '^ctMt^0 


I T70 


September  in  the  third  of  her  raigne,  had  granted  the  fame  to  Ralph  Sheldon  and 
the  faid  Edward  Warner  and  their  heires,  by  the  name  of  all  that  Priory,  free 
Chappie,  or  hofpitall  of  Longbridge,  in  Longbridge,  Slimbridge,  Durfely,  Nibley, 
Came,  Arlingham,  and  Barkeley  in  the  County  of  Glouc ;  To  hold  of  the  Manor  of 
Cart- irrot  in  Cane  ^^  greenwich  in  free  Socage.  31111  which  S'  Edward  Warner  by  Deed  inrolled 
87  dated  the  tenth  of  January,  Anno  quarto  Eli3  :  fold  to  Nicholas  |  Purfloe  and 
William  Buckbert,  And  they  by  like  Deed  inrolled  dated  the  xxiij""  of  the  fame 
Month  to  Richard  Denis  Efq3  who  after  alyened  the  fame  to  the  feuerall  Tenants 
and  theire  heires  that  nowe  hold  the  fame,  Ijllnll  hauinge  nowe  finifhed  with  this 
hofpitall,  I  proceede  with  this  lords  further  Almes  and  devotions. 


Rot :  fin  :  7.  Jottis 
pars  2.  Midd : 


€i)ijS  lord  gave  all  the  lands  hee  had  in  Middlefex  to  the  Bifhoprick  of 
Landaffe,  for  which  Wittm  the  Bifhop  there  anfwered  King  John  efcuage  in  the 
Seaventh  of  his  raigne. 


Carta  in  Caflro  I^cc  alfo  gave  to  the  Abbot  and  Menkes  of  Kingefwood  part  of  his  water 

e    er  eey    j-unnynge  by  their  Monaflery,  and  part  of  his  land  of  Wotton,  for  the  inlarginge  of 

theire  Monaftery;  which  grant  the  lord  Robert  his  fonne  much  afterwards  enlarged, 

for  the  health  of  his  owne  foule,  his  wives,  his  Fathers,  his  Mothers,  and  of  his 

Anteceffors  and  heires. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley 


Newl :  pedeg : 

Roftt  de  Ricart 

cm  maiore  BriRoll 

fo :  5.  6.  7. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


%i0a  this  lord  gave  to  God  and  to  our  lady  and  to  the  Hofpitall  of  S'  John 
Baptift  in  Radeclyve  by  Bryfloll,  the  rents  of  divers  lands  there  with  the  revertions 
thereof,  for  the  health  of  the  foules  of  his  Father,  Mother,  himfelfe,  wife,  children, 
and  Anteceffors  :  bilict^  others  were  the  Almes  and  devotions  of  this  lord  Maurice 
to  many  religious  places,  but  all  of  them  foe  turned  from  the  Monafkery  of  S! 
Augufline,  as  plainly  declared  his  fetled  diflike  of  that  Abbots  ingratitude  with  the 
vndervalewing  of  himfelfe,  (fonne  and  heire  to  theire  founder ;)  which  donations  1 
nowe  feeinge  but  in  glimpfes  (as  it  were)  through  the  fpeflacles  of  tome  papers,  I 
here  omit,  And  the  rather  becaufe  I  fee  thofe  lands  by  the  change  of  tymes,  turned 
to  lay  inheritances,  and  the  returne  of  the  givers  memoriall,  quite  negledled  and 
forgotten. 

J^ijBf  3©ife 

d)e  wife  of  this  Lord  Maurice,  was  Alice  the  eldeft  daughter  of  Roger  de 
Berkeley  Lord  of  Durfeley,  whom  he  maryed  at  Briftoll  according  to  the  fore- 
mentioned  agreem',  whereby  their  parents  became  attoned,  with  whom  he  had  the 

Manor 


ii89 


Uifc  of  a^aiiriff  rt)f  fit0t 


73 


Manor  of  Slimbridge,  the  antiente  inheritance  of  her  father,  of  the  valewe  of  tenn 

pounds  by  the  yeare  ;  IDI)ic{)  by  length  of  foe  long  a  poffeffion  runninge  ever  fince 

with  the   Manor  and   Barony  of  Berkeley,   and  lyinge   within    the  fayd    Manor, 

hundred,  and  Leet  of  Berkeley,  is  nowe  and  foe  for  divers  ages  part,  hath  bene 

reputed  a  member  and  parcell  of  the  fayd  Manor  and  Barony,  which  |  at  the  tyme    88 

of  the  faid  agreement  was  not  foe  :  3IlnD  the  faid  Alice  at  the  tyme  of  her  mariage 

had  affured  to  her  for  her  life  twenty  pownd  land  by  the  yeare  out  of  the  Manor  of 

Berkeley     23p  her  hee  had  iffue  fix  fonnes  and  one  daughter,  of  whome  hereafter ; 

i&hfC  furviued  her  hufband,  and  lyved  till  extreame  old  age,  and  dyed  his  widowe ;    Cartae  in  Caflro 

o  ^  ^g  Berkeley 

And  did  foe  reverently  efteeme  of  her  Hufbands  memory  after  his  death,  That  in 

her  conveyances  (whereof  many  yet  remayne)  Shee  neuer  mentioned  the  name  of 

her  Hufband,  but  fhee  annexed  the  adiuncft  of  my  lord  Maurice  ;  And  quod  dns 

meus  Mauritius  dedit ;  And  pro  falute  animae  domini  mei  Mauricij,  And  the  like. 

<<&t)(t  was  a  lady  of  great  vertue.  And  went  to  her  grave  loaden  w'"*  many  good    Carta  in  Cafljo 
workes  ;  And  amongfl  others,  To  Elia  the  fonne  of  Toky  her  nurfe,  fhee  gave  a  ^^' 

meffuage  and  halfe  a  yard  land  in  Slimbridge  in  ffee  fimple,  And  to  haue  her  grift 
ground  toll  free  at  hir  mill  there  next  after  her  owne  corne  that  then  fhould  bee  upon 
the  mill  in  grindinge. 


i^Co  <l5up  fonne  of  Roger  de  Vilers  her  fervant,  fhee  gave  an  other  meffuag 
and  yard  land  there  in  ffee  fimple,  To  hold  by  paym'  of  a  paire  of  guilt  fpurs.  Co 
l@pOt  de  Vilers  an  other  fervant  fhee  gave  a  meffuage  and  yard  land  in  Cowly 
in  ffee  fimple  to  hold  by  payment  of  one  pound  of  comin  :  jCo  t^t  Monaftery  of  S' 
Auguftines  fhee  gaue  diuers  houfes  and  lands  in  Radcliveftreet  in  Briftoll,  Togeather 
alfo  with  the  great  new  ftone  houfe  there  which  her  hufband  gaue  to  her  in  ffee,  and 
dwelt  in.  Co  Hobttt  her  eldeft  fonne,  fhee  conveyed  her  Manor  of  Slimbridge  being 
her  owne  franke  mariage,  ne  annimus  fuus  in  pofterii  perverteretur,  vt  alium  quam 
Robertum  filium  fuum  hereditare  vellet,  leaft  her  mind  fhould  change,  and  an  other 
then  Robertt  her  fonne  bee  thereof  made  heire  ;  whereby  fhee  deftroyed  that 
entayle,  which  was  found  by  Jury  in  the  Comon  pleas  in  the  xxxix*^  yeare  of  Queene 
Elizabeth  vpon  a  tryall  in  a  writt  of  partition  for  this  Manor,  whereof  read  more  in 
the  life  of  Henry  Lord  Berkeley,  And  as  is  before  touched  in  the  life  of  Harding. 
Co  iJCt  fonne  Thomas  alfo,  fhee  gave  lands  in  Radecliveftreet  aforefaid  at  feverall 
tymes,  part  before,  and  part  after  her  guift  to  the  fayd  Monaftery.  Co  William  her 
fonne  fhee  gaue  alfo  lands  in  Berkeley  parifh  which  fhee  bought  of  William  Heiron. 
SttnlJ  foe  alfo  fhee  dealt  with  the  reft  of  her  fonnes,  by  |  conveyinge  to  each  of  them 

L  feveral 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

Aug:  chart:  fol: 
187. 

Carta  cum  Decano 
BriftoU 


See  fol : 


fol :  10. 

Aug :  chart :  fo : 

187. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley 


89 


74 


€1^6  HibcjBf  of  ti^t  2Bcrhdcpjef 


1 1 70 


Newl :  pedegre 

5:  H:  7:  in  Caftro 

(le  Berkeley: 


feveral  parts  of  fuch  poffeflions  as  fhee  had  from  her  Father,  or  by  her  owne  pur- 
chafes.  311nll  with  Hke  devotion  in  other  guifts  fhee  remembred  other  rehgious 
houfes,  which  brevity  calls  me  from,  (©f  l)CC  Abbot  Newland  hath  thus  ;  Alice  the 
wife  of  this  lord  Maurice,  lord  of  Berkeley  was  the  daughter  of  Roger  of  Berkeley 
Baron  of  Durfely  which  was  of  the  bloud  of  S'  Edward  the  Confeffor  ;  And  this 
mariage  was  made  at  Briflowe  in  prefence  of  King  Steven,  and  of  Harry  Duke  of 
Normandy  ;  Soe  the  Abbott 

Venit  iterum  qui  te  in  lucem  reponet  dies 
If  weomen  all  were  like  to  thee. 
Wee  men  for  wives  fhould  happy  bee. 


m0  S^^uc 

I.  2.  Utobctt  and  'C{)Oma$(  the  two  eldeft  were  Lords,  and  followingly  haue  the 
relation  of  theire  lyves  at  large. 


3.  ill^auncc  the  third  fonne  (befides  his   Mothers  faid  guifts)  had  from  his 
Carta  in  Caftro    Grandfather  Roger  Berkeley  of  Durfly  Lorwinge  Farme  and  litle  mead  in  Gofmg- 


de  Berkeley. 


ton  ;    3lln&  from  this  Lord  Maurice  his  father,  diuers  lands  in  Hinton  and  Came. 


Carta  in  Caftro  3lln&  from  his  brother  the  Lord  Robert,  hee  had  Foxcote  Manor,  in  preferment 

de  Berkeley,    ^j.  j^jg  j^ariage  if  hee  fhould  haue  iffue  by  his  wife,  if  not,  to  revert  to  the  right 

Aug:  chart:  fol:  54    heires  of  the  faid  Robert;  Cf)i^  Maurice  had  iffue  Thomas,  to  whome  his  father 

^  ^^  in  ^Caftro  de    P^*^  ^^^^  ^is  lands  of  Hineton  and  Came,  But  hee  dyinge  without  iffue,  the  fame 

Berkeley,    reverted  to  the  next  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  his  next  heire  :  Hee  dyed  the  viij'"'  of 

January  towards  the  end  of  King  Henry  the  third. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


fine.  7.  R:  i  in 

Abbacia  weftmer  : 

90 

Rot  pip.  9  R:  2 
Glouc :  in  Sccio. 

Rot.  pip.  I.  Jofeis, 
Somerfett : 


4.  J0iniani  the  fourth  fonne  was  a  knight,  who  (befides  this  Mothers  guifts 
aforefaid)  had  from  his  father  the  moytie  of  his  Manor  of  Gofington  in  the  parifh 
of  Slimbridge  parcell  of  his  Manor  of  Berkeley,  To  hold  by  the  fourth  part  of  a 
Knights  fee,  which  my  felfe  having  the  laft  yeare  purchafed  of  John  Goldefborowe, 
have  this  yeare  .  1618  .  in  the  xvj''' of  Kinge  James,  made  agayne  fale  thereof 
to  diuers  pticular  perfons,  whereby  I  have  increafed  the  number  of  homagers,  to  the 
further  |  honor  and  benefit  of  the  caftle  of  Berkeley,  51nll  likewife  this  S'  William 
had  from  his  Father  the  manor  of  Portbury,  which  afterwards  by  a  fyne  leavyed  in 
the  Seaventh  of  Richard  the  firft,  hee  exchanged  with  the  lord  Robert  his  elder 
brother,  for  the  other  moytie  of  Gofington,  Sintl  this  is  the  firfl  fine  I  have  met 
withall  of  any  part  of  y'  Manor  of  Berkeley  ;  Howbeit,  it  is  misfiled  vnder  the 
title  of  Coin  Dorfett.  '€^ 


1 1 89  Uifc  of  vlli^tmricc  tfjc  fic^t  75 

CljiflJ  S'  Wittm  had  alfo  the  manor  of  Childecott  in   the   County  of  Derby,    ptita.  7.  R:  i.  et 
1  1-11  ri  1  1  iiir  /---e  c    9  Joliis  in  banco, 

about  the  title  whereoi  hee  underwent  a  longe  and  troblelome  luit  in  y   tymes  01 

King   Richard  the  firfl;,  and    King  John,  which  William  de   Kanvill  in  right  of 

Albreda  his  wife  daughter  of  Jeffery  Manmion,  queftioned  againfl;  him. 

5.  6    ©Clirp  and  lUicljflrll  the  fifth  and  fixth  fonnes  had  forraigne  fortunes:    Fabian  fol: 

many  Hiftories  and  records  doe  witnes,  That  King  Henrye  the  fecond  havinge  in    ^'°^^-  ^°'  *'7 

battle  taken  Wittm  King  of  Scots  prifoner,  did  in  the  twentieth  yeare  of  his  raigne    ,  ^'^    °'  '^^ 

.       ,  .         .  .  .         Math.  Pans 

(after  he  had  bin  w'"'  him  in  Normandy  and  in  his  warrs  in  Franncc)  releafe  him    ^vendover 

for  .  4ooot.  ranfome  ;  whoe  in  his  returne  into  Scotland,  with  the  good  lykinge  of 
Kinge  Henry,  tooke  with  him  many  of  the  yonger  fonnes  of  Noble  men  of  Eng- 
land that  bare  him  good  will  (faith  the  hiflories)  as  Berkeley,  Brewfe,  Mowbray 
Hay,  Ramfey,  and  others  ;  To  whom  King  William  gaue  lands  in  Scotland,  which 
hee  tooke  from  fuch  as  were  rebells  to  him  there  :  <©f  which  number  of  gendemen 
thus  changing  theire  countr)',  were  theis  two  bretheren,  Henry  and  Richard, 
whome  I  fuppofe.  King  Henrye  the  fecond  for  the  fingular  affection  hee  bore  to 
their  Father  &  Grandfather  fpetially  recomended  ;  <©f  whofe  pofterities,  or  of  one 
of  them,  is  often  honorable  mention  in  the  warres,  [treaties  of  peace,  embaffages, 
travelling  in  pilgrimages,  hoftages,]  ranfominge  of  prifoners,  and  the  like  paffages ; 
which  in  Succeffion  of  tymes  haue  bene  betweene  the  kingdomes  of  England, 
Scotland,  Ireland,  and  France,  wherein  by  theire  feuerall  names  of  Patricius  de 
Berkeley,  Walter  de  Berkeley  knight  de  Kerduan,  John  de  Berkeley,  John  fonne  of 
John  de  Berkeley,  Dauid  de  Berkeley,  miles,  Hugh  Berkeley  fcutifer,  John  de 
Berkeley  de  Houborne  in  Glendale,  |  Benedi6l  Berkeley  de  Bodan,  and  others,  91 
they  haue  in  feverall  ages  bene  feuerally  imploy'd.  And  haue  bene  owners  of  faire 
Seigniories  and  poffeffions,  as  the  records  hereunder  vouched  exprefly  declare,  viz' 
Rot.  Scotiae.  24.  25.  et  28.  E  :  i.  in  dorfo  :  /  claus  :  24.  E  :  i  m  :  7  :  /  claus  :  25 
E  :  I.  in  dorfo  :  /  breuia  regis.  29.  E  :  3.  pars.  2.  /  RoL  Scotise.  32.  E  :  3.  m  4.  / 
Rot.  Scotiae.  30  et  31.  E  :  3.  in  dorfo.  /  liber  pa'liam'  in  turre  london.  35.  E  :  3.  / 
[Rot.  Scotiae  37  E  :  3  m  2  &  5  :]  /  Rot.  Scotis.  40.  E  :  3  :  /  Rot.  pardon.  21.  R  :  2  : 
et  Rot.  Scotiae  8,  9.  10.  1 1.  H  :  6.  m.  /  1 1.  /  %nti  Allexander  Berkeley  de  Brethin  in 
Scotland  was  in  the  27'''  yeare  of  Henry  the  fixth  made  by  the  faid  Kings  tres  Rot: pat:  27.  H:  6 
patents  a  free  denizen  of  England,  and  gave  his  oath  of  fealty  and  allegiance  to  bee  ^^^^  ^'  ™'  ^^" 
thenceforth  the  Kings  true  fubieft,  at  that  tyme  abiding  in  London  ;  But  what 
became  of  his  poflerity  I  finde  not.  ^nb  of  theis  are  difcended  thofe  familyes  in 
Scotland,  Ireland,  and  France,  which  theare  beare  the  firnames  of  Berkeley  at  this 
day.  1626.  with  litle  or  noe  variation  in  the  Orthography  of  their  names;  Some 
L  2  of 


76 


€I)e  Uitocjef  of  tfft  25crhdep^ 


1 1 70 


of  whofe  witty  and  learned  workes,  as  Berkeley  his  Argenis,  and  contra  monarcho- 
macos,  and  de  poteflate  papae,  with  others,  wee  not  vnwillingly  [read  at  this  day.] 

Carta  in  Caflro  7-   '^lJ^  daughter  of  this  lord   Maurice,  was  maried  to  Ofbert  Gifford  k',  by 

de  Berkeley,    whome  hee  had  iffue,  Ofbert  Gifford  and  others,  which  Ofbert  became  Servant  to 

fine  roll.  8  H:  3!    Ki"g  Henry  the  third  in  the  Eighth  yeare  of  his  raigne,  and  long  held  in  fpetiall 

favor  with  him,  as  m^ny  records  (witneffes  of  the  kings  liberality)  doe  poynt  vnto  vs. 

iCIj0  feale,  which  this  lord  Maurice  vfed,  was  like  unto  that  of  his  father, 
having  the  impreffion  of  a  knight  armed  and  mounted  as  for  prefent  onfet  in  the 
warrs,  of  bredth  three  inches  and  more,  with  theis  words  in  the  vtter  circumference, 
Sigilt :  Mauric  :  de  Berket :  Behold  the  figure. 


92 


New! :  ped :  et  tres 

alij  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Carta.  R  :  i  fub 

figillo  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Rot  pip:  in  Sccio 

2.  3.  4.  et  7  R:  I. 

Glouc  : 


1$i0  SDcart)  nnb  ^late  of  S^uriall 

3111  humaine  flefhe  is  graffe,  and  needs  muft  fade, 
Co  earth  agayne,  whereof  it  firfl  was  made. 

'^EijijS  Maurice  fate  Lord  Berkeley  eighteene  yeares  fower  Monthes  and  eleaven 
dayes  after  the  death  of  his  Father,  And  dyed  the  fixteenth  day  of  June,  Anno.  1 189 
in  the  firft  of  King  Richard  the  firft,  And  lyeth  buryed  in  the  parifh  Church  of 
Braynford  feaven  miles  weftward  from  London,  At  the  firft  building  whereof  he  was 
a  fpetiall  benefaftor,  which  the  Armes  over  the  porch  doore  of  that  Church,  yet  to 
bee  feene,  may  witneffe  to  bee  true  ;  Howbeit  upon  a  newe  repaire  of  the  place,  the 

fame 


ii89 


%ik  of  a^fluriff  tf)c  f  hrjaft 


77 


fame  were  with  fome  variation  and  addition  of  Coates,  in  the  dayes  of  William    nova  promifla 

Ncwl  ■  Dcd   D^did^ 
Marques  Berkeley  of  newe  engraven,  As  the  Coates  therein  quartered  doe  manifeft. 

Maurice  de  Berket  gift  ycy, 

dieu  de  fa  alme  eyt  mercy 
But  whereas  the  Regifter  booke  with  the  Bifhopps  of  Worcefter,  feemeth  to  fay,  Regifi  wigorB. 
That  this  lord  Maurice  fliould  in  the  year.  1207.  (which  was  Anno  none  Regis 
JotSis)  prefent  Simon  de  Berkeley  then  an  infant  to  the  Church  of  Slimbridge,  The 
Cuftody  whereof  the  Bifhopp  then  comitted  to  Walter  Birton  till  Simons  full  age,  It 
is  certainly  a  miflake  in  the  figures,  for  this  lord  was  dead  more  then  eightene 
yeares  before,  And  his  fonne  that  fucceeded  in  his  barony  had  bene  foe  longe  in 
poffeffion  thereof,  as  after  in  his  life  appeares. 

€l)c  Eanb^Bf  taJfjcrcof  l^c  bpcb  ^ei^t^. 

25p  ttfl^  lord  Maurice  his  death,  difcended  to  Robert  his  eldeft  fonne,  the 
Manor  of  Berkeley  burrowe,  Hame,  Apleridge,  Alkington,  Hinton,  Hurft,  Slim- 
bridge,  Came,  Cowley,  Wotton,  Simonfall,  Arlingham,  Gofington,  and  Ewly  in  the 
County  of  Glouc  :  whereof  Slimbridge  came  by  Frank  manage  with  his  wife,  and 
Apleridge,  by  his  owne  purchafe  5ln&  alfo  the  manors  of  Portbury,  Bedminfler, 
and  Radecliffe  in  the  County  of  Somerfett.  | 

SIlnD  the  Manor  of  Bray  in  the  County  of  Devon,  which  he  leaft  to  Thomas    93 
his  fecond  fonne  for  life.  To  which  conveyance  the  Bifhop  of  Landaffe,  the  Abbot    ^^^  *j"  Caftro 
of  S'  Auguflines,  the  prior  of  Lanthony,  and  Witim  Earle  of  Salifbury  are  wittneffes. 

3llnb  the  manor  of  Foxcote  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  which  hee  purchafed  of   Carta  in  Caftro 
Humphry  de  Bohun  Coneftable  of  England,  To  hold  by  halfe  a  kn'?  fee,  which      ^    ^^  ^^^' 
King  Henry  the  fecond  confirmed ;  which  Manor  hee  alfo  fomewhat  inlarged  by 
other  parcells  purchafed  of  Baldwine  de  Ekefwike. 


311nb  alfo  the  manor  of  Pourton  ats  Pirton  in  the,  fayd  County  of  Glouc. ;  which    carta  in  caftro 

de  Berkeley. 
hee  purchafed  of  the  faid  Humphry  de  Bohun,   To  hold  by  the  fifth  part  of  a 

knights  fee. 

3CnD  the  Manor  of  A6lon  in  the  County  of  Glouc. 

%&  for  the  Manor  of  Hannam  by  Bitton  and  halfe  an  hide  in  Hampton  which    P*"^  ^t  Jurata 

^^'^  •'  ^  15.  E:  I.  rot:  29: 

were  purchafed  of  Richard  Foliat,  hee  alyened  Hannam  to  Robertt  de  Hannam,    inrec:Sccij. 
and  Hampton  to  an  other.  Sfilltl 


78  ^e  %i\ie0  of  ti^e  S^crftriepjef  1 1 70 

^Clltl  held  alfo  diuers  houfes  lands  and  Tenements  within  the  walls  of  Briftoll, 
which  by  the  lord  Robertt  his  fonne  were  fhortly  after  given  to  the  Abbott  of 
S'  Auguflines. 

%V^  what  further  lands  hee  leaft  to  his  eldeft  fonne  by  difcent,  or  what  more 
were  the  actions  of  his  life,  or  guifts  to  monafteries,  devouringe  tyme  hath  fo 
bereaft  mee  of  the  meanes  to  knowe,  That  it  might  almofl  repent  mee  to  have 
walked  in  the  tedious  travell  of  theis  generations  foe  long  fince  pafl;,  which  whofo- 
ever  undertakes  in  the  like,  fhall  doubtleffe  finde  the  waye  longe  and  thorny,  the 
path  overgrowne,  and  hardly  difcerneable,  the  guides  fewe  to  dire6l,  and  thofe 
fpeakinge  in  divers  languages,  as  I  have  done. 

€1^  5lppUcation  anb  u^t  of  Ijisf  %ik 

The  vfe.  I.   CfjC  life  of  this  lord,  may  inflru6l  his  pofterity  to  bee  tender  in  medlinge 

with  the  levites  portion,  or  things  dedicated  to  gods  fervice ;  Not  to  take  offence  at 
the  contentions  or  lewd  lyves  of  Clergy  men  ;  nor  to  efleeme  the  worfe  of  the 
foode  though  it  bee  difhed  vnto  us  in  earthen  veffells  ;  efpetially  not  to  fuffer  the 
obfervation  of  their  humane  frailtyes  to  with-hold  our  devotions  from  working 
.  charitably  for  the  better  Comforte  of  our  owne  foules.  | 

94  2.  3llgainc,  from  this  lord  his  pofterity  is  taught  to  beare  private  iniuries  with 

patience,  for  neuer  was  any  innocent  man  wronged,  but  if  patiently  hee  bare  his 
croffe,  hee  overcame  in  the  end  :  nobile  vincendi  genus  eft  patientia,  vincit  qui 
patitur  :  Si  vis  vincere,  difce  pati  ;  And  that  if  theire  good  name  bee  wounded,  to 
beare  that  alfo  with  patience,  for  hee  that  at  the  laft  day  will  give  thy  body  a 
refurredlion,  will  as  fure,  in  his  good  tyme,  grant  a  refurre6tion  to  thy  good  name. 

3.  ^SlgainC,  it  maye  from  this  lord  not  vnprofitably  bee  noted.  That  his  life  hath 
declared  his  iuft  diflike  conceived  againft  the  Abbott  and  Covent  of  S?  Auguftines  ; 
his  loue  to  his  wife  ;  and  his  guift  to  her  of  divers  lands,  and  of  the  onely  houfe 
hee  had  to  dwell  in,  before  hee  had  fitted  Berkeley  Caftle;  And  howe  his  wife  after 
his  death  gave  that  houfe  and  lands  to  thofe  whom  her  hufbands  laft  breath  feemed 
to  hate  ;  And  thence  to  inferr,  That  (notwithftandinge  her  other  vertues)  ftiee  was 
a  woman,  refemblinge  the  widowe  of  King  Edward  the  fourth,  whom  flattery  and 
faire  wordes  wonne  to  deliver  over  her  deereft  fonnes  to  the  cuftody  of  her  mortall 
enemy,  Richard  the  third,  called  the  vfurper;  whoe  before  had  brought  deftru6lion  to 
hir  deereft  kindred,  as  after  hee  did  to  her  fonnes;  And  thereupon  to  comend  to  the 

confideracon 


1 1 89  3lifc  of  a^nurifc  tl^c  jfirjst  79 

confideracon  of  the  prefent  lord  George  (in  whom  this  his  Anceftor  lyveth,  and 
whofe  errors  ought  to  bee  his  Caveats)  That  his  care  bee  rayther  to  bee  beloved  of 
his  wife,  then  himfelfe  to  bee  foe  befottcd  on  her,  as  to  leave  the  difpofeinge  of  thofe 
lands  to  her,  which  were  ordayned  to  maintayne  his  owne  images  and  pofterity, 
which  are  not  vnlikely  to  bee  turned  a  contrary  and  vnfavory  way.  As  by  this 
example  (from  a  woman  otherwife  prayfeworthy)  hee  feeth  ;  And  to  remember 
withall,  That  what  is  leaft  to  our  wiues  after  our  death  longer  then  for  theire 
widdowhood,  is  given  to  Strangers,  and  often  tymes  to  an  Enemy,  at  leaft  to  one 
that  will  fpend  with  ioye  and  eafe,  what  wee  haue  fpared  and  gotten  with  care  and 
travell ;  And  not  to  enable  our  wiues  to  fly  to  the  ioyes  of  a  fecond  bedd,  with  thofe 
feathers  which  death  hath  pulled  from  our  wings  ;  And  fpetially  to  remember,  that 
our  houfe  and  eftate,  liveth  after  death  in  our  fonnes,  not  in  our  wiues. 

4.  ^gahtC)  the  paffage  betweene  the  Abbot  and  this  lord  concerning  the 
Church  yard  of  Berkeley,  may  inftru6l,  not  too  rigidly  to  prefs  the  execution  of 
a  fentence  obtayned  againft  our  aduerfary  by  exa6ling  a  ftri6l  performance  of  each 
particular  doome  or  fentence  therein,  as  this  inconfiderate  Abbot  did,  whereby  hee 
loft  a  great  benefa6lor  to  his  Monaftery,  and  made  an  Enemy  of  a  frend,  when  a 
milder  courfe  might  have  reformed  the  evill,  and  kept  this  lord  ftill  his  bountefull 
frend.  | 

5.  311siltn(,  this  lord  Maurice  by  the  imployment  of  his  yonger  fonnes  at  home  95 
and  abrode,  And  the  fuccesfull  multiplication  of  their  pofterities  both  in  this  and 
other  kingdomes,  is  an  vfefull  leffon  to  his  pofteritye  to  avoyd  pampheringe  and 
idlenes  in  the  education  of  yonger  children,  And  not  to  fuffer  a  fond  indulgence  at 
home,  to  bereaue  them  of  the  knowledge  of  the  world  abrode,  and  of  that 
experience,  whereby  Honor  &  wealth  are  gayned  ;  whereas  for  the  moft  part 
children  in  great  familyes  are  foe  long  cockered  by  the  mother,  fmoothed  by  her 
maydes,  and  flattered  by  meniall  fervants,  thereby  foe  longe  kept  from  knowledge 

of  themfelves.  That  they  enter  the  world,  as  children  ;  when  a  wife  education  might 
haue  ripened  them  for  equall  honor  to  their  elder  brother,  as  with  this  lord  it  fell 
out  :  J^CC  that  will  expeft  a  good  harueft  from  the  fruit  of  his  owne  loynes  muft 
betymes  in  the  fpringe,  carefully  till  and  weed  his  plants,  And  not  when  weeds  have 
overgrowne  and  halfe  choaked  his  ground,  then  begin  to  looke  after  the  goodnes  of 
his  feed,  and  tillage  of  his  land. 


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jrini^  Sl^aunai  filii  iSoticrti  filii  l^arbmgi  al^  diet,  a^auricti  be  25n:fedcp. 


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€hc  life  of  Robert  lord   Berkeley  the  fecond  of  that    ^I'^erfa^  <:art?e  in 

■'  ftn  Caflrodc'Berkeley. 

name,  filled  in  writings,   Robertus  filius   Mauricij  ;    9llnti,    Rot :  pip :  temp. 

Robert  de  Berket. ;  5lln&,  Robert  de  Berket ;  3IInti,  Robtus  de    R  =  '•  ^t  Jofiis. 

Berkeley  And,  dns  Robertus  de  Berkelei  ;  And  Robertus    sc^cio.°°^'" 

filius  Mauricij  de  Berkelai  ;  5Ilnt>,  Robertus  de  Berchelay ;    Aug : chart  :foi: 47. 

Sllnti,  Robtus  de  Berclay  311nli  may  bee  called,  Robert  the   "^  '  ^°'  ^'' 

rebellious. 

Contcmjjorarp  with  King  Richard  the  firft,  Kinge  John,  and 

part  of  Kinge  Henry  the  third,  from  the  yeare .  1 189.  to  the 

yeare .  1220. 

IBIjo.sc  life  I  lay  dovvne  vnder  theis  titles. 

I. — J^tjf  birth  and  education  fol  :  98. 

2. — d)C  Confirmations  of  the  Manor  and  Barony  of  Berkeley .  fol  : 
98.  99. 

3. — Clje  name  of  i^atbhlg  dyed  fol  :  99. 

4. — CfjC  name  of  Berkeley  firft  affumed  fol  :  99.  100. 

5. — J^iiS  Almes  and  devotions,  fol  :  102. 

6. — J^iial  foundinge  the  Hofpitall  of  S'  Katherines  fol :  105  .  106. 

7. — j^jief  mifcellanies  and  various  paffages .  fol  :  106, 

8. — ji^ijf  rebellion  againfl  King  John  .  fol  :  1 10. 

9. — I^i^  wives  fol :  1 16. 
10. — J^ijBf  death  and  place  of  buriall  fol  :  117. 
II. — I^ijSf  feales  of  Armes  .  fol  :  1 18. 
1 2. — Cf^  lands  whereof  hee  dyed  feized  .  fol  :  1 18. 
13. — C^  Application  and  ufe  of  his  life  :  .  120. 

M  ]^i0 


82 


€l)c  %i\it0  of  tt)c  25crfec!epjef 


1 189 


98 


Aug:  chart:  fo:  51. 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkelai. 

ptita  de  quo  warr: 

Pafch.  15.  E:  i. 

rot.  12. 

in  recept  Sccij. 


J^tjEf  25ittf)  anil  €&ucation 

CE^iS  Corb  ^Obcvt  was  home  about  the  Eleaventh  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry 
the  fecond,  And  had  his  youths  education  for  many  yeares  in  the  Court  of 
that  Kinge,  till  manhood  came  on ;  and  as  probable  may  be  gathered,  the 
fayd  Kinge  for  the  affe6tion  hee  bare  to  Robert  his  grandfather,  and  to  his  father 
Maurice,  tooke  him  from  the  knees  of  Father  and  Grandfather  to  his  care  and 
Education  ffbr  this  lord  Robert  longe  after  in  one  of  his  Deeds  of  charity  (whereof 
hee  hath  many)  giveth  to  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines  divers  lands  in  Arlingham 
&  Alkingto,  for  the  foules  helth  of  his  lord  Kinge  Henry  the  fecond,  qui  fe  nutrivit, 
who  nurfed  and  nourifhed  him  in  his  infancy,  and  of  Kinge  Richard  and  King 
John  his  lordes. 

(3rt)C  xxvij'^  of  September  in  the  firft  yeare  of  King  Richard  the  firft,  this  lord 
obtayned  of  that  Kinge  a  Confirmation  to  him  and  his  heires,  of  the  manor  of 
Berkelai  and  of  all  Berkelai  Herneffe  which  Kinge  Henry  his  father  gave  to  Robert 
fonne  of  Hardinge  his  grandfather,  withall  the  appendices,  as  amply  as  the  fame 
was  in  the  tyme  of  Kinge  Henry  the  firft  his  fathers  Grandfather,  Co  l)0l&  by  five 
Knights  ffcejef,  what  tyme  hee  received  the  homage  of  this  Robert,  faith  the  deed. 


Rot.  pip :  2.  3.  et 

4  R:  I  in  Socio 

Glouc : 


Rot:  pip:  7.  R:  I 
Glouc :  in  Sccio. 


5llntl  it  foe  fell  out  in  the  firft  yeare  of  King  Richard  the  firft.  Anno  1189. 
That  as  foone  as  the  lord  Maurice  Father  of  this  lord  Robertt  had  a  few  Monthes 
after  that  Kinges  acceffe  to  the  Crowne,  compounded  for  one  thoufand  markes  for 
the  Confirmation  of  his  forefaid  Charters,  of  Berkeley,  That  he  dyed  before  pay- 
ment as  hath  bene  fayde,  by  whofe  death  a  Releefe  became  due  to  the  Kinge, 
fol:  [79]  for  which  his  fonne  and  heire  this  lord  Robert  then  of  full  age  paid  one  thowfand 
pound,  which  is  entred  in  the  pipe  rolls,  to  bee,  pro  fine  hereditatis  fuae,  for  the  fine 
of  his  inheritance,  wherein  all  the  favor  hee  then  obtayned  in  payement  of  thee  fayd 
Releefe,  was  to  paye  two  hundred  pownds  in  hand,  and  the  reft  by  fowerfcore 
pownds  a  yeare :  Howbeit  that  Kinge  in  the  Seaventh  of  his  raigne  pardoned  him 
five  hundred  Markes  thereof,  for  his  good  fervice  done  to  him  in  his  warres. 

99  Sllnb  this  lord  the  xxviij'!"  of  November  in  the  tenth  of  y"  fame  kinge  |  had 


Cartas  in  Callro    another  confirmation  (or  rather  a  conftat  of  the  former) 
de  Berkeley.  ^ 


ailnti 


Hifc  of  Hohcvt  rfjf  i&cconb 


83 


SUltfl  theis  tres  patents  render  this  reafon  thereof,  for  that  the  Kinges  great    Seepolicron:lib:  7 
Seale  was  lofl  whileft  he  was  prifoner  in  Aliemania  in  his  returne  out  of  the  holy  '   - 

lande,  And  nowe  havinge  a  new  feale  fealeth  this  Deed  therew'.'' 


3CnD  the  xviij*of  Aprill  in  the  firfl  yeare  of  King  John,  (Richard  the  firfl  being 
dead  but  twelve  dayes  before)  this  lord  obtayneth  an  other  confirmation  to  him  and 
his  heires  of  the  fayd  Manor  of  Berkelai,  and  of  all  the  Berkelai-herneffe  in  like 
wordes  as  before,  for  which  hee  payd  threefcore  markes,  as  the  pipe  roll  of  the  next 
yeare  tell  vs  in  theis  wordes .  Robertus  de  Berkelai  reddit  compum  de  60  marcis 
pro  cartis  fuis  confirmandis  quas  habet  de  rege  Henrico  de  honore  de  Berkelai; 
Robert  of  Berkelai  pays  threefcore  markes  for  the  confirmacon  of  his  Charters 
which  hee  hath  from  the  grants  of  King  Henry  the  fecond  of  the  Honor  of 
Berkelai :  wherew'*'  alfo  accordeth  the  roll  called  oblata  in  the  Tower,  And  then  alfo 
the  Kinge  received  his  homage,  as  the  Deed  fheweth. 


Rot:cart:i.2.Jotiis 

jiars.  2.  n"  100. 

Rot.  in  thcfaur: 

recept 

Carta  in  CaRro  de 

Berkeley  fubligillo 

Rot.  pip:  2:  Jotiis. 

Nova  oblata  : 

Glouc : 

ptita  de  quo  warr. 

rafch  :  15.  E:  i. 

rot.  12. 

honor  de  Berkelai. 

Oblata.  I.  Jotiis. 

m.  i.n"  14.  Glouc: 


Rot :  cart:  i.  Joh: 
pdid: 


5Cnfi  at  the  fame  tymes,  this  lord  procured  the  like  confirmations  from  thee 
fayd  twoe  Kinges  of  his  Manor  of  Bedminftree,  purchafed  by  his  fayd  grandfather 
of  Richard  Earle  of  Glouc  :  ID{)ic|)  done,  Hee  by  the  name  of  Robert  de  Berkeley 
fonne  of  Maurice,  fonne  of  Robert,  fonne  of  Hardinge,  Confirmeth  to  Nigell  of 
Kingefcote  his  Co3en  and  his  heires,  the  Manor  of  Kingefcote,  which  Robert  his  honor  de  Berkeley, 
grandfather  gave  to  Nigell  his  Grandfather  in  mariage  with  Aldena  his  daughter, 
recitinge  both  the  fame  Deed,  and  alfo  the  Confirmacon  of  Kinge  Henry  the 
fecond,  both  of  that  land,  and  of  whatfoever  els  fhould  bee  given  him  out  of  the 
honor  of  Berkeley  :  To  which  firfl  deed  made  by  Robt  fonne  of  Harding,  the  lady 
Eve  his  wife,  and  Maurice  his  eldefl  fonne,  are  wittneffes. 


carta  cu  Anthonio 
Kingefcote  de 
Kingefcote. 


See  before  fol:[7o] 


€l)e  name  of  i^arbing  bpcb,  3tnb  rtjc  name  of  25crftricp  ajfjefumrti 

^n  tftc  tyme  of  this  Lord  Robert,  and  in  theis  tymes  of  King  Richard  the  firfl, 
and  King  John,  quite  dyed  that  appellation,  or  name  of  Harding ;  And  afwell  this 
Lord  himfelfe,  as  his  brothers,  nephewes  and  other  neere  kindred,  affumed  theire 
feconde  names,  or  Sirnames,  either  from  neerer  Anceftors,  or  from  fuch  places 
where  vfually  they  dwelt ;  %^  Robert  de  Were,  Maurice  de  Gant,  Roger  fit3 
Nicholl,  Maurice  de  Came,  John  de  Durfeley,  Robert  de  Beoly,  Elias  de  Combe, 
Roger  de  Newenton,  and  others,  |  All  of  them  the  fonnes  of  Berkeleyes,  and 
difcended  from  the  loynes  of  Robert  fonne  of  Harding  ;  25ut  never  any  called,  or 
written,  or  firnamed  Harding,  as  his  firname. 

M  2  ffor 


Claus  :  29:  H.  3. 

m:  19. 

paten  :  30.  H:  3. 

Fin:  30:  H:  3.  m: 

13- 

diuerfae  Cartas  in 

CaflrodeBerkeley. 

Burton  :  fol : 

100 

in  Melton 

Mowbray. 


84 


€ijc  %iMc0  of  tijc  25crfericpief 


ffoc  any  man  to  affirme,  That  the  Sirname  or  cogname  of  George  nowe  Lord 

Newl:  ped:  3:  H:    Berl^gley  is  Harding,  or  Fitj  Harding,  (as  fome  of  late  have  written)  argueth  they 

Berkeley,    have  not  plowed  in  theis  old  feilds,  31lbt)0t  Newland  was  the  firll  (in  effe6l)  that 

god-fathered  this  family  with  that  name,  But,  I  am  fure,  it  never  was  approved  by 

the  parents,  either  at  the  font,  nor  at  the  Bifliops  confirmacon;  with  which  Abbot  it 

was  buryed,  till  ignorance  hath  of  late  agayne  raked  it  out  of  the  duft.     CI)C  name 

Anno:  1626.    of  the  prefent  Lo :   George  might  afwell  or  more  properly  bee  written,  Georgius 

filius  Thomae,  or  George  Ap  Thomas,  or  George  Fit3  Thomas,  becaufe  Thomas 

was  his  Father,  Or  George  Harrifon,  or  George  Henries  fonne,  becaufe  he  was 

grandchild  and  heire  to  the  late  lord  Henry. 

Hct  none  of  this  family  doubt,  but  that  theire  antient  market  Towne,  Manor, 
and  Honor  of  Berkeley,  gave  them  theire  firname  of  Berkeley:  CljC  ffrench  particle 
(be)  but  of  late  yeares  omitted  in  the  fufpenfion  of  the  Barony  as  after  followeth  : 
5tt  noe  tyme  hath  any  yonger  fonne  of  the  firfl  Lord,  or  of  his  father,  bene  firnamed 
l^artlhtg  or  Fit3  I^arttiltg  to  this  daye.  |)cttI)Ct  hath  any  yonger  brother,  or  other 
male  branch  of  this  family  inhabitinge  in  England,  Scotland,  France,  or  Ireland, 
had  any  other  Sirname,  then,  Berkeley,  in  anye  generation,  otherwife  then  as  is 
aforefaid,  whereof  I  am  moft  affured. 


doftor  John  Wall 
of  Chria  Church 
in  Oxford  1627. 


The  Sermon  hath 
terapus  eget. 


%  kamcll  divine  in  his  Epiftle  dedicatory  to  the  nowe  Lo:  George  before  a 
printed  Sermon  of  his,  hath  lately  told  us,  there  is  a  bleffmge  in  this  name,  as  that 
Berek-clie  in  the  facred  tongue,  is  dei  benediftio,  a  bleffmg  of  god,  whence  hee 
would  derive  his.  3(  VilU^t  borrowe  his  leave  to  anfwere  him  out  of  a  verfe  in  his 
owne  Sermon. 

Non  tali  auxilio,  nee  defenfo[r]ibus  iflis,  nomen  eget, 

Berkeley  reie61:s  an  Hebrewe  derivation 

A  Saxon  market  Towne,  hath  gev'n  his  nomynacon. 


Cljcic  name  is  derived  from  the  place,  And  the  place  of  two  Old  Saxon  words, 
lOi  Berk,  which  is  birch  ;  and,  lei  which  after,  Verflegan,  |  is  place.  And  foe  from  the 
place  of  birch  trees  (whereof  the  great,  old,  and  worne  flumps  of  many  of  that  kind 
are  yet  there  remayninge)  or  from,  ley,  which  is  water,  a  fcytuation  moft  agreeable, 
for  three  fourth  parts  (in  the  groves  of  thofe  trees)  compaffed  therewith  ;  Co  which 
later  I  rayther  inclyne,  becaufe  all  the  neighboringe  Townes  of  that  termination, 
as  Nibley,  Bradley,  Cowley,  Durfley,  Vley,  Wortley,  Alderley,  Hillefley,  Stanley, 
and  others,  haue  rivers  and  brookes  of  waters  runninge  either  through,  or  clofe  by 

them. 


I2  20  jllifc  of  ftobcct  t!)c  i&cconft  85 

them,  or  both ;  whereof  more  at  large  in  my  defcription  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley. 

25llt  for  the  worthy  Do6lors  wifli,    That  del  benediflio,  being  his  name  (as  bee    At  this  tyme  in 

fayth)  may  alfo  bee  his  portion,  at  leafl,  his,  viaticum,  and  condu(5l  at  home  and 

abrode,  I  ioyne  therein,  with  thanckfullncs  for  his  prayer.     %nti  it  may  not  vnfitly 

here  bee  noted.  That  there  is  not  any  other  Towne  or  place  found  in   England, 

either  before,  or  for  160  yeares  at  leaft;  after  theis  tymes,  to  have  bene  called  by  the 

name  of  Berkeley,  nor  any  family  called  by  the  Sirname  of  Berkeley,  other  then 

fuch  as  are  difcended  from  the  lords  of  this  market  Towne  of  Berkeley,  whofe 

difcents  are  in  theis  colledlions  drawne  downe  from  their  firft  Stock-fathers  to  the 

clofmg  of  this  Hiftory:  ipoVObcit,   I  am  not  ignorant  that  three  or  more  families 

of  note  have  of  late  yeares  changed  their  names  from  Berdote,  Bertelote,  Bertlot, 

Bardet,  Bartelot,  Berklowe,  Barkenlawe,  to  Berkeley,  whom  I  leave  to  the  Heralds 

Vifitations. 

5I11&  it  may  heere  bee  noted  alfo,  That  this  family  (in  a  kind  of  fmgularity) 

hath  in  their  promotions  to  higher  honor,  rather  Chofen  to  Dignifye  and  inoble  claus.  37.  E:  3. 

themfelves  with  their  owne  name,  then  with  anye  other  name  or  place  of  honor.  Fin:?.  H:5.  m: 

As  appeareth  in  Wittm  Lo  :   Berkeley  created  Vifcount,  by  the  name  of  Vifcount  ^-  3' 

Berkeley  ;  And  after  Marques,  by  the  name  of  Marques  Berkeley  :  ^ct  I  am  not  i.  m.  i 

ignorant,  That  a  Manor  place  in  New  forreft  in  Hampfhire,  iDoc  that  an  other  in  pat^SS- E:3-pars. 

n  ■  L  c\  3.  m:  30.  37. 

Somerfetfhire  neere  Frome,  |j)oc  that  ane  other  in  the  Diocefs  of  Worcefler  fometyme    Claus:  4.  R:  2. 
belonging  to  the  Priory  Alien  of  Tickford,  are  called  by  the  name  of  Berkelei,  As    ™'        „. 
alfo  a  Manor  in  Wymondham  called   Berkeley  Manor,  25ut  all  of  them  have  had    i  m:  39. 
theire  nomynation  from  this  family  and  their  feifins  of  them,  as  hundreds  of  others 
the  like,  from  antient  families  have  had.  | 

IJCntJ  withall  I  wifh  this  family  to  obferve  the  true  orthography  of  their  name,  102 
which  is  with  the  letter,  E  in  each  Tillable,  And  not  with  the  letter:  A,  as  Berkeley, 
not  otherwife,  J^citfjcr  have  I  il^ene  it  once  otherwife  in  more  then  three  hundred 
yeares  togeather  in  many  thowfands  of  writeings,  "2tlUj  I  am  confident,  That  a  longer 
Conftancye,  hath  not  with  leffe  variation  bene  obferved  in  any  Englilh  family  of 
three  Sillables,  whatfoever,  25ut  to  write  (Barcklay)  or  any  otherwife  then  (Berkeley) 
is  to  offer  violence  and  iniuftice  to  this  antient  name,  wherein  to  convince  all  con- 
tradiction, I  have  in  the  entrance  lo  each  lords  life  fett  downe  the  punftuall  and 
precife  manner  of  fpellinge  and  writinge  of  their  names  in  the  felfe  fame  letters,  as 
was  vfed  in  each  of  thofe  lords  dayes  wherein  they  feverally  lyved,  in  the  records, 
Deeds,  Accompts,  Court  rolls,  and  writings  of  theire  owne  tymes,  mentioning  them 

Berkeley 


86 


€|je  Hibe^  of  tijc  ^txhtkp^ 


Berkeley  hath  bene  a  name  in  ages  paft 
Still  highly  reverenc't  and  greatly  grac't 

i^iiBf  %\mc^  anb  SDebotionjf 

]^auin0  fetled  his  eflate  in  his  Barony  with  King  Richard  and  King  John 
as  aforefayd,  the  next  part  of  his  life  vntill  his  entry  into  rebellion  was  divided 
betweene  his  three  howfes  of  Berkeley  caflle,  Portbury  and  Bedminfter,  And  in 
which  of  them  foever,  or  where  elfe,  refidinge,  fuch  were  his  Almes  and  guifts  of 
lands,  to  Abbyes,  pryories,  Hofpitalls  and  Chantries,  That,  beinge  bound  togeather, 
they  would  feeme  equall  to  the  maffy  lumpe  of  his  grandfathers  donations  at  his 
foundation  of  S'  Auguflines  Monaftery  by  Brifloll,  whereof  fome  of  the  principall 
nowe  followe 


carta  cum  decano 

Briftoll. 

103 

Aug:  chart:fol:45. 

46.  47.  48. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


Carta  in  Caftro 

de  Berkeley. 

Aug:  chart:  fo:  45. 


3(lftct  the  paterne  of  his  pious  Anceftors,  hee  not  onely  confirmeth  to  the 
Abbot  of  this  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  whatfoever  had  bene  |  before  given  by 
his  grandfather  (who  to  the  honor  of  god  had  founded  that  houfe  (faith  his  Deed) 
and  after  by  his  father,  (recitinge  the  particulars  of  both  their  donations,)  25ut  alfo 
himfelfe  nowe  giveth  all  his  houfes,  lands,  and  Tenements  within  the  walls  of 
Briftoll,  which  as  the  Deede  expreffeth  were  many  and  greate,  Coniuringe  the 
Abbot  and  Covent  to  celebrate  therefore  yearly  the  Aniverfaryes  of  himfelfe  and  of 
Julyan  his  firft  wife,  and  of  Lucye  his  fecond  wife,  on  the  three  feverall  dayes  of 
theire  deaths,  which  the  fayd  Abbot  and  wholl  Covent  in  a  full  affembly  (called 
their  chapiter)  whereat  the  fayd  lord  in  perfon  was  prefent  amongft  them,  bound 
themfelves  to  performe,  vnder  the  danger  of  Anathema,  a  curfe  to  befall  them  and 
their  fucceffors,  if  they  negleJled  it ;  CfjC  firft  ftraine  of  that  kind,  which  any  Deed 
mentioneth  that  1  have  met  withall  in  this  family 


Aug:  chart:  fol:  47. 
48.  119.  120. 


^l)i^  lord  alfo  gave  to  that  monaftery  divers  lands  and  Tenements  in  his 
Manor  of  Hame,  %v3i  all  his  great  wood  called  Iwecumbe  ats  Ewcombe  in  Nibley 
within  his  Manor  of  Wotton  :  And  gave  alfo  to  that  monaftery  all  his  land  of 
Bagrugge  lately  by  him  purchafed  of  William  Fremonte,  fayinge  (in  his  conveyance) 
That  hee  gave  to  them  theis  lands  for  their  larger  maintenance  and  better  enter- 
tayninge  of  ftrangers. 


Carta  in  Caflro  f^ct  alfo  further  gave  to  that  Monaftery  a  meffuage  and  yard  land  in  Cowley, 

Aug-  chart^fohT2  ^"<^  ^^^°  ^'^  watermill  of  Berkeley  neere  lockfaft  bridge,  with  the  Cuftome  and 

S3-  mul6lure  of  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  511nt)  one  meffuage  and  yard  land  neer  adioyninge 
carta  cu  Decano 


Briftoll : 


to 


Sifc  of  !!!obrrt  tf)c  .^rconti 


87 


carta  in  caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


to  the  faid  Mill  (which  are  at  this  daye  the  poffcffions  of  Machin  and  Bridger  of  the 
valew  of  1 20"  per  Ann  ;  fayeing  in  his  conveyance)  That  hee  gave  theis  lands  for 
the  maintenance  of  twoe  lampes  to  burne  perpetually  in  the  Church  of  the  faid 
monaftery,  the  one  before  the  high  altar,  and  the  other  before  the  altar,  whereat 
our  ladyes  maffe  is  celebrated. 

i^et  further  gave  to  that  monaftery  one  other  meffuage  and  yard  land  in 
Hulmancote  in  the  parifh  of  Cowley  (worth  at  this  day  .  70'!'  per  Ann)  to  buy  two 
quarters  of  pure  wheat  yearly  from  thence,  and  wine,  for  oblations,  for  confecration 
of  the  body  and  bloud  of  our  lord  Jefus  Chrift.  Sfinti  afwell  in  a  full  chapter  in  the 
fayd  Monaftery  as  publikely  at  Berkeley  Church  caufed  all  thofe  to  bee  excomu- 
nicated,  that  fhould  in  any  age  then  after  prefume  to  infringe  this  grant. 

Cl)iie(  lord  Robert  gave  alfo  to  the  Church  of  Berkeley  and  our  |  bleffed  lady    104 

thereof  and  for  the  maintenance  of  her  feruice  there,  divers  lands  in  that  parifti  as    ^^^J-  ':^^I^  ■![°'  44 
,  ,       ,      ,  „  ^  Cart:mCaaro 

thee  deeds  doe  tell  us.  de  Berkeley: 

Co  the  monaftery  of  Bradenftocke,  hee  gave  the  manor  of  Weftcote  which  hee    Rot :  cart:  16.  H: 
had  bought  of  Peter  of  Vley,  in  pios  vfus,  as  aforefayd.  3  m :  6. 

Co  the  monaftery  of  our  bleffed  lady  Mary  of  Kingefwood  by  Wotton,  this  lord    Carta  in  Caftro 
for  the  foules  helth  of  himfelfe  and  of  his  two  wives  Julian  and  Lucy  and  of  his        Berkeley. 
Anteceffors  and  Succeffors,  gave  one  yard  land  in  his  Manor  of  Wotton,  at  Swiny, 
and  the  watermill  and  lands  adioyninge  which  Richard  Bisford  then  held.  To  which 
Deed  are  one  and  twenty  witneffes.     Theis  are  worth.  i6o''.-  per  Ann  at  this  day. 


Co  the  fame  Monaftery  of  Kingefwood,  this  lord  for  the  foules  health  of  his 
fayd  wife  Julyan,  gave  alfo  one  meffuage  and  yard  land  in  Pockhampton  in  Hinton, 
and  pafture  for  feaven  fowes  and  one  bore  with  their  piggs  of  one  yeare  old,  and 
pafture  for  fifty  fheep  amongft  his  tenants  there,  And  certaine  fifhinge  places  in 
Seaverne  neere  Chifelhungre,  and  freedome  to  fifti  in  the  fayd  River  with  their 
boats  and  nets  in  length  &  bredth  as  farr  as  his  dominion  extends. 

Co  the  fayd  Monaftery  of  Kingefwood,  this  lord  alfo  gave  a  water  Mill  and 
divers  lands  adoiyninge  at  Wortley  :  And  the  land  called  Bradpen,  and  pafture  for 
one  hundred  fheep  at  Wortley,  with  divers  lands,  and  rents  there  ;  3llnt>  his  pretious 
gold  ringe,  et  alia  multa  bona,  and  many  other  good  things,  ad.  fabricam  ecctiae,  to 
the  fabricke  of  the  Church  there  as  the  words  of  an  old  regifter  are. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley: 


Cartulog :  de 
Kingfwood  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley : 

Vetus  regiftr.  in 
Caftro  deBerkeley. 


88  €l)e  Hibcjef  of  tfjc  25crhricpiSf  1 1 89 

Carta  in  Caflro  %Vii  alfo  gave  to  the  fayd  Monaftery  fower  yard  land  at  Erlingham,  and  divers 

perticular  fifhings  there  ;  halfe  a  yard  land  at  Ryham  ;  his  newe  mill  at  Berkeley 
and  one  yard  land  neere  theirto  ;  And  one  yard  land  at  Hulmancote  ;  and  one  yard 
land  at  Swonhunger  ;  And  his  wood  called  Iwecombe,  and  all  his  land  within  and 
without  the  walls  of  Briftoll,  And  the  lands  that  were  Maurice  his  brothers. 

Aug :  chart :  fol :  Cl^j^   lord  alfo  founded  a  Chantree   in   his  Chappie  at  Portbury  where  his 

refidence  often  was,  makeing  an  agreement  with  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines,  howe 
the  Offeringes  given  at  the  faid  Chappie  fhould  bee  divided,  betweene  the  faid 
Chantry  preift,  and  the  mother  Church  of  Portbury,  which  belonged  to  the  fayd 
Abbot :  I 

105  'C|)i^  lord  alfo  gave  to  the  priory  of  Stanley  which  was  a  Cell  to  the  Abby  of 

Carta  in  Caftro    S'  Peters  of  Glouc  ;  a  water  mill  and  divers  lands  in  Cowley,  worth  fowerfcore 
de  Berkeley.  ,  .     ^  i  •      i 

pounds  per  Ann  at  this  day. 

duae  Cartse  in  5llnb  to  the  Priory  of  Sudwike,  this  lord  gave  divers  Tenements  in  the  Towne 

o  e  er  e  ey.  ^^  Berkeley,  which  afterwards  the  Prior  and  Covent  therof  fold  to  the  Abbot  of 
S'  Auguftines. 

Carta  in  Caflro  %VSi  to  the  bretheren  of  the  Hofpitall  of  Jerufalem,  this  lord  gave  divers  lands 

e    er  e  ey.    ^j,-j^j^  f^jg  Manor  of  Hame,  and  divers  howfes  in  Berkeley  Towne,  which  they  held 

till  the  diffolution  of  their  Monaftery  fcytuate  within  the  parifh  of  Clarkenwell 

London,  one  whereof  is  the  comon  Taverne  wherein  James  Atwood  nowe  dwelleth: 

Anno .  1622. 

Carta  in  Caflro  CtjtjS^  lord   alfo   founded   a   Chantry  in   his   manfion   houfe   in  his   Manor  of 

de  Berkeley,  gedminfter,  SUnb  becaufe  the  Re6tor  of  the  parifli  there  gave  confent  that  this 
Chantry  preift  fhould  have  the  Offerings  of  the  houfe  and  family  of  this  lord  and 
of  ftrangers  reforting  to  that  Oratory  frely  to  difpofe  of,  (baptifme  to  his  church 
referved)  the  fayd  lord  in  recompence  of  this  kindnes,  gave  a  meffuage  and  divers 
lands  in  Bedminfter  to  the  fayd  parifh  Church  for  ever. 

Carta  in  Caftro  5tnll  foe  extended  was  this  lords  largeffe  in  guift  of  lands  to  the  prior  and 

de  Berkeley.    Movent  of  Chrifts  Church  of  Twinham,  That  in  remuneration  thereof,  for  the  foules 

helth  of  himfelfe,  and  of  his  wives,  and  of  his  father  and  mother,  and  of  the  foules 

of  his  heires,  they  granted  to  this  lord,  one  Maffe  dayly  to  bee  fayd  in  their  Church 

for  all  faythfull  deceafed  3llnb  for  that  caufe  would  receive  and  keepe  one  Chanon 

more 


I220  Htfc  of  mo&rrt  tiic  ,j&ccon&  89 

more  in  their  Church  to  finge  for  the  fayd  Soules  ;  3Ilnb  they  further  granted, 
comunion  and  participation  to  this  lord  of  all  benefitts  and  meritts,  which  are  done, 
or  hereafter  fhall  bee  in  their  Church:  And  to  have  his  name,  after  his  death,  written 
in  theire  martirologe,  That  having  his  Aniverfary  recited,  divine  prayers  might  bee 
celebrated  for  him  as  for  a  founder. 

%\^0  to  the  Chanons  of  Hereford,  this  lord  gave  two  yard  land  in  his  Manor    Carta  in  CaRro 
of  Arlingham,  which  afterwards  was  alyened  to  the  Abbot  of  S'  Aug^ftines. 


d)!^  lord  alfo  founded  the  faire  hofpitall  of  S'  Katherines  a  |  litle  without 
Briftowe,  within  his  Manor  of  Bedminfter,  which  to  this  day  keepeth  the  name, 
though  the  founders  pious  intention  bee  changed,  as  after  followeth  in  theis  rela- 
tions, whereto  his  brother  and  heire  the  lord  Thomas  was  a  fingular  benefa6lor.  As 
the  words,  in  Abbot  Newland  are. 


106 

Newl  :  ped  :  et 

multi  alij  in  Caflro 

de  BerL 

S'.  Katherines 

hofpital. 


fH^aStp  further  prints  of  this  lords  ampler  devotions  I  have  a  far  off  difcerned, 
which  I  omitt,  (as  though  out  all  theis  relations,  I  doe  in  each  lords  life,  the  like) 
mentioninge  onely,  what,  in  ipfis  terminis,  in  the  deeds  themfelves  I  have  fene  and 
handled.  3inlJ  to  the  memory  of  this  repentant  lord  I  confidently  prefent  to  his 
pofterity,  That  howe  raginge  or  rebellious  foever  in  Armes  and  bloud,  ten  yeares  of 
his  life,  in  the  lafl  of  King  John,  were  poured  out  againft  his  Kinge  and  fovereigne 
lord  ;  yet  not  one  lord,  in  the  whoU  bundle  of  his  generations,  more  devoutly 
facrificed  the  fower  laft  of  his  life  after  his  returne  to  allegiance,  then  hee ;  devoting 
each  day  to  the  makeinge  an  Attonement  with  God,  dayly  publifhinge  by  workes  of 
Charity  and  devotion,  his  true  contrition  and  repentance,  ^n  which  laft  part  of  his 
life  almoft  all  the  former  guifts  of  Almes  and  Charity  and  many  more,  were  offered 
for  expiation. 

Sinnes  paft  fhall  never  torment  thee, 
If  fmnes  prefent  doe  not  delight  thee, 

9In  which  tyme  alfo  hee  gave  to  Robert  Baftard  and  his  heires  for  ever  in    Carta  in  Caftro 
recompence  of  his  Service,  a  meffuage  and  two  yard  land  in  Clapton,  and  fower 
Acres  of  meadowe  in  Parham  within  his  Manor  of  Hame. 


3Cnb  to  Euftace  his  Butler  at  Barkeley  and  to  his  heires  in  recompence  of  his    Carta  in  CaRro 
fervice,    hee  gave  a   Meffuage  and  halfe  a  yard    land  within  his  fayd   Manor  of     ^    ereey. 
Hame :  Some  others  of  like  nature,  I  omit. 


90 


€f)c  %iMe0  of  tlje  25crhricpiE( 


1 189 


107 

Red  book  in  the 

Exchequer. 

Rot :  pip  :  6  :  et  8 

R:  I. 


J^i^  miiefccflmnc^  at  tariouief  ^a^^agt^,  not  ptopcrip  tctiuccli  unDec  tlje  fbrmec 

titlciaf 

5llnli  notDe  I  returne  to  workes  of  an  other  colour,  %n  tfjc  fixth  of  King 
Richard  the  firft,  This  lords  barony  was  taxed  at  ]  twenty  fhillings  for  each  Knights 
ffee  whereby  it  was  holden  towards  the  redemption  of  the  kinge  then  a  prifoner  in 
his  returne  from  the  holy  land,  31In&  in  the  Eighth  yeare  of  that  kinge,  this  lord 
payd  after  the  fame  rate  and  manner,  towards  the  Kings  warrs  in  Normandy. 

511llil  in  the  firfh  of  Kinge  John  towards  the  fame  warrs,  when  the  efcuage  was 
feffed  but  at  xiij!  iiij''  for  each  Knights  ffee,  this  lord  payed  after  the  fame  manner. 


Rot :  terr  :  dat  et 

cone:  6  Jotiis.  m  : 

16.  20. 


ead  : 
claus  :  8 : 


n  :  20. 
H:3. 


pars  :  2.  m  : 
fin  :  roll  :  8.  H  ; 


3[n  the  fixth  yeare  of  King  John,  the  Kinge  by  a  fpetiall  writ  directed  to 
his  Treaforer  and  Barons  of  his  Excheq^  dated  the  firfl  of  Odlober,  acquited  this 
lord  Robert  of  thirty  markes  fyne  for  not  going  with  him  into  France  againft  the 
Freeh  King  vpon  efcuage  taxed.  And  demanded  of  him  according  to  the  tenure  of 
Berkeley. 

Silntl  the  xxj""  of  July  the  fame  yeare  granted  to  this  lord  the  moyety  of 
Portbury  fometyme  (faith  the  record)  the  land  of  Herebert  de  Morevill  the  Norman, 
and  then  feifed  into  the  Kings  hands,  occafioned  by  the  revolt  of  Normandy  :  To 
hold  at  the  Kings  pleafure,  anfwering  the  profits  to  his  Exchequer,  i©ija:rin  I  will 
not  touch  vpon  the  kings  hard  hand,  nor  the  miftery  of  State,  in  feazinge  thofe 
lands  which  the  Normans  fometymes  held  in  England,  becaufe  theire  fonnes  or 
grandchildre  in  Normandy  had  nowe  revolted  from  him  to  the  French  Kinge,  which 
many  generations  before,  theire  forefathers  had  alyened  vpon  valuable  confiderations 
to  the  fubiedls  of  England. 

Claus:  9  Jofeis.  3llnb  the  twentieth  of  September  in  the  Nynth  yeare  of  Kinge  John,  the  Kinge 

by  writt  fignifyed  to  the  Barons  of  his  Exchequer,  That  this  lord  Robert  had  payd 
him  the  bay  horfe  (equum  bauzan)  which  hee  owed  him.  And  therefore  fhould  award 
noe  further  proces  againft  him. 


Rot :  pipse.  4. 
et  5.  Jotis. 


108 


CfjiiSf  lord  Robert  and  Gerrard  of  Athia,  by  Colour  of  theire  office  of  Con- 
ftable  of  the  Caftle  of  Briftowe,  and  of  the  140"-  rent  which  they  payd  to  Kinge 
John  for  the  farme  of  Briftowe  towne,  which  in  the  fourth,  fifth,  and  fome  other 
yeares  of  his  raigne,  they  |  rented  of  that  Kinge  vnder  pretence  of  an  old  cuftome  in 
that  kinde,  (made  ftronger  by  their  prefent  authoritie  and  power  there)  tooke  fower- 
pence  of  every  bracina,  brewing  of  ale  within  the  Towne  of  Briftowe,  befides  twoe 

pence 


Hifc  of  Uobcrt  tljc  .ifeffonlJ 


91 


pence  which  the  Conftables  of  Brifloll  of  old  accuftomed  lawfully  to  take,  which 

extortion,    fince  havinge   bene    contynued,    the    Inhabitants  of    Briftoll   for  thirty  Carta:  14  :H:  3 

markes  fyne  nowe  bought  of  King  Henry  the  third  in  the  xiiij'"'  of  his  raigne.  And  R^t  pipx:  15  H: 

obtayned  his  chartar  thenceforth  to  pay  but  two  pence  out  of  a  brewinge  towards  3-  f"b  titulo  nova 

fupportation  of  the  Conftable  of  the  Caflle.  Nova  oblata  code 

Anno  : 

iSinll  in  the  Chartar  roll  of  the  nynth  yeare  of  King  John,  I  obferved,  this  lord    Cart.  9.  Jotiis 
Robert  to  bee  a  witnes  in  the  foote  of  divers  of  y'  Kings  Chartars  and  grants,    ™'    "^    *'  ^'   *^' 
whereby  it  is  gathered,  according  to  the  courfe  of  thofe  tymes.  That  either  hee  was 
then  of  that  Kings  Privy  Counfell,  or  els  an  honorable  Officer  in  his  houfhold  or 
both. 


25ut  fliortly  after  by  what  meanes  I  finde  not,  vnles  for  refufeinge,  as  fome 
other  Barons  did,  to  followe  the  Kinge  in  his  warrs  into  France,  for  not  confirming 
the  lawes  of  King  Henry  the  firft  called  Sf  Edwards  Lawes,  But  foe  angred  was 
Kinge  John  That  about  the  xij'''  of  his  raigne,  hee  feifed  the  Caflle  and  landes  of 
this  lord  Robert  into  his  hands  ;  And  to  reftore  them,  drewe  from  him  in  the  yeare 
after,  a  fyne  of  two  thoufand  markes.  And  withall  drewe  from  him  an  hundred 
markes  more  to  have  a  faire  tryall  by  his  peers  for  his  life  :  \et  the  words  them-  Rot.  pipse  :  13 
felves  out  of  the  pipe  rolls  of  thofe  yeares  tell  all  I  have  yett  found  of  this  paffage ;  J°^'^ 
Robertus  de  Berkelai  debet  2000  marcas  de  fine,  et  centum  marcas  pro  habendo 
rationabili  iudicio  per  pares  fuos,  Robert  de  Berkelay  owes  the  Kinge  2000  markes 
for  his  fine,  and  one  hundred  markes  more  to  have  a  reafonable  tryall  by  his  Peers. 
3tnb  in  the  xiiij'!'  yeare  thus  ;  Robertus  de  Berkelai  reddit  compm  de  2000  marcas 
pro  habendis  terris  fuis  et  caftro  fuo,  vnde  diffefitus  fuit  occone  bnuot :  regis ;  Ita 
quod  1000  marcas  reddat  a  feflo  Scti  Mictiis  in  Anno  xiiij'.°  in  vnu  annu  ad  quatuor 
terminos  et  in  fequenti  Anno  .  500  marcas :  In  thro  250''  et  debet.  1080!  i65  8^  |  et 
centum  marcas  pro  habendo  iudicio  :  Idem  reddit  compm  de  eodem  debito  in  thro. 
200-  et  in  pardonis  ipfi  Robto  .  50"  per  bre  regis  et  debet .  900! ;  Robert  de  Berkeley  et  2.  3.  H :  3  et 
makes  his  accompt  for  2000  markes  which  hee  owes  to  the  Kinge  for  the  rehaveinge 
of  his  Caflle  and  landes  whereof  hee  was  put  out  by  reafon  of  the  Kings  difpleafure, 
of  which  hee  is  to  paye  one  thowfand  markes  at  the  fower  vfuall  termes  in  the  next 
yeare,  and  five  hundred  markes  in  the  yeare  followinge,  now  payde.  25o''-  in  money, 
And  foe  owes  1083''  6?  8^  befides  one  hundred  markes  for  his  fayd  triall:  Afterwards 
hee  payes .  200''  of  the  fayd  debt,  and  fifty  pownds  the  Kinge  by  his  writ  pardons 
him,  and  then  owes  900"- :  D^j^t)  was  vnpayd  till  the  Kings  death  3lnb  after  till 
the  third  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  when  it  was  ftalled  to  bee  payd  by  one 
N   2  hundred 


Rot.  pip:  14.  Jofiis 
Glouc:novaoblata. 


log 

Rot:  pip:  i6  Jofeis 


92 


€{)c  %iMt^  of  tfje  23crfeclcp^ 


Rot :  fin  :  15  JoKis 
I  et.  2  pars  :  m  :  5. 


Rot:pipae.  15.  H :    hundred  pound  per  Ann  ;  And  accordingly  payd  by  Thomas  his  brother  and  heire, 
but  not  cleered  till  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third. 

5Cnb  thus  this  lord,  havinge  peeced  vp  a  crafy  peece  with  his  Kinge,  hee  the 
xxix""  of  June  in  the  fifteenth  of  his  raigne  covenants  with  the  kinge  to  furnifh  ten 
Knights  (bene  paratos  equis  et  armis)  with  horfes  and  Armes  well  Armed,  to  attend 
him  in  his  warres.  in  France  for  one  wholl  yeare  at  his  owne  charges,  to  be  accompted 
from  the  day  of  theire  cominge  to  Portefmouth  there  to  take  fliippinge  in  foe  well 
furniflied  manner  as  fhould  bee  approved  of  by  thofe  appoynted  for  the  viewe  of 
the  mufters,  foe  that  the  Kinge  would  difcharge  hime  of  five  hundred  markes  which 
hee  owed  him,  And  after  the  end  of  that  yeare  he  would  pay  the  Kinge  the  refidue 
of  that  det  (not  defalked  in  his  ten  Knights  wages)  at  fuch  dayes  as  the  King 
would  then  give  him,  5tinll  the  xxix'^  of  December  followinge  the  former  agreement 
was  thus  altered,  '^Jjat  this  lord  fhould  goe  in  perfon  with  five  onely  of  his  Knights 
this  yeare  to  bee  ready  by  the  xxij'^  of  next  month,  and  the  other  the  next  yeare 
after,  to  the  end  (faith  the  record)  that  the  knights  might  bee  the  better  prepared. 
And  this  lord  Robertt  in  part  eafed.  And  to  bee  difchardged  of  the  whole  fine, 
Claus.  rolls  15  goeinge  alfo  the  fecond  yeare  in  perfon  beyond  Seas  with  the  Kinge  :  5llnl)  the 
twentieth  of  January  followinge  the  fame  fifteenth  yeare,  the  Kinge,  as  earnefl  of 
110  his  newe  favor,  gave  unto  him  |  the  cuftody  of  his  Foreft  at  Alwefton  (betweene 
Berkeley  and  Briftoll  not  then  difafforefted  nor  turned  into  a  parke  as  fliortly  after) 
And  alfo  all  the  lands  of  Richard  the  fonne  of  Edwin,  and  of  Robert  de  Weny, 
and  of  Robert  de  Weflon  withall  their  goods  and  Chattells,  comaundinge  by  his 
writ  Allexander  de  Keilway  Cuftos  thereof,  to  deliver  them,  and  to  give  this  lord 
Seizin  of  the  lands.  And  then  forthwith  to  come  to  him. 


Eodem  rot.  m. 
I  et  2  pars.  m. 


Stow:  fo:  171. 

Math.  Paris  fol : 

320-  337- 

rot.  pip  :  3  :  H  :  3. 

Wendover 

manufcr:cuRotjto 

Cotton  Barr : 

Mathew  Paris  hi(L 

fol :  74.  320.  this 

Charter  of :  H  :  i . 

is  exprefled  : 

Mathew  Paris.  337. 
et :  339- 


f$i0  tcMMm  agantjeft  tf^t  Hinge 

i^Ctje  Kinge  havinge  finifhed  his  warrs  beyond  Seas,  the  xiiij'''  of  November  in 
the  fixteenth  yeare  of  his  raigne  Anno  12 14.  landed  in  England,  and  this  lord 
Robert  with  him,  who  had  there  ferved  him  in  Poiflien  with  five  knights  for  halfe 
a  yeare,  %n\X  having  fince  his  lafl;  reconciliation  (as  it  feemes)  but  diffembled  with 
his  Prince  nowe  changeth  his  loyaltye.  And  as  one  of  the  difcontented  peeres  of  the 
realme,  vnder  a  Counterfeit  fhewe  of  holynes  (quafi  orationis  gratia)  faith  Mathewe 
Paris,  (licet  in  caufa  aliud  fuiffet)  goeth  on  pilgrimage  to  S'  Edmondfbury  in  Suffolke, 
where  meeting  with  other  Earls  and  Barons  of  the  like  humor,  they  all  in  S' 
Edmonds  Church  fware  before  the  high  Altar,  That  if  the  Kinge  would  not  grant 
the  lawes  and  liberties  contayned  in  the  Charter  of  King  Henry  the  firft,  comonly 

called 


Sifc  of  ]!iobcrt  rl)c  .^cconD 


93 


called  Kinge  Edwards  lawes,  to  bee  by  them  and  the  whole  Kingdome  thenceforth 
enioyed,  they  would  makes  warres  agnft  him  and  withdraw  themfelves  from  out  of 
his  allegiance,  vntill  und'  his  Scale  hee  fhould  ratifye  and  confirme  the  fame, 
Agreeinge  to  repayre  after  Chxillmas  to  the  Kinge  with  this  overture,  And  in  the 
meane  fpace  to  provide  themfelves  of  Armor,  Horfes  and  Munition. 

Noe  durt  foe  deepe,  noe  path  foe  flippery. 
Which  i'le  refufe,  ere  loofe  my  liberty  : 

SCtlb  forry  I  am,  That  Wendover  a  learned  hiflorian  lyving  |  in  this  tyme 
(ending  his  hiftory  in  the  xxij'^  yeare  from  hence)  bringeth  in  this  lord,  by  the  name 
of  Robert  de  Berkelay  (mifprinted  Robert  de  Brakefley  in  Mathew  Paris,  and 
Hollingelhead)  to  bee  a  principall  head  amongft  the  Barons  in  this  confpiracy.  As 
alfoe  doe  many  others,  and  Berkeley  Caftle  one  of  the  places  of  their  affembly  and 
Rendevous. 


Ill 

Roger    de  Wend- 
over manufcr:  cum 
Robto  Cotton, 
baroneto. 
Math.  Paris. 
Hollingefhead. 
Stow  et  at. 


CljC  lords  arme,  come  to  the  Kings  prefence,  vrge  him  to  rule  by  his  old  lawes, 
and  abrogate  his  newe,  derived  from  his  will,  ready  by  force  to  conflrayne  him,  if 
hee  deny  :  CtjC  King  denieth,  CfjC  barons  take  to  Armes  at  Stamford,  Anno  121 5 
in  the  feaventeenth  veare  of  King:  John  and  Mathewe  Paris  an  Hiftorigrapher  of  that  Mathew  Paris 
tyme  notmge,  qui  pnncipes  fuere  m  e.xactione  hbertatum,  who  were  the  cheife 
princes  ftandinge  for  theire  liberties,  hath  this  lord  Robert  one  of  that  honorable 
Catalogue  :  <0)Cp  march  on  to  Berkeley  and  fend  theire  greevances  to  the  Kinge, 
nameinge  their  hofi:  the  Army  of  God  and  holy  Church  :  They  enter  London,  And 
by  Joynt  letters  follicitt  all  the  other  Barons  that  had  not  yet  ioyned  with  them 
threatning  if  they  refufed,  to  deftroy  them  and  theirs,  as  enemies  to  God,  and 
Rebells  to  the  Church  :  Cij0  moft  part  obaye  and  ioyne  and  leave  the  Kinge  :  CJjC 
kinge,  from  Windfor  fends  to  the  lords  to  London,  promifmge  to  fatisfye  theire 
defyres  :  C|)Cp  repayre  to  him,  and  pitche  their  Tents  in  Runninge  mead  betweene 
Stanes  and  Windfor,  where  with  the  Barons  and  Kinge  was  all  the  nobility  of 
England,  and  Comons  innumerable.  Ci)C  kinge  (much  againft  flomake)  yealdeth 
and  fubfcribeth  the  lawes  and  liberties  demaunded,  the  fame  in  effedl:,  with  Magna 
Charta  and  Charta  de  Forefla,  fending  copies  thereof  to  bee  proclaymed  in  all  the 
Shires  of  England,  and  after  to  bee  kept  in  feverall  monafleries.  And  giveth  power 
to  five  and  twenty  of  the  graveft  perfons  to  fee  the  fame  performed,  writeing 
accordingly  to  all  the  Sheriffs  of  England  for  obfervance,  5(lnb  the  Pope  by  his  bull 
(acled  by  his  legate  then  with  the  Kinge)  confirmeth  alfoe  this  grant  and  confirma- 
tion, denouncinge  a  curfe  to  the  infringers :  then  which  noething  could  bee  then 

devifed 


94  '^t^t  HitCitf  of  tijc  55crftdcpjS  1189 

devifed  more  flronge  ;  And,  this  was  in  June,  Anno  .  1215  .  in  the  feventeenth  yeare 
of  Kinge  John  :  ]0otDflC  it,  foone  after  the  kinge  repents,  and  purpofeth  to  undoe  & 
112  vnfweare  |  what  to  his  Barons  hee  had  done  and  fworne,  difpatcheth  to  the  Pope  a 
complaint  againft  his  Barons,  befeeching  him  to  make  voyd  what  hee  had  fworne 
and  done,  and  to  comand  obedience  to  his  Barons  vnder  excomunication  :  ^Cl^  pope 
decreeth  all  the  previledges  granted  by  the  Kinge,  as  alfo  his  Oath  to  bee  voyd,  as 
extorted  by  a  rebellious  attempt,  511nil  writes  to  the  Barons,  vpon  payne  of  his  great 
curfe,  to  obey  their  Kinge,  and  not  to  attempt  the  breach  of  his  peace.  Cf)C  Barons 
exclayme  againfl  the  Kings  uniufl  dealinge,  and  againfl  the  popes  wrongfull  Judg- 
ment, pronounced  againfl  them  vnheard,  And  contemninge  his  Decree  and  inhibition, 
refolve  by  dint  of  fworde  to  trye  their  caufe,  more  bent  againft  theire  Kinge  in 
maintenance  of  theire  libertyes,  then  before  :  <Bt  which  number  this  lord  Robert 
is  one. 

Cfje  Kinge  to  his  ayde  draweth  mighty  forces  from  forren  partes,  511ntl  having 

readvertifed  the  Pope  of  the  willfull  refolution  of  his  Rebellious  Barons,  the  Pope 

adiudgeth  them  enimies  to  the  Kinge  and  Church  and  excomunicateth  them,  firfl  in 

generall,  after  by  name  :  CI)C  Kinge  divides  his  huge  and  numerous  Army  into 

Claus:  rolls.  18.    two  partes,  and  miferably  wafteth  the  Barons  lands  and  their  Tenants,  whereby 

JoK  m :  4-  et :  6.    ^j^^y.  |^^  j^^  manner  all  their  poffeffions,  5inb  Berkeley  Caftle  cometh  into  the  hands 

^      ^     m  4     of  the  angry   Kinge,    who  therein  placeth    Hugo    de  Vivon  lord  of  Bitton,    his 

Conftable  thereof,  where  alfo  the  Kinge  imprifoneth  many  of  them  hee  tooke  in 

his  warrs :  %niX  haveing  feized   into  his  hands  all  the  lands  thereto  belonginge, 

appoynteth  by  writt  dated  the  fixth  of  July  in  the  xviij*  of  his  raigne,  the  profitts 

thereof  to  the  maintenance  of  his  Caftle  of  Briftoll,  where  hee  kept  alfo  a  garrifon 

Rot  claus:  i8.    3llltb  (amongft  fome  other  the  like  particular  paffages  reflefting  vpon  this  lord 

Jotis  m  :  4.    Robert)  the  xxiiij'^  of  Augufl  in  the  forefayd  yeare  comaundeth  the  fayd  Conftable 

to  maintayne  Nicholas  de  Feiland  in  right  of  Margarett  the  daughter  of  Otho  in 

poffeffion  of  her  lands  in  Woodmancote  and  Durfeley  in  as  ample  manner  as  (he  had 

them  before  this  lord  Robert  did  diffeize  her,  not  permittinge  that  any  wrong  bee 

done  to  him,  or  her,  but  to  proteft  and  defend  |  them  and  theirs,  %n3i  the  Kinge 

Rot  claus  •  18    havinge  alfo  taken  from  this  Lord  Robert  his  fifliinge  weares  at  Arlingham  in  the 

Jofiis :  m  :  3.    hundred  of  Berkeley  (where  hee  rented  one  other  called  Gerne  of  y'  pryor  of  Ferly) 

hee  by  his  writt  comanded  the  Sherife  of  the  County  to  make  him  a  good  paire  of 

horfpots  for  bringinge  the  fifti  vnto  him,  And  he  fliould  bee  allowed  the  charges 

thereof  vpon  his  account  in  the  Excheq^. 

Cl)e  25aron.a  miferably  affli(Sled  with  Cruell  wafts  and  devaftati5s  of  their  lands, 
which  the  Kinge  as  Mafter  of  the  feild  made  on  the  one  parte,  3Ilntl  by  the  enmity 

and 


1120  %ik  of  Itobnrt  t^c  ^rcoitti 

and  excomunication  of  the  pope  on  the  other  parte,  they  defperately  and  treacher- 
oufly  refolved,  and  accordingly  forthwith  fent  vnto  Lewis  the  fonne  of  Phillipp  Kinge 
of  France,  mortall  enimy  to  King  John,  offcringe  him  the  Crowne  of  England, 
with  fower  and  twenty  of  theire  fonnes  and  Nephewes  in  hoftage  for  performance 
of  theire  Covenants,  UctDijS^  accepteth  of  the  offer,  and  fendeth  one  and  forty  fhippes 
for  prefent  comfort  and  fuccor.  And  with  much  fpeed  followeth  himfelfe  with  680 
fhipps  more,  fluffed  with  Soldiers  and  worthye  Commanders  :  3£nll  upon  his  arrivall 
in  England,  the  Barons  forthw'"'  repaire  vnto  him,  and  fweare  to  him  fealty,  And 
doe  to  him  homage  as  to  their  true  and  naturall  prince.  5Cn&  Lewis  with  fhewe  of 
great  curtefey  returneth  to  them  affurance  of  mayntaininge  of  their  Lawes  and 
reftitution  of  their  poffeffions  and  dignities  :  ((Pf  which  difloyall  number  this  Lord 
Robert  de  Berkeley  is  one,  and  not  the  leafl. 


95 


Math :  Paris.  373 
Wendover  et  at : 


CijC  pope  from  Kinge  John  his  feodetary  is  informed  of  y'  Barons  pradlice,  Wendover 

And  Lewis  attempt,  who  fends  to  the  French  Kinge  Father  of  Lewis,  comaundinge  h  :  3. 

him  to  call  backe  his  fonne,  And  Lewis  not  to  goe  in  payne  of  curfmge,  but  neyther  Math :  Paris  et  at : 
of  them  obey. 

Hing  John  is  affifted  by  Gwalo  the  popes  legat,  who  by  name  excomunicateth    Hollingelh :  in 
Lewis  with  all  his  fa6lors  and  complices  :  warres  are  made,  bloud  fpilt,  and  Caftles    ^        &  l    ^  ■ 
taken  dayly  by  both  parties  in  moft  Corners  of  the  land,  every  where  moft  mercilefley 
pilled,  wafted,  and  confumed  ;  A  tyme  more  miferable  then  which  the  funne  hath 
not  fmce  feene  in  England. 

dtcount  Melun  a  ffrench  Lord  and  of  inward  Counfell  with  Lewis  |  on  his  114 
death  bed,  revealed  to  fome  of  the  Englifh  Barons,  That  Lewis  and  fixteene  lords  Math.Parisfo:384 
of  France  (himfelfe  being  one)  had  fecretly  fworne  to  kill  and  banifh  all  the  Englifh 
Nobility  which  now  ferved  him,  and  perfecuted  theire  owne  Kinge  (whereof  this 
Lord  Robert  was  one)  and  to  difmherite  all  theire  lynage  of  fuch  inheritances  as 
they  now  held  in  England,  after  hee  had  prevailed  ;  which  to  bee  true,  hee  tooke 
vpon  the  perill  of  his  foule. 


Cl)e  Barons  cafe  in  theis  feaventeene  and  eighteene  yeares  of  King  John,  was 
thus  ;  Such  of  theire  Caftles  as  King  John  tooke,  hee  ftored  with  his  foldiers  theire 
enimies,  who  wafted  their  lands  ;  ^mf^  Caftles  as  Lewis  by  theire  Armes  obtayned 
from  King  John  (though  their  owne)  hee  placed  Frenchmen  in,  not  themfelves  : 
^act)  Sunday  and  holiday  they  were  openly  accurfed  by  name  in  every  Church, 

SUtft 


96 


€I)c  %i\3C0  of  tlic  25cchdcp!Bt 


m  :  5.  n?  54. 


Wendover  Manu :  0oi  efteemed  of  by  Lewis  :  ^ot  put  in  truft  :  ^ot  placed  to  beare  rule  ;  Seldome 
called  to  Counfell,  ^ot  vfed  familiarly  by  Lewis  or  his  French  Lords  gea  fuch  of 
them  as  murmured  hereat,  were  by  Lewis  vpbraided,  and  called  Traytors,  ^OC  that 
many  of  them  inwardly  relented,  ^Hmongj^t  whom  this  Lord  Robert  was  one,  who 
had  the  better  meanes  for  reconciliation  with  the  Kinge,  in  that  Julian  his  then  wife 
was  neece  to  William  Marfhall  Earle  of  Pembrooke  th'elder,  who  had  marryed 
Ellenor  the  Kings  fifter,  and  the  principall  man  that  contynnued  faythfull  with  King 
John  (though  his  eldeft  fonne  William  adhered  to  Lewis)  which  was  foe  profecuted, 

Rot:pat:i8Jo!iis  That  whilefl  Kinge  John  laye  with  his  army  at  Berkeley  the  twentieth  of  July  in 
the  Eighteenth  of  his  raigne,  hee  obtayned  tres  of  fafe  condu6l  of  that  date,  to 
come  and  returne,  and  comon  with  the  Kingefrom  the  morrowe  after  S'  Margarets 
day  (being  the  fecond  day  after)  for  fower  dayes,  which  was  the  tyme  of  the  Kings 
abode  at  Berkeley,  as  the  tefte  of  patents  and  writs  then  there  fealed,  doe  fhewe  : 
l^otobtit  this  Lord  not  then  concludinge  his  peace,  hee  obtayned  other  tres  of  fafe 

Rot:predi(Sl:m.  5  condu6l,  dated  the  Seaventh  of  Augufl  followinge  at  Whitchurch  in  Shropihire,  to 
endure  for  fifteene  dayes,  whereby  hee  fo  well  prepared  his  reconciliation  with  the 
kinge  (though  not  then  effected)  That  the  third  of  September  followinge  the  Kinge 
awarded  his  Comiffion  |  in  the  behalfe  of  the  lady  Julian  his  wife  (calling  her  Neece 
to  Wittm  Earle  Marfhall  aforefayd)  to  S.  de  malo  leone  (nowe  Manly)  comanding 
him  to  deliver  to  her  for  her  fuftenance,  the  manor  of  Came  which  hee  had  granted 
to  her  at  thirty  pownds  a  yeare,  but  if  it  valewed  more.  Then  fhee  to  render  backe 
the  over-plus  into  the  Exchequer. 


n?49. 


"5 

Rot  :  Claus  :  18 
JoKis  .  m  :  3. 


3llnD  thus  flood  this  Lord  Robert  and  his  eflate,  excomunicated,  accurfed,  out 
of  the  Kings  favor  and  prote6lion,  without  caftle  or  lands,  his  farme  houfes  and 
flockes  of  Catle  wafted  and  confumed.  And  himfelfe  a  fupplyant  for  mercye  and 
pardon,  when  the  Kinge  dyeth  the  nyneeteenth  of  the  next  month  of  06lober, 
Anno.  12 16  in  the  Eighteenth  of  his  raigne. 


MinQ  John  being  dead,  Henry  the  third  his  fonne  fucceeded,  then  but  nyne 

yeares  old.  And  the  principall  governm'  of  the  yonge  Kinge  and  Kingdome  was 

comitted  to  the  fayd  William  Marfhall  Earle  of  Penbrooke,  whereby  a  more  ready 

gate  was  opened  for  this  Lords  entry  into  reconciliation  :  whereupon  the  Seaven- 

teenth  of  November  next,  he  hath  letters  of  fafe  come,  fafe  goe,  and  fafe  ftaye  for 

Rot  claus.  I :  H:  3    five  dayes,    And  the  fixteenth  of  February  followinge,  the  like  agayne  to  endure 
nil  I*  ct.  12. 

Rot.  claus.  I.  H.  3    till  midlent  funday,  when  hee  makes  his  peace  :  And  the  xiiij'*"  &  fifteenth  of  March 
m:  7.  n.  16.  et  22    ^nd  xiij'*"  and  xvij'''  of  June  followinge,  with  much  difficulty  vpon  hard  conditions, 

obtaynes 


I220 


jllifc  of  itlotjcct  rtjc  ^ccovii 


97 


obtaynes  the  kinges  feverall  writts  to  the  Sheriffs  of  Gloucefter  and  Somerfetfhires, 
and  to  the  fayd  Hugh  de  Vivon  givinge  them  to  vnderftand,  That  the  faid  Lord 
Robert  was  returned,  ad  fidem  et  fervicium  dni  regis,  into  the  Kings  allegiance  and 
favor.  And  therefore  accordinge  to  the  agreement  by  him  made  with  the  fayd  Earle 
of  Pembroke  and  other  the  Kings  Counfell,  they  (takinge  alfo  fecurity  for  forty 
pownds)  fliould  reftore  unto  him  all  his  lands  fave  the  Caflle  and  Towne  of 
Berkeley,  which  they  fhould  flill  retayne  to  the  Kings  vfe. 

311nil  thus,  after  a  years  attendance,  by  the  benefitt  of  y*  tymes  alteration,  and 
for  a  greate  fine,  this  Lord  Robert  (with  Wiftm  the  fayd  Earles  fonne,  William 
Lord  Mowbray,  Maurice  de  Gant  his  co3en  German,  Ofbert  Gifford  his  Nephewe, 
and  others)  is  received  into  like  favor  and  pardon.  | 

l^OtUDctt  this  Lord  could  never  gett  foote  into  his  Caflle  of  Berkeley  all  his  life    ii6 
tyme,  nor  his  brother  and  heire  that  fucceeded  him,  till  the  Eighth  yeare  of  this 
kings  raigne,  as  after  followeth  in  his  life. 


Cl^  poet  faid  well 


vltima  femper. 


Expetlanda  dies  homini  efl,  diciq^  beatus 
Ante  obitum  nemo,  fupremaq^  funera  debet. 


I 


When  that  our  debt  to  nature  hath  bene  payde, 
And  wee  in  grave,  clofed  with  Earth  are  layd. 
Then  not  before,  wee  deemd  are  to  bee, 
Dead  in  blifs,  or  fallen  by  miferie. 

Ct)C  firfl  wife  of  this  Lord  Robert  was  Julian  de  ponte  arche  daughter  of  William 
de  pontelargo  or  pontearchie  and  Neece  to  that  mirror  of  Nobility  Wittm  Earle 
Marifchall  th'elder  Earle  of  Penbrooke  :  who  had  that  honor  (after  the  manner  of 
Queenes)  to  bee  in  her  hufbands  life  tyme,  a  purchafer,  and  feller  alfo  of  land  of 
inheritance  in  her  owne  name  in  Fee  fimple,  without  her  hufbands  being  either 
named  or  ioyninge  with  her  in  fuch  conveyances,  other  then  that  fhee  was  nowe  wife 
to  Robert  de  Berkeleia,  In  which  manner  alfo  fhee  gave  divers  lands  to  diVers 
Monafleries  in  Frankalmoigne,  5litUJ  fuch  conveyances  flood  good  to  the  Donees  and 
Feoffees  and  theire  heires  &  fucceffors,  as  many  of  theire  alienations  of  thofe  lands, 
longe  after  made  doe  witneffe. 

o  €\^0 


Rot :  Norm  :  i. 
Joteis. 

Rot:  claus.  i8. 
Jotiis  m:  3.  4. 
ptita  Pafch:  47 
H:  3.  rot:  7. 
Aug:  chart:  fol:  48. 
97.  98.  in  caftr 
de  Berkeley, 
divers  cartas  in 
CaRrodeBerkeley. 
cartae  cum  decano 
Briaoll: 


€|je  Hibejf  of  t!jc  ^ctMep^ 


Newl :  pedeg  :  in 
Cafl.ro  de  Berkley. 


'd^jSf  Lady  Julian  deceafed  the  Fifteenth  of  November  in  the  fecond  yeare  of 
Kinge  Henry  the  third,  Anno  12 17.  And  lyeth  buryed  in  the  South  He  of  the  fayd 
Monaftery  vnder  a  white  free  flone,  happieft  in  this  good  happ,  that  fhee  in  peace 
imbraced  her  hufband  eight  months  after  his  peace  made  with  the  Kinge  before  fhe 
dyed. 


117 

Vetus  manufc:  in 
Caftro  de  Berkley. 
Aug:  chart:  fo:  40. 

45- 

ptita  Trin:  6.  H : 

3  rot :  6. 

Rot.  claus.  4.  H: 

3.m:7. 

Claus:  15.  H:3  m: 

20. 

Claus.  6 :  H  :  3. 

ps.  I. 
ptita  cora  rege 
Mich:  52.  H:  3 
rot  6  in  dorfo. 


f^i^  fecond  wife  was  Lucy  whom  hee  maryed  not  above  two  yeares  |  before 
his  death  who  furviued  her  hufband,  And  was  remarryed  to  Hugh  de  Gurney  fonne 
of  Hugh,  And  dyed  the  eighteenth  daye  of  January  Anno  1234 :  And  lyeth  buryed 
neere  the  fayd  Julian  vnder  an  other  white  free  flone  befides  the  rood  Altar  in  the 
entry  of  the  fouth  He  in  the  faid  Monaftery  :  Shee  was  endowed  by  virtue  of  the 
Kings  writs,  of  the  manor  of  Bedminfler,  and  of  Radclive-flreete  in  y'  County  of 
Somerfett,  and  of  the  Mannors  of  Wotton  and  Slimbridge  in  the  County  of  Glouc  ; 
and  of  other  landes,  as  followeth  in  the  life  of  the  next  Lord. 

fot  the  foules  health  of  both  which  wives,  afwell  after  the  death  of  the  firft,  as 
in  the  life  of  the  later,  this  lord  gave  much  land  in  divers  places  to  divers  religious 
Orders,  as  before  is  touched. 


I^i.sf  Dcati)  anb  place  of  Buriafl 

Vana  falus  hominis,  memor  eflo  quod  morieris 

To  day  a  Man,  too  morrowe  none,  our  felves  each  houre  behold, 
Then  thinke  on  death,  eare  life  be  gone,  and  body  layd  in  mould. 


Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

Newl :  pede  :  et  2 

al :  in  cafl  :  de 

Berkley. 

Trevifa  in 

Polichron.  lib  :  7. 

cap:  7  Caxton. 


Newl:  ped.  p'dict 

Aug:  mortiloge 

cm  DecanoBriflot. 


iCljC  thirteenth  day  of  May  approacheth  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of 
Kinge  Henry  the  third.  Anno.  1220.  wherein  this  lord  payeth  his  tribute  to 
mortalitye,  then  aged  fifty  five  yeares  or  thereabouts,  And  was  buryed  in  the  North 
He  of  the  church  of  y"  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguftines  over  againft  the  high  Altar,  in  a 
Moncks  Cowle,  an  vfuall  fafhion  for  great  peeres  in  thofe  tymes  efteemed,  as  an 
annulet  or  defenfative  to  the  foule,  and  as  a  Scala  cseli,  a  ladder  of  life  eternall, 
after  he  had  contynued  lord  one  and  thirty  yeares  wantinge  one  month.  <©f  whom 
Abbott  Newland  hath  thus  JfoT  this  good  Lord  S'  Robert  de  Berkeley  is  yearly 
done  a  fpetiall  memoriall  at  the  Vigile  of  his  Obitt,  placebo  et  dirige,  folemly,  And 
on  the  morrow  commendations  ;  the  pryor  fayinge  the  Maffe,  And  a  Doale  then 
after  difpofed  vnder  this  forme,  Cije  Abbot  hath  a  Cake  of  two  pence  price  and 
twoe  cafls  of  bread  of  three  to  a  peny,  and  fower  pence  for  wine.    3llntl  every 

Channon 


I2  20  Hife  of  JHobnt  ttjc  ^ctonb 

Channon  a  cake,  price  one  penny,  but  the  prior,  fubprior  and  |  Almener  have  twoe 
penny  Cakes,  And  every  Chanon  a  Caft  of  bread  and  two  pence  for  wine,  3llnll 
every  Fryar  of  the  fower  Orders  in  Briftoll  a  loafe  And  every  Prifoner  there  in 
Newgate  likewife,  SfilttJ  the  remanet  is  doaled  at  the  Monaftery  gate  to  the  poore 
people. 

I^i^  ^taW  of  3iniic^ 

d)C  dfeCillCjS  which  this  Lord  Robert  ufed  in  red,  in  greene,  and  yeallowe  waxe 
weare  very  broade,  having  on  the  one  fide  the  impreffio  of  a  knight  armed  and 
mounted  ready  for  prefent  onfet  in  the  warrs  circumfcribed  thus  Sigillum  Roberti 
de  Berkelei  And  the  back  or  reverfe  thereof  (more  then  two  inches  brode)  which 
may  be  called  his  privy  feale,  hath  the  impreffion  of  the  George  on  Horfebacke, 
and  the  fame  infcription  about  the  ring  thereof :  Behould  the  figures  of  both. 


99 


Ii8 


25p  this  Lords  death  without  iffue,  his  Barony  w'""  theis  Manors  and  lands 
followinge,  difcended  vpon  Thomas  his  brother  and  heire,  whom  he  entirely  feemed 
in  his  life  to  love. 


The  Manner  of  Portbury 
The  Mannor  of  Bedminfter 
The  Mannor  of  Radecliveftreet 
The  three  hundreds  of  Portbury 
Bedminft;er  and  Hareclive 


In  the  County  of  Somerfett: 


The 


lOO 


€ijc  HiijCiS  of  tl)c  2S>crftdcpi0f 


119 


Rot :  pip ; 


4.  et  5. 
Jotiis. 


Rot :  pip.  6.  R:  i. 
in  arce  london. 


Rot:  pip.  9.  R:  i. 
Glouc : 

diuerfae  Cartae  in 
Caft.ro  deBerkeley. 


In  the  County  of  Gloc 


The  Manor  of  Berkeley  meaninge 

the  burrowe  Towne 
The  Manor  of  Hame 
The  Manor  of  Appleridge 
The  Manor  of  Alkington 
The  Manor  of  Hineton 
The  Manor  of  Hurft 
The  Manor  of  SHmbridge 
The  Manor  of  Came 
The  Manor  of  Cowley 
The  Manor  of  Symondfall 
The  Manner  of  Wotton 
The  Mannor  of  Arlingham 
The  Manor  of  Ewley 

Briftowe  hee  held  in  farme  of  King  John  at  i4o''.-  and  145'!-  per  Ann 
as  the  great  rolls  of  the  Pipe  of  thofe  yeares  fhewe. 

The  Manor  of  in  y^  County  of  Oxon 

The  Manor  of  in  y'=  County  of  Wilts 

Divers  Lands  in  the  County  of  Northumberland 

As  for  the  Manor  of  Foxcote  he  gave  it  to  Maurice  his  third  brother 
and  to  his  heires  vpon  his  mariage  if  hee  fhould  beget  any  vpon  his 
wife,  if  not  to  revert  to  him  and  his  heires  To  hold  by  the  fervice  of 
halfe  a  knights  fee,  which  did  revert  in  the  tyme  of  the  next  lord 
Thomas  for  want  of  iffue  of  the  body  of  the  fayd  Maurice. 

And  for  the  moyetie  of  Gofmgton,  hee  conveyed  it  to  William  his 
brother,  as  before  is  mentioned. 

Divers  lands  in  Teveleford,  Tablesford  and  Charteloge  hee  added  to 
his  eftate  by  purchafes  from  Ivo  de  Teleford,  Phillip  the  fonne  of 
Elias  Ward,  and  others.  I 


120  IpijBf  Manor  of  Portbury  hee  much  augmented  by  a  purchafe  of  divers  landes 

and  Tenements  from  Wittm  de  Salfo  Marifco,  whofe  grandfather  Adam  had  the 
fame  from  that  Richard  de  Morevill,  of  whom  Robert  Fit3- Harding  purchafed  the 
one  moyetye  of  Portbury  as  before  :  for  which  hee  gave  to  the  fayd  Wittm  the  like 
quantity  of  land  in  Woodford,  which  alfo  from  the  heire  of  this  Wittm  was  re- 
purchafed  in  the  tyme  of  Edward  the  third  by  Thomas  then  Lord  Berkeley  :  And 
this  was  foone  after  hee  had  given  Gofmgton  to  his  brother  Wittm  for  Portbury. 

€I)Ojefe 


vers:  5. 


1220  life  of  jHobm  tl)c  dSccoiid  loi 

Ct)0|eiC  tymes  wherein  this  Lord  Robert  fate  in  peace,  were  poore,  and  mony 
foe  fcarce  amongft  his  Tenants,  That  the  incombes  which  hee  contrafted  for,  were 
comonly  payd  in  two,  three  or  fower  oxen,  or  kinc,  which  hatched  the  Error  hee 
comitted  in  filling  his  Manors  with  free  holds  and  farme  rents  of  inheritance;  See  after  fol: 
deeming  it  great  hufbandrye  to  keepe  the  rent  conftant  at  the  valewe  it  was  then 
at;  whofe  example  his  brother  and  heire  the  lord  Thomas  foe  farr  imitated,  that 
the  fmart  of  that  error  is  fenfible  in  this  family  to  this  day,  as  often  hereafter  I  fhall 
write. 

€{)c  application  anb  b^c  of  I)i^  life 

1.  dppon  the  Errors  of  this  lords  life  (in  the  Alpha  the  fairefl;,  before  the    The  vfe. 
Omega,  the  fouleft  of  all  his  Anceflors)  his  pofterity  may  be  inftrufted  not  to  lift 

vp  theire  hands  againft  theire  Soveraigne,  for  rebellions  againft;   Princes  deftroy 

whole  familyes,  the  peflilence  but  particular  perfons :  Good  Princes  are  bleffmgs  to 

theire  fubiefte:  If  bad,  they  are  punifhments  fent  of  God,  And  wee  muft  fufifer  them, 

and  amend  our  felves;  And  that  noe  fubie6l  ought  to  refift  the  power  of  his  Kinge, 

becaufe  hee  may  be  taxed  with  iniuftice  or  cruelty  :  for  it  pleafeth  God  fometyme  to    Romanes.  13 

punifh  his  people  by  a  Tyrannous  hand  ;    And  the  commandem'  of  obedience,  is 

without  diftin6lion.  | 

2.  Sllgainc,  his  poflerity  is  taught  by  him,  That  noe  pretence  howe  faire  foever, 
can  give  authority  or  flrength  to  warrant  vnlawfull  adlions  :  for  God,  who  is  all 
fufificient,  and  who  hath  decreed  all  good  thinges,  hath  likewife  devifed  all  good 
meanes  to  compaffe  them  :  5Cntl  that  euery  good  worke  doth  confift  of  lawful!  matter 
and  forme,  for  noe  evill  thinge  can  bee  well  done,  neither  may  any  good  thinge  bee 
done  evilly. 

3.  ^goinc  it  feems  a  defrauding  of  this  lords  right,  not  to  remember.  That 
hauing  noe  iffue  of  his  body  ;  In  fleed  of  children,  he  made  his  pious  workes 
his  god-fons  which  haue  propagated  his  noble  name  to  more  laftinge  ages,  then 
heires  of  the  flefh  vfually  have  done  :  5llnb  if  Mary  Magdalen  that  powred  out  but 
one  box  of  fweet  oyntment  on  Chrift,  had  by  Chrifts  owne  affignem',  an  honorable 
memorial!  on  to  all  after  ages ;  Theis  fweet  and  pyous  workes  of  this  repentant  lord, 
of  much  more  value  and  durablenes  may  iuftly  challeng  the  like  memorial!,  efpetially 
in  his  owne  family.  And  become  alfo  a  prefident  for  their  imitaco. 

4.  511gain0,  when  this  lords  Pofterity  fhall  in  readinge  the  life  of  this  theire 
Anceftor,  fee  a  Curfe  and  excomunication  to  bee  folemly  annexed  to  fuch  guifts  of 

lands 


102  <^|)e  UibcjS  of  tl)c  2&a:fedcp^  1189 

lands  and  tythes  as  hee  made  to  churches  and  other  pyous  ufes,  againft  the  infringers: 
It  feemes  worthy  theire  meditation,  whether  fuch  lands  and  Tythes  in  the  hands 
of  many  remarkeable  houfes  in  this  lafl  one  hundred  yeares,  haue  not  bene  like 
Tholoufe  gold,  that  never  profpered  with  any  :  or  as  vnfortunat  as  Seians  horfe, 
breaking  flill  the  necke  of  his  poffeffor :  And  wheather  part  of  impropriation  hath 
not  either  fretted  away  and  confumed  the  greater  parte  of  theire  other  goods  and 
lands  better  gotten,  even  fpoylinge  the  fpoiler  in  his  owne  life  tyme,  or  confumeing 
him  eare  three  generations  have  paffed  after  him :  And  accordingly  to  make  an 
happy  vfe  by  other  mens  harmes  :  And  by  the  effeft  to  iudge  of  the  do6lrine 
frequently  proclaymed  out  of  each  pulpit,  That  lands  given  to  pyous  vfes  are  not  to 
bee  prophaned  :  And  that  the  church  portion  in  Tythes,  is  Gods  right,  the  Preifls 
inheritance,  by  better  conveyance  then  municipall  lawes  can  afford  to  any.  | 


122 


5.  ^gainC)  by  this  lords  bad  Example  in  falling  from  one  evill  into  a  worfe, 
from  rayfinge  Armes  againfl  the  King,  to  call  in  the  French  and  fwearinge  fealtye 
to  a  Forreiner  ;  he  fhewes  to  his  pofterity  the  aptnes  of  man,  to  maintaine  one 
violence  by  a  greater,  And  that  man  by  Nature  will  make  good  his  will,  howe 
wicked  foever  the  end  bee ;  And  accordingly,  by  his  evill  fucceffe,  forewarneth  his 
pofterity  from  the  like. 

6.  ^HgfUnc,  from  the  fuperftitious  manner  of  buriall  of  this  Lord  in  a  peece  of  a 
monkes  garment,  therby  (as  a  fpell  or  charme  hanged  about  the  necke  of  the  dead) 
to  bee  preferved,  or  (as  fome  others  were)  with  a  peece  of  the  begininge  of  S' 
Johns  Gofpell  tyed  to  their  mouthes :  His  pofterity  ought  to  bee  ftirred  vp  to 
thankfuUnes  towards  God,  the  giver  of  a  cleerer  knowledge,  And  accordinge  to  that 
light  to  meafure  out  theire  A6lions,  leaft  the  good  workes  and  Almes  of  this  theire 
Anceftor  wrought  in  tyme  of  Ignorance,  ftand  vp  in  iudgment  againft  theire  greater 
knowledge,  bringing  forth  worfe  fruite. 

7.  ^Ugaint,  if  in  excufe  or  iuftification  of  this  lords  lifting  vp  his  fword  againft 
his  prince,  any  fhall  reply,  That  the  kings  evell  governement  was  not  by  free  and 
heroicke  fpiritts  to  bee  endured;  That  it  is  moft  honeft,  iuft,  and  noble,  to  dye  for  a 
Comon  good  ;  That  noe  right  man  did  ever  foregoe  his  freedome,  but  with  his  life. 
And  that  to  dye  free  vpon  defence  of  liberty,  is  fweeter,  then  to  remayne  in  life  a 
flave :  Let  him  alfo  confider.  That  noe  Adion  or  vndertakinges,  can  ever  attayne 
true  renowne,  whereto  loyaltie  and  reafon  are  Strangers  :  That  wifdome  forbids  to 
eafe  our  Country  of  partiall  greevances  by  cafting  her  into  the  danger  of  an  abfolute 

captivity 


I2  20  Hife  of  Hobnrt  tfjc  ^ctonb  103 

captivity,  as  this  had  bene,  had  the  French  by  Englifh  Armes,  prevailed  :  That  it 
was  a  defperate  ftraine,  to  refolue  either  for  death  or  domynation,  as  here  it  was : 
And  to  fpeeke  cleerly,  neither  was  this  lord  nor  any  of  his  Adherents,  led  on  to  the 
remove  of  publicke  evills,  without  fpetiall  feelings  and  private  ends  of  theire  owne, 
though  other  caufes  were  pretended  for  increafinge  of  their  fide.  |  That  the  names  I23 
of  liberty  and  reformation  are  the  vfuall  mafkes  of  fadlion  :  And  that  liberty  it  felfe, 
after  a  fhort  while,  is  noe  where  leffe,  then  vnder  a  newe  lords  rule,  as  doubtles 
here  it  had  bene  vnder  the  French  had  King  John  bene  depreffed,  And  therefore 
this  lords  facft  remaynes  without  excufe  or  iuftification. 


124  blank 


fm0  ^obm  t^t  M>tcmisa 


®l)c  Cifc  of  Sljomas  tl)c  JFiist  "^ 

€f)c  life  of  Thomas    Lord    Berkeley  the   firft   of  that   diverfe  carta;  in 
name,    Brother  and   heire   of   the   lord    Robert,  ftiled   in    Cafirode Berkeley 
writings,    Thomas   de    Berket  ;    anb   Thomas   de   Berkele   ti-%^^59-  '(^o! '' 
frater    Roberti   de   Berkelai  ;  anti   Thomas  filius  Mauricij    Rot:  pip:  temp: 
de  Berkelai  ;   anb,  Thomas  de  Berkelai  filius  Mauricij  de       '  ^ '" 
Berkelei  ;    And    Dfis   Thomas   de    Berket  :   3finti  may  bee 
called,  Thomas  the  obferver  or  temporifer. 
<eontcmjJorarp  with  King  Henry  the  third  from  Anno  .  1220 . 
to  1243. 

CfjisS  lords  life  (entringe  vpon  his  elder  brothers  death)  is 
delivered  vnder  theis  fowertene  titles  .  (viz') 


9 
10 
II 
12 
13 
14. 


. — ^i0  entry  vpoh  his  Barony  .  fol  :  1 26  : 

.—1$i^  reftitution  to  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley .  fol  :  127  : 

. — 1$i^  fuits  in  Lawe  .  fol  :  128  .  132. 

.— i^i^  liberality  to  the  Abby  of  S'  Auguftines  .  fol  :  129. 

• — ^Tfje  Abbots  ingratitude  to  this  lord .  fol  :  130. 

• — Ctjijtf  lords  Almes  and  devotions  .  fol  ;  1 3 1 . 

. — f$i0  Hufbandries  .  fol  :  134. 

. — ^10  forren  imployments  with  other  various  paffages  .  fol  :  1 36. 

. — ^i^  wife  .  fol  :  1 39. 

. — i^ijef  iffue.  fol  :  141. 

. — I^i|9f  Scales  of  Armes .  fol  :  145. 

. — f$i0  death  and  place  of  buriall .  fol  :  145. 

. — i^ijBf  lands  whereof  hee  died  feifed  .  fol :  146. 

.— Cfje  application  and  ufe  of  his  life  .  fol :  146. 


W 


io6 


€ljc  %m^  of  tift  ^ttkele^0 


126 


Claus  :  4.  H  : 
m  :  8.  et. 


Honor  de 
Berkeley. 


c 


i^iiei  cntrp  )a$m  Iji^S  23aronp 

rjC  £.Otrv  ^ObCVt  being  dead  in  May  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  Kinge 
Henry  the  third,  Anno.  1220,  as  hath  bene  faid,  the  Kinge  on  the  twentieth 
of  the  next  month  doth  by  the  aduice  of  his  Counfell,  by  feverall  patents, 
commit  to  Wittm  de  Putot  and  Ralph  of  Norwich  the  Cuflody  of  all  his  Manors 
and  Landes  in  y^  Countys  of  Glouc  :  and  Somerfett  and  all  the  Stockes  and  Stores 
of  Cattle  and  whatfoever  els  might  in  them  bee  found.  To  holde  duringe  his 
pleafure,  ^nb  alfo  of  the  two  Caftles  of  Berkeley  in  the  County  of  Glouc  ;  and  of 
Caldicote  in  the  County  of  Monmouth  (whereof  the  fayd  Lord  Robert  had  the 
keepinge  vnder  Bohun  Earle  of  Hereford)  requiringe  his  vnkle  the  Earle  of  Salif- 
bury  to  fee  the  fame  performed,  and  the  faid  Caftles  delivered,  with  whatfoever 
fhould  bee  in  them  that  were  the  faid  Robert  de  Berkelaies,  Comanding  alfo  by  an 
other  writt,  all  the  knights  and  tenants,  et  alijs  de  honore  vtriufq^  caftri  tenentibus, 
and  all  others  holdinge  of  the  honor  of  either  Caftle,  That  to  them  two,  as  to  his 
Baylies,  they  fhould  be  attendant  and  give  obedience. 


Claus.  4.  H :  3.  The  viij'^  of  July  followinge,  the  lady  Lucy  widowe  of  the  faid  Lord  Robert 

"^  ■  ^'    obtayneth  from  the  Kings  Counfell  to  have  the  Manors  of  Wotton  and  Slimbridge 

in  the  Connty  of  Gloucefter,  and  the   Mannor  of   Bedminfter  in  the  County  of 

Somerfett,  out  of  y°  hands  of  the  Kinges  Comittees  for  her  prefant  fufteinance  till 

the  heire  of  the  fayd  lord  Robert  might  have  feifin  of  his  lands  from  the  Kinge,  and 

affigne  reafonable  dower  vnto  her  of  the  lands  that  were  her  hufbands,  which  it 

Aflife  et  iurat    feemeth   not  longe   after  fhee  had  :   for  at  the  Affizes  holden  before  the  Kiijgs 

S.  H :  3.  in  Sccio    Juftices  Itinerant  at  Gloucefter  within  lefs  then  a  yeare.  The  Jury  did  prefent.  That 

fhee  the  fayd   Lucye  was  the   Kings  widow,   de  donatione  dni  regis,  and  to  be 

maryed,  And  that  the  lands  whereof  fhee  was  endowed  were  in  valewe  one  hundred 

fol.  [117]    pownds  per  Annu,  of  whom  I  have  further  wrote  before. 


127 

Claus.  4  :  H  :  3. 

m  :  5.  et  al : 

Rot :  paten,  et  fin. 

eod  :  Anno. 


(^ije  xiiij*,  fifteenth,  xvj'^  and  xvij'*'  dayes  of  Auguft  in  this  fourth  |  of  Kinge 
Henry  the  third,  the  Kinge  lodged  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  then  in  his  owne  hands,  in 
his  way  from  Oxford  towards  Briftoll,  as  the  courfe  of  the  great  feale  in  patents 
and  other  writs,  plainely  traceth  his  progres. 


1243 


llifc  of  a:(|onin.«f  tljc  f  irtft 


107 


CJjC  nynth  of  Auguft,  this  Lord  Thomas  doth  his  homage  to  the  Kinge  for  the 
lands  difcended  to  him  from  his  brother  in  the  fower  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Wiltes, 
Oxon,  and  Somerfett,  And  giveth  fecurity  by  his  Co5en  the  lord  Maurice  dc  Gaunt 
and  fower  others,  to  paye  to  the  Kinge  his  releefe  of  one  hundred  pound  dewe  for 
his  barony  vpon  his  brothers  death  into  the  Exchequer,  at  fuch  dayes  as  was  agreed 
vpon  with  the  Kinges  Counfell.  3llnll  out  of  other  monies  which  hee  owed  for  his 
brother  and  himfelfe,  the  xxiij'*"  of  y'=  fame  monthe  the  kinge  by  his  writ  diredled  to 
this  lord  Thomas,  comaunds  him  to  pay  twenty  mks  to  Ralph  de  Williton  his 
keeper  of  Berkeley  Caftle  for  his  wages  due  for  cuftody  thereof  at  Michaelmas 
and  Efler,  which  fhould  bee  allowed  to  him  vpon  his  accompt  in  the  Excheq^,  %v3i 
.in  like  forte  to  him  and  others  were  like  fomes  affigned  by  the  kinge  for  this  lord 
to  paye  for  wages  and  reparations  of  this  Caftle  and  others  in  the  fower  next 
yeares  in  the  Kings  raigne,  whereof  one  hundred  pounds  was  in  the  fixth  of  Henry 
the  third,  payd  by  him  to  William  Bruen  (one  other  of  his  fuerties)  for  the  repayring 
of  Dunftar  Caftle,  511nb  the  refidue  of  his  debts  oweing  to  the  Kinge  by  his  brother 
and  himfelfe,  were  ftalled  to  bee  payd  by  this  lord  at  fower-fcore  pounds  a  yeare, 
whereof  one  hundred  markes  into  the  Exchequer,  and  twenty  markes  yearely  for 
the  wages  of  the  keeper  of  Berkeley  Caftle.  5ln&  in  the  ttOV^t  of  the  clofe  Roll  of 
y'  Eighth  of  Henry  the  third  in  both  parts  of  that  yeare  is  entred  a  Sl^cmorab.,  That 
the  Kinge  hathe  nowe  reftored  to  Thomas  de  Berkele  his  Caftle  of  Berkele,  and 
hath  taken  of  him  two  hoftages  or  pledges  his  fifters  fonnes,  for  the  faythfull  keep- 
inge  of  that  Caftle,  Soe  that  by  it  noe  damage  fhould  arife  to  the  Kinge,  And  to  be 
redelyvered  to  the  King  as  often  as  need  fhould  require;  <Dnc  of  which  two  hoftages 
was  his  Nephewe  Ofbert  Gifford,  who  thereupon  became  the  Kinges  fervant,  and 
much  favoured  by  him.  | 


Claus.  4.  H.  3. 
ni:5. 


Claus.  4.  H  :  3. 
m  :  4. 

Rot :  pip.  4.  H  ;  3. 
Gloc:  novaoblata. 


Claus  :  5  :  H  :  3. 

pS.    I   ID. 

Claus  :  6  :  H  :  3. 
ps  I.  m  :  8.  et:  7. 
H  :  3  pars  2.  m  :  7. 
et.  23. 

Claus.  6  :  H  :  3. 
Claus.  7.  H.  3.  m. 
13.  pars.  2.  et  ps. 
I.  m.  26. 

Claus.  8.  H  :  3. 
pars.  I.  m  :  29. 

Berkeley  Caaie 
reftored. 


fin  :  roll.  8.  H  :  3. 
pars.  I.  et  2. 


Ipi^  0uit^  ht  latDC  128 

fooner  had  this  Lord  thus  fued  his  livery,  but  his  old  acquaintance  and    Ptitaa(ris.Mich:5. 

fellowe  Rebell,  Witim  Marftiall  the  younger  (now  E  :  of  Pembrooke  by  death  of   ^  EveS^''^'^ 

Wittm  his  father,  dead  the  yeare  before)  fets  upon  him  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  this    jurat,  et  Affis. 

Kinge  Henry  the  third,  with  an  eager  fute,  which  then  cam  to  a  trvall  at  Gloucefter    5'  ^  •  3-  Glouc  : 
i_    r  i_      t/-  t    /!■  t  •  1  /  '"  rccept  :  Sccij. 

belore  the  Kmgs  Juftices  Itmerant,  wherein  hee  (beinge  but  a  fuerty  for  this  Lord 

Thomas  for  payement  of  two  hundred  and  ten  markes  to  Wittm  Longefpee  Earle  of    ^°'-  P'P  ■  5-  ^^  ^• 

Salifbury  the   Kings  Vnckle)  required  to  be  faved  harmleffe  and  repayd,  havinge 

for  him  fatisfyed  the  fayd  Earle  of  SaliftDury.    CJjiiBf  Lord  Thomas  denyes  that  it  was 

his  debt,  or  hee  his  brothers  fuerty,  and  fetteth  out,  how  that  betweene  him  and  the 

fayd  Earle  of  Pembrooke,  it  was  agreed,  That  hee  this  lord  Thomas  fhould  marry 

r  2  Jone 


H:3. 


io8  €l^c  HitCiSf  of  tl)c  2D»cthcIcp^  1220 

Jone  his  Neece  daughter  of  Ralph  de  Somery,  And  fliould  caufe  the  Kinge  to  take 
his  homage  and  to  reftore  to  him  his  brothers  barony  and  lands,  and  difcharge  him 
of  that  money  againft  the  fayd  E  :  of  Salfbury,  And  alfo  fhould  haue  delivered  to 
him  his  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  And  bee  alfo  freed  from  the  Kings  Jufticiar  and  Wiltm 
de  Brewer,  (two  lords  that  ever  ftuck  fafl  to  kinge  John,  and  as  favorites  were  for 
money  to  worke  the  reconciliation  of  the  lord  Robert  and  this  Thomas)  (CfjC  agree- 
ment the  Earle  of  Pembrooke  acknowledgeth,  But  replyeth,  that  afterwards  this 
Lord  agreed  to  acquit  him  of  that  det ;  which  this  lord  Thomas  denyeth,  afifirminge 
ftill,  Cijflt  the  E  :  of  Pembrooke  was  to  difcharge  him  from  that  bond  given  to 
Salfbury  :  25ut  vpon  Pembrookes  reply,  this  lord  Thomas  fled  to  his  lafl  fhift, 
affirminge  that  it  was  the  debt  of  the  lord  Robert  his  brother,  And  thereby  hee 
not  chargeable  with  it  :  The  record  foe  refteth.^ 

Ptita  in  banco.  7.  Cljijef  fuit  thus  pawfinge,  This  Lord  is  agayne  fet  vpon  by  Wittm  Longfpee  afore- 

.  3.  ro .  J.  e  3.  ^^yj  Earle  of  Salifbury,  who  demaunds  againft  this  lord  two  hundred  and  fifteene 
markes,  as  havinge  Affets  by  difcent  from  Robert  his  brother  whofe  heire  hee 
was  ;  And  declares  vpon  the  Deed  of  the  fayd  Lord  Robert,  who  vppon  his  great 
neceffity  had  borrowed  foe  much  of  him  :  CljiiSf  Lord  Thomas  anfweares  in  perfon 
129  That  hee  is  impleaded  for  the  fame  det  already  by  Wittm  |  Earle  Marifchall, 
who  was  fuerty  for  the  lord  Robert  his  brother  for  that  det,  which  playnt  being 
vndetermyned,  hee  demaunds  iucigm'  of  the  Court,  whether  hee  fhall  anfwere  them 
both;  and  foe  bee  doubly  impleaded  for  one  and  the  fame  dett :  Salifbury  replyes, 
That  hee  demaunds  nothinge  of  the  Earle  Marifchall,  but  onely  of  this  Lord  Thomas 
as  being  his  principall  dettor.  And  thereuppon  prayes  iudgment:  Ct)i^  Lord  Thomas  . 
reioynes.  That  the  Earle  of  Salifbury  tooke  the  Earle  Marifchall  for  his  dettor,  who 
had  fattisfied  him  the  fame :  Salifbury  furreioynes  and  faith.  That  hee  liever  tooke 
the  Earle  Marifchall  for  his  dettor,  neither  had  hee  fatisfied  him  the  fame,  where-  • 
upon  the  iffue  was  ioyned :  CljC  record  foe  alfo  refleth. 

1  Ralph  Mufard,  Sheriff  of  Gloucefler,  writes  to  Hubert  de  Burgh  JuRiciar  of  England  Rating  that  • 
he  had  upon  the  arrival  of  the  Earl  of  Salifbury  at  Berkeley  demanded  of  him  the  furrender  of  the 
CaRle  and  other  property  of  the  deceafed  Robert  de  Berkeley,  but  that  the  Earl  had  refufed  to  furrender 
them  unlefs  by  the  exprefs  order  of  the  King  and  Council,  alleging  as  his  reafon  for  keeping  pofleflion  . 
that  his  niece  was  with  child ;  the  Sheriff  therefore  requeRs  the  JuRiciar  to  fignify  his  intention  to  him. 
Dated  c.  1220.  4  Henry  iij.     [Ed.] 

William  Marefchal,  Earl  of  Pembroke  writes  to  Hubert  de  Uurgh,  Rating  that  Thomas  de  Berkeley, 
brother  and  heir  of  Robert  de  Berkeley  married  his  niece,  and  befeeches  the  JuRiciar  that  he  would  give  • 
him  redrefs  againR  the  Earl  of  Salifbury,  who  has  feized  his  CaRle  and  inheritance  at  Berkeley  contrary 
to  right  and  law  of  the  land.     (Deputy  Keeper's  Report,  Vol.  v.  app'  II  Royal  Letters,  &c.  p.  155.)  [Ed.] 


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Hifc  of  Cljonia^  tljc  first 


109 


i^CtC&p  it  appeares  in  part,  with  what  tooles  the  Lord  Robert  hewed  out  his 
peace,  with  both  Kings,  John  and  Henry  the  third  : ,  for  SaHfbury  was  the  Baftard 
brother  of  King  John  by  faire  Rofamund,  and  foe  vnkle  to  Henry  the  third,  one  of 
the  cheife  governors  of  his  youth  and  crowne,  who  had  all  the  mariage  portion  of 
this  Lord  Thomas;  Stutl  the  Earle  Marifchall  Earle  of  Penbrooke  had  the  advance- 
nient  of  his  Neece  in  mariage  with  this  Lord,  whom  age  and  adverfity  had  made 
wife,  3Cnll  that  the  Jufticier  and  Wittm  de  Brewer  were  not  forgotten,  is  difcernable 
through  many  glimpfes. 

DuringC  theis  fuits,  in  the  fifth  of  Henry  the  third,  the  kinge  by  his  writ  Claus. 5. H: 3.95.2 
requireth  the  Shereife  of  the  County  of  Gloucefter  to  leavy  for  this  Lord,  Efcuage 
of  fuch  of  his  free  holders  holdinge  of  him,  in  fuch  fort  as  this  lord  had  payd  to  the 
Kinge,  rated  at  ten  fhillings  for  each  Knights  fee,  when  the  King  went  with  his 
Army  to  the  Seidge  of  Byham  Caftle,  whom  this  lord,  accordinge  to  the  tenure  of 
his  barony,  attended. 


SCntl  nowe  fetled  in  his  eflate,  this  lord  accordinge  to  the  prefident  of  his 
Anceflors,  for  the  helth  of  his  owne  Soule,  and  for  the  Soules  of  Robert  the  fonne 
of  Hardinge  his  grandfather,  and  of  Maurice  de  Berkeley  his  father,  and  of  Robert 
de  Berkeley  his  brother,  and  of  Jone  his  owne  wife,  confirmeth  to  the  Abbot  and 
Covent  of  S'  Auguflines  Monaflery,  All  the  grants  of  the  Manors,  lands,  and 
tenements,  which  were  formerly  |  given  to  that  houfe,  by  his  fayd  Grandfather, 
and  by  his  father  and  brother,  (recitinge  what  each  of  them  had  given.)  511nll  out 
of  his  owne  Charity  giveth  further  vnto  them,  divers  other  meffuages,  lands,  and 
rents  in  Cowley,  Berkeley,  and  Hineton,  and  comon  of  paflure  for  fewer  and  twenty 
Oxen  betweene  Longbridge  and  Egeton  neere  Berkeley.  5llllJ>  alfo  difchargeth  all 
other  their  lands  whatfoever  lying  within  any  of  his  manors  or  hundreds  of  Berkeley 
and  Portbury  (of  whomfoever  obtayned)  from  all  manner  of  Services  and  earthly 
demaunds,  tOnrip  in  their  prayers  they  fliould  remember  the  Soules  health  of  all 
his  parents,  of  himfelfe,  the  lady  Jone  his  wife,,  and  all  theire  children,  faith  the 
Deed.  Cl)C  Abbot  and  Covent  in  like  manner  accordinge  to  the  prefident  of  theire 
predeceffors,  within  fewe  yeares  after,  implead  this  lord  Thomas  before  the  popes 
delegates  for  the  Tythes  of  pawnage  of  his  woods,  of  his  fifhings,  and  of  his  mills, 
StnlJ  before  the  kinges  Juftices  implead  him  for  the  Manor  of  Arlingham,  for  the 
Manor  of  Bray,  the  land  of  Lorwinge  and  for  divers  high  wayes,  3Cnb  for  that  by 
his  enclofures  he  had  begirt  theire  lands  &c.,  which  beinge  ready  for  tryall  before 
the  Kings  Juftices  Itinerant  then  fittinge  at  Gloucefter,  And  both  this  Lord  and 

the 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
Aug:  chart:  fo:  57. 
58.  59.  in  caRro 
de  Berkeley. 


130 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
Aug  :  chart:  ibm 
fol:  S7- 


no 


€|)e  %iMt0  of  tijc  25erfedcpj6f 


the  Abbot  in  perfon  profecuting  theire  fuites,  by  the  mediation  of  frends  on  both 
partes,  they  drew  themfelves  into  S'  Peters  Church,  And  there  in  May  in  the 
twentieth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third.  Anno.  1236.  to  the  honor  of  holy  S' 
Auguftine,  (as  the  agreement  fpeaketh)  after  much  altercation,  thus  agreed, 


Carta  in  Caflro  ^Ci^  this  Lord  fhould  for  ever  pay  all  the  fayd  Tythes  and  the  rents  demaunded 

without  contradiction,  And  fhould  releafe  to  the  Abbot  a  rent  lamprey  which  he  vfed 
to  pay  for  Oldminfler  land  in  Hinton  ;  and  all  exa6lion  and  fecular  vexation  which 
hee  required  of  them  to  his  hundred  of  Berkeley  &c.  5finll  on  the  other  part,  That 
the  Abbot  fliould  releafe  to  this  lord  and  his  heires,  all  the  right  &  clayme  in  the 
Manors  of  Arlingham,  and  of  Bray,  and  in  Lorwinge  &c.  3llnll  further,  that  this 
lord  fhould  fpetially  withdrawe  his  writ  of  prohibition  that  hee  purfued  againft  the 
131  faid  Abbot :  |  For  performance  whereof  each  party  tooke  a  folemne  oath,  %n\i 
further  that  each  fhould  forfeit  to  other  tenne  markes  for  everye  article  of  this 
agreement  that  either  of  them  fhould  breake,  which  by  the  Ecclefiafticall  cenfure 
duae  cartas  in  of  the  Bifhop  of  Worcefter  for  the  tyme  beinge  fhould  bee  leavied  :  %U  which  by 
mutuall  Deeds  on  either  part  was  fhortly  after  ratified. 


Callro  de  Berkley. 


Vetus  manufc :  in 
CaflrodeBerkeley. 


f$i0  %\n\t^  anb  bctotionjGf 

Co  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood  (in  the  tyme  of  the  Controverfie  with  Saint 
Auguftines  Abbot)  this  Lord  not  onely  confirmed  all  the  donations  of  his  brother 
the  Lord  Robert,  but  gave  alfo  divers  meffuages  and  Lands  in  Hame,  and  at  Edge 
neere  Simondfall,  Appoyntinge  the  fayd  Abbot  to  diflribute  part  of  the  rents  thereof 
to  poore  people  on  the  day  of  his  Aniverfary,  And  with  the  refl  to  augment  the  diet 
of  the  Menkes  on  the  fame  day ;  Cl)i^  may  feeme  to  have  bene  a  Charity  of  defpite, 
to  anger  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines  then  his  adverfarye  by  feeing  the  liberality  of 
this  Lord  fall  into  a  gulfe,  from  whence  was  noe  reboundinge :  #nc  begger  is  ever 
woe,  to  fee  an  other  by  his  doore  to  goe. 


Newl:  Pedegr.  in  ^JlnJj  alfo  this  lord,"as  Abbot  Newland  hath,  was  a  fingular  benefadlor  to  the 

CaarodeBerkeley.     j^^^^.^^jj  ^^  g.  Katherins  by  Briftoll. 


ciiartul.  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


%t  which  tyme  alfo,  this  lord  gave  certaine  lands  in  Slimbridge  to  Elias  Butler, 
to  pay  for  ever  out  of  the  fame  to  the  Chantry  preift  there,  for  the  better  fervice  of 
our  lady  and  of  S'  Katherine,  fower  gallons  of  Oyle  and  fix  pound  of  wax  to  burne 
before  them,  for  the  good  of  his  owne  Soule,  his  Fathers,  Mothers,  and  of  Jone 
his  wife. 

Co 


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life  of  C^oninjef  tfje  f  irjrt 


€o  l)ifl{  Burgeffes  of  his  burrowe  of  Berkeley,  hee  granted  fuch  comon  of 
pafture  without  the  Towne  of  Berkeley  as  they  were  wont  to  have. 

3IInil  (amongft  other  things)  That  none  of  them  fhould  bee  chofen  Reeve  againft    Carta  cQ  Maiore 
theire  owne  will,  who  (hould  have  his  wages  accuftomed  of  right.     3tnb  that  within    ^^  Berkeley, 
the  fayd  Burrowe  noe  Attachments  fhould  thenceforth  be  made  but  by  the  Reeve 
or  bayly  of  the  burrowe.  | 

Co  the  pryor  and  Covent  of  Bradenftocke,  this  Lord  Thomas  gave  all  his    ^32 
lands  in  Vleigh  in  the  tenures  of  Gilbert  Spirwit  and  Godwin  Cuneley  with  their   m-  g, 
bodies  and  fequele,  for  the  foules  health  of  himfelfe,  his  wife,  brother,  Anceflors, 
and  pofterity  :  UDI^i)  are  nowe  the  lands  of  Tho :  Dorney  and  others,  worth  three- 
fcore  pounds  per  Ann. 

j^iiS  fiirtijnr  latuc  0\uU0 

Cl)C  next  yeare  after  he  had  fued  his  livery  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry    Jurat,  et  aflis : 
the  third,  Peter  de  la  Hay  arraigned  an  Affi5e  of  Novell  diffeifm  againfl;  him  at    s'jr,; 
Glouc.  before  the  Juftices  Itinerant  for  lands  in  Berkeley,  but  for  not  profecutinge, 
both  himfelfe  and  his  pledges  were  amerced. 

%t  the  fame  tyme,  Robert  the  fonne  of  Guido  brought  the  like  Affife  againfl    Eadem. 
this  Lord  and  Robert  fitj  Richard,    for  lands    in  Arlingham,   but,   before    tryall, 
retraced  his  fuit,  for  which  both  hee  and  his  pledges  were  amerced. 

3!lt  which  Affifes  alfo  it  was  prefented.  That  one  Reginold  a  preifl  had  killed  ^  ^™' 
one  Marke  the  fonne  of  Agnes,  for  which  he  was  apprehended,  and  imprifoned  in 
Berkeley  Caflle,  from  whence  hee  was  taken  by  the  comaund  of  Guido  the  popes 
legate,  and  removed  to  the  prifon  of  the  Bifhop  of  Salifbury,  where  the  preifl 
dyed :  CfjiiGf  lord  Thomas  being  blamed  for  keepinge  the  preifl  foe  longe  in  prifon 
in  his  Caftle,  e.xcufeth  it  to  bee  in  the  life  tyme  of  the  lord  Robert  his  brother.  And 
that  willingly  henceforth  hee  will  'deliver  his  prifoners  to  the  Sherife  of  the  County. 


3finlJ  it  was  then  further  prefented,  That  a  fervant  to  Henry  de  Berkeley  of 
Durfeley  had  flayne  a  woeman,  for  which  fa6l  hee  was  apprehended  and  Comitted 
prifoner  to  Berkeley  Caflle,  from  whence  hee  efcapes  and  flyes  to  Durfley  Church  : 
Hee  confeffeth  that,  &  other  fafts,  as  lewd;  Abiures  the  kingdome  :  ffor  this  efcape 
out  of  his  prifon,  this  lord  Thomas  is  amerced  :  %U  which  with  divers  the  like 

prefentments 


Eadem. 


112 


€!jc  HiijCief  of  tljc  25n:ftdcp^ 


I220 


133  prefentments  for  imprlfonments  and  efcapes  |  for  which  this  lord  is  fined  and 
amerced,  are  remayninge  in  thee  Treafory  of  the  Exchequer  of  that  yeare  in  itinere 
Abbatis  de  Evefham  vnder  the  title  of  Berkeley  hundred. 

Claus:  13.  H :  3.  ^^  the  thirteenth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  this  lord  impleaded  Peter 

dorfo.    Burges  for  a  yard  land  in  Frampton. 


Claus.  14.  H :  3 : 
m :  16. 


25rforC  John  de  Monmouth  and  his  fellowe  Juflices  in  Eire,  to  inquire  of 
offences  comitted  in  the  kings  Forrefts,  in  the  fowerteenth  of  the  faide  kinge  this 
lord  was  prefented  to  have  killed  a  ftagge  in  the  Foreft  of  Deane,  and  amerced,  for 
which  Offence  hee  obtayned  the  kings  pardon. 


Ptita  Michael:  in  ^^  the  feaventeenth   of  King   Henry  the  third,  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood 

rot.  I.    demaunds  againfl  this  Lord,  the  cuflody  of  the  body  and  lands  of  the  heire  of 

Carta  cum  Rico    Wittm  fonne  and  heire  of  Elias  de  Combe  by  Wotton,    held   (fayth  the   Abbot) 

n  ges  e  om  e.    ^j-  j^j^  ^^  knight  fervice  ;  whereto  this  lord  anfweres,   That  Robert  the  fonne  of 

See  fol :  [20]    Harding  enfeoffed  Elias  his  brother  and  his  heires  of  one  hide  of  land  in  Combe, 

To  hold  by  knight  fervice,  which    Elias  had   iffue  Wittm,    and  Wittm  had   iffue 

Wittm,  All  whom  and  theire  heires  held  of  the  fayd  Robert  and  his  heires,  And 

foe  concludes  that  the  wardfhippe  appertaynes  to  him  ;  wherevpon  a  venire  facias 

is  awarded  to  try  the  tenure. 

Claus:  18.  H  :  3  0[it  the  Eighteenth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third,  it  was  found  by  Jury  that  that 

part  of  land  in  Slimbridge  called  the  Warth  (which  the  twoe  Townfhipps  of  Slimbridg 
and  Awre  did  clayme  one  agaynft  the  other)  did  belonge  to  Slimbridge  and  not  to 
Awre,  Becaufe,  before  the  water  of  Seaverne  did  weare  away  that  ground,  caftinge 
of  it  to  Aure  feilds,  it  was  part  of  Slimbridge  arrable  and  pafture  feilds.  And  nowe 
being  agayne  worne  away  from  Awre,  and  caft  to  Slimbridge  feilds  agayne,  it  ought 
to  be  pafture  belonginge  to  Slimbridge,  (fayth  this  record)  And  therefore  the  Kinge 
awarded  his  writ  to  the  Sherife  to  give  this  Lord  Thomas  feifm  accordingly;  whereof 
read  more  in  the  life  of  Thomas  the  fecond,  and  of  Thomas  the  fourth,  and  of  James 
the  firft  ;  And  this  is  that  fertile  peece  of  ground  called  Slimbridge  Warth  at  this 
day  .  Anno  .  1624.  | 


134  "^n  the  three  and  twentieth  of  King  Henry  the  third,  this  lord  complayned 

Ptita :  23.  H :  3.    againft  Ifabell  Gifford  for  keeping  from  him  the  profitts  of  the   landes,  and  the 

in  banco,    heire  of  Ofbert  Gifford,  which  to  him  belonged,  becaufe  they  were  holden  of  him 

by  knight  fervice  lyinge  in  Hame.  ^10 


1243  tlifc  of  iCfjomn^  rtjc  fk0t  113 

iiSurf)  were  the  tymes  for  the  moft  part  whUeft  this  Lord  Thomas  fate  Lord, 
That  many  of  his  Tenants  in  divers  of  his  manors,  holdinge  of  him  for  lives,  by 
Copy,  furrendred  up  and  leaft  theire  lands  into  his  hands  becaufe  they  were  not  able 
to  pay  the  rent  and  doe  the  fervices,  which  alfo  often  happened  in  the  tyme  of  his 
elder  brother  the  Lord  Robert :  3C|ttl  this  the  more  confirmed  him  in  his  faid 
brothers  error  whereby  this  lord  alfo  enfeoffed  foe  many  of  his  lands  to  them  and 
theire  heires,  in  fuch  his  manors,  as  he  could  find  Chapmen  for ;  refervinge  the  befl 
rents  hee  could  ;  thereby  to  hold  up  his  revenue  conftant,  which  was  at  the  rate 
of  twoe  pence  an  acre  for  the  befl  arrable,  and  fower  pence  an  Acre  for  the  beft 
meadowe,  whereof  I  haue  feene  more  then  fifty  deeds,  which  continue  freeholds  to 
this  daye.  Cl^e  one  at  this  daye  (in  Hame  where  moft  many  of  theis  Feofments 
were  made)  worth  fifteene  fhillings  the  acre.  And  the  other  xxv?  the  acre  ;  Z^ 
influence  of  which  ill  hufbandry  (founded  vpon  falfe  principles)  as  I  have  in  the 
laft,  foe  I  fhall  in  the  next  five  lords,  haue  iufter  caufe  to  fpeake  of,  and  complayne. 

SHIjafO  hee  much  pared  the  fkirts  of  his  chace  of  Michaell  wood  by  granting  in 
fee  many  Acres  thereof  to  divers  men,  at  three  pence,  fower  pence,  and  fix  pence 
the  Acre  rent ;  whereof  I  have  feene  many  in  the  hands  of  the  freeholders  holding 
at  this  day  vnder  thofe  grants. 

Cf)iiE(  lord  had  in  him  a  ftronger  feelinge  of  hufbandry  (I  fay  not  of  devotion) 
then  his  elder  brother,  for  as  on  the  one  hand,  hee  made  his  rents  to  ftand  certaine 
by  his  Feoffments,  Soe  on  the  other  hand,  hee  reduced  greate  quantities  of  ground 
into  enclofures  and  feveralty,  by  procureinge  many  releafes  of  Comon  from  free 
holders,  wherein  hee  beftowed  much  labor,  5Ilnll  the  like  in  Exchanges  of  grounds 
with  them,  fome  in  greater,  fome  in  leffer  quantities,  fome  lefs  than  a  quarter  of  an 
Acre ;  | 

^in  many  of  which  releafes  and  exchanges  are  theis  and  the  like  claufes  often  135 
found,  banc  conventionem  fideliter  et  fine  dolo  tenendam,  ex  vtraque  parte  afifida- 
verunt,  for  the  true  obfervance  of  which  agreement,  either  party  hath  given  his 
Oath  to  other.  5Ilnb  amongft  other  parts  of  his  demefnes  about  Berkeley  thus 
reduced  into  feveralty  and  freed  from  Comon,  were  Hocley  and  Shobenaffe  now 
called  Oakley  and  Shepnaffe,  thus  made  two  parkes  by  him  :  jfot  at  this  tyme,  lay 
all  lands  in  Comon  feilds,  here  one  acre  or  ridge,  and  there  an  other,  one  mans 
intermixt  with  an  other,  as  yet  is  in  many  other  Countries,    j|)otD6cit  throughout 

Q  this 


114  €|)e  EibcjEf  of  tt^c  25crftricp;S  1220 

this  whole  Barony  of  Berkeley  and  in  all  that  vale  vnder  Cotfell  hills  from  Briftoll 
to  Glouc  :  and  foe  (in  effedl)  to  Evefliam,  the  courfe  is  fhorter  in  our  dayes ;  for 
'  all  along  that  tra6l  of  ground,  wee  inclofe,  convert,  and  keepe  in  feverall  to  our 
felves,  our  grounds  which  before  laye  open  with  the  Comon  feilds,  vnder  the 
prefcription  of,  mos  patriae,  the  cuflome  of  the  Countrey ;  Abridginge  withall  our 
felves  of  ratable  Comon  for  fheep  and  other  Cattle,  according  to  the  acres  of  our 
enclofures  :  3Cntl  foe  alfo  ftandeth  our  prefcription  in  exclufion  of  Tythes  for  beech 
wood,  loppes,  fhrowds,^  willowes,  ofiers,  and  fome  others,  that  by  the  Cuftome,  (not 
of  this,  or  th'other  parifh)  but  of  the  wholl  Country,  wee  pay  none :  5llnD  in  that 
fort  wee  prefcribe,  in  non  decimando,  in  payinge  noe  Tythes. 

fin:  12.  H:  3:  1^2.  tyme  it  felfe  wherein  this  lord  lived,  prefented  him  with  fome  prefidents 

pars  I.  m.  5.  bis.       ..  ,....,  ,•• 

j^         of  mcouragement  and  mvitation  m  the  parts  next  adioynmge,  for  at  the  general! 

ps.  I.  m:  8:  et.  12.    petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  all  thofe  parts,  and  efpetially  of  the  men  of  the  forreft 

of  Horwood,  and  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  in  money,  Kinge  Henry  the 

ps.  I.    third  in  the  xij'**  and  xiij*  yeares  of  his  raigne,  did  difafforrefl  all   the   Townes, 

Rot:  pip:  12.  et.  landes,  and  woods,  betweene  Huntingford  (where  Berkeley  hundred  and  this  lords 
lands  parted)  and  the  wood  of  fur5es,  (nowe  called  Kinges  wood)  within  fower 
miles  of  Brifholl,  And  foe  from  Seavern  fide  to  the  browe  of  the  hills  by  Sodbury 
(exceptinge  onely  Alvefhon  parke.)  SUntl  for  more  affurance,  the  Bifhop  of  Bath 
and  Wells  for  his  Manor  of  Pucklechurch,  and  fome  other  lords,  tooke  particular 
patents  of  difafforreflation  of  their  proper  manors ;  ^ot  that  the  age  it  felfe  in 
thofe  partes  feemed  to  invite  and  difpofe  it  felfe  to  hufbandry,  exchanges,  and 
inclofures,  more  then  any  former  age  had  done  ^gatttiECt  which  courfe  I  onely  find 
the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguflines  to  have  repined  and  oppofed,  as  his  forementioned 
fuits  with  this  lord  have  declared.  | 

136  j^i^  forren  mijplopmcntjef  toitf)  otfjcr  tarioujef  ^a^^a^^ 

Pat :  17.  H  :  3.  ^jj^  Kinge  the  nyne  and  twentieth  of  Auguft  in  the  Seaventeenth  of  his  raigne 

being  at  Hereford  in  a  Journey  againfl  the  Welfh,  fends  Henry  de  Ordeny  to  this 
Lord  Thomas  to  fee  that  private  bufmefs  difpatched  whereof  the  kinge  had  formerly 
conferred  with  him  mouth  to  mouth,  nowe  wifhinge  him  to  promote  the  fame  bufmes 

all 
^  Twigs  cut  off  from  trees  or  hedges  : 

"  When  fhales  beene  flieene  &  shradds  full  fajTe 

&  leaves  both  Large  and  Longe 
itt  is  merry  walking  in  the  fayre  fforrefl. 
to  hear  the  fmall  birds  fong  " 
(Guye  of  Gifbirne  in  Eifliop  Percy's  Folio  Manufcript.  II.  227.)     [Ed.] 


1243 


Hifc  of  Cljomnitf  tJje  fit^t 


115 


all  hee  could,   in  fuch  forte  as  hereafter  hee  might  thanke  him  ;  what  the  king's 
fecret  was,  I  defire  to  live  in  more  fafety  then  to  knowe. 

3llnD  the  fourth  of  the  fame  month  the  Kinge  fent  to  this  Lord,  defireing  as    Claus:  17.  H  :  3. 
that  hee  loved  him  and  his  honor  hee  would  fuffer  his  Sherife  of  Gloucefterfhire  to 
make  him  fome  (cleias)  hurdles  de  virgis  bofcor  fuor,  of  the  rods  in  his  woods,  for 
his  paffage  into  Ireland. 


3inil  the  tenth  of  November  in  the  next  yeare,  the  kinge  by  his  writ  from 
Hereford,  enioynes  this  lord  vpon  his  allegiance,  That  hee  fhould  deliver  to  Eymery 
de  Sacy  and  his  fellows  knights  fent  for  prefervation  of  the  peace  in  thofe  parts,  his 
Caflle  of  Berkeley  To  hold  as  longe  as  fliould  pleafe  the  Kinge,  311lltl  the  xxiiij'""  of 
the  fame  month  fends  to  the  Bifliopps,  That  as  they  loved  theire  baronies  they 
fhould  not  at  that  their  affembly  at  Glouc,  confult  of  anye  thinge  that  concerned  him 
or  his  Crowne. 


Pat.  18.  H.  3. 
m.  18. 


3Ilntl  the  five  and  twentieth  of  January  in  the  five  and  twentieth  yeare,  this    Claus.  25  H.  3 
Lord  with  others,  was  defired  from  the  Kinge  to  viewe  all  the  defe6ls  in  his  Caflells 
in  the  County  of  Glouc  : ,  and  at  what  charges  they  might  bee  amended. 


26.  H:  3.  claus. 
pars.  3  in  dorfo. 


pars, 
anni. 


CIjC  pipe  roll  in  the  xxvj'^  yeare  of  this  Kinge,  fhewes,  howe  this  lord  Thomas    Rot:  pip:  26.  H:  3. 
became  dettor  to  the  Kinge  in  threefcore  markes  not  to  pafs  with  him  into  Gafcoigne, 
befides  that  efcuage  money  which  hee  |  freely  gave  the  Kinge  for  that  voyage,  3l!niJ    137 
the  fifteenth  of  June  in  the  fame  yeare,  the  Kinge  when  at  Zantoigne  in  Gafcoigne, 
and  the  truce  betweene  him  and  the  French  Kinge  broken,  writes  to  this  Lord 
Thomas,  That  hee  fhould  fend  in  his  fleed  his  fonne  vnto  him  with  three  others  for 
his  warrs,  And  then  he  would  releafe  to  him  the  Efcuage  fine  of  threefcore  markes, 
which  himfelfe  was  to  pay  by  proces  out  of  the  Exchequer  for  not  goeing  over  with 
him,  511nb  in  the  meane  tyme  writes  alfo  to  the  Sherife  of  Glouceflerfhire  to  forbeare 
the  leavyinge  of  it  till  three  weekes  after  Michaelmas,  3llit&  the  fifth  of  November    Claus. 
followinge,  is  the  Sherife  of  newe  comaunded  to  forbeare  the  leavyinge  of  the  fame    ^"^^ ' 
vntill  the  Kings  returne  from  beyond  feas,  becaufe  the  fayd  lord  had  accordingly 
fent  his  fonne  Maurice  with  three  knights  his  attendants  for  his  then  warres  againft 
the  French. 


ciufd 


27-  H:  3. 
.  m  :  10. 


3lnil  the  thirtieth  of  January  followinge,  writes  from  Burdeaux  in  France  to    Claus.  27.  H  :  3. 
the  Barons  of  his  Exchequer  here,  that  becaufe  hee  had  accordingly  fent  his  fonne    ^^^^'  '•'"■"■ 
Q  2  Maurice 


ii6 


€|)c  %i\ic^  of  ttje  ^txMep^ 


Maurice,  cum  tertio  militum,  with  three  other  knights,  vnto  him,  they  fhould  remitt 
that  threefcore  markes  fyne,  which  for  his  ftay  at  home  not  goeinge  with  the  kinge, 
hee  had  compounded  for  to  have  payd,  And  that  if  any  part  thereof  were  eyther 
payd,  or  any  diftrefs  taken,  it  fliould  be  reflored  agayne. 

Rot :  pip -.28.  H: 3.  JBijcrctDitlj  agrees  the  pipe  roll  of  the  yeare  followinge,  wherein,  vpon  the 

accompt  of  the  Sherife  of  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  the  forefaid  threefcore  markes 
is  remitted  by  the  Kings  will,  becaufe  faith  that  record,  this  lord  fent  his  fonne 
Maurice  into  Gafcoigne,  fe,  tertio  milite,  with  three  knights  attending  him. 


Claus.  27.  H: 
pars.  I.  m  :  1 


See  after  fo 


:[iS0] 


Paten  :  16.  17.  et. 

25  H  :  3  :  et  at:  in 

dorfo. 


3(Intl)  as  it  feems,  fuch  was  the  faid  Maurice  acceptable  fervice  to  the  Kinge  (as 
in  his  life  more  largely  followeth)  That  the  King  the  eighteenth  of  March  followinge, 
writes  agayne  to  this  Jufticiers  appoynted  over  the  affaires  of  the  Jewes  then  in 
England,  That  they  fhould  remit  to  this  Lord  Thomas  all  the  intereft  money  that 
hee  owed  to  David  the  J  ewe  of  Exeter  for  one  hundred  marks  which  hee  had 
borrowed  of  him,  ^ntl  that,  when  hee  had  payd  the  faid  principall  money,  they 
fhould  caufe  the  fayd  J  ewe  to  |  deliver  up  to  him  his  bond  or  writeinge  concerninge 
the  fame,  !B{)icf)  very  writinge  in  parchment  in  the  Jewifh  Chara6ler  and  language, 
remaynes  in  Berkeley  Caflle  at  this  day,  Anno:  1620.  311  referved  inftruftion  I  hope 
to  this  lords  prefent  poflerity  the  lord  George,  to  beware  of  intereft .  vnles  hee  have 
the  like  means  to  efcape  from  it,  as  this  lord  (nowe  entred  into  his  Ixxiiij'*'  yeare 
and  the  lafl  of  his  life)  had,  by  the  good  fervice  of  his  fonne,  and  his  owne  wife 
obfervance  of  the  Kinge,  and  the  tyme  ;  wherein  hee  was  a  perfedl  Scholler. 

i^ijijOf  lord  was  often  imployed  by  the  Kings  Comiffions  of  Oier  and  terminer, 
afwell  for  delivery  of  the  Gaole  at  Gloucefter  vpon  tryall  of  the  prifoners  before 
him,  As  to  heare  and  determine  divers  writs  of  Affize  of  Novell  diffeifm,  and  other 
a6lions  betweene  partye  and  partye,  which  feemes  to  imply  (as  many  other  obferva- 
tions  doe)  his  knowledge  in  the  lawes  of  the  Realme. 


(Clji^  lord  was  prefent  at  the  parliament  in  the  Nynth  of  Henry  the  third  at 

the  making  of  Magna  Charta,  and  Carta  de  Forefta,  Till  when  the  lawes  were 

vneflablifhed,  And  upon  the  matter,  at  the  kings  pleafure,  And  thereby  as  fome 

have  written,  were  as  quarter-tirants  :  when  alfo  cam  the  Comons  to  have  voyces  in 

Parliaments,  who  before  fate  not,  but  were  holden  by  the  king  and  his  Peers  ;  3inD 

Statut :  20 :  H :  3.    in  the  twentieth  of  Henry  the  third,  at  the  making  of  the  Statute  of  Merton,  for 

Cooke  reports,    wardfhips  and  mariagfes  confiftingfe  of  eleaven  chapiters  ;   In  the  nynth  whereof,  in 
pars.  4.  in  the  ^  °  '^ 


preface. 


the 


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Uifc  of  Cljomajef  tl)c  fk?t 


117 


the  cafe  of  Baltardy,  When  the  Bilhops  and  Clergy  preffcd,  That  fuch  children  as 
were  borne  before  matrimony  (held  baftards  by  the  Comon  lawe  of  the  land,  which 
abhorreth  Clandefline  contracfls),  might  bee  held  legctimate  to  the  fucceffion  of 
Inheritance,  afwell  as  they  that  were  after  borne  within  matrimony  as  the  lawes  of 
the  Church  accepteth  them ;  The  cry  of  this  lord,  with  the  wholl  Baronage  then 
prefent,  with  one  voyce,  was  nolumus  mutare  leges  Anglice,  wee  will  not  change  the 
lawes  of  the  Realme  of  England,  which  hitherto  haue  bene  approved.  | 

I^ijGf  Wik  139 

^10  lord  about  the  firft  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  third,  tooke  to  wife  Jone    Ptita  et  AflTis:^ 
daughter  of  S'   Raph  de   Somery  lord  of  Campden  in   Glouceflerfliire  (called  S'    Scii"'  '"  '^^'^^P 
Raph  Gomer  in  many  old  Pedegrees,  but  falfly,)  Neece  to  Wiitm  Marfhall  Earle  of   ptita.32.  H:3.it5m. 
Pembrooke,  whofe  mariage  portion  was  210.  markes,  and  the  kings  favor,  as  hath 
bene  fayd :  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  that  came  to  remarkeablenes  in  the  world,  fix 
fonnes  and  two  daughters,  as  after  followeth. 

C{)ij$  Jone  longe  furviued  her  hufband,  and  dy[e]d  not  till  the  raigne  of  Kinge    Efcaet.  in  arce 
Edward  the  firft  ;  for  an  office  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  that  Kings  raigne  after  the    n'.'[i2.] 
death  of  Thomas  fonne  of  Otto  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Woodmancote  within  the 
parifh  of  Durfley,  flieweth  her  to  bee  then  livinge. 


f  ortl)toiti)  after  the  death  of  her  hufband,  againft  the  lorde  Maurice  her  eldeft    Carta  in  Caaro 

fonne,   flie  bringeth  the  writ  of  Dower,  wherevpon  an  agreement  followeth.  And  ^  '^^' 

fhee  by  her  fonne  is  enfeoffed  for  her  life  of  the  Manor  of  Wotton,  and  of  the  third 

part  of  thofe  landes   which  Thomas    Brother  of  the  fayd    Maurice    (then   newly 

deceafed  without  iffue)  held  at  Egge  in  Wotton  by  Symondfall  and  of  the  Manors 

of  Came,   Cowley,    Hurft,  Alkington,  and  Hinton,  To  hold  to  her  in  dower  in 

fattisfacflion  of  whatfoever  fhee  might  clayme  in  any  the  Manors  or  lands  that  were 

her  hufbands  in  the  Countyes  of  Gloucefter,  Somerfett  and  Devon  ;  whereby  it 

came,  That  in  the  twoe  and  thirtieth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  fhee  was    Ptitaaffis:in 

rc  '  Sell  12    H  *  ^ 
prefented  to  the  Affifes  at  Gloucefler  to  bee  the  Kings  widow,  ex  donatione  dni    „       t, 
^      .  t>  '  Rot  :  Ragem  :  in 

regis.  And  that  her  land  in  that  County  valued  two  hundred  pownds  per  Ann  ^{)Ct    rec  :  Scij  4.  E  :  i. 
held  alfo  a  Manor  in  Aure  in  the  hundred  of  Blediflowe  in  the  County  of  Gloc  : 


J^CC  hufband  had  built  a  faire  houfe  neere  the  Church  in  Wotton,  vpon  the  place 

of  the  Capital!  meffuage,  where  before  his  death  hee  often  abode  ;  in  which  place 

fhee  kept  her  refidence  mofl  of  the  dayes  of  her  widowhood.  And  thereupon  was    t;artre  in  Caflro 
^  ^  *  de  Berkeley. 

in 


ii8 


C|)c  Hitocjef  of  tf^c  IBctMc^^ 


140 

Rot :  in  thefaur  : 

recept.  per  fe. 

Cart :  36.  H  :  3. 


Cartse  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


Wotton  Towne. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

Vetus  manufc  : 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

141 


Ptita  de  quo  warr. 

15. E:  i.rot;i2  in. 

rec.  Scij. 


fol  :  [227.] 


in  Comon  appellation,  called,  domina  de  wotton,  my  lady  of  wotton  as  many  Deeds  | 
doe  wittnefs :  5lnti  fuch  was  her  affe6lion  to  that  Manor,  that  the  fecond  of  Auguft 
in  the  xxxvj'^  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  (eight  yeares  after  the  death  of  her 
hufband,)  fhee  procured  to  her  felfe  for  life,  And  after  to  the  Lord  Maurice  her 
fonne  and  his  heires,  a  grant  of  free  warren  within  her  Manors  of  Wotton  and  Came, 
And  a  Market  to  be  holden  every  Friday  at  Wotton,  and  a  faire  every  yeare  to  bee 
there  likewife  holden,  vpon  the  Eve,  the  daye,  and  the  morrowe,  of  the  exaltation  of 
the  holy  Crofs,  withall  libertyes  and  free  Cuflomes  which  to  a  market  and  fayre 
appertayne :  911ntl  for  the  holding  thereof  out  of  her  Manor  of  Wotton,  which  con- 
fifled  of  the  fix  hamletts  of  Nibley,  Sinwell,  Wotton,  Combe,  Wortley,  and  Bradley, 
fele6led  the  fayd  Hamblet  of  Wotton,  whereof  the  whole  Manor  had  the  name.  And 
which  at  this  daye  wee  call  the  Burrowe  or  market  Towne  of  Wotton  or  the  new 
Towne.  3lntl  the  next  yeare  after,  agreed  with  the  Inhabitants  of  that  hamblett  of 
Wotton,  by  the  name  of  her  free  Burgeffes  of  Wotton,  That  their  Burgages  fliould 
confifl  of  a  third  part  of  an  Acre  accordinge  to  the  cuftome  and  ufages  of  Tetbury  : 
And  that  every  of  them  fliould  haue  free  entry  of  Paflurage  with  a  hors  and  a  cowe 
into  the  three  feilds  of  the  faid  Manor  after  Michaelmas  day,  paying  to  her  twelve 
pence  yearly  for  every  burgage.  l@I)ic|)  deed  of  the  fayd  Lady  Jone,  the  Lord 
Maurice  by  his  deed  dated  on  S'  Mathews  day  in  the  fayd  xxxvij'*"  yeare  of  Henry 
the  third  (the  date  alfo  of  the  fayd  lady  J  one's),  confirmed  for  him  and  his  heires 
31Iltil  this  was  the  tyme,  and  this  the  manner  of  the  new  Townes  begeninge  and 
building,  where  nowe  it  ftandeth,  the  backer  part  whereof  is  called  the  old  Towne 
to  this  day  :  511ntl  this  place  in  many  deeds,  for  the  fpace  of  one  age  after,  was 
written,  novus  burgus,  the  newe  burrowe  Towne  ;  And  found  the  favour  to  obtayne 
afterwards  from  the  lord  Thomas  fonne  and  heire  of  the  fayd  Maurice,  a  confirma- 
tion by  his  deed  dated  on  Eafter  daye.  1282 .  in  the  Tenth  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward 
the  firfl,  (the  next  yeare  after  his  Barony  was  difcended  vpon  him,)  of  all  |  their 
burgages,  Comons,  and  Cuflomes,  as  freely  as  they  held  or  enioyed  the  fame  in  the 
tyme  of  his  Father,  tD{)tcf)  grant  of  free  warren,  market,  and  faire  was  in  the 
fifteenth  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firflr  vpon  a  writt  of  quo  warranto  then  brought 
againft  Thomas  Lo  :  Berkeley  fonne  and  heire  of  the  fayd  Maurice,  pleaded  againfl 
the  kinge,  and  allowed  vnto  him,  as  in  the  life  of  the  fayd  Lord  Thomas  is  declared. 


'CfjijSf  lady  Jone  may  bee  held  to  have  bene  fomewhat  too  much  enclined  to 
contention,  through  the  many  fuits  of  fmall  moment  wherew'.''  fliee  oft  entangled 
herfelfe,  both  with  fecular  and  ecclefiafticall  perfons  whereof  I  mention  many 
amongft  the  lawe  fuites  of  the  lord  her  fonne,  for  that  fuch  fuites  for  the  mod  part 
refledled  vpon  his  inheritance,  but  omit  more.  i^auittg 


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Htfe  of  €ftonmtf  the  fk0t 


119 


l^auing  overlived  the  ordinary  courfe  of  nature  in  the  height  of  old  age,  (hee  Newl :  pedeg :  in 

deceafed  on  the  xxij'.''  daye  of  May  about  the  fourth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  King  ^^ JX^  "  '^^^' 

Edward  the  firft,  And  was  buryed  neer  her  hufband  in  the  Church  of  the  Monaftery  E:  i.  inRec/Scij. 
of  S'  Auguftines. 

1.  )3l[^unce  eldefl  fonne  of  this  lord,  fucceeded  in  honor,  whofe  life  at  large 
doth  followe. 

2.  Cl)Onia^  the  fecond  fonne,  fomewhat  furviued  his  Father,  part  of  whofe 
portion  was  the  lands  at  the  Edge,  with  Simondfall,  which  hee  enlarged  by  his 
purchafe  made  of  divers  lands  there  from  Elias  of  Combe,  of  whom  I  have  formerly 
written  :  J^CC  attayned  the  honor  of  knighthood,  and  dyed  vnmaried  about  the 
xxxij'!"  yeare  of  Henry  the  third  ;  And  in  fleed  of  children  to  inherite  him,  gave  a 
great  portion  of  thofe  lands  and  woods  which  were  of  his  fathers  guift  and  his  owne 
purchafe,  to  the  Monaftery  of  Kingefwood,  by  feverall  deeds  at  feverall  tymes,  | 
wherein  hee  expreffeth  the  intent  of  his  donations  to  bee,  for  the  welfare  of  his 
owne  foule,  and  of  his  fathers,  and  Mothers,  and  all  his  Anceflors  and  freinds  ; 
which  the  lord  Maurice  his  brother  after  confirmed  :  5Ilnil  theis  at  this  daye  are  the 
inheritance  of  S'  Gabriell  Lowe  knight  fonne  of  S'  Thomas  Lowe  an  Alderman  of 
London,  reputed  parcell  of  his  Mannor  of  Owfelworth  which  by  theis  guifts  is  much 
inlarged  :  "^n  which  monaftery  this  Thomas  lyeth  buryed  :  dj^oit  whofe  death 
Robert  de  Berkeley  as  brother  &  heire  to  this  Thomas  brought  feaven  feverall 
aftions  againft  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood  and  fix  others  for  lands  in  Simondfall 
and  Berkeley,  which  (faith  hee)  difcended  to  him  as  heire  to  Thomas  his  brother, 
dead  without  iffue :  The  Abbot  and  they  plead  that  Maurice  was  elder  brother  to 
him  the  fayd  Robert,  to  whom  the  lands  ought  to  difcend  and  not  to  him,  And  foe 
was  barred  in  his  fute  and  amerced  pro  falfo  clamore :  HDijJcf)  is  all  that  ever  I  found  3. 
of  the  fayd  Robert,  who  was  third  fonne  of  this  Lord  Thomas. 

4-  ]^Cnrp  his  fourth  fonne,  attayned  likewife  to  the  honor  of  Knighthood,  as    carts  in  Caftro 

many  deeds  doe  wittnes :  Hee  dwelt  at  Beoly  which  hee  had  by  conveyance  from    ,?    er-ee>. 

Magna  cartui :  fo: 
his  father,  as  alfo  divers  other  lands  in  Wotton  and  Came.     3tnb  from  the  liberality    59.  in  callro  de 

of  Jone  his  Mother,  hee  had  in  her  widowhood,  a  meffage  and  a  yarde  land  in    ^^'''^^'^y^ 

Bradley  to  him  and  the  heires  of  his  body,  with  remainder  to  Richard  his  brother 

and  the  heires  of  his  body  :  I  find  noe  iffue  difcended  of  him. 

5.  H^tQiam   the  fifth   fonne  of  this   Lord    Thomas    and  Jone,    was   likewife    carta  in  caftro 
rewarded  with  the  degree  of  Knighthood  ;  his  portion  (in  part  of  his  maintenance)    ^^  Berkeley. 


Carta  in  Caftro 

de  Berkeley. 

ptita  affis :  32. 

H:3. 

in  thefaur  :  Scij. 


142 

diuerfae  Cartae 
in  Caftro  de 
Berkeley. 


Ptita  affis :  32. 
H:3.rot: 


€l)c  HiDcjaf  of  ttjc  ^ttMcT?0 


1262. 


magna  chartul. 
fo  :  36.  37. 

Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

carta  cu  Antonio 

Kingefcot  de 

Kingefcot. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


Ro^t  de  Glouc : 
in  vita  Regis.  H:  3. 


ptita  cora  Rage 

Hilar  :  56.  H  :  3 

rot:  18. 


was  in  Bradley,  wherein  hee  afterwards  in  the  xlvij*  of  Henry  the  third  eflated 
Peter  of  Ewley  for  his  Hfe,  what  tyme  for  fifty  markes  more  in  money  hee  bought 
him  out  of  his  part  of  the  village  of  Ewley  which  his  Anceflors  had  long  held,  And 
thenceforth  for  fome  tyme  hee  lyved  in  that  parifh  with  Margaret  his  fifter  then  the 
wife  of  Ancelme  Baffet,  as  after  followeth:  which  purchafe  of  his,  John  fonne  of  the 
fayd  Peeter  of  Ewley  afterward  |  confirmed  to  him  :  Jpcc  tafled  alfo  of  his  Mothers 
liberality,  whoe  gave  to  him  and  the  heires  of  his  body  the  manor  houfe  of  Bradley 
now  the  inheritance  of  Arnold  Oldifworth  Anno  1620.  J^CC  had  iffue  a  fonne  called 
Mauricius  de  Came  by  Maude  his  wife  daughter  of  Nigell  of  Kingefcote,  To  whom 
his  Cojen  Germaine  the  lord  Thomas  in  the  one  and  twentieth  of  Edward  the  firft 
granted  that  hee  and  his  Tenants  in  Came  fhould  bee  freed  from  payement  of  peter 
pence.  3ilE)0Ut  which  tyme  hee  dying  without  iffue,  his  faid  lands  in  Bradley  reverted 
to  the  fayd  Lord  Thomas  as  right  heire  of  the  lady  jone  his  grandmother.  <^f^0 
S'  Wiitm,  as  I  conceive,  is  hee,  of  whom  Robertt  de  Gloucefler  in  his  manufcript 
Chronicle  in  the  life  of  king  Henry  the  third,  writeth.  That  the  Sunday  before  the 
battaile  of  Evefliam,  a  famous  K'  wittm  de  Berkeley,  with  a  great  number  of  welch- 
men  arryved  at  Mynhed  before  Dunfler  for  to  robb  Somerfetfhire  ;  Againft  which 
Adam  Gurden  keeper  of  the  Caftle,  came  with  ftrength  and  withflood  them,  and 
many  flue,  and  many  foe  diflreffed  foe  with  their  Captayne,  that  they  dreint^  to 
botewards.  5llllb  in  this  lvj'^  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  hee  came  before  the 
Kinge  then  at  the  Tower  in  London,  and  promifed  to  render  himfelfe  into  the 
religion  of  S'  John  Jherufalem,  or  of  the  Templers,  before  quindena  Pafche  in  that 
yeare.  And  to  goe  towards  Jherufalem  or  to  any  other  place  out  of  the  kingdome 
of  England,  as  hee  fliould  bee  dire6led  by  the  bretheren  of  that  Order,  never  after 
to  returne  into  England,  and  thereof  tooke  his  Oath,  and  put  in  fowertene  pledges 
to  performe  the  fame,  whereof  his  brother  Richard  de  Berkeley  was  one ;  which 
banifhment,  I  fuppofe,  was  occafioned  by  his  former  infurre61;ion  or  inrode. 


Rot.  pip:  46.  50. 

et  55.  H:  3. 

ptita  cora  rege 

56.  H:  3.  rot:   18. 


6.     l!{tcf)attl  the  fixth  fonne,  was  alfo  a  K',  and  often  written,  Ricus  de  Berket 

frater  Mauric  de  Berkele,  And  Ricus  de  Berket  de  Cora  wiltefs ;  HDljat  portion  he 

had  from  his  father.,  other  then  his  lands  in  Wiltfhire,  I  find  not,  but  from  his 

Mothers  grant  hee  had  divers  lands  in  Nibley,  which  after  her  death  hee  fold  to 

John  Sechevile  by  his  deed  fealed  with  the  Cheveron  without  the  Croffes,  diflin- 

fin:  45.  H:  3.  et  53    guifhed  by  a  file  with  five  labels,  to  fhewe  that  he  then  was  a  fifth  brother,  And 

eiufd  Regis,    ^^^^.j^  ^^iq  fuperfcription,  Sigillum  Rici  de  Berket.  3llntl  of  his  owne  feverall  purchafes, 

Baffet  de  Ewley.    had  divers  lands  in   Ewley   Huntingford  and  Wike,  <ll»f  whome   I   have  read  noe 

more 
1  "  dreint" — third  perfon  plural  of  the  preterite  of  to  draw  A.  S.  dragan  pad  participle  drsegen.    [Ed.] 


1243 


%\k  of  Cljoma^  tfjc  fiv0t 


121 


more,  fave  that  the  Knighthoods  of  all  theis  bretheren  |  were  gayned  in  many 
batels  againft  the  Welfh,  Scotts,  and  French,  where  they  often  were  with  theire 
father,  and  elder  brother,  vnder  whofc  cullors  fome  of  them  dyed.  Sfintl  that  in 
the  liij""  yeare  of  kinge  Henry  the  third,  was  a  troublefome  fuite  betweene  this 
Richard  de  Berkeley  and  Robert  de  Stone  for  halfe  a  yard  land  in  Came. 


144 

ptita  de  AfTis. 
53-  H:3. 
apud  Glouc : 


7.   fll^argarrt   daughter  of  this   Lord   Thomas,    was   in   her  fathers  life  tyme    ^  '^^^^^  '"  CaRro 

de  Berkeley, 


diverfoe  Cartae 
cu  witto  BafTett 
At:  et  wifio  Gibbs 
de  Nibley : 
Baffet. 


maryed  to  S'  Ancelme  Baffet  knight,  to  whom  and  the  heires  of  her  body  her 

father  had  formerly  given,  (whileft  Ihee  was  fole)  the  moytie  of  the  manor  of  Ewley 

in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  To  hold  of  him  by  the  fervice  of  the  fourth  part  of  a 

knights  fee,  and  by  twoe  fuits  to  his  hundred  of  Berkeley  yearly  :  JlDljifl)  Ancelme 

&  Margaret  had  iffue  John  and  Edmond  both  knights ;  John  dyed  without  iffue ; 

And  the  faid  Edmond  by  Ifabell  his  wife  daughter  and  coheire  of  an  other  Baffett, 

had  iffue  S'  Symon  Baffett  knight,  a  gentleman  as  remarkeable  in  his  tyme  as  any 

that  then  lived  in  his  County,  as  more  then  forty  records  doe  wittneffe  ;  who  by 

Mawd  daughter  and  coheire  of  John  de   Bitton,  had  iffue  S"'  John  and   Maurice. 

S'  John  dyed  without  iffue,  And  Maurice  had  iffue  John  Baffett,  father  of  Robert 

Baffett,  Father  of  Giles,  father  of  Robert,  father  of  William,  father  of  Edward,  who 

by  Ifable  his  wife  daughter  of  Henry  Ligon  Efq^  (of  much  eftimacbn  with  Henry 

Lord  Berkeley)  had  iffue  William  Baffet,  father  of  William  ;  flill  owner  of  the  fayd 

moytie  of  the  Manor  of  Ewley  aforefayd,  ward  to  the  kings  Ma'."  that  nowe  is  for 

his  lands  in  the  County  of  Somerfett  holden  in  Capite,  Anno ,  1618 :  Of  the  yonger    fol:  [628] 

branches  of  which  Edward  and  Ifabell  Ligon  his  wife,  read  after  in  the  life  of 

Maurice  lord  Berkeley  the  fifth  of  that  name. 


8.  '^ijefoljdl  yongeft  daughter  of  this  Lord  Thomas  lyved  long  in  the  familyes 
of  her  brother  and  Nephewe,  the  two  next  Lords,  and  was  never  maryed  for  any 
thinge  that  I  have  obferved.  | 

CfjC  feales  which  this  lord  Thomas  vfed  to  his  Charters  both  in  yellowe  and 
greene  wax  were  of  divers  forts  :  Sometymes  he  fealed  with  the  Chevron,  and  the 
George  on  horfebacke  on  the  Reverfs  :  fometymes  with  the  Chevron  alone,  without 
any  reverfs  or  privy  feale  on  the  dorfe  at  all  :  And  fometymes  with  the  George 
mounted  ;  and  for  the  revers  a  naked  old  man  fupported  by  crutches  :  All  his  Seales 
were  circumfcribed,  Sigillum  Thomae  de  Berkelai.  And  was  the  firfl  that  brought 
the  Chevron  into  the  bearing  of  this  family.      Behold  the  Figures. 


145 


I 


122 


€|jc  Uibf^  of  tfjc  ^etMt^0 


^10  ticatt)  anti  platt  of  {tuciall 

5JlfttC  this  Thomas  had  fit  Lord  three  and  twenty  yeares  and  a  halfe  from  the 
death  of  his  brother,  and  was  aged  about  threefcore  and  fixtene,  cometh  the  xxix'*" 
of  November  .  1243  .  in  the  begininge  of  the  xxviij""  yeare  of  King  Henry  the 
third,  when  he  furrendreth  his  foule  to  him  that  gave  it,  And  his  body  to  the  keep- 
inge  of  the  Monaflery  Church  of  S'  Auguflines  by  Brifloll  in  the  fouth  He,  in  the 
Arch  next  the  rood  Altar,  %vii  his  earthly  honor  and  barony  to  Maurice  his  eldeft 
fonn,  And  theis  poffeffions  to  maintaine  the  flate  thereof,  as  the  offices  after  his 
death  lately  extant  of  record,  but  nowe  perifhed  from  the  file  (but  exemplified  vnder 
the  great  Scale  fifty  yeares  paft  and  foe  ftill  remayninge  in  Berkeley  Caftle)  doe 
declare.  | 
146  ^10  lanti^  tDljctcof  l)e  &pcb  ^ei^ttx 

The  manor  of  Berkeley 

The  manor  of  Hame,  under  which  is 

Appleridg  comprehended 
The  manor  of  Alkington 
The  manor  of  Hineton 
The  manor  of  Hurft 
The  manor  of  Slimbridge 
The  manor  of  Came 
The  manor  of  Cowley 
The  manor  of  Wotton 
The  manor  of  Simondfall 
The  manor  of  Arlingham 
The  hundred  of  Berkeley 

Wf^it^  (faith  the  office)  are  of  the  old  Feoffment  of  the  Kinge,  and  holden  by 
five  knights  fees,  whereof  S'  Robert  de  Gurnay  is  to  acquite  him  of  one  knights 

fee 


In  the  County  of  Glouc 
valewed  at  212"   12'   11''. 


1243 


aifc  of  Cljomnjef  tljc  fit.flft 


123 


fee  and  a  halfe  for  Beverfton  and  Kingefweflon,  And  Nicholas  the  fonne  of  Roger, 

of  halfe  a  knights  ffee,  for  Hill  and  Nymesfeild. 

The  manor  of  Portbury  |         -.i/^       .       fc_r» 

.  ^  f        '"  ^"^  County  of  Somerfet 

The  manor  of  Bedminfter      ) 

The  three  hundreds  of  Bedminfler,  Portbury  and  Hareclive  which  hee  pur-    finis  in  banco. 
chafed  of  Maurice  de  Gant  his  Cozen,  whofe  father  Robert  de  Were  had  the  fame 
of  Rot)t  Fitz  Hardinge  his  Father. 

'd)C  manor  of  Bray  in  the  County  of  Deuon  which  this  lord  gave  to  Thomas  ^^gj^kelai  "^^ 

his  fecond   fonne  and  his  heires.     His  manor  of  Foxcott  this  lord  gave  to  his  carta  in  caflro 
Nephewe  Ofbert  Gifford  his  fiflers  fonne  in  ffee,  who  was  one  of  his  Caftle  pledges 

to  the  king  as  formerly  is  touched.  fol  '■  ['^tI 

€J)c  application  aitb  Wc  of  fjijf  iifc 

I.  CljC  life  of  this  lord  crowneth  the  truth,  That  affli6lion  maketh  wife  :  for 
after  hee  had  freed  himfelfe  from  his  rebellion  againfl:  King  John  (wherein  hee 
fided  with  the  Lord  Robert  his  elder  brother)  and  had  obtayned,  by  the  mixt  meanes 
of  money,  frendfhip,  and  manage,  |  his  lands  out  of  the  kings  hands.  Though  hee  147 
fawe  three  and  twenty  yeares  after,  in  a  tyme  wherein  the  affaires  of  ftate  never 
went  certayne  or  playne,  but  either  vphill,  downhill,  or  in  crooked  courfes,  vnder  an 
vnconftant  kinge,  get  hee  foe  evenly  obferved  a  prudent  inclyninge  after  the 
ftrongeft  powers.  That  hee  ever  avoyded  thofe  Court  &  Country  ftormes,  which  in 
his  tyme,  blewe  downe  many  flronger  Cedars  then  himfelf :  (©UC  dayes  tell  vs,  That 
this  prudence,  is,  to  be  a  bendinge  withy,  not  a  ftubborne  Oke  :  A  prefident  for 
prefent  tymes  ;  And  hee  that  taught  vs  to  bee  harmleffe  as  doves,  bad  us  alfo  bee 
wife  as  ferpents. 

2.  3il0atne,  by  the  example  and  practice  of  this  wife  lord,  his  poflerity  is  in- 
ftrufted,  not  to  make  themfelves  as  bodyes  of  Chriftall,  that  all  men  may  looke 
through  them,  and  difcerne  all  the  partes  of  theire  difpofitions  ;  And  thereby  teach 
others  either  howe  to  ryde  or  drive  them  ;  But  to  knowe  that  wife  men,  though 
they  have  fmgle  harts  in  all  that  is  iufl  and  vertuous,  yett  they  are  like  Coffers  with 
double  bottomes,  which  when  others  looke  into  being  opened,  they  fee  not  all  that 
they  hold  on  the  Sodaine,  and  at  once  ;  And  how  this  their  prudent  Anceftor  fitted 
his  counfells  and  Adlions  with  the  kinge  and  flate,  accordinge  to  the  tymes  and 
Seafons,  not  fufferinge  fuch  an  hole  to  bee  in  his  hart,  as  every  foole  to  looke  at  ; 
And  to  doe  thereafter. 

R  2  3.  %qam, 


124  <2:|)c  %i\it0  of  rtjc  25n:feclcpjtf  1220 

3.  ^UgahtC,  the  life  of  this  lord,  not  more  prudent  then  modeft,  ferveth  to 
depreffe  and  deiedl  vayne  glorious  men,  ftandinge  much  vpon  their  gentry  and 
difcent,  as  many  bragadochioes  doe,  that  have  noething  to  comend  them  but  theire 
Anceftors  names  and  Armes  ;  As  for  their  vertues  and  lands,  they  have  fhipwrackt 
them  in  theire  Journey  towards  Vtopia,  with  theire  wardrobe  to  boot ;  A  bafe 
humor,  far  removed  from  this  worthy  lord,  As  I  hope  it  will  ever  bee  from  all  his 
noble  pofterity.  | 


148  blank 


fim^  €fjomaief  tijc  fic^t 


®l)e  Cife  of  ilTaurire  tl)c  Second 


149 


€l)c  %ik  of  Maurice  lord  Berkeley  the  fccond  of  that    Diuerfae  Carta: 

■.,,.  ..  -iT-vii         All         •  ■''  Caftro  de  Berk : 

name,  Itiled  in  writings,  Mauric  de  Berkct  :  And,  dominus    Aug ■  chartut ■  foi • 

Mauricius  de  Berkeley  ;  3tnD,  Mauricius  Diis  de  Berkeley  ;    ^o.  61.  62. 

3Cnb,  dns  Mauricius  Dns  de  Berkeley  %n\i  Mauric  de  Berket    f^^scCia' '  ^"''^ 

dns  de  Portbury ;  And  Mauricius  de  Berket  filius  et  ha;res 

Thome  de  Berket. 

SCnli  may  bee  called,  Maurice  the  refolute. 

Contcmporarp    with    Kinge   Henry  the  third  ;   and  part   of 

Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  from.  1243.10  1281. 

W^o0e  life  I  lay  downe  vnder  theis  ten  titles  (viz'.  ) 


diuers  rot :  in  arce 
londontemp:H:3. 


— I^iiS  manner  of  entringe  vpon  his  barony .  fol  :  149. 

— f^i^  liberality  to  the  Abby  of  S'  Auguflines  .  fol  :  151. 

— i^j.Sf  fuites  in  lawe  .  fol  :  152. 

— K^i^  hufbandries  .  fol  :  166. 

— i^i^  wife  .  fol  :  171. 

— I^ij^  iffue  .  fol  :  1 74. 

— ]^i^  feales  of  Armes  .  fol  :  1 77. 

— ^10  death  and  place  of  buriall .  fol  :  1 78. 

— j^ijBi  Lands  whereof  hee  dyed  feifed  .  fol  :  1 78. 

— C|)C  Application  and  vfe  of  his  life .  fol  :  179. 


Claus  :  26.  H  :  3. 
pars  3.  in  dorfo 
Rot. pip: 28.  H:3. 


M0  manner  of  entringe  bpon  !)i^  25aronp 

^^^1^15  Core  ZlTdUriC^  v'as   not  long  before  his  fathers  death  returned 

\^    ^     from  the  warres  of  France,  where  almoft  two  yeares  hee  had  remayned 

with  kinge  Henry  the  third,  whofe  letter  to  his  Father,  (when  in  the  fix 

and  twentieth  of  his  raigne  from  Zantoigne  in  Gafcoigne  hee  fent  for  him)  is.  That    Glouc : 

the  French  then  intended  noething  but  warre  :  whereupon  this  Maurice  leavinge 

behind  him  |  a  prote6lion  from  all  fuites  and  troubles  in  his  eftate  whileft  hee  fhould    150 

bee  in  the  kings  fervice,  went  over,  attended  with  three  knights  as  hath  bene  faid  in    pat :  et  cart 

,        26.  H  :  3. 
^he    fol:  [.37] 


126 


€l)c  HitJCiSf  of  t^e  ^ttMe^^ 


1243 


pat  :  et :  cart :  27: 

28.  H:3.  invafcon. 

m  :  17. 


fin  :  27.  H  :  3. 
pars.  I. 


Claus  :  28  :  H  :  3. 
pars.  I.  m  :  17. 

See  before 
fol :  [137] 


fin  :  38.  H  :  3. 

pars.  I  m  :  10. 

Originat:  in  Sccio. 

28.  H :  3. 

Magn:rot:in  Sccio. 

28.  H:  3. 

Pafch:  rec:  4:E:3. 

in  Sccio :  rot :  7  et 

8. 

Rot.  pip :  28  :H:  3. 

Glouc ;  eod  rot. 

29.  et  31.  H:  3. 


fin  :  28  :  H  :  3. 

pars.  I.  m  :  9. 

fin  :29.H  :3.  01:3. 


the  life  of  his  father  ;  ^Ultil  by  his  fervice  obtayned  thofe  benefitts  to  his  fathers 
eftate  whereof  mention  hath  bene  already  made  ;  And  the  kings  good  opinion 
towards  himfelfe,  declared  in  his  guift  of  twenty  markes  to  buy  him  an  hors  the 
fixth  of  February  in  the  xxvij'''  of  his  raigne  then  at  Burdeaux  whereof  hee 
receyved  five  markes  in  hand,  and  warrant  for  the  reft  out  of  the  firft  monyes  that 
fhould  come  out  of  England. 

5llnll  the  xxvij""  of  the  fame  month  had,  de  dono  regis,  given  him  by  the  kinge, 
twenty  markes  more  out  of  the  kings  coffars,  as  a  reward  of  his  fervice. 

3tnb  the  fixteenth  of  December  following  in  the  xxviij''*  of  the  kinge  (three 
weekes  after  his  fathers  death)  the  kinge  out  of  his  prerogative  over  the  Jewes  and 
favor  to  this  lord,  remitted  to  him  the  hundred  markes  which  his  father  the  lord 
Thomas  had  borrowed  of  David  the  Jewe  of  Exceter,  comandinge  his  fecurity 
given  for  the  fame  to  be  taken  from  the  Jewe,  and  delivered  vp  to  him  ;  %vi\  for 
lawe,  renders  this  reafon,  becaufe  it  was  borrowed  by  the  lord  Thomas  his  father 
for  the  better  furnifhinge  of  his  fonne  Maurice  ad  transfretandum  in  Vafconiam  in 
fervicio  regis,  to  paffe  over  fea  into  Gafcoigne  in  the  kings  fervice  ;  5llib  thus  was 
the  Jewe  ufed  like  a  Jewe,  flript  firft  of  his  interefl,  and  then  of  his  principall 
monye. 

Stnil  the  xxiiij'^  of  the  fame  December  this  Lord  did  his  homage  to  the  kinge 
at  Windfor  for  his  Barony  and  lands,  three  weekes  before  difcended  in  Fee  fimple 
vpon  him  by  the  death  of  his  Father,  And  had  feifin  accordinge  to  the  courfe  of  the 
Excheq.,  with  his  writ  to  the  Sherife  of  Gloucefterfhire,  wherein  hee  was  required 
to  take  fecurity  for  his  releefe,  which  hee  compounded  with  the  kinge  for  one 
hundred  pownds.  And  foe  payd  as  by  the  pipe  roll  in  theis  words  appeares  :  M auric 
de  Berkeley  reddit  compm  de .  loo'-'  pro  retio  fuo  de  terris  quas  Thomas  de  Berket 
tenuit  de  rege  in  cajaite  ;  Maurice  of  Berkeley  payes  .  100''  for  his  releefe  for  the 
lands  w'^  Thomas  de  Berkeley  held  of  the  Kinge  by  knight  fervice  in  capite.  | 

Stntl  the  fixth  of  February  followinge,  as  a  further  declaration  of  favor,  this 
Lord  had  the  kings  fpetiall  privy  Seale  to  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  That 
when  vpon  fearch  they  had  found  what  dets  his  father  owed  to  the  kinge,  they 
fhould  thereof  write  to  the  faid  Sherife  to  take  fecurity  of  his  executors  at  certayne 
dayes,  and  forbeare  to  leavy  the  fame,  makinge  rcflitution  of  whatfoever  goods  or 
chattells  hee  had  taken,  leaft  thereby  the  due  execution  of  the  will  of  the  fayde 
Thomas  might  in  any  thinge  be  hindred. 


i2Si  Hifc  of  JiUBauricc  rtjc  .^cconli  127 

lOIjici)  by  like  favour  and  warrants  beinge  forborne  for  two  yeares,  was  firft;    fin  ;3o:H:  3.111:6. 
flailed  at  twenty  pownds  each  halfe  yeare,  And  the  xxiiij'!"  of  Aprill  in  the  fayd 
thirtieth  yeare,  had  twenty  and  fower  pownds  thereof  pardoned  to  him  by  the  kinge, 
in  lieu  of  his  fowerfcore  dayes  fervice,  wherein  hee  was  with  his  three  knights 
w'*"  the  kinge  in  his  warres  in  wefl:  wales  againfl  the  welfti. 

3[n  which  tyme  he  fetled  his  Mothers  dower  and  eflate  in  thofe  Manors  and    carta  in  CaRro 
lands  of  his  inheritance  which  of  right  belonged  vnto  her. 

Sdltb  fliortly  after  out  of  a  pyous  imitation  of  his  Anceflors,  not  onely  con-    Aug :  chart ;  fo :  60 

firmeth  to  the  Abbot  and  Covent  of  the  Monaflery  of  S!  Auguftines,  All  the  former    ^'"  ^^'  ^^'  ^'^ 

grants  and  donations  of  his  Anceflors,  and  of  all  others,  which  any  Freeholders    carta  cum  Decan 

within  his  fee  &  feigniories  had  made  vnto  them,  releafmg  therewithall  his  rents    BnRoU  dat ;  53. 

and  fervices  :  But  giveth  alfo  vnto  them  out  of  his  further  liberallity,  divers  lands 

in  Berkeley,    Bevington,  Wallgaflon,  and  Arlingham,  and  Comon  of   Pafture  for 

their  rudder  beafts,  and  fwine,  to  goe  and  feede  with  his  owne  herds  in  divers  of 

his  Manors  within  his  hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  in  Portbury  :  which  (fay  this  lords 

deeds)  are  beftowed  vpon  them  for  the  helth  of  his  owne  foule,  and  of  Ifabell  his 

wife,  and  his  Anteceffors.     Stltd  afterwards  by  another  deed,  granted  to  the  faid 

Abbot  and  Covent,  Comon  of  pafture  for  fower  and  twenty  oxen,  Seaven  Sowes,    ^,       .    ^ 

1  1  •  1       1     ■        7  1  r  t  1    •      -ITT  1  n         •      TT  Carta  in  Caftro 

and  one  bore,  with  theire  broodes  of  one  yeare  old,  m  Walmorgafton,  m  Hame,    de  Berkeley. 

Lafrid,  and  gorft  there.  | 


j^ijsf  ^mtt^  in  latoe  152 

C!jC  fame  yeare,  wherein  the  father  of  this  Lord  Maurice  dyed,  Joane  Berkeley  Rot:  fin:  28.  H:  3 

and  Margery  hir  fifter,  gave  to  Kinge  Henry  the  third  ten  Markes  for  a  Fine  to  P''^''^'  ^- "^  =  4- 

haue  an  Affi5e  of  Novell  diffeifm  tryed  at  Glouc  :  before  Roger  de  Thurkelbye  and  H  :  3. 
his  fellowes  brought  by  them  againft  this  Lord  Maurice,  Tefte  the  writ  9  Julij  in 
the  xxviij'"*  of  Henry  the  third.                                                                           „ 

I^autn0  brought  an  hafty  accon  againfl  Witim  de  Valence  and  Jone  his  wife,  Ptita  et  iurat.  53. 

and  againft  Mawd  Countefs  of  Glouc ;  after  his  firft  heat  grewe  weary  thereof.  And  ^'  ^'  =il'"<i  Gloc: 

°  <=  ^  coram  R:  de 

vpon  fute  to  the  Court  hadjicence  to  recede.  Midleto. 

HDtiliam  IMauduit  Earle  of  Warwicke  and  Alice  his  wife  enfeoffed  the  Mafler  Ibidem, 

of  the  hofpitall  of  Longbridge  by   Berkeley  and  his  fucceffors  of  thirty  Acres  of  Pafch:43:H: 

wood  in  Egeton  in  Hinton  ;  This  Lord  Maurice  forbids  the  mortmaine  becaufe  it  '"  banco  cOi. 

was 


128 


€|)c  HibcjBf  of  tfjc  25crhdcp;6f 


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was  holden  of  him,  which  being  tryed  by  Jury  This  Maurice  had  the  verdit,  And 
foe  the  Hofpitall  loft  the  land  :  Of  this  wood  called  Burnd  wood  (now  the  Lord 
Berkeleys)  fee  a  fine  in  the  three  and  fortieth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third  betweene 
the  fayd  Earle  and  Phillipp  de  Leicefler. 


Carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 

fol:[SS] 

Nicholas  dyed  in 

46.  H  :  3. 


copia  antiquse 

cartse  cu  Maflers 

de  Nymesfeild. 


153 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

this  Nicholas  died 
6  :  E  :  2. 


claus:  29.  E:  i. 
m  :  9  : 


^itl^oia^  the  fonne  of  Roger,  (cozen  in  the  firft  remove  to  this  Lord)  denyeth 
to  doe  fuit  to  the  two  law  dayes  of  that  Lords  hundred  of  Berkeley  for  his  Manors 
of  Hill  and  Nimesfeild,  given  to  his  great  grandfather  Nicholas  lord  of  Tykenham 
by  Robert  Fitj  Harding  his  Father,  as  hath  bene  faid  ;  prefentments  are  made  of 
the  defaults,  diflreffes  are  taken,  lawe  proceeds,  peace  followeth  ;  %n  agreement  by 
Deed  Indented  is  made,  That  the  fayd  Nicholas  himfelfe  &  his  heires  fhould  bee 
difchardged  of  their  perfonall  fuites  and  Services  to  the  faid  Courts,  But  that  the 
freeholders,  and  three  of  the  Tenants  of  the  faid  Nicholas,  and  the  prepofitus 
(provoft  or  Reeve)  fhould  doe  theire  fuits  and  fervices  as  was  demanded ;  To 
which  effeft  alfo  is  an  other  Deed  in  the  eleaventh  of  Edward  the  fecond  in 
French  whereby  Thomas  then  Lord  Berkeley  fonne  of  this  Lord  Maurice  fends 
his  warrant  directed  to  his  Steward  Bayly  and  all  his  Officers  within  his  hundred 
of  Berkeley  fignifying  |  that  his  pleafure  is  for  himfelfe  and  his  heires,  That  John 
Fit3  Nicholl  Lord  of  Hill,  fhall  for  his  Manors  of  Hill  and  Nymesfeild  Joyntly 
anfweare  by  three  men  and  the  provoft  to  the  law  day  of  Berkeley  twice  by  the 
yeare,  to  make  prefentment  of  all  fuch  thinges  as  they  ought  to  prefent,  And  all  the 
refl  of  the  Inhabitants  to  bee  difcharged ;  which  to  this  day,  Anno.  1628;  is  foe 
performed  :  Stnb  if  the  phrafe  in  the  firft  of  this  old  deeds  feeme  obfcure,  let  a  later 
that  followed  explane  the  fame,  bearinge  noe  date,  but  made  about  the  thirtieth 
yeare  of  the  raigne  of  K  :  Edward  the  firft  ;  betweene  the  Lord  Thomas  fonne  of 
this  Lord  Maurice,  &  Nicholas  fonne  of  Ralph  fonne  of  the  forefayd  Nicholas, 
whereby  this  Nicholas  fonn  of  Ralph  lord  of  the  Manors  of  Hill  and  Nymesfeild 
granted  to  the  fayd  Thomas  Lord  Berkeley  and  his  heires,  the  fuites  of  his  Copi- 
hold  Tenants,  (called  villani)  of  his  fayd  Manors  of  Hill  and  Nymesfeild  to  his  two 
lawe  dayes  of  Berkeley  hundred  yearly,  foe  that  his  fayd  Tenants  of  either  Manor 
fhould  come  by  three  men  and  the  Reeve  to  heare,  doe,  and  prefent,  all  thinges 
accordinge  to  the  lawe  and  cuftome  of  England,  as  other  Townfhips  of  the  faid 
hundred  accuftomed  to  doe.  5Cnb  howe  this  fute  was  profecuted  betweene  this  lord 
and  the  fayd  Nicholas  fonne  of  Ralphe  the  Kings  writ  dated  the  xxviij'*"  of  January 
from  Netleham  fent  to  his  Juftices  of  the  Comon  pleas,  will  declare  ;  wherein  hee 
willeth  them  to  take  notice,  that  this  lord  Thomas  was  in  his  fervice  on  friday 
06labis  hillarij  laft,  whereby  hee  could  not  bee  prefent  at  the  plaints  before  them, 

betweene 


I28l 


Itifc  of  Q^aurifc  rtjc  ^cconb 


129 


betweene  the  faici  Nicholas  and  him,  and  betweene  him  and  the  faide  Nicholas 
vpon  cattle  mutually  diftrayned  by  either  of  them,  And  therefore  comaunded  them 
that  this  lord  Oiould  loofe  noethinge  by  his  default,  becaufe,  as  to  theis  plaints,  the 
kingc  would  warrant  to  him  thofe  daycs. 

911nb  this  later  Deed  feemeth  alfo  to  bee  explaned  by  an  other,  which  came    Carta  in  Caftro 
afterwards  ;  whereby  Thomas  Lord   Berkeley  grandchild  of  the  former  Thomas,  ^  ^^' 

writeth  to  his  Steward  of  the  fayd  Courts  the  firft  daye  of  Augufl:  in  the  twentieth  *^'^  J°^"  '^y^^  '" 
of  Edward  the  third,  That  John  fonne  of  the  fayd  Nicholas  and  his  heires  fhall 
henceforth  for  his  Manors  of  Hill  and  Nimesfeild,  Joyndy  anfwere  by  three  men 
and  the  provofl;  to  the  lawe  day  of  Berkeley  twice  by  the  yeare,  there  to  make 
prefentment  and  doe  that  which  belongeth  to  thofe  dayes  and  to  difcharge  the  refl 
of  the  Inhabitants  from  that  appearance  |  and  fervice :  }@I)tcl)  deeds  I  have  the 
rather  here  cluflered  togeather,  becaufe  of  the  Controverfies  that  have  arifen  fince  I 
was  Steward  of  theis  lawe  day  Courts  for  refufall  of  theis  fervices  comprehended 
in  theis  agreements:  3(lll&  finally  I  refer  this  family  to  the  quo  warranto  brought  quo  warr :  in  rec : 
againfl;  the  faid  Nicholas  fonne  of  Ralph  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  Edward  the  firfl,    ratify  '^       ' 


49  :  E  :  3. 


154 


mentioned  in  the  life  of  Robert  the  firfl,  which  cleereth  the  Controverfy. 

%t  the  tyme  of  the  forefayd  controverfy  one  William  Golafer  a  freeholder 
within  the  fayd  Manor  of  Hill,  by  the  incouragement  (as  may  feeme)  of  the  fayd 
Nicholas  his  cheife  Lord,  denyed  his  fuit  alfo  to  the  hundred  Court  of  Berkeley 
(called  curia  forinfeca  de  Berkeley)  for  his  freehold  land  in  Hill,  which  other  free- 
holders there  then  performed  :  A  diflreffe  is  taken,  An  agreement  followeth  ;  for 
the  faid  Golafer  by  his  deed  acknowledgeth  the  fuit  demaunded  to  bee  dewe  from 
him  and  his  heires,  And  this  lord  Maurice  in  confideracon  of  an  Oxe  and  a  marke 
in  money,  releafed  to  the  fayd  Golafer  that  fuit  for  the  terme  of  his  life  onely. 
CI)i^  was  not  for  fervice  to  the  Leete  or  Lawe  day,  but  to  the  hundred  or  three 
weekes  Court  of  Berkeley,  or  the  Court  of  pleas,  as  at  this  day  it  is  called,  holden 
each  munday  three  weekes. 


fol:[57] 


311t  this  tyme  alfo  this  lord  diftrayned  Wittm  de  Camuile  for  not  doinge  his 
fuite  to  the  hundred  Court  of  Berkeley  from  three  weeks  to  three  weekes  for  a 
meffuage  and  a  carucate  of  land  in  Wike  within  his  Manor  of  Alkington,  who  founde    the  Fine  45.  H :  3. 
himfelfe  to  have  the  worft  in  the  fuit ;    They  fall  to  agreement.  And  by  a  fyne    '"  ''^'^^P' '  ^^"'^" 
leavyed  betweene  them  in  the  five  and  fortieth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third,  this  Lord 
releafed  the  fayd  fuit  of  Court  to  the  faid  Wittm  and  his  heires,  And  in  lieu  thereof, 

s  Wittm 


I30 


€()c  tlitjcjtf  of  rt)c  23crfedcp3E{ 


1243 


WiiJm  releafed  to  this  Lord  Maurice,  all  the  damages  hee  had  fuflayned  by  this 
lord's  vniufl  diftreffe. 

Rot :  fin :  35.  H :  i^jjg  kinge  demaunds  efcuage  of  this  Lord  by  procefs  out  of  the  Excheq^  for 

that  hee  was  not  with  him  in  his  late  Journey  againfl  the  Scots,  a  fervice  hee  was 
to  haue  performed  for  the  Mannors  which  Thomas  his  Father  held  of  him  by 
knight  fervice,  faith  the  writ ;  Hee  proveth  that  hee  was  with  the  kinge  that 
155  voyage,  And  foe  hath  the  kings  pdon  |  dated  the  eleaventh  of  November  in  the 
five  and  thirtieth  of  Henry  the  third,  by  pleadinge  whereof  hee  obtayneth  peace 

Rot:  fin:  predict  and  a  difcharge  from  the  Money.  But  of  an  other  dett'  of  thirty  nyne  pounds 
owinge  to  the  kinge  by  this  lord  and  his  Father,  could  obtayne  noe  more,  then  the 
flallinge  thereof  to  bee  payd  by  twenty  marks  a  yeare. 


carta  46  :  H  :  3. 

cum  Maiore  de 

Berkeley. 

imperiall  peeces 

of  gold,  coined 

at  Bisat.,  or 

Conilantinople. 


I^autngC  drawne  into  fuit  part  of  the  priviledges  which  the  Maior  and  Bur- 
geffes  of  his  Burrowe  of  Berkeley  claymed,  part  by  grante  from  his  Father,  and 
part  by  prefcription,  this  lord  came  afterwards  to  a  compofition  with  them,  And  for 
ten  markes  in  money  payd  to  him  felfe  and  twenty  fhillings  to  Ifabell  his  wife,  pro 
bi3antijs  fuis,  hee  releafed  to  his  faid  Burgeffes  and  Marchants  and  theire  heires 
and  Affignes,  all  exa6lion  and  clayme  of  Toll,  and  all  kind  of  Thallage  and  Toll 
which  hee  had  or  might  demaund  of  them. 


Cartse  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


I^autnse  purchafed  Burnd  Wood  in  Hinton  of  Phillip  de  Leicefter  againfl 
Henry  his  fonne  and  heire  this  lord  fhortly  after  brought  his  writ  of  warrantia 
cartse  for  his  better  affurance,  wherein  he  had  iudgment,  and  after  a  releafe  from 
his  widowe  alfo. 


Cartse  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


ptita  :  53.  H  :  3. 
apud  Glouc :  cora 
R :  de  Midleton  : 


I^auingC  a  like  defire  to  enlarge  his  Manor  of  Came  with  a  faire  farme  therein 
called  Plaunches,  this  lord  agreed  with  Thomas  de  la  Plaunch  (who  pretended  a 
title  thereto)  That  if  in  his  name,  hee  could  recover  it  from  William  Mauduit  Earle 
of  Warwicke  then  in  poffeffion  thereof,  That  in  lieu  of  his  right  and  title,  hee  the 
faid  Thomas  fhould  bee  the  Mafter  of  his  hounds  for  his  life,  and  have  an  allow- 
ance of  horfe  and  boy,  meat  and  dyet,  and  two  robes,  with  eight  fhillings  of  money 
yearly,  as  hee  accuflomed  to  allowe  to  the  other  of  his  Efquiers  at  Berkeley.  CI)t^ 
I  note  as  well  for  the  vnlawfullnes  of  the  contra6l,  and  to  fhewe  the  defire  of  this 
lord  to  worke  trouble  to  the  fayd  Earle  with  whom  hee  was  in  enmity,  as  to  fhewe 
the  Order  of  the  fervants  of  this  Lord  in  the  firft  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firfl. 
Anno.  1273.  <ll>f  the  recovery  of  the  farme  hee  miffed,  Howbeit  his  fonne  Thomas 
the  next  Lord  obtained  it  by  purchafe.  '^n 


1 28 1  life  of  a^fliiricc  tijc  ^cronD  131 

^n  the  xxxij'l'  yeare  of  kinge  Henry  the  third,  this  lord  for  the  health  of  the  Carta  cQ  Arthuro 
foules  of  himfelfe  and  of  Ifabell  his  wife,  gave  to  god  and  to  bleffed  Mary  of  Caarode Berkeley. 
Blantha  Landa,  a  water  mill  and  divers  landes  in  Bedminfter  by  Briftoll.  | 

CI)ij8^  lord  Maurice  gave  to  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood  a  meffuage,  and  divers    156 

lands  and  Tenements  in  Hame  and  Berkeley  for  the  health  of  his  foule  and  all  his    9^"^ ',"  Cadro 

1  1  1    L  •       "^  Berkeley. 

Anceflors:     3.n  recompence  whereof  the  Abbot  granted  that  this   Lord  and  his    .,  , 

Tenants  of  his  Manor  of  Simondfall  fliould  have  free  ingreffe  and  egreffe  to  and    fo:  20. 

fro  his  land  called  Egge,  which  hee  the  faid  Abbot  had  of  Thomas  brother  of  the 

faid  lord   Maurice  (approved  alfo  by  his  confirmacon)   to  lead  and  drive   theire 

cattle  goinge  at  Simondfall  vnto  the  water  called  Lodewell,  there  to  water  them. 

Co  Henry  Clifford  this  lord  gave  a  Meffuage  and  yard  land  in  Slimbridge,  Carta  in  Cadro 
Gofmgton  and  Hurft  to  maintayne  therew'.""  a  lampe  perpetually  burninge  in  the  ^^  chartul- 
Church  of  Slimbridge,  and  paying  to  him  a  penny  rent.  fo:  74. 

Cl)£  grand  Jury  that  ferved  for  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  before  the  Juftices  Rot:  rageman:  4. 
Itinerant  at  Glouc :  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  layd  the  g~j:  |  "^  ''^  ^P 
foundation  of  troble  and  expence  to  this  Lord  and  his  fonne,  who  there  prefented, 
That  this  Lord  claymed  to  have  returne  of  writts  throughout  his  faid  hundred,  the 
ratinge  of  the  Affi3e  of  bread  and  Ale,  gallowes  for  the  execution  of  theeves, 
tumbrell,  and  the  like,  And  that  hee  had  imprifoned  and  punifhed,  (probatores) 
impeachers  of  others  for  felonies,  and  divers  other  fuppofed  malefafhors,  in  his 
Caftle  of  Berkeley,  and  in  the  Stocks ;  extorted  money  vniuftly  from  them,  and  let 
them  thereupon  goe  at  liberty,  with  other  the  like  complaints. 

311nll  that  hee  had  diftrayned  Ancelme  de  Gurney  afwell  in  the  kings  high 
wayes,  as  without,  in  his  Manors  of  Beverflon,  Aylberton,  and  Kinges-wefton, 
(which  are  holden  of  the  kinge  in  Capite)  becaufe  hee  would  not  take  his  meafures 
of  Affize  from  his  ftandard,  whereas  hee  ought  to  receave  them  from  the  kings 
Marfhall. 

3IIntl  like  complaint  againfl  this  Lord  did  the  Jury  in  Somerfetfliire  make 
touchinge  his  hundred  of  Portbury  ;  who  prefented  that  hee  vfed  to  take  wrecks  of 
fea,  but  not  knowne  by  what  title  :  And  that  hee  in  Hareclive  hundred,  and  his 
fonne  Thomas  in  Bedminfter  manor  and  hundred,  vfed  divers  liberties  otherwife 
then  they  ought,  And  that  hee  had  taken  Meafures  of  Bufhells,  gallons  and  other 

s  2  meafures 


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157 

Ptita  et  affis. 
32.  H:  3. 


meafures,  and  broken  them;  And  put  vpon  the  Inhabitants  other  meafures  by 
theire  owne  Standard,  And  at  his  pleafure  amerced  the  freeholders  and  Tythings 
in  theire  abfence,  for  which  they  knewe  noe  warrant  that  hee  had.  | 

5i0nc  lady  Berkeley  Mother  of  this  Lord  Maurice,  in  the  xxxij"'  yeare  of 
Kinge  Henry  the  third  brought  an  Affize  of  Novell  diffeizin  againfl:  Wittm 
Mauduit  Earle  of  Warwicke  for  lands  in  Cowley,  and  for  makeinge  of  a  Ditche  in 
Slimbridge  vpon  her  land  :  Hee  iuftifies  as  his  owne  freehold;  fliee  withdrawes  her 
fuit,  and  is  amerced  for  not  profecutinge. 

eadem.  H^iUm  Mauduit,  as  precipitate  for  a  lord  as  the  lady  for  a  woman,  brings  his 

A6tion  againfl  the  faid  lady  Jone,  for  detayninge  of  a  Deed  from  him,  which  fhee 
denyes,  And  hee  not  able  to  prove  it,  was  amerced,  pro  falfo  clamore. 


eadem 


eadem. 


eadem. 


pat  :  33.  H  :  3.  in 

dor  :  cora  reg.  in 

itinere  verfus 

Cannoc. 


eadem. 


5tlltl  the  fayd  Earle  and  Alice  his  wife  bring  an  other  A6lion  at  the  fame  tyme 
againfl;  this  Lord  for  five  fhillings  rente  in  Slimbridge  ;  This  lord  prevailes,  And 
the  Earle  is  amerced  as  before,  pro  falfo  clamore. 

3ln  an  Affize  for  an  houfe  in  Berkeley  brought  by  Ruffell  againft  Fit3-John 
and  others,  this  lord  Maurice  is  vouched  to  warranty,  who  appeares,  and  pleads  his 
feifin,  and  Joynes  iffue  vpon  the  battle  ;  And  brings  in  John  de  Gwa  his  champion, 
the  def'  Ruffell  makes  defalt  for  want  of  a  champion  beinge  a  poore  man,  (faith  the 
record)  And  therefore  not  able. 

2rf)0  faid  Wittm  Mauduit  Earle  of  Warwicke  and  Alice  his  wife  brought  a 
warrantia  cartae  againft  this  Lord  Maurice  to  warrant  to  them  five  fhillings  rent  in 
Slimbridge,  which  they  had  from  Thomas  his  father ;  hee  pleads  they  had  but 
twelue  pence  thereof,  and  foe  barrs  theire  A6lion. 

211  tCpail  had  bene  in  an  Affife  of  Novell  diffeifin  for  Comon  of  pafture  in 
Symondfall,  Wortley  and  Owfellworth  betweene  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood  and  the 
lady  Jone  this  lords  mother,  which  paffed  againft  her;  Shee  holding  her  felfe  wronged 
by  the  verdit,  brings  her  writ  of  Attaynt  agaynft  the  firft  Jury,  And  being  at  iffue, 
A  Commiffion  is  nowe  awarded  to  Simon  de  Wawton  and  others  to  heare  and  deter- 
mine the  fame. 

(CIjC  like  affize  of  Novell  diffeifin  was  by  the  faid  Abbot  brought  againft  the 
lady  Jone  for  Comon  of  pafture  in  Wotton,  and  vpon  iffue  ioyned  the  like  Comiffion 
to  here  and  determine  was  awarded  to  Henry  de  Bathofi  and  others. 

<£>nt 


1 28 1  atfc  of  iJl^nuricc  rtjc  ^cconb  133 

<Dnc  other  the  like  Aftion  fhee  had  agalnfl:  the  fayd  Abbot  for  Comon  of  pafture    eadcm. 
in  Siinondfall. 

SllltlJ  a  fourth  of  like  nature  againll  the  fayd  Abbot  for  lands  in  Wotton  and    eadem. 

Simondfall. 

_,  ....t  -  ...  ..  ,        1-1    ■■ir-ii        IT-         111-  •      Phta   Trinitatis. 

3)11  the  xxxuij'"  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  third,  WiTTm  de  rourd  by  his  writ    3^.  H:  3. 101:25: 

of  right,  demaunded  againft  this  Lord  Maurice  halfe  a  hide  of  land    |    in  Eaftbray    158 

in   Deuonfhire,  who  ioyne  iffue  vpon  the  battle.    The  battle  by  their  Champions 

is   Itroke,  And  the  Champion  of  the  demaundant  is  overcome,  whereupon  finall 

Judgm'  is  given  for  this  lord  the  tenant. 

Che  next  yeare  Mabilia  daughter  of  Thomas  de  Stone  brought  an  affize  of   P^"* ',  34-  H :  3. 

°  .    .  in  dorfo : 

novell  diffei3in  againfl;  this  lord  for  lands  in  Stone,  for  hearing  and  determininge 

whereof,  the  like   fpetiall  Comiffion  was  awarded  to  the  faid    Henry  Bathon  and 

others. 

Cf)C  Kinge  the  fame  yeare  by  proces  out  of  the  Exchequer,  demaunds  efcuage    fines  .  34.  H :  3. 
againfl  this  lord,    for   not  goeing  with   the    feverall   Armies   into   Gafcoigne  and  ' 

Cannoc,  which  for  the  tyme  is  refpited  :   In  the  voiage  to  Gafcoigne  this  lord  was,    m.  8.  vltimo. 
and  therefore  is  difcharged  :  of  the  other  I  find  noe  other  mention. 

3[n  the  xxxv'^  yeare  of  Henry  the  third,  Roger  de  Lockington  arraigned  an    pat:  35.  H:  3.  in 
Affize  of  Novell  diffeifin  againfl;  this  Lord  for  certaine  Lands  in   Hame,  And  a 
Comiffion  went  out  to  Robert  Walerond  and  others  to  heare  and  determine  it. 

^tOCC0  comes  the  fame  tyme  out  of  the  Exchequer  to  leavy  xxxix'.'-  v";-  as  well    Fin  :  35.  H  :  3. 
for  the  debt  of  this  lord,  as  of  his  father,  owinge  to  the  kinge,  which  is  flailed  to    "^ '    " 
bee  payd  by  ten  markes  each  Michaelmas  and  Efler  Terme  by  equall  portions  till' 
the  whole  bee  run  vp. 

3!n  the  xxxvij'?'  of  his  raigne  the  kinge  prepares  an  Army  to  goe  into  Gafcoigne,    Fines,  37.  H :  3. 
and  fomons  this  lord  Maurice  accordinge  to  the  tenure  of  his  barony  to  goe  with 
him.     The  better  to  furnifli  himfelfe,  hee  borrowes  of  the  kinge  threefcore  markes, 
which  is  agreed  to  bee  payd  by  fifteene  markes  each  halfe  yeare.  And  foe  the  fecond    eodem. 
of  July  is  inrolled  in  the  Exchequer. 

3CnD  at  the   fame  tyme  the   kinge  pardons  him   fifty  markes  of  the  old  det    Pat :  37.  H :  3.  in. 
of  93'.'.-  5'-  which  hee  owed  the  kinge  ;  And  gives  him  refpite  for  the  refl;  vntill  his      °  ° 

returne 


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Claus.  44.  H  :  3. 


returne  from  beyond  Seas  :  311nb  at  this  tyme  this  lord  tooke  over  with  him  Roger 
de  Lockington  (growne  freinds  fmce  theire  tryall  in  an  Affize  two  yeares  pad) 
WiUiam  Fit3warren,  (where  my  felfe  now  dwell)  John  de  Wanton  (where  Thomas 
Hicks  of  Cromhall  now  dwelleth)  and  others,  none  of  whom  forgot  theire  protec- 
tions from  fuites  foe-longe  as  they  fhould  bee  with  the  kinge  beyond  Seas  :  But  in 
Seaven  yeares  the  det  is  not  payd  though  often  called  for  by  proces.    | 


159  3fn  the  xxxviij*   yeare  of   Henry  the  third,   Wittm  le    Botiller  and  others 

Claus :  38.  H :  3.  brought  an  Affije  of  Novell  Diffeifin  for  Comon  of  Pafture  in  Slimbridge  againfl 
the  fayd  Johan  Lady  Berkeley,  And  a  Comiffion  now  went  out  to  Symon  de 
Wanton  to  heare  and  determine  the  fame. 


Claus.  40  :  H  : 
pars.  3.  m 


f^JjC  kinge  in  July  in  the  fortieth  yeare  of  his  raigne  had  flayed  fower  dayes 
at  Brifloll  at  the  charges  of  Prince  Edward  his  fonne,  which  cofl  the  Prince 
xxxiiij'!-  ix^.  v"?  and  feaven  hogfheads  of  wine  ;  And  in  paffage  thence  towards  Glou- 
cefler,  was  entertayned  at  Berkeley  by  this  Lord  Maurice  ;  In  recompence  whereof, 
pro  honoribus  et  curialitatibus  quas  Mauricius  de  Berket  nuper  fecit  Regi  in  tran- 
feundo  per  patriam  fuam  verfus  Glouc  :  for  the  honors  and  Courtlike  entertainm" 
which  Maurice  of  Berkeley  afforded  the  kinge  in  his  paffage  through  his  Lordfhipp 
of  Berkeley  toward  Glouc :  the  kinge  doth  pardon  him  and  his  Tenants  of  Berkeley 
and  of  Radecliueflreet,  theire  breaches  of  Affije  of  marchandi3inge  and  meafures 
belonginge  to  the  kinge  (as  fupreame  Clarke  of  the  market)  by  reafon  of  his  paffage 
through  thofe  parts. 


Pat :  41 
Pars. 


eod  in  dorfo. 


SCntl  from  Gloucefler  the  nyneteenth  of  the  fame  Month,  the  kinge  comanded 
the  Sherife  That  whereas  hee  liad  of  late  taxed  all  his  demefne  lands  through 
England,  If  hee  found  that  the  Manor  of  Berkeley  had  bene  heretofore  the  kings 
demefnes  or  any  of  his  progenitors,  and  had  been  vfed  to  bee  taxed  when  the  kinge 
taxed  his.  That  then  hee  fhould  caufe  the  fame  to  bee  leavyed  within  the  fayd 
Mannor  of  Berkeley,  to  the  vfe  of  this  Lord  Maurice. 

3In  the  one  and  fortieth  yeare  of  his  raigne,  went  forth  a  gen'all  fomons  for  all 
the  Barons  of  the  Realme,  to  goe  with  the  kinge  againfl:  his  Enemies  the  Welrti, 
when  Prince  Edward  attended  his  Father;  In  which  Army  was  alfo  this  lord 
Maurice,  And  then  defigned  to  attend  the  fafety  of  the  kings  perfon.  And  had  the 
kings  prote6lion  for  his  freedome,  and  fafety  in  his  eflate  at  home,  foe  long  as  hee 
fhould  be  in  the  kings  fervice,  dated  in  the  Caflle  of  Rothelan  the  xxiiJ'J"  of  Augufl; 

from 


1 28 1  Hifc  of  Sl^nuncc  tl)c  ^ccoiib  i35 

from  which  Journey  the  kinge  was  in  the  begeninge  of  winter  enforced  to  returne 
for  want  of  vittaill  for  his  Army.    | 

3fn  the  two  and   fortieth   of  his   raigne  was  preparation   for  warres  againfl;    l6o 

Scotland  :   Howbeit  the  xiiij'!'  of  March  comes  the  kinges  Comiffion  and  Sommons    Claus:  42.  H:  3. 

.  .  .  in  dorfo. 

to  the  Lord  to  attend  the  kinge  agayne  into  Wales  againil;  Lewellin  the  fonne  of 

Griffith  his  Enemy,  as  the  yeare  before  hee  had  done,  which  hee  performed. 

3in  the  three  and  fortieth  of  his  raigne  was  like  Sommons,  and  an  other  expe-    Claus.  43.  H  :  3. 
dition  into  Wales,  whither  this  lord  went  alfo,  yet  went  the  kinge  into  France. 

5in  the  patent  rolls  of  this  yeare  are  entred  (nowe  firft)  fome  deeds  and  charters    P^'  '■  4i-  H  :  3. 
,  .  .  .  .  .  m  :  9  :  10. 

made  by  the  kinge  in  the  Englifh  tongue;  from  which  at  this  tyme  wherein  I  write, 

wee  are  foe  departed,  as  I  ingenioufly  profeffe,  not  to  vnderfland  the  wordes  and 

phrafes  of  moft  part  of  them. 

^t^e  fame,  that  after  the  like  revolution  of  362  yeares,  our  pofterities  will  write 
of  the  Englifh  language  I  now  write  in. 

3[n  the  fower  and  fortieth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  returninge  from  France,  Claus :  44.  H  :  3. 
vnderftands  that  the  Welfli  had  taken  from  him  the  Caflle  of  Buelt,  whereupon 
generall  Somons  and  proclamations  were  fent  all  England  over  for  rayfmge  a  greate 
Army  againft  them  :  And  the  firft  of  Auguft,  the  king  fpetially  fends  to  this  Lord 
Maurice  to  meet  him  at  Shroefbury  on  the  nativity  of  our  Lady  the  viij'!"  of  Sep- 
temb"'  following  with  his  befh  ftrength  in  horfe  and  foote,  to  goe  againfl  the  fayd 
Luellin  prince  of  wales  ;  And  hee  prepares  and  goes  accordingly. 

'Che  firft  of  March  in  the  five  and  fortieth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  pardons  to        '  45-  H  :  3. 
■^       ,  .  .  pars.  I.  m:  15. 

this  Lord,  eightene  markes  of  old  dets,  for  leavyinge  whereof  proces  had  long  iffued 

out  of  his  Exchequer,  all  or  the  moft  being  for  amerciaments  vpon  his  hundred  of 

Berkeley,  for  lawleffe  exceffes  there  vfed  by  and  vnder  him. 

Clje  xi'f"  of  the  fame  month,  the  kinge  in  this  lords  favor,  writes  to  the  Shereife    Claus.  45.  H  :  3. 
of  Gloucefterfhire,  declaringe  that  whereas  hee  had  of  late  taxed  all   his  owne 
demefne  lands  throughout   England  hee  fhould  now  take  care  that   Maurice  de 
Berkeley  fhould  |  likewife  have  reafonable  tallage  or  ayde  of  all  his  Tenants  within    ^"^ 
his  Manor  of  Berkeley  if  heretofore  it  were  part  of  the  antient  demefnes  of  the    '^^'^"' 

Crowne 


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pat :  45-  H  :  3. 
m :  14. 


Crowne,  and  had  bene  accuftomed  to  bee  taxed  ;  in  much  like  fort  as  the  writ  of 
that  kind  was  five  yeares  before  to  the  Sherife  of  that  County. 

€1^0  five  and  twentieth  of  the  fame  Month,  the  Kinge  gives  to  this  lord,  forty 
markes  yearly  pention  out  of  his  Exchequer,  vntill  he  fhould  bee  able  more  liberally 
to  provide  for  him  in  wards  or  efcheats  that  fhould  happen:  %i\  this  tyme  the  kinge 
keepes  at  the  Tower  of  London,  and  this  lord  attending  on  him. 


Claus:  45.  H  :  3.  CIjC  five  and  twentieth  of  Aprill  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  pardons  to  this  lord 

Maurice,  the  efcape  of  two  theeves,  which  the  yeare  before  were  taken  &  com- 
mitted for  robbery  to  Berkeley  Caftle,  and  thence  efcaped,  comanding  his  Juftices 
that  fhould  next  ride  that  circuit,  That  they  queftion  not  the  fayd  Maurice  for  the 
fame. 


fin: 45.  H:3.m:8. 


Claus  :  45-  H  :  3. 
m.  2. 


liberal  :  45.  H  :  3. 


eodem. 


C|)C  xxij'^of  June  followinge,  the  kinge  further  pardons  to  this  lord,  an  amercia- 
ment of  one  hundred  fhillings,  fet  upon  him  by  Gilbert  de  Prefton  and  his  fellowe 
Juftices  Itinerant  at  BriftoU  for  the  efcape  of  a  felon  out  of  his  prifon  in  Radeclive 
by  Briftoll,  and  for  the  fame  hath  his  writt  afterwards  to  the  Barons  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, dated  the  fixth  of  Oftober  the  fame  yeare. 

€l)C  xvij'.''  of  061:ober  following,  The  kinge  fends  his  writ  to  his  Treafurer  and 
Chamberlain  of  his  Exchequer,  comanding  them  to  deliver  to  this  Lord,  twenty 
markes  of  his  ffee  dewe  at  Michaelmas  laft  for  halfe  a  yeare  vntill  hee  could  better 
provide  for  him  in  wardes  or  in  Efcheates,  ^Cltll  the  like  was  done  for  the  halfe 
yeare  ending  at  Efter  before. 


Claus :  45.  H :  3.  Sl^flnp  of  the  Barons  were  nowe  vp  in  Armes  againfl  the  kinge,  wherevpon 

in  dorfo.  j|^g  xviij'^  of  the  fame  October,  this  Lord,  by  warrant  of  the  kings  writ,  was 
required  to  bee  at  London  the  morrowe  after  Simon  and  Jude  next  (beinge  but  ten 
dayes  after)  withall  his  power  of  horfe  and  foote  armed  and  apparelled  for  warre. 

m^"i2  in  doifo  ^fillb  for  the  clofe  of  this  troublefome  yeare,  take  an  agreement  made  the  fixth 

162  of  May  .  1 26 1  in  the  feefl  of  John  port- Latin  |  betweene  this  lord  of  the  one  part, 
And  Chriftian  the  daughter  and  heire  of  Robert  Brant  of  the  other  part.  That 
whereas  the  Manors  of  Bixe,  Stokenchurch,  and  Kikefham,  in  the  County  of  Oxon, 
and  the  Manor  of  Faldingworth  and  other  lands  in  the  County  of  Lincoln  were 
her  inheritance,  for  recovery  whereof  this  lord  had  betowed  his  great  labor,  cofl, 

and 


I28l 


jilifc  of  iH^nurifc  tt\c  ,ScconD 


^37 


and  diligence  (foe  are  the  words)  Ihee  now  hereby  givith  vnto  him  and  his  heires 
two  third  parts  of  the  fame  forever,  And  (liee  to  hold  the  other  third  part  to  her 
and  her  heires  of  the  faide  lord  and  his  heires,  by  the  rents  and  Services  dewe  and 
accuflomed  %iiii  it  was  further  agreed,  That  this  Lord  Ihould  fmde  to  her  during 
her  life,  vittualls  and  veftments,  ficut  vnae  domicillarum  camerce  ipfius  Mauricij,  as 
to  one  of  the  waytinge  gentleweomen  of  his  bedchamber  ;  And  if  at  any  tyme  fhe 
brake  this  agreement,  then  the  kings  Officers  of  thofe  Countyes  to  leavy  of  her 
lands  one  hundred  pownds  towards  the  fabricke  of  weftminfter,  and  five  hundred 
pownds  towards  the  charges  of  him  the  fayd  lord  ;  for  obfervance  whereof,  either 
party  tooke  a  Corporall  Oath  before  Nicholas  Archdecon  of  Ely  the  kings  Chan- 
cellor, whereto  alfo  many  of  the  kings  houfhold  Officers  were  wittneffes. 

Cf)C  twentieth  of  May  in  the  fix  and  fortieth  of  his  raigne,  in  confideration  of    Cart :  46  :  H  :  3. 

twelve  markes,  the  kinge  grants  to  this  lord  and  his  heires  to  have  free  warren    r' '  ^'     i 

°     °        _  fines  eoci  anno. 

within  his  Manor  of  Wenden  in  Effex,  and  a  market  there  each  tuefday,  and  a 
faire  yearely  on  Si  Peters  daye,  which  Manor  the  lady  Ifabell  his  wife  brought  unto 
him  in  part  of  her  manage  portion,  as  after  followeth. 

3ll0ilinst  this  grant  in  the  yeare  followinge,  Richard  Earle  of  Cornwall  kinge    Plita  47  H  3.  rot  6. 
of  Almaine,  the  kings  brother,   oppofeth  by  an  adlion   hee  brought  and  flrongly 
purfued  againft  this  lord,  fuggeftinge  that  this  market  and  faire  in  Wenden,  was  to 
the  damage  of  his  Market  and  faire  in  Nuport,  wherein,  through  the  defaults  of  this 
lords  not  appearinge,  were  divers  diftreffes,   and   at  laft   an  Attachm' againfl  his    et  2  2.incoibanco. 
body  :  which  hafty  A61:ion  and  angry  proceedings  in  a  light  |  caufe,  have  made  me    160 
the  more  to  doubt,  whether  the  fayd  lady  Ifabell  were  his  reputed  daughter  or  not, 
and  this  lord  the  fayd  Kings  fonne  in  lawe;  And  the  rather  becaufe  hee  ftill  enioyed 
the  kinge  his  brothers  favor  and  good  opinion  of  loyalty  in  this  tyme,  wherein  foe 
many  of  his  Barons  were  up  in  Armes  againfl  him  :  3finb  alfo  (hanginge  this  fuitt)    Claus :  46.  H  :  3. 
the  kinge  wrote  the  Sherife  of  Effex  in  the  behalfe  of  this  Lord  Maurice,  requiringe    '^^'^'^-  '-^  •  ^P"' ' 
not  to  moleft  him  or  his  lands  for  his  abfence  from  his  laft  Turne,  vntill  hee  fhould 
otherwife  have  in  comaundment  from  him. 


CljC  xviij'*"  of  September  in  the  feaven  and  fortieth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  pat :  47.  H  :  3. 

tooke  fhippinge  to  goe  beyond  feas,  from  whence  hee  returned  on  S'  Thomas  eve  :  P^'^^'  '" 

And  on  the  nynth  and  xxiiij'^  of  January  in  the  xlvij'!'  of  his  raigne,  fends  to  this  Qaus  •  47  H  • 

Lord,  advertizinge  him  of  his  fafe  returne.  And  requires  that  hee  forthwith  Arme  "^  =  '3- 
and  prepare  to  bee  at  Hereford  to  goe  againfl  Luellin  prince  of  Wales,  who  in  his 

T  abfence 


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abfence  had  trecheroudy  invaded  his  dominions,  and  comitted  greevous  depreda- 
tions, whither  came  prince  Edward  as  generall. 

SUnJj  this  Lord  beinge  from  thence  but  newly  return'd,  the  kinge  fends  agayne 
to  him  the  five  and  twentieth  of  May  the  fame  yeare,  That  hee  bee  at  Worcefter 
the  firft  of  Augufl  followinge,  to  goe  againft  the  faid  Luellin,  for  which  Journey  a 
great  fomons  was  almoft  through  the  Realme. 

Claus :  47 :  H:  3.  CtjC  fifteenth  of  June  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  from  London  writes  to  this 

Lord  Maurice,  That  hee  had  fent  divers  men  at  Armes  and  foote  for  defence  of  his 
caftle  at  Gloucefter,  requiringe,  that  when  they  came  to  him,  hee  would  fee  them 
fafely  conduced  till  they  were  entred  into  the  fayd  Caftle. 


Claus  :  48  :  H  :  3. 


164 


Claus:  48:  H:  3. 
m  :  4  et  in  dorfo. 


Fabian,  fol :  81. 

Polichron  :  lib  :  7 

cap  :  37. 

Caxton  Stow: 

How:  fo:  194. 

Speed :  fo :  437. 

Polichron  p'dict. 

Math:  Paris 

fo :  466  : 


^l)C  xj'^  of  July  in  the  xlviij'^  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  writes  to  Richard 
de  Tavy  one  of  his  Juftices  for  the  peace  in  Effex  in  behalfe  of  dileftae  confangui- 
nise  fuae  Ifabellse,  vxoris  dilefti  et  fidelis  noflri  Mauricij  de  Berkeley,  his  beloved 
kinfwoman  Ifabell  |  wife  of  his  beloved  and  faithfull  Maurice  de  Berkeley  declare- 
inge.  That  whereas  hee  and  his  fellowes  had  lately  feized  into  their  hands  to  his 
vfe,  the  Manor  of  Wenden,  which  was  of  her  inheritance,  by  reafon  of  the  great 
trouble  that  then  was  in  his  kingdome,  That  nowe  by  the  advife  of  fuch  of  his  lords 
as  were  of  his  Counfell,  hee  comandes  that  the  faid  Manor  fhould  bee  redelivered 
to  the  faid  Ifabell,  with  the  profttts  thereof  received  from  the  tyme  of  thee  fei5ure, 
for  the  fuftentation  of  her  the  fayd  Ifabell  &  her  children  thereout  to  bee  had. 

3lntl  the  tenth  of  Auguft  followinge,  the  kinge  grants  to  her  the  faid  Ifabell, 
by  the  name  of  welbeloved  Neece,  the  Manors  of  Herietfam  and  Trotefclive  in  the 
County  of  Kent,  leaft  for  want  of  maintenance  fhee  and  her  Children  fhould  begge: 
JBljiclj  indigence,  was  occafioned  by  the  battle  of  Lewis  whereat  the  kinge  himfelfe 
with  his  brother  Richard  the  kinge  of  Almayne,  and  prince  Edward,  were  taken 
prifoners,  and  for  a  tyme,  captivated  by  Symon  Mountford  Earle  of  Leicefter  and 
his  Complices,  which  (after  ffabian  and  fome  others)  was  fought  the  xiiij'^  of  May  in 
the  xlvij'^  of  Henry  the  third  ;  But  after  many  others,  and  more  truely,  on  the 
xij'.*"  of  May  in  the  xlviij'!'  of  that  kinge,  5Cnll  by  the  battle  of  Evefliam  fought  the 
[4'*"]  day  of  Augufl  followinge  in  the  fame  xlviij'!'  yeare  of  the  kinge  :  And  after 
Mathew  Paris  and  fome  others,  on  the  nones  of  Augufl.  1265.  in  the  nyne  and 
fortieth  of  that  kinge,  whereat  the  faid  Mountford  Earle  of  Leicefler  and  many 
other  nobles  were  flayne. 

%t6t 


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139 


311llb  the  kinges  warrant  the  xiij'I'  of  Odob'  in  the  nyne  and  fortieth  of  his    liberat.  49.  H :  3. 
raigne,  direcfled  to  his  Treaforer  to  deliver  to  this  lord  twentye  markes  of  his  fee 
dewe  at  Michaehnas  before,  formerly  granted  vnto  him,  is  a  full  affurance  that  this 
lord  Maurice  (till  contynued  loyall  to  the  kinge  his  wives  vncle.      %l^  the  generall 
devaflations  and  trebles  of  the  kingdome  nowe  foe  overflowed  all  parts  of  the  land,    P''"^"^-  49=  H  :  3. 
That  all  men  that  held  of  the  kinge  by  knight  fervice  in  Capite,  were  in  Armes  for 
him  ;  31111  pleas  in  Courts  in  Trinity  Terme  ceafed.  And  all  faires  and  markets  were 
forbidden  to  bee  holden,  get  in  the  Somons  of  parliam'  of  this  yeare,  noe  writt  is    [^^Xrfo^  -^  ■  3- 
direded  to  |  this  lord  Maurice,  which  might  make  mee  thinke  on  the  other  fide,    165 
that  hee  was  held  in  fome  fufpition  by  the  kinge. 

€tjf  xij'!-  of  June  in  the  fiftietti  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  then  at  Norttiton,  ciaus.  49  :  H  :  3. 
fends  his  writ  to  this  lord,  recitinge  that  whereas  Geffry  de  Lucy  and  his  knights  '^^  dorfo. 
did  render  vp  the  Caftle  of  Gloucefler  to  his  fonne  prince  Edward  vpon  condicon 
and  his  fonnes  promife  to  goe  free  from  danger  and  to  enioy  their  landes  and  efliates 
without  forfeiture,  foe  that  afterwards  they  contynnued  faythfull,  which  they  have 
done,  %nS)  whereas  hee  had  granted  to  him  theire  lands  in  ffee  Simple  contrary  to 
that  agreem',  l^otoe  hee  requires  this  lord  to  deliver  backe  theire  lands  to  them 
notwithftanding  his  faid  grant ;  which  if  hee  negleft  to  doe,  hee  hath  comanded  his 
Sherifes  of  thofe  Counties  wherein  the  lands  are,  that  they  enter  vpon  them,  and 
give  them  feifin  agayne,  as  in  theire  former  eftates. 

^onictoljat  more  profitable  proved  an  other  like  grant  which  Henry  the  third    Claus :  4:  E  :  i. 
about  the  fame  tyme  made  to  this  lords  then  eldeft  fonn  Maurice  Berkeley  iunior,    ™ '  "" 
of  the  lands  of  Thomas  Beaufitj  in  Berkeley,  which  hee  conferring  vpon  his  next 
brother  Thomas,  hee  made  good  profit  of  by  a  compofition  with  Beaufit3. 


aUnD  the  like  guift  the  fayd  Maurice  the  yonger  had  from  the  kinge  of  the  Ptita  cora  Rege 
lands  of  Richard  de  Borard,  who  was  againft  the  kinw,  who  after  found  meanes  to  ^^'ch:  52.  H:  3. 
have  them  from  the  faid  Maurice  by  recover)'  at  lawe. 


rot :  24.  wilts. 


%n  the  two  and  fiftieth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  Affigned  this  lord  to  Order  the    Claus:  52.  H:  3. 
Ayde  hee  was  to  receive  of  thofe  that  hold  of  him,  which  if  hee  could  not  attend  to 
doe,  then  to  furrogate  an  other  in  his  fteed. 

S  fjauc  omitted  more  then  forty  fuites  wherein  this  lord  or  his  mother  were 
plaintifes  or  defendants,  demaundannts  or  Tenants,  in  reall  and  perfonall  Adions 
m  feverall  Counties,  as  not  importinge  the  knowledge  of  this  family  at  this  daye. 


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Claus:  6:  E:  I.  ,^f)g  five  and  twentieth  of  May  in  the  fixth  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firft, 

p.      .    c  H  •       *^^  ^^^S  ^^^^  h'^  ^'"'^  ^^  privy  feale  to  the  Barons  of  his  Exchequer,    recitinge 

m :  I.    howe  the  kinge  his  father  had  pardoned  Roger  Clifford  th' elder  and  all  that  were 

of  his  fociety  in  the  tyme  of  the  Kingdomes  perturbations,  all  their  offences  and 

166    exceffes  :  Slnt!  that  this  Maurice  de  Berkeley  who  was  of  the  fame  focietye  |  as  by 

the  certificate  of  the    faid   Roger  appeared,    was  notwithflandinge    for   the  fame 

exceffe  (rebellion  rather)  fined  to  twenty  pownds  at  Gloucefter  before  Nichot  fit3 

Marcam  and  his  fellowe  Juftices   Itinerant ;    ^jJottJC  for  that  the  kinge  would  not 

have  this   Lord  Maurice  vniuflly  troubled  by  procefs  or  otherwife  contrary  to  the 

pardon  of  his  faid  father,  hee  comanndeth  his   Barons  to  furceafe  any  further  pro- 

fecution,    %nb  this  is  the  firfl  and  lafl  tyme,  wherein  I  haue  in  all  the  longe  and 

troblefome  raigne  of  this  Henry  the  third,  found  this  lord  in  Armes  againfl  the 

Kinge  or  any  wayes  favor inge  his  rebells. 


Clans  :  8.  E  :  I. 
m  5. 


cartse  in  Cafl.ro 
de  Berkeley. 

Whitcliff  firft 
made  a  parke. 


Accom  p :  de  Hame 

in  hifce  temp  :  in 

Caftro  deBerkeley. 


167 

cartae  in  Caftro  de 
Berkeley. 


3tub  two  yeares  after  in  the  viij'^  yeare  of  his  raigne  the  faid  kinge  Edward 
pardoned  this  Lord  Maurice  five  markes,  parcell  of  five  pounds  whereat  hee  was 
amerced  before  Roger  de  Clifford  and  his  fellowes  the  kings  Juftices  for  pleas  of 
Forrefts,  for  killinge  twoe  tucks  in  Weoly  parke,  which  the  kinge  then  had  in  right 
of  Roger  de  Somery  his  ward  :  for  difchardge  whereof  hee  brought  to  the  Barons 
of  the  Exchequer,  the  like  writ  of  privy  feale  .  Tefte  .  25  .  Junij. 

I0itf)itt  his  manor  of  Hame,  this  Lord  Maurice  had  a  wood  called  whitclive 
wood,  adioyninge  wherevnto,  were  his  Tenant's  arrable  and  pafture  grounds,  and 
likewife  of  divers  freeholders  :  This  hee  fancieth  to  reduce  into  a  parke  ;  hee 
treateth  with  freeholder  and  tenant  for  buyinge  or  exchanginge  of  fuch  of  their 
lands  lyeing  neere  the  faid  wood  as  hee  fancied  :  In  which  wood  alfo,  many  others 
had  comon,  of  pafture  for  theire  cattle  all  tymes  of  the  yeare,  (for  noe  woods  or 
grounds,  in  effeft,  till  the  Eve  of  this  age,  were  inclofed  or  held  in  feveralty;)  with 
theis  alfo  hee  treatieth  for  releafes  of  their  comon  ;  SlftCr  fome  labor  fpent',  and  not 
prevail  inge  to  fuch  effect  as  hee  aymed  at ;  hee  remembered  (as  it  feemeth)  the 
Adage,  multa  non  laudantur  nifi  priiis  perafta  :  many  a6lions  are  not  praifworthy 
till  they  bee  done:  Hee  therefore  on  a  fodaine  refolutely  inclofeth  foe  much  of  each 
mans  land  vnto  his  fayd  wood  as  hee  defired  ;  maketh  it  a  parke,  placeth  keepers, 
and  ftoreth  it  with  Deere,  And  called  it,  as  |  to  this  day  it  is,  Whitclyve  parke : 
Cl)Cp  feeing  what  was  done,  And  this  lord  offeringe  compofitions  and  exchanges  as 
before,  moft  of  them  foone  agreed,  when  there  was  noe  remedy  ;  And  hee  foone 

after 


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141 


after  had  theire  grants  and  releafcs  of  land  and  comon  as  hee  at  firfl  defined  ;    ptita-  is-K  :  i. 
vnguentum  pungit,  pungentem  ruliicus  vngit :    ^[t  '^  "°*^  '°''  '^  Lord  too  long  to 
make  curtefey  to  the  clowted  flioo  :   Thofe  fewe  that  reinayned  obftinate,  fell  after 
vpon  his  fonne  with  fuites,  to  theire  fmall  comfort  and  lefs  gaines. 

Ct)t.Sf  Lord  alfo  in  each  of  his  Manors  within  this  barony  of  Berkeley,  reduced  carta:  in  Caftrode 
fome  part's  of  his  demefnes  into  inclofures  and  feveralty  :  made  meny  exchanges,  ^^  ^^^' 
cafting  foe  much  thereof  togeather,  and  reduceinge  it  neerer  home  to  his  Manor 
houfes,  as  the  remnant  of  his  age,  and  thofe  tymes  would  permitt:  which  hufbandry 
as  himfelfe  in  part  received  from  his  fathers  example,  which  hee  exceeded  ;  foe  hee 
tranfmitted  the  prefident  to  a  fonne,  that  in  all  hufbandries  outwent  both  father  and 
grandfather. 

3!n  fuch  grants  as  this   Lord  made  of  any  rockes  or  fifhings  in  Seaverne,    Cartae  in  CaRro  de 
whereof  fome  were  in  ffee  fimple,  fome  in  tayle,  and  fome  for  life,  hee  vfually 
referued  for  his  rent,  all  the  fifli  that  fhould  bee  therein  taken  vpon  fridayes. 

CIji?"  lord  was  the  firfl  in  whofe  tyme  I  finde  the  vfe  of  marie,  which  in  the  carta :  40.  H :  3.  in 
fortieth  yeare  of  Henry  the  third  hee  vfed  for  the  betteringe  of  his  grounds  in  the  '^^  ^°  ^  '^^  ^^^' 
Manor  of  Alkington. 


Ct)Cii^  things  in  his  eflate  (and  many  the  like)  thus  done,  hee  obtayneth  of   cart :  8 :  E :  i.  m : 

King  Edward  the  firfl  in  the  viij'''  yeare  of  his  raigne,  a  grant  of  free  warren  to    Rot :  in  rec- thes- 

him  and  his  heires  in  all  his  demefne  lands  within  his  Manor  of  Berkeley  and    '"  S^cio  per  fe 

eodem  anno. 
Berkeley  herneffe.   IBf)itt)  in  a  quo  warranto  in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  firfl      ij      , 

brought  againfl  Thomas  his  fonne  and  heire,  was  pleaded  and  allowed  in  a  mofl    Pafch :  15.  E:  i. 
/■       ■  ,,  rot.  12  Glouc : 

fpetiall  manner  : 

3Cn&  in  his  Manor  of  Portbury  in  the  County  of  Somerfett,  which  later  was  pat:  i :  H:  spars 
after  confirmed  to  Thomas  the  fourth,  the  twentieth  of  November  in  the  firfl  yeare 
of  kinge  Henry  the  fifth  :  And  the  fame  yeare  a  writ  of  quo  warranto  was  brought 
againfl  him  for  his  hundred  |  of  Portbury  and  the  liberties  hee  claymed  therein, 
wherto  hee  pleaded  the  grant  of  King  Henry  the  fecond  to  his  great  grandfather 
Robert  the  fonne  of  Hardinge  and  his  heires,  which  was  found  for  him  by  Jury 
accordingly. 


4  :  m  :  II. 


168 

Rec  :  in  thefaur : 
de  quo  warr  :  in 
rec:  Secij.  8.  E:  i. 


Chcrc  runneth  from  Nibley  (where  the  fpringe  head  is  not  farr  from  Simondfall)    divers  comp :  et 
•^  /  V  I        o  /     cartae  in  Caflro  de 


a  fmalle  River  called  Doverle  to  Berkeley,  and  fo  into  the  Haven  there: 


Alfoe  one 
other 


Berkeley. 


142 


€f)c  %ioc^  of  t!)c  25crftdcp!af 


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other  on  the  backfide  of  Nuport  under  the  Worthy  Park  pale  ;  the  channells  and 
courfes  of  thefe  ryvers  this  Lord  fo  fported  withall  for  half  a  myle  from  Nuport 
downwards  towards  Berkeley,  and  from  under  the  place  where  hurdpoole,  and  the 
pale  of  the  parke  nowe  are,  by  alteringe  them  into  fuch  other  courfes  as  hee  pleafed  ; 
That  hee  both  bettered  his  grounds  in  thofe  partes,  And  foe  hufbanded  hurdpoole 
and  otjaer  ponds  about  his  cafhle,  (many  of  whofe  images  are  not  yet  decayed)  That 
by  his  fluces,  (clufas  as  the  deeds  of  that  tyme  call  them,)  hee  lett  in  and  kept  out 
both  fait  and  frefli  waters  at  his  pleafure  ;  And  thereby  alfo  tooke  into  them  at 
certayne  feafons  of  the  yeare,  fuch  eeles,  floukes,  flounders,  plaife  and  other  fifli,  as 
ran  vp  with  the  fpringe  tides  into  thofe  rivers  :  By  which  meanes  alfo,  hee  beauti- 
fied the  Eaft,  fouth,  and  weft  partes  of  his  Caftle,  with  walkes  and  gardens  ;  But 
iam  feges  efl,  vbi  Troia  fuit,  refecandaque  falci : 

Ripe  corne  nowe  growes,  where  th'  walls  of  ftately  Troy  did  fland, 
Where  fiflipools,  dams,  and  fluces  were,  is  now  playne  land. 

diverfae  Cartfe  in  CfttJf  Lord  alfo  imitating:  the  ill  examples  of  his  Father  and  Vncle,  made  many 

CaftrodeBerkeley.     ^^       Z^'' ^  .  n      r^  ■     ^^  r       ■  ,  1  , 

^  , .  r      1    ffee  farme  grants  m  moit  of  his  Manors,  relervmge  the  trewe  valewe  or  more,  that 

fuch  lands  foe  enfeoffed  could  then  be  rented  for,  which  ufually  was  fix  pence  the 
acre  ;  %nlt  oftentymes  was  fo  flri6l  in  his  bargaines.  That  accordinge  to  the  exa6l 
quantity  of  the  land  foe  enfeoffed,  hee  referved  the  halfe  pence  and  farthings,  fup- 
pofinge  hee  had  exceeded  thofe  Anceftors  whofe  refervations  in  the  like  grants 
i6g  were  but  ij'^  or  iiij''  |  the  acre  at  moft ;  fuch  care  poffeffed  all  of  them  to  keepe  vp 
theire  rents  in  a  certainty  of  revennue  ;  25ut  his  fonne  the  Lord  Thomas  in  his 
tyme  in  the  fame  age,  thought  his  hufbandry  admitted  noe  paralell,  when  in  imita- 
tinge  the  like  courfe,  he  drewe  vp  his  grants,  to  xij''  and  xviij'^  the  acre,  K^otDbCtt 
Seefol:  [187]  all  of  them  erred  grofly  in  the  mayne  ground  and  confideration,  as  partly  is  before 
touched,  and  after  more  fully  followeth,  to  the  fmart  of  their  fucceedinge  genera- 
tions, not  yet  rubbed  out  ;  wherein  theire  error  was  the  greater,  by  howe  much  noe 
want  of  money  or  other  need  preffed  them  thereunto  ;  but  hereof  more  hereafter. 


Efcuagerolhs-E  : 
I.  in  arce  london. 

Rot.  de  fuffi 

exercit :   5.   E:   i. 

in  arce  london. 


l^ingC  <!Et)tuartl  the  firfl  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  his  raigne  prepareth  to  goe  againfl 
Luwellin  fonne  of  Griffin  prince  of  wales,  in  which  expedition  Humphry  de  Bohun 
Earle  of  Hereford  and  Conftable  of  England,  and  Roger  Bigod  Earle  of  Norffolke 
and  Marfliall  of  England,  went  generalls.  The  kinge  by  writ  the  xij'^  of  Decemb', 
fomoneth  all  his  fubiefts  that  hold  of  him  by  knight  fervice,  to  recognize  theire 
tenures  and  fervices,  and  accordingly  to  bee  prepared  for  that  martiall  Journy. 


2Sl 


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143 


It)t)crc\)))On  this  lord  Maurice  recognizeth  to  owe  to  the  kinge  the  fervice  of 
three  knights  fees  for  his  baronye  of  Berkeley  which  by  the  perfons  of  himfelfe,  and  Baroma. 
S'  Thomas  Berkeley  his  fonne,  and  S'  William  Maunfell  knights,  was  performed. 
3i;ntl  this  was  the  xvj'l"  Army  wherein  this  lord  Maurice  had  till  this  tyme  fervcd  in 
perfon  againll  the  French,  Scotts,  Welfh,  and  the  kings  rebells  at  home,  as  his  life 
hitherto  hath  manifefted. 


Ct)i.S^  lord  Maurice  out  of  a  faythfuH  care  to  leave  his  eftate  and  Barony  to  his 
fonne  and  his  pofterity  free  from  all  manner  of  queftion,  gave  three  hundred  markes 
in  the  fixth  yeare  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft,  to  have  a  deed  and  a  fyne  from  Henry 
de  Berkeley  Lord  of  Durfeley  of  grant  and  releafe  of  all  his  right  in  the  Mannor 
Berkeley  and  Berkeley  hernefs  and  in  the  Barony  of  Berkeley,  and  in  the  Mannor 
of  Wotton,  market  and  faire  there,  and  in  the  Manor  and  advowfon  of  Slimbridge 
(though  I  could  never  find  caufe  why  hee  (hould  any  way  feeke  the  fame;)  ^ntl 
this  Henry  was  |  the  fonne  of  John  of  Berkeley,  fonne  of  Henry,  fonne  of  Roger, 
fonne  of  Robert  and  of  Helena  his  wife,  daughter  of  Robertt  Fit3  Harding ;  fonne 
of  Roger  Berkeley  lord  of  Durfeley  mentioned  in  the  fore  mentioned  compofition 
made  at  Briftoll  in  the  tyme  of  kinge  Stephen  touchinge  this  Manor  and  Barony  of 
Berkeley  here  releafed. 


claus  :  6.  E  ••  I  in 

dorfo  magn  : 

chartul.  fo  :  in 

CadrodeBerkeley. 

Finis.  6  :  E  :   i  in 

banco. 

Cartne  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


170 


See  before  fol :  9 
41. 


Co  conclude  this  lord  was  prefent,  with  the  greater  part  of  the  Baronage  of 
England,  at  Kenelworth  in  the  one  and  fiftieth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  third,  at 
the  makeing;  of  that  remarkeable  award  betweene  the  Kinge  and  his  people  foe 
famous  in  Chronicles.    , 

And  at  the  Parliam'  holden  at  Marleborow  in  wiltflTire  in  the  twoe  and  fiftieth 
of  Henr)'  the  third,  when  the  lawes  comonly  called  the  Statutes  of  Marlebridge 
were  made. 


SUltb  at  the  Parliament  holden  in  the  third  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firfl, 
when  the  lawes,  contayninge  48  chapters,  called  the  Statutes  of  Weftminfler  the 
firft,  were  made;  whereto  a  curfe  to  the  infringers  is  folemnly  annexed:  %i\h  at  the 
Parliament  holden  in  the  fourth  of  Edward  the  firft  whereat,  the  Statutes  then 
ena6led  will  declare,  that  good  hufbandry  and  due  culture  of  the  ground  nowe 
feemed  to  take  a  more  fetled  footinge  then  before :  And  Ayde  made  certaine  for 
manage  of  the  eldeft  daughter,  and  making  the  eldeft  fonne  knight,  leviable  after 
the  daughter  is  feaven  yeares  old,  and  the  fonne  fifteene  yeares  old. 


Explained  in 
Anno  :  25.  E  :  3. 


144 


€|)c  HilJCiBf  of  tl^c  ^tthekp^ 


1243 


%nti  at  the  Parliament  holden  in  the  fixth  of  Edward  the  firft  at  Gloucefter, 
at  the  ena61;inge  of  thofe  fifteene  chapters,  whereby  the  deficiency  of  the  lawes  in 
wafts,  diffeifins,  and  many  other  mifcheifes  were  fupplyed. 

3Ilntl  at  the  Parliament  holden  in  the  feaventh  of  Edward  the  firft,  at  the 
makeinge  of  the  famous  Statute  of  Mortmaine,  wherby  hee  with  other  great  lords 
prevented  the  mifcheefe  which  alienations  of  lands  holden  of  them,  to  religious 
houffes,  had  caft  vpon  them,  as  the  preamble  declares.  | 

171  J^i$f  Wik 

%bn\lt  the  parentage  of  the  Lady  Ifabell  wife  to  this  lo  :  Maurice,  a  longe 
queftion  {or  rather  a  twofold  error)  hath  bene  amongft  the  genealogifts  of  this 
family. 


Newl :  pedeg  ; 


Carew  fo  :  79. 

Stow  :  fo  :  296 

et  313. 


Hales  manufcr : 

cu  Rol5to  Cotton. 

fol :  42. 


Efcaet  :  28:  E:  i. 
in  arce  londini. 

Hollingfli:fo:309. 


I.  ^dtltlOt  Newland  in  his  Pedegree,  often  before  mentioned,  written  in  the 
fifth  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  Seaventh,  And  three  others,  gathered  in  the  tymes 
of  King  Henry  the  fixth  and  of  King  Edward  the  fourth  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley: 
Mr.  Carctoc  in  his  defcription  of  Cornwall;  ^toU)  in  his  larger  chronicle,  and  divers 
other,  with  the  Current  of  old  Heralds  bookes,  make  her  the  daughter  of  Edmond 
Earl  of  Cornwall,  fonne  of  Richard  kinge  of  Alemaine  and  Jherufalem,  yonger 
brother  of  King  Henry  the  third,  fonnes  of  King  John  :  3lnll  fome  of  them  make 
her  the  bafe  daughter  of  the  faid  Edmund  :  25ut  the  ancient  manufcript  of  Hales 
Abby  in  the  County  of  Glocefter  whereof  the  fayd  Richard  was  founder,  plainly 
fheweth  the  birth  of  this  Edmond  to  bee  in  the  five  and  thirtieth  yeare  of  Henry 
the  third.  Anno  1250;  longe  before  which  tyme  this  Ifabell  was  maryed  and  had 
children  by  this  lord,  And  foe  not  poffible  to  bee  his  daughter  lawfull,  nor  bafe  ; 
311nll  further  the  office  found  after  the  faide  Edmonds  death  in  the  xxviij'''  of 
Edward  the  firft,  fheweth  that  hee  dyed  the  firft  of  06lob'  that  yeare  without  iffue  ; 
And  that  that  kinge  was  his  heire,  and  Ellenor  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Clare  Earle 
of  Gloucefter    his  wife,  who  furviued  him. 


Rot.  claus :  48. 
H  :  3.  m  :  4. 

code  in  dorfo  in 
Coin  Effex. 


2.  <£)tljCCj9f  will  have  her  to  bee  the  bafe  daughter,  not  of  the  faid  Edmund,  but 
of  the  fayd  Richard  Kinge  of  Alemaine,  Edmonds  father,  and  foe  Neece  to  Kinge 
Henry  the  third,  elder  brother  of  the  fayd  Richard  ;  And  infift  upon  the  Authority 
of  the  manufcript  rithmicall  Chronicle  of  Robert  de  Glouc  :  who  in  the  tyme  of  H  : 
6.  wrote  thus. 

S''  Richard 


flife  of  a^aurifc  rt)c  ^cconD 


145 


S'  Richard  le  fit5'roy,  of  whom  wee  fpoke  before, 

Gent'leman  he  was  enough,  though  he  was  lafl  I  bore, 

For  the  Earles  daughter  of  warren  his  good  moder  was, 

And  his  Fader  king  John,  that  begat  a  purcas, 

S'  Maurice  of  Berkeley  wedded  fuch  by  cas. 

His  daughter,  and  begat  on  her  the  good  K'.  S'  Thomas. 


Rot)t  de  Glouc ; 
manufcr :  cum 
Rot)to  Cotton  : 


25ut  this  may  not  pafs  for  truth :  for  all  hiftories  agree.  That  this  Richard  was 
borne  in  the  yeare  12 10.  the  xij'J"  yeare  of  Kinge  John;  3llnb  proofs  and  records 
are  playne.  That  this  Ifabell  was  maryed  and  had  iffue  by  this  Lord  Maurice  her 
hufband  in  the  yeare  1240.  the  xxv'^  of  Henr)'  the  third:  which  fpace  of  thirty 
yeares,  all  men  will  hold  too  fhort  a  tyme  for  Richard,  (a  kings  fonne,)  to  bee  fo 
mangrowne  as  in  fifteene  yeares  to  have  a  bafe  daughter  borne,  And  fhee  in  fiftene 
more  to  bee  lawfully  maryed  and  have  iTfue :  IJ^citfjCt  was  the  faide  Earles  daughter 
of  warren  mother  of  the  fayd  Richard,  as  Robert  our  Poet  rymeth.  But  Ifabell, 
Aymer's  daughter  and  heire  as  nowe  followeth  ;  2B*Ut  CCrtailtcIp  lliee  was  daughter 
of  Maurice  de  Credonia  ats  Croun  in  the  County  of  Lincolne,  and  of  the  Lady 
Ifabell  his  wife,  fifter  of  wittm  de  Valence  Earle  of  Penbroke  ;  which  Ifabel  and 
Earle  Wittm,  were  the  children  of  Hugh  de  Brun  Earle  of  March  and  Lord  of 
Lufignian  and  Valence  in  Poitien  in  France,  and  of  the  lady  Ifabell  his  wife 
daughter  and  heire  of  Aymer  Earle  of  Angolifme,  grandchilde  of  Lewis  the  grofs 
Kinge  of  France  and  widowe  of  Kinge  John  ;  father  by  her  of  this  King  Henry 
the  third  :  And  foe  was  this  Ifabell  wife  of  this  Lord  Maurice,  Neece  to  the  fayd 
kinge  Henry,  as  being  daughter  to  the  fayd  Ifabell  his  halfe  fifter;  As  in  his  grants 
to  her  of  lands  in  Effex  appeareth,  wherein  hee  ftileth  her,  in  one,  by  the  name  of 
dilefta  confanguinea  noftra,  his  welbeloved  kinfwoeman,  And  in  the  fecond  dile6la 
neptis  noftra,  his  welbeloved  neece. 


172 

Chron.  de  Hales 
predidl.  fol.  40. 


Speed  fo  :  507. 

Brook  Herald,  et 
oes  alij. 


claus  :  48.   H  :  3. 
m.  4  et  in  dorfo 
eiufd  : 


dated  .  12  .  Julij. 
dated.  10.  Augufli. 


SUniJ  herein  agree  with  mee  S""  Robertt  Cotton,  M'  Campden  Clarencieux,  and 
learned  Auguftine  Vincent  Rouge  croffe,  (quos  honoris  caufa  nomino)  whofe 
freindly  helps  I  had,  thus  iuftly  to  vindicate  this  noble  race,  and  to  free  it  from  the 
ftaine  of  a  matche  in  baftardye,  and  to  rciflifye  this  old  and  wide  fpread  error. 


Cfji^  is  that  lady  Ifabell,  the  fuppofed  donee  of  Atfeild  &  Saintloe,  of  the 
Manors  of  Wotton,  Simondfall,  Came,  Hinton,  and  Cowley,  whereupon  was  founded 
Queene  Maryes  and  Queene  Elizabeths  titles  to  thofe  five  manors  ;  that  intricate 
and  perplexed  title,  toffed  beetweene  the  heire  male,  and  the  heire  generall  of  the 

u  iffues 


146 


€l)c  attest  of  tge  2&cchricp^ 


1243 


173  iffues  of  this  Maurice  |  and  Ifabell,  contynuinge  .  192  yeares  from  the  fifth  yeare  of 
Henry  the  fifth  when  it  began,  till  the  Seaventh  of  King  James  that  now  is,  when 
it  ended;  as  after  in  the  lyves  of  James  the  firft,  and  of  Henry  Lord  Berkeley 
followeth  at  large. 


claus.  in  dorfo 

48.  H  :  3.  Effex. 

Ptita  pafch  :  47 

H:  3.  rot:  6  et:  22. 

fol  :  [463] 


See  fol :  [163] 


Vetus  manufcr :  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley. 


Pat:  34. E:  i.m:  14. 

Rot :  Vafcon.  13. 

14  E  :  2.  m  :  12. 

Rot:  Romce.  1 1  E: 

2.  m  :  12. 


174 

Vetus  pedeg  : 

E  :  4.  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


3jn  part  of  manage  portion,  this  lady  Ifabell  brought  with  her  the  inheritance 
of  the  Manor  of  Great  Wenden  in  Effex,  which  contynued  in  theire  male  iffue  till 
Thomas  lord  Berkeley  the  fourth  of  that  name  in  the  fifth  of  King  Henry  the 
fourth  alyened  it,  as  in  his  life  appeareth  ;  To  which  Manor,  this  lord  in  the  fix  and 
fortieth  of  Henry  the  third,  added  a  market  and  fayre  by  grant  of  that  kinge,  for 
fettinge  vp  whereof  the  fayd  Richard  Kinge  of  Almaine  and  Jherufalem  in  the  next 
yeare  brought  his  aftion  againft  this  Lord,  as  being  to  the  detriment  of  his  market 
and  fayre  of  Newport,  as  amongfi;  the  lawe  fuits  of  this  lord  appeareth  ;  %n  argu- 
ment that  this  lord  was  not  that  Kings  fonne  in  lawe  nor  this  lady  Ifabell  his 
daughter,  nor  their  children  (then  mangrowne)  his  grandchildren  ;  %l\  whofe 
fervices  &  obedience  hee  would  not  have  fhoken  off,  for  a  matter  of  foe  triviall  a 
confequence.  %\^1i  the  Deed  whereby  this  Lord  Maurice  eflated  this  lady  Ifabell 
for  her  life  in  the  fayd  five  Manors  at  the  tyme  of  his  mariage  hath  theis  words  in 
the  clofe  thereof,  Hsec  omnia  feci  in  prefentia  domini  mei,  domini  Henrici  regis 
Angliae  eius  affenfu  et  voluntate  ;  y  have  .  y  made  thes  dede  in  prefence  of  my  lord 
Harry  Kinge  of  Ingeland,  with  the  affent  of  him  and  his  will,  as  I  find  the  fame 
in  an  old  writeinge  of  the  fixth  of  Henry  the  fifth,  which  herein  I  followe  :  %\fitX 
kinge  Edward  the  firfl  and  his  fonne  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond,  in  divers  letters 
written  to  Thomas  Lord  Berkeley  fonne  of  this  Maurice  and  Ifabell,  and  to  the 
lord  Maurice  his  eldefl  fonne,  greets  them  both  in  patents  and  pardons,  by  the 
name  of  his  welbeloved  cozens  ;  Silntl  in  two  letters  to  the  Pope,  calls  James  this 
lords  grandchilde,  his  welbeloved  Cozen,  as  after  appeares  ;  And  in  his  fecond  tre 
preffeth  his  requeft  the  more,  becaufe  the  fayd  James  is  his  Cozen,  JBljict)  title  of 
kindred  in  noe  likelyhood,  theis  kings  would  have  extended  to  the  third  genera- 
tion, had  theire  bloud  and  alliance  bene  deduced  from  all  illegetimation,  efpetially 
themfelves  being  but  in  a  collatterall  degree  of  alliance  to  the  vncles  baflard 
daughter  ;  |  3CroUlTinitiSf  to  mee  out  of  manifold  confiderations.  That  fliee  was 
Henry  the  thirds  Neece  by  legitimate  birth,  and  not  ex  multiplici  progenie  natam, 
as  bafely  fome  have  affirmed  her  to  bee. 


311ntl  for  a  finall  fatisfaftion,  I  referr  this  family  io  theis  Records  not  formerly 
vouched  nor  margined  :  patent :  35.  H  :  3.  m.  6.  /  liberat  :  36.  H  :  3.  bis  in  rotulo.  / 

pat  :  36 


I28l 


life  of  dl^nuricc  tl)c  :§>rconb 


147 


pat :  36.  H  :  3.  pars.  2.  m  :  5.  /  liberal.  41.  H 
3.  m  :  22.  /  pat.  21.  E  :  i.  m  :  15. 


m  :  12.  ct  vltima.     Claus  :  45.  H  : 


Cfji.tf  lady  Ifabell  dyed  the  feaventh  of  July  about  the  fourth  or  fifth  of  Kinge    Newl :  pcdeg: 
Edward  the   firft,  a  fewe  yeares  before  her  hufband,   and  lycth    buryed   in   the    ciaus:4.  E:i. 
Monaftery  Church  of  S'  Auguflines  by  Briftoll  ;  Betweene  whom  and  this  lord,  was    m:  n. 
iffue  Maurice  called  Maurice  de  Berkeley  iunior,  who  beinge  growne  remarkeable 
for  his  age  and  valor,  was  after  in  the  life  of  his  father  flayne  at  Jufts  at  Killing- 
worth  Caftle  in  warwicklhire,  before  iffue  or  mariage  ;  Thomas  who  fucceeded  his 
father  in  his  barony,  Robert,  Simon,  and  Mawde,  as  followeth. 

%hbot  Newland  (often  before  mentioned)  telleth  this  family,   That   Maurice    Newl :  pedegree  in 

Berkeley,  after  flavne  at  the  Jufls  at  Kenellworth,  fucceeded  this  lord  Maurice  his    CaarodeBerkeley: 

/  Anno  5.  H.  7. 

father ;  And  that  by  his  dyeing  without  iffue,  his  inheritance  difcended  to  Thomas 

his  fecond  brother,  who  fucceeded  him;  A  double  error,  vnpardonable  in  the  Abbot; 

the  truth  of  which  ftory  is  thus,  not  vnworthy  the  relatinge. 


3[n  the  feaventh  of  King  Edward  the  firfl.  Anno  1279.  dominus  Rogerus  de 
Mortuo  mari  vir  nobilis  et  in  armis  ftrenuus  de  londonijs  removit  cum  centum 
militibus  prudenter  armatis,  et  totidem  dominabus  coram  eis  cantica  laetitijE  canenti- 
bus  vfque  Kenellworth  et  ibm  per  tres  dies  continues  tenuit  hafliludia  fua  in  armis : 
Hie  lufus  rotunda  vocabatur,  eo  quod  locus  in  quo  ludebant  milites,  fortiffima 
claufura  per  girum  vallatus  fuit.  <irt)C  lord  Roger  de  Mortimer,  a  noble  and  valiant 
man  in  Armes  departed  from  london  to  kenellworth  with  an  hundred  knights  well 
Armed,  and  with  as  many  ladyes  goeing  |  before  them  fmginge  fongs  of  mirth  and 
ioyfullnes;  where  for  three  wholl  dayes  they  held  fpearplayes,  Jufls,  and  turniaments, 
in  their  Arms  ;  This  exercife  was  called  round  play,  becaufe  the  place  wherein  the 
Knights  thus  fported  was  compaffed  round  about  with  a  mofl;  flronge  inclofure  of 
timber,  %v3i  as  Campden  and  others  have,  It  was  vfed  in  fuch  an  outragious 
manner,  and  with  fuch  flaughter  of  noble  gentleme  and  others.  That  thcis  Turnia- 
ments were  by  divers  decrees  of  y''  Church  forbidden,  vpon  payne  that  whofoever 
therein  were  flayne,  fhould  want  Chriflian  buriall  in  Church  or  Church  yard  :  And 
though  alfo  forbidden  by  feverall  lawes  and  proclamations,  yet  grewe  not  out  of  vfe 
till  the  latter  dayes  of  Kinge  Edward  the  third,  as  after  is  related  in  divers  of  theis 
lords  lives. 


chron :  monaflerij 
de  Hales  manufcr: 
cu  Rofeto  Cotton 
Baronetto. 


175 


Campden  Britan : 
in  Com  :  Hertf : 
fo  :  407  Englifh. 
Math  :  Paris  de 
anno  1248. 
Munller  cofm  :  fo. 
Hollingfli:  fo:  221 
See  the  red  book 
in  the  Excheq.  for 
theis  turnaem", 
towards  the  end : 


9  n  this   place  and  at  this  tyme  it  was.  That    Maurice    de    Berkeley  called    Camden  britt : 
Maurice  the  yonger,  eldefl  fonne  of  this  lord,  then  in  the  beft  of  his  age,  in  theis    ^"S''*-  ^0:407- 
u  2  Turneaments 


148 


€|)c  %i\it^  of  t^e  V£>nMtp0 


1243 


Turneaments  and  Juftings,  loft  his  life;  As  wee  read  in  the  like  exercices,  Gilbert 
Marifchall  Earle  of  Penbrooke,  S'  John  Mortimer  fecond  fonne  of  Edmond  the 
fixth  lord  of  wigmore,  and  divers  others  of  fpetiall  note  to  have  done. 

%ftCt  the  death  of  which  Maurice,  this  lord  his  father  lived  twoe  yeares,  And 
vpon  his  death,  Thomas  (whofe  life  as  lord  next  followeth)  was  by  divers  Inquifi- 
tions  in  feverall  Countyes  found  to  bee  his  heire,  then  about  thirty  five  yeares  of 
age;  whereby  may  be  geffed  the  age  of  the  fayd  Maurice  his  elder  brother  when 
hee  was  flayne  at  Kenellworth  as  aforefayd,  havinge  borne  Armes  in  the  feild 
againft  the  kings  enemyes  many  yeares  before,  as  formerly  is  touched. 

Claus ;  30.  E:  I.  SUlltl   foe   accompanied   with   particular    mifcheifes   to   many  private    families, 

°  °'    befides  the    generall    inconvenience  to  the  publike  ftate,  were  theis  Turneaments 

GloiTar:  Spilma  and  Jufts,  that  in  the  thirtieth  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  cam  forth  a  proclamation 
forbiddinge,  vel  turneare,  bordiare,  iuftas  facere,  vel  adventuras  quserere,  per  totam 
Angliam  ;  or  Eyther  to  concurre  with  fwords,  fight  at  barriers,  exercife  haftyludes, 
or  feeke  adventures,  any  where  in  England. 

I.  Cfjomaief  therefore  was  eldeft  fonne  to  this  lord  at  the  tyme  of  his  death, 
whofe  life  is  next  related.  I 


176 

fine  in  the  Abby 
of  weftm'':  3.  E  :  i. 


Rot:  fin:  6.  E:  3. 
m :  1 6. 

Original :  in  Sccio 

6  :  E  :  3.  rot :  34. 

finis  in  Banco  17. 

E  :  1.  Som'fet. 

Rot.  fin  :  predidt. 


2.  ]I{ollCCt  Berkeley  knight  and  fecond  fonne  to  this  lord  Maurice  at  his  death, 
had  his  abode  at  Erlingham,  To  whom  and  to  Simon  his  yonger  brother  and  to 
their  heires  Joyntly,  this  lord  Maurice  theire  father,  did  in  the  third  yeare  of  King 
Edward  the  firft  by  fine  give  the  Manor  of  Erlingham,  a  member  of  his  Manor  of 
Berkeley  ;  To  hold  of  him  and  his  heires  by  one  penny  rent  for  all  fervices  and 
demaundes  :  for  which  alienation,  threefcore  and  five  yeares  after  in  the  fixth  of 
Kinge  Edward  the  third,  were  the  coheires  of  this  S'  Robert,  driven  to  fue  a 
pardon  and  pay  twoe  markes  fyne  to  the  kinge,  fith  the  fame  (as  the  record  fayth) 
was  holden  in  capite:  Symon  dyed  without  iffue,  whereby  the  wholl  manor  furvived 
to  this  S'  Robert,  who  by  Jone  his  firft  wife  had  iffue  John  Berkeley,  Thomas, 
Robertt  and  Ifabell  :  John  Berkeley  dyed  in  thee  fowerteenth  of  Edward  the 
fecond  leaving  iffue  fower  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Felicia,  Lettice,  and  Margarett, 
fometymes  written  Margery  :  The  three  eldeft  after  two  difcents  dyed  without 
iffue  ;  And  Margarett  the  yongeft  daughter  of  the  fayd  John,  was  maryed  to  John 
Yate,  whoe  had  iffue  betweene  them,  John  Yate,  father  of  William,  father  of  John, 
and   Richard  ;   John  dyed  without  iffue.  And   Richard  had  iffue  Walter-  father  of 

Richard  ; 


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flifc  of  a^auricc  rtjc  ^Seconb 


149 


carta  cu  wittmo 
Try  de  Hardwick. 


177 


Richard;   father  of  Thomas  Yate,  that  yet  liveth,  1628.  of  greate  age,  who  was 

threefcore  and  five  yeares  agone,  attendinge  Henry  Lord  Berkeley  in  his  chamber; 

and  Giles  Yate,  fometyme  alfo  a  fervant  to  the  fayd  Lord:  from  which  Thomas  and 

Giles  are  difcended  many  fonnes  and  daughters,  whoe  likewife  have  plentifull  pof- 

terities ;    CtjiiS  S'  Robertt  the  fecond,  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice,  had  alfo  the    Efcha.  15.  E.  2 

grounds  and  woods  called    Inwoods  in  Came,  Beoly  farme,   and  other  lands   in 

Clehungre  ;  And  alfo  in  the  Seaventh  of  Edward  the  fecond,  purchafed  to  him  and 

his  heires  of  Margarett  de  Valers  a  rent  of  forty  fhillings,  wherewith  fhee  charged 

her  lands  in  Vley  and  Came,  which  after  her  death  came  into  the  family  of  the 

Baffetts  of  Vley,  by  whome   |    the  faid  rent  is  payd  to  this  day  Anno  :  1628  For 

non  payment  whereof  diftrefs  was  taken  and  an  Avowry  made,  wherein  the  pedigree    Efcaet:  15 

of  this  S'  Robert  for  the  five  next  defcents  is  layde  down  as  followeth,  which  S' 

Robert  dyed  about  the  nynth  yeare  of  the  fayd  kinge  Edward  the  fecond. 

fClloniaje?  Berkeley  fecond  fonne  of  this  S'  Robert,  was  called  Thomas  of  Beoly; 
And  did  partake  in  rebellion  in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fecond  with  Maurice 
then  lord  Berkeley ;  And  by  Maud  his  wife  had  iffue  John  and  Margaret' ;  John 
dyed  in  the  twentieth  of  Edward  the  third  without  iffue,  then  in  ward  to  Thomas 
lord  Berkeley ;  And  Margarett  was  maryed  to  Raphe  Try^e  who  had  iffue  betweene 
them  John  Tr>^e  father  of  William  Try,  who  died  in  the  life  of  his  father,  leaving 
iffue  John  father  of  William  Trye,  whoe  marryed  Ifabell  daughter  of  James  lord 
Berkeley,  The  fruites  of  which  manage  fee  in  the  end  of  the  life  of  the  faid  lord 
James. 

Clobctt  the  third  fonne  of  the  said  S'  Robert,  by  Elizabeth  his  wife  had  iffue 
Thomas  who  dyed  without  iffue 

^Isfafiril  their  fifler  was  maryed  to  Richard  Eftmead,  who  had  iffue  ;  But  that 
iffue  dyed  without  iffue. 

3.  :StniOn   the  third  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice  and  lady  Ifabell,  was  never 

marryed. 

4.  ^atDbC  daughter  of  the  fayd  lord  Maurice  and  lady  Ifabell  lyved  longe,  and 
purchafed  land  in  Nibley  to  her  and  hir  heires,  (which  fometyme  were  the  lady 
Julian's,  wife  to  the  fecond  Robert  lord  Berkeley,)  and  dyed  without  iffue. 

J^ijtf  ^cak0  of  3tnncjBi 
C!)C  Scales  which  this  lord  Maurice  vfed  to  his  Deeds,  both  in  yellowe  and 
greene  wax,  were  of  two  fortes  ;  Sometymes  he  fealed  with  the  chevron  without 

the 


fol :  [550] 

Finis  in  bancoHill: 
17.  E:  i.Somersett. 


ISO 


€{)c  %ibc0  of  tl)c  25crftricpiEf 


1243 


178 


the  croffes,  circumfcribed,  S.  Mauricij  de  Berkelei ;  fometymes  with  the  George  on 
horfbacke,  circumfcribed  as  aforefayd,  Both  of  them  about  an  inch  and  quarter 
brode,  |  SCltD  none  of  theis  feales  had  any  reverfes,  fupporters,  or  Crefts  :  Behold 
the  figures. 


I^isf  SDpatl^  anb  pace  of  2&urian 

Dies  mortis,  aeternae  vitae  natalis  efl ;  which  death  and  birth  day  hapneth  to 
this  lord  on  S'  Ambrofe  day  the  fourth  of  Aprill,  Anno.  1281  .  in  the  nynth  yeare 
of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  then  aged  fixty  three,  being  his  great  clymaflericall 
yeare,  of  which  he  fate  lord  thirty  feaven  yeares  and  five  Months;  And  was  buryed 
in  the  North  He  of  the  Church  of  the  Monaflery  of  S'  Auguftines  next  to  the  Altar 
Ptita  et  Jurata  of  S!  Maurice,  leavinge  the  performance  of  his  will  to  Wittm  parfon  of  Slimbridge 
15.  E;  I.  rot:  31.  church,  Bartholomew  of  Oulpen,  and  the  Pryor  of  Stanley,  whom  hee  made  his 
Executors,  who  vnderwent  fome  fuites  and  trobles  about  the  execution  thereof. 


Magn :  chartuL 
fol:  123. 

Efchaet .  in  turre 
9  :  E  :   I. 


^10  HanDiS  tDljcrrof  Ijcc  bpctJ  ^eiytx 

J^ijGf  Offices  found  in  the  fame  Month  of  his  death,  declare.  That,  with  his 
honor  and  Barony,  hee  left  to  Thomas  his  eldefl  fonne  the  Manors  of  Berkeley ; 
(wherevnder  thofe  two  of  Hame  and  Appleridge  are  comprehended,  which  later  hee 
much  inlarged  by  a  purchafe  made  of  Wiftm  Ruffs  in  the  ffortieth  yeare  of  King 
Henry  the  third  ;)  and  of  Wotton,  Came,  Cowley,  Hurfl,  Hineton,  Alkington,  and 
Slimbridge  valewed  at  279''  9^  3"^  in  the  County  of  Glocefter. 

j-Q  5llnll  the  Mannor  of  Portbury  (named  the  moytie,)  and  the  fforren  |  hundred  of 

Portbury  ;  And  the  manor  of  Bedminfler  with  the  hundreds  of  Bedminfter  and 
Harteclyve ;  And  Radeclyveftreet'  without  Briftoll  in  the  County  of  Somerfett. 


5CnD  the  Manor  of  Wenden  in  the  County  of  Effex. 

3llnD  Bixe,  Stokenchurch  and  Kilefham  in  the  County  of  Oxon. 

311nl>  the  Manor  of  F"aldingworth  in  the  County  of  Lincoln. 


mnti 


128 1  Hifc  of  \HBauricc  tl)c  .^cconD  151 

5llnt>  divers  lands  and  Tenements  in  the  County  of  Wilts. 

3CnD  the  Manor  of  Weftcote  in  the  County  of 

3llnll  divers  lands  in  Purton,  Adon,  Teveleford,  and  Chartelege, 

%VSi  the  fame  Month  of  his  Offices  in  Eafter  Terme  in  the  faid  ninth  yeare,    Rot:  fin:  9.  E:  i 

the  faid  Lord  Thomas  doth  his  homage,  and  finifheth  his  livery  as  the  kings  writt,    Original:  9:  E:  1 

Tefle  xviij"  April  in  the  nynth  of  Edward  the  firft,  doth  certifie  :  which  was  in  the    '"  5'ci;io. 

J        t-  J  '  ^  ^  Pafch :  rec :  in 

fpace  of  fowerteene  dayes  after  his  fathers  death:  Howbeit  his  Reeleefe  is  not  payde    Sccio  4  :  E  :  3. 
till  the  dayes  of  his  Grandchilde,  in  the  fourth  of  King  Edward  the  third,  as  then    s*eefoPr^i4l 
appeareth. 


The  vfe. 


€l^c  5CypUcation  aiiD  \i^c  of  fji^  Hifie 

1.  <!Df  tl^i^,  lord  Maurice  it  may  bee  faid,  quod  diu  fuit,  fed  parum  vixit,  hee 
lived  longe,  but  had  a  Short  life,  enioyed  onely  in  quiet  the  lafl;  feaven  yeares  of 
his  life:  his  conflitution  was  adtive  and  of  a  working  quallitye ;  noething  refembling 
the  prudent  moderation  of  his  father:  If  not  in  acflion  againft  his  Kinge,  or  the 
Kings  enemies,  in  fuites  with  his  peers,  neighbors  and  Tenant's  :  I  propofe  him  an 
hufbandly  Example  in  reducinge  his  fcattered  quillet's  of  ground  togeather  into 
entire  enclofures  :  And  for  the  profit  that  thereby  arofe  to  hinifelfe,  and  fince  to  his 
pofterity,  511uD  that  hee  was  a  Lord  that  would  make  way  for  his  will,  which  was 
often  the  rule  whereby  he  walked  ;  breake  hee  might,  bend  hee  would  not. 

2.  3(l0ahlC  from  divers  paffages  in  this  lords  life,  This  error  of  his  may  bee  of 

vfe  to  his  poflerity  :  That  fuch  greate  lords  as  call  all  |  the  carefull  endeavors  of    180 
theire  Officers  and  Servants  onely  duty  and  det,  And  are  more  apt  to  punifh  and 
difgrace,    then  to  countenance  or  reward,   fhall   find  themfelues  vpon   change  of 
Fortune,  (from  which  he  liveth  not'  that  is  exempted,)  not  onely  freindleffe  but 
even  contemptible  and  defpifed,  which  for  a  while  this  lord  proved  true. 

3.  QCgainc  the  troblefome  part  of  this  lords  life  commends  over  this  truth  to 
his  poflerity,  That  to  give  any  violent  advife  in  doubtfull  enterprifes,  is  rather  a 
teflimony  of  love  then  of  wifdome  in  the  giver :  for  the  ill  fucceffe  is  allwayes  cafl; 
vpon  the  Counfell  :  And  good  fucceffe  never  wants  many  fathers  to  acknowledg  it, 
though  falfe  ones :  This  was  at  one  tyme  the  cafe  of  this  lord. 


Il^l"-" 


f  iniiSf  Si^atDcidi  jSccunDi. 


®l)c  Cifc  of  ®l)amas  tl)c  Scrani         183 

€^c  life  of  Thomas  Lord  Berkeley  the  fecond  of  that    liiverfae  canoe  in 

n-1     1    •  •      ■  T-.        •  -T-t  T->      1     .  CaflrodeBerkeley. 

name,  Itiled  m  wnteings,  Dominus  Thomas  de  Berkelee  ; 

And,  Thomas  de  Berkelee  dfis  de  Berkelee ;  3Cnli,  Thomas 

de    Berkelee   filius    Mauricij    de    Berkele ;   3CnD,   Dominus 

Thomas  de  Berkelee  diis  de  Berkelee  :  311nD,  dns  Thomas 

de  Berkeleye  dns  de  Portbury ;   %vXi,  Thomas  de  Berkele 

dns  de  wenden. 

3lnti  may  be  called  Thomas  the  wife. 

Contemporary   with    kinge    Edward    the   firft,    and    part   of 

kinge  Edward  the  fecond,  from  .  1281 .  to  1321. 

XBt^o^c  life  I  doe  prefent  to  his  pofterity  vnder  theis  feaven- 

tene  titles .  viz' 

I.- — i^ijef  birth  and  age  of  adolofency  fol  :  184. 

2. — ©ijfli  Hufbandries  :  fol  :  184. 

3- — €^C  vfuall  price  of  Corne,  Cattle,  pultry  &c.,  in  the  tymes  of 

King  Edward  the  firft,  Edward  the  fecond,  Edward  the  third, 

and  of  Richard  the  fecond,  compared  with  the  prefent  tyme 

fol :  192. 
4. — ]^i0  hofpitality  fol  :  196. 

5. — l^ijtf  forren  imployments  in  warrs  and  embaffes .  fol  :  201. 
6. — I5i^  recreations  and  delights  fol  :  222. 
7. — l^ijSi  purchafes  of  lands  fol  r  223. 
8. — f$i^  fuites  in  lawe  fol  :  226. 
9. — j^i^  Almes  and  devotions  fol  :  238. 
10. — j^ijBf  mifcellaines  or  various  paffages  not  reducible  vnder  any  of 

the  former  titles .  fol  :  241. 
1 1. — '^10  wife  fol  :  243. 


— I^i^  iffue  fol  :  245. 

— 'J^Crhdcp  of  wimondham  fol  :  246. 

— ^10  Scales  of  Armes .  fol  :  259. 

— ^10  death  and  place  of  buriall  fol  :  260. 

— ^i0  lands  whereof  he  dyed  feized  .  fol  :  261. 

— CijC  Application  and  vfe  of  his  life  .  fol :  262. 


154 


€f)c  %i\)c^  of  tl)c  2Bftfericpjaf 


184 


Efchaet.  9.  E  :  i. 

poftmort.  Mauricij 

de  Berkeley. 

diverfi  com  pi 

miniftror  temp : 

E  :  I  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Inq  :  9.  E  :  I.  pod 

mort :  Mauricij, 

in  Arce  london. 

in  Coin  Glouc  : 

et  Somerfett. 


185 

Comp :  miniflror  : 

temp:  E  :  i.  E  :  2. 

in  Caflro  de  Berk. 

in  divers,  manei'-. 


3 


dtn  nowe  come  to  another  Solomon  of  his  tyme  ;  51  Itlfltl  of  men  ;  A 
man  for  all  houres,  and  for  all  affaires  ;  Ci)C  feaventh  in  fucceffion,  IBfjat 
influence  ruleth  in  that  feptenary  number,  I  argue  not  ;  But  fure  I  am, 
this  lord  was  a  man  at  home  and  abrode,  in  peace  and  in  warre,  in  the  Forraigne 
Embaffees  of  his  Prince,  and  in  his  Country  Goverments,  of  an  vniverfall  vnder- 
ftanding,  3Ilnll  for  his  private  huflaandries,  and  houfkeepings  he  admitted  fewe 
compeers  :  Co  that  a6live  age  wherein  hee  lived,  not  onely  an  Ornament,  but  to 
his  pofterity  alfo  :  %  wife,  devout,  and  honeft  lord,  much  to  bee  preferred  before 
the  befl  of  his  former  fix  forefathers.  0[n  whome  I  admire  the  providence  of  the 
all  difpofeinge  God,  by  removeinge  the  elder  brother  (otherwife  addifted)  but  in 
the  Eve  before  his  fathers  death,  thereby  to  graft  into  this  familye  this  noble 
branch,  the  feaventh  bearinge  of  theire  regall  flemme,  unparralled,  and  to  bee  a 
prefident  to  all  his  pofleritye. 

i$i0  birtl)  anb  age  of  aDolciSccncpe 

CljC  birth  of  this  lord  was  at  Berkeley  in  Anno.  1245  in  the  Nyne  and 
twentieth  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  third,  fhortly  after  his  Grandfathers  death, 
where  part  of  his  pupillage  was  fpent.  J^i-S  next  dayes  at  Bedminfler  by  Brifloll, 
which  Manor  his  Father  for  fupport  of  his  youthes  expenfes,  and  for  his  firfl  initia- 
tions in  hufbandry  conferred  vpon  him  ;  In  which  courfe,  and  vntill  the  tyme  of  his 
mariage,  hee  contynnued  :  jl^autng  the  Abbot  and  Prior  of  S'  Auguftines  Monaftery 
by  Briftoll,  and  the  Mafler  of  S!  Katherines  hofpitall,  (confyning  vpon  this  Manor 
of  Bedminfter)  creatures  begot  by  his  Anceflors  Almes  and  devotions,  his  guides 
and  inftru6lors  :  '3ri)C  reft  of  his  life  afmuch  as  his  forraigne  imployments  fpared 
vnto  him  was  fpent  at  Berkeley  Caftle  and  at  his  other  houfes,  as  after  followeth, 
beinge  in  the  beft  of  his  age,  when  by  the  death  of  his  Father  his  Barony  difcended 
vpon  him. 

Cl)C  Accompts  of  the  Reeves  and  Baylyes  of  this  lord  Thomas,  yearly  ingroffed 
I  in  parchment,  whereof  more  than  200  remayne  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  declare,  that 
this  lord  kept  in  his  hands,  the  Scites  and  demefnes  of  his  Manors  of  Hame, 
Alkington,    Hineton,    Hurft,    Slimbridge,   Came,  Cowley,  Wotton,  Simondfall,  and 

others 


1 321  Hifc  of  <ri)omasf  tf)c  Second  '55 

others  in  the  County  of  Glouceftcr  ;  And  the  Manors  of  Portbury,  Bedminfter, 
and  others  in  the  County  of  Somerfett  ;  And  the  Manors  of  wenden  magna,  and 
wenden  parva,  in  the  County  of  Effex  ;  and  fome  others.  31n  which  Accompts 
from  the  death  of  his  father  to  the  death  of  himfelfe  (the  fpace  of  forty  yeares)  is 
perfpicuoully  fet  forth  in  what  forte  hee  hufbanded  each  of  them,  what  forts  of 
Cattle  hee  kept  vpon  them,  As  horfes  both  for  draught  and  ftall,  mares  for  breed 
and  labour,  bullockes,  fteers,  kine,  heifors,  and  calves,  fhecpe  for  the  Butcher,  flore 
and  breede  ;  Swine  of  all  forts,  as  boares,  fowes,  hoggs,  porkets,  fhootes  and  piggs, 
Geefe  for  breede  and  for  the  Larder,  Capons,  Hens,  Cockerells,  pulletts,  and 
chickens,  Ducks  and  Mallards,  peacocks,  pigeons,  goats  male  and  female,  kids  and 
Bees. 

3^l^Q  what  kinds  of  graine  hee  yearly  fowed  accordinge  to  the  quality  and 
condition  of  the  ground,  as  wheat,  barly,  peafe.  Gates,  Rye,  Fetches,  And  had  alfo 
Drage,^  pilcorne,^  mixtilon,^  brotcorne^  &c.  words  I  profeffe,  not  well  to  vnderfland  ; 
And  alfo  howe  theife  kindes  of  graine  each  fecond  or  third  yeare  were  exchanged, 
or  brought  from  one  Manor  to  an  other,  As  the  Vale  Corne  into  an  vpland  Soyle, 
and  contrarily  the  Vpland  and  Cotfall  corne  fowne  in  the  Vale  and  lowe  grounds  ; 
the  very  exa6l  hufbandry  of  theis  dayes  in  thofe  places,  as  is  nowe  pra6lifed  by  the 
mofk  prudent  and  generous  plow  men  :  !31ln&  how  hee  fet  with  hand,  (not  fowed)  his 
beanes  ;  And  in  the  barn  leazed  in  the  eare,  and  by  the  corne,  part  of  his  wheat 
for  feed,  as  the  moft  accurate  and  curious  good  huflaandmen  accuftome  to  doe  at 
this  day  Anno  1622. 

%\0O  in  theis  Accompts  (excellent  Schoolmafters  for  theis  our  tymes,  and  wher- 
vnder,  I  profefs  to  have  profited)  is  declared,  howe  this  lord  for  his  better  profit 
exchanged,  removed,  and  flitted,  part  |  of  his  Cattle  of  moft  of  the  forefaid  kindes    186 

at 
1  Mixed  Corn,   generally  barley  and   Oats,  now  called  "dredge-corn"  in  Devon  and   Cornwall. 
Bp.  Kennett,  in  his  Gloflarial  Colle(ftions  (Lands.  MS.  1033)  mentions  "dredge  Mault,"  malt  made  of 
Oats  mixed  with  barley  Malt.     See  Promp.  Parv.  v  Dragge. 

^  Peeled  Com — Stripped  com — i.e.  hufks  removed  from  it.  "Pailli" — chaff,  from  the  latin  "  palea." 
See,  "  Pillcome  from  the  Mill"  fide  folio,  193. 

8  MLxed  or  dredge  Corn  of  wheat  and  rye — "  Mefllyene  " — Meflin-bread  made  of  equal  parts  of 
wheat  and  rye  was,  according  to  Forby,  formerly  confidered  as  a  delicacy,  the  houfehold  loaf  being  com- 
pofed  of  rye  alone. 

*  Brotcom  is  mentioned  in  Rogers'  "  HiA.  of  Agric:  and  Prices  "  I.  232,  but  he  is  unable  to  explain 
what  it  is,  fo  at  prefent  are  we. — Ed. 
X  2 


156  €l)c  HilJCjS  of  tfjc  25crhckpiSf  1281 

at  certaine  feafons  of  the  yeare  from  one  manor  to  another  accordinge  to  the 
diverfity  and  condition  of  the  foile  and  deepnes  of  the  feedinge  ;  And  as  the  fame 
grounds  were  dryer  or  wetter,  warmer  or  Colder,  quicker  or  flower  in  theire  fpring- 
ings  or  other  Conditions  of  the  place  :  IpotOC  the  eldefl  of  the  fheep  were  drawne 
out  as  CuUions  to  bee  fatted  for  mutton  for  Butchers  and  provifion  of  his  houfe  : 
I^otDC  the  rams  at  fittinge  Seafons  of  the  yeare  were  fevered  from  the  Ewes  and 
weather  fheep,  And  howe  when  in  Odlober,  the  Rams  were  brought  backe  to  the 
Ewes,  they  were  not  admitted  all  at  one  tyme  togeather,  but  fome  referved  for 
fowerteene  or  fixteene  dayes  after,  vntill  the  former  gamflers  had  wafted  their 
ftrength  by  which  meanes  of  theis  frefh  new  Comers,  fcarce  an  Ewe  went  barren. 
5llntl  the  dorfe  of  thefe  Accompts  obferve  an  annuall  vniformitye  in  expreffinge 
what  Cattle,  Corne,  and  foule  of  all  kindes,  tooles,  implements,  and  materialls  of 
houfe  and  hufbandry,  remayned  at  the  end  of  the  former  yeares  in  each  farme 
houfe  and  grange  ]Bt)at  was  fpent  there,  or  fold,  or  given  to  poore,  or  to  orders 
of  religion,  And  what  was  delivered  to  his  owne  ftandinge  houfe  :  And  howe 
many  of  each  kind  were  reaped,  Inned,  hatched,  or  bred  :  how  many  of  eche  kind 
fold  for  mony,  Howe  many  dead  of  all  difeafes ;  And 'how  many  of  each  kind  and 
fort  remayned  at  the  yeares  end. 

^tit^V  doe  theis  Accompts  fcorne  to  difcend  foe  lowe,  as  to  declare,  what 
money  was  yearly  made  by  fale  of  the  locks,  belts,  and  tags  of  the  Sheep,  {as  well 
as  of  the  fleeces)  of  the  hearbes  of  the  garden,  ftubble  from  off  the  Corne  lands, 
crops  and  fetts  of  withy'es,  of  Ofier  rods,  the  Offall  wood  of  old  hedges,  of  butter, 
cheefe,  and  milke,  dunge  and  Soile,  of  bran,  nuts,  wax,  Hony  and  the  like. 

5llntl  declare  alfo,  what  ftockes  or  fruit  trees  were  yearly  grafted  or  planted, 
And  what  apples  and  peares  were  yearly  gathered.  And  what  Cyder  and  perry  was 
yearly  made  ;  wherein  fuch  was  the  plenty  by  the  hufbandry  vfed.  That  from  the 
two  Orchards  of  Slimbridg  and  Hurft  Farmes,  were  vfually  gathered,  fowerfcore 
quarters  of  Apples  and  Peares  in  a  yeare,  where  nowe  fcarce  two  trees  remayne.  | 

187  3fiIj6fO,  what  hindes  and  hufbond  fervants,  and  vnder  what  wages,  and  w'^  what 

Allowances,  his  hufbandries  there  tooke  up  and  vfed  :  3llnb  what  dayes  workes  and 
other  helps  hee  yearly  drewe  from  his  copihold  Tenants  of  each  yard  land,  halfe 
yard  land,   and  quarter  of  a  yard    land  called  a  farrundell  :  This  prudent   Lord 

^  knoweing  in  certainty,  what  and  how  many  workes  each  Tenant  was  to  doe,  each 
yeare  Month  or  weeke,  according  to  the  Seafon  of  the  tyme  and  Condition  of  the 

labor.  ^ot\x)tt|)^tantiiii0e 


Hifc  of  Cfjomasf  the  :S>cfoiiD 


157 


^OttDttfjiSftflllbinffC    which    excellencies    of    Hulbandries,    this   vnparaleld    lord 

built  too  high  vpon  the  erronious  foundation  of  his  fathers  and  Grandfathers  ex-    Seefol:[t34] 

amples,  (Ayminge  at  the  Conflant  vpholdinge  of  his  prefent  rents  and  revenue, 

which  hee  fuppofed  would  never  increafe)  :  Sdnl)  that  hee  was  withall  in  his  later 

dayes  (out  of  great  providence  as  he  fuppofed,)  foe  fearefull  of  the  fall  and  decreafe 

thereof,  That  in  the  lafl  twenty  yeares  wherein  hee  fate  Lord,  betweene  the  thirtieth 

yeare  of  Edward  the  firil  and  the  fiftienth  yeare  of  Edward  the  fecond,  hee  made 

neer  eight  hundred  guifts  in  tayle  (favinge  the  revercon  to  himfelfe  and  his  heires) 

of  divers  parcells  of  his  lands  in  all  his  Manors  in  Glouceflerfhire,   at   the  hieft 

values  and  rents  fuch  lands  would  then  bee  fcrued  unto  ;  which  Courfe  leaning  too 

much  as  I  faid  to  the  ill  prefidents  of  his  three  lafl  forefathers)  hee  then,  out  of  the 

experience  of  his  old  age,  held  to  bee  great  prudence  and  difcretion  foe  to  faften 

them,  (the  trobled  eftate  of  the   kingdome  foe  flandinge,  wherein  rents  decayed 

rather  then  any  wayes  increafed,)  3Cnll  withall  the  ftatute  de  donis  conditionalibus 

not  longe  before  made,  (wherein  hee  had  his  voyce)  did  (as  hee  then  conceived) 

affure  him,  That  fuch  donees  in    tayle   dyinge  without  iffue,  the  land  foe  given, 

fhould  revert  to  him  or  his  heires:  And  that  the  heires  of  fuch  Donees  being  within 

Age,  fhould  bee  in  warde  to  him  ;  for  that  by  fuch  grants  they  were  to  hold  of  him, 

as  he  held  over,  which  was  by  knight  fervice  ;  And  foe  the  profit  of  the  land  to 

become  his  owne  agayne.  And  the  value  of  the  mariage  alfo  to  boote.  And  in  the 

meane  tyme  the  rent  to  contynue  certaine  to  him  without  fall  or  decreafe ;  That  as  it 

feemcth  hee  wanted  |  but  chapmen  in  fuch  forte  to  have  granted  all  the  Copihold    188 

lands  of  his  wholl  barony,  and  of  his  other  Manors  in  other  Countyes:  for  (fomwhat    Cooks  10.  reports 
.  ...     .  ^  ,  .  ,  ,  .,  ,  X        1    1        if^    Mary  Porting- 

to  excufe  him)  as  yet,  nor  till  the  tyme  of  his  great  grandchilde,  was  pradlized  the    tons  cafe. 

device  of  Comon  Recoveries,  to  cut  of  Entayles,  remainders,  or  revertions ;  vnder 

pretence  of  rendringe  a  recompence  in  valewe,  which  (in  truth)  at  firft  feemed  to 

bee  but  a  witty  trick  to  buy  and  fell  land,  and  to  defeat  the  will  of  the  donor,  And 

(vpon  the  matter)  to  difmherite  the  heire  of  the  revercon,  fervice,  and  efcheate, 

contrary  to  the  meaninge  and  expreffed  words  of  the  faid  Statute,  that  comaunded. 

That  the  will  of  the  Donor,  expreffed  in  his  grant,  fhould  bee  thenceforth  obferved 

in  all  thinges  ;  though  nowe  fuch  recoueries  are  become  the  Comon  affurances  of 

lands;    whereof  more  afterwards  in  this  lords  life  is  to  bee  faid  :    |5citI)Cr  had  the    Seeaft :  fol:[24i] 

Statute  of  Fines,  (made  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  Henry  the  Seaventh,  longe  after  the 

former  invention,)  bound  all  parties  and  privies  to  fuch  alyenations  ;  And  therefore 

the  errors  of  this  prudent  Lord  are  the  more  excufable  ;  for  hee  fawe  this  Statute    Cooke,  pref:  to  his 

of  donis  conditionalibus  made  and  vniverfally  applauded  of  all  great  lords,   And    reports: 

had  himfelfe  an  vnderflandinge  voyce  in  the  makeing  thereof,  as  after  followeth  : 

And 


158  €I|c  Xibcjef  of  tl)c  "HBetMcp^  1281 

Cooke  inRitut.  lib:  And. could  not  prophecy  of  the  defeat  that  after  would  befall  it,  or  of  the  mifcheife 
it  would  throwe  vpon  after  ages  ;  for  through  this  lawe,  (as  learned  Coke  hath) 
purchafers  could  not  be  fure  of  theire  purchafes,  farmers  of  theire  leafes,  Creditors 
of  their  dets,  the  kinge  and  lordes  of  theire  efcheates,  forfeitures,  wardlhippes,  and 
other  profitts  of  theire  Seigniories  ;  And  many  have  bene  (faith  hee,  and  truly)  the 
contentions  and  mifcheifes  which  have  crept  into  the  quiet  of  the  lawe,  by  the  fettred 
inheritances  brought  in  by  this  Statute  of  donis  conditionalibus,  as  experience  hath 
long  poynted  out  vnto  vs  ;  And  therefore  it  was  of  neceffity  to  finde  out  a  remedy 
for  thofe  mifcheifes,  whereof  more  hereafter. 

25ut  to  proceede,  for  the  better  incouragement  of  fuch  Donees  and  others  to 
take  of  him  fuch  efhates  in  tayle.  And  the  better  thereby  to  increafe  the  rent  of  the 
land  foe  given,  hee  vfually  granted  licenfe  therewith  to  take  marie  out  of  his  Manors 
189  of  Alkington,  Hame,  Cowly  &c.  where  |  Marie  pitts  were,  and  earth  out  of  the 
greene  high  wayes  for  amendment  of  fuch  land  ;  %nii  alfo  gave  fuch  donees  liberty 
to  inclofe  and  keepe  fuch  theire  lands  in  feveralty  at  all  tymes,  tl]^on  which  grants 
hee  vfually  referved  .  xviij'*  the  Acre  or  more,  betteringe  the  valewes  of  his  Father 
and  Grandfather,  yet  were  the  tymes  as  troblefome  and  flu61;uatinge  as  before ; 
J^CC  alfo  fell  vpon  his  Chace  of  Michaellwood,  which  had  yealded  to  his  Anceftors 
or  himfelfe  litle  or  noe  rent  or  profit,  more  then  thornes  and  timber,  and  improved 
out  of  the  outflvirts  or  fides  thereof  round  about  the  fame,  fome  hundreds  of  Acres  ; 
%v3i  in  his  like  grants  thereof,  for  better  incouragement  to  takers,  hee  granted  alfo 
therew'^  Comon  of  pafture  throughout  his  fayde  Chace  for  all  theire  Cattle  (except 
goates)  and  Comon  for  theire  fwine  in  pawnage  tyme,  which  before  they  enioyed 
not ;  3lln&  as  to  goats,  hee  had  a  heard  there  of  his  owne,  kept  by  his  Ofiicer,  called 
a  Goatheard  :  vpon  which  grants  for  each  Acre  of  his  Chace  thus  affarted,  hee 
referved  xviijl  rent  or  thereabouts  :  %nti  for  the  better  leavyinge  of  theis  rents, 
which  hee  deemed  foe  profitably  rayfed,  referved  power  by  his  Deeds  to  diflrayne 
not  onely  vpon  the  fame  land  foe  given  in  tayle,  but  in  any  other  of  the  Donees 
lands  or  theire  heires,  which  the  Donee  then  had,  or  which  hee  or  his  heires  fhould 
afterwards  have  in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley :  %vSi  foe  much  did  this  prudent  lord 
affe6l  this  kind  of  hufbandry  of  grants  in  Tayle,  That  hee  bought  out  for  his  money 
fol :  [387]  as  many  of  his  forefathers  Feofifees,  and  Donees,  (yea  and  many  of  thofe  whome 
his  owne  firfl  yeares  had  enfeoffed  out  of  their  freehold  lands  within  his  Manors)  as 
any  wayes  he  could  ;  which  (out  of  like  refemblance  of  State  hufbandry)  they  had 
of  old  enfeoffed  at  the  rent  of  one  penny  and  of  ij"!  iiij''  and  vj"*  the  Acre  ;  And  after 
fuch  his  purchafes  foe  made,  as  fafl  as  hee  could  find  Chapmen,  hee  agayne  granted 

them 


1 32 1  Hifc  of  CfjoniOiBf  tljc  ^ccoiib  159 

them  in  tayle  in  manner  aforefayd,  refervinge  the  Uke  rent  of  xviij''  the  Acre  or 
thereabouts,  with  hberty  of  digginge  of  Marie  and  taking  of  earth  out  of  the  wayes 
and  greene  wafts  in  fuch  Manors,  for  amendm!  of  fuch  theire  lands  ;  Soe  that  the 
wayes  for  Carts  or  paffages  were  not  vitiated  thereby  ;  Refervinge  power  alfo  to 
himfelfe  and  his  heires,  to  diftrayne  for  that  rent  throughout  the  hundred  of 
Berkeley  in  all  the  kinds  of  the  fayd  Donees  or  their  heires,  habita  vel  habenda, 
which  they  then  had  or  after  fhould  have,  as  formerly  is  expreffed.  | 

3Cniong$it  other  grants  of  this  kind  made  by  this  Lord  Thomas,  one  was  (by    igo 
deed   without  date,   but   about   the    thirtieth  of  Edward   the  firft)  to  Richard  de    ^'-^g"  ■  chartul. 
Camera  and   the  heires  of  his  body,  of  a  meffuage  and  divers  lands  in  Nibley,    jjerkelev. 
part  whereof  were  then  affarted  out  of  Michaellwood,  vnder  the  yearly  rent'    of 
xxvj?  viij'!,  beinge  the  true  and  vntmoft  valewe  at  that  tyme  :  which  meffuage  and 
lands,  about  fifty  yeares  then  after,  came  into  the  family  of  the  Baffetts  of  Vley, 
And  by  reafon  of  theire  antient  and  long  poffeffion,  were  and  yet  are  called  Baffets 
Court,  And  were  in  Anno  quarto  Jacobi,  alyened  by  the  laft  Wittm  Baffett  to  Wittm 
Gibbes  and  his  heires  nowe  dweUinge  vpon  part  of  the  fame  :  which  meffuage  and 
lands  by  reafon  of  my  habitation  in  the  fame  Townefhipp   I  knowe  to  bee  one 
hundred  tymes  at  leaft  better  then  the  faid  rent,  ftill  payd  by  him,;  one  part  of   Carta  in  Caftro 
which  deed  hee  hath,  and  the  other  is  in  Berkeley  Caftle  :   By  which  Orifice  may      ^  ^^' 

bee  difcerned,  the  depth  of  the  wound  which  this  lord  ftroke  into  the  inheritance  of 
his  pofterity,  the  Cicatrice  and  Skarr  whereof,  by  miftakeinge  of  a  principle,  will  not 
in  an  other  age  bee  rubbed  out  or  clofed :  Vl^ffO0C  affeftion  to  this  kind  of  hufbandry  \ 

was  foe  great,  That  if  in  the  three  next  generatios  fave  one,  moft  of  theis  lands  had 
not  bene  repurchafed,  three  fourth  parts  of  all  the  nowe  lord  George  his  Copy- 
holders, and  termors  by  Indenture,  had  bene  freeholds  of  inheritance  at  this  day  : 
Noe  better  then  grofs  foolifhnes,  is  often  the  refinedft  prudence  of  the  wifeft  of  this 
world  :  ^10  thirftines  after  which  kind  of  certainty  of  rent,  may  alfo  bee  gathered,  complurimae  cart, 
by  neere  the  number  of  fower  hundred  litle  deeds  yet  remayninge  in  Berkeley 
Caftle,  whereby  this  lord  and  his  father  purchafed  fmall  rents  fervice,  rents  charge, 
and  rents  fecke  of  inheritance,  of  foe  fmall  valewes,  as  feldome  above  five  fliillings 
per  Ann  ;  And  often  of  one  penny  and  two  pence,  which  they  knewe  could  not 
leffen  or  decaye. 

CI)C  maine  fcope  of  this  Lords  A6lions  in  all  his  grants,  was  to  hold  vp  his 
rent  at  that  height  it  was  then  fcrued  vnto,  which  hee  thought  after  tymes  would 
rather  give  way  to  diminifh  then  increafe  :  not  duely  confideringe  (by  a  right  levill) 

That 


in  Caftro  de  Berk- 


i6o  €l)c  HtlJcjGf  of  t|)c  25crfedepiES  1281 

That  as  tyme  and  peace  gave  him  the  meanes  to  improve  his  forefathers  rents,  foe 
the  fame  might  afterwards  bringe  meanes  to  his  pofterity  to  improve  thofe  his  im- 
191  provem'?  |  which  fell  out  in  the  dayes  of  his  wife  grandchild,  whofe  wholl  praftife 
was  all  his  life,  a  filent  complaint  of  this  his  grandfathers  overfight,  that  had  bereaft 
him  of  the  meanes  of  trebling  of  his  rents  ;  nor  that  an  other  lawe  or  pradlife  might 
aft'wards  alter  or  repeale  that  Statute  of  donis  conditionalibus,  whereupon  hee  layde 
his  Corner  ftone,  which  care  long  after  received,  though  not  a  repeale,  yet  a  defeat 
equivalent  theirevnto,  by  the  invention  of  Comon  Recov''ies,  as  formerly  is  touched, 
ipOK  that  a  longe  fetled  peace  at  home,  plenty  of  coyne  within  the  land,  increafe  of 
people,  new  inventions  of  Hufbandries,  enhanfmge  of  monies,  and  the  like,  (all 
which  are  the  children  of  tyme)  would  treble  his  rents,  nay  advance  them  to  fifteene 
(yea  fifty)  tymes  his  values  and  more,  as  this  prefent  yeare  wherein  I  write  doth 
wittneffe  :  2&Ut  I  will  not  foe  farr  digreffe,  as  to  touch  the  Caflilian  voyages,  open- 
inge  the  new  world,  whereby  fuch  flouds  of  treafure  have  flowed  into  Europe  by 
that  Afhion,  as  that  the  cenfe  or  rates  of  Chriflendome,  are  rayfed  neere  twenty 
fold  more  then  before  |^citf)Ct  doe  I  doubt  to  add,  but  if  thofe  bleffings  continue 
with  vs,  our  late  plenty  of  money  returne,  and  wee  defifl  from  our  endleffe  going  to 
lawe  one  with  an  other,  and  from  our  prefent  riot  and  luxury  in  diet  and  apparell, 
but  that  an  Acre  of  land  nowe  at  twenty  fhillings  wilbe  brought  to  thirty  fhillings 
or  more. 

3tnb  furely  this  Lords  deepe  confideration  of  the  tymes  but  newly  elapfed, 
wherein  hee  had  much,  even  in  youth,  obferved,  wrought  him  into  this  course  : 
5fOi:  if  the  Sherifes  of  Countyes  could  fay,  and  that  truly  vpon  their  Exchequer 
Claus :  56 :  H :  3.  Accompts,  That  from  Efler  in  the  nyne  and  fortieth  of  this  kinge,  till  the  fix  and 
^  ^  ■  fiftieth,  fuch  were  the  diforders  and  rebellious  exceffes  of  the  people,  Cf)at  the 
kinges  dewes  and  farmes  were  not  to  bee  leavyed,  but  lofl :  howe  much  more  had 
this  lord  caufe  to  feare  the  fall  of  his  revennue,  havinge  noe  fuch  help  as  the  kings 
prerogative,  to  leavy  his  Tenants  decayes  or  arreares,  if  the  like  tymes  fhould 
returne  agayne,  and  even  then  but  little  amended. 

Cartas  in  Cafl.ro  de  %v3i  other  hufbandry  alfo  was  labored  by  this  prudent  Lord,  whereby  hee 

er  e  ey.    ^^^.^g  much  profitt  to  his  Tenants,  and  increafe  of  rents  and  fines  to  himfelfe,  which 

102    (as  many  title  deeds  extant  in  Berkeley   |    Caflle  doe  witneffe)  was  by  makeing  and 

procuringe  to  bee  made  exchanges  of  lands  mutually  one  with  an  other,  thereby 

cafling  convenient  parcells  togeather,  fitting  it  for  an  inclofure  and  converfion,  And 

by  freeinge  fuch  inclofures  from  all  comonage  of  others :  Some  of  which  deeds 

prefent 


I 


Uifc  of  Cfjomas  tl^c  ifrfonb 


i6i 


prefent  themfelves  to  theire  reader,  in  an  acre,  half  acre,  a  quarter  of  an  acre,  yea 
fome  in  twenty  and  fome  but  in  the  content  of  ten  pearches  ;  By  which  induftry,  as 
this  lord  rayfed  an  Acre  of  land  from  iiij''  and  vj'J  to  xviij''  the  Acre,  (as  hath  bene 
faid  :  Soe  this  our  age  wherein  I  write,  feeth  the  fame  further  improved  to  more 
then  a  tenfold  further  valewe  then  in  thofe  his  tymes,  3£nD  befides  had  not  this  lord 
ca.ii  much  of  land  into  a  mould  of  this  fhape,  this  Barony  of  Berkeley  had  long  fince 
wanted  both  timber  for  buildings,  and  fewell  for  chimneys,  both  which  (out  of  the 
hedgeroes  and  quickfets  of  theis  enclofures)  have  for  divers  yeares  pafl,  and  ftill 
are  at  this  daye  more  plentifully  fupplyed,  then  in  the  reft  of  that  Country,  where 
the  like  hufbandry  and  providence  hath  not  bene  vfed.  3In  foe  much  as  from  my 
houfe  at  Nibley,  where  I  write,  I  doe  behold  them,  as  groves  or  thickets,  through 
the  neernes  of  the  Hedges  in  thofe  fmall  inclofurcs  :  31lnlJ  my  felfe  havinge  at  the 
fellinge  of  fome  of  the  fayreft  Oakes  in  theife  places,  told  theire  ages  (a  thinge  cer- 
tainely  and  eafily  to  bee  done,  by  the  graine  (as  we  call  it)  made  in  a  circle  in 
every  kind  of  tree,  by  the  yearly  affent  and  confolidation  of  the  fapp,)  I  haue  con- 
ftantly  found  theire  ryfinges  and  plantings  to  anfwere  theis  very  tymes. 


^mt0  of  <Conic  Citric  ^ultrp  &c. 

%l01i  theis  Accompts  will  truely  informe  this  noble  Family  what  were  the 
vfuall  prices  of  Catle,  Corne,  Pultry  and  other  provifions  expended  in  the  houfe  of 
this  lord,  and  as  the  fame  were  vfually  bought  and  fold  in  fayres  and  marketts 
duringe  that  twenty  and  feaven  yeares  of  Edward  the  firft  raigne,  wherein  this  Lord 
lived  a  Baron,  vij' 


Wheat  the  Quarter,  at 

..      2?4'i,  3?,  4?,  and  5! 

Maflin,  the  Quarter,  at      

. .      2%  2?  4"!,  f.  and  4^ 

Barly  the  Quarter  at          ... 

..      20"!,  2?  8"!,  3^4'?,  and  4! 

Beanes  the  Quarter  at 

. .     2",  2^  8%  3?  4'?,  and  4.' 

Otes  the  Quarter  at 

..     20'!,  2=,  2^.4^.    I 

Pillcorne,  from  the  Mill,  the  Quarter  at 

..     s%  3^8^ 

An  Oxe  at 

10? — 11! — 12? 

A  Cowe  and  Calfe  at 

..     9' — 10? 

A  bacon  Hogg  at  ... 

..     5^-5?  61 

A  fat  porket  at 

..      2? — 2?  2'! 

A  fat  sheep  at 

..       i;'f_i8?— 20''— 2^ 

A  Lamb  at... 

..      10^ — 12'! 

A  Goofe  at... 

••     3' 

A  Capon  at... 

..     2-! 

193 


A  Hen 


1 62  Clje  Hibr^  of  tfjr  S^n-ftricp^  1281 

A  Hen  at i"^.  oft. 

A  Duck  at I"! 

4  Pigeons   ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  i"! 

20  Eggs      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  I*! 

5finll  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond,  when  thys  Lord  dyed, 
the  prices  flood  thus  .  viz' 

i©ljcat,  the  quarter  4? 

Maflin  the  quarter  ...  ...  ...  ...  3? 

Barly  the  quarter    ...  ...  ...  ...  3? 

Beanes  the  quarter  ...  ...  ...  3? 

Otes  the  quarter     ...  ...  ...  ...  2? 

Fetches  the  quarter  ...         ...         ...  20*! 

Malt  of  wheat  the  Quarter  ...  ...  6f 

Malt  of  Otes  the  Quarter 2!  2"^ 

Malt  of  Barly  the  Quarter  4? 

A  Quarter  of  Apples         lo"! 

A   Sturgeon  in  the  xix'^  of   Edward  the  )  ^^  q^ 

fecond  fold  for    . . .  ...  ...  ...  ) 

An  oxe  at    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  20? 

An  Oxe  hide  3?  6'! 

A  Cowe  and  a  Calfe,  at     ...         ...         ...  12? — 13! — 15? 

A  Sheep,  beetweene  ...         ...         ...  i7.'^and2' 

194  A  Sheepfkyn,  accordinge  to  the  growth  of 

the  fell,  at  4.%  5%  6'?  fuch  as  were  killed 

for  provision  of  the  houfe. 

A  Lambe,  at 12^ 

A  goat  Skin,  at       ...  4*^0^. 

A  Goofe,  at  ... 3^ 

A  Ducke,  at  I'^ffc 

The  reft  as  before 

Threfhing  a  quarter  of  wheat       ...  ...  2*1 

Threafhing  a  quarter  of  beanes i^.  oft. 

Threafhing  a  quarter  of  Oates     i? 

Wages  of  a  day  laborer     oft.  %. 

A  yeomans  bord  wages,  per  diem  ...  i*!  ob. 

A  groome  or  Pages  boord  wages  p  die    ...  i^- 

And 


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163 


And  by  a  proclamation  in  tlie  viij'^  of  this  kinge,  none  might  fell  wine  in  theire    Claus:  8.  E.  2. 
Tavernes,  above  iij''.  the  gallon. 

3In  t!)C  tyme  of  Kinge  Edward  the  third,  generally  about  theis  rates  as  followe, 
but  the  further  in  his  longe  raigne  of  fiftye  yeares,  the  dearer.     As  thus  viz'. 

Wheat  the  quarter 5'4''. — f. — 10? 

Barly  the  quarter   ...  ...  ...  ...     ±' — 5^4^ 

Beanes  the  quarter  ...         ...         ...     4' 

Otes  the  quarter ...      2?  8*^ — 3!  4"! 

Bay  fait  the  quarter i  S*! 

An  Oxe  from  14^  to  ...         ...         ...     24? 

A  Sowe  and  fix  pigs         ...  . .         ...     5' 

A  boare      ...         ...         ...  ...         ...     4? 

A  Calfe       2? 

A  Store  pigge,  or  fliote    ...         ...         ...12"! 

Pigeons,  the  dozen  ...  ...  ...     3I — 3'^ob — 4"? 

An  Haggard  Falcon  ...  ...  ...     20! 

In  the  refidue  little  variation.    I 


%x6x  in  the  tyme  of  Kinge  Richard  the  fecond,  for  the  two'  and  twenty  yeares    195 
of  his  raigne,  the  prizes  of  graine.  Cattle  and  pultry,  were  rather  cheaper  then 
dearer,  but  the  difterence  in  effect  that  was,  was  in  the  temperature  and  feafon  of 
the  yeare. 

A  weight  of  wool  (beinge .  2 1  pound)  called  pondus,   ...  ...     5! 

A  facke  of  wool  at  7'.'  65  8?— 8': 

Onions,  a  Bufliell  8? 

Eggs  .  20  for  a  peny,  which  in  150 .  yeares  did  never  rife  nor  fall. 

Slltlb  at  this  day  wherein   I  write.  Anno   1622,  the  Comon  prizes  of  the  like 
Comodities  in  the  fame  place,  is  generally  thus,  viz' 

Wheat  the  Quarter        ...  ...  36? 


Maflin  the  Quarter 
Barly  the  Quarter 
Barly  malt  the  Quarter 
Beanes  the  Quarter 
A  draught  Oxe,  about  . 


265  8'! 
,.  20' 
..  24' 
..  20' 
••       5' 


Y    1 


A  Cowe 


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A  Cowe  and  a  Calfe  about 
A  Sheepe  about 
Eggs  5  for 


3'i   lo? 


511nll  theis  prizes  ftand  in  refemblance  of  the  like  corne  and  Cattle  in  my  old 
former  valuations  ;  which  as  well  for  the  inftrucSlion  of  him  that  delights  herein,  As 
for  avoydance  of  the  like  error  this  lord  fell  into,  I  have  cluftered  here  togeather. 

%^  foe  horfes  in  thofe  a6live  old  ages  of  the  three  Edwards,  and  of  kinge 
Richard  the  fecond,  the  lord  Berkeleyes  have  payde  for  horfes  of  fervice  in  the 
warrs,  and  for  the  faddle,  and  draught,  as  deere  as  no  we  in  our  dayes;  loo'i,  loo 
markes,  50",  30'!,  2o'l,  10'!  20  nobles,  5'i,  &c. 


Polichr  :  lib  :  7. 

cap  :  38. 


25ut  of  yeares  of  dearth  and  of  extremities,  when  through  fcarcity  prizes  were 
as  deere  as  nowe,  mentioned  in  divers  Chronicles,  I  have  not  fpoken  ;  But  defire  to 
bee  vnderflood  of  the  comon  and  ufuall  prizes  in  each  ordinary  and  temperate  yeare. 


compi  predct.  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley. 


ig6 


Comp:  6.  et  7.  E: 
2.inCa(lrodeBerk: 


31lltlJ  theis  Accompts  will  further  informe  this  noble  family,  That  when  this  lord 
was  free  from  forren  imployments,  hee  went  often  in  progrefs  from  one  of  his 
Manor  and  farme  houfes  to  an  other,  fcarce  two  miles  a  funder,  making  his  flay  at 
each  of  them  for  one  or  twoe  nights  overfeeing  and  direftinge  the  forementioned 
hufbandries.  And  foe  backe  to  |  his  ftandinge  houfes  where  his  wife  and  family 
remayned,  which  was  very  great,  as  after  appeareth,  fometymes  at  Berkeley  Caftle, 
at  Wotton,  at  Bradley,  at  Awre,  at  Portbury,  And  vfually  in  Lent,  at  Wike  by 
Arlingham,  for  his  better  and  neerer  provifion  of  Fifli  :  where,  for  his  famous 
weares  of  Rodly,  Geron,  and  Put'houfe,  hee  had  a  fpetiall  Officer  called  Pifcator  de 
Berkeley,  whofe  annuall  Accompts,  comonly  came  vnto  30'!.  per  Anii;  for  fifh  there 
taken :  Some  of  which  doe  fpeake.  That  of  antient  cuftome,  the  Conflable  of 
Berkeley  Caftle  was  vpon  the  firft  funday  in  Lent  allowed  a  falmon  for  his  dinner, 
which  in  this  Seaventh  of  Edward  the  fecond,  cofl — x'!  ob. 


Rot:  claus:  11.  E: 

I.  m:  9.  in  turre 

london : 


Cl)C  xxviij'.*"  of  December  in  the  Eleaventh  of  Edward  the  firft,  this  Lord 
obtayned  the  kings  warrant.  That  without  impeachm'  either  of  Peter  de  la  Mare 
Conflable  of  Briftoll  Caftle  or  of  any  other  his  minifters,  hee  might  in  his  owne  land, 
feeke  and  digge  for  mynes  of  lead,  foe  that  it  were  not  within  the  bounds  of  the 
kinges  Forreft :  3Bitl^  the  frute  of  which  worke  aryfinge  out  of  his  Manor  of 
Bedminfter,  was  part  of  Berkeley  Caftle  covered. 


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165 


Zt\C  xxij'!"  of  Augufl  in  the  Twentieth  of  Edward  the  firft,  this  Lord  had  a  Rot :  claus :  20: 
grant'  from  Robert  Bifhop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  of  fower  ftaggs  in  the  Chace  of  lonciinens: 
Kingefwood  vpon  Mendip,  Ami  withall  a  warrant  to  Richard  de  Pleffitis  keeper  of 
the  Biiliops  Forreft  of  Mendip,  That  hee  ihould  not  niolefl  or  impeach  this  lord,  if 
in  the  Chace  of  thofe  ftaggs,  by  followinge  of  his  hounds  hee  came  into  the  fayd 
Forreft; :  for  which  pleafure,  as  it  feemes  by  the  dorfe  of  this  record,  hee  gave  the 
Bifliop  a  recognizance  of  twelve  markes  payable  at  a  fliort  day  after :  And  if  hee 
had  not  delighted  eagerly  in  the  fport,  hee  (doubtleffe)  would  not  have  bene  at  the 
charge  of  inrollinge  the  faid  grant  and  warrant  in  the  Chancery. 


in  dorfo  rol 
predidt : 


london 
19  :  E  : 


197 


j^i^  l^o^pitaUticiaf 

31  caw  cad  into  this  title  to  fpeake  of  the  houflveepinge  of  this  Lord  and  the  Efcaet:  inter  prob: 
quality  of  his  fervants,  by  a  quaint  record  in  the  Tower,  whereby  Wittm  de 
Kingefcote  before  hee  could  have  livery  of  his  Manor  of  Kingefcote  out  of  the 
kings  hands,  fo'r  which  he  had  beene  in  ward  to  this  lord,  And  after  to  the  Lord 
Maurice  his  fonne  and  Executor,  And  after  (through  his  rebellion)  to  King  Edward 
the  fecond  |  was  to  prove  himfelfe  to  bee  of  full  age,  which  by  many  witneffes,  by 
many  tokens  and  obfervations  taken  vpon  his  birth,  hee  did  ;  As  that  fuch  a  preifl 
then  funge  his  firft  maffe,  and  fuch  a  one  then  became  a  profeffed  make,  And  fuch 
perfons,  as  S'  Sinion  Baffett,  and  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood,  were  at  the  feafl  of  his 
Mothers  Churchinge,  and  many  the  like  ;  And  amongft  others,  one  depofeth  that 
hee  was  borne  in  the  xxxij'!"  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  at  what  tyme  this  lord 
kept  open  Chriftmas  for  all  Comers  at  Berkeley  Caftle  :  And  that  John  of  Mon- 
mouth then  Bifliop  of  Landaph  and  many  great  guefts  kept  with  this  lord  the 
Solemnity  of  that  feaft. 


3CnD  many  Accompts  of  this  Lords  houfhold  Officers  and  Reeves  of  his  Manors,    comp  :  diuers  : 
doe  tell  his  pofterity,  That  fuch  yeares  as  England  had  him  in  that  County  of   gt'.  E:  2  in  Caflro 
Glouc  :  being  free  from  forren  warres  and  imploym",  his  cuftome  was  each  lent    ^^  ^^^^  '■ 
feafon,  or  neer  that  tyme  of  the  yeare,  to  feaft  the  Abbot  and  Covent  of  S'  Peeters 
of  Gloucefter  at  Gloucefter  ;  The  Abbot  and  Covent  of  S'  Auguftines  by  Briftoll  at 
Bryftoll ;  311)0  Abbot  and  Covent  of  S'  Mary  of  Kingefwood  by  Wotton,  at  Wotton 
or  Berkeley  :  wherby  they  had  this  lords  good  cheare  for  theire  bellies,  And  hee 
their  prayers  and  recomendations  to  S'  Peter,  to  S!  Auguftine  the  Englifh  Apoftle, 
and  to  the  \'irgin  Mary,  (accordinge  to  the  dedication  of  thofe  feverall  Monafteries) 
for  the  welfare  and  foules  health  of  himfelfe,  his  wife,  and  children  :  5l;nlJ  how  when 
any  of  theis  Abbots  and  thofe  other  of  Cirencefter,  Lanthony,  and  Flaxley,  And  ihe 

Lords 


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Lords  of  Sudeley,  and  de  Aubeny  and  others,  travelled  through  this  lords  faid 
Manors,  his  forefaid  Farme  houfes  were  theire  Innes,  and  his  graynaries  their 
hoftelries ;  whereby  is  feene  vpon  the  faid  Reeves  Accompts,  what  the  portion  was, 
which  fuch  feafts  cofi:,  and  guefts  fpent,  in  Capons,  Piggs,  geefe,  Oates,  and  the  like: 
511nlJ  this  entertainm'  of  ftrangers  often  happened  both  when  this  lord  was  out  of  the 
kingdome,  and  at  home  in  his  Country. 


conip:  fenli  et  «J^^Jc  houfhold  and  ftandinge  domefticall  family  of  this  lord,  lodged  in  houfe, 

^^'^  fn  CnftroTk    confifted  of  two  hundred  perfons  and  vpwards,  ranked  into  theis  degrees  of  fervants, 
Bo'kel:    Milites,  Armigeri,  Valeti,  garciones  et  pagetti,  Knights,  Efquires,  yeomen,  groomes, 
and  pages,  befides  hufbandmen,  hindes,  and  fuch  other  of  lower  condition. 


Efcaet.  in  Aice 
londini  17:  E:  2. 

198 

diverli  compi  in 

Caflro  de  Berkeley 

Inter  efchaet  in 

arce  londin  :  17. 

E:  2. 


diverfe  cartae  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley. 


CI)C  wages  of  one  of  his  Efquires  was  iij'i  ob  :  a  day,  and  a  horfe  in  his  ftable  | 
or  paftures,  or  ij'^  ob.  a  day  for  him,  and  two  futes  by  the  yeare  furred  (duas  robas 
cum  furruris)  or  xxxiij?  iiij'',  And  for  a  gartion  or  boy  to  attend  him .  j?  ob  :  the  day, 
which  (befides  dyet  in  his  houfe)  came  vnto  —  xiij'l  iiij?  j'!  ob.  by  the  yeare,  '^0 
(befides  the  houfhold  Accompts)  is  mofl  perfpicuoufly  found  by  an  Inquificon  at 
Brifloll  in  the  xvijt  of  King  Edward  the  fecond  in  the  behalfe  of  Hugh  Bifley  vpon 
a  grant  made  to  him  by  this  lords  fonne  the  firft  of  Octob'  in  the  fifteenth  of  this 
kinge,  And  by  the  grants  made  by  his  Father  and  himfelfe  to  Adam  Tilly  and 
divers  others.  ^Tl^c  wages  of  a  knight,  more  :  The  wages  of  an  inferior  attendant', 
leffe,  as  the  fayd  Accompts  doe  fhewe. 


com:  hofpitij  in. 

I-  16.  27.  et:  30: 

E:  I.  in  Caflro 

de  Berkley  : 


CIjC  Acates  and  provifions  for  maintenance  of  this  lords  flandinge  family,  were 
brought  in  weekely,  Monthly  or  quarterly,  as  they  were  appoynted  from  the 
Steward  of  houfhold,  from  the  Reeves  and  baylies  of  his  faid  farme  houfes  of  each 
of  his  particular  Manors  neere  thofe  places  where  his  dwellinge  or  abidinge  houfes 
were  :  '0,11  foe  much  as  vpon  the  yearly  Accompts  of  fuch  Reeves  taken  before  the 
Auditor,  are  found  provifions  of  theis  kinds,  and  of  theis  proportions  vsually  each 
yeare  sent  to  the  Steward  and  Clarke  of  the  kitchen  ;  %0  from  the  Manor  or  farme 
houfes  of  Came  and  Cowley  (whofe  Accompts  went  togeather  vnder  one  Reeve,) 
8000  and  9000.  eggs  :  442  and  566  pigeons  .  44  and  47  capons  .  192  Hens  .  288 
ducks  .  388  chickens  .  80  hoggs,  no  porketts  and  84  piggs  .  274  .  of  thofe  forts 
45  Calves  :  315  quarters  of  wheat,  304  .  quarters  of  Oates.  And  from  the  feverall 
Reeves  of  the  Manor  &  Farme  houfes  of  Hame,  Alkington,  Slimbridge,  Hurft, 
Hinton,  Wotton,  Simondfhall,  Portbury,  and  divers  others  the  like  and  greater 
provifions,  both  in  thofe  &  other  kinds,  as  goates,  kids,  Hieep,  lambes,  oxen, 
bullocks,  and  heifors,  butter,  cheefe.  Nuts,  and  Hony.  SUnlJ 


Hifc  of  iCI)onin.fit  tfjc  ^cfonb 


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51!nb  what  was  to  fpare  (as  each  yeare  much  provifion  was  of  all  kinds  both  at 
the  farme  houfes  with  the  Reeves,  and  in  the  flandingc  houfes  with  the  Steward, 
Clarke  of  the  Kitchen,  the  yeomen  of  y=  ftore,  and  other  houfliold  Officers)  was 
yearly  fold  and  Converted  into  money  at  the  prifes  formerly  mentioned. 

51!nd   as  the  bounty  and   expence  of  this  lord  was  great,   foe  it  feemed  his 

frugality   goverm',    and    order,    eflablifhed    over   the    affaires   of   his    houfe  |  and  igg 

hufbandry,  was  as  great ;   In  foe  much  as  every  dayes  and  everye  meales  milke  of  comp.  hofpitij 

every  cowe  was  rate'd  and  proportioned  to  the  inferior  fervant,  as  what  quantity  of  sTmond'fall  et  al: 

butter  and  cheefe  might  bee  raifed  there  from,  accordinge  to  the  divers  Seafons  of    in  CaRro  de 

Berkeley, 
fumer  and  winter,  the  pafture  where  they  fed  and  the  like. 


%nti  for  further  teftimonies  of  the  frugality  of  this  wife  lord,  for  the  eafier 
clothinge  of  himfelfe,  his  wife,  children,  knights,  Efquiers,  and  other  of  their  family, 
much  of  this  lords  wooll  was  yearely  put  out  to  fpinninge,  for  makingc  of  Cloth,  (as 
alfo  for  the  clothinge  of  the  poore  ; )  The  Accompts  whereof  declare  the  charges  in 
the  wholl  manufactory  foe  particularly,  in  fortinge,  pickinge,  beating,  oyling,  pullinge, 
cardinge,  fpinninge,  fpoolinge,  warpinge,  quillinge,  weavinge,  Tuckinge,  fliearinge, 
dyinge,  dreffmge  and  the  like  (wherein  the  Auditor  declares  himfelfe  a  M after 
Clothier.),  That  theis  our  dayes  add  noethinge  to  that  antient  examines,  'i^'n  which 
art  of  Drapery  are  latin  wordes  of  fuch  aptnes  and  rarity,  as  would  adorne  a  new 
impreffion  of  Rider,  Thomafms,  Mynfhaw,  HolHock  and  Grayes  di(5;lionaries  ;  fewe 
or  none  of  which  latin  or  Englifh  wordes  are  found  in  any  of  them  though  all  of  the 
laft  and  beft  editions,  nor  yet  in  the  gloffary  of  S'  Henry  Spilman. 


comp.  de  >votton 
temp  :  E  :  I.  at 
divers  al  :   in 
CaflrodeI5erkeley: 


Stub  further  at  fuch  tymes,  as  either  vpon  attendance  at  parliam",  or  other  this  comp:  7:  E:  2.  de 

lords  owne,  or  princes  affaires,  hee  abode  with  a  g-reat  branch  of  his  family  at  ^^I'^"''^"  ^   ,  '," 

.  ,       ^  Cafl.ro  deBerkeley. 

London,   hee  kept  two  of  his  fervants,  who  with   the  fower  horfes   were  onely 

imployed  in  fetchinge  of  bread  from  wenden  in  Effex  (where  he  bred  much  corne) 

rather  then  hee  would  to  the  market,  or  baker  to  buy  for  money. 


3Iln&  vpon  his  Journey  from    Berkeley   towards  the   feidge  of  Barwike  and    Comp :  Maner :  de 


warrs  with  Scotland  in  the  five  and  twentieth  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft, 
lodginge  the  firft  night  at  his  Manor  houfe  of  Slimbridge  (five  miles  vpon  his  way,) 
hee  tooke  on  the  Morrowe  along  from  thence  with  him,  one  and  forty  bufliells  of 
Oates  for  his  horfes  provender,  to  fave  the  expenfes  of  his  purfe  in  his  next  nights 
lodging  at  worcefter. 

StntJ 


Slimbridge  25:  E : 
I  in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


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Comp  :  maner.  de  ^dn^j   to   regulate  all   his  out-goes,   And  to  tye  even  his  owne   fonnes  (nowe 

wotton.  20:  ^'.:j.    j^r^j^_g^Q^rie)  to  order  and  frugality:  His  Auditors  (who  were  the  Pryor  of  Stanley, 

Elias  of  Combe,  and   Bartholomewe  of  Owlpen)  gave  in  charge  vpon   the  Rolls 

200    ftriftly  to  the  Reeves  of  each  feverall  Manor,  Quod  |  de  cetero  nullos  fupervenientes 

comp :  manerij  de    recipiant,  nec  aliquos  fumptus  eis  inveniant  vllo  modo,  nifi  per  literas  dni  fibi  fuerit 

iti  Cah.ro  de    mandatu,  et  fi  fecerint,  non  fibi  allocabitur,  nifi  tantum  fsenum,  foragium,  et  focal ia  : 

Berkeley,  et  at :    ^jj.^j.  f^g^  henceforth  they  fhould  receive  noe  guefts,  nor  be  at'  any  other  charge  in 

their  entertainments,  without  the  lords  expreffe  letters,  but  onely,  for  Hay,  flravve, 

and  fire,  which  if  hereaft"^  they  tranfgreffed,  it  fhould  not  bee  allowed  vnto  them. 

Comp;  Burgi  de  ^(u  the  xviij'^  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  two  and  thirty  yeares  before  his 

Berkeley^i^S^^E:^!^  cleath,  this  lord  then  aged  44  yeares,  lay  ficke  at  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  And  for  his 
Berkeley,  better  recouery,  as  was  conceived,  removed  from  his  Caflle,  to  a  grange  houfe  of 
the  Abbots  of  S-  Aguftines  on  the  North  fide  of  Berkeley  called  Canonbury,  where 
hee  recovered;  whofe  charges  (whereunio  the  Abbot  was  put)  was  payd  by  John 
Sewaker  Reeve  of  the  Burrowe  of  Berkeley,  which  came  to  ij**,  which  the  Abbot 
received  :  fuch  was  the  thrift  and  Juftice  in  thofe  dayes  ;  whereof  agayne  the  faid 
Reeve  had  allowance  vpon  his  Accompt  in  the  end  of  that  yeare  before  the  fayd 
Lords  Auditors. 


Comp  :  Manerij : 
deHinton:  6:E:  2. 
in  Caftro  de  Berk: 


|5otoC  if  this  lords  pofterity,  in  excufe  of  theire  exceffes,  fiiall  footh  themfelves 
with  the  Romaine  Cardinalls  verfe,  nunc  aliud  tempus,  alij  pro  tempore  mores.  The 
reply  may  bee.  The  tyme  flands  vnchanged,  but  our  prefent  manners  are  adulter- 
ated, from  the  legitimate  dayes  of  our  forefathers. 

^0  conclude  this  title.  In  the  fixth  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  fecond,  this  lord 
built  of  newe,  one  of  the  gate  howfes  of  the  Caftell  of  Berkeley,  during  which  tyme, 
which  lafled  all  the  winter  and  fpringe  followinge,  hee  withdrew  himfelfe  to  the 
Caftle  of  Gloucefter,  whereof  hee  had  the  keepinge.  And  there  with  his  provifions 
fro  Berkeley  kept  houfe,  faving  thereby  as  much  as  the  buildinge  came  vnto.  As  by 
comparing  togeather  the  houfliold  accompts  appears. 

comp.  in  Caftro  3llnb  in  the  fame  yeare,  hee  had  %pb  from  his  freeholders  for  the  makinge  of 

de  Berkeley^eod:    ^j^  ^jj^^  ^^^^^  knight  :  An  honorable  legall  helpe  to  bringe  in  money.  | 

201  f$i^  forraiffiic  implopnicatitf  in  toarr^tf  and  *£niljn^.6C)Sf 

C()OngI)  I  might  truly  affirme.  That  fewe  (if  any)  yeares  efcaped  this  able  and 
a6live  lord  in  the  laft  fifty  of  his  life,  wherein  hee  was  not  imployed  either  againfl 

the 


I32I 


Hifc  of  €l)omaiBf  tljc  ^fecfonb 


169 


the  Wellh,  the  Scots,  or  the-  I'rciich,  yet  here  onely  I  will  mention  fiich  his  expedi- 
tions of  record,  wherin  I  find  his  perfon  particularly  named  and  imployed,  omittinge 
him  the  reft. 

Cl)C  firft  tyme  that  I  finde  him  in  Armes,  was  at  the  battle  of  Eveftiam  in  the    Math :  Paris 
nyne  and  fortieth  of  Henry  the  third  where  by  the  leading  of  prince  Edward,  the 
kinge  his  father  was  refcuffed  from  Simon  de  Mounford   Earle  of  Leicefter  ;  And 
that  Earle,  and  allmoft  all  the  Barons  with  him  there  llayne  in  a  bloudy  battle. 

CIjC  next  was  with  the  kinge  in  the  one  and  fiftieth  of  his  raigne  at  the  feidge    I-iber :  51.  II :  3 
of   Kenellworth,    from    whence   the  kinge  the  third   of  November,    writes  to  the     "  ^  ""^' 
Shereife  of  Somerfetfliire,  where  in  the  life  of  his  Father  this  Lord  liveth,  as  hath 
bene  faid,   That  out  of  the  profitts  of  his  office  hee  fliould  deliver  vnto  him  thirty 
markes  in  recompenfiition  of  his  horfe,  which  hee  lofl  in  that  fervice. 

CljC  third  arofe  vpon  the  ever  working  paffion  of  defire  of  liberty  in  the  welfh    Daniel:  fo:  158 
in  the  fifth  and  fixth  yeares  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  w''.''  threwe  open  agayne  the    ^^    '^^""^-^'J- 
ill  fenced  inclofure  of  peace,  which  (not  without  drawing  of  blood)  three  yeares 
before  had  bene  made  betwene  the  faid  kinge  and  Leolyne  prince  of  wales,  who 
agayne  takes  Armes,  furprifes  the  Caftles  of  Flint  and  Ruthland,  with  the  perfon  of 
the  Lord  Roger  Clifford  fent  the  kings  Jufticiar  into  thofe  parts,  And  omits  noe 
blouddy  A61  of  hoftility  :  Againft  whome  the  kinge  foe  ftrongly  prepares,  That  the 
xij'!"  of  December  hee  fomons  by  fpetiall  writts  all  his  Lords  and  others  that  held  of 
him  by  knight  fervice  to  meet  at  Worcefter  on  Midfomer  daye  in  the  fifth  of  his 
raigne,   Armed  (cum  equis  coopertis)  to  goe  againft  lluellin  prince  of  Wales  the    Efcuage  roll  in 
Rebell   fonne   of  Griffin  :    511niongC3t    others,    Maurice     then    Lord    Berkeley   this    e  :  i. 
Thomas  his  fonne,  and  W"'  Maunfell  |  one  of  theire  domefticke  knights,  offer  them-    202 
felves  for  forty  dayes  fervice  accordinge  to  the  tenure  of  this  Barony  of  Berkeley,    Baronia 
holden  by  three  knights  ffees:  whofe  fervices,  faith  the  Record,  the  Kinge  Atturned    Stowechron:et:at: 
over  to  Edmond  his  brother :   Peace  agayne  is  made.  The  kinge  returnes  (havyng 
taken  Anglyfey)   And  with  him  the  fayde  Leollen,  who  after  hee  had   kept  his 
Chriftmas  at  weftm'  with  the  kinge,  returned  for  wales. 


CfjC  welfli  agayne  revolt,  and  attempt  theire  liberty  out  of  the  power  of  kinge  Daniell.  Stow 

Edward,  And  in  the  Tenth  of  his  raigne,  maffacre  the  faid  Roger  Lord  Clifford  fohzoi. 

th'elder,  a  noble  knight,  and  the  kings  Juftitiar  in  thofe  partes  of  wales  :   CfjC  kinge  En.inarcelondini 

by  his  writt  the  xxiiij"''of  May  the  fayd  yeare,  fends  to  this  lord  Thomas  to  prepare  5°'-  ^^^^^''f 


himfelfe 


E  :  I.  arce  lend  : 


I70 


€I)c  Hitc^  of  rt)c  2Dcrftdcp3tf 


1281 


Comp :  garder  : 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Stat :  de  Ruth- 
land.  12.  E :  I. 


Rot :  Scutag  :  i  o. 
E:  I. 


himfelfe  for  that  warre,  Hee  with  his  retinue  attendeth  :  That  and  the  next  yeare  foe 
entirely  ended  that  warr,  with  the  death  of  the  Prince  lluelHn,  and  of  David  his 
brother  lord  of  Denbigh,  That  the  whole  principallity  was  vnited  to  the  Crowne  of 
England,  And  the  goverm'  thereof  eflabliflied  accordinge  to  the  lawes  of  England, 
As  witneffe  the  Statutes  of  Ruthland  made  in  the  Twelth  of  the  faid  kinge. 

5rt01H  this  Journey  this  Lord  drew  profit,  and  added  fome  honor  to  his  inherit- 
ance ;  for  the  king  havinge  vpon  his  voyage  into  wales  leavyed  efcuage  of  forty 
Ihillings  for  each  knights  ffee  holden  of  himfelfe.  And  this  Lord  havinge  bene  with 
him  in  thofe  warrs  accordinge  to  the  tenure  of  his  Barony  of  Berkeley,  had  alfo  the 
kings  writs  to  leavy  efcuage  vpon  all  thofe  that  held  of  him  by  knight  fervice  or  in 
focage  in  the  Countyes  of  Leicefter,  Gloucefler,  Effex,  Somerfett,  and  Huntington, 
at  fforty  fhillings  de  fcuto,  for  each  knights  ffee.  311nD  greeved  I  am  for  the  not 
knoweing  what  he  leavyed,  and  of  whom,  for  the  booke  of  tenures  fake,  which  I 
have  made  of  all  the  now  lord  Georges  Tenures,  afwell  by  knights  fervice,  as  in 
focage,  the  labor  of  fome  yeares. 

Rot:  walhifi  11 ;  ,^|.^  j^jth  ^f  March  in  the  xi'^  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  the  kinge  writes  to  this 

E:  I.  in  dorfo.  ,  .  .  . 

203    lord,  affeftuofe  rogans  in  fide  qua  fibi  tenetur,  quatenus  ]  cum  equis  et  armis  et 

decenti   apparatu  ad  fe  veniat  &c.  moft  affeftionately  defireing  him  in  that  fayth 

which  hee  owes  vnto  him.   That  with  horfes  and  Armes  and  decent  furniture,  hee 

would  come  to  him  to  Mont  Gomery  within  fifteene  dayes  after  Eafler  next,  to  goe 

againft  the  welfhmen,  And  this  to  doe  as  hee  loved  his  honor  and  kingdome. 


Rot:eodem:  %nti  the  xxviij*  of  June  followinge  writeth  thus  agayne  to  this    Lord,  Quot 

fraudum  et  machinationum  generibus  lingua  wallenfiu  &c.  By  howe  many  deceipts 
and  machinations  the  tongue  of  the  welfhmen  after  the  fafhion  of  Foxes,  have 
invaded  our  progenitors  and  our  kingdomes,  and  what  flaughter  they  have  made  of 
our  Peers  and  noblemen  &c.  what  Caflles  they  have  burned,  howe  often  they  have 
difturbed  the  kingdome  fearing  neither  god  nor  man,  the  tongue  of  man  cannot 
exprefs :  And  therefore  defires  this  Lord  to  bee  with  him  at'  Shroefbury  at 
Michaelmas  next  to  advife  and  confult  what  is  to  be  done  with  them,  and  efpetially 
w'.''  David  brother  of  lluellin  late  Prince  of  Wales  :  %nti  herein  alfoe  recites  with 
much  comendacon  the  former  labor,  paynes  and  charge  which  this  Lord  had 
formerly  taken  and  bene  at  with  him  in  his  form"'  welfli  warrs. 

Pat:  II.  E:  i.  311nl)  here  (though  vnder  an  improper  title)  I  may  not  omit  the  two  rewards 

"*  ■  ^^'    which  for  his  fervice  in  the  warre,  all  the  winter  followinge,   this  Lord  vpon  his 

fuite, 


13-1  jCiff  of  Cljomajaf  t!)c  .jfectonb 

fuite,  received  vpon  the  fixth  of  February  after  from  the  kinge  at  Rutland,  The 
one  being  a  grant  vnder  the  great  feale,  That  at  all  tymes  duringe  his  life  (vnlefs 
in  menfe  vetito  in  fence  tyme  in  the  forbitklen  Month')  hee  fhould  have  liberty  with 
his  owne  doggs,  to  Hunt  the  fox,  hare,  badger,  and  wilde  Cat,  in  the  kings  Forreft 
of  Mendip.  and  in  his  Chace  of  Kingefwood  on  both  fides  of  the  water  of  Avon, 
neere  Briftoll,   And  the  fame  to  take  and  carry  awaye. 


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3Clll!l  the  other  was  the  kings  remittinge  to  this  Lord,  one  hundred  marks  which     Claus  :  12.  E: 
hee  owed  him  for  a  releefe  for  his  Barony  of  Berkeley  after  his  fathers  death,    ^  '  '°; 
wherein  is  given  a  teflimony  of  his  good  fervice.   The  words  are  theis,  Quod  rex 
pro  bono  fervicio  quod  Thomas  de  Berkeley  regi   impendit  in  vltima  expeditione 
regis   walliae,  pardonavit  ei  centum   marcas  in   quibus  regi  tenetur  ad  fcaccarium 
regis  pro   retio   fuo,   et   mandatum    eft    Thefaurario  et    baronibus  de    fccio   quod 
eundem   Thomam  de  predi6lis  centum   marcis  quietum  effe  faciant  .  Tefte  apud 
Hereford,  fecundo  Decembris  %X[.  which  Roll  I  could  not  obferve  any  other  to  bee 
foe  well  rewarded  for  theire  fervice  in  that  journey  :    3(lub  this  alfo  was  the  firft 
frute  of  Magna   (   charta,  to  this  family  in  any  releefe  for  theire    Barony,   made    204 
certayne  therby  at  one  hundred  markes  pet  as   though   this   was  forgott   by   this    Claus.  19 :  E:  1. 
Lord,  hee  had  a  fecond  pardon  for  halfe  this  releefe  in  the  xix'!'  of  that  kinge. 


m:5. 

See  fol :  205. 


CJjC  thirtieth  of  December  in  the  xiij'!'  yeare  of  his  raigne,  this  Lord  found  this  Fin :  13.  E  : 
further  favor  from  the  kinge  then  at  Briftoll,  That  whereas  he  flood  fuerty  for  ™  •  ^^" 
Thomas  fit3  Maurice  of  Ireland  to  pay  the  king  feaven  hundred  markes  for  the 
value  of  his  mariage,  And  whereas  the  kinge  had  affigned  over  that  mony  to  the 
Marchants  of  Luk,  for  which  this  Lord  was  become  bound  by  his  recognizance  in 
Chancery,  That  nowe  the  kinge  willinge  to  requite  his  laudable  fervice  to  him 
freely  done,  doth  pardon  him  twoe  hundred  markes  thereof,  And  for  payem'  of  the 
other  five  hundred  fhall  have  each  Michaelmas  and  Eafter  by  one  hundred  markes 
a  daye.  And  accordingly  directs  his  privy  Seale  to  the  Barons  of  his  Exchequer. 

€t)e 

1  The  Fence  Month,  called  Menfis  Prohitibionis  and  Men/is  Vetitus,  is  the  30  days  extending  from 
15  days  before  Mid-fummer  day  to  15  days  after,  which  is  the  fawning  time  for  deer,  during  which  all 
hunting  or  wandering  in  the  Forefls  are  prohibited  by  Statute.  Some  ancient  Foreflers  called  this  month 
the  Defence  Month,  becaufe  the  deer  are  to  be  defended  from  all  diflurbance  or  apprehenfion  of  danger. 
The/ence  time  is  now  very  familiar  to  us  as  regards  falmon  and  fome  other  fifh,  and  lately,  under  the  Wild 
Birds  Protedtion  Act,  as  refpedls  mofl  birds.  Sergeant  Fleetwood  fays,  as  regards  deer,  that  the  Fence 
Month  has  always  been  kept  with  Watch  and  Ward  (or  guard  by  night  and  day)  through  the  whole  Foreft. 
fince  the  time  of  Canutus. — "  Fleetwood's  Forefl  Laws,"  p.  5.  See  alfo  "  Nilfon's  Laws  of  England," 
concerning  Game,  3rd  Ed.,  1736.  [Ed.] 
Z  2 


172 


C^c  Hitic^  of  tl)c  2Bcrhclcp^ 


1281 


Rot  :  walliffi.  14. 
E  :  I.  in  dorfo. 


CJ)C  xiij'^  of  June  in  the  xIij'^  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  fends  to  this  Lord  to 
meet  Edmond  Earle  of  Cornwall  his  vncle  at  GJoucefter  on  Midfomer  day  with  his 
hors  and  men,  decently  arrayed  for  the  warrs,  to  advife  with  him,  and  doe  as  hee 
fhall  require.    311nD  this  was  a  Journey  into  wales  againfl;  Refus  fonne  of  Mereduck. 


Pat:  17.  E:  I.  m:  7.  ^[n  06lober  in  the  xvij'^  of  his  raigne,  this  Lord  went  beyond  feas  to  the 

Amo  parrfm"?  ^^^^^  i"  France  in  the  retinue  of  Roger  Bigod  Earle  of  Norfolke  and  Marfhall  of 

comp:recept:  18.  England,   not  forgettinge  before  his  departure  his  protection   for  freedome  from 

Berkeley,  fuites  of  lawe,  from  the  xij*  of  that  Month  till  Eafter  following. 

Claus:  19.  E:  i.  SCltJj  fhortely  after  his  returne  (an  other  reward  of  more  then  a  yeares  fervace) 

'"'^'    the  kinge,  the  feaventh  of  June,  pardoned  to  him  fifty  markes,  the  halfe  of  his 

fol.   204  :   Vt  fupra.  ri-r-l  r        ^   ■       r,  •         -i       r 

fathers  releefe,  which  by  proces  out  of  the  Excheq^  were  for  his  Barony  required  of 
him  ;  whereof  I  have  given  a  touch  before. 

Chron  :  monad  :  ^[j^  the  xxiij'^  of  his  raigne,  Anno.  1 295 .  was  this  Lord  Thomas  fent  Embaffador 

cu  RoBto' Cotton    to  the  kinge  of  France,  then  holdinge  his  parliament  with  the  three  eflates  of  his 

baronetto.    Realme,  cum  alijs  viris  prudentibus  de  pace  traftaturis,  with  other  wife  men  to  treat 

of  peace,  with  that  kinge  and  State,  whoe  returned  without  effecting  theire  defires 

in  March  followinge.     And  about  the  fame  year  was  made  of  the  Kinge's  Privy 

Counfell. 

205  31'^  the  latter  end  of  Somer  in  the  faid  xxiij'.''  of  the  king,  was  a  great  |  Journey 

Rot :  walliae :  23.    into  Wales  for  the  extirpinge  of  that  nation,  had  it  bene  poffible.      The  generalls 

'  receof  ■    over  which  Army  feem  to  bee   Roger   Bigod  Earle  of  Norffolke  and   Marfhall  of 

eod  Anno  in  Caft    England  (a  great  familiar  freind  of  this  lords)  and  William  de  Valence  Earle  of 

Penbrooke  the  kings  vncle :  vnder  which  Earle  Marfhalls  regiment  was  this  lord 

Thomas,  (with  a  great  troup  of  his  owne,)  Maurice  his  eldefl  fonne,  Thomas  de 

Berkeley  his  fecond  fonne,  Rotit  de  Berkeley  this  Lords  vnckle  and  others  of  the 

familey  of  Berkeley  :  none  of  whome  omitted  theire  writs  of  prote6lion  to  preferve 

them  from  futes  till  Eafter  following. 


comp.  de 

Slirabridge.  25.  E: 

I.  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley, 
pat :  24.  E  :  I.  m  : 
19.  bis  in  eod  rot 


3ln  the  xxiiij*  of  King  Edward  the  firft  and  in  the  begining  of  his  xxv'!'  yeare, 
This  Lord  was  at  the  warrs  in  Scotland  and  feidge  of  Berwicke  with  both  his 
fonnes  Maurice  and  Thomas,  and  Thomas  fonne  of  Thomas  de  Berkeley  fenior  : 
from  whence  the  kinge  calleth  this  Lord  by  a  gracious  intreaty  the  fifteenth  of  May 
in  the  five  and  twentieth  of  his  raigne  to  accompany  him  into  France  ;  whither  hee 

paffed 


I  32  I 


Hifc  of  ^fiomajET  tf)c  .^cconD 


173 


paffcd  in  perfon  the  xxij'!"  of  Augufl.  following  with  a  puiflant  Army,  over  which  Rot.  protecf-on 

hee  made  this  Lord  Conftable,  which  honor  and  place  alone,  given  him  by  foe  able  m  :  3.  5. 

and  a(flive  a  kinge  (whoe  as  S'  W"'  Herie  cheife  Jiiflice  of  the  Court  of  Comon  Holling.  fol :  304. 

Pleas  in  the  tyme  of  King  Edward  the  third,  faid  was  the  wifefl;  kinge  that  ever  claus :  25.  E:  i. 

England  had)  then  in  perfon  proclaymeth  the  worth  of  this  Lord,  who  thereby  was  p 

made  fuperior  in  trufl  and  authority  to  many  princes  of  the  bloud,  and  great  peers 

then  in  the  Kings  Army. 

Chttt  Somer  beinge  fpent  in  warre,  the  kinge  and  his  Army  winter  in  Flanders    comp.  de  wotton 
.  .  „       .  .  .  .  26:  E:  I.  incaftrc 

and  returned  for  England  in  the  fpringe  followinge  with  this  Lord  his  Conftable,   de  Berkeley. 

whofe  laft  baytt  was  at  Symondfall  where  hee  refted  w'.*"  all  his  Carriages  the  night    Rot :  proteci;on 

before  hee  came  to  Berkeley  Caftle.     3llntl  in  the  retinue  of  this  Lord  went  Maurice 

his  eldeft  fonne,  Thomas  fonne  of  Thomas  de  Berkeley  which  was  his  fecond  fonne, 

and  many  other  gentleme  his  neighbors  here  named  in  this  record  :  31111  which  had 

theire  writs  of  protection  for  a  yeare  dated  in  July  and  Auguft  to  bee  free  from 

fuites  or  moleftations  in  theire  eftates  duringe  theire  fervices  in  theis  warres. 


25.  E  :  I.  pars 
m  :  3.  et  :  5. 


3llnb  vpon  the  kings  departure  (the  xxij'^  of  Auguft)  this  lord  reconciled  twelve    fi°=  ^5-  E:  i.  in.6. 

pat :  25. 
in  dorfo 


Reftors  and  Vicars  of  Churches  to  the  kings  favor,  which  they  and  others  had  loft    ^^^ '  ^^' 


in  refiftinge  his  defires  in  money  Matters,  whereof  the  Vicar  of  Berkeley  was  one. 
And  this  reconcilement  (fayth  the  record)  was  at  the  requeft  of  this  lord  Thomas.  | 

3i'n  June  in  the  xxvj'^  yeare  of  this  raigne  was  an  other  greate  voyage  into 
Scotland,  In  which  Army  vpon  the  kings  like  requeft  went  this  Lord  and  the  fayd 
Maurice  and  Thomas  his  fonnes,  (who  with  the  kinge  returned  out  of  France  but 
in  March  before,)  And  alfo  Robert  de  Berkeley  of  Arlingham  who  went  fomewhat 
before  with  .  2000 .  men  out  of  Gloucefterfliire  which  hee  by  Comiffion  had  there 
leavied  to  refift  the  Scots  till  the  kings  returne  and  cominge  thither,  'Sinil  three 
other  Berkeleys  of  this  family  nowe  went  alfo,  who  had  all  theire  feveraU  pro- 
tections from  futes  for  dets,  moleftations  in  theire  eftates,  or  otherwife,  whileft  they 
fhould  bee  abfent  in  the  kings  fervice  ;  3llt  this  tyme  it  was,  that  the  kinge  vpon 
Mary  Magdalens  day  wan  the  great  batt'le  of  Faulkirke,  where  more  then  20000 
Scots  were  flayne.  And  a  very  fmall  tyme  before  was  this  Lord  Thomas  at  the 
expugnation  of  Goodricke  Caftle  there,  from  whence  as  I  conceive,  hee  was  hither 
called. 


206 

Rot  :  Scotia;.  26. 
27.  E  :  I.  m  :  7. 
claus.  26.  E  :  i. 
dorfo  comp.  de 
Slimbridg.  25. 
26.  et  27.  E  :  1. 
in  Caftro  de 
Berkeley. 
Rot :  protedt :  26. 
E.  I.  in  dorfo. 
Comp.  de  Hame. 
26.  E:  I. 
Polich  :  lib  :  7. 
cap.  40. 

Stow  chron  :  cum 
How  et  divers  :  at: 


311nl>  the  xxij'!"  of  November  in  this  xxvj*  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  by  his  privy    Pat.  26  E.  i. 
Scale,  (whereto  the  Prince  his  fonne  was  witnes,)  in  recompence  of  the  good  Service    '°  "l'»™a. 

which 


174 


€J)e  HitJCiS  of  tJ)c  ^ethtkp0 


1281 


which  this  Lord  Thomas  did  vnto  the  kinge  whilefl  hee  was  with  him  in  Flanders, 
pardoned  him  fifty  markes  whereat  hee  was  amerced  before  Walter  de  Belle  campo 
and  others,  Comlffioners  for  trefpaffes  by  him  comitted  in  the  kinges  chace  neer 
Briftoll,  for  paym'  whereof  hee  had  put  in  five  fuerties  (here  mentioned)  who  are 
alfo  pardoned  ;  And  a  writ  is  direfted  to  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer  to  Acquite 
this  Lord  and  them  from  the  faid  dett  : 


claus:26:E:  i.  ^OlllC  fuch  huntinge  offence,  I  fuppofe,  it  was,  that  drewe  this  Lord  to  bee 

fuerty  for  the  fonne  and  heire  of  Thomas  the  fonne  of  Maurice  Berkeley  to  have 
him  forth  Cominge  what  tyme  the  kinge  would,  whom  hee  the  nynth  of  July 
appoints  to  bee  delivered  to  Margarett  wife  of  the  fayde  Thomas,  fonne  of  Maurice 
Berkeley  :  jpoc  certainly  never  were  more  flirringe  youthfull  Spirits  at  one  tyme 
togeather  of  this  familye  of  Berkeley,  then  nowe.  And  each  one  of  them  martially 
inclyned. 

Pat :  28.  E  :  i.  3Cllll  in  theis  tymes  an  amerciament  for  huntinge  or  killinge  a  Deere  in  any  of 

m  feperal.  membr.    ^^le  kings  Forrefls  or  chaces  was  vfually  an  hundred  pounds  vpon  an  offender, 
though  hee  were  but  of  reafonable  condition. 


Claus 


207 

27.  E:  I. 
in  dorfo. 


CljC  feaventh  of  May  in  the  xxvij""  of  his  raigne  the  kinge  writes  to  |  this  lord 
to  meet  him  at  Carleill  at  whitfon  tide  after,  fufficiently  armed  and  arrayed  for  the 
warrs  againft  the  Scots  :  51lnll  after  by  his  writt  the  xvj'^  of  July  prorogued  his 
cominge  till  the  fecond  of  Augufl  ;  And  by  a  third,  forbids  his  cominge  till  forty 
dayes  after  a  newe  Somons. 


3llnll  laftly  the  xvj'^  of  September  enioynes  him  to  bee  at  Yorke  the  morrowe 
et  at :  25.  E :  i.    g^f^gj.  Martlemas  day  being  the  xij'!'  of  November  whither  went  alfo  with  him  his 
forefayd  two  fonnes,  Maurice  and  Thomas,  and  all  the  other  of  that  firname,  as  in 
the  former  yeare. 


Scotiee  de  proteft. 

) :  I. 
bis, 


Pat  :  27.  E  ; 
m  :  3.  et 


3Ilnll  pro  fideli  fervicio  quod  dileftus  et  fidelis  nofter  Thomas  de  Berkeley 
nobis  impendit,  for  the  faythfull  feruice  which  our  beloued  and  faythfull  Thomas  de 
Berkeley  hath  done  vnto  us,  wee  doe  (25.  Marcij)  pardon  him  threefcore  and  five 
pound  which  hee  owed  us,  And  for  leavyinge  whereof  proces  out  of  our  Exchequer 
was  againft  him,  faith  this  record. 

CIjC  thirtieth  of  December  in  the  xxviij'I"  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  from  Ber- 
in  dorfo.    wick  fends  to  this  Lord  to  bee  with  him  at  Carleill  at  Midfomer  after  to  goe  againft 

the 


I32I 


Hifc  of  €t)oniti^  ti)c  ^rconb 


175 


the  Scotts  his  enemies  and  Rebells  :   And  dire(5ls  other  writts  to  the  Sherife  of 

Gloucefter,  That  every  man  that  can  difpend  forty  pound  land,  fhould  at  the  fame 

tyme  come  with  this  Lord  and  John  Ap-Adam  Lord  of  Beverfton,  for  that  (faith    Rot :  claus.  p'did : 

the  writ)  hee  was  not  able  lunger  to  forbeare  the  malice,  iniuryes,  and  rebellions  of 

the  Scots  :  Co  which  effedl  the  kinge  the  fecond  tyme  writes  a  few  weekes  after. 


3!n  this  x.\viij'^  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne  was  the  famous  feidge  and  expug- 
nation  of  the  Caftle  of  Carelaveroke  held  inexpugnable,  whereat  were  the  kinge 
with  the  prince  his  eldefl:  fonne,  And  this  Lord  Thomas  with  his  eldefl  fonne 
Maurice,  and  Thomas  and  John  his  fecond  and  third  fonnes  :  And  here  were  alfo 
Robert  de  Berkeley,  Thomas  fonne  of  Thomas  de  Berkeley  and  others  of  theire 
name  and  alliance  :  Each  of  whom  had  theire  feverall  writts  of  protec^iion  and 
defence,  for  all  theire  lands,  goods,  chatties,  and  of  freedome  from  fuites,  and 
iniuries  at  home,  whileft  they  fhould  bee  with  the  kinge  in  his  warrs  abrode. 


Orig  :  manufcr  : 
cum  witto  Neve 
de  Aflaflon  in 
CO.  NorfT : 
prote6lion.  et 
attorn.  Scot.  28. 
E:  I. 

comp  :  recept.  28. 
E :  I.  in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


3[n  the  xxix'.''  of  his  raigne  from  the  Parliament  at  Lincolne  the  xiiij'^  of 
February,  the  kinge  fends  to  this  Lord  to  provide  againft  Midfomer  followinge  to 
goe  with  him  againfl  the  Scots  ad  reprimendam  rebellionem  et  proterviam  Scotor, 
intendens  finalit^r  procedere,  to  repreffe  the  rebellion  and  infolency  of  the  Scots, 
purpofmg  finally  to  ]  deftroy  them,  3tni>  the  xij'!"  of  the  next  Month  fends  to  this 
Lord  agayne  to  meet  him  at  Berwicke  at  Midfomer  after  withall  his  power.  And  for 
ought  I  have  obferved  to  the  contrary  this  was  as  great  and  generall  Sommons  into 
all  Sheires  of  this  kingdome  as  remayneth  of  recorde.  51In&  accordingly  this  lord 
maketh  greater  preparation  then  in  any  former  expedition  of  his  life  ;  3llnD  confcious 
of  the  kings  intent,  in  fteed  of  a  will,  by  his  deed  dated  the  firft  of  Auguft  in  this 
xxix'!*  yeare,  difpofed  of  his  worldly  affaires  ;  in  this  fort  fetlinge  his  eftate.  To 
Maurice  his  eldefl;  fonne  hee  giveth  for  his  life  his  Manners  of  Wotton,  and  Wotton 
Burrowe,  with  the'faire  and  Marketts  thereof,  Simondfall,  and  Hinton,  and  the 
profitts  of  all  his  lands  in  Came,  Cowley  and  Slimbridge,  with  his  woods  of  Came 
and  Cowley,  his  Manor  of  Portbury  and  all  his  fifhings  in  Erlingham,  lately  pur- 
chafed  of  his  brother  Robert,  payeinge  to  himfelfe  one  hundred  and  twenty  pownds 
by  the  yeare  :  SCntl  to  his  fonne  James  thirty  pound  by  the  yeare  vntill  hee  were 
promoted  to  an  ecclefiafticall  lyvinge  of  forty  pownds  per  Annu  :  3lln&  to  his  other 
fonne  John  twenty  pounds  per  Ann  :  (who  this  voyage  attended  his  Father).  311n& 
to  his  daughter  Ifabell  fower  pounds  per  Ann  :  3llnb  to  five  of  his  fervants  (particu- 
larly named)  five  markes  the  peece  :  And  to  five  poore  Schollers  the  like  :  3CnD  foe 
likewife  to  the  fr)'ars  minors,  and  fryars  preachers  at  Gloucefter,  As  by  the  deed, 

ftoared 


claus  :  29  :  E:  I 
in  dorfo. 


208 

How  :  fol :  208. 
Hollings :  fo :  309 
et  at : 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


Anno  29. 


HoUing.  311. 


176 


€f)c  %i\ic0  of  tljc  -25crftdcp]tf 


1281 


ftoared  with  other  Hke  Hberalities,  appeareth.  Ci)C  warr  contynueth  all  the  Somer 
of  that  xxix'''  yeare  :  The  kinge  with  his  Army  wintred  in  Scotland,  where  hee 
found  fuch  want  of  forrage,  as  many  of  the  great  horfes  of  his  Army  perifhed  in 
that  needy  and  colde  Clymate. 

Hollinfli:  311:  ^jjj.  fpringe  approachinge,  the  king,  having  fuffered  many  winterly  difcomo- 

dityes,  harkened  to  the  motion  and  fute  of  his  brother  in  lawe  the  French  kinge, 
(whofe  fifter  Margarett  hee  had  marryed  two  yeares  before)  made  in  the  behalfe  of 
the  diflreffed  Scotts,  And  foe  with  a  truce  till  All  Saints  followinge,  that  warr 
ceafed,  And  this  Lord,  w""  his  fonne  John  returned  for  Berkeley. 


Hollingfh:fo:3o9. 

3IO- 
Orig.  in  Socio. 

209 

The  lo :  Berkley 

is  the  sy'.''  and 

Roger  de  la  Ware 

the  Ji'.*"  in  theire 

ranck,  now  crept 

before  him  in 

precedency. 


Dan  :  168. 


3fn  this  xxix"^  yeare  of  this  Kings  ralgne,  Anno.  1300.  was  holden  A  Parlia- 
ment at  Lincolne  from  whence  proceeded  that  remarkeable  letter,  dated  the  xij'^  of 
February,  written  from  one  hundred  and  fower|of  the  Englifli  temporall  nobility 
thereat  affembled,  to  pope  Boniface,  in  anfwere  of  his  to  the  kinge,  touchinge  the 
kings  iurifdiftion  and  Soveraignty  over  Scotland  :  The  pope  required  the  kinge  not 
onely  to  releafe  fuch  Scottifh  prifoners  as  hee  had  taken,  but  to  give  over  thofe 
warrs  which  hee  made  againfl  the  Realme  of  Scotland,  And  to  followe  his  clayme 
theirto,  if  hee  had  any,  in  the  Court  of  Rome,  the  proper  place  for  decidinge  fuch 
controverfies  ;  The  rather  alfo  for  that  the  Realme  of  Scotland  was  furrendred  into 
his  hands  by  the  generall  confent  of  the  Scots,  And  that  therefore  it  was  in  the 
power  of  his  holines  to  beftowe  and  take  awaye  the  fame  to  whom  or  from  whom- 
foever  it  fhould  pleafe  him  :  C|)C  originall  duplicat  of  this  letter  remayneth  vnder 
the  proper  Seales.  of  the  fayd  Earles  and  Barons  in  the  Abbathy  of  Weftminfler 
amongft  the  records  there  kept,  which  befides  the  number  of  the  Nobility,  theire 
names,  additions  of  places,  and  honor,  Seales,  and  precedency,  of  the  Englifh 
nobility,  which  it  excellentlye  fetteth  out,  flieweth  alfo  the  noble  magnanimity  and 
largenes  of  courage  that  then  lived  in  the  brefts  of  thofe  Nobles,  And  the  fmall 
regarde,  even  in  thofe  tymes  of  darkeft  devotion,  they  had  of  the  popes  comands 
or  thunder  of  excomunication  in  temporall  caufes  ;  wherein,  in  the  behalfe  of  them- 
felves,  and  of  the  wholl  Cominalty  of  England,  they  avowe  theire  kings  right  to 
the  Soveraignty  of  that  kingdome  :  3lntl  abfolutely  conclude,  That  the  kinge  their 
Lord  fhould  in  noe  fort  vndergoe  his  holines  Judgment  therein,  neyther  fliould  fend 
his  procurators  about  that  bufmes,  neither  would  they  permit  any  fuch  proceedinge 
which  might  bee  preiudiciall  to  the  Crowne  or  royall  dignitye,  or  to  the  Cuftomes 
or  lawes  of  England  :  Neither  would  they  fuffer  their  kinge,  if  hee  would,  to  doe 
or  in  any  way  to  attempt  the  fame,  5lnb  therefore  prayed  his  holynes  to  meddle  noe 

more 


Hifc  of  <rf)onMa"  tl)c  ^ccoitO 


•77 


more  in  that  matter  which  appcrtayncd  not  vnto  him  :  IDfjicf)  indeed,  hee  did  not, 
nor  would  further  provoke  fuch  heroicke  fplrits,  And  what  after  fucceeded,  followeth 
in  the  lamentable  ftory  of  that  nation,  and  in  the  next  imployments  of  this  Lord. 


^fje  truce  with  the  Scots  is  expired,  the  Somer  approacheth.  The  kinge  fends 
the  Lord  John  Segrave,  with  whom  goes  this  Lord  Thomas,  Maurice  and  John  his 
fonnes,  with  a  greate  Army  |  into  Scotland,  as  warden  thereof,  who,  (though  a  right 
valiant  Leader)  by  the  incircumfpe<fl  dividinge  of  his  Army  into  three  parts  (foe 
farr  removed  as  none  could  helpe  the  other)  is  defeated  in  battaile,  and  taken 
prifoner,  yet  fore  wounded  was  refcued  by  chance  :  The  Kinge  of  England  is 
inraged  And  the  next  fomer  (which  was  in  the  xxxi'^  of  his  raigne)  invadeth  Scot- 
land in  perfon  with  a  powerfull  Army,  And  in  revenge  of  the  death  of  his  men,  and 
the  defeat  of  the  Lord  Segrave,  pearceth  through  the  wholl  kingdome  of  Scotland, 
as  farr  as  Cathnes  in  the  farthefl  parts  thereof :  wintereth  in  Scotland  ;  befeidgeth 
and  taketh  the  Caftle  of  Stryvelyne  ;  And  then  returneth  for  England  with  this 
Lord  Thomas,  whofe  retynue  in  this  warr  was  great,  accompanyed  alfo  with  his 
fonnes  Maurice,  Thomas,  and  John,  and  twoe  others  of  his  name,  all  that  winter 
alfo  with  the  kinge  and  their  father  in  Scotland.  3intl  noe  fooner  returned  to 
Wotton  with  his  great  horfes  (as  fpeaketh  the  Accompt  of  that  Manor)  but  hee 
hafleth  to  the  Jufls  and  Turniament  holden  at  Worcefter. 

3[n  which  voyages  none  of  them  omitted  to  have  their  feverall  writs  of  pro- 
tection, for  refpite  of  dets  they  owed,  and  freedome  from  fuites,  fome  of  which, 
bare  Tefte  at  Stryvelyne,  Kinles,  and  Perth  in  Scotland,  others  at  Berwicke,  and 
other  places  in  England  ;  To  which  kind  of  forren  Rolls  kept  in  the  Tower  of 
London,  and  to  the  houfehold  Accompts  of  this  Lord,  I  confeffe  to  owe  much  for 
the  certainty  of  theis  relations. 


Holling  :  fo  :  31 1 . 
et  niulti  alij. 

210 

claus:  30:  E  :  i. 
m  :  7. 

protecft :  et  alton. 
30:  E  ;  I.  m.  I.  10. 


comp  :  de  wotton 
32.  E  :  I.  in  cafl. 
de  Berkeley. 
Stow.  209. 
Tho  :  de  la  More. 
Rot :  protedl :  et 
atton  :  31.  E  :  i. 
m  17.  10. 
comp  :  recept.  32. 
E  :  I.  in  Cafl.ro 
de  Berkeley. 


3in  the  xxxiij'!'  of  the  kings  raigne,  aryfeth  a  great  controverfy  between  this 
Lord  and  his  eldeft  fonne  Maurice  on  the  one  part.  And  the  Towne  of  Briftoll  of 

the  other  part  :  vpon  often  hearinge  and  examination  whereof,  both  in  Parliament  Pat:  33.  E:  i. 

and  before  the  kinge  and  his  Counfell,  and  the  Juflices  Itinerant  at  Gloucefter,  this  P?"^^'  ''  '"  '^°^^" 
Lord  and  his  fonne  and  theire  men  were  fined  at  one  thowfand  markes,  as  amongfl; 

the  lawe  fuites  of  this  Lord  after  followeth:  This  fine,  and  thofe  foule  mifdemeanors,  Pat :  34.  E  :  i. 

the  kinge  in  July  in  the  xxxiiij'^  of  his  raigne,  pardons,  in  confideracon  that  this  ciaus  •  ^4  E  •  i 

Lord  fhould  find  the  kinge  ten  Armed  horfmen  at  his  owne  Charges  to  attend  him  dorfo. 

in  his  prefent  Army  then  goeinge  into  Scotland  againfte  Robert  Brufe  the  Traytor,  'Tnn  : rec  : inrem: 

2  A  there  34  E  :  i. 


178 


Cljc  %i\it0  of  t^c  2&crhdcp^ 


1281 


trae  protedl :  34. 
E  :  I.  m.  2.  et 
poftea 


Buchannan  et  at : 


there  to  contynue  from  S!  Lawrance  daye  next,  as  longe  as  the  Kinge  fliould 
211  perfonally  bee  in  Scotland,  |  vnder  the  condud  of  Thomas  Berkeley  his  fonne  or 
carta  in  Sccio  fome  Other  Captayne,  And  tooke  bonnd  accordingly  by  obligation,  which  yet 
remayneth  with  the  aforefayd  Condicbn  endorfed  :  And  accordingly,  Thomas  the 
fonne  went.  And  fo  alfo  did  this  lord  his  father,  and  his  elder  brother  Maurice,  and 
foe  greate  a  Number  of  remarkeable  Englifh  more  with  the  kinge  in  this  xxxiiij'^  of 
his  raigne,  as  the  names  of  thofe  that  had  protecflions  for  the  tymes  of  their  beinge 
with  the  Kinge  in  this  warre,  take  vp  twelve  rolls  of  parchment  :  And  the  warre  it 
Boetius  felfe  foe  blouddye  and  difaflerous  to  the  Scotifli  Nation,  That  theire  hiftories  com- 
playne,  That  kinge  Edward  carryed  away  captive  all  fuch  as  had  any  the  leaft 
ability  to  ftirr  :  endeavoured  to  extinguifh  the  very  memory  of  theire  Nation : 
abolifhed  all  their  antient  lawes  ;  difpoyled  them  of  theire  hifloryes  ;  theire  writings 
of  State,  and  theire  antient  monuments  ;^  tranfported  theire  bookes  and  booke  men 
into  England,  Sent  to  London  theire  Marble  Stone,  wherein  confifled  the  fate  of 
theire  kingdome  :  leaft  them  noethinge  that  might  either  incite  them  to  remember 
theire  former  fortune,  or  inftru6l  generous  fpirits  in  the  way  of  vertue  and  worthy- 
nes  :  Soe  that  hee  bereaved  them  not  onely  of  theire  ftrength  but  of  theire  mindes 
alfo  with  other  bitter  exclamations  ;  whereto  that  watchfull  and  eager  kinge  in  the 
inlargement  of  his  power,  gave  them,  perhaps,  caufe  iuft  enough.  |PcitI)CC  defifted 
vntill  hee  had  inclofed  this  vowe  in  his  bofome,  That  alive  and  dead  hee  would 
further  bee  revenged  on  the  periured  Scots  ;  Adiuringe  both  his  fonne  and  nobles, 
(whereof  this  Lord  was  one,)  in  a  folemne  affembly  vpon  theire  fealty.  That  if  hee 
dyed  (as  hee  did)  before  that  martiall  vowe  performed,  they  fhould  carry  his  body 
vn-interred  in  theire  warres  till  the  fame  were  accomplifhed.  511llt>  howe  farr  in  a 
blouddy  Conqueft,  made  by  the  fword,  many  yeares  togeather  vnflieathed,  hee  had 
proceeded,  may  be  gathered  by  the  title  of  his  writs  and  fomons  of  Parliam'  in  the 
three  and  thirtieth  yeare  of  his  raigne,  which  was  affembled,  pro  ftabilimento  terrae 
ScoticC,  for  the  eflablifhment  of  Scotland,  which  the  king  had  conquered.  | 


claus  :  33:  E  :  i. 
in  dorfo  : 


claus  : 
fin: 


.2X2 

34-  et  35. 
E:  I. 

35-  E:  I. 


3[n  February  in  the  five  and  thirtieth  of  his  raigne  was  the  Parliament  held  at 
Carlile  in  the  North  :  which  being  ended,  the  kinge,  (accompanied  with  this  Lord 

and 
1  In  the  Introdudlion  to  the  Calendar  of  Documents  relating  to  Scotland  (8^?,  1881,)  Edited  by 
Mr.  J.  Bain,  and  publiflied  by  the  Authority  of  the  Lords  CommifTioners  of  Her  Majefly's  Treafury, 
this  fubje(5l  is  difcufled  at  fome  length.  It  is  there  (hewn  (pp.  vj-viij)  that  an  Inventory  made  in  1282  of 
fundry  bulls,  charters,  and  other  muniments,  then  in  the  King's  Treafury  at  Edinburgh,  and  three  years 
before  the  death  of  Alexander  III,  had  been  by  hiflorians  confounded  with  the  Records  themfelves.  It 
was  this  Inventory  only  that  reached  the  Englifh  Exchequer.  There  is  not  a  particle  of  evidence  (con- 
cludes Mr.  Bain)  that  any  fuch  documents  as  thofe  laft  were  ever  transferred  to  England  at  all,  and  (lill 
lefs  that  they  were  dellroycd  by  Edward  the  Firfl.     [Ed.I 


I32I 


Hifc  of  "Tlioma^  tftc  i&cconb 


179 


and  his  faid  fonnes  Maurice  and  Thomas,)  prepareinj^e  to  goe,  or  rather  (as  the 
record  faith)  then  goeing  againll  the  Scots  perfidity,  dyeth  by  Carlile  the  feaventh 
of  July.  1307.  when  this  Lord  and  William  de  Geynfljorough  Bifhop  of  Worcefter, 
with  Maurice  this  Lords  eldefl  fonne,  were  vpon  theire  Journey  (as  Ambaffadors 
from  the  kinge)  towards  the  Court  of  Rome  in  profecution  of  thofe  affaires  of  ftate, 
which  were  betwene  Phillip  kinge  of  France  and  him  :  Ci)Cp  were  difpatched  by 
the  kinge  from  Carlile  the  xxviij*  of  June,  then  alfo  receyving  theire  letters  of  fafe 
condu6l  generally,  for  theire  good  entertainm'  and  ufage  vpon  theire  waye  to  Rome 
for  themfelves  and  theire  familyes  :  And  the  daye  before  had  theire  feverall  pro- 
tedions  vnder  the  privy  feale,  which  being  to  endure  but  till  the  feafl  of  All  Saints 
after,  declared  theire  haft  was  vrged :  Howbeit  had  not  theire  difpatche  for  in- 
flru<ftions,  nor  letters  of  Credence  to  the  pope,  till  the  fifth  of  July,  And  the  fecond 
daye  after  dyed  the  kinge  :  23ut  whether  they  went  to  Rome  or  not,  or  whether 
they  were  recalled  or  returned  of  themfelves  through  the  kings  death,  or  what 
divertion  might  happen  by  the  death  of  the  fayd  Bifhop  of  Worcefter  at  Berlacm 
within  the  yeare  foUowinge,  through  theire  Joynt  authority,  I  have  not  found. 


Rot :  Romre.  3.}. 
et  35.  E  :  I.  m  :  2. 


Pat :  3S-  E  :  m.  8. 


tree  protedl :  34. 
et  35.  E  :  I.  m:  2. 


Rot :  Romae  :  35. 
E  :  I.  memb  :  2. 

Rot :  Romae.  i.  2. 
3.  E:  2. 
Godwin  fo  :  443. 


25ut  the  date  of  this  Lords  writ  being  the  xxvj'.''  of  Augufl  folowinge  to  come    daus :  i  :  E :  2. 
to  the  parliament  to  bee  holden  Ouindena  Michis  after  May  make  vs  thincke,  that    '"  '^°'''^- 
hee  was  then  returned. 


3Ilnll  the  xviij'*"  of  January  then  after,  had  his  writ  to  bee  prefent  at  the  newe    eodem. 
kings  Coronation  the  Sunday  after  S'  Valentines  daye.  And  likewife  an  other  writ, 
dated  the  Nynth  of  Marche  followinge,  to  bee  at  the  Parliament  to  bee  holden 
Quindena  Pafche  next  enfueinge. 

3Cnb  the  xxj'.*"  of  June  followinge,  being  towards  the  latter  end  of  the  new  kings    eodem  : 
firft  yeares  raigne,  the  kinge  fomoned  this  Lord  by  his  writt,  to  bee  with  him  Armed 
and  furniOied  at  Carleill  the  Odlaves  |  of  the  Affumption  of  our  Lady,  then  the    213 
xxij'!*  of  Auguft  next  followinge,  to  goe  againft  Robert  le  Brus  of  Scotland. 

3Cnt>  in  the  meane  while,  the  king   In  January  in  the  fayd  firft  yeare  of  his  Pat:  i  :  E  :  2. 

raigne,  makinge  a  ftiort  Journey  into  France,  this  Lord  and  his  twoe  fonnes  Maurice  comp^  re"cep*t  dni 

and  John,  went  thither  with  him.  As  by  their  feverall  writs  of  proted^ion  and  free-  eodem  anno  in 
dome  from  fuites.  Dated  at  Dover  the  xvj'.''  of  the  faid  January  may  appeare,  the  ™  '^  ^^  ^^^ 

king  then  prefent. 

C!)C  xvj'!"  of  Auguft   in  the  fecond  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  king  fends  his    Claus :  2.  E  :  2. 
feverall  writs  to  this  Lord  and  to  Maurice  his  eldeft  fonne,  ftiewinge  that  at  the  laft    ™  '  ^  '""^ 
2  A  2  parliament 


i8o  €|jc  Slibcjf  of  tijc  25crhricp^  1281 

parliament  begun  after  his  coronation,  by  reafon  of  intervenient'  occafions,  many 
thinges  of  great  importance  remayned  vndetermined,  nowe  hee  wills  them  to  bee 
with  him  at  his  parliam'  to  bee  holden  at  Weftminfter  in  tres  [  ]  Mictiis 

next  ad  confulendum  inter  magnates  regni  fui  : 

CljUiSf  comes  Maurice  firfl  in  to  bee  a  Baron. 

claus:  2.  E:  2.  €i)C  viij'^  of  January  in  the  fecond  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  fends  to  this  Lord 

"^'  '"^    and  to  divers  other  fpetiall  fele6l  Peeres  of  the  Nobilitye  to  bee  with  him  at  Wefl- 
in  Caft.ro  de  Berk!    minfler  the  fecond  Sundaye  in  Lent,  to  advife  about  the  great  affaires  of  the  land, 
And  accordingly  hee  goes. 

claus  •  2.  E  ■  2  in  ^&^  ^'^^^  ^f  June  in  the  fame  fecond  yeare,  the  kinge  writes  to  this  Lord  and 

dorfo:  alfoe  to  his  fonne  the  Lord  Maurice,  to  bee  with  him  at  his  Parliament  at  Stamford, 
to  bee  holden  the  Sunday  after  S'  James  daye  to  advife  about  his  enemyes  the 
Scots,  becaufe  the  tyme  of  truce  being  now  expired,  which  by  mediation  of  the 
French  kinge  hee  had  taken  with  them,  they  had  invaded  his  Townes,  burnt  & 
deftroyed  his  people  &c. 

J-  ■     ,    r  5llnll  the  twentieth  of  the  fame  June  the  kinge  writes  agayne  to  them  both, 

willinge  them  accordinge  to  the  Ordinance  of  his  firfl  parliament,  to  bee  ready 
with  horfe  and  Armes,  to  goe  with  him  from  Stamford  againfl  the  Scots,  accordinge 
as  it  fhall  there  bee  agreed  vpon  in  their  conferences  togeather. 

,      ,      p..  3IlnlJ  the  xxix'^  of  July  beinge  in  the  third  of  his  raigne,  from  Stamford,  after 

a  fhort  confultation  there,  the  king  fends  out  his  writs  to  this  Lord  Thomas,  and 

214    to  the  Lord  Maurice  his  fonne,  to  bee  w"*  him  at  Newe  |  Caftle  vpon  Tine,  on 

Michaelmas  daye  after  to  goe  againft  the  Scots,  who  perfideoufly  had  broken  the 

eod  in  dorfo.  Truce  and  murdered  his  fubie6ls,  3©I)tCl)  fervice  by  other  writs  vnto  them  the  xi'^ 
of  Septemb'  following,  was  further  prorogued  till  the  morrowe  after  all  Sowles 
day.  5llnll  the  xxvj'^  of  Otlob",  the  Kinge  then  in  his  way  towards  the  Scotch 
Warrs  (as  was  thought)  fends  his  new  writ's  to  this  Lord  and  the  Lord  Maurice 
his  fonne,  to  bee  with  him  at  Yorke  at  his  Parliament  there  to  bee  holden  the 
Morrowe  after  Candlemas  daye,  to  confult  for  repreffmg  the  vnfufferable  damages 

eod  in  dorfo.  and  murders  comitted  by  Robt  de  Brus  and  his  Scotts  :  2E»Ut  by  other  writts  the 
xij'!*  of  December  they  were  directed  to  bee  at  Weflminfter  the  fayd  daye,  whither 
the  parliam'  (firfl  appoynted  for  Yorke)  was  nowe  prorogued ;  'CtjU^Sf  vnder  a  weake 
kinge  wavered  the  great  affayres  of  State.  CI^C 


1 32 1  Hifc  of  "Tftonuifif  tl)c  i&cconb 

CljC  xj'^  of  May  followinge,  this  Lord  Thomas  was  prefent  at  Woodflocke,  and    ^oi  ■ 
a  witnes  to  the  kinges  delivery  of  his  greate  Scale,  to  Ingelard  de  Warleigh  whom 
then  hee  made  his  Chancellor. 


CljC  xxviij'!"  of  May  and  the  xviij'^  of  June  followinge  in  the  fayd  third  yeare,  Claus:  3:  E:  2. 
the  king  fent  to  this  Lord  Thomas,  and  to  the  Lord  Maurice  his  fonne,  and  to  one 
hundred  thirty  and  five  other  Barons  and  Earles,  befides  Bifliopps  and  Abbotts,  to 
bee  with  him  well  Armed  with  horfe  and  foote,  at  Berwicke  in  the  feafl;  of  the 
Nativity  of  our  Lady  next  (the  viij*  of  September,  Anno  quarto)  to  goe  with  him 
againfl  Robert  de  Brus  king  of  Scots  his  mortall  enemy,  who  had  entred  his  land, 
taking  his  Caftles  and  Townes  and  deftroyed  his  people,  committinge  dayly 
murders,  burnings,  and  depredations,  which  hee  is  not  ignorant  of  ;  wherefore 
intendinge  to  repreffe  thofe  infolencies,  and  to  recover  backe  what  Robert  de  Brus 
hath  taken:  Therefore  not  to  fayle  to  meet  him,  cum  equis  et  armis  quanto  potentius 
poterint,  prompti  et  bene  parati :  &c.  with  hors  and  Armes  as  powerfully  as  they  can 
provide,  ready  and  prepared  to  goe  with  the  kinge  as  aforefaid,  which  they  performed: 


clans  :  4.  E  :  2. 
in  dorfo. 


Rot :  Scotia  :  4  : 
E:  2. 

comp.garderob.  in 
Caftro  de  Berkeley 
eod :  Anno. 


3fintl  then  fent  further  to  this  lord,  appoyntinge  him  to  take  the  mufters  for  the 
County  of  Gloucefler,  And  to  fee  all  the  foote  of  the  County  to  bee  well  Armed  for 
his  Journey  againft  the  Scots:  jfot  which  expedition  that  County  furnifhed  at  twice. 
1430  quarters  of  wheate  :  630  quarters  of  Gates,  and  340  quarters  of  beanes  and 
peafe  :  The  fucceffe  the  Comon  Cronicles  in  print  declare.  | 


Stnll  the  xxviij •^  of  July  in  the  fixth  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  declares  how 
hee  had  fent  to  this  Lord,  and  to  Willington  and  Maunfell  two  knights,  to  mufter 
and  Arme  in  the  County  of  Gloucefler,  five  hundred  foot  men  for  his  warrs  in 
Scotland,  whereof  the  greateft  part  to  bee  taken  out  of  the  Forrefl  of  Deane,  And 
this  to  have  bene  with  him  at  Rokefburrowe  the  firft  of  Auguft  followinge  in  the 
fixth  of  his  raigne. 


215 

Rot :  Scotiae.  5.  et 
6.  E:  2.  ra.  vlt. 


SUntJ  that  whereas  they  had  fent  part  of  thofe  men,  and  neglefted  the  refidue ; 
■C!)C  kinge  nowe  required  Nicholas  de  Kingfton,  That  hee  fhould  take  to  him,  which 
of  the  forenamed  three,  (i  Berkeley,  2  Willington,  or  3  Maunfell)  hee  held  to  bee 
mofl  faythfull  to  his  Crowne,  And  to  rayfe  and  Arme  the  refidue  without  fayle ;  3lllltl 
writes  alfo  of  all  this  matter  to  the  Sherife  of  Gloucefterfhire,  And  that  hee  fhould 
compell  thofe  foot  foe  chofen,  to  come  forward  for  his  warrs,  And  if  any  of  them 
refufed  to  arreft  them  as  Rebells  ;  25ut  I  doe  not  find  that  either  this  Lord  or  his 

fonne 


l82 


Cfic  Hibc^  of  tlje  25erhricpjei 


1281 


Daniell. 

chron :  de  Hales 
manufcript. 


Rot :  Scotiae.  7. 
E:  2. 


called  the  Battle 
of  Strivelinge. 

comp.  de  wotton. 

10  :  E  :  2  :  et  de 

Portbury.  7.  E  :  2. 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkley  : 

216 

Rollings:  fo:  322. 

Polich  :  lib  :  7. 

cap  :  41. 

Fabian  chron. 

Caxton  et  alij. 


Glaus :  7.  E :  2 
in  dorfo : 


Helin  geograph. 


fonne  or  any  of  his  name,  were  fent  vnto,  or  went  this  Journey  towards  Scotland: 
3llntl  caufe  there  is  to  thinke  that  they  difliked  the  prefent  government'  and  greatnes 
of  the  two  Spenfers,  that  nowe  immoderately  grew  vp,  which  yet  they  carryed  warily. 

3[t  feemes  the  delight  the  kinge  tooke  in  Peirs  Gavefton  the  Gafcoigne,  gave 
difcontent  to  the  Nobles  at  home,  and  fuch  peace  and  reft  to  the  Scots  abrode, 
notwithftandinge  the  fhewes  and  Flaflies  of  warrs  that  had  bene  in  five  or  fix  yeares 
paft,  prefented  againft  them,  That  findinge  withall  the  Englifh  ftate  to  bee  difeafed, 
(as  in  truth  it  was,)  and  the  head  weake,  they  entred  the  Marches,  and  foe  farr 
wafted  Northumberland,  That  the  Outcryes  of  the  people,  and  the  diflionor  of  the 
kingdome,  drewe  the  kinge  to  take  Armes  for  redreffe ;  And  to  bring  togeather  an 
Army  of  one  hundred  thoufand  of  Englifh  and  other  nations,  (fome  Scotifii  Hiftories 
more  then  doublinge  that  number,)  Amongft  whome  was  this  Lord,  and  the  Lord 
Maurice  and  Thomas  his  fonnes  with  many  of  their  knights  and  Efquires  ;  A 
bloudy  battle  is  ftroake  at  Bannocks  Burrough  in  Scotland,  The  Englifh  loft  the 
day  :  more  of  whom  the  Scottifh  fword  devoured  then  theire  Army  confifted  of 
befides  greate  Numbers  of  the  Englifh  Nobility  and  others  taken  prifoners, 
Amongft  whom  was  this  Lord  Thomas  and  his  fonne  Thomas  (Maurice  efcapinge;) 
which  happened  in  Midfomer  day  in  the  |  Seaventh  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne, 
Anno .  1 3 14.  vpon  which  battle  the  Scots  thus  fcofifingly  rymed  : 

Maydens  of  Inglond  fore  may  yee  mourne, 

For  your  Leomans  ye  haue  loft  at  Bannockfborne. 
with  heve  aloe : 

What  weneth  the  Kinge  of  Inglond, 

So  foone  to  have  wonne  Scotland 

with  Rumbiloe. 

I^Otobctt  the  fame  day  this  battle  was  ftroke,  there  iffued  from  the  kinge  a 
fpetiall  comannd  vnder  feale  dated  at  Berwike  to  this  Lord  Thomas,  requyringe 
him.  That  fetting  afide  all  other  bufines  whatfoever  hee  fhould  bee  before  the  kings 
Counfell  within  fifteene  dayes  after  to  goe  beyond  Seas  in  the  kings  affaires,  as  then 
it  fhould  bee  enioyned  vnto  him  ;  And  to  performe  this  as  hee  loved  the  kinge  and 
his  honor,  and  would  avoyd  his  indignation  :  whereby  it  feemes,  the  ftate  purpofed 
to  keepe  him  from  Idlenes  :  25ut  his  captivity  prevented  that  attendance.  And  I 
beleeve  the  receipt  of  that  writ  alfo. 

'd^i^ef  great  defeat,  wherein  the  kinge  himfelfe  hardly  efcaped  by  flight,  put 
Scotland  both  into  Armes  and  wealth  and  revenged  (by  the   overthrowe  of  the 

greateft 


I32I 


Slifc  of  €\ioma^  tl^  Second 


i«3 


greatert;  Army  that  ever  the  Englifli  brought  into  the  feild)  the  meafurc  of  theire 
bloud,  which  formerly  had  bene  fpilt  by  the  kings  Father:  5It  foe  much  difcouraged 
this  kingdome,  That  for  many  yeares  it  wrought  not  any  great  revenge : 


2nj)C  cheefeft  care  was  to  fortifie  the  bordures  vnder  the  Charge  and  Care  of  Walfmgham 
the  moft  valiant  Captaynes  that  remayned  vnflayne,  nor  taken  prifoners,  nor  daunted 
or  deieifted  ;  (for  nowe,  a  facie  duo?  vel  trium  Scotorum  fugcrunt  Angli  centum, 
three  Scots  would  nowe  Chace  an  hundred  Englilh  borderers,  as  Walfmgham  hath): 
IOt)Craipon  the  Lord  Maurice  Berkeley  eldeft  fonne  of  this  Lord  Thomas,  for  his 
valor  and  experience  was  fhortly  after  made  governor  of  the  Caflle  and  Towne  of 
Berwick,  a  peece  of  moft;  high  importance,  And  mofl  likely  out  of  the  humor  of  the 
Scots,  nowe  highly  elevated,  to  bee  firfl  attempted,  whereby  appeares  the  miflake 
of  Hollingefhead  in  his  chronicle,  fayinge.  That  amongft  many  thoufands  of  Englifh 
flaine  at  this  battle,  this  Lord  Maurice  Berkeley  was  one.  | 


Rot :  Scotiae.  8.  E: 

2  m.  7  in  turre 

londini. 

Hillar  :  rec  :  in 

Sccio  6  :  E:  3. 

cum  reffi  thefaur 

rot 

Hollings;  fo:  322. 


Cl)i|$  lord  Thomas  thus  a  prifoner,  (whom  Hollingfhead  by  an  other  miftake    217 
calleth  Maurice,)  procureth  the  redemption  of  his  fonne  Thomas  And  difpatcheth    See  Holligs:  322. 
him  into  Glouceflerfhire  and  other  places  for  rayfmg  of  money  for  his  owne  redemp-    comp:  de  wotton 
tion,  which  hee  foe  effe6lually  labored,  (this  Lords  Tenants  by  theire  benevolence    ponbury  7.  E:  2. 
aydinge  therevnto,)  That  in  the  yeare  followinge  hee  came  to  Berwike,  where  hee    in  Callro  de  Berk : 
found  the  Lord   Maurice  his  eldefl  fonne  newly  placed  governor  ;  And  after  to 
Berkeley  Caflle  ;  towards  whofe  redemption,  his  Copyholders  in  Portbury  gave  a 
benevolence  of  xxiiijl'  xij?  iiiji' 


l^citfjCC  did  hee  afterwards  negleft  the  redemption  of  fuch  of  his  meniall    Comp:  de  wotton 

13:  E;  2.  in  C 
de  Berkeley. 


knights  and  Efquires  as  were  taken  prifoners  with  him,  all  whofe  freedomes  hee    13:  E;  2- >nCailro 


procured  within  three  yeares  after. 


Cl^C  houfhold  and  forraigne  Accompts  of  this  Lord  in  the  Seaventh  yeare  of   Comp:dePortbury 
the  kings  raigne,  reveale  a  marvellous  vnwillingnes  in  him  to  this  Scottifh  warr  ;    ^^  Berkeley  et  ^° 
difpatchinge  many  letters  and  meffages  to  the  kinge  and  other  Lords  and  favorites    divers,  at: 
about  him  for  excufes  ;  4Pnc  whereof  was  (noe  doubt)  his  great  age  of  threefcore 
and  eight  yeares,  difpenfmg,  w"^  Armes  and  travell,  A  courfe  at  other  tymes  rather 
pradlifed  in  ye  contrary;  |@{)tcl^  cafleth  mee  vpon  the  Confideration  of  many  antient 
obfervances.  That  oft  tymes  before  greate  alterations,  either  in  kingdomes,  eftates, 
or  great  familyes,  (the  greateft  and  onely  misfortune  of  this  great  wife  Lords  life) 
mens  harts  by  a  fecret  and  vnknowne  inftin6l  of  nature,  mifgive  them,  like  as  the 

Sea 


1 84 


€t)c  Eitcjf  of  tJjc  25cthdcpief 


1281 


Claus:  7.  E:  2.  in 
dorfo : 

218 


Sea,  without  wind,  will  fwell  of  it'  felfe  before  a  tempeft  arife  ;  <G>t  were  it  out  of 
the  frute  of  his  age,  (for  tyme  makes  all  men  wife  that  obferve  it),  prefaging  ill 
Succeffe,  either  out  of  the  kings  weakenes,  the  difcontents  at  home,  the  feare  or 
obfervation  of  forrayne  pra6lifes,  the  pride  &  authoritye  of  Strangers  drawne 
from  Gafcoigne  and  other  forraigne  parts,  to  this  Journey  or  whatfoever  els  ;  '^Ut 
beinge  in  the  ende  chardged  to  come  armed  in  fide  et  homagio  quibus  regi  tenetur, 
vpon  his  homage  and  allegiance,  hee  went  (as  alfo  did  his  faid  |  fonnes)  ;  yet  mofl 
fure  it  is,  That  very  vnwillinge  hee  was,  And  vnwillingnes  to  a  Journey  hath  bene 
often  noted  as  a  fecret  Oracle  of  evill  adventures,  as  here  is  proved. 


H:  Boetius.  CijtjSf  doubtleffe  was  the  greateft  battle  that   ever   was  wonne  by  the  Scots, 

Tho-  de  la  Moore    whofe  writers  fay,  That  our  Edward  the  feconds  Army  did  confifl  of  one  hundred 

in  vita  E:  2.    g^^tj  (\(^y  thoufand  horfe,  and  of  as  many  foot :  And  though  this  may  feeme  great 

pag:  216.  in    exaggeration,  yet  our  Englifli  Annalls  teftifie,  nunquam  magis  fplendidus,  nobilis  et 

Howe  in  folio,    fuperbus  Angloi^  exercitus  vifus  ;  That  never  before  was  the  like  preparation,  pride 

and  coft  of  warre,  The  foldiers  even  the  night  before  the  battle,  bathinge  themfelves 

in  wine,  caflinge  theire  gorges,  cryinge,  fhoutinge,  vauntinge  confidinge,  in  theire 

forces,  as  invincible. 


liber  in  Sccio  511bOUt    the   tyme   of    this    Lords   returne   from    Captivity,    the   State   for   the 

cu  rem:  thefaur.  generall,  hee  for  his  particular,  proceeded  in  an  hufbandry  of  like  refemblance  ; 
The  kinge  in  the  Nynth  of  his  raigne  caufed  by  Inquifitions  taken  in  all  the  Shires 
to  be  compiled  that  booke  called  nomina  villarum,  wherin  are  expreffed  the  thirty 
hundreds  of  Gloucefter,  whereof  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  is  one ;  whereof  (faith 
the  booke)  Thomas  de  Berkeley  th'elder  is  Lord,  And  that  therein  are  twoe 
Burrowe  Townes,  Berkeley  whereof  the  faid  Thomas  is  Lord  ;  and  Durfeley, 
whereof  John  fonne  of  William  Berkeley  is  Lord,  And  the  village  of  Newinton, 
whereof  the  faid  John  is  lord,  Hame,  Came,  Wotton,  whereof  the  fayde  Thomas 
de  Berkeley  the  elder  is  Lord  :  Beverflon  and  Kingefwefton,  whereof  John  ap 
Adam  is  Lord  :  Hull,  whereof  John  Fit3  Nicholl  is  Lord  :  Almondfbury  and 
Afheleworth,  whereof  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguflines  by  Briftoll,  is  lord  :  3Cnll  this 
lord  made  exa6l  furveyes,  terrors,  and  Rentalls  of  all  his  Manors,  as  his  improve- 
ments then  flood,  comprehendinge  both  demefnes,  fervices,  cuflomes,  rents,  and 
workes  of  his  Tenats  which  were  more  Comodious  to  his  particular,  then  the 
nomina  villaru  of  all  England  was  refpeftively  to  the  kings  ;  fome  of  the  broken 
parts  of  which  Surveyes,  yet  remayne  in  Berkeley  Caflle  ;  I^otDbctt  the  power  of 
tyme,  that  tumbleth  downe  what  the  Cannon  cannot  deflroy,  3llntl  the  new  fafhions 

of 


1 32 1  Uifc  of  Cftoni.iflf  tl)c  .^CfonD 

of  Lords  huflDandries,  and  |  the  incroach  of  Tenants  vpon  their  Land  lordes,  have    215 
foe  varyed  them  in  theire  length  of  dayes,  that  they  feeme  of  a  Courfer  mold,  then 
at  theire  firfl;  caftinge  they  were. 


18  = 


Rot  :  Scoti.T  :  8. 
K  :  2.  in  dorfo. 


25ut  the  trobles  of  State  fuffered  this  Lord  httle  to  reft  vpon  any  hufbandry 
or  other  deUghts  of  hfe  ;  for  {mediately  almoft  after  his  returne,  the  kinge,  the 
thirtieth  of  June  in  the  end  of  the  viij'^  yeare  of  his  raigne,  then  at  Berwike, 
writes  to  this  Lord  to  bee  with  him  at  Newcaftle  vpon  Tyne  in  the  feaft  of  the 
Affumption  of  our  lady,  (the  fifteenth  of  Auguft  following,)  withall  the  ftrength  of 
horfe  and  foot  that  hee  could  make  :  Whether  hee  went  or  not,  I  finde  not,  or 
whether  the  Somons  went  forth  before  his  releafe  out  of  Scotland  :  25ut  the  Lord 
Maurice  his  fonne  was  in  that  warre  and  foe  worthily  conceived  of,  as  that  the  fame  Rot:  predict.  111:3. 
yeare  hee  was  made  governor  of  Berwicke,  as  in  his  life  appeares. 


Cljt  xij'?  of  May  in  the  Nynth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  writes  to  this  Lord  and  Claus:  9.  E:  2. 
to  the  Lord  Maurice  his  fonne.  That  whereas  the  twentieth  of  February  before  hee 
had  appoynted  them  with  all  theire  Stregth  and  forces  of  Horfe  and  foot  to  bee 
with  him  at  New  Caftle  vpon  Tyne  in  Quindena  Scti  Johis  baptifte,  (the  viij"*  of  Rot ;  cod  in  dorfo. 
July.)  to  withftand  the  rebellion  and  attempts  of  Robert  de  Brus  of  Scotland  and 
other  Tray  tors  his  Complices  ;  Nowe  for  certayne  Caufes,  hee  deferreth  that 
affembly  till  the  Tenth  of  Auguft  followinge,  the  feaft  of  S'  Lawrance,  And  then 
requires  them  not  to  fayle  in  that  fayth  and  homage  wherein  they  ftand  bound  vnto 
him. 

2r!)C  thirtieth  of  Auguft  in  the  fayd  Nynth  yeare,  the  kinge  writes  agayne  to  claus:  9.  E:  2. 
this  Lord,  That  for  the  better  repreffmge  of  the  Scots,  hee,  by  the  advife  of  his 
Counfell,  intends  to  winter  in  the  North  parts,  And  therefore  willed  him  to  Affifl 
him  with  all  his  power  of  Horfe  and  foot,  And  to  bee  with  him  in  thofe  parts  by 
All  S"  next.  3Cnb  to  returne  to  him  in  writinge  by  the  bearer,  what  number 
befides  his  owne  perfon,  hee  would  then  ayd  him  withall. 

CI)C  twentieth  of  May  in  the  Tenth  yeare,  the  kinge  writes  to  this  Lord  to    i^^'^dorfo^ 
bee  with  him  with  his  full  power  and  Strength  at   New-Caftle  \    vpon  Tyne  in    220 
quindena  Sci  Jofeis  baptifte,  to  goe  againft  the  Scots  :  eodem  rot. 


31!ntl  the  xvij'^  of  June  writes  agayne  to  put  of  his  cominge  till  the  eleaventh  of   eodem  rot 
Auguft,  the  Morrowe  after  S!  Lawrance  day.    3Ilnll  laftly  afterwards  writes  to  him, 
2  B  how 


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€^c  %iMe^  of  tJje  23crfedcp3af 


how  that  the  Scots  dayly  put'  the  holy  Church  and  his  people  vnder  tribute,  to  his 
Rot.  prsdidl.  endles  diflionor  and  of  his  kingdome  ;  And  therefore  nowe  being  vpon  his  Journey 
to  reprefs  them,  fhould  not  fayle  withall  his  powre  of  Horfe  and  foote  to  come  vnto 
him  :  The  like  was  at  each  of  the  former  tymes  written  to  the  lord  Maurice  this 
lords  fonne. 


claus  :  II.  E  :  2. 
dorfo  : 

Rot.  praedidl. 


Rot :  Scotife.  1 1. 
13  13.  E:  2.  m:  4. 

et.  12. 

comp.  rec  :  et 

miniflr  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley  in 

eifdem  Annis  : 


'C!)C  tenth  of  June  in  the  xj*  of  his  raigne  (the  parliament  then  ended  fomoned 
for  Lincolne),  The  kinge  writes  to  this  Lord  as  in  the  laft  yeere,  to  be  with  him 
Armed,  at  Yorke  at  the  feaft  of  S'  James  to  refift  the  Scots,  who  had  broken  the 
truce  contrary  to  the  popes  Comande  :  3lnb  a  further  day  by  fecond  tres  was  fhortly 
after  given  to  him  to  be  at  Newcaftle  vpon  Tine  ;  (CfjC  lihc  alfo  was  written  to  the 
Lord  Maurice  his  fonne,  who  went'  accordingly  ;  As  alfo  did  Thomas  and  Maurice 
the  faid  Lord  Maurice's  two  fonnes,  whereby  in  this  xij'^  of  Edward  the  fecond, 
three  generations  of  this  family  in  lineall  difcent,  were  in  the  feild  in  Armes 
togeather,  in  defence  and  honor  of  their  Country. 


Claus :  12 :  E:  2  3Ilt  the  parliament  holden  at  Yorke  in  Aprill  in  the  xij'^  of  this  kinge  Edward 

the  fecond  his  raigne,  it  was  agreed.  That  a  great  Armye  fhould  bee  rayfed,  and 
Rot.  p''di<5l:  to  bee  by  Midfomer  followinge  at  New-Caflle  vpon  Tyne  to  goe  againft  the  Scots  ; 
311nll  accordingly  the  xxij^of  May  followinge,  the  kinge  fends  to  this  Lord  to  p'pare 
and  come ;  whofe  cominge  by  twoe  other  writts  is  firfl  put  of,  till  the  Feafl;  of  S? 
James,  and  after  till  S!  Bartholomewe  daye,  And  then  to  bee  with  the  Kinge  at 
Yorke,  which  was  this  Lords  laft  fomons  and  Journey. 


Rot :  prre(li(5l : 
comp.  prrediifl.  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley . 


CijC  like  was  written  and  fent  to  the  Lord  Maurice  this  Lords  fonne  and  heire, 
which  they  performed:  3llltl  thus  it  hath  exprefdy  appeared,  That  this  Lord  Thomas 
was  28  tymes  in  Armes  in  the  feild  in  Severall  yeares,  in  the  fervice  of  the  three 
kings  wherevnder  hee  lived  |  whereof  the  three  firfl  were  in  the  life  of  his  father, 
the  reft  after  ;   when  els  I  have  not  found. 


Claus  :  14.  E  :  2. 
in  dorfo. 


claus.  p^didl.  in 
dorfo. 


"CtjC  xxviij'I'  of  March  in  the  fowerteenth  of  his  raigne,  the  Kinge  from  Glouc. 
writes  to  this  Lord  Thomas  and  to  the  Lord  Maurice  his  fonne  to  come  thither  to 
him  the  fifth  of  Aprill  followinge,  to  advife  for  the  quiet  of  the  kingdome,  what  was 
fit  to  bee  done,  to  appeafe  all  thofe  Armed  powers  and  men  that  were  affembled  in 
Wales,  and  in  the  Marches  thereof  where  then  were  made  many  congregations  of 
foldiers  &c.  3!!nll  the  xiij*  of  Aprill  writes  to  them  agayne  from  the  fame  place, 
That  he  marvells  at  the  Affemblies  of  Armed  men  in  all  their  parts,  and  of  their 

giving 


1 32 1  jttifc  of  iCfjoni.Tfif  tl^c  .Second  187 

giving  of  way  vnto  them  at  leafl  the  not  repreffinge  and  quietinge  of  them,  And 

therefore  nowe  Comannds  them  that  they  keep  his  peace  in  their  parts  vnder  the    Rot:p'di<5l. 

payne  of  forfeitinge  to  him  all  that  they  have  or  may  forfeit.,  3Cnb  tells  them  how, 

hee  and  divers  of  his  Nobles  w'!"  him,  have  ever  bene,  and  ftill  are  ready  to  doe 

them  Juftice  in  all  things,  letting  them  knowe  that  if  they  doe  othcrwife,  hee  will 

not  diffemble,  but  punifh  their  difobedience,  as  to  his  regall  dignity  appertaynes ; 

%t  the  fame  tyme  went  out  Comiffions  to  the  Sherifes  of  this  County  of  Gloucefler, 

and  of  Worcefler,  Hereford,  Salop,  &  Stafford,  to  reprefs  fuch  vnlawfull  Affemblyes. 

5it  feemes  the  kinge  and  thofe  about  him,  thought  themfelves  fcarce  fafe  at  Rot.  p''di(!^.  in 
Gloucefler,  foe  many  difcontented  Noble  men  and  Comons  beeing  foe  neere  and 
round  about ;  wherefore  the  xviij  ?  of  that  Aprill  the  kinge  hafts  to  Brifloll  Caflle  ; 
And  from  thence  the  xxi'^  of  the  fame  Month,  writes  the  third  tyme  to  this  Lord 
and  his  fonne  the  lord  Maurice,  declaringe  that  divers  malevolent  perfons  doe 
endeavor  to  difquiet  his  people  goeing  vp  and  downe  his  kingedome  fowing  of  lyes 
to  his  great  fcandall  and  rayfmge  of  his  people  into  tumults  &c.  And  therefore 
requires  them  not  to  beleeve  them,  but  to  reprefs  them,  and  keepe  his  fubiedls  in 
peace,  and  to  endeavor  all  tranquillity  &c. 

€i)C  firfl  of  Maye  followinge,  the  kinge  then  at  Wallingford  in  his  waye  towards    ^"dorfo^^"^" 
London,  forbids  Humfry  de  Bohun  Earle  of  Hereford  |  and  Effex,  and  Roger  de    222 
Mortuo  mari,  to  affault  the  lands  of  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  the  yonger,  And  him,  theirs, 
which  they  mutually  were  in  fpoylinge  each  vpon  other. 

C!)C  fifteenth  of  the  fame  May  the  kinge  fomons  his  parliament  to  bee  holden  ^^^y :  14 :  E :  2. 
at  Weftminfter  on  Midfomer  day  followinge.  And  twoe  writs  of  fomons  are  fent  to 
this  Lord  and  to  his  faid  fonne  to  be  there,  and  to  the  other  mutiners,  lords  alfo  : 
25ut  the  ficknes  or  other  indifpofition  of  this  Lord  Thomas,  hindred  him  from 
travell,  then  .  76.  yeares  old.  And  dyed  at  Berkeley  the  xxiij'*"  of  July  followinge, 
which  endeth  this  longe  title  of  his  forraigne  imployments  in  warrs  and  Embaffes  : 
]@t)ilt  followed  after  theis  trobles  (nowe  thus  in  dawninge)  the  life  of  the  Lord 
Maurice  his  fonne  will  make  cleere  vnto  his  pofteritye. 

^10  rccrcation.fif  nno  tidtg!)t.sf 

^i^  noble  Lord  being  a  man  that  flighted  noe  houre,  or  adlion  of  his  life,  was 
alfo  ferious  in  his  recreations  and  delights,  which  vfually  were  of  theis  fower  feverall 
kindes.  viz' 

2  B  2  I.  fhr^t 


€J)e  HiMc^  of  tljc  2BcrhdcpjS 


1281 


I.  5Fil^;6ft  in  Armes  abrode,  witneffed  by  the  former  title  of  his  foraigne  imploy- 
ments  in  28  Armies  againft  the  French,  Scots  and  Welfli. 

divers,  comp  2.  ^cCOttDili  in  Jufls  and  Turneys  at  neere  twenty  feverall  places,  And  where 

recept.ct  sfiirderob: 

in  Cailro  de    Turneyments  were  holden,  more  then   twice  foe  many  times ;  for  it  was  in  thofe 

Berl^ley    ftirringe  tymes  become  almofl  a  Monthly  exercife  in  the  dayes  of  Kinge  Edward 

the  firfl,  and  of  his  fonne  King  Edward  the  fecond,  notwithftandinge  the  often 

proclamations  thofe  kinges  and  holy  Church  fent  out  againfl  them  :    which  this 

Lord  though  then  in  old  age  omitted  not  to  followe,  as  longe  as  hee  had  health  to 

ride,  which  declares  the  mould  wherein  his  conftitution  was  caft  :  <£}(  which  manner 

of  Turneys  I  have  formerly  written  in  the  title  of  the  iffue  of  the  Lord  Maurice  this 

Lords  Father,  at  one  whereof  held  at  Killingworth  in  Warwickeflaire,  this  Lords 

elder  brother  was  flayne.  | 


223 

Plurimi  compi  de 
Portbury,  Hame, 

Wotton,Slimbridg, 

&c.  temp  :  E  :  I. 

et  E :  2.  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

pat:  21.  E:  i.m.  23. 

claus:20.E:i.m:  2. 


3.  '3rf)ttlllp  in  hawkes,  hounds,  and  other  doggs,  which  hee  all  his  life  folaced 
in  ;  A  number  foe  great,  that  it  wold  nowe  bee  deemed  burdenfome  to  a  faire 
eftate  :  ^Ct  followed  more  by  his  fonnes  and  the  knights  and  Efquires  of  his  family 
then  by  himfelfe  :  J^ijei  later  yeares  in  thofe  fports  imitatinge  princes  at  great 
banquets,  caflinge  an  eye  of  honor  vpon  the  diflies,  and  then  turne  away  and  tafl 
none,  yet  with  fuch  refpeft,  as  noe  circumfpedlion  was  at  any  tyme  with  him 
omitted,  that  tended  to  honor  or  profit. 

Mirth  with  thy  labour  fometyme  put  in  vfe, 
That  better  thou  maift  thy  labour  endure. 

4.  5llllb  laftly  in  hufbandries  at  home,  wherein  hee  excelled  all  before  him,  as 
the  title  thereof  hath  formerly  declared  ;  A  noble  Lord  that  never  feemed  wearyed, 
though  ever  bufied,  as  if  A61:ion  had  bene  his  nourifhment;  In  fuch  fort,  fometymes 
in  hufbandry  at  home,  fometyme  at  fport  in  the  feild,  fometyme  in  the  Campe, 
fometyme  in  the  Court  and  Councell  of  flate,  with  that  promptnes  and  celerity, 
That  his  body  might  have  bene  beleeved  to  bee  vbiquitary  :  And  his  pofteritye 
will  hardly  beleeve,  that  what  this  theire  Anceftor  hath  done,  was  by  a  man  fezible, 
efpetially  to  bee  by  foe  weake  an  eye  as  myne  difcerned  through  the  mifts  of  foe 
many  ages  incurred  fince  his  death  :  whom  if  it  were  poffible  after  the  darknes  of 
foe  many  dayes,  to  drawe  unto  the  life,  his  pofterity  would  fee  him  to  bee  a  man  foe 
generally  well  put  togeather  in  all  imaginable  Abilityes,  that  the  wefterne  Corner 
of  this  kingdome  hath  not  brought  forth  a  peere  of  his  temper  and  perfedlion  that 
hiftories  have  obferved. 


I32I 


jllifc  of  ^lioiUiia  tlic  ^cronti 


189 


l?i.^  purcJ).xafjfli  of  lauDfif 

3fn  this  title  I  will  bee  Ihorc,  ihc  i\iiher  bccaufe  his  eldefl;  foniic  the  Lord 
Maurice,  whofe  life  next  followeth,  was  for  the  mod  part  a  Joynt  purchafer  with 
him  :  And  for  that  his  grandchilde  the  next  |  lord  of  his  name  (for  whome  I  will  224 
referve  the  glory  of  that  title)  comprehends  them  both  :  Here  onely  remembrige 
a  fewe  of  this  Lords  purchafes  vfefull  to  his  pofterity,  which  cannot  orderly  bee 
cafl  into  any  other  Corner  of  his  hiftory. 

311  tf)C  xxvIj'^  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft  hee  purchafed  all  the  Lands  of    Carta  in  Caftro 
Henry  de  Midleton  Lord  of  a  part  of  the  Manor  of  Portbury,  which  coll  him  two      ^    ereey. 
hundred  and  forty  markes,  whereby  that  Manor  of  his  (together  with  the  purchafe 
which  the  Lord  Robert  his  great  Vnckele  made  of  Salfo  marifco)  came  to  exceede 
the  other  Moytie  of  M' Wake  foe  farre  as  at  this  day  appeareth,  whereof  read  alfo    fol  :  [107] 
before  in  the  life  of  the  two  firfl;  Lords  and  of  the  fayd  Robert.      To  which  deed  of 
Midleton  are  nyne  knights  wittneffes,  and  fower  other   Lords  of  Manors,  all,  but    comp  :  garderob. 
two,  meniall  fervants  to  this   Lord  and  to  the   Lord  his  fonne,  as  divers  accompts    caftrode  Berkeley, 
doe  fhewe. 


3!n  ti)C  xxxj'^  and  xxxij*  of  Edward  the  firfl;  hee  purchafed  of  Richard  fonne 
and  heire  of  S'  John  Clifford  and  of  Robert  the  fonne  of  Pagan  (ats  fitj  Payne)  the 
Manor  of  Frampton  vpon  Seaverne  adioyninge  to  his  Manor  of  Slimbridge  ;  SCllD 
the  yeare  after,  in  the  xxxiij'^  of  that  kinge,  granted  again  the  fame  to  the  fayd  Robt 
and  Ifabeli  his  wife  one  of  the  twoe  fillers  and  coheires  of  Richard  Clifford  and  to 
the  heires  of  the  body  of  the  fayd  Robert,  vnder  the  yearly  rent  of  twenty  and  twoe 
markes  (then  the  utmoft  valewe  that  Manor  would  yeald)  payable  at  fower  feafts  by 
equall  portions,  which  rent  is  accordingly  payd  at  this  daye  by  John  Arundle  of 
Lanheron,  fonne  of  S'  John  Arundle,  fonne  of  S'  John,  fonne  of  S"'  John,  fonne  of 
S'  Thomas,  fonn  of  S"^  John  and  of  Katherine  his  wife  daughter  and  coheire  of  S' 
John  Chideocke  fon  of  Sir  John,  fon  of  Sir  John  Chideocke  and  Ifabeli  his  wife, 
daughter  and  heire  of  Robert  Fit5  Payne  fonne  of  the  forefayd  Robert  the  fonne 
of  Pagan  ats  fitj  Payne  and  of  Ifabele  his  wife,  the  Conizees  in  the  fyne  of  the 
xxxiij'^  of  Edward  the  firft  aforefayde,  whereof  read  more  in  the  life  of  Maurice 
the  fifth  :  25cttClcniC  which  John  Arundle  and  the  Lord  Henry  |  the  firft,  and 
George  nowe  Lord  Berkeley  and  their  Tenants  and  farmers  concerning  grounds 
newe  gayned  from,  and  leaft  by  the  River  of  Seaverne,  now  called  the  new  warth 
and  new  grounds,  and  the  Comon  Claymed  theron  by  the  Inhabitants  of  Frampton 
and  Slimbridge,  divers  great  and   tedious  fuites  have   bene  contynued  from  the 

Seaventh 


Cartce  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
finesinthefaur:3i. 
32.  et.  33.  E:  1. 
Inq:  9:  E:  2.n?  63. 
comp:  miniRr:  in 
Sccio  3  :  et:  4.  El: 
Gloc: 

Ing:3:H:5.  p.m. 
JoTiis  Chideock. 
Pat:  34.  H.  8. 
dat.  I.  September: 
Inq:  12.  H.  6.  n? 
38.  p.  m.  Alino,- 
Chideock. 
Inq:  19.  E:  4.  n°  47 
p.  m.  Katheriii 
Arundle. 
Mictiis  term  :  14. 
Eliz:  rot:  72:  cfi 
rem  thefaii  in 
Socio: 
225 

In(i:2:H:  7.  p.  m. 
Tho:  .\rundel 
militis. 

In:  2:  H:  7  p.  m. 
Kalh:  mat: 
Thome  .Arundle. 


\go 


€lje  %iMc0  of  tl)c  25crhricp$f 


Inq:  2.  E  :  6.  p.  m. 

Jofiis  Arundle 

Inq:  i  H:  7.  pro 

Margt:  fil:  et 

hrered.  Joliis 

Chideock  ■- 

Supervis:  in  Sccio 

6:  Ja:  et  in  Cur. 

ward:  11  Jac: 

bill  :in  cam'a  flellai 

8  Jac:  et  in  Cane: 

8  Jac: 

Com:  pleas 

banc:  regis. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


Seaventh  yeare  of  King  James  to  this  daye  :  which  have  produced  Comiffions  of 
Survey  out  of  the  Exchequer,  and  Court  of  Wardes,  vi^ith  perticular  maps,  two 
decrees  in  the  Chancery,  five  decrees  in  the  Court  of  Wards,  Trialls  at  Lawe  both 
in  Kingefbench  and  Comon  pleas,  Inditemets  in  the  Countrey,  and  bills  for  ryotts 
and  other  mifdemeanors,  in  the  Starchamber.  The  bookes  and  breviatts  whereof, 
are,  elephantini  libri,  a  wholl  porters  burden  ;  wherein  I  have  longe  had  my  vn- 
profitable  part  :  The  further  narration  whereof ;  (through  the  great  expence  thereby 
occafioned,)  I  take  noe  Comforte  longer  to  contynue. 

5finlJ  by  deed  without  date  this  Lord  granted  to  the  Abbot  of  S'  Peters  of 
Glouc  :  ten  Acres  and  a  halfe  of  arrable  land  called  manland  in  Bradflons  feild 
within  this  Lords  Manor  of  Hame,  refervinge  xij?  rent  by  the  yeare  at  fower  feafts 
for  all  fervices,  for  payem!  whereof  the  Abbot  and  Covent  bynd  their  Manor  of 
Lorwinche,  for  diftreffe  as  often  as  the  fame  fhall  bee  vnpayd  ;  CI)C  rather  in  this 
place  mentioned,  becaufe  the  rent  hath  bene  vnpayd  for  twenty  yeares  paft,  and 
wilbee  lofl:,  if  not  fpeedily  lookt  vnto. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


3'n  tfjC  xxxiiij'*'  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft,  this  Lord  purchased  of  the  pryor  of 
S'  Bartholomewes,   a  cheife  rent  of  twenty  five  fliillings  per  Anii,  goinge  out  of 
fol:  [801]    divers  Tenements  in  Iron  A6lon,  whereof  read  amongfl  the  lawe  fuites  of  the  Lord 
Henry  the  firft. 


carta  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


226 

bundell  finiu  in 
Thefau',- :  5  :  E:  2. 

Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


Rec  :  in  thcfaur  : 
Sccij :  4.  et  8.  E:  i. 


^bOUt  the  fame  tyme  hee  purchafed  of  Wittm  Paynell  knight,  to  himfelfe  and 
J  one  his  wife  and  to  the  heires  of  himfelfe,  all  the  rents  and  fervices  of  his  free- 
holders and  villaines  with  theire  Sequells,  which  hee  had  in  Awre,  togeather  with 
the  pafture  called  the  warth  in  the  other  fide  of  Seaverne,  And  the  revercon  of  the 
dower  in  Awre  held  by  J  one  late  the  wife  of  John^  Bohun.  | 

3llt  the  fifth  of  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond,  this  Lord  purchafed  by  fyne  divers 
lands  and  Tenements  in  Hame,  of  William  de  Pridy. 

^n  the  eighth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  hee  purchafed  certayne  Lands  in 
Kingefcote  of  Peeter  Stinchcombe  which  in  the  viij'J'of  King  James,  were  Alyened 
by  the  Lord  Henry  the  firft.  The  reft  which  were  inany,  I  omit,  for  the  Caufes 
formerly  mentioned  in  the  head  of  this  title  : 

1^10  ^uitc^ef  iit  ialuc 

3ilgatnjGit  this  Lord  Thomas  and  Joane  his  wife,  kinge  Edward  the  firft  in  the 
viij'?"  yeare  of  his  raigne  bringeth  a  writ  of  Quo  warranto,  to  fet  forth  by  what  title 

they 


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ttifc  of  €^oma0  ttie  Second 


191 


they  held  the  Manor  of  Bedminfter  and  the  three  hundreds  of  Bedminfter,  Portbury    ^o'  ■.^^8'^"M-.. 
and  HarecUve,  with  theire  hberties  in  the  County  of  Somerfett,  (occafioned  by  the 
prefentin?  made  againfl  his  father  in  the  fourth  of  Edward  the  firfl  before  mentioned,)    fol :  [132] 
who  juflify  under  a  feoffment  to  them  made  by  the  Lorde  Maurice  his  father  :  whoe 
beinge  prefent',  avowed  his  Deed,  and  iuflified  the  holding  and  vfer,  by  the  grant 
of  King  Henry  the  fecond  to  his  greate  Grandfather  Robert  Fit5-Harding;  Addinge 
that  before  that  tyme  alfo,  the  faid  hundreds  had  bene  the  inheritance  of  the  Earles 
of  Gloucefler  tyme  out  of  mind,  and  antiently  appertayned  not  to  the  Crowne  of 
England,  making  thereby  the  grant  of  King  Henry  the  fecond,  but  a  confirmation  of    Efcaet.  in  tun- 
former  purchafes  from  the  fayd  Earles;  3llntl  afterwards  was  an  Inquificon  returned    somerfet'*        ' 
of  all  fuch  liberties  as  belonged  to  the  faid  hundred  of  Portbury  and  the  Leet  thereof;    Carta  exempl :  in 
which  is  an  excellent  Record,  And  became  a  peacemaker  in  my  dayes  betweene  the    CaitrodcBerkeley. 
Lord  Henry  Berkeley  and  M'  John  Wake,  who  for  his  Manor  of  Clivedon  calum- 
nyated  the  fame. 

Che  like  writs  of  Quo  warranto,  the  fame  kinge  Edward  the  firfl;  in  the  nvnth    ^^^  • '"  recept 
...  .         .  .  .  thelaur :  Scij  9 :  et 

and  xiij'.''  yeares  of  his  raigne,  brought  againfl  this  Lord  Thomas  concerninge  the    13.  E:  i. 

liberties  hee  claymed  within  the  Manor  of  Durfeley  in  his  hundred  of  Berkeley, 

wherein  before  Solomon  de  Roffs  |  and  his  fellow  Juflices  Itinerant,  the  Jury  at    227 

Gloucefler  Affizes  found  that  the  Anceflors  of  this  Lord,  in  the  tymes  of  King  John 

and  of  Henr}-  the  fecond,  vfed.  That  if  any  Theeves  were  taken  either  in  the  Court 

or  in  the  Towne  of  Durfeley  to  bringe  them  the  fame  daye  to  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley, 

if  the  day  fufificed,  and  there  they  were  accuftomed  to  receive  theire  Judgment,  and 

to  have  iuftice  executed  vpon  them  ;  3Cntl  if  that  day  of  their  takinge  fufficed  not. 

Then  to  bee  brought  vppon  the  morrowe  after  to  the  faid  Caflle. 


IDirtjht  the  like  writt  of  Quo  warranto,  was  this  Lord  alfo  purfued  in  the  xv'."*    PHta  de  quo  warn 
yeare  of  the  faid  Kinge  Edward  L  concerning  his  manor  and  hundred  of  Berkeley,    in  Com  Glouc:  in 

and  for  the  markets,  fayres,  free  warren,  and  other  liberties  that  hee  claymed  therein:    tl'tC-ui: r^-'cept.  15. 

.  K :  I  :  rot :  1 2. 

whereunto  hee  pleadeth  all  the  old  Charters  of  Kinge  Henry  the  fecond,  and  of 

Kinge   Richard  the  firfl,  and  of  Kinge  John,  and  of  this  kinge  Edward  the  firfl, 

more  particularly  then  in  any  other  record  :  511^  that  hee  hath  free  warren  in  the 

Townes  of  Berkeley,  Hame,  Clapton,  Bevington,  Pedington,  Stone,  Swonhungre, 

Wanefwell,    Egeton,    Alkington,    Newport,   Woodford,    Swanley,    Wike,    Hineton, 

Pockhampton,     Came,    Hurfl,     Kingflon,     Gofington,    Stinchcombe,     Stancombe, 

Cleyhungre,   Matefden,    Cowley,    Hullmancote,    Slimbridge,    Wotton,    Simondfall, 

Combe,    Wortley,    Bradley,    Nibley,    and    Birchley :    25ut  in  the   Townfhipps  of 

Beverfton, 


192  €!)c  Ititcjef  of  tljc  25crhricp^  1281 

Beverfton,  Aylberton,  Kingewefton,  Hill,   Nymesfeild,  Horfeild,  Filton,  Almondef- 

bury,    Cromhall,    Aflileworth,     Durfley,    Vley,     Kingefcote,    Owlpen,    Newinton, 

Owfelworth,   Huntingford,  and  Arlingham,  hee  claymeth  noe  free  warren,   though 

all  the  fame  bee  within  his  hundred  of  Berkeley  :    <Df  which  and  other  his  liberties 

fol:  [910]    there,  I  fhall  more  largely  write  in  the  life  of  George  Lord  Berkeley,  when  I  come 

to  mention  the  largefl  of  all  grants  of  liberties,  obtayned  from  King  James  in  the 

xiiij'^  of  his  raigne  by   the  Lady   Elizabeth    Berkeley  his   Mother  and  guardian, 

comprehending  all  liberties  granted  by  former  princes,  with  ample  inlargements, 

Rec :  in  thefaurar :    ^tlllOIlgjBft  which  claymes  of  liberties,  is  a  notable  prefentment  of  the  Jury  at  Glou- 

recept :  Scij.  15.    ^gftej.  [^  ^Ylq  fame  fifteenth  yeare  of  kinije  Edward  the  firfl,  before  Witim  de  Saham, 
E:  i.ptitaetaflifa.  .  . 

and  other  his  fellowe  Juflices  Itinerant,    Howe  one  John  Wayfer  a  felon  was  taken 

228  by  the  Baylyes  of  |  this  Lord  Thomas  within  his  liberty  of  Berkeley,  vpon  fufpition 
of  ftealinge  an  Oxe  in  Wiltfhire,  brought  to  the  fayd  Caflle  and  there  imprifoned 
for  eight  dayes.  And  how  Adam  Still  Conflable  of  the  Caftle,  John  Creel  porter, 
and  John  Dun  fervant  to  the  fayd  Conflable,  the  vnder  Caoler,  W"  the  Gardner, 
and  fome  others,  hanged  him  in  the  prifon  of  the  fayd  Caftle  without  iudgm|  %vXi 
becaufe  the  fayd  Robbery  was  done  in  Wiltfhire,  whereof  they  in  this  liberty  of 
Berkeley  in  the  County  of  Gloc  :  could  take  noe  cognizance  or  knowledge,  there- 
fore the  fayd  Juflices  feazed  the  fayd  liberty  into  the  Kings  hands,  &  awarded  to 
the  Sheriffe  proces  of  diflres  to  compell  this  Lord  to  appeare  and  fhewe  by  what 
warrant  hee  claymed  to  have  a  prifon  within  his  Manor  of  Berkeley  and  a  liberty, 
as  aforefayd  :  Whereupon  this  Lord  iuflifieth  to  have  Infangentheefe  there,  and  to 
doe  iuflice  vpon  fuch  theeves  as  were  taken  in  the  faft  or  at  the  purfuet  of  others 
whofe  the  flollen  goods  are  :  25ut  of  thofe  felons  whoe  are  taken  by  inditement  at 
his  viewe  of  frank  pledge,  hee  claymeth  noethinge,  but  the  fendinge  of  them  by  his 
Baylyes  to  the  kings  Comon  gaole  of  the  County  Whereupon  his  fayd  liberty  is 
agayne  reflored  vnto  him.  5(lntl  alfo  vpon  tryall,  the  fayd  Conflable,  Jaylor,  and 
the  refl,  were  found  not  guilty  of  any  Offence,  becaufe  the  fayd  John  Wayfer  the 
felon  hanged  himfelfe  in  the  fayde  Caftle  ;  And  for  that  the  faid  Wayfer  was  appre- 
hended at  the  fuit  of  Simon  Aldrington,  whoe  Ow[n]ed  the  fayd  Oxe,  to  whome 
the  fame  was  reflored. 

3tt  tfjE  end  of  this  record,  is  a  prefentment  of  an  other  nature  againfl  the  Lord 
Thomas  before  the  fayd  Judges,   That  vpon  a  new  Cuftome  rayfed  by  him,   hee 
would  not  permitt  any  free   mans  widowe  to  marry  agayne  at  her  pleafure,  vnles   , 
fhee  firfl  made  fine  with  him  ;    And  thereupon  tooke  of  Alice  the  widowe  of  John 
Scay  two  markes  in  money  becaufe  fhe  maryed  her  felfe  to  one  Wittm  of  Combe 

without 


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Sifc  of  €t)onia£f  tl)c  <^cfoiit) 


without  his  licence  and  good  will,  Idco  ;id  indicium  de  eo,  fayth  the  record,  And 
foe  remayneth :  23ut  the  length  of  this  Lords  dayes  for  thirty  five  yeares  after, 
with  the  Conflancy  of  his  Actions,  foe  fetled  the  Courfe  of  widowes  eflates  to 
forfeite  vpon  manage  or  incontinency,  (if  the  fayd  prefentment  bee  of  copyhold 
lands,)  That  they  foe  fmce  in  all  the  Copihold  eftates  of  this  Barony  and  Manor  of 
Berkeley  have  remayned  to  this  day  31nD  the  better  at  this  tyme  to  |  eftablilh 
them,  (being  fomewhat  moved  as  it  may  feeme  with  this  prefentnV,)  hee  caufed  to 
bee  made,  Rentalls,  and  other  rolls  of  all  his  Manors,  contayninge  the  Cuftomes, 
workes  and  fervices  of  each  Copiholder,  of  a  yard  land,  halfe  yard  land,  farrundle, 
and  Cotterell,  fome  of  which  remayne  to  this  daye  in  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley  :  2&Ut 
I  rather  thinke  this  prefentm'  was  of  the  widowes  of  freeholders  holdinge  of  this 
Lord  by  Knight  Service,  as  is  in  the  kings  cafe,  of  Widowes  endowed  of  lands 
holden  of  him  at  this  day. 


229 


193 


5111  the  xviij'^  of  Edward  the  firfl,  this  Lord  impleaded  by  his  writ  of  entry  Carta  in  caftro 
before  the  kings  Juflices  at  Weftminfter,  the  Bifliop  of  Ely  and  Richard  Clifford  ^  ^^  ^^^' 
for  a  meffuage  and  Carucate  of  land  in  Erlingha  which  by  agreem'  was  thus  ended, 
That  this  Lord  fhould  hold  the  fame  till  Michaelmas  then  after.  And  thenceforward 
the  Bifhop  and  Clifford  fhould  hold  the  fame  for  theire  lives,  And  after  to  remayne 
to  this  lord  and  his  heires  :  Cljij^  land  they  claymed  by  a  deed  from  Maurice  this 
lords  Father,  wherein  the  fonne  findinge  an  hole,  crept  in  at  it,  to  the  regayninge 
of  the  land. 

5for  the  endinge  of  thofe  Controverfies,  which  in  divers  of  the  kings  Courts    Carta:  31  :E:  i. 
were  dependinge  betwixt  this  lord  and  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood,  it  was  agreed,    CaarodeBerkeley. 
That  the  Abbott  and  his  Succeffors  fliould  for  ever  find  a  fould  of  two  hundred  and    See  fol :  [152] 
twenty  fheep  vpon  the  land  of  this  Lord  and  of  Maurice  his  fonne  at  Symondfall, 
from  the  third  day  of  May  till  the  firft  of  November  yearly,  (three  dayes  for  fhear- 
ing  of  thofe  fheepe  onely  excepted  ;)  2But  if  the  Abbot  had  noe  fheep  vpon  the 
lands  of  their  granges  of  Edge,  Ofellworth,  and  Caldeeote,  by  reafon  of  rot  or  other 
vrgent  neceffity  ;  Then  for  that  tyme.  The  fayd  Abbot  not  to  find  that  fould  :  31Intl 
further  if  it  happen  theire  paflure  of  Symondfall  to  beare  above  .  800  .  fheep  of  this 
Lords  and  his  fonnes  and  theire  Tenants,  Then  the  Abbot  not  to  find  the  fayd 
fould,  till  that  number  bee  diminiflied. 


CI)i^  lord  havinge  in  part  of  his  wives  mariage  portion,  the  Advowfon  ot  the    Regifl :  Lincoln 
Church  of  Cofton  in  the  County  of  Leicelter,  Edmond  the  kings  brother  made  title    S^  E:  i. 
2  c  thereunto  : 


194 


€l^c  Hiticjef  of  rt)c  2Bcrhclcp;S 


1281 


Rot :  quo.  warr :  et 

aflis.  5.  E:  i  in 

recpt  Scij  : 


Aflis  :  predidl  : 
rot  :  31. 

Ptita  iur.  et  affis. 

cora  Witto  de 

Saham  ap^  Gloc  : 

15:  E:  I.  rot:  3 

in  dorfo  in  thefaur. 

Hillar  :  15.  E:  3. 

rot.  54  coram  rege. 

Pafch.  eodrot:  82 

Mich,  eoft  rot :  71 

et83. 

Mich.  16.  E  :  3. 

rot :  28. 

Pafch  :  1 7.  E  :  3. 

rot.  39. 

Hillar:  19  :  E:  3  : 

rot.  87 

Pafch.  19.  E:  3. 

rot.  19.  all  coram 

rege. 

liber  manufc  :  in 

perga  de  wards  et 

releviis  in  cafl.ro 

de  Berkeley. 

Ptita  p-'didta 

rot :  29. 

See  after  in  the 

life  of  Maurice  the 

fixth. 


thereunto:  Howbeit  this  Lord  and  Joane  his  wife  recovered  againft  him  vpon  tryall, 
And  accordingly  in  the  fifth  of  king  Edward  the  firfl  prefented  theire  Clarke,  As  by 
the  Regifter  of  the  Bifhop  of  Lincolne  of  that  yeare,  reciteinge  both  the  fuite  and 
the  kings  writ  to  give  them  poffeffion  thereof,  appeares. 


3[ntl^e  fifteenth  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  Henry  Berkeley  of  Durfeley  brought 
230    againft  this  Lord  and  others,  an  Affize  of  Novell  diffeifine  for  |  lands  in  Came,  but 
was  amerced  for  not  profecutinge.     (CljC  like  did  Elias  Botiler  for  Comon  of  pafture 
in  Slimbridge,  who  alfo  was  amerced  for  not  profecutinge. 


Baronia : 


311t  ttjijS  tyme  alfo  this  lord  profecuted  with  many  proceffes,  Walter  Meffor  his 
bondman,  and  nowe  a  fugitive,  in  a  plea  de  nativitate,  of  bondage,  who  could  not 
bee  brought  in. 

ipotDt  alfo  was  tryed  an  Affize  betweene  Allured  of  Kingefton  in  Slimbridge 
parifh  and  John  fonne  of  John  A6lon  and  others,  wherein  appeares  howe  the  lands 
there  in  queftion  were  firft  held  of  Thomas  this  Lords  grandfather  in  villenage.  And 
howe  afterwards  both  the  lands  and  the  perfon  of  the  faid  Allured  were  manumitted ; 
And  after  that,  happened  the  wardfhipp  both  of  the  lands,  and  of  Robertt  fonne  and 
heire  of  Richard  de  Kingefton  fonne  of  the  faid  Allured  ;  havinge  created  a  tenure, 
To  hold  of  him  by  knight  fervice  ;  which  are  the  lands  called  Rivers  lands  at  this 
daye  fcattered  into  many  hands;  whereof  feaven  or  eight  wardfhipps  have  profitted 
this  family  in  my  tyme,  to  the  valewe  of  the  inheritance  of  theis  lands  at  the  leaft  : 
As  in  a  booke  by  mee  made  appeares. 

■^Il  iihc  Affize  was  then  alfo  tryed  betweene  John  de  Salfo  Marifco  and  Richard 
De  la  more,  for  the  Manor  of  Hanam  in  the  pifhe  of  Bitton,  whether  the  tenure 
thereof  was  in  focage  or  by  knight  fervice  ;  wherein  is  pleaded  a  feoffment  of  that 
Land  made  by  Robert  Fit3  Harding,  (which  I  thinke  was  by  Maurice  his  fonne,) 
to  Robert  de  Hannam,  And  a  tenure  by  Knight  fervice  referved,  which  Robert  de 
Berkeley  fonne  of  Maurice,  (not  of  Robert  as  this  Record  hath,)  granted  to  Robertt 
de  Amnevill  father  of  Petronilla  de  Vivon,  and  of  Petronilla  de  Amnevill;  To  which 
Petronilla  de  Amnevill  the  fame  was  allotted  in  partition,  who  thereof  enfeoffed  the 
faid  Richard  de  la  More.  3[oi)n  replyed.  That  the  Manor  is,  de  honore  de  Button 
holden  in  foccage,  but  the  Jury  find  the  tenure  to  bee  by  Knight  fervice  ;  And  the 
rather,  fay  they,  becaufe  the  fayd  Manor  of  Hannam  is  de  Baronia  de  Berkeley, 
parcell  of  the  Barony  of  Berkeley  holden  of  the  King  by  k'  fervice. 


1 32 1  Hifc  of  C()onia$(  tt)c  ^cconD  i95 

311llb  the  fame  tynie  were  alfo  fuits  depending  betwixt  this  lord  &  John  de 
Brett  for  feaven  Acres  and  a  halfe  of  land  in  Pockhampto  in  Hinton,  and  Gilbert 
Efpeter  for  lands  in  Berkeley  :  which  I  paffe  by.  | 

3il0Ailtjett  this  Lord  doth  Peter  the  fonne  of  warren  and  Jone  his  wife  daughter    231 
and  heire  of  Alienor  de  Hame,  bring  an  Affize  for  part  of  one  of  his  Mill  ponnds,    ^^ot  '■  33- 
which  Maurice  this  Lords  father  forciblye  had  cut  and  tooke  awaye  being  parcell  of 
their  land  :  This  lord  pleads  a  difcent  thereof  from  his  father,  and  the  contynuance 
of  his  owne  poffefrion,   And  that  the  fame  is  noe  impeachment  of  theire  waye  in 
cominge  to  their  other  lands  as  they  alleadged  :  And  foe  it  refteth. 

C!)C  fame   Peter  and   his  wife   bring  agiiinfl   this    Lord   two  other  Affifes   of    ^^^  ■  34- 
Comon,  which  the   Lord   Maurice  his   Father  by  inclofures  did  diffeize  them  of  in 
Hame.      This  lord  takes  advantage  vpon  error  in  the  viewe,  and  fo  barreth  their    parvus  rot.  de  quo 
fute.     IDttt)  this  and  fome  other  difcurteous  fuites  this  lord  was  foe  offended,   That    ^^^  '.      ' 
againft;  this  Peter  he  fets  on  a  Quo  warranto  in  the  kings  name  concerning  divers 
liberties  hee  claymed  in  Wickftowe,  (part  whereof  is  now  inclofed  in  Newporte,  as 
Catgrove  and  the  lawne  adioyninge  :)   Peeter  in  defence  pleads  a  Charter  in  the 
xliiij'!"  of  Kinge  Henry  the  third  ;   Howbeit  iudgm'  was  given  for  the  kinge  and  the 
liberty  refumed,  becaufe  hee  was  not  heire  to  Glaftover  the  grantee ;  but  came  in 
as  a  purchafer. 

]%ici)acb  Mecocke  fervant  to  this  Lord,  tooke  Wittm  Goyll  with  his  net  catch-    jurat,  et  Aflis. 
inge  hares  in  his  Mafters  Wood,  whom  with  an  arrowe  he  killed;    His  lord  for    '5-  ^'-  i- 
continuinge  of  him  two  yeares  after  in  his  fervice,  is  fomoned  to  anfwere    And  the 
faid  Richard  is  outlawed  for  felony,  not  nowe  appearinge. 

%t  this  Affife  alfo  by  the  Jury  of  Berkeley  hundred,  are  many  prefentments    A^is.  15.  E:  i 
made  agaynfl;  the  Baylyes  of  this  Lord,  for  divers  wrongfull  imprifonm"  and  fetting 
in  ftocks  both  men  and  weomen  without  caufe,  and  for  releafmge  fome  offenders  for 
money,  and  permittinge  fome  others  to  efcape,  afwell  in  this  lords  tyme,  as  in  his 
fathers,  which  I  alfo  pafs  by. 

iStctjarti    Hay  ward   accufed  about  a  ftolne  peece  of  blew  cloth,  affirmed  that    iijm. 
hee  bought  it  of  Margery  wife  of  Raph  Slipp,  which  in  the  Court  of  this  Lord  in 
Radcliveftreet  fhee  denyed  ;   Whereupon  the  freefuters  there  gave  iudgment  vpon 
his  life,  and  forthwith  hanged  him,  without  any  tryall  by  Jury,  againft  the  lawe  and 
cuflome  of  England,  for  which  falfe  Judgem',  the  futors  were  now  fined  forty  (hillings. 

2  c  2  ]^crc 


in  recept :  Scij. 


1^6  €|)e  XibCitf  of  tfje  S^crhdcpjef  1281 

extrad :  itinerant  f^ttC  alfo  at  this  Affifes  was  this  lord  fined  twenty  pound,  and  alfo  five  pound 

for  an  efcape  of  JuHan  Eftmead  out  of  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  and  other  the  like, 
which  I  alfo  pafs  by.  | 

232  ^Eblliontl  Earle  of  Cornwall  then  Regent  of  the  land  in  the  kings  abfence  in 
m :  4.  5!    Gafcoigne,   by  advife  of  his  Councell,  the  twentieth  of  June  in  the  fifteenth  of 

Edward  the  firft,  dire6led  a  Comiffion  to  his  Juftices  Itinerant  then  in  their  Circuit 
at  Glouc  ;  comaundinge  them  that  if  this  lord  were  not  convi<5led  of  the  offence, 
whereof  before  them  hee  was  indifted  and  comitted  to  prifon.  That  they  fhould 
accept  of  twelve  knights  and  other  good  men  for  his  bayle  body  for  body  to  render 
himfelfe  prifoner  agayne  at  the  kings  comaund,  and  foe  deliver  him,  with  a  mandate 
alfo  to  the  Sheriffe  at  the  fame  tyme  to  deliver  his  fayd  prifoner  in  bayle  as  afore- 
fayd  :    CfjC  caufe  I  finde  not. 

pat :  33.  E:  I.  in  £|^auncc  eldefl  fonne  of  this  lord  had  by  the  grant  of  his  Father  (amongft 

other  poffeffions)  vpon  his  manage  fixteene  yeares  nowe  part,  the  Manor  of 
Bedminfter  by  Brifloll,  with  the  ftreet  called  Radecliveftreet  adioyninge  thereto  as 
claus:  "  =  H=^3  ^  member  of  his  faid  Manor;  which  ftreet  by  the  Mayor  and  Inhabitants  of  the 
City  of  Briftoll  was  reputed  as  pt  of  theire  Citty,  And  as  farr  as  the  vnited  wifedome 
of  a  great  Corporacon  could  extend,  had  obtayned  of  the  Crowne  to  have  it  fevered 
from  that  Manor  and  County  of  Somerfett,  and  to  ftand  vnited  to  the  Citty  as 
divers  records  doe  declare  :  ^^10  Maurice  (then  whom  a  more  Martiall  knight  and 
of  a  more  daring  fpirit  of  the  age  of  24  yeares,  the  kingdome,  nor  fcarce  the 
Chriftian  world  then  had)  held  himfelfe,  and  much  more  the  lord  his  Father, 
incroached  vpon,  and  partly  therby  difinherited,  and  efpetially  in  the  liberties  and 
regalities  which  they  claymed,  and  had  long  vfed  to  have  therein;  And  about  which 
many  former  queftions  and  quarrels  had  arifen  :  Maurice  havinge  the  tyme  and 
Matter  alfo  (as  hee  fuppofed)  nowe  fervinge  addreffed  his  petition  to  the  kinge, 
Shewinge,  That  whereas  his  Ma'!"  had  taken  him,  his  men,  lands,  and  goods,  and 
all  hee  had  into  his  proteftion  and  defence  whileft  hee  was  with  him  in  Scotland 
in  his  Warrs,  inhibitinge  all  men,  vnder  his  Seale,  for  doeing  to  him  any  damage 
or  wronge  :  Notwithftandinge,  Thomas  de  la  Grove  of  Briftoll  and  23  others,  (which 
in  the  record  are  named,)  and  many  other  Malefacftors  and  difturbers  of  the  peace, 

233  called  togeather  |  by  ringinge  of  the  Comon  bell  of  Briftoll,  in  hoftile  manner,  came 
to  his  Manor  of  Bedminfter,  affaulted  and  entred  into  and  the  doores  and  gates  of 
his  houfe  brake,  and  his  goodes  to  the  valew  of  five  hundred  marks  from  thence  did 
take  and  carry  away.  And  violently  refcuffed  one  Robert  of  Cornwall  attached  by 

the 


pars 
claus  :  32.  H  :  3 


Uifc  of  Cljonia.^  tJjc  ^cconb 


197 


the  baylyes  of  him  the  fayd  Maurice  for  the  death  of  Jofeph  Winchelfea  there 
flayne,  not  permitting  him  or  his  men  or  Tenants  to  hold  Court  or  to  doe  fuit  to 
his  Manor  of  Radeclivflreet,  nor  to  diflrayne  them  for  their  defaults,  nor  him  nor 
his,  to  buy  or  fell  there,  come,  vidiualls,  or  any  other  wares  &c.  Jt)f)crrt)pon  the 
kinge  grants  forth  his  Comiffion  to  Walter  de  Glouc.  and  Wittm  de  hello  fago  dated 
the  xij'^  of  March  in  the  xxxiij'f'  of  his  raigne,  givinge  them  power  and  authority  to 
enquire  by  a  Jury  of  freeholders  of  Somerfetfhire  of  the  truth  of  theis  matters,  and 
to  determyne  the  fame.  And  to  punifh  as  they  found  caufe.  IDfjilt  was  done  vpon 
this  Comiffion  I  find  not. 


pat:  33.  E:  i.  pars. 
I.  in  dorfo.  111:9.10. 


25ut  forthwith  after,  another  petition  was  exhibited  to  the  king  againfl:  this  eodem.  m.  10. 
Lord  and  the  faid  Maurice  his  fonne,  by  perfons  worthy  of  Credit  (fayth  the  record,) 
Shewing  that  they  had  vfurped  to  themfelves,  fet  and  dominion,  afwell  in  the  flreet 
of  Radeclive,  and  in  the  Towne  of  Briftoll,  As  alfo  in  the  water  of  Avone,  And  had 
with  great  multitudes  of  Hors  and  foot,  enforced  the  Burgeffes  there  to  doe  fuit  to 
their  Court  of  Radecliveftreet,  and  had  beaten  thofe  that  refufed  ;  And  drawinge 
many  of  the  Burgeffes  out  of  theire  houfes  that  refufed  foe  to  doe,  had  caft  them 
into  a  pit.  And  thofe  wives  and  Maydes  that  came  to  helpe  theire  hufbands  and 
miftreffes,  did  in  fuch  fort  foe  call  and  tread  vnder  their  feet,  that  many  of  them 
were  wounded  and  dyed  :  SCtlD  afterwards  meeting  a  bayly  of  Briftoll  in  Frampton 
vpon  Seavern  whoe  defended  the  caufe  of  the  fayd  Towne,  foe  affaulted  and 
wickedly  wounded  him.  That  fhortly  after  hee  dyed  311n&  howe  afterwards  they 
came  to  Tetbury  fayre,  and  there  with  an  armed  rout  of  people,  tooke  and  beat  all 
that  were  Burgeffes  of  Briftoll  there  found,  and  imprifoned  |  and  moft  wickedly  234 
them  there  intreated  :  3lnb  further  tooke  from  the  fayd  Mayor  and  Burgeffes  three 
lewd  theeves  and  wicked  perfons,  whom  at  Briftoll  they  had  imprifoned,  And  by  a 
Corrupt  Jur)'  at  Somerton  in  the  County  of  Somerfett  caufed  them  to  bee  tryed  and 
acquitted  of  the  robberies  that  apparantly  they  had  Comitted,  And  fo  by  fuborna- 
tion  and  praftife  caufed  them  as  honeft  men  to  bee  delivered  3(lnb  furthermore 
entred  vpon  certaine  Shipps  being  vppon  their  Water  at  S!  Katherines  pill  within 
the  bounds  of  the  faid  Towne  expelling  a  faire  wind,  cuttinge  theire  ropes.  Anchors, 
and  Sayles,  vnder  color  of  diftreffes  as  though  the  dominion  of  that  water  to  them, 
and  not  to  the  Mayor  and  Burgeffes  of  Briftoll,  nor  to  his  Ma'!'  had  appertayned. 

311nll  at  the  fame  tyme,  was  alfo  a  fecond  peticon  exhibited  to  the  kinge  againft    membr.  10.  p'di<ft. 
this  Lord  and  his  faid  fonne  S'  Maurice,  by  Adam  the  Cheefmonger  a  Buro-es  of 
Briftoll,  (hewing  howe  this  Lord,  and  the  faid  S'  Maurice,  W™  Parker,  Clarke,  and 

others. 


198 


€l)c  Hibcjef  of  tijc  2£»crftclfpiBf 


others,  had  affaulted  him  in  his  houfe  at  Briftoll,  beat,  wounded  and  dragged  him 
from  out  of  his  houfe,  and  caft  him  into  a  pit  &c. 

mem :  10  predid.  %\^tte  at  the  fame  tyme,  William  Randelfe  late  Mayor  of  Briftoll,  by  a  third 

peticbn  informed  the  Kinge,  That  this  Lord  and  his  faid  fonne  vfurpinge  to  them- 
felves  ^et  and  iurifdi6lion  in  Radcliveftreet  which  is  in  the  Towne  of  Briftoll,  had 
taken  and  beaten  divers  men  of  that  Towne  becaufe  they  would  not  doe  fuit  to 
their  Court,  nor  appeare  there.  3IlnD  that  hee  the  Mayor  defendinge  the  faid  men 
and  burgeffes,  as  hee  ought,  for  the  honor  of  his  Ma'i''  and  according  to  his  Office, 
the  faid  Lord  and  Maurice  his  fonne,  and  26  others  (particularly  named)  at  Dundry 
faire  in  the  parifti  of  Chewe  in  the  County  of  Somerfett,  affaulted  the  faid  Adam 
the  Cheefeman,  and  brake  his  leggs  in  fuch  pittifull  manner  that  the  Marrowe  came 
out  of  his  fhinne  bones. 


lib  :  parliam' :  in 

arce  london  :  33. 

E  :  t.  fol  :  107. 


235 


3llnD  at  the  fame  tyme  at  the  parliament  which  began  the  xvj'!*  of  February  in 
the  fayd  xxxiij'^  yeare  of  the  kinge,  the  then  Mayor  and  Burgeffes  of  Briftoll, 
exhibited  their  further  petitions  to  the  parliam',  to  have  remedy  of  divers  wrongs 
offered  them  by  this  Lord  and  |  his  fonne  Maurice,  fetting  forth,  I^oblC  that  by 
reafon  of  their  Land  which  they  have  in  the  Streete  of  Radeclive  in  the  Suburbs 
of  Briftoll  they  have  appropriated  to  themfelves  Fee  and  Jurifdi6lion  there  to  the 
difinheritance  and  prejudice  of  the  kinge  and  his  Crowne  ;  And  doe  attach  and 
diftrayne  the  faid  Burgeffes  to  anfwere  before  them  in  their  Leets  and  Turns  in 
Radecliveftreet  and  other  Streets  annexed,  againft  the  State  of  the  kinge  and  of  the 
faid  Towne :  3lln&  moreover,  becaufe  the  faid  Burgeffes  have  not  fuffered  the  fayd 
Iniuries,  they  have  beat  and  evill  intreated  them,  afwell  within  the  fayd  Towne,  as 
without,  foe  that  they  have  not  bin  able  to  goe  out  of  the  faid  Towne  to  followe 
their  marchandizinge.  3Ilnil  efpetially  they  complayne  and  fhew.  That  William 
Randolph  Maior  of  the  faid  Towne  at  Dundry  fayre  about  nyne  of  the  Clock,  was 
by  them  and  others  by  theire  procurement,  beaten,  and,  turpiter  vulneratus,  filthily 
wounded  refiftinge  the  keepers  of  the  faid  Fayres,  wherby  they  could  not  give 
fuccor  ;  SCtlll  likewife  for  that  they  did  beate  and  wound  Wittm  le  Lunge  the  kings 
fervant  as  hee  came  from  Glouc  :  towards  Briftoll  in  the  kings  high  waye  ;  %vii 
likewife  for  that  they  beate  wounded  and  evill  intreated  Adam  the  Cheefmonger 
and  William  Brid  twoe  Burgeffes  of  the  fayd  Towne,  becaufe  they  would  not  doe 
fuite  to  their  faid  Court,  not  ceafmg  to  Continew  and  doe  the  like  contempts, 
iniuries,  and  damages,  in  all  fayres  and  marketts  adioyninge  :  5llnD  for  that  they 
tooke  away  out  of  the  faid  ftreet  certayne  men   indited  of  Robbcrye  and  there 

imprifoned 


■  32  1  Sifc  of  iJ:|)omaja(  rljc  «S»ccon&  199 

imprifoned,  knowing  theire  Offences  before  the  Coroner,  And  with  force  and 
Amies  carryed  them  to  their  Manor  of  Bedminfler,  and  from  thence  vnto  Somerton 
where  by  people  vnknowne  they  were  delivered,  as  though  they  had  bene  honed 
men,  %ntx  laflly  that  the  faid  Maurice  tooke  diftreffes  in  their  Shipps  adioyninge 
to  the  River  of  Avone,  where  none  can  diflrayne  but  onely  the  kinge  by  his 
Minifters,  31111  which  were  done,  fay  they,  by  this  Lord  and  his  fonne  Maurice 
during  the  tymes  the  kinge  was  in  his  Warrs,  whereof  they  pray  remedy. 

Ita  refponfum  efl.  The  anfwere  of  the   Parliam',  was  this,   faith  the  record. 
Rex  vult  &c.     The  king  will,   That  twoe  good  and  (fenfati)  found  vnderflandinge 
men,  togeather  with  the  Conflable  of  Briftoll  Caflle,  |  doe  heare  and  determine  the    236 
faid  Complaints,  And  if  any  difficultye  arife  whereby  they  cannot  determine  with- 
out the  kinge.  Then  they  fliall  make  report  at  the  next  Parliam'. 

'CljC  kinge  wills,  That  John  de  Bottetort,  William  Haward,  and  Nicholas 
Fernebrand  Conflable  of  Brifloll,  bee  affigned  to  heare  and  determine  all  the 
offences  aforefayd  in  forme  aforefayd. 

3llnd  thereupon  three  Comiffions  were  the  vij'^  of  Aprill  in  the  fame  xxxiiij'? 
yeare  made  to  them  vnder  the  great  Seale  by  dire6lion  from  the  kinge  and  his 
Counfell :  into  which  alfo  was  put  Peter  Malore  an  other  iudge,  belike  at  the 
further  requeft  of  the  one  party. 

Cl)U^  were  this  Lord  and  his  fonne  rebutted  with  fower  petitions  in  fleed  of 
theire  one. 

3Df)nt  the  fequell  of  this  angry  bufmes  was,  let  the  deed  of  this  Lord  Thomas  claus.  34.  E :  i. 
inrolled  in  the  Chancery  dated  the  xj'!'  of  July  the  yeare  following,  tell  in  his  owne 
words :  Ci)at  whereas  his  lord  the  kinge  had  pardoned  him  and  Maurice  his  fonne 
and  theire  men  thofe  offences,  whereof  before  John  Botitort  and  his  fellowe 
Juflices  they  were  lately  indifted  in  the  County  of  Gloc:,  and  for  which  before  the 
kings  Councell  they  were  after  fyned  at  one  thoufand  markes,  Hee  nowe  promifeth 
tp  ferve  the  kinge  in  his  prefent  warre  of  Scotland  with  tenne  Armed  horfmen 
vnder  his  fonne  Thomas  or  fome  other  fit  Captayne  at  his  owne  Charges  againft 
Robert  de  Brus  and  his  Complices  the  kings  enimyes,  from  S'  Lawrance  day  next, 
(Anno.  34.  E  :  i)  as  longe  as  the  kinge  fhalbee  in  Scotland  in  his  owne  perfon  : 
To  the  performance  whereof,  hee  binds  himfelfe  and  all  his  landes,  goods,  and 
Chattells  in  England.  I^eoce 


200 


€|)c  %iXic0  of  tf)t  25a:hdcpjaf 


Pat :  34.  E  :  i .  m  : 

14. 

Trin:rec:cmrein 

thefaur.  in  Sccio 

34.  E:  I. 


obligacon  yet 

remaynes  in  the 

Excheq^  loAuguft. 

237 


fl^CStC  alfo  the  kinge  himfelfe  fpeakinge  in  his  pardon  dated  the  fecond  daye  of 
the  fayd  July  in  the  fayd  xxxiiij'^of  his  raigne,  That  whereas  dile6lus  confanguineus 
et  fidelis  nofter  our  welbeloved  and  faythfuU  Cozen  Thomas  de  Berkeley  and 
Maurice  his  fonne  and  theire  men  were  indited  of  divers  mifdemeanors  and  Offences 
at  Gloc  :  before  John  de  Botitort  and  his  fellowe  Juflices  for  which  hee  and  they 
were  after  fined  to  one  thowfand  markes  before  our  Councell  |15otDC  for  that  hee 
is  become  bound  by  obligacon  to  ferve  vs  with  ten  Armed  horfmen  in  our  warrs  in 
Scotland  from  Saint  Lawrance  |  day  next  at  his  owne  Charges,  vntill  wee  enter  into 
Scotland,  and  thenceforward  whilefl  wee  fhall  bee  there  perfonally,  Therevpon  wee 
pardon  &  releafe  to  him  and  them  thofe  offences  and  the  fayd  one  thowfand  markes. 


3|n  which  pardon  the  word  (Cozen)  from  the  kinge  to  this  Barone  makes  mee 

alfo  conceive  the  rayther,  That  his  Mother  the  Lady  Ifable  in  whofe  right  of  bloud 

fol.  [163]    the  kinge  foe  called  him,  was  his  Father  kinge  Henries  Neece  of  lawfull  difcent, 

and  not  bafe  daughter  of  his  brother  Richard  Kinge  of  Almaigne,  as  before  is 

touched  in  the  life  of  the  Lord  Maurice  this  Lords  Father. 


carta :  4, 


E:3 
m:5. 


pat.  4  ••  E :  3. 
pars.  I.  in  dorfo 


Pat.  4 :  E :  3  dorfo. 


511ntl  to  avoyd  a  fraction  in  an  entire  bufines,  heare  a  little  more  what  followed 
in  the  dayes  of  Thomas  the  third,  grandchilde  of  this  Lord  Thomas  the  fecond  ; 
3[lt  the  fourth  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  the  Mayor  and  Burgeffes  of  Briftoll 
obtayned  a  Confirmation  of  all  their  former  Charters  and  liberties,  and  amongfl  the 
reft,  of  the  Charter  of  the  xx.\j'^  of  Henry  the  third.  That  Radecliveftreet  fhould 
anfweare  vnto  and  bee  within  the  Jurifdiftion  of  the  Burgeffes  of  Briftoll  and  noe 
where  els  :  Whereat  the  Mayor  and  Burgeffes,  feeminge  to  take  encouragem',  gave 
the  faid  Lord  Thomas  by  their  frefh  infolencies  iuft  caufe  to  Complayne  to  the 
kinge;  C{)at  whereas  hee  had  in  certaine  places  within  the  Suburbs  of  the  Towne  of 
Briftoll  amongft  his  Tennants  and  inhabitants  there,  the  reformacon  of  the  Affizes 
of  bread  and  beere,  pillory,  trumbrell  (fie),  and  other  liberties.  That  the  Mayor  and 
Baylyes  of  the  Towne  and  Cominalty  there  by  ringing  of  the  Comon  bell,  affembled 
themfelves  togeather,  and  riotoufiy  affaulted  and  wounded  his  Baylyes  there.  And 
with  an  Armed  power  deftroyed  the  fayd  tumbrell  and  pillory  ;  And  tooke  John 
Hind  his  Bayly,  carryed  him  to  their  guild  hall,  and  compelled  him  to  fweare  not 
to  execute  any  Judgements  in  the  Courts  there  at  any  time  after.  HDflCtCbpott 
a  Comiffion  was  fent  to  three  Judges  of  the  land  to  enquire  of  the  truth  of  the 
premiffes  by  a  Jury  of  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  and  accordingly  to  Order  the 
matter,  dated  the  twentieth  daye  of  Auguft  :  what  became  further  thereof,  I  find 
not.   Save  that  the  xxvj'^  of  December  followinge,   the    Mayor   and    Cominalty' 

exhibited 


I32I 


Hifc  of  Cljomatf  tf\c  ^cconli 


20 1 


exhibited  a  petition  to  the  kinge  to  have  the  grant  of  a  leet   in  exprefs  wordes 

within  theire  burrowe,  wherein  |  it  feemes,  this  Lord  had  found  them  defeftive  ;    238 

which  In  the  yeare  followinge  they  obtayned  for  the  fine  of  forty  pownds,  takinge    Pat:s.  E:3.m:  13. 

the  advantage  of  tyme  whilefl  the  fayd  Lord  was  in  trouble  about  the  murder  of 

King  Edward  the  fecond  in  his  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  as  followeth  in  his  Hfe.  fol:  [350] 

^i^  'Mmc^  oitti  bctottoitie^ 

Cl^  Almes  and  devout  guifts  of  this  Lord  to  hofpitalls,  monafleries,  chantries, 
and  other  the  Hke  Orders  of  rehgion,  were  honorable,  yet  carryed,  accordinge  to 
the  coolnes  of  that  age,  with  a  hand  leffe  extended  then  his  Anceftors. 

<©ttC  of  the  Abbots  of  S'  Auguflines  hath  of  him  theis  honefl  Englifli  wordes  :    Newl:  pedeg.  et  2. 
This  good  lord  Thomas  Lord  of  Berkeley  gave  many  yefts  to  our  Monaftery  of  S!    Berkele'^'^'^'^  '^^ 
Augufhines,  As  in  plate,  veflments,  and  other  ornaments  to  the  valour  of  the  plate 
— xxxij''- .  iij'- .  iiij**-.  as  it  more  largely  appeareth  in  our  mortiloge  every  thinge  of 
his  bequeft.     Thus  the  Abbot. 


3£l0O  by  deed  dated  the  firft  of  June  in  the  xxxv'^  yeare  of  king  Edward  the    carta  in  Caftro 
firfl,  (wherein  this  lord  caufed  Maurice  his  fonne  to  Joyne,)  they  did,  for  the  helth    '^^  Berkeley, 
of  theire  foules  and  the  honor  of  holy  religion,  confirme  to  the  fayd  Monaftery  of    CaRrodeBerkeley. 
S'  Auguftines  all  the  guifts  and  grants  of  Robert  fit5  Hardinge  and  other  theire 
Anceftors,  with  all  theire  rights,   liberties,   and  free   Cuftomes  vfed,   or  not  vfed  : 
3Cnli  further  granted  a  veiwe  of  franke  pledge  of  all  the  men  and  Tenants  of  the 
faid  Abbot  and  Covent  afwell  free  as  villaines  in  all  their  Manors  and  lands  within 
the  hundreds  and  Manors  of  the  fayd  Lord  Thomas  and  Maurice  in  the  Counties 
of  Glouc  :  and  Somerfett ;  And  that  they  fliould  have  ftocks,  cage,  tumbrell,  pillory,    colliftrigia 
Cuckingftoole,  and  other  Juditialls  and  caftigatories,  and]  executions  of  iudgments 
in  all  their  Courts  in  their  hundreds  and  Manors,  except  in  the  Towne  of  Berkeley, 
and  to  be  altogeather  exempted  from  the  baylies  and   minifters  of  the  faid  lord 
Thomas  and  his  fonne  Maurice  and  of  their  heires.  I 


trebuchets. 


Co  the  Abbot  of  Kingefwood  this  Lord,  for  the  welfare  of  his  foule,  gave  fower    239 
Acres  of  land  in  Wotton  neer  vnto  their  Monaftery  and  a  quarr:  of  ftone  at  Combe    ^'■"''''^ '"  Caftro 
for  the  vfe  of  theire  Monaftery  :   %nlX  alfo  confirmed  the  grants  of  Thomas  de 
Afhleworth  and  others,  of  divers  lands  in  this  lords  Manor  of  Hame,  To  hold  in 
pure  Almes  ;  whereto',  Maurice,  Thomas,  and  John,  this  lords  fonns,  (then  knights,) 
are  wittneffes. 

2D  /^0 


de  lierkeley. 
carta.  33.  E:  1.  in 
Caftro  deBerkeley. 


202 


Cfjc  Hitc^  of  tlje  2£»crhckp^ 


Carta  in  Caftro  ^0  the  prior  of  S'  Bartholomewes  hofpitall  in  Glouc :  and  to  the  Fryars  there, 

er  e  y.    ^^^.^  Lord  Thomas  gave  divers  lands  in  Cowley  ;  3t.ntl  alfo  releafed  to  them  all  the 

rents  and  Services  which  hee  had  from  them  for  theire  other  lands  in  Cowley  holden 

magna  chartul.    ^j-  j^jj^      ^^^  which  the  fayd  Prior  granted  that  hee  and  all  his  Succeffors  would 

de  Berkeley,    euery  yeare  for  ever  on  the  feaft  day  of  S'  Ambrofe  and  on  the  Morrowe  after,  hold 

withall  folemnity  the  Aniverfary  day  of  the  lord  Maurice  his  father  and  of  the  lady 

I  fable  his  Mother,  in  pleno  choro  fuo  in  their  full  quire  in  their   Monaflery,  in 

Maffes,  pfalteries,  prayers,  and  all  other  benefitts  and  obfequies  there  vfed  for  the 

dead. 

5Ilnb  further  granted  to  performe  the  like  for  the  Soules  of  himfelfe  and  the 
lady  Jone  his  wife,  and  of  S'  Maurice  their  fonne  once  yearly  after  their  feuerall 
deceafes. 

corap.  de  wotton,  i^q  the  fryars  Minors  of  Glouc:  and  to  the  fryars  preachers,  and  to  divers  other 

temp:  E:  i.  et  E:  2.    Orders  of  religion  in  Glouc:  Briftoll,  and  other  places,  this  Lord  gave  yearly  duringe 

in  Caftro  de    j^jg  jjfg  divers  quarters  of  wheat  out  of  the  Severall  graynaries  of  his  Manor  houfes, 
Berkeley.  . 

to  a  very  large  proportion. 


Carta  in  Caftro  de 
Berkeley.  32  E:  i. 


CfjC  prior  of  Stanley  and  his  predeceffors  were  of  old  tyme  accuflomed  of  right 
to  feafl  the  Baylies  and  Tenants  of  this  Lord  and  his  Anceftors  dwelling  in  their 
Manors  of  Cowley  and  Came,  every  yeare  in  harvefl  tyme  ;  To  the  which  feafl, 
(to  the  wronge  and  greefe  of  the  fayd  pryor  and  Covent,  as  they  alleadged,)  many 
did  come  fayninge  themfelves  to  bee  the  faid  Lords  fervants,  baylyes  and  Tenants, 
when  they  were  not :  Nowe  this  lord  (I  write  the  wordes  of  the  Deed)  out  of  his 
devotion  to  religion,  pondering  the  great  damage  thereby  done  to  the  fayd  pryor, 
will  not  hereafter  permit  the  fame,  5finD  therefore  hee  and  the  pryor  nowe  thus 
mutually  agree,  That  the  pryor  and  his  fucceffors  in  lieu  of  the  faid  feaft,  fhall 
henceforth  give  to  every  Reeve  and  Bayly  of  this  lords  faid  Manors  .  iiij?  yearly, 
And  to  every  reaper  of  the  fayd  pryors  corne  iij^  And  to  every  boy  gatheringe  vp 
the  Corne .  ij!^  And  to  every  raker,  i^  ob.,  by  teftimony  of  the  baylyes  there  for  the 
tyme  being,  for  ever  every  yeare  :  HDtjicI)  pryory  of  Stanley  was  a  Cell  to  the  greate 
Monaftery  of  S'  Peters  in  Glouc  :  | 


240  25cttoccnc  which  Abbot  of  Glouc:  and  this  Lord  and  fixteene  of  his  free  Tenants 

Berkeir  T •  e'^T    °^  Cowley,  It  was  for  the  good  of  the  faid  Abbot  and  his  Monaftery,  agreed,  touch- 
ing the  Comon  of  pafture  lyinge  in  Southfeilde,  beetweene  Cowley  and  Frocefter, 

(a  Manor 


I32I 


Uifc  of  <Ct)oiiur!tf  tl)c  -ScfonD 


203 


(a  Manor  of  the  faid  Abbots,)  That  the  faid  Lord  and  his  I  enants  of  Cowley  and    Magn :  Chan :  fol : 
T  T    If  /r       t      1  r  1-1  1-11  r        ■  206  in  Caflro  de 

Hullmancote,  (for  the  love  of  peace  and  avoidance  of  all  controverlies  in  tyme  to    Berkeley. 

come,)  fhoiild  peaceably  comon  withall  their  beads,  (out  of  the  clofe  of  the  fayd 

Abbot  and  his  Tenants,)  in  meadowe,  paflure  an-d  arrable  land  in  the  faid  feild  in 

all  places  for  ever,  from  lapleifbridg  along  barrowhills  way  &c.  (boundinge  the  feild 

round  about.)     Qfinll  likewife,  howe  farr  the  fayd  Abbot  and  his  Tenants  fhould 

Comon,  and  where ;  And  how  either  of  the  faid  two  Lords  and  their  tenants  of 

their  faid   Manors  of  Cowley  and  F"rocefler,  might  at  theire  pleafure  inclofe  and 

keepe  their  grounds  in  feveralty.     l]Dt)t(t)  in  this  place,  I  the  rather  mention,  in 

regard  complaints  of  interruptions  have  come  before  mee  by  the  Tenants  of  Cowley, 

as  I  have  held  the  Courts  of  that  Manor,   And  are  like  to  kindle  a  fuite  hereafter, 

which  the  knowledge  of  this  Deed  will  quench  and  determyne  ;  both  parts  whereof 

remayne  in  Berkeley  Caflle. 

'CijijSf  lord  gave  to  Walter  Simonds  his  Chaplen  for  the  terme  of  his  life,  all    carta.  14:  E:  2.  in 

the  lands  and  Tenements  in  poffeffion  and  revercbn  in  Came  and  Cowley  which  ^' 

hee  had  purchafed  in  ffee  fimple  of  Margarett  de  Valers,  togeather  with  his  diet, 

chamber  and  lodginge,  in  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley    To  the  end   hee  fhould  in  all 

duties  and  fervices  devoutly  and  canonically  celebrate  in  the  Chappie  of  his  Caflell    capella  in  Caftro 

.  .  .  .       de  Berkeley, 

of  Berkeley  for  the  foules  of  Maurice  his  father,  Ifable  his  Mother,  and  Joane  his 

wife,  and  of  his  Anceflors  and  heires,  and  decently  to  keepe  all  the  Ornaments  of 

the  faid  Chappell  :  for  which  alfoe,  hee  fhould  have  his  part  of  the  Offrings  of  the 

faid  Chappie  with  the  other  Chaplaines  there  :  5Cllb  this  was  the  lafl;  pious  AS.  I 

find  of  this  Lord  done  a  fewe  dayes  before  his  death. 


%ViX  (to  conclude  this  religious  title,)  this  In  generall  was  this  Lords  pra6lice,    diveriicomp:temp: 
That  in  certayne  feftivalls  of  the  yeare  his  Receiver  or  like  Officer  delivered,  ad    CaflrodeBerkeley. 
burfam  dni  in  minutis  argenti,  to  this  Lords  purfe,  fmall  peeces  of  filver,  which  at 
thofe  feafts  of  Chriftmas,  Eafler,  Whitfontide,  and  fome  others,  hee  liberally  reached 
out  vnto  I  the  poore,  3(lntl,  at  his  Maundy,  once  yearly,  clothed  many  poore  people;    241 
And  many  of  thofe  Accompts  fhew  vs  this  further  faire  frute  of  this  Lords  Charity, 
That  each  yeare  almoft  hee  pardoned  and  gave  backe  to  many  of  the  poorer  fort 
of  his  Copihold  Tenants  in  all  or  mofl  of  his  Manors,  a  great  part  of  thofe  dayes 
workes  which  by  the  Cuftome  of  their  Copihold  eflate  they  were  of  right  to  performe 
vnto  him  :  %t6i  in  yeares  of  dearth  and  Scarcity,  loaned  to  many  of  them  (not  able 
then  to  buy)  wheat'  and  other  corne  out  of  his  grayneries,  to  bee  repayd  in  like 
kinde  after  harv'eft,  when  perhaps,  the  price  was  not  at  halfe  the  value,  as  at  the 

2  D  2  tymes 


204 


€ife  HitJcjef  of  tfiz  25crhricpjsf 


1281 


claus  :  17.  E  :  2. 

m:3. 

eod.  anno,  m :  11. 

comp :  recept :  et 

miniflr  diiifor 

maner.  2.  5.  9.  10. 

E  :  2.  et  at  :  in 

Caflro  deBerkeley. 


tymes  of  loaninge  9lln&  for  a  further  manifeftacon  of  his  annuall  and  flandinge 
Charitye  to  poore  widowes,  and  men,  within  his  Manors,  in  food  and  rayment  for 
the  lyves  of  tliofe  poore  people,  are  the  records  and  proofes  marginally  vouched, 
whereby  they  had  reftitution  thereof  from  the  kinge,  whoe  had  feized  the  faid 
Manors  by  reafon  of  his  fonnes  rebellion,  and  thereby  with-held  the  payments  for 
two  yeares. 


a^i^ccnaimjS,  or  bariou^  pajfjafagcjef  not  agtip  rcbuceb  unticr  anp  t^t  former  titlejef 


Rot :  efcuag  :  3 1 
E  :  I.  m  :  I. 


Littleton  ten  : 

cap  :  2. 

Cookes  infl.it :  fo  : 

19 

Cokes.  10.  rep  :  fo 

Plowden  com  : 

lo  :  Berkeleys 

242 

and  Willons 

cafe. 

fols:  [187.  188] 


See 
before  fol:  [iJ 


3(n  the  xxxj'^  yeare  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft,  this  Lord  had  his  feverall  writts 
out  of  the  Chancery  to  the  Sherifes  of  the  Countyes  of  Devon,  Somerfett,  Dorfett, 
Berks,  Wiltefli .  and  Gloucefter,  to  leavy  to  his  vfe  efcuage  of  thofe  that  held  of 
him  by  knight  fervice,  and  had  not  attended  him  in  his  voyages  to  the  warrs. 

C{)ijeC  Lord  was  prefent  at  the  parliament  called  Weflminfler  the  fecond,  holden 
in  the  xiij'^  yeare  of  Edward  the  firft,  when  the  Statute  of  donis  conditionalibus 
was  enafted,  foe  remarkeable  in  all  the  volumes  of  the  lawes  to  this  day  :  The  root 
of  entayles,  and  the  foundation  wherevpon  hee  and  the  other  great  lords  his  Peeres 
in  that  parliament  laboured  to  build  vp  their  houfes  |  againfl  heaven,  without  any 
alyenation  by  theire  iffues,  or  forfeiture,  or  efcheate  ;  Removinge  theire  greife  by 
that  lawe,  That  tenant  in  tayle  after  iffue  had,  might  alyen,  contra  voluntatem 
donatoris  et  contra  formam  in  carta  expreffam,  againfl  the  donors  will  and  the  very 
forme  of  his  Deede  ;  whereof  I  have  fomewhat  before  fpoken  and  of  the  mifcheifes 
it  hath  hatched.  And  much  more  will  the  Marginalls  infi:ru61:.  ^Ulttl  was  alfo  prefent 
at  the  parliament  called  Weflminfler  the  third,  holden  in  the  xviij'?"  yeare  of  that 
kinge,  when  the  Statute  of  Quia  emptores  terrar,  (as  remarkeable  as  the  former,) 
was  enafted,  whereby  thofe  great  lords  mightily  provided  for  themfelves,  theire 
tenures,  fervices,  and  profits,  by  fetlinge  the  free  fervices  of  their  free  holders  ;  A 
lawe  begun  at  the  former  parliament  and  nowe  finifhed,  as  by  the  preamble 
appeareth  :  %titi  theis  great  Lords  havinge  fmarted  by  writs  of  Quo  warranto 
queftioning  theire  liberties,  (whereof  I  have  formerly  mentioned  five  brought 
againft,  this  Lord  for  his  part,)  which  becaufe  they  could  not  prevent,  they  were 
loth  to  endure  ;  This  lord  and  the  reft  of  his  Peeres  nowe  alfo  gayned  vpon  the 
Crowne  by  two  Statutes,  the  eflabliflim'  of  theire  liberties  and  franchifes  ;  the  eafe 
and  benefit  whereof  the  pofterity  of  this  lord  hath  relifhed  to  this  day  :  As  alfo 
they  further  did  in  the  thirtieth  yeare  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft,  by  an  accreffe  to 
the  former,  of  Quo  warranto. 


%tCt 


13^1  life  of  <Jri)omaie(  t!)c  <ig>ccoiid  205 

5llnD  three  yeares  after  the  xxi'^  of  that  kinge  at  the  parliament  then  holden,  at 
the  inllance  of  the  Nobles,  as  the  preamble  fliewes,  was  enac^led  that  fevere  lawe 
againfl  trefpaffers  in  parkes,  warrens  &c.  whereby,  (in  this  family,)  was  faved  of 
late  yeares,  the  life  of  James  Harvey  an  vnderkeeper  in  new  parke,  who  with  a 
forker  out  of  his  Crofbowe  flewe  one  Oliffe,  As  in  the  life  of  Henry  Lord  Berkeley  'ol  =  [^"1 
is  after  to  bee  read. 

3Iln&  likewife  was  prefent  in  the  xxxiij*  and  xxxiiij'^  yeares  of  that  kinge,  when 
were  made  the  hufbandly  lawes  for  meafuring  of  land,  which  holds  to  this  day  : 
3llnb  againfl  amortizement  of  Lands,  to  hinder  the  vaft  growinge  of  the  Clergy  : 
3IIiUJ  then  wrefled  a  pardon  for  refufmg  to  paff  over  feas  with  the  kinge  in  his 
warrs  into  Flanders,  w'*"  the  denouncinge  of  a  curfe  vpon  the  breakers  thereof,  as  is 
formerly  touched  in  this  lords  forraigne  imployments.  |  fol :  |.!io] 

^S^vp  other  I  find  to  have  bene  the  imployments  of  this  Lord  in  other  Civill  243 
affaires,  not  before  mentioned  vnder  any  title,  for  the  governm'  of  the  Country,  and 
determyninge  of  Controverfies  in  divers  Countyes,  which  mofl  yeares  hee  vnder- 
went  ;  divers  of  the  cheefe  whereof,  theis  vouchers  will  dire6l  his  pofterity  vnto  : 
viz!  Paten  :  26  .  E  :  i  .  in  dorfo  /  pat  :  27  E  :  i  .  dorfo  :  /  paten  :  28  .  E  :  i  .  dorfo  :  / 
pat  :  6  :  E  :  2  .  pars  2  .  dorfo  :  /pat :  7  E  :  2  .  pars  .  i  .  in  dorfo  :  /  pat  9  :  E  :  2  .  dorfo  :  / 
pat  10  E  :  2  .  pars .  2  .  in  dorfo .  /  And  many  of  his  Receivers  and  Miniflers  accompts 
in  theis  tymes  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley. 

l^ijef  Wiie 

Cljifif  lord  by  the  care  of  the  Lord  Maurice  his  father,  about  the  xxij'^  yeare  of 
his  age,  and  about  the  one  and  fiftieth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  kinge   Henry  the 
third,  what  tyme  Maurice  his  elder  brother  was  livinge,  tooke  to  wife  the  Lady 
Joane  daughter  of  Wittm  de  Ferrars  the  yonger,  Earle  of  Ferrars  and  Derby,  and    Hillar :  15.  E:4. 
of  Margaret  his  fecond  wife,  eldeft  daughter  and  coheire  of  Roger  de  Quincy  Earle    plifch''i6  £14: 
of  Winchefler,  and  of  Ellen  his  firfl:  wife,  daughter  and  heire  of  Alan   Lord  of    ""o'-  41°  '"  banco. 
Galloway  in  Scotland,  in  whofe  right  hee  was  Conflable  of  Scotland  :  which  Joane 
was  alfo  fifter  vnto  Robert  Earle  of  Ferrars  and  Derby,  and  of  Wittm   Lord  and 
Baron  of  Groby.     25p  her  this  Lord  Thomas  had   iffue  that  came  to  ripenes  of 
age,  fower  fonnes  and  two  daughters,  of  each  of  whom,  as  followeth  in  their  places. 

Cf)C  portion  fhee  brought  in  mariage,  was  the  Manor  and  advowfon  of  Cofton    magn :  chart :  fo. 
in  the  County  of  Leicefler,  which   Robert  her  brother  conveyed  to  her  in  tayle,    BeJkeiev^    ° 

whereto 


2o6 


€l)c  HibCiBf  of  tl)c  ^exMe^^ 


Antiq  :  liber  em 

Hen :  Berkeley  de 

wimond  ha 

baronetto. 

Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

244 

Aflls  :  apud  Hunt- 
ing :  56.  H  :  3. 


whereto  the  Earles  of  Winchefter,  of  Glouc:  of  Leicefter,  and  her  vnckles  Thomas 
and  William  Ferrars,  were  wittneffes,  31lntl  had  alfo  the  manor  of  Eynefbury  in  the 
County  of  Huntington,  which  the  fayd  Roger  de  Quincy  Earle  of  Winchefler  and 
Conflable  of  Scotland  her  grandfather,  conveyed  to  her  in  ffee  fimple  before 
mariage,  To  hold  by  the  fourth  part  of  a  knights  ffee  ;  %n^  had  alfo  that  |  part  of 
land  which  after  in  partition  fell  vnto  her. 


divefi  com  pi  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley. 


compi  de  Hurfl. 

et  at.  maner : 

temp  :  E  :  I.  in 


^'^CC  proved  a  vertuous  Lady  and  great'  hufwife,  and  a  wife  overfeer  of  fuch 
houfehold  aftayres  as  were  proper  to  her  fex  and  governement,  as  many  paffages  in 
the  minifters  accompts  of  her  hufbands  Manors,  and  houfliold  officers,  declare  : 
fome  of  which  doe  intimate.  That  when  fhee  came  to  theis  farme  houfes  (as  often 
fhee  did)  to  overfee  or  take  accompt  of  her  dairy  affaires,  fliee  oftentymes  fpent  in 
provifions  at  a  meale  there,  the  valewe  of  iiij''  and  iiij^  ob.  whereof  allowance  was 
Caflrode  Berkeley  afterwards  given  to  the  Accomptant  before  her  hufbands  Auditor  at  the  end  of  the 
yeare  :  And  fometymes  alfo  a  cheefe  of  two  pound  weight  was  at  fuch  a  tyme  fpent 
by  her  Attendants  ;  5ilnll  in  fuch  hufwifely  courfes  this  virtuous  Lady  fpent  a  part 
of  her  aged  and  weake  yeares  vntill  her  death  :  3Ilnll  let  none  thinke  this  courfe  of 
life  a  bafenes  in  this  pious  lady,  derived  either  from  her  birth  or  praftife  :  The 
noblenes  of  her  birth  adds  a  luftre  to  all  that  fucceede  in  her  pofterity  ;  And  her 
praftife,  (wifely  weighed  by  the  wife,)  fuch  as  may  bee  a  prefident  for  imitacon. 
Ci)i\t  Lady,  that  out  of  the  vanity  of  her  owne  tumor,  holds  herfelfe  debafed  by  her 
infight  into  her .  houfhold  affaires,  cafts  herfelfe  (with  all  wife  men)  into  a  lowe 
reputacon,  and  hir  hufbands  eftate  into  a  confumption. 

3(n  choyce  of  wife,  it  ever  much  doth  lye  ; 

To  mend  our  felves,  in  our  pofterity. 

SCnb  it  was  not  the  leaft  of  this  good  Ladyes  virtues,  not  to  fuffer  her  owne 
opinion  of  herfelfe,  to  exceed  in  her  owne  eflimacon  of  herfelfe  ;  Knoweinge  that 
moderation  of  fpirit,  which  is  our  indifferent  efteeminge  of  our  felves  with  others, 
doth  comprehend  the  very  excellency  of  all  humanity,  being  the  mofl  noble  degree 
in  our  nature,  and  the  very  next  to  the  dignity  of  grace  :  Neither  is  there  any 
morall  vertue  which  more  comendeth  this  fex  to  a  generall  eflimacon,  whereof  this 
good  lady  is  a  pregnant  prefident. 


(Jarta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


5it  nppcnrcjBf  by  Divers  Deeds  that  in  the  xxvj'!'  yeare  of  Edward  the  firfl,  and 
in  other  yeares,  this  Lady  by  hir  deeds  contra(5led  with  Richard  de  wike  and 
others,  as  if  fhee  had  bene  a  feme  fole  :    And  for  her  feale  conftantly  vfed  the 

pifture 


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Hifc  of  <rt)onmjflf  tf)c  ,i$rcou& 


207 


pi(fture  of  her  felfe,  holding  in  her  right  hand  the   Efchucheon  of  her  Hufbands 
Armes,  the  Chevron  without  the  Croffes,  And  in  her  left  hand  |  the  Efchucheon  of   245 
her  fathers  family,  fircumfcribed  .  S  :  Johannae  de  Berkelai. 

^IjfC  was  his  love,  his  flay,  his  weale,  his  wife 

i^i^  comforter,  his  other  felfe,  his  life. 


^Ct  cititt  yeares  were  weake  and  fickley,  part  of  whofe  Phificke  for  her  better    Comp :  de  Port- 
health,  was  fawinge  of  billetts  and  fticks,  for  which  caufe  fliee  had  before  her  death    Berk,  et  alii  comp. 
yearly   bought  certaine   fine   handfawes  which   Ihee  vfed   in   her  chamber,   which    '^i"- 
comonly  cofl  ij"^  a  peece. 

%0  winter  fteales  the  fap  from  tree  and  Flowre, 
Soe  death  comes  creepinge  nearer  every  houre. 

j^Cr   phifitians  were  by  the  Journey  of  M'  James  her    fonne,    fetched   from    comp.  de  Came. 
Oxford,  whoe  departinge  in  the  evening  from   Berkeley,  lodged  the  firfl  night  at    dg  Berkeley, 
the  Manor  houfe  of  Came,  where  the  horfes  of  their  Company  fpent  a  quarter  of 
Oates. 

^t^et  dyed  the  xix'!"  of  March.  1309  in  the  third  yeare  of  King  Edward  the    comp  :de  Cam: 
fecond,  and  was  buried  in  the  Monaftery  of  S'  Auguflines  by  Briftoll,  in  the  Arch    Al'iciniitonV  E- j 

betweene  the  Veflrj^  and  the  South  He,  after  fhe  had  bene  his  wife,  about  42  yeares.    Newl :  ped  :  in 

CallrodeBerkeley. 
311nD  there  her  duft  in  pawne  fliall  ftill  remayne 

CiU  when  the  world  diffolves,  her  foule  fhall  come  agayne. 

Chrifto  duce  et  offa  refurgent  :  jpor  whofe  foule  her  hufband  that  yeare  and 
in  the  next  followinge,  doaled  ten  quarters  of  Wheat  and  beanes  in  each  of  his 
Manors  to  his  poorefl:  bondmen  tenants  to  pray  for  her  ;  3iln&  twelve  yeares  after 
layd  downe  his  owne  bones  to  reft  by  hers  ;  That  as  their  two  harts  in  life  were 
tyed  togeather  with  an  entire  amity,  foe  after  death  theire  two  bodies  might  feeme 
vnited  in  one  vnity  of  Dufl  and  fepulture. 

I.  <©f  the  mixt  life  of  Maurice  th'eldell  fonne,  I  after  write  at  large. 


Comp.  de  Alking- 
ton.  4:  E:  2.  in 
Caflro  deBerkeley . 


2.    SrijC  fecond  fonne  of  this  Lord,  was  Thomas,  whofe  worthines  afwell  en-  246 

largeth,   my  pen,  as  for  that  hee  is  ftock-father  of  that  honored  family  |  of  the  Berkeley  of 

Berkeleys  of  Wymondham  in  the  County  of  Leicefler,  where  his  male  poflerity  ^^'>™ondham. 
flourifheth  at  this  daye  .  Anno  .  1628.                                                               Mr  Vincent 


208 


€l)c  Uibcjar  of  tt\£  25nrftdcp;sf 


1281 


Vincent  fo :  206.  M!  Vincent  in  his  learned  booke  of  the  difcovery  of  Ralph  Brookes  errors, 

(yorke  herauld)  printed  1622  .  hath  thus  :  Wittm  de  fferrars  Earle  Ferrars  and 
Darby  by  Margarett  his  fecond  wife  had  a  daughter  called  Joane  marryed  to 
Thomas  Lord  Berkeley,  who  had  by  her  Maurice  lord  Berkeley  and  S"^  Thomas 
Berkeley  of  Wimondham  in  the  County  of  Leicefler,  from  whome  S'  Henry  Berke- 
ley of  Wimondham  Baron'  nowe  livinge,  Anno.  1621  .  is  difcended,  As  appeareth 
very  plainly  by  the  book  of  S'  Auguflines  in  Briflowe.     Soe  Vincent. 


Rot :  walHie:  23. 
E :  I  m  :  4. 

comp.  de  Slim- 

bridg.  25.  E  :  i.  in 

caflrode  Berkeley. 

pat:  24.  E:  I.  m  : 

19  bis. 

rot:  protedt.  25. 

E:  I.  pars  2.  m.  3 

et  15. 

pat:  24.  E:  i.  m. 


3ft  Ijfltl)  already  in  the  life  of  this  Lord  Thomas  bene .  touched,  howe  this 
Thomas,  his  fecond  fonne,  attended  him  in  that  martiall  expedicon  into  Wales  in 
the  xxiij'.''  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  what  tyme  hee  was  not  above  fowerteene 
yeares  old,  when  the  extirpation  of  the  welfh  name  was  intended  by  this  martiall 
kinge,  5llnll  howe  hee  was  with  his  faid  Father  in  the  xxiiij'^  and  xxv'^  yeares  of  that 
kinge  at  the  warrs  in  Scotland,  and  at  the  feidge  of  Berwicke,  where  hee  was 
knighted  :  ^n  which  Scottifh  warre,  this  yonge  knight  S'  Thomas  loft  his  horfe, 
whofe  colour  is  in  the  Record  defcribed  to  bee,  roucini  favi  cum  capite  albo  et 
crifta  nigra  :  A  Dun  Curtail  horfe  with  a  white  head  and  black  mane  ;  The  lofs 
whereof  the  king  the  fifteenth  of  Auguft  in  the  fayd  xxiiij*  yeare  recompenced  to 
this  yonge  S'  Thomas  with  Eight  markes  eftimated  to  bee  the  price  of  the  horfe, 
and  with  his  knighthood  alfo  :  311nli  for  cleering  of  my  tranflation  of  thofe  two 
wordes  (roucini  favi)  not  found  in  dictionaries  ;  vnderftand.  That  roucinus  is  a 
borrowed  worde,  made  latin,  of  the  French  word,  rouffm,  which  fignifies  a  Curtail 
or  ftronge  ferviceable  horfe  for  the  warres.  And  favus  is  made  latin  of  the  French 
word  faune,  which  fignifies  a  darke  yellowe  or  Dun  colour.  And  from  thence,  fauvea, 
fignifies  in  that  language,  a  Dun  horfe. 


Claus  :  25.  E  :  I 

dorfo 

rot :  p'dict.  pars.  3 

m:  2.  et:  5. 

Comp.  de  wotton 

26:  E:  I.  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

247 


Original  manufc  : 

cu:  wilto  Neue 

de  Afla(flon  in 

Co:  Norfolk. 


3lt  hath  alfo  bene  touched,  howe  this  S'  Thomas  Berkeley,  (for  all  records 
from  henceforth  foe  ftile  him,)  was  with  this  Lord  his  father  at  the  warrs  in  France 
in  the  xxv'^  yeare  of  the  fayd  kinge,  &  wintred  in  Flanders  :  5Ilnll  howe  in  the 
xxvj'^  and  xxvij'!'  yeares  of  that  kinge,  hee  went  agayne  with  his  father  into  Scotland, 
in  which  firft  iourny  was  wonne  the  great  battle  of  Faulkirke,  where  twenty 
thowfand  |  Scots  were  flayne;  311ntl  howe  hee  was  alfo  with  the  faid  lord  his  father 
and  with  his  elder  and  yonger  bretheren  in  the  xxviij""  of  that  kinge,  where  alfo  the 
yonge  prince  then  was  with  the  kinge  his  father,  what  tyme  was  the  famous  feidge 
and  expugnation  of  the  Caftle  of  Carelaverocke,  held  inexpugnable  ;  SUnlJ  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  87  .  banners  then  borne  by  thofe  valorous  Captaynes  the  bearinge 
of  this  S'  Thomas  in  his  banner,  is  defcribed  to  be,  de  goules  od  les  roffets  de 

argent 


%iic  of  Cl)oiiia?  rt)c  -fectonb 


209 


argent,  e'un  cheveron  de  Argent,  as  the  originall  manufcript  o\  that  tyme  hath  it  ; 
which  as  a  difference  nowe  firlt  taken  vp  to  dillinguilh  amongfl  theis  three 
bretheren,  hath  with  Htle  or  noe  variation,  contynued  in  the  pofterity  of  this  fecond 
brother  ever  fince  :  Jpot  modernly  his  bearingc  is  blazoned  to  bee,  gules  a  cheuron 
betweene  ten  Cinque  foiles  :  4  .  2  .  one,  two  and  one,  Arg' 

5[t  hath  ahb  bene  touched,  howe  hee  was  with  the  fayd  Lord  his  father  and  Rot:prote<5l.  3oet 

brothers  in  the  fayd  Scotiih  Warrs  in  the  thirtieth  and  xxxi"^  yeares  of  that  kinge,  jg' 

what  tyme  the  Enghfh  Army  pearced  quite  through  that  kingdome  and  wintered  Claus:3o.  E:  i.m: 

there  3llntl  alfo  in  the  xxxiiij'*"  of  that  kinge  what  tyme  the  warre  was  more  blouddy  Hollingdi:  Stow. 

towards  the  Scots  then  before,  and  the  compkiints  of  theire  hiftories  more  rufull  :    '^'^°J  ^f  '^  ^^'^''^ 

'■  et  at:  chron  : 

And  was  agayne  in  that  Scottifli  warr  with  his  faid  Father  in  the  xxxv'^  of  the 
fayde  kings  raigne  what  tyme  the  kinge  dyed  there. 

3ilntl  laftly  it  hath  bene  touched,  howe  this  S"'  Thomas  was  in  the  vij**"  yeare  of 
King  Edward  the  fecond,  at  the  great  vnfortunate  battle  of  Bannocks  burrow, 
otherwife  the  battayle  of  Stryvelinge  where  the  Englifh  were  overthrowne:  whereat 
this  S'  Thomas  with  his  aged  father  were  taken  prifoners  by  the  Scots,  And  howe 
after  his  owne  liberty  obtayned,  hee  furthered  thee  freedome  of  his  Father. 


3[t  nowe  behoves  to  cafl  an  eye  a  litle  backe  into  this  knights  age  of 
puberty  :  In  which  hee  much  delighted  himfelfe  in  Hunting  the  Deere,  hare,  Fox, 
and  goat,  wherein  himfelf  and  his  next  brother  John,  would  lye  out  in  the  feilds 
whole  nights,  in  michaellwood  thicketts,  then  floared  with  goates,  and  in  the  parts 
of  Combe,  and  Owfelworth,  then  overaboundinge  with  foxes,  as  more  largely 
foUowes  in  my  defcription  of  Berkeley  |  hundred.  3Ilnb  alfo  in  runninge  at  the 
ringe,  with  other  Haftiludes  or  fpear  playes,  as  the  Accompts  of  his  Fathers  houf- 
hold  Officers  doe  call  them  ;  5illltl  was  alfo  in  his  age  of  adolefcency  the  prime 
Mafter  of  his  Fathers  Falconry  :  ^i0  elder  yeares  were  exercifed  at  Jufls  and 
turneaments,  a  monthly  exercife  almofl  in  thofe  flirringe  dayes  vnder  foe  A(5live  a 
kinge  :  Mofl  of  his  after-tyme  was  in  the  warrs  againfl  the  Welfh,  Scots,  and 
French,  as  partly  already  hath,  and  nowe  followes  to  bee  further  related. 


Comp.  de  Wotton 
et  Alkington. 
diiifis  Annis 
tempore  E :  i. 


248 


diuers :  compi 
recept.  et  mmiftr. 
temp.  E:  I.  et  E:  2 
in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


f^i0  great  diligence  for  his  fathers  ranfominge  and  returne,  feemes  to  have 

incited  his  fathers  prefent  fetling  vpon  him  by  feverall  Deeds  in  the  ninth,  tenth, 

and  xj'^  yeares  of   King  Edward   the  fecond,  the  faide   Manor  of  Cofton  in  the 

County  of  Leicefter,  (except  the  advowfon,)  And  the  faid  Manor  of  Eynefbury  in 

2  E  the 


5  feueral.  cartae 
in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


2IO 


€tic  %iMt^  of  tJjc  25crhricp^ 


1281 


the  County  of  Huntington,  (wherevpon  hee  referved  the  yearly  rent  of  a  paire  of 
guilt  fpurs,)  And  the  Manor  of -Wike  neere  Arlingham,  and  the  Manor  of  More- 
cote,  and  divers  other  faire  poffeffions  in  Morecote,  Hardpury,  and  in  the  parifh  of 
Wotton,  And  ten  markes  yearely  rent  out  of  his  filings  in  Arlingham  in  the  County 
of  Glouc:  with  fome  others  ;  which  fitting  foe  farr  off,  and  not  ayded  by  the  private 
carta  in  caRro  evidence  of  this  flourifhinge  branch,  I  perfitly  difcerne  not.  One  of  which  deedes 
de  Berkeley,  jp  the  xi'!'  of  Edward  the  fecond  beares  date  at  Wymondham,  whereby  this  Lord 
his  Father,  (then  being  there,)  conveyes  to  him  and  to  Ifabel  his  wife  and  to  the 
heires  males  of  their  two  bodies,  the  faid  Manors  of  Wike  and  Morecote,  and  ten 
Markes  of  annuall  rent,  rendringe  to  him  one  lamprey  the  lafl  day  of  May  yearly 
for  all  fervices.  %t  what  tyme,  as  I  gather,  this  S"^  Thomas  then  there  maryed  his 
fayd  wife,  being  the  daughter  and  heire  of  S' John  Hamelin  Lord  of  Wymondham. 


chartuU  :  manufc ; 
cu  Hen :  Berkeley, 
baronetto. 


Carta  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

Finis  levat :  12. 

E  :  2.  in  CO  :  leic  : 


249 

finis  in  banco  : 
12  :  E  :  2. 


5l!nb  neer  the  fame  tyme,  this  Lord  granted  to  Maurice  his  eldefl  fonne,  the 
Services  of  the  fayd  guilt  fpurrs,  and  fuch  others  as  hee  had  referved  in  his  fayd 
Deeds  made  to  this  S'  Thomas  :  which  A61  of  the  old  Lord  father  thereby  to  have 
an  Atturnement  of  the  yonger  brother  to  the  elder,  and  the  elder  brothers  acknow- 
ledgment and  acceptance  of  thofe  fervices  from  his  yonger  brother  in  the  life  of 
himfelfe,  (A  like  tender  father  to  them  both,)  is  |  manifoldly  remarkeable  in  foe  wife 
a  man,  311ull  thus  fetled.  The  next  Michaelmas  Terme  in  the  fayd  xij'^  yeare  of 
King  Edward  the  fecond  purchafed  to  him  and  his  heires,  a  meffuage  and  a 
Carucate  of  land  in  Wymondham  and  Thorpe  of  John  Charneles  a  freeholder  there. 


Rot :  pat :  3.  E :  3. 
pars  :  2.  m  :  17. 


The  laft  viewe  I  can  take  of  this  Martiall  Knight  S'  Thomas,  is  the  xxvj'^  day 
of  Oftob'  in  the  third  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  third,  the  king  then  at  Daventree 
at  Northamptonfliire,  what  tyme  the  kinge  vnder  his  great  feale  difpenfed  with  him 
from  being  made  high  Sherife  or  bearing  any  other  office  in  the  Comon  wealth 
againfl  his  will,  at  what  tyme  this  S'  Thomas  was  about .  48  yeares  of  age. 


Rot :  obCd :  Calefij  2&Ut  whereas  Learned  Camden,  Clarenfieux,  in  a  faire  pedegree  of  this  family 

■?■    of  his  owne  colle6lion,  hath  out  of  the  roll  of  the  befeegers  of  Calais,  delivered,  that 
Pedegr :  cii  Eao  •  ,        t-i  r      1     •    1  t-  <-      • 

Coke  capitat    this  S'  Thomas  was  prefent  thereat,  with  a  Banneret,   fix  knights,  32  Lfquires,  30 

Jullic :  Angliae.    ^j-chers  on  horfebacke,   and   200  Archers  on  foot  vnder  his  Comand,  where  hee 

dyed  ;   It  is  without  all  queftion  a  manifefl  miflake.   And  feemes  to  bee  occafioned 

either  by  the  Identity  of  the  name,  for  it  was  either  Thomas  Lo  :  Berkeley  the  third 

of  that  name,  or  Maurice  Berkeley  Banneret,  of  whome  the  family  nowe  of  Stoke 

Gifford  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  is  difcended  ;  whoe  alfo  there  dyed  duringe  that 

Seidge, 


I32I 


Xiff  of  Cl)oiiin;ef  rt)c  ^ScconD 


Seidge,  as  after  followeth,  both  whom  had  there,  the  like  numbers,  as  alfo  in  their 

lyves  followinge  appeares  :    And  befides  this  S'^^Thomas  was  dead  before  that 

Seidge,    And   his  fonne   S'  John    Berkeley  inverted    in    his  fathers   poffeffions  of 

Wimondham  &  the  reft  of  his  Manors  and  lands  longe  before  :  Of  whofe  honorable    Rot: Franc:  20:  E: 
-..,,  ,rr  ir  i  •  rni  3- pars.  i.indorfo. 

eltimation,  1  have  alio  from  record,  iomewhat  to  write  as  nowe  iolloweth. 

Cl)C  faid  S'  John  Berkeley  fonne  of  the  faid  S'  Thomas  and  Ifable,  the  xxv'^  of    Rot:  franc:  n.  E: 
June  in  the  twentieth  of  Edward  the  third,  was  the  kings  fworne  fervant  in  Ordinary,    ^  ^^''^' 
de  retinentia  domini    regis,   to  attend   his  perfon   in   the  French  Warrs  :  IHinD  the 
xxvj""  of  Auguft  that  yeare  was  at  the  remarkeable  battle  of  Crefcy  with  the  kinge. 

-^0  this  S'  John  and  his  heires  the  kinge  the  fifteenth  of  June  in  the  xxj""  of  his    ^°''"'^' "  ^'"     "'■ 
raigne  granted  to  have  free  warren  in  all  his  demefne  |  landes  within  the  Manors    250 
of  Wimondha,  and  Cofton  in  the  County  of  Leicefter. 


Cl)tiSl  S'  John  had  to  wife  Elizabeth,  And  is  often  ftiled  dominus  de  Wymond- 
ham,  and  was  longe  tyme  fpetially  imployed  in  matters  of  the  peace  and  governement 
of  the  Countr)',  SCiilJ  in  the  five  and  fortieth  of  Edward  the  third  was  one  of  the 
knights  of  Leicefterfhire  for  the  parliament  that  yeare  holden,  5llnb  in  the  xlviij''' 
yeare  of  that  kinge  was  high  Sherife  of  the  Counties  of  Leicefter  and  Warwicke, 
3lintJ  about  the  end  of  that  yeare  both  hee  and  S' John  Berkeley  his  fonne  and  heire 
(then  alfo  a  knight)  went  to  the  warrs  in  France  with  Edmond  de  Mortimer  Earle 
of  March  ;  And  dyed  about  the  beginninge  of  Richard  the  fecond,  as  I  conceive. 


2.  cartas.  45.  et  48. 

E  :  3.  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Rot.  claus:  et  pat: 

temp.  E:3.inturre 

london. 

pat:  45.  E:3.ps:  I. 

m  :  20. 

Rot.  fin.  48  :  E  :  3. 

m  :  6. 

Rot.  Franc  :  48  : 

E  :  3.  m  :  9.  et  10. 


3.ol)n   Berkeley  knight  eldeft   fonne  of  the  fayd  S' John,  is   in   the  xvij*  of    Rot.  Fran:  17. 
Richard  the  fecond  Leivtenant  of  the  I  fie  of  Gernefey.     3llnb  in  the  xxij"^  of  that    ^-  '■^■^■ 
kinge,  high  Sherife  of  the  Countyes  of  Leicefter  and  Warwick  vpon  the  death  of   m :  1. 
Adomarus  de  Litchfeild  who  dyed  that  yeare  in  his  Sherivewike,  whom  this  S'  John 
fucceeded  for  the  refidue  of  that  yeare  31lllll  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  Henry  the  fourth    Rot:  claus.  4. 
is  one  of  the  knights  of  Leicefterfhire  for  the  parliam',  SCnD  in  the  Seaventh  yeare    ^  :  4.  dorfo. 
of  that  kinge  is  agayne  made  high  Shereife  of  the  faid  Countyes  of  Leicefter  and 
Warwick  3IIn6  dyed  in  the  tyme  of  that  kings  raigne,  whom  Ifable  his  wife  furvived, 
to  whome  Kinge  Henrj-  the  fifth,  the  tenth  of  January  in  the  third  of  his  raigne 
granted  a  general  pardon  vnder  the  great  Scale,  And  Lawrance  his  fonne  and  heire    Rot :  pardon 
fucceeded  him  in  his  inheritance,  who  fhortly  after  was  knighted.  ^  et  3.  H  :  5. 

CI)ije^  S'  Lawrance  Berkeley  had  to  wife  Jone  whoe  are  mentioned  in  a  fine    Fin  :  5  :  H :  4. 
whereto  they  were  parties  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  fourth  of  divers         '^ ' 
2  E  2  lands 


€fte  %iMc0  of  rt)e  25cchclcp^ 


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Claus:  3 :  H  :  6.  lands  in  the  County  of  Leicefter,  ^tnb  in  the  third  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  fixth 

°  °'  (then  a  knight)  was  a  fuerty  in  three  hundred  pounds  for  S'  John  Graa  to  bee  of 

pat:  14.  H  :  6.  good  behaviour  towards   his  wife,   311nD   in  the   xiiij'!"  of  that   kinge  was   fpecially 

'^°^^°'  imployde  to  take  mufters  and  to  Arme  Soldiers  in  the  County  of  Leicefter.  | 


251 

fin.  18.  H:6.  m: 

21. 

Rot.  claus.  20.  H  : 

6.  dorfo. 


Rot.  pardon:  24. 
H  :  6:  m:  32. 

Groffi  fines.  36. 

H:  6. 

Efchaet :  36.  H:  6. 


Rot:  pat:  20.  H:6: 

pars.  I.  et  divers  : 

.at: 

fin:  22.  H:  6.  m.  9. 

Rot.  pardon.  24: 

H:  6.  m:  32  et  30. 

H:  6.  m:  14. 

Fin  :  33.  H:  6  m. 

22. 

pat:  36.  H:6. m.3. 

Fin.  39  H.  6  m.  3. 

fin  :  5.  E  :  4.  m.  7. 
fin:  II:  E:  4.  m.  5. 
pat:  9  E:4.  pars  i. 

dorfo. 
pat:  II  E:  4  pars  i. 
pat:  II  E:  4  p.  2. 

m  ;  4. 


311nD  in  the  xviij'!"  of  that  kinge  was  high  Sherife  of  the  Counties  of  Leicefter 
and  Warwick,  "JilnD,  in  the  xvij'!"  of  that  kinge  purchafed  all  Richard  Orgers  lands 
in  Melton  Mowbray,  Oleby,  and  Scalford. 

^CllD  in  the  xxiiij'!'  yeare  purchafed  all  Wiitm  Burgeis  ats  Meltons  lands  in 
Melton  Mowbray  aforefaid,  ^\n  which  xxiiij'!"  yeare  hee  had  a  pardon  from  the 
kinge  by  the  name  of  Lawrance  Berkeley  of  Wimondham  in  the  County  of 
Leicefter  knight,  late  Shereife  of  the  Counties  of  Leicefter  and  Warwicke,  %nti 
dyed  in  the  warrs  in  France  in  the  xxxvj'.'"  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the  fixth  leavinge 
Thomas  his  fonne  and  heire  (knighted  foone  after  the  death  of  his  father)  to 
whome  in  his  life  tyme  hee  had  conveyed  his  Manors  and  lands  in  the  Counties  of 
Leicefter,  Huntington  and  Stafford. 

Ct)i^  S'  Thomas  fonne  of  S"  Lawrance,  was  in  Comiffion  of  the  peace  and 
publikely  imployed  in  his  Country  goverment,  neer  twenty  yeares  before  his 
father  dyed  ;  ^tjill  in  the  xxij*  yeare  of  Henry  the  fixth  fowerteen  yeares  before 
the  death  of  his  father,  was  high  Sherife  of  the  County  of  Rutland,  511nll  in  the 
xxxij'^  of  Henry  the  fixth  three  yeares  almoft  before  his  fathers  death  was  high 
Sherife  of  the  Countyes  of  Leiceft  and  Warwicke  3llnll  in  the  xxxvj'^  of  the  fayd 
Kinge  Armed.  226.  Soldiers  in  the  County  of  Leicefter  for  defence  of  the  king- 
dome,  3Cntl  the  fame  yeare,  as  I  gather,  was  knighted  for  that  in  the  next  after  his 
ftile  was  changed,  from  Armiger,  to  Miles.  5(lnti  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  kinge  Edward 
the  fourth  was  made  high  Sherife  of  Cambridge  and  Huntingtonfhires,  5lln&  foe 
alfo  was  in  the  xj'!"  of  that  kinge  for  Rutlandfliire,  ^tllb  in  the  ix'!'  and  xi'I'  yeares  of 
Edward  the  fourth  was  fpetially  trufted  to  mufter  and  Arme  Soldiers  in  the  Counties 
of  Leicefter  and  Warwicke,  51lntJ  the  xiij""  of  February  in  the  fayd  xj'^  yeare,  the 
kinge  for  his  good  and  faithfull  fervice  done  vnto  him,  grants  to  him  for  his  life 
twenty  markes  yearly  rent  out  of  the  profits  of  the  County  of  Rutland. 


■3(1  feemes  by  the  full  coherence  of  the  records  here  marginald,  That  this  S' 

252    Thomas  was  a  very  able  gentleman,  noe  waye  inferior  to  |  the  beft  of  his  Anceftors, 

and  ftrongly  adheringe  to  the  houfe  of  Yorke,  And  had  to  his  wife  Parnell  the 

daughter  of  Wittm   Mountford    IBljom  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  his  fonne  fucceeded, 

who 


13-'  llifc  of  Zl)oniati(  ti\c  .-^cfoiid  213 

who  by  Margaret  his  wife  daflr  of  S' John  Biron,  had  ifkie  Thomas  Berkeley  knight 

and  EHzabeth  maried  to  S'  W"   Huffey  cheeife  Juftice  of  England,  from  whom    proved  by  a  Tomb 

many  great  familyes  of  opulent  poffeffions  at  this  day  clayme  to  bee  difcended.    (Church 

lO^ttt)  S'  Thomas  Berkeley  fonne  of  S'  Maurice  firft  marryed  Marg^  daughter  of 

Thomas  de   Lamere,  by  whom  he  had  noe  iffue  311ttD  fecondly  maryed   Petronilla    Proved  by  a 

daughter  of  Wittm  Brokefby  by  whome  he  had  iffue  Maurice  and  Wittm  And  dyed    h^n,  Church 

in  the  third  yeare  of  King  Henry  the  Seaventh. 

C|)C  faid  Maurice  by  Margery  his  wife  daughter  of  S'  John  Berrin  had  iffue 
John,  who  died  in  his  Minority  the  twentieth  of  06lober  in  the  thirtieth  yeare  of 
Henry  the  viij'*'  without  iffue,  feaventeen  yeares  after  his  Father  :  And  Elizabeth 
after  maried  to  Robt  Pagenham  Efq:  who  had  iffue  [  blank  ]  Pagenham,  father 
of  Robert  Pagenham  that  died  in  the  xxxvij'"'  yeare  of  Queene  Elizabeth,  father  of 
S'  Henry  Pagenham,  that  yet  liveth  .  Anno  .  1622. 

JDiHiaiTl  Berkeley  fecond  brother  of  the  faid  Maurice  dyed  in  the  xxiiij'!"  yeare 
of  Kinge  Henr)'  the  viij'!"  leaving  iffue  by  Mary  his  wife  daughter  of  Robert  Bawd 
Efquier,  Maurice  Berkeley,  and  others. 

CJjC  jSfaib  Maurice  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  Wittm,  by  Mary  his  wife  daughter 
of  John  Hall  Controller  of  Calais,  had  iffue  S'  Henry  Berkeley  of  Wymondham 
aforefaid  Baronet  that  now  is,  Anno  1628.  A  true  lover  of  his  noble  race,  whofe 
incouragements  have  much  furthered  theis  ColleClions  ;  Nicholas  Berkeley  fecond 
fonne,  yet  alfo  liveing  borne  24  houres  onely  after  the  fayd  S"^  Henrye  ;  And  John 
Berkeley  who  accompanied  S'  Thomas  Berkeley  father  of  the  nowe  lord  George 
Berkeley  into  Scotland  vpon  the  death  of  Ouene  Elizabeth,  And  purchafed  of  him 
Vpton  farme  by  Tetbury  ;  And  fhortly  after  dyed  of  the  plague  in  Holborne  in  the 
fecond  yeare  of  K  James,  1604,  leaving  iffue  two  daughters,  both  fmce  dead  with- 
out iffu.  The  faid  S'  Henry  Berkeley  Baron',  firfl  marryed  Katherine  |  daughter  253 
of  Nicholas  Beaumont  Efquire,  and  widow  of  Anthonye  Berron  Efq  :,  and  after 
marryed  Elizabeth  daughter  of  S'  William  Myn  of  Epfham  parifh  in  Surrey  knight,^ 
by  neither  of  whome  hee  hath  anye  iffue.  And  nowe  travelleth  in  his  great  climac-  Anno  1629. 
tericall  yeare  of  fixty  three  :  3llnb  the  faid  Nicholas  is  yet  vnmarryed,  whereby  if 
iffue  male  faile  in  them,  then  is  this  noble  houfe  bereaft  of  a  mayne  Arch  and 
ornament,  which  for  300  and  odd  yeares  by  ten  lineall  difcents  in  the  male  line, 
without  any  flayne  of  Attainder,  it  hath  bene  beautified  withall.  3.  5i0ljn 

1  Sir  Henry  Berkeley,  created  Bart.  1611,  according  to  Sir  Bernard  Burke  and  Mr.  Courthope,  mar., 
^rsf  Mifs  Mynne  zxiA.  fecondly  Katherine  da.  of  Nicholas  Beaumont  of  Coleoverton  Co.  Leic,  relift  of 
Anthony  Byron,  Efq.,  and,  dying  without  iffue,  the  title  became  e.xtin(5l.  We  confider  that  Smyth,  as  a 
contemporar)'  and  from  his  intimacy  with  the  family,  mufl  be  regarded  as  the  befl  authority.     [Ed.] 


214 


€l)c  Hitoc^  of  tl)c  2?n:ftdcp^ 


tre  protedl :  3. 
34:  E:  I  m : 

cartae  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

Newl :  ped  :  in 

CaRro  de  Berk. 


Magn  :  Chartull. 

fo  :  20  :  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


Ex  orig  :  manufcr: 

cm  wittmo  le 

Neve  de  Afladlon 

in  Com.  Norff. 


Cartas  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

Carta.  31.  et:  33. 

E  :  I.  in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Magn :  chartul. 

fo:  47.  et  57 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Carta  in  Caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


3.  S^Ofjn  Berkeley  the  third  fonne  of  this  Lord  was  alfo  a  knight  and  divers 
tymes  in  the  Scottifh  Warrs  with  his  Father  and  Elder  brother  ;  And  in  the  xxxj* 
yeare  of  Edward  the  firfi:  tooke  to  wife  one  Hawifia.  25ut  whereas  Abbot 
Newland  faith,  That  from  this  S'  John  is  difcended  S"'  William  Berkeley  knight 
then  lord  of  Stoke,  and  confequently  Richard  Berkeley  of  Stoke  Efquier  that 
now  is,  1622,  great-great-great-grandchilde  of  the  fayd  S'  William  ;  It  is  not  foe, 
neither  is  there  any  matter  precedent,  or  fubfequent  whatfoever,  to  warrant  the 
Abbot  herein,  but  more  then  forty  Deeds  and  records  to  the  Contrary  which  are 
vouched  in  theis  colle6lions  :  for  mofl  certaine  it  is,  That  this  S''  John  dyed  without 
iffue  in  the  tenth  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  fecond,  And  both  hee  and  his  wife  lye 
buryed  in  Wotton  Church  :  wherein  to  give  myfelfe  full  fatisfaftion,  and  thofe  noble 
branches  true  notice  of  the  roote  that  gave  them  fapp,  and  from  whom  they  are 
extra6led,  and  hath  coft  me  fome  labor  :  And  how  ever  I  reverence  that  Abbots 
memory  yet  truth  bids  me  tell  his  duft,  this  is  the  tenth  error,  at  the  leaft,  which  I 
have  refelled  in  his  coUecitions,  And  fhall  almoft  as  many  moe. 

Ci)ijS^  S"^  John  vfed  for  his  Seale  the  Cheveron  and  three  croffes  patees,  circum- 
fcribed  .  S.  Johis  de  Berkeley  whofe  bearinge  at  the  famous  feidge  of  Caerlaveroke 
Caftle  aforefaid  in  the  xxviij""  yeare  of  King  Edward  the  firfl,  (whereat  were  both 
the  kinge  and  his  eldefl  fonne  prince  Edward,)  in  his  banner,  is  thus  defcribed.  Sire 
Johan  de  Berklee,  de  goules  a  iij  crois  pates  de  or,  e  un  cheuron  de  Arg[  The 
portion  hee  had  for  his  livelode,  were  la  Hame  at  Bradley  |  confirmed  alfo  by  the 
Deed  of  his  eldefl  brother,  divers  lands  in  Berkeley  parifhe,  and  twenty  pounds 
Annuity  by  his  fathers  conveyance  formerly  mentioned.  3lln&  when  his  brother 
James  was  invefled  with  fpirituall  promotions,  hee  then  granted  to  this  John  and 
his  fayd  wife  by  dire6lion  of  their  father,  all  fuch  landes  as  himfelfe  had  formerly 
bene  poffeffed  of  by  the  feverall  guifts  of  his  Father,  and  by  other  purchafes  in 
Egeton,  Berkeley,  Clapton,  Hame,  Came,  Hurft,  Wotton,  and  Durfeleigh  ;  All 
which  the  lord  Thomas  his  father  by  Deed  confirmed,  wherto  eleaven  knights  were 
wittneffes,  then  of  his  meiny*  or  houfliold  fervants.  I^ottlt 

1  This  term  is  derived  from  the  French  tnaifnie  or  magnie,  a  family,  troop,  or  the  fuite  of  a  great 

perfonage,  in  low  Latin  maifnada  or  mafifionata,  is  very  frequently  ufed  by  old  writers.     Thus  in  the 

Wicliffite  verfion,  Job,  I.  3.  is  thus  rendered :  "  His  poffeflioun  was  feuene  thoufand  of  fhep — and  ful 

meche  meyne" (/ami/ia  multa  «;>;//j  Vulgate)   See  further  Prompt.  Parv.  "  Meny" — houfeholde.    Halliwell 

gives  "Meiny"  a  company  of  followers  or  houfehold  attendants,  and  fays  it  is  flill  in  ufe  in  the  North  of 

England. 

He  had  with  him  a  meyne  there, 

As  he  had  EUys  where, 

Of  the  rounde  table  Knyghtes  alle. 

With  mirth  and  joye  yn  hys  halle. — MS.  Rawlinfon,  C.  86.     [Ed.] 


I32I 


Hifc  of  Cfjom.itf  tljf  .^cconD 


2'5 


S)oU)C  this  S'  John  and  his  wife  rcndrcd  back  their  Hves  to  him  that  lent  them,     2  cartac  in  Caft : 

dc  Bcrlcclcv. 
A  Deed  of  the  Abbots  of  Kingefwood  dated  on  wednefday  after  the  feaft  of  S' 

Gregory,  Anno.  13 17.  in  the  xi'I'of  king  Edward  the  fecond,  fhall  declare;  whereby  Magn :  chartul. 
the  Abbot  and  his  Covent  doe  grant.  That  in  recompence  of  the  ymenfe  benefitts  ^  '  .  o .  20. 
and  large  Almes  (immenfa  beneficia  et  largas  elemofmas)  given  vnto  them  by 
the  faid  S'  John  Berkeley  and  Hawifia  his  wife,  fpnne  of  the  illuftrious  Lord 
Thomas  of  Berkeley  lord  of  Berkeley,  their  foules  fhall  partake  of  all  ecclefiafticall 
benefitts  done  and  to  bee  then  after  done  in  their  monaftery;  And  that  from  thence- 
forth two  Maffes  by  two  of  their  Monkes  fhall  every  day  bee  fayd  for  their  foules, 
and  the  foules  of  theire  fathers  and  mothers,  and  all  their  kindred  ;  And  alfo  two 
other  maffes  every  Month,  by  other  twoe  Monkes  in  Wotton  Church  where  now 
the  fayd  John  and  his  wife  lye  buryed  ;  3finl>  that  the  day  of  theire  deaths  fhall  be 
written  in  their  mortiloge,  And  their  Aniverfary  dayes  yearly  obferved,  5llnl>  that 
the  Solemnityes  of  theire  devotions  fhall  in  the  Eve  of  their  Aniverfaryes  bee 
begun  by  feaven  Monkes  with,  placebo,  dirige,  and  all  the  fpirituall  coUedls  :  Jpot 
performance  whereof  they  bind  themfelves  vpon  the  perill  of  their  foules,  witnes 
the  faid  Lord  Berkeley,  whofe  feale  the  Executors  of  the  faid  S'  John  did  obtayne 
to  vfe  to  this  agreement  :  Thus  the  Abbotts  Deed.  | 

Z\)C  ngC  of  this  S'  John  may  bee  gathered  to  bee  about  forty  at  his  death,  for  255 

that  his  father  gave  him,  32  yeares  before,  an  hors  which  cofl  five  fhillings  when  Comp:dePortbury 

hee  began  to  ride  vpon  the  downes  of  Portbury:  fifteene  whereof  hee  was  maryed,  de  Berkeley  et  a™ 
but  leaft  noe  iffue. 

4.  '^amc0  the  fourth  fonne  of  this  Lord,  was  bred  a  ^coller  vnder  the  Abbot    comp.  miniftrof  in 
of  Kingefwood  five  myles  from    Berkeley  Caftle  ;   from  whence  hee  went  to  the    28    E:i.etalii. 
vniverfity  of  Oxford,  where  hee  proceeded  Do6lor  of  Divinity. 

J^CC  was  prefented  to  the  parfonage  of  Chewe  in  Som'fetfhire  which  I  thinke 
was  his  firfl  promotion. 

©i^  next  to  the  parfonage  of  Slimbridge  in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  of  his    Claus.  10  :  E :  2. 
fathers  prefentation.  >  ^°^°- 

Then  to  the  place  of  a  Channon  of  Hereford. 


Cl)C  twentieth  of  March  in  the  xj'!*  of  King  Edward  the  fecond  the  kinge  in    Rot;  Romai.  n. 
his  behalfe  wrote  a  very  gratious  letter  to  the  pope,  callinge  him,  confanguineum    E^  ^-  "i-  '*• 

fuum 


2l6 


€l)e  %i\yt^  of  ti)c  25crhclcp;ef 


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fuum,  et  facrae  theologise  do6lorem,  quern  generis  nobilitas,  literarum  fcientia,  et  alia 
virtutum  et  meritoru  infignia  multipliciter  recommendant  ;  His  Cozen  and  doftor 
of  divinity,  not  more  noble  in  bloud,  and  excellinge  in  learning,  than  adorned  with 
other  virtues  and  good  workes  ;  That  his  holines  would  gratioufly  heare  his  fuite 
and  affent  theirto  :  3lnD  when  the  kinge  from  Rome  was  advertifed  by  this  James 
That  his  fuit  found  noe  foreward  paffage.  The  kinge  the  xxix'^  of  July  foUowinge, 
writes  his  fecond  tres  to  the  pope  in  his  behalfe,  preffmge  his  requeft  the  more 
earneftly,  becaufe  hee  was  his  Cozen,  and  withall  foe  learned  and  worthy  a  man. 

Ct)iiG^  learned  Doftor  feemes  not  to  have  read  Walter  Mape,  whoe  in  the  next 
age  before,  wherein  himfelfe  lived,  had  from  his  owne  experience  thus  taught  of 
the  Court  of  Rome,  And  therefore  fped  thereafter.  | 


256 

Gualter  Mapes 

temp  :  Jotiis  in 

bibl  :  oxon. 


Baleus,  defcriptor 

Anglicanis  cantur. 

3- 


In  hoc  confiftorio,  fi  quis  caufam  regat, 
Suam,  vel  alterius  ;  hie  imprimis  legat ; 
Nifi  det  pecuniam,  Roma  totum  negat, 
Qui  plus  dat  pecuniae,  melius  allegat  : 
Romani  capitulum  habent  in  decretis, 
Vt  petentes  audiant,  manibus  repletis  : 
Dabis,  aut  non  dabitur  ;  petunt  quando  petis, 
Qua  menfura  feminas,  eadem  tu  metis. 
Cum  ad  papam  veneris,  habe  pro  conflanti, 
Non  eft  bonus  pauperi,  foli  favet  danti. 
Roma  capit  fingulos,  et  res  fmgulorum, 
RomanQTum  curia  non  eft  nifi  forum. 


Nor  thofe  of  Robert  Goftred,  that  godly  bifhop  of  Lincolne. 
Eius  avariciae  totus  non  fufficit  orbis  ; 
Eius  luxuriae  meretrix  non  fufificit  omnis. 


Bap  :  mantuan 
ecloga.  5"* 


Nor  thofe  of  Mantuan  the  Roman  poet. 

Si  quid  Roma  dabit,  nugas  dabit,  accipit  aurum  ; 
Verba  dat,  heu  Romae  nunc  fola  pecunia  regnat. 


If  Rome  give  ought  'tis  toyes,  it  takes  our  gold 
Gives  vaine  falfe  wordes,  now  onely  coyne  doth  hold 
the  fway  at  Rome,  &c. 


Nor 


I 


1 32 1  5 iff  of  Cfjomajtf  tfjc  ^ctoiUi 

Nor  thofe  of  the  fame  poet 

Vivere  qui  fanft^  cupitis,  difcedite  Romd. 
Omnia  cum  liceant,  non  licet  effe  bonum. 

Who  would  live  holily,  from  Rome  away, 
You  may  not  there  be  good,  all  els  you  may 

Nor  thofe  of  the  fame  Poet 

I,  pudor  in  villas,  fi  non  patiuntur  eafdem 
Et  villae  vomicas,  vrbs  eft  iam  tota  lupanar 

Pack  modefty  to  Townes,  vnles  (noe  newes,) 
Townes  have  fome  fores,  the  City  is  all  ftewes  | 

Nor  thofe  of  Pafquill  to  Rome 

Roma,  vale,  vidi,  fatis  eft  vidiffe  ;  revertar, 
quum  leno,  aut  meretrix,  fecurra,  cinaedus,  ere. 

Oh  Rome  farewell.  It  contents  mee  to  have  feene  thee 
Returne  I  will,  when  baud,  or  whore,  I  meane  to  bee. 

9In  the  xiij^  yeare  of  that  kinge  hee  was  made  Archdecon  of  Huntington. 


217 


Mantuan  libr. 
Silvar 


Idem  in  eodem 


257 


pat  :  15.  E  :  2.  m  : 
29. 


3[n  the  xiiij'^  of  that  kinge  hee  was  admitted  to  the  prebend  of  Writlinge  in    pat :  14.  E :  2. 
the  free  Chappie  of  Haftings  in  Suffex.  P^^-  '  m  :  18. 

%Vii  about  the  fame  tyme,  became  a  Channon  of  Exeter.  pat:  15.  E:  2.  m  : 

29. 

311n&  the  vii]""  of  January  in  the  twentieth  yeare  of  Edward  the  fecond,  the    Pat :  20.  E :  2  m  : 
kinge  fignifies  to  his  Efcheator  of  that  County,  That  M:  James  de  Berkeley  being    ^'  ^'  '^ 
a  Channon  of  the  Church  of  Exceter  is  now  Chofen  Bifhop  there,  whereto  both 
the  Archbifliop  of  Canterbury  and  himfelfe  have  given  confent,  And  accordingly 
now  reftores  him  to  his  temporallities. 

€t^  kinge  havinge  the  xij*  of  December  before  declared  to  the  faid  Arch- 
bifhop.  That  hee  had  given  his  confent  to  his  eledlion  of  Bifhop  being  both  a 
Dodlor  of  divinity  and  a  Chanon  of  Exceter. 

C!)C  patent  roll  in  the  xlviij*  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  tells  vs.  That  Walter    pat :  48  :  E  :  3. 
Bifhop  of  Exceter  dyed  the  fifteenth  of  Odober  in  the  twentieth  yeare  of  Edward    ^ '  ^' 
2  r  the 


2l8 


€1)0  HitJCjS  of  t!)c  2?crhricpief 


ftn:  I :  E:  3.111: 


258 

Comp.  manerij  de 

wotton.  I.  E  :  3. 

in  Caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


the  fecond,  And  that  the  See  was  vacant  till  the  nynth  of  January  followinge,  quo 
die  rex  cepit  fidelitatem  magiftri  Jacobi  de  Berkeley  in  Epifcopum  ibm,  on  which 
day  M'  James  de  Berkeley  did  fealty  to  the  kinge  for  his  Bifhopricke  of  Exceter, 
311nD  that  hee  dyed  on  Midfomer  day  the  xxiiij'^  of  June  after  ;  wherevpon  queflion 
aryfes  betweene  the  kinge  that  then  was  Edward  the  third,  and  the  Executors  of 
the  faid  James,  who  fhould  haue  the  rents  that  day  dewe  and  payable  ;  which  the 
kinge  himfelfe  willinge  (fayth  the  record)  to  doe  what  is  iufl,  yealds  to  the  Executors 
of  this  James,  who  was  buried  in  the  Cathedrall  Church  of  Exceter,  |  And  for  the 
holynes  of  his  life  was  reputed  a  Saint,  as  may  bee  gathered  from  the  Aft  of  the 
lord  Thomas  Berkeley  his  Nephewe  and  heire,  who  in  the  end  of  the  fame  yeare, 
went  to  Exeter,  And  vpon  his  Aniverfary  day  the  xxiiij'^  of  June,  in  honor  of  S' 
James  de  Berkeley  (foe  called)  offered  at  his  Tombe  and  largely  diftributed  to  all 
the  Orders  of  Religious  houfes  in  Exceter. 


Catal.  of  Bifliops  <Df  this  James    Do6lor  Godwin   in   his   Catalogue   of   Bifhops  writeth  thus  ; 

E^uni  fo'406"  S'fll^irjei  Berkeley  was  the  xvj'^  Bifhop  of  Exeter,  difcended  of  the  noble  houfe  of 
the  Lord  Berkeley,  and  confecrated  the  fifteenth  of  March  .  1326  .  by  Walter 
Raynold  Archbifhop  of  Canterbury  at  the  Comaundm' of  I  fable  the  Queene.  The 
Pope  very  angry  herewithall,  did  foe  revile  the  Archbifhop,  as  hee  dyed  for  greefe 
&  anger  foone  after  :  neither  did  the  newe  confecrate  Bifhop  flay  long  behind  him, 
for  hee  dyed  alfoe  the  xxiiij'^  of  June  followinge  :  A  man  reputed  very  godly  and 
wife  ;  Hee  was  buried  as  fome  fay,  in  his  owne  Church,  But  others  deliver  hee 
never  came  thither  at  all.  Thus  Godwin.  HDJ^o  alfo  in  the  life  of  the  faid  Arch- 
bifhop, fayth,  That  hee  beinge  by  Queene  I  fable  of  whom  hee  greatly  flood  in 
awe,  comaunded  to  confecrate  James  Berkeley  elected  Bifhop  of  Exeter,  hee  did 
foe  ;  but  for  his  labor  was  foe  threatned,  taunted  and  reviled  by  the  pope,  (that  faid 
hee  had  referved  the  guift  of  that  Bifhopricke  to  himfelfe,)  as  for  greefe  and  anger 
togeather  hee  dyed. 


catal  :  predi(5t 
pag  :  129. 


comp.  de  Hame 

1  E  :  3.  in  Caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

Aflis  :  et  ptita  15. 
E  :  I.  rot :  40. 


259 

Comp.de  Alkingto 

7.  E  :  2.  et  divers. 

at:  in  Caflro  de 

Berk. 


5.  3'?ablt»  I  fuppofe,  dyed  vnnmaryed  about  the  tyme  of  her  brother  S' 
James  his  death  ;  And  for  her  exhibition  had  from  her  father  and  eldefl  brother,  an 
Anuity  of  fower  pound  per  Ann  which  at  that  tyme  ceafed  ;  And  had  alfo  divers 
Lands  in  Alkington  wherein  fhee  exercifed  part  of  her  hufwifry  :  Shee  alfo  pur- 
chafed  fower  markes  Annuity  of  Robertt  Bradflone  out  of  his  Lands  in  Bradflone 
and  Came  for  her  life  :  More  I  finde  not  of  her.  | 

6.  3l9ar(jarct  likewife  dyed  vnmarryed.  And  was  afwell  joyntly  with  her  fifler 
I  fable,  as  after  her  fiflers  death,  a  Carefull  Overfeer  in  her  fathers  houfkeepinge  in 
his  widdowhood  ;  which  is  all  I  can  fay  of  her.  JSi^ 


I32I 


Eife  of  €J)oma^  ttjc  J»cconlJ 


219 


^010  ^Ci\\c  of  ^Lcnicji 
^10  lord  was  conftant  with  his  Scale  of  Armes,  which  (in  effetl)  hee  never 
changed  :  311ub  the  firft  Lord  that  affumed  into  his  Coate,  the  ten  Croffes,  which  all 
his  porterity  doe  beare  till  this  day  :   His  Scutcheon  hee  fupported  at  firft  with  two 
flyinge  Serpents,   which  after  hee  changed  into   Mairemayds,  without  any  greate 
note  of  difference  :   Miter  or  Creft  hee  vfed  none  at  any  tyme  :   His  feale,  (leffe  in 
diamiter  then  any  of  his  Anceftors,)  was  circumfcribed,  Sigillum  Thome  de  Berkele, 
whereof  I  have  feene  a  greater  number  then  of  all  his  former  Anceftors.     3Cn&  as 
touchinge  the  ten  croffes  firft  borne  by  this  Lord  Thomas,  (croffes  of  honor  and    ni^^Hp^cui^Rico 
priefthood,)  I  read  antiently  thus  :  Quiim  plurimi  per  vniverfum  orbem  chriftianum,    S'  Georg  milite, 
et   in  Anglia    60000    hominum    Chrifti    militiae    fe    confecrarent,   et   fufcepto   voto    nTodoCirrencieax. 
militandi  contra  infideles  in  terra  fancla,  cruce  fignarentur,   multi   nobiles  in   rei 
memoriam,   cruces    in    clipeos  gentilitios  inferuerunt  ;    quo  tempore,   vt  produnt, 
Berkeleij  has  decern  cruces  patentes  in  avitum  clypeum  inferuerunt  ;  That  is,  what 
tyme  many  throughout  the  Chriftian  world,  and  in  England  threefcore  thowfand 
men  vowed  themfelves  to  a  Chriftian  warfare  in  the  holy  land  againft  the  Infidels, 
figning  themfelves   with  the   Crofs  ;    vpon   that  vow  taken,  many  noble  men   in 
memory  thereof  affumed    croffes    into   theire   Coates  of   honor,   what  tyme,   it   is 
beeleved,   Berkeley  tooke  into  his  Anceftors  bearinge,  (or  fheild)  theis  ten  croffes 
patent,  or  formes/ 


260 

comp :  Receptoris 
4 1 .  E :  3.  in  Cafl.ro 
de  Berkeley. 


l^crctn  alfo  I  am  more  confirmed  That  fuch  was  the  vowe  of  |  this  noble  lord, 
by  the  Accompt  of  his  great  grandchilds  Receiver  the  Lord  Maurice,  in  the  one 
and  fortieth  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  who  then  by  a  lingringe  ficknes,  perceivinge 
his  dayes  growinge  neere  an  end,  (though  himfelfe  vnder  thirty  eight,)  And  his 
fonne  and  heire  but  fifteene,  And  to  bee  the  kings  ward,  And  thereby  the  more 
vnlikely  That  either  of  them  fhould  difcharge  theire  Anceftors  vowe  of  goeing 
into  the  holy  land  ;  The  faid  Lord  Maurice  delivered  one  hundred  pownds  to  S' 
John  Veell  Knight,  ad  tranfmeandum  verfus  terram  fanftam  pro  anima  antecefforis 
domini,  to  goe  to  the  holy  land  for  the  foules  reft  of  an  Anceftor  of  the  faid  Lord 
Maurice  ;  which  Journy  to  performe,  the  Lady  Katherine  Berkeley  widowe  became 
bound  by  obligacon  or  the  faid  S'  John  Veell  a  neere  kinfman  of  hers  :  3Cnll  in 
this  Accompt  alfo  the  faid  Lord  Maurice  gave  twenty  pounds  more  to  Richard 
Englifti,  in  Almes,  to  fpeed  the  Journye  into  the  holy  land. 

Ipisf  licatf)  anb  place  of  buriall 

3tn  that  have  life  muft  loofe  it,  All  that  have  breath  muft  leave  it :    The  day    Newl:  pedegree 
of  death   is  not  to   bee  difpenfed  with,   which   whileft  one  houre  by  contynuall    r  ^,f\^°  '^^ 
2  F  2  ^  Pattde  or  form^e.  fucceffion 


220 


€tic  Hibcjf  of  t!)e  25crhdcpiS 


Efchaet:i4.  E: 
2  Somerfet. 

261 

Comp.  de  Port- 
bury.  14.  E:  2. 


Vetus  manufcr:  in 
CaflrodeBerkeley. 


fucceffion  is  added  to  an  other,  the  laft  clofeth  this  Lords  life  at  Berkeley  Caflle  on 
the  xxiij'^  of  July  Anno  1321  .  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond, 
(fixteene  dayes  after  the  kings  entrance  into  that  yeare  of  his  raigne,)  And  the  fifth 
of  September  following  was  (with  the  attendance  of  his  fonne  and  heire)  buryed  in 
the  fayd  Monafterye  |  of  S' Auguflines  by  the  body  of  his  wife,  in  the  Arch  betweene 
the  Veflry  and  the  South  He,  then  neer  the  age  of  76  yeares,  whereof  hee  continued 
Lord  forty  yeares  three  Months  and  fomewhat  more  :  <!Dnc  of  whofe  Chaplens  may 
feeme  to  have  honored  his  memory  and  defervings  with  theis  rymes,  not  vnagreable 
to  the  rithmicall  poetry  of  that  tyme. 

While  th'ulke  lord  liv'd 
All  thinge  by  his  powre, 
Was  in  gay  plight : 
For  gile  was  hidde, 
good  peace  was  kidde,^ 
And  honefty  had  might. 


Efcaet.  in  turre 

14.  E:  2.  in  Com. 

Somerfet  a°  46. 


Baronia. 


Efchaet.  15.  E:  2 

pofl  mortem 

Tho:  de  Berkeley. 

fol:  [187] 

262 

Orig :  15.  E:  2  in 

Sccio 

Pafch :  rec  :  4. 

E :  3.  rot :  7.  et  8 

in  Sccio. 


^10  \anti0  tofjcrcof  f\tt  bpcb  ^d^cti 

jpOt  manifeftacon  of  the  lands  whereof  this  Lord  dyed  feifed,  there  onely 
remayne  two  Inquifitions  in  the  Countyes  of  Gloc  :  and  Somerfett,  mentioninge  the 
Manors  of  Portbury  with  the  hundred  of  Bedminfter,  which  with  the  Caflle  and 
hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  the  Mannors  of  Came,  Hame,  and  Wotton  with  their 
hamletts,  and  other  lands  and  Tenements,  which  (fay  thofe  records)  the  faid  Lord 
Thomas  had  in  the  faid  County  of  Gloucefler,  are  holden  of  the  kinge  in  Capite, 
per  Baroniam,  by  three  knights  ffees  for  all  fervices  ;  And  that  Maurice  was  his 
fonne  &  heire  forty  yeares  old  and  more,  both  of  thofe  Offices  refle6linge  the  one 
vpon  the  other:  '^n  which  Inquificbn  found  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :,  is  leaft  to 
pofterity  the  memory  of  thofe  dayes  workes,  which  the  Copiholders  of  thofe 
Manors  (called  villani)  then  yearly  performed,  whereof  I  have  formerly  written  in 
the  life  of  this  Lord ;  jfoc  which  barony  and  Manors  the  fayd  Maurice  in  |  Augufb, 
(the  Month  after  his  fathers  death  and  wherein  his  Offices  were  found,)  doth  his 
homage,  and  fueth  livery,  j^otobctt  by  reafon  of  his  fodaine  fall  and  imprifonment, 
his  releefe  was  nyne  yeares  after  vnpayd,  as  in  the  life  of  his  fonne  the  Lord  Thomas 
appeareth. 


1  "  Kid,"  made  known,  difcovered.     (A.S.) 
This  felkouth  mithe  nouth  ben  hyd, 
Ful  fone  it  was  ful  loude  Aid. — Havelok,  1060.     [Ed.] 


1 32 1  jllifc  of  iCIjomnjtf  tijc  .^cconb  221 

^tjc  application  aiiti  \}^c  of  I)i^  life 

1.  Each  aftion  in  each  title  alonge  the  life  of  this  noble  Anceftor  is  a  prefident    The  vfe. 
of  fingular  vfe  to  his  pofterity  :    Of  whom  I   may  confidently  affirme,  not  to  have 

found  in  readinge  Plutarkes  lives,  any  one  of  thofe  illullrious  Grecians  and  Romaines, 
therein  compared,  in  each  refpedl  and  parralell,  to  have  exceeded  this  worthy  peere, 
wantinge  onely  a  Plutarke  to  have  delivered  him  to  pofterity :  iJJot  knowinge  whether 
to  bee  firft  to  praife  him  for  thus  liveinge,  or  to  call  vpon  his  pofterity  to  imitate  his 
life. 

God  hath  his  Soule,  the  world  his  admiration,  G:  B;  id  eft  Geo: 

-ru  u-     Ai  r'    D    u-     •     •.  ^-  now  lord  Berkeley. 

1  he  poore  his  Almes  ;  G.  B.  his  imitation.  ■' 

l^firtjcr  have  I  otherwife  fhewed  the  life  of  this  Lord  to  his  pofterity.  (though  I 

have  long  walked  in  the  paths  thereof,)  then  after  the  Manner  of  Geographers, 

whoe  note   great  rivers  with  fmall  lynes,  and  mighty  Cityes,  with  points  :    Or  as 

thofe  widdowes  (hewed  to  Si  Peter  part  of  the  Coates  and  garments  which  good    Adls :  9  vers :  36. 

Dorcas  made  whileft  fhee  was  with  them,  As  I,  a  fewe  of  this  Lords  noble  wayes 

whileft  hee  was  with  vs  :  25ut  let  his  owne  workes  praife  him  in  the  gate :  for  of 

this  Lord  it  may  bee  faid  in  his  generations,  as  the  holy  ghoft  faid  of  Kinge  Jofiah,    p 

like  him  there  was  noe  kinge  before  him,  neither  after  him  arofe  there  any  like.  2  Kings  -  23. 

For  worth  this  Lord  deferves  to  dwell 

In  an  immortall  chronicle 

And  fit  it  were  each  line  of  his  life  fhould  bee, 

A  laftinge  piramis,  built  to  his  memorie.  | 

2.  ^Ugainc,  from  the  vowe  which  this  Lord  made  to  have  gone  into  the  holy    263 
land  in  ayde  of  the  Chriftians,  prevented  by  his  death,  this  family  may  obferve  the 
religious  obedience  of  his  fonne  and  grandchild,  who  held  not  themfelves  quieted 

in  peace  of  confcience,  till  that  pilgrimage  and  iourney  in  the  perfon  of  others.,  at 

theire  charges,   was  perfo[r]med  :    Therefore  accordinge  to  Gods  promife  to  the    Jeremiah  ch:  35 

Recabites  for  obeyinge  the  precept  of  Jonadab  theire  father,  That  there  fhould  not    ''^^^'  '  '  '^' 

want  a  man  to  ftand  before  him  for  ever,  viz'  his  pofterity  fhould  contynue  and  bee 

in  favour  with  God  for  ever,  will  likewife,  I  truft,  remayne  with  this  family  for  like 

eternity. 

3.  3Il0ainC,  As  it  cannot  be  gathered  from  any  writeinge  or  meamoriall.  That 
Jone  the  Excellent  wife  of  this  Noble  Lord  at  any  tyme  of  her  42  yeares  manage, 
ever  travelled  ten  miles  from  the  manfion  houfes  of  her  hufband  in  the  Countyes 
of  Gloucefter  and  Somerfett,  much  leffe  humered  herfelfe  with  the  vaine  delights 

of 


222 


€l)e  %i\ic^  of  tljc  ^ctMc^^ 


Anno.  1630. 


of  London,  and  other  Cities :  Soe  I  wifh  that  her  Sweetnes  of  difpofition,  her 
freedome  from  pride,  the  familiarity  of  her  carriage,  her  affability,  humility,  and 
moderation  in  all  fucceffes  and  affaires,  and  never  thought  her  fliadowe  one  fpan 
the  more  fpreadinge,  for  her  owne  parentage,  or  the  growinge  of  her  hufbands 
power  and  reputation,  may  bee  honored  in  all  the  generations  of  this  family,  and 
bee  of  imitable  vfe  to  all  that  fhall  fucceede  her :  To  whofe  defervings  my  Pen  can 
offer  this  onely  fparke  of  her  Charafler,  in  fteed  of  Sacrifice,  whileft  fhee  was,  to 
declare  in  part,  what  fhee  was  :  And  to  wifh  my  felfe  had  loft  all  my  gramer  learn- 
inge,  to  alter  but  one  Tenfe,  And  either  to  fay  fhee  is  :  or  that  fhee,  that  nowe  is, 
is  as  fhee  was. 


Folios  264  to 

270  inclufive 

are  omitted 

between  the 

firfl  Vol.  of 

Manufcript 

andthefecond. 


The  end  of  the  firfl  volume  (MS.)  contayninge  the  lyves  of  the  firfl 
feaven  Anceflors  of  this  family  of  the  Berkeleys,  wherein .  254 . 
yeares  are  taken  vp,  (viz')  from  the  firfl  of  Wittm  the  Conqueror 
Anno.  1067  .  till  the  is""  of  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond  Anno. 
1321. 


fim^  €l^onia  ^ccim&i 


erijc  fftfc  of  mmxut  tl)c  tl)irli  2,1 

€!)c  %iie  of  Maurice  lord    Berkeley  the  third  of  that 
name,   fliled    in  writings,   Mauricius  de   Berkeley  dns  de 
Berkelee,   nnD    Mauricius   de    Berkeley    filius   Thome    de 
Berkeley  dns  de  Berkeley,  SdiiD,  dns  Mauricius  de  Berkeley 
dns  de  Berkeley,  SCitb,  was  a  lord  and  Peere  of  the  realme 
twelve  years  in  the  life  of  his  father. 
3CnI»  may  bee  called  Maurice  the  magnanimous. 
<jrontcmpocani  with  Edward  the  fecond  from  ;  132 1  .  to  1326 
W^ose  life  I  lay  down  under  thefe  fifteen  titles,  (viz*.  ) 

I. — j^i^  birth  and  education — fol  :  272. 

2. — f^et  became  father  of  a  fon  under  14 — fol  :  272  .  273. 

3. — J^i^  forraigne  imployments  and  rebellion — fol :  274. 

4. — J^i^  mifcellaines,  hufbandryes  and  hofpitalities — fol  :  [290] 

5. — J^i^  wives — fol  :  [293] 

6. — j^ijtf  iffue — fol  :  [295] 

7. — ^Scrhricp  of  Stoke  Gifford — fol  :  [jii] 

8. — 25nrhricp  of  Bruton — fol  :  [317] 

9. — ^Crhclcp  of  Boycourt  in  Kent — fol  :  [318] 
10. — 95crftdfp  of  Bradley — fol  :  [319] 
II. — 25crhclfp  of  Shropfhire — fol  :  [320] 
12. — ©ijei  Seale — fol  :  [324] 
13. — fj^igi  death  and  place  of  buriall  .  fol  :  [324] 
14. — 1$i^  lands  whereof  he  dyed  feafed — fol  :  [325] 
15. — CllC  Application  and  ufe  of  his  life — fol  :  326.  ( 


2  24 


€t^e  EibcjS  of  fitjc  SBcrhricp^ 


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272 


Math  :  Paris 
fol :  204. 


Efchaet.  15.  E.  2. 

N?46. 

in  arce  London. 


Cartae  in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


^' 


273 


i^i^  25ittl)  anb  »iEburation 

CC  that  hath  obferved  this  family  from  y^  death  bed  of  y^  laft  lord  and  caft 
his  eyes  upon  the  heir  of  the  houfe  then  ftanding  by,  might  have  faid  ttltta 
canam,  I'le  tell  a  wonder,  occubuit  fol,  nox  nulla  fecuta  eft.  The  fun  hath 
fett,  but  noe  night  doth  follow:  A  father  hath  leaft  his  houfe  and  family  without  any 
alteration  of  Dignity,  eftate,  Servants,  or  government  ^triti  if  the  moral  Philofophers 
had  not  taught,  that  hee  only  is  happy  that  cannot  be  miferable,  I  would  have 
judged  this  lord,  whofe  life  I  now  take  up,  to  have  entred  with  the  greateft 
happinefs,  and  to  have  been  in  the  moft  affured  felicity  of  all  his  anceftors  :  t)otDbctt 
fuch  are  the  uncertaine  turnings  of  mans  life,  that  fuddainly  fuch  a  black  cloud 
overcaft  that  happy  eftate  wherein  this  lord  was  leaft  as  no  beam  of  clearer  fortune 
appeared  faire  duringe  the  refidue  of  his  life,  whereof  I  nowe  begin  to  write. 

3if  thofe  two  records  of  Inquifitions  in  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter  and 
Somerfet,  found  by  this  lord  after  the  death  of  his  father  have  this  lords  age  aright, 
to  whofe  beleefe  I  am  alfo  tyed  by  other  obfervations  concurring,  (And  he  beft 
knew  his  own  age  that  fett  it  down,)  Then  was  this  lord  Maurice  born  in  the  year . 
1281  .  being  the  ninth  of  King  Edward  the  firft,  and  near  the  month  of  Aprill 
wherein  his  grandfather  the  lord  Maurice  dyed  ;  31illll  was  by  his  father  the 
laft  lord  Thomas  marryed  at  eight  yeares  old  in  the  17''' of  that  King,  to  Eve 
daughter  of  Ewdo  lord  Zouch  and  of  the  Lady  Millicent  de  monte  alto  his  wife  ; 
and  was  by  her  made  father  of  Thomas  his  eldeft  fon  before  hee  was  fourteen  years 
old  himfelf :  Neither  was  his  wife  above  that  age  which  I  am  as  unapt  as  any  to 
give  faith  unto  :  ]potDl)Ctt  when  I  fee  and  handle  this  lords  birth  in  y^  ninth  year  of 
King  Edward  the  firft.  And  find  him  to  be  marryed  in  y°  Seaventeenth  of  that 
King,  and  himfelf  but  fourty  years  old  at  y^  death  of  his  father  in  the  begining  of 
the  fifteenth  year  of  King  Edward  the  fecond.  And  when  hee  himfelf  dyeth  in  May 
in  the  Nineteenth  year  of  the  fayd  King.  Anno  1326 .  and  leaveth  Thomas  his  faid 
fon  and  heir  then  thirty  years  old  and  upwards,  (all  which  by  their  offices,  deeds 
and  other  evidences  [  appears  very  manifeft,)  I  would  gladly  think  otherwife,  but 
Truth  will  not  permit  mee. 


2.  Kings.  23.  26.  i&Utablc  is  that  of  King  Jofiah,  whom  y'  holy  fcripture  doth  affure  us  to  be  but 

thirty  nine  years  old  when  hee  dyed  :  That  at  eight  years  old  he  began  to  reigne, 

and 


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225 


and  raigned  one  and  thirty  years,  and  fith,  (as  the  text  fayth,)  his  fon  Eliakim  was 
twenty  five  years  old  when  he  began  to  raigne  after  his  fathers  death,  Then  could 
not  Jofiah  exceed  fowrteen  yeares  when  his  fonne  was  born. 

3'n  like  fort  we  are  affured  by  the  fame  holy  Authority  That  King  Ahaz  lived    2  Kings ;  16 :  2 
but  thirty  fix  yeares  in  the  whole.  That  hee  was  twenty  years  old  when  hee  began 
to  raigne,  and  raigned  Sixteen  years.  And  that  his  fon  Ezechias  was  25  years  old 
at  his  fathers  death  :  Then  it  muft  needs  follow  that  Ahaz  was  marryed  and  begat 
Ezechias  at  Eleven  years  old  or  before. 

3[n  like  fort  it  is  generally  taken  by  Jewe  and  Chriftian,  (and  but  fewe  think    j  Kings.  11:42 
otherwife,)  That  Solomon  came  to  his  crowne  at  twelve  years  old,  and  the  Text    etch:  14.  vers.  21. 
faith  hee  raigned  but  fourty,  And  foe  dyed  at  fifty  two  :  And  when  Rehoboam  his 
fon,  who  imediately  fucceeded  his  Father,  began  to  raigne,  hee  was  one  and  fourty 
years  old,  then  could  Salomon  bee  but  Eleven  years  old  at  moft  when  he  begat 
Rehoboam. 


31  apjptobc  not  of  this  match  of  this  lord  Maurice,  by  the  examples  of  the 
former  matches,  with  any  defire  that  the  nuptiall  bed  fhould  foe  foone  be  known  ; 
but  by  inftanceing  thofe  of  authenticall  verity,  to  lett  in  efier  beleefe  to  what  I  find 
of  this  lord  :  IBitf)  whom  my  fmall  reading  could  parralell  more  then  a  dozen  other 
parents  which  have  been  fathers  and  mothers  at  fowerteen  years  :  5linb  the  Fathers 
of  the  Church  do  tell  us  that  the  bleffed  Virgin  Mary  brought  forth  our  Saviour  at 
fifteen  yeares  old  or  under.  | 

J^i^  fonraignc  implopmcntjsf  anb  rcbdiion 

CIjC  whole  life  of  this  lord  was  martiall,  whereto  his  youthfull  mariage,  and  the 
timely  knowledge  of  his  wife  were  no  impeachments  ;  Neither  can  greater  mag- 
nanimity of  mind  and  fpirrit  be  obferved  in  any  of  his  ranke  and  time,  as  the  whole 
portraiture  of  his  life  doth  prefent.  25rtiniin^t(T  neer  to  Briftoll  was  his  firft  feat," 
where  and  at  Naylefey  neer  adjoyning  from  the  time  of  his  mariage  till  about 
twenty  years  of  age,  hee  much  frequented  thofe  downs  in  all  martiall  exercifes, 
runing  with  Launces,  haftiludes,  Spearplays  and  the  like,  futable  to  thofe  a6live 
times  :  ^OC  year  paffing  wherein  hee  went  not  to  publick  Jufts  and  Turneaments, 
to  Worcefter,  Dunftable,  Stanford,  Blith,  Winchefler,  and  other  places. 

Cf)0$ie  Young  yeares  foe  paffed  hee  entreth  into  publick  aftion,  And  as  foon 

became  a  man,  a  father,  and  foldier,  ripe  in  martiall  affairs  as  in  humane  condition 

2  G  may 


274 


Compi  de 
Portbury  et 
Bedminfler.  18.  E. 
1.  et  at :  in  caflro 
de  Berk  : 

divers  :  compi  in 
cafl :  de  Berkeley, 
temp  :  E.  I. 


226 


CJje  Hi^jfiEf  of  rtjc  SBcrhricpjf 


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pat: I  £:  2. pars.  2. 

m.         et  6.  E.  2. 

pars.  3.  m.  9. 


may  bee  expefted  ;  ^citijct  have  my  reading  obferved  any  man  encompaffed  with 
flefh  and  bloud,  tha,t  did  fooner  prefent  ability  in  martiall  kind,  then  this  lord :  Sl^ucl) 
of  whofe  life,  with  mod  of  his  martiall  imployments,  offices  of  ftate,  and  places  of 
Judicature,  and  of  greateft  trufi;  in  the  Common  wealth  runing  out  in  the  life  time 
of  his  father  ;  |^onc  (whereof  any  former  mention  hath  been  made)  I  will  againe 
otherwife  repeat,  Then  that  fuch  were  his  fervices  in  y'  Welfli  warrs,  where  firft  hee 
looked  Mars  in  y'  face  in  y'  23''  year  of  King  Edward  the  firft.  %V^  in  the  ffrench 
warres  two  years  after  in  the  five  and  twentieth  of  that  King,  in  that  Army  over 
which  his  father  the  lord  Thomas  was  Conftable,  continuing  the  winter  following 
with  the  Army  in  fflaunders.  And  in  the  firft  and  fixt  years  of  King  Edward 
the  fecond. 


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SCnll  fuch  alfo  were  his  fervices  in  the  Scottifti  warrs  in  the  .  24  .  26  .  27  .  28 . 
30  .  31  .  34  .  and  35'^  years  of  King  Edward  the  firft  5llntl  in  the  .2.3.4.6.7. 
8.9.  10  .  II  .  and  I2'^  years  of  King  Edward  the  Second  ;  3@I)CtCin  from  after 
the  firft  year  of  that  Kings  raigne,  hee  was  ever  fomoned  and  fent  unto  as  a  Baron 
and  Peer  of  the  Relme  dureing  his  fathers  life  time  :  gca  it  fometimes  fo  happened 
in  I  thofe  rolls  of  Sommons,  as  well  for  the  warrs,  as  comeings  to  parliaments  and 
the  Kings  great  Councells,  That  his  name  was  ranked  before  his  fathers. 


de  Mafton  in 
Com  Norf : 


3It  nowe  remaines  (which  formerly  is  not  written)  to  add  That  in  the  great 
Ex  origin  raanufcr  voyage  made  againft  the  Scotts,  %vit  at  y=  Seidge  of  the  Caftle  of  Caerlavarac  ats 
Karlaveroke  was  this  lord  in  the  year  1300,  whofe  banners  in  the  manufcript 
Cronicle  of  y'  great  mufter  of  Edward  y'  firft  in  the  2  8"^  of  his  raigne,  then  at 
Cardnell  in  Scotland,  and  ready  to  march  upon  the  Seidge  of  that  ftrong  caftle  is 
in  thefe  old  French  meeters  thus  defcribed,  in  honour  of  thofe  famous  befeidgers 
whereof  this  lord  is  reported  to  have  been  one  of  the  boldeft  Captaynes,  then  in 
the  nyneteenth  year  of  his  age. 

E  Marices  de  Berkel^e 

ki  compaigns  fu  de  cele  al^e 

Baniere  o't  vermeille  cum  fane, 

Croiffilie  o  vn  chieviron  blanc 

oil  vn  labile  de  afur  avoit 

pur  ce  ke  fes  peres  vivoit 5lntJ  Maurice  of  Berkeley 

who  was  one  of  this  winge,  had  a  red  banner  with  holy  croffe,  &  a  white  Cheveron 
with  a  labell  of  Azure,  for  that  his  father  was  alive  :  meaning  (as  the  original! 
witneffeth)  That  hee  was  in  the  fourth  battallion  with  the  Prince  of  Wales,  then 
feaventeen  years  old,  and  newly  bearing  Arms.  CI)C 


1326  life  of  a^aurifc  rt)c  rijirlJ  247 

CfjC  twentieth  of  July  in  the  fixth  year  of  King  Edward  the  fecond  the  King    pat.  2:E.  a.  01.25. 
granted  to  him  the  cuftody  and  government  of  the  Town  of  Gloucefter,  and  fole 
Confervator  of  the  peace  there,  %tit)  heard  and  determyned  complaynts  in  criminall    "de  in  dorfo. 
caufes,  fuch  as  were  comitted  in  that  Town  and  the  liberty  thereof. 

C!)C   l8'^of  Aprill  in  the  8'?'  of  his  raigne,    the   King  comitted  to  this  lord    Rot.  Scotiae.  8.  E. 
Maurice,   the  cuftody  of  y'  caftle  and  Town  of  Berwick  upon  Tweede  with  full    ^  j 
power  to  order  the  affaires  of  the  fame,  as  may  ftand  with  the  Kings  honor,  and    claus.  9.  E.  2.  m : 
the  fafe  cuftody  therof,  as  hee  fhall  fee  beft  caufe  to  doe ;  Wherein  hee  continued 
till  the  I8'^  of  May  in  the  year  following.     !31nll  therewith  another  Comiffion,  to  all 
the  Captaines,  Soldiers,  Officers  and  People  to  bee  ayding  &  obedient  to  him  in  all 
things.  I 

3[n  which  doubtfull  tyme  foe  neer  after  the  great  overthrow  of  the  Englifh  by  276 

the  Scotts  at  Bannocks  burrow,  called  the  battle  of  Strivelinge,  when  every  week  it  Claus.  et  rot. 

was  e.\pe(5led  to  bee  affaulted  or  befeiged,  to  confider  his  great  care  and  diligence  predid.  et  m.  6. 

in  his  difpatches  with  the  King  and  his  Councell,  for  Armour,  munition,  victuals  ^'  7- 

and  men,  for  the  defence  of  this  foe  important  a  peece,  {Jic  place  ?)  witneffeth  y°  2.  m.  6.  et  8  E.  a. 

opinion  conceived  of  his  valour  and  wifdom,  to  bee  rightly  levelled.  dorfo. 


%v3i  the  firft  of  May  in  the  year  after.  The  king  writes  to  his  Trefurer,  That  Claus.  9  E.  a.m.;. 
in  regard  this  lord  had  of  his  own  goodwill  undertaken  the  Cuftody  of  y'  Town  and  Claus.  10  E.  a.  m. 
Caftle  of  Berwick,  (when  belike  none  other  would,)  as  by  Indentures  between  them 
was  agreed.  Therefore  the  King  gives  him  fix  hundred  pounds  out  of  the  next 
wardfhips  that  fhall  happen  after  Michaelmas  next,  befides  that  Thoufand  pounds 
which  hee  hath  received  for  the  aforefaid  keeping  of  Berwick  wherein  alfo  his  great 
diligence  and  labour  in  prefervation  of  that  peece  is  commended  by  the  King. 

311nb  the  tvventyeth  of  July  in  the  Tenth  of  his  raigne,  writes  to  his  Chamber-    Claus.  predidt 
laine  of  Kermerden,  how  by  bill  under  his  hand,  hee  had  promifed  to  pay  to  this    ^'  ^°' 
lord  late  governour  of  Berwick — 46 5'!  6?  8*^  in  recompence  of  his  horfes  loft  in  his 
fervice.  Now  requiring  him  That  of  the  money  in  his  hands,  hee  forthwith  do  pay 
it ;  3IlnlJ  herein  is  fett  down  the  coulour  and  price  of  each  horfe,  and  the  names  of 
each  of  this  lords  Knights,  Efquires  and  men  that  rode  them;^l31nD  amongft  the  reft 

is 
1  We  will  add  from  the  Roll  the  names  of  a  few  of  the  Knights  and  Efquires  who  rode  the  horfes : 
Adamus  Martel,  fcutifero.  Jacobus  de  Wilton,  fcutifero. 

Johannes  fit  Nicholai,  fcutifero.  Johannes  Danyel,  fcutifero. 


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€I)c  Hibc^  of  t|)c  ^etMt^^ 


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is  fll^Uticc,  the  fecond  fon  of  this  lord,  then  about  Seaventeen  years  old,  of  whom 
the  Berkeleys  of  Stoke  by  Briftoll  are  difcended. 

Rot.  fin.  9  E.  2.  CijC  Twenty  fourth  of  June  in  the  ninth  of  his  raigne,  the  Kinge  granted  this 

"•  *•    lord  the  office  of  Juftice  or  prefidency  of  Wefl  Wales  and  South  Wales,  and  the 

cuflody  of  all  the  Caflles  in  them  being,  with  like  Commiffions  to  all  Captayns, 

Soldiers,  Officers,  and  people,  to  bee  aiding  and  Obedient  to  him  in  all  things,  as 

before. 


Rot.  Scot.  10  E.  2. 

Rot.  Scot.  1 1  E.  2. 

m  4.  12  et  16. 

277 

claus  :  II.  E.  2. 
m:  19. 

code  in  dorfo. 

Rot.  Scotiae  :  11  : 
12  :  13  :  E  :  2. 


fin:  li.E.  2.m.  II. 


310  the  Tenth  year  of  Edward  the  fecond,  this  lord  upon  the  Kings  comaund- 
ment  raifeth  one  Thoufand  foot  in  Weft  Wales  where  hee  was  Jufticier,  and  bringeth 
them  to  Newcaftle  upon  Tyne  |  with.  200.  others  rayfed  out  of  y^  foreft  of  Dean, 
and  one  hundred  out  of  y^  land  of  Gower  in  Wales  ;  3IlnD  the  8""  of  September 
following  being  in  the  Eleventh  year  of  the  faid  kings  raigne,  the  kinge  fends 
againe  to  this  lord  reciting  his  former  diredlion  for  the  one  Thoufand  foot  out  of 
weft  wales.  And  now  dire6ls  him  to  come  fpeedily  in  his  own  perfon  with  them  to 
Northalerton  in  Yorkftiiere  the  munday  after  S'  Matthews  day  at  fartheft  5Ilnb  at 
this  time  went  with  him  his  two  fonnes  Thomas,  and  Maurice  :  from  which  offices 
in  Wales  this  lord  was  removed  the  feaventh  of  Oftober  after,  for  his  greater  pre- 
ferment as  followeth. 


Rot.  vafcon  13.  (^]^e  28'^  of  February  in  y^  13*  of  his  raigne,  the   King  graunts  to  this  lord 

et  14:  E:  2:  m.  12.  jy^^^^j^g^  i^y  ^^le  name  of  his  well  beloved  cozen,  the  office  and  regiment  ^cncjtfcl^alitfia 
tlUtatUiCf  3tquitailiaE,  of  the  Stewardftiip  of  y'  Dutchy  of  Aquitayne,  with  all  things 
membr :  predid.  to  y'  office  appertaining  And  at  the  fame  time  writes  to  his  Conftable  of  Burdeaux 
fignyfying  That  with  the  faid  office  hee  had  given  his  faid  cozen .  2000".-  Turon  p' 
ann  for  his  wages,  31lntJ  requires  alfo  that  hee  have  all  his  charges  and  expences 
borne,  as  often  as  hee  goes  to  y°  parliaments  or  Courts  of  the  King  of  France,  or 
any  whither  elce  out  of  his  faid  Stewardfhip,  And  what  was  foe  paid  ftiould  be 
allowed  to  him  upon  his  accompt. 


Radulphus  de  Manda  villa,  fcutifero^ 
Johannes  de  Paulefheye,  fcutifero. 
Thomas  de  Nova  villa,  fcutifero. 
Johannes  de  Mautravers,  milite. 
Dominus  Mauricius  de  Berkele,  milite,  filius. 
Thomas  de  Wynterburne,  fcutifero. 


Adamus  Martel,  fcutifero,  poflea. 
Johannes  de  Swonhongre,  fcutifero. 
Johannes  fit.  Nicholai,  valetto. 
Rogerus  de  Brokele,  valetto. 
Thomas  de  Baa,  valetto. 
Fulk  de  Penbrugges,  valetto. 


Thomas  de  Gurney,  valetto.    [Ed.] 


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229 


%nb  two  days  before  his  patent  was  fealed  comands  his  Treafurer  to  deliver  to    Alloc:  et  lib.  13 
this  lord  whom  hee  had  appointed  to  bee  his  Steward  of  Gafcoigne  and  Aquitayne, 
one  hundred  pounds  as  part  of  his  ffee. 


5CniJ  the  y'*"  of  March  following  as  hee  was  on  his  Journey  thitherward  the 
King  at  Canterbury  grants  him  a  generall  protection  from  all  Effayes  for  a  year 
following,  And  foe  likewife  for  his  two  fonnes  Thomas  and  Maurice,  And  for 
Thomas  de  Bradflone,  John  Mautravers  the  yonger,  and  other  of  his  friends  and 
fervants  whom  this  lord  took  over  with  him  :  3lnll  leaft  alfo  Thomas  fonne  of 
Thomas  de  Berkeley  his  fecond  brother  and  Richard  Salle  to  be  Attorneys  in  their 
abfences  for  them  all. 


pat.  13.  E :  2 
m  :  14. 


3[t  is  formerly  touched  howe  alfo  this  lord  Maurice  was  at  each  of  nine  or  ten    Rot.  Parliament 
Parliaments  after  the  firft  year  of  this  Kings  raigne  for  fowerteen  years  before  the    i^'^^'.    '  *'  *"  ^'^^ 
death  of  his  father,  whither  hee  was  fomoned  by  fpeciall  writts  to  confult  amongft 
the  peeres  and  Nobles  of  the  |  realme  ;  3lllltl  was  atlually  thereby  a  Baron  and  peer    278 
of  y'  realm.  And  as  hath  already  in  part,  and  will  more  fully  afterwards  appear,  had 
now  in  lands  and  offices  a  great  eftate  to  maintaya  that  dignity,  not  inferior  to  his 
fathers;  maintayning  a  houfe  and  port,  each  way  anfwerable,  as  after  will  be  declared. 


3llntl  it  is  further  to  be  obferved,  That  befides  the  truft  and  Authority  of  the 
Commiffion  for  prefervacon  of  y'  peace  (not  then  as  now,  proftitute  to  y'  ambition 
of  Inferior  perfons,)  wherein  likewife  from  y'  firft  year,  of  this  King  Edward  the 
Second  hee  was  fpetially  trufted  in  y'=  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Somerfett,  and  fome 
others,  hee  was  alfo  imployd  and  graced  in  many  other  Comiffions  of  Honnorable 
imployment  and  Truft,  as  appears. 


pat:  I.  E.  2.  pars.  i. 

pat.  7.  E.  2.  ps.  I. 

dorfo.  et  pars.  2. 

dorfo. 

Rot.  Scotiae.  8.  E. 

2.  m.  4. 


3ilttJ,  which  I  accompt  as  one  of  the  Kings  greateft  favors  and  fattisfa6lions  to 
this  high  foaring  lord,  (confidering  what  heavy  and  Ignoble  meafures  this  lord  and 
his  father  had  about  feaven  years  before  received  by  the  clamorous  purfuit  of  the 
Burgeffes  &  Town  of  Briftoll,  (with  an  unanimous  malice  then  confronting  them, 
as  in  his  fathers  life  is  declared^)  which  the  King  now  beftowed  upon  this  lord,  was 
That  when  inteftine  uproars  and  rebellions  were  at  this  time  raginge  in  y'  Town 
of  Briftoll,  between  the  Mayor,  Burgeffes,  Commons  and  Conflable  of  the  Caftle, 
wherein  one  half  were  for  fome  years  rebellioufly  in  Armes  againft  the  other,  many 
flayne,  and  twelve  Burgeffes  banifhed  by  the  greater  fa6lion  :  Cljat  now  the  King 
after  his  mandates  had  by  thofe  mutinous  Tounfmen  been  doubly  contemned,  Some 

of 


fin.  6.  E.  2.  m:  4. 
claus  :  6.  E.  2. 
m:  8  :  15. 
pat:6.  E.  2.  pars.  i. 
m:  13. 14.20.22.27. 
eodem  ps  :  2.  m. 

7-  13- 

claus:  7.  E.  2.  m: 

vlt.  et  in  dorfo. 

pat :  7.  E.  2.  pars. 

i.m:  8.  et  in  dorfo. 

bis. 

pat.  8.  E.  2.  pars.  2. 

m:  7.  8.  10. 

fin.  9.  E.  3.  m  :  a. 


230  €l)c  %i\ie0  of  t|)c  ©crhdcp^  1321 

pat:9.E.  2.  pars:2.    of  his  commiffioners  fent  under  the  authority  of  his  great  feal  to  inquire  of  their 

HI  *  2  7    3X  XSLTSG 

claus :  10.  E.  2.  m:    confpiracies,  infurre6lions  &  murthers,  taken  &  imprifoned,  Ci)C  Caftle  of  BriftoU 

n.  et  in  dorfo.    by  theis  mutineers  affaulted  and  forts  by  them  built  agfainft  it ;  5llftCC  the  power  of 
pat:  10.  E.  2.  pars  I.       /  11 

m :  3.  30.  35.    three  Counties  brought  by  their  feverall  Sherriffs  fufficed  not  to  appeafe  them  ;  Co 

pat:n.K2.pars.2.    p^^ke  I  fay  the  father  Comiffioner  to  enqiire  of  all  thefe  and  divers  the  like  offences  ; 

pat:ii.E.2.pars.i.    ^ntl,  (after  Seazure  of  the  Town  into  the  Kings  hands  and  many  fent  to  y'  Tower,) 

Dat6  E  2  Dars'2     '^^^  fonne,  this  lord,  CUi^tOjSt  of  the  faid  Town  and  Caftle  and  thereby  their  Judge  of 

in  dorfo.    life  and  goods  :  (for  Simon  Ward  was  but  his  creature  and  by  his  means  fo  placed,) 

in  dorfo     ^^^  ^^  '^  were  on  purpofe  to  give  y'  Town  &  people  into  this  lords  mercy  or  Juftice, 

either  to  honour  himfelfe  and  his  father  in  forgiving,  or  to  revenge  themfelves  by 

270    punifhing  upon  foe  juft  &  fuperexorbitant  new  |  offences :  I)aVltn0C  hereby  in  their 

hands  and  power  as  well  all  their  old  enemies,   as  whom  els,  freinds  or  foes  to 

execute  their  wills  upon  :    25llt  mercy  moft  prevailed  ;    The  whole  tragedy  and 

progrefs  whereof,  my  marginall  quotations  doe  declare. 

claus  17.  E  •  2  Sft  I  cannot  but  remember  on  the  other  part,  That  when  this  lord,  a  few  years 

m:  14:  15.  16.    after  the  lapping  up  of  thefe  broyls,  was  fallen  into  the  difpleafure  of  the  king  by 

pertakeing  againft   Hugh   de    Difpenfer  the  younger,    and    comitted    prifoner   to 

Wallingford  Caftle;  That  Richard  Tilly  then  Mayor  and  thefe  Briftollian  Burgeffes, 

out  of  an  inveterate  hatered  and  remembrance  of  former  paffages  with  this  lord  and 

his  father,  foe  malitioufly  (and  covetoufly  withall)  drew  into  queftion  all  and  what- 

foever  they  in  the  leaft  degree  could  fprinkle  any  fufpition  upon  to  have  leaned 

unto  or  adhered  in  fervice  or  otherwife  to  this  lord,  committing  them  to  their  comon 

nat.i7.E.  2.  dorfo.    goales,  and  otherwife  fo  ill  intreating  them,  (for  their  Efcheats  fake  alfo,)  as  the 

code.  pars.  2.    prifoners  obje6led,  That  upon  their  juft  complaints  fpetiall  comiffions  were  awarded 
m.  30.  et  in  dorfo.     "^  •"  *  -^  ^    1       xr  •  1         1  •         •       1       i 

under  the  great  feale  to  two  of  the  Judges  of  the  Kmgs  bench  to  mquire  by  Juryes 

of  the  County  of  Gloucefter  of  the  caufes  of  thefe  comitments  and  of  the  faid  Mayor 

and  Burgeffes  unjuft  pillages  made  upon  them  :  whereupon  eight,  ten,  and  more,  at 

a  clap  were  bayled  and  difcharged,  and  many  found  to  have  been  unjuftly  committed, 

to  the  Mayors  great  reproof  for  wrongfull  punifhment  inflicfled  upon  innocent  men. 

'CljUjef  and  upon  thefe  faire  termes  ftood  this  lord  with  the  King,  (whofe  Spetiall 
favour  hee  feemed  to  have  at  his  imployment  into  Aquitayne,)  as  hath  been  faid, 
from  whence  twelve  monthes  after  his  departure,  hee  return'd  about  ffebruary  in 
the  I4'^  year  of  his  raigne  :  howe  the  quarrell  arofe  between  Hugh  Spencer  the 
younger,  Earle  of  Gloucefter,  and  him  (which  was  his  overthrow)  I  find  not  :  how- 
beit  if  the  return  of  that  Commiffion  were  extant  which  was  in  the  time  of  this  lords 

government 


1326  Hife  of  a^auricc  tfjc  Cljirb  23' 

government  granted  to  Hugh  Spenfer  the  elder,  and  the  lord  Baldefmere,  to  inquire 
of  all  officers  niifbehaviours  in  Aquitayne,  perhaps  it  might  declare  the  root  to  fpring 
from  thence;  or  whilft  the  King  was  that  year  in  France  about  his  hom[a]ge  to  the 
French  King  for  this  Dukedome  ;  25ut  difcontented  this  lord  was,  as  too  many 
others  of  greater  note  then  himfelf  then  were,  not  only  with  the  faid  Hugh  Spencer 
the  younger,  but  with  his  father  |  alfo  Hugh  Spencer  the  elder,  Earl  of  Winchefter,  280 
yea  with  the  King  alfo  and  his  government,  and  with  the  power  thofe  two  Spencers  ^^  i/E^2m'"ii 
had  under  him,  whofe  unlimetted  greatnefs  overawed  and  fwayed  all  others :  how- 
belt  the  good  old  lord  Berkeley,  (even  then  in  ftouping  towards  his  tombe,)  ^ot.  fin:  13:  E.  2. 
perceiving  the  martiall  bent  of  this  lord  his  fone,  into  whofe  hands  and  difpofition 
(as  well  he  might)  hee  had  put  both  himfelf,  and  in  effedl  his  whole  eflate  divers 
years  before,  by  wife  divertions  (as  much  as  in  decrepit  age  hee  might,)  kept  this 
lord  his  fon  from  breaking  out  and  from  openly  pertakeing  with  other  difcontented 
lords,  (then  enterd  into  a  kind  of  Rebellion,)  fo  long  as  hee  lived  ;  As  well  may  be 
perceived  by  the  tres  and  meffages  that  in  the  lad  year  and  [  blank  ]  months  of  his 
life,  came  from  the  Kinge  to  himfelf,  and  to  this  lord  his  fon;  23ut  the  faid  lord 
Thomas  dying  the  23''  of  July  following  which  was  fixteen  days  after  the  Kings  entry 
into  the  fifteenth  year  of  his  raigne,  (as  hath  been  faid,)  this  lord  Maurice  became  a 
proffeffed  enemy  to  the  faid  Hugh  Spencer  the  Sonne :  And  contained  not  himfelf 
any  long  time  after  before  hee  joyned  in  Armes  with  Mortimer,  Audely,  Gifford 
and  other  lords  againft  the  Spencers,  ^ntl,  as  Hollingfhed  faith,  with  neer.  i2CX)0.  HoUingelh: 
men  came  with  The  Kings  banner  fpread  unto  Newport  where  they  tooke  the 
Caflle  that  was  Hugh  fpencers  y"  younger,  and  divers  others  of  his,  flew  many  of 
his  Knights  and  men,  and  tooke  many  of  them  prifoners  and  ranfomed  many,  and 
burned  three  and  twenty  of  his  mannors  in  thofe  parts  in  wales  ;  In  which  outrage 
they  continued  fifteen  days,  3tlltl  then  came  with  their  Army  into  England,  where 
they  did  him  the  like  damage,  And  fent  the  King  word  by  the  Bifhop  of  Canterbury 
that  they  would  not  defift  till  they  had  driven  the  Spencers  out  of  the  land,  %v^ 
ads  further,  that  they  did  more  damage  y"  the  former  to  the  mannors  and  lands 
of  Hugh  Spencer  the  father  in  thirteen  Counties,  with  extreame  havocke  and 
Spoyle. 

31  have  in  thefe  relations  propofed  to  my  felf  to  bee  more  direfted  by  matter 
of  record  then  by  the  vulgar  chronicles  when  they  vary  from  record  either  in  time 
or  matter,   Zakt  therefore  the  firfl  hoftile  and  rebellious  a6ls  of  this  lord  and  his    ^^^"^''  ^^'  ^'  '' 
complices  out  of  a  manufcript  a6l  of  parliament  in  the  fifteenth  of  this  Kings  |  raigne,    281 
never  printed,  which  fetts  forth  howe  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  the  fon  fuffered  moft 

greevous 


232 


€i)e  HibfiBf  of  tJjc  23ctrftricpie! 


1321 


Rot:  parliament. 

21.  R.  2.  pars.  2. 

m :  6. 


Parliament  at 
weftm.  14.  E.  2. 


greevous  oppreffions,  being  with  the  King  and  in  his  fervice  and  office  of  Chamber- 
layne,  by  Roger  Mortimer  the  unkle,  S'  Maurice  Berkeley,  Hugh  de  Audeley,  and 
others,  who  with  their  retinues,  came  upon  him  on  wednfday  after  the  feafl  of  y' 
invention  of  the  holy  crofs  (then  the  eighth  of  May)  in  the  14"'  year  of  King  Edward 
the  fecond,  at  Newport  in  wales,  with .  800 .  men  of  Armes  with  baner  difplayed 
with  the  Kings  Armes  and  their  own,  and  with .  500 .  light  horfe  and  ten  thoufand 
foot,  enterd  upon  his  Caftles  and  Towns,  flewe  his  men  in  Wales,  and  imprifoned 
others  of  them,  tooke  away  his  Armour  and  Viftuals  to  the  Value  of  two  Thoufand 
pounds,  and  took  and  burned  his  evidences  to  the  value  of  two  Thoufand  pounds 
more.  And  took  away  threefcore  breeding  mares  with  their  iffues  of  two  years  old, 
two  eftalons,  160.  Bullocks,  400.  beofes,  500.  kine  with  their  iffues  of  two  years  old, 
1 0000 .  fheep,  and  .  400 .  hoggs,  and  burned  his  granges  and  farm  houfes,  three  and 
twenty  mannors,  (named  in  the  record,)  And  fo  fetts  down  other  fpoyles,  w'^  then 
by  them  were  done  :  3£nll  likewife  Hugh  le  Difpencer  the  father  fhewes,  howe  the 
fame  power  and  perfons  on  S^  Barnabe  day,  (the  1 1""  June,)  in  the  fame  h'*"  year  of 
King  Edward  the  fecond,  in  like  fort  Spoyled  his  manors  of  Beefeley,  Fairford, 
Letchlade,  and  fifty  others  in  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Wiltefs,  Dorfett,  Souttiton, 
Berks,  Oxon,  Bucks,  Surry,  Huntington,  Leicefter,  Yorke,  Chefhire,  and  Warwick, 
And  tooke  away  of  his.  28000.  Sheep.  1000  Oxen  and  Steers,  1200.  kine  with  their 
calves  of  two  years  old,  2000 .  fwine,  40 .  Tunns  of  wine,  600 .  bacons,  fower  fcore 
carcaffes  of  beofe,  600 .  muttons  in  the  larder  &c.  to  his  damage  of  Thirty  Thoufand 
pounds  ;  and  came  to  the  Abby  of  Stanley  and  there  tooke  out  of  his  Coffers  one 
thoufand  pound,  and  1000"  in  plate.  And  enterd  Marleborrowe  Caftle,  And  thence 
carryed  away  of  his  woole,  cloth,  croffes  of  gold,  Ivory  and  other  ornaments,  and 
out  of  his  Wardrobe  there  to  the  value  of  Six  thoufand  pounds.  And  caufinge  people 
by  force  to  rife  and  obay  them,  came  to  Weftminfter,  And  at  the  Parliament  then 
there  holden  (at  midfomer  in  the  faid  14""  year  of  Edward  the  fecond,)  caufed  him 
and  his  fonne  to  be  Banifhed  and  difmherited. 


282 

Parliam'.  York  15. 

E.  2. 

Rot.  pari.  21.  R.  2. 


31Illb  in  conclufion  affigne  the  errors  comitted  in  thofe  proceedings  in  |  that 
parliament  which  are  here  allowed  and  the  former  reverfed  as  being  againfl  the 
kings  honor  and  Juftice,  and  done  by  evill  counfell.  IBljicl)  are  alfo  to  be  read  in 
the  parliament  rolls  of  the  ai'*"  year  of  Richard  the  fecond,  what  time  Thomas  le 
Difpenfer  Sonne  of  Edward  fone  of  Edward  fonne  of  the  faid  Hugh  le  Difpenfer 
Earle  of  Glouc  y'  fonne  of  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  Earle  of  Winchefter  the  father,  was 
created  Earle  of  Glouc^  And  the  records  of  thofe  times  revoked  and  anulled  by 
Sentence  in  this  parliament. 


1326  flife  of  a^auritt  tljc  Cljirb  233 

ZffC  12'''  of  November  in  the  fifteenth  year  of  his  raigne  the  faid  King  Edward    claus :  15.  E.  2. 
writes  to  this  lord,  to  contayne  him  in  his  obedience,  and  to  caufe  him  to  diflike  the 
unjuft  prefumptions  of  Thomas  Earle  of  Lancafler,  reciting  the  Earles  tres  to  him, 
noted  to  be  full  of  arrogancye  &c.  SClltl  in  conclufion  forbiddeth  him  upon  his  perill, 
to  meet  at  any  conventicles  or  affemblies  without  his  lycence. 

51!nll  at  this  time  the  king  draws  many  foldiers  out  of  divers  Counties  to  meet    eodem  in  dorfo. 
him  at  Cirencefter  in  the  County  of  Glouc'  in  the  feafl;  of  S'  Lucy  being  the  13*  of 
December. 

Zt^t  eighth  day  of  which  December,  the  king  then  at  Worcefter,  for  the  fattis-    pat.  15.  E.  2. 
faction  of  his  difcontented  lords  and  comons,  declares  his  reafons  why,  (upon  the 
petition  of  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  the  younger,)  hee  had  recalled  him  from  exile,  have- 
ing  been  baniflied  by  parliament  at  midfomer  before,  as  tyed  to  juftice  by  the  old 
f [tjatute  of  tntl0na  Cf)arta  and  by  his  oath  at  his  coronation. 

3lln&  the  as'*"  of  the  fame  December,  the  kinge  declares  the  like  upon  an  other    eodem:  m.  4. 
petition  for  the  revocation  of  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  the  father. 

3llnb  the  next  day  after,  then  at  Cirencefler  commands  the  Caflle  of  Brimes-  eodem :  m.  6. 
feild  not  feaven  miles  off,  to  bee  pulled  down,  the  old  inheritance  of  the  Gififords, 
the  owner  whereof  John  Gifford  lord  of  Brimsfeild  was  now  in  rebellion  with  this 
lord  Maurice,  haveing  the  7*  of  this  December  before  fent  out  divers  writs  into 
feverall  Counties  to  have  him  and  others  arrefled,  and  their  lan-ds  feafed  into  his 
hands. 

311ntl  the  2y'^  of  the  fame  December  went  out  feverall  writs  to  y'  Sherriffs  of   fin:is.E.  2.m.  19. 
twelve  or  more  Countyes  to  feaze  into  the  kings  hands  the  lands  of  thefe  rebellious 
lords.  I 

3£nll  the  day  following  the  king  comitted  to  John  Hanfteed,  Odo  de  Stoke  and    283 
to  Geffry  Dode,  the  keeping  of  all  the  Caftles,  mannors,  lands,  goods  and  chatties        '  P''^°'" 
of  this  lord  Maurice  and  of  Thomas  and  Maurice  his  fons,  and  of  twelve  others  in 
the  County  of  Effex,  To  hold  at  will,  and  to  anfwer  the  proffitts  into  his  Chamber. 

^|)t  forefaid   27^^  of  December  in   the  fame   fiftenth   year,    the  kinge  from    eodem. 
Cirencefler  fends  out  other  writs  to  his  Sherrife  of  Glouceflerfhiere  to  feaze  into 
2  H  his 


234  '^  5litcjf  of  tlje  25nrfericp3et  1321 

his  hands  all  the  Caftles  manners  lands  and  Tenements  goods  and  chatties  of  John 
Gifford  of  Brimesfeild,  this  lord  Maurice  Berkeley  and  of  Thomas  his  fone,  Thomas 
the  fonne  of  Robert  de  Berkeley,  Nigell  of  Kingfcote,  Thomas  of  Bradflone  and  of 
fourty  eight  others  perticulerly  named  in  thefe  writs  of  feazure. 

eodem.  m.  23.  ^^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^  Kinge  grants  the  cuflody  of  all  the  fame  to  John 

de  Langley,  John  de  Hampton  and  to  Robert  de  Afhton  to  hold  at  his  will,  and 
they  to  anfwer  the  proffits. 

claus :  15.  E.  2.  ilDijcrCtll  by  a  fmall  digreffion  I  will  note  howe  all  the  mannors  and  lands  of 

the  two  great  Earles  Spenfers  the  father  and  the  fonne,  were  not  fix  months  before 
feazed  into  the  kings  hands  as  efcheated,  they  difinherited  and  exiled.  And  now 
reftored  againe  to  all,  from  the  fame  kinge,  and  in  greater  favour  and  power  then 
before  :  %v3i  thofe  to  whome  their  lands  were  graunted,  have  the  fame  taken  from 
them,  And  thefe  Spenfers  in  poffeffion  of  their  own  lands  againe,  and  of  their 
enemies  alfoe  to  boote  ;  and  foe  of  their  perfons  reciprocally  ;  %nti  one  parliament 
to  declare  within  a  year  the  whole  A6ls  of  a  former  under  the  fame  King  to  bee 

claus:  15.  E.  2.    yoyd    311ntl  the  lords  Damery  and  Audeley,  for  feazing  the  lands  of  the  faid  Earles 

'""  ^^'    Spenfers  by  warrant  of  the  kings  Comiffion  under  the  great  feal  grounded  upon  an 

a6l  of  parliament,  were  within  the  year  by  the  like  Comiffion  and  by  another  Aft 

of  parliament  adjudged  Tray  tors  for  foe  doinge,  and  their  doings  difavowed  by  a 

fecond  parhament. 

fin.  15.  E.  2.  m.  17.  25ut  I  returne  ;  The  4*  of  January  following  the  kinge  coinanded  the  Sheriffes 

of  Lincolne  and  Yorke  to  Seaze  into  their  hands  all  the  lands  and  Mannors  of  this 
lord  Maurice  &  of  other  his  complifes  in  thofe  Countyes. 

284  Cf)C  ninth  of  the  fame  January,  the  king  takes  into  his  fpetiall  defence  |  and 

pat.  15.  E.  2.  pars,    proteftion  the  perfon  lands  and  goods  of  Hugh  Spenfer  the  Younger. 
I.  m  :  2.  et.  3.     ^ 

Pat.  15.  E.  2.  pars.  3Ctjc  13""  of  January  the  kinge  grants  his  fafe  condu6l  to  Roger  de  Mortimer 

'•  ™"  *•  3-  lord  of  Wigmore,  and  to  twenty  other  perfons  whome  hee  would  chufe,  to  come  to 

him  and  to  commune  with  the  Earles  of  Richmond,  Penbroke,  Arundle  and  Warren 

about  their  difcontents,  And  after  fafely  to  depart :  what  followed  hereupon  I  find 

not :  I  fuppofe  nothinge. 

g      J  ^C  fifteenth  of  y'  faid  January,  the  kinge  grants  his  Comiffion  to  Ralph  de 

dorfo.    Greindon  and  others,  with  forces  to  apprehend  this  lord  Maurice  and  other  malle- 

faflors, 


1326  3lifc  of  a^auricc  rtjc  Cf)irti  235 

facflors,  (here  named,)  difturbers  of  the  peace,  who  with  multitudes  of  armed  men 
had  taken  the  goods  of  the  kings  fubje6ls  hoftilely  in  the  county  of  War?,  and  them 
beaten  and  wounded,  And  had  comitted  divers  murders,  burnings  &c.  Therefore 
gives  power  to  thofe  Comiffioners  to  purfue  arreft  and  take  them,  with  all  diligence, 
with  a  Comandment  to  all  Sherifes  of  all  Counties  to  bee  aidinge  and  affifting  to 
thefe  Comiffioners. 

C|)C  1 7'^  of  the  faid  January,  the  king  graunts  an  other  fafe  conducH;  to  the  faid  pat.  15.  E.  2.  pars. 
Roger  de  Mortimer  that  himfelf  and  four  fuch  other  perfons  of  State  as  hee  would  '"  "''  ''^^  ^' 
chufe,  fhould  fafely  come  and  conferr  with  y°  faid  fower  Earles  about  thefr  greev- 
ances  and  difcontents  and  as  fafely  depart :  Mortimer,  this  lord  Maurice,  and  others 
came  as  followeth  ;  But  they  all  found  their  fafe  conducfl  broken  And  infteed  of 
conference,  or  fafe  departure  were  fent,  fome  to  the  Tower,  others  to  Wallingford 
Caftle,  as  nowe  is  to  bee  related. 

C!)C  7*^  of  February  in  the  faid  fifteenth  year  of  his  raigne,  the  King  then  at  Rot.  fin:  15.  E.  2. 

Glouc,  commands  the  Sherife  of  that  County,  to  feaze  into  his  hands  the  Caftle  of  ™'  '^' 
Berkeley  without  delay,  and  all  the  goods  and  chatties  within  the  fame  to  be  found, 

and  thereof  to  anfwere  the  profits.     At  which  time  (faith  Hollingeflied)  this  lord  Hollingefli : 

Maurice  came  to  the  Kinge  at  Gloucefter,  fubmitting  himfelfe  to  the  Kings  pleafure,  °  "  ^^^' 
which  I  may  not  altogeather  beleeve. 

Cf)C  is'*"  of  February  in  the  fame  fifteenth  year,  the  King  comitts  to  Simon  de    eodem.  m.  15. 
Driby  the  cuflody  of  this  lords  Caflle  and  manor  of  Berkeley  and  of  the  manors  of 
Wotton,  Simondfall,  Cowley,  Came,  Hurft,   Hame,  Slimbridge,  Alkington,  Stanle, 
Pondelarge,  and  of  his  lands  in  Berewike,  To  hold  at  the  Kings  pleafure,  and  to 
anfwer  the  profits.  | 

C!)f  18"^  of  February  in  the  fame  fifteenth  year,  the  kinge  comitts  to  Richard    285 
Lovell  the  cuftody  of  this  lords  manors  of  Portbury  and  Bedminfter  and  of  his  three    ^'^^-  '^"-  ^"°?  ^^ 
hundreds  of  Portbury,  Hareclive  and  Bedminfter,  to  hold  at  the  Kings  pleafure  as 
before. 

CljC  22'!*  of  Februarys  in  the  fame  fifteenth  year  of  his  raigne  the  king  awards    pat.  15.  E.  2.  m. 
his  comiffion  to  Martin  and  Kirkby  to  find  out  by  all  wayes  and  means  the  Jewells,    ^^'  P^"^^'  *■ 
money,  plate  and  other  goods  of  this  lord  Maurice  and  others  of  that  adherency 
And  the  fame  to  arrefl  and  Seaze. 


236 


€f)c  Hibcjet  of  tftc  S^cchdepjef 


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Rot.  fin:  15.  E.  2.  'd^  21**  of  Aprill  in  the  fame  fifteenth  year,  the  Kinge  comitted  to  Richf  de 

™-  9-  et  ffoxcote  the  cuftody  of  this  lords  manors  of  Mars  in  the  p'ifh  of  Thornbury, 
Shipton  under  Whitchwood,  and  Buriford  in  the  County  of  Oxon  w*  all  the  goods 
and  chatties  therein  to  bee  found,  To  hold  at  y^  Kings  pleafure. 

pat.  is.E.j.dorfo.  €I^C  1 8'!"  of  May  in  the  fame  fifteenth  year,  went  out  Comiffions  to  find  out 

what  other  lands  this  lord  Maurice  and  his  fellow  rebells  had,  (not  before  granted 
and  knowne,)  to  the  end  the  kinge  might  feaze  and  difpofe  of  them  as  hee  had  done 
of  all  hee  had  already  found  ;  foe  fpeaks  the  record. 

fin.  16.  E.  2. m.  26.  €I^C  21**  of  July  in  the  fixteenth  year,  the  Kinge  appoints  Commiffioners  to 

accompt  for  the  profits  of  all  this  lords  lands,  not  in  the  Exchequer,  but  to  pay 
them  in,  cameram  fuam,  into  his  chamber  to  the  privy  purfe. 

fin.  16.  E.2:m:i7.  'C|)C  h"*  of  Odlober  in  the  16""  year  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  comits,  (inter  alia,) 

to  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  the  younger,  the  manor  of  Mars  w"*"  was  this  lord  Maurices, 
To  hold  at  his  pleafure. 


fin.  17.  E.  2  :m.  9  : 

13: 

honor  de  Berkeley. 


Alloc :  19.  E. 


orig.  15.  E.  2.  em 
rem.  thes :  in  fccio. 


Efcheffit.  15.  E  :  2. 
286 


Efchaet.  i.  E.  3. 
in  com  Somerfet. 


d)£  third  of  May  in  the  1 7*  year  of  his  raigne,  the  Kinge  comitts  to  John 
Frelond  the  cuftody  of  the  Caftle  and  honor  of  Berkeley,  and  of  the  manors  and 
lands  that  were  this  lords  within  the  County  of  Glouc:  with  the  fee  of  twenty 
marks  for  his  paynes. 

9in&  now  alfoe  was  Bernard  Caftle  in  London,  and  other  parts  of  this  lords       -* 
poffeffions,  comitted  by  the   Kinge    to  the  Cuftody  and   government  of   Robert 
Hungerford. 

3Ilnl>  to  conclude  thefe  perticulars,  After  this  lord  was  thus  fhut  up  in  Walling- 
ford  Caftle,  noe  Term  almoft  paffed  in  the  next  fower  years,  but  one  writt  or  other, 
Comiffion,  Inquificon,  or  other  proces  out  of  one  or  other  of  the  Kings  courts, 
iffued  and  were  executed  and  returned  concerning  the  pofeffions  of  this  lord,  and 
of  his  fonnes  and  kindred;  And  amongft  others  one  Inquificon  was  taken  at  Wotton 
the  27""  I  of  December  in  the  faid  fifteenth  year,  wherein  the  Jury  found  That  this 
lord  the  day  of  his  rebellion  was  feized  in  fee  Simple  of  the  Caftle  and  Townes  of 
Berkeley  and  Wotton,  and  of  the  manners  of  Hame,  Alkington,  Hinton,  Wotton, 
Symondfall,  Came,  Cowley,  Hurft  and  Slimbridge  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter  ; 
And   of  the    mannors   of   Portbury,    Bedminfter   and    Radecliveftreet,    Kingfton 

Seimore, 


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237 


Seimore,  with  the  hundreds  of  Portbury,  Bedminfter  and  Hareclive,  and  of  divers 
lands  in  Alhton,  in  the  County  of  Somerfet.  And  that  it  was  more  for  the  kings 
profit  to  keep  thefe  manors  and  lands  in  his  own  hands,  flocked  and  flored  with 
cattle  as  then  they  were,  then  to  lett  them  out  to  farm  for  rent  ;  which  proved  a 
more  beneficiall  prefentment  for  this  lords  eldefl  fonne  the  lord  Thomas  then  was 
intended,  as  after  in  his  life  appeareth. 

3Cni>  accordingly  in  the  fame  and  the  next  month  the  overfight  and  governe-    Repoitar.  in  fccio. 
ment  as  well  of  the  faid  manors  that  were  of  this  lord  Maurice,  as  of  Thomas  his 
fonne  and  heire,  as  of  fifty  and  two  other  gentlemen  of  this  County,  Gloucefter, 
pertakers  with  this  lord  in  this  rebellious  ati,  were  comited  to  Hampton,  Langley, 
Afhton  and  others  as  before  partly  hath  been  declared,  to  hold  at  the  kings  pleafure, 
and  to  accompt  for  the  profits  in  the  kings  Exchequer,  affigning  to  each  of  them 
feverall  fees  for  fuch  their  imployments,  i@{)i(I)  courfe  of  hufbandry,  (the  fame  this 
lord  and  other  his  anceflors  had  ufed,)  was  continued  in  the  faid  manors,  till  the 
Kinge  himfelf  five  years  after  was  made  prifoner  to  this  lords  fonne  with  the  loffe 
of  his  life  in  this  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  now  by  him  and  the  forefaid  two  Earles 
Spenfers  the  father  and  fonne  thus  difpofed  of;  mofl:  of  which  Accompts  for  thofe    multi  compi.  15. 
five  years  of  all  or  mofl  of  thofe  manors  and  lands,  and  of  divers  others  in  other    e  '2  m  cailro  de 
Counties,  (longe  fince  fold  and  given  away  by  this  family,  which  the  Kinge  in  like    Berkeley, 
manner  then  feazed  and  tooke  into  his  hands,)  doe  yet  remaine  in  Berkeley  Caftle. 


5pOt  conclufion  it  is  certaine,  the  power  of  thefe  lords  united  was  Stronge,  and 
the  hearts  of  the  people  in  fuch  fort  generally  raifed  againft  the  government  and 
greatnefs  of  the  aforefaid  Earles  Spenfers,  That  if  an  army  were  rayfed  to  fubdue 
them,  yet  overdangerous  to  give  Battle  to  fuch  experienced  and  inraged  Captaynes, 
upon  the  poynts  of  whofe  fwords  confifled  all  their  fafetyes,  Efpetially  if  the  Earle 
of  Lancafler  with  his  difcontented  followers  then  in  Arms  in  the  North,  fhould 
have  joyned  with  thefe  in  the  wefl,  which  was  |  feared  and  wifely  prevented  ;  CljC  287 
confideration  whereof  may  feem  in  part  to  have  invited  to  that  parly,  and  to  thofe 
fafe  conduces  fent  from  the  court  to  Roger  le  Mortimer  the  thirteenth  of  January, 
firll  for  himfelf  and  twenty  ;  and  fower  days  after  for  himfelf  and  fower  fuch 
others  as  hee  would  bring  with  him  to  conferr  of  their  greevances  with  thofe  lords 
of  the  kings  councell  then  with  him  at  Cirencefter,  as  hath  before  been  faid  3llntl 
it  is  noe  offence  to  truth,  to  fay  that  Mortimer  brought  with  him  to  that  parley 
this  lord  Maurice  Berkeley  and  the  lord  Hugh  Audely,  ^then  by  matche  of  their 
Children  his  two  brother  in  lawes,)  and  his  uncle  Roger  Mortimer;  where  fuddainly    Walfmgham.  fo. 

they     "5:etat. 


238  €f)c  HibCiS  of  ti)c  25cthricpjei  1321 

they  found  contrary  to  all  their  expeftations,  (as  divers  hiftories  affirm,)  their  fafe 
condu6l  broken,  and  this  lord  Maurice  with  the  lord  Audeley,  (before  the  twentieth 
of  that  January,)  fent  prifoners  to  Wallingford  Caflle,  and  the  two  Mortimers  to 
the  tower  at  London,  in  which  places  they  held  their  lives  at  the  courtefy  of  thofe 
that  deadly  hated  them  :  Gods  juftice  never  permitting  impunity  to  the  difloyall 
enterprifes  and  complots  of  Traytors,  for  in  rebellions  wee  do  but  fight  againft 
Gods  providence,  and  contradi6l  God  in  his  owne  appoyntments. 

Walfmgh.fol:  ii8.  S  fortJCaCC  to  conjecture  the  reafons  which  probably  feem  to  have  invited  thefe 

lords,  (efpetially  this  lord  Maurice,  called  by  Walfingham  vir  nominatiffimus  a  mofl 
remarkable  man,)  to  cafl  themfelves  upon  this  Salvum  conduftum  this  fafe  come, 
fafe  flay,  and  fafe  depart  ;  25ut  their  unexpedled  comitments  to  thofe  prifons 
appears  to  be  foe  difpleafing  to  Thomas  this  lords  eldefl  fonne,  and  to  his  brother 
Maurice,  with  other  of  their  complices.  That  in  heat  and  rage,  aimeing  only  at 
revenge,  they  whirle  about  into  mofl  Counties  where  the  two  Earles  Spenfers  had 
lands  goods  or  chatties.  And  what  devaflations  they  made  eare  they  were  fupprefl, 
let  thefe  few  records  here  by  the  way,  (the  refl  in  the  life  of  the  faid  lord  Thomas,) 
declare. 

pat.  15.  E.  2.  pars.  CljC  28''' of  May  following,  the  fame  fifteenth  year,  an  Inquiry  by  Jury  was 

2.  in  dorfo  bis.  i^gfore  Judge  Stonere  and  others,  Comiffionors,  whether  Thomas  de  Berkeley  (this 
lords  eldefl  fonne,)  Thomas  the  fonne  of  Maurice  de  Berkeley,  and  other  malle- 
fa6lors,  have  enterd  into  the  manors  of  Dadington,  Kirtlington,  Periton,  Hafeld, 
Spelfbury,  Afcote  and  others  in  the  County  of  Oxford,  then  in  the  kings  hands,  and 
288  the  gates  and  windows  have  broken,  and  |  Chefls  there  found  have  broken  up,  and 
have  from  thence  taken  away  500  horfes .  and  other  beafts,  3000  .  fheep,  400 .  fwine 
and  one  hundred  fwans,  of  the  value  of  2000'!  and  have  deftroyed  the  deere  in  the 
parkes  there,  and  other  horrible  mifcheifs  done  in  the  faid  County — IB|)icl^  was  not 
to  bee  denyed. 

pat.predia.,dorfo.  CljC  like  at  the  fame  time  were  the  outragious  fafts  of  Maurice  y'  fecond 

fonne  of  this  lord,  and  of  Thomas  the  fonne  of  Maurice,  and  other  their  complices, 
in  the  manners  of  Spenhenton,  Stanford  &  others  in  Barkfliire. 

d'  in  dorfo  3ilnt>  the  like  Comiffions  and  prefentments  were  made  in  divers  other  Counties 

for  Spoyles  and  depredations  by  them  comitted  without  meafure  or  mercy. 

pat.  I :  E.  3.  m.  8.  23ut  in  the  end  they  were  difperfed,  and  Thomas  this  lords  fonne  and  heire 

taken  and  comitted  to  the  Tower  of  London,  from  whence  efcapeing  by  breaking 

of 


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239 


Stow.  fol.  333. 
How  220. 

Hollinges.  326. 

327- 

Daniell.  178:  179  : 

Powell  et  alij. 

Hollinges.  fo.  333. 
Walfingham.  ii8. 


of  prifon,  hee  fued  his  pardon  the  23'''  of  March  in  the  firfl  year  of  Edward  the 
third,  fower  years  after  ;   But  againe  was  taken,  as  after  followeth  in  his  life. 

5CnO  if  our  common  chronicles  come  either  fhort  or  relate  fomewhat  differently, 
(as  they  doe,)  from  thefe  narrations,  I  fay  as  before,  I  willingly  depart  from  them, 
when  they  from  records,  and  alfoe  difagree  amongft  themfelves. 

•JTt)!^  lord  Maurice  thus  a  prifoner,  Hollingfhead  and  others  tell  us  that  S' John 
Goldington  and  others,  by  a  great  confpiracy  in  the  year  after  his  comittment, 
praftifed  to  have  deliverd  him  and  others  out  of  Wallingford  Caftle,  whereinto 
though  they  had  enterd,  yet  failed  of  their  enterprife,  whereby  many  of  them  loft 
their  lives,  and  the  prifoners  were  more  clofely  looked  unto. 

l^otoBcit  records  deliver  it  thus,  That  in  the  end  of  January  In  the  16'''  year    fin.  16.  E.  2.01.5. 
of  the  kinge,  Sr  Nicholas  Beech,  Sr  John  Goldington,  Sr  Wittm  de  Wauton,  John    '^j  16  E  2  narsi 
de  Hereford  parfon  of  Depeden,  and  a  great  rout  of  other  malefa6lors,  feditioufly    in  dorfo. 
enterd  into  the  faid  Caftle  with  Armes,  And  for  a  time  held  fome  part  thereof   2^m  •  17.  fg. 
againft  the  king,  but  were  not  able  to  deliver  this  lord  and  his  fellow  prifoners 
though  they  were  aided  by  divers  rebellious  Londoners,  who  at  the  fame  time  had 
the  like  defigne  upon  the  Tower  of  London  &  the  prifoners  there  ;  But  failing  in 
both,  fome  of  them  were  taken  &  executed,  and  fome  efcaped,  but  for  S'John 
Goldington  hee  was  |  punifhed  by  the  purfe  with  the  fine  of  five  hundred  marks,    289 
which  made  his  peace ;  And  Sr  Wittm  de  Wauton,  (who  was  lord  of  Cromhall,)  for 
fomewhat  a  leffe  fine. 


2't  was  the  fifth  of  February  following  endeavored  with  a  Jury  of  Barkfhiere    P^'-  predia. 
before  Judge  Stoner  and  other  Comiffioners,  to  have  found  thefe  two  lords  guilty  of 
adheringe  and  confenting  to  this  attempt  of  Goldington  and  his  fellowes,  and  foe  to 
have  proceeded  againft  their  lives,  but  they  efcaped  the  danger. 

Cl)0  confideration  whereof  confirmeth  the  truth  that  they  were  comitted  con- 
trary to  the  faith  of  their  fafe  condudl;.  And  therefore  the  State  could  not  with 
honor  proceed  upon  their  lives  for  former  offences  :  howfoever  otherwife  ready 
enough  to  have  drawn  blood  upon  any  new  occation,  as  this  of  prifon  breaking  or 
the  like,  ffbr  where  hatred  and  offences  were  alike,  like  punifliment  would  have 
overtaken  thefe  two  lords  as  did  their  aflbciates,  who  haveing  the  16""  of  Mar:  next 
after  the  comitment  of  thefe  lords  loft  the  battle  at  Burrowbridge,  were,  (fuch  of    Daniel  et  at. 

them 


240  €l)c  %i\iC0  of  tlje  5&crhdcp3ef  1321 

them  as  were  taken  alive)  the  fixth  day  after  beheaded  hanged  and  quartered  with 
much  cruelty  at  Pomfret  in  Yorkfhiere,  w*  hiflories  do  note  to  have  been  the  firft 
execution  of  that  direfull  kind  upon  the  Nobility,  that  this  land  had  ever  beheld. 

carta  in  caflro  ^ttl  Other  inducement  alfo  of  breach  of  their  fafe  condudl,  is  the  kings  manner 

of  dealing  with  divers  of  this  lords  evidences,  and  with  many  of  his  Jewells  goods 
and  chatties,  which  about  the  time  of  his  repair  to  the  Court  upon  the  forefaid 
fafe  conduct,  hee  had  privately  conveyed  to  Briftoll  ;  whereof  the  kinge  afterwards 
takeing  notice,  would  not  feaze  and  take  them  as  forfeited,  but  caufed  them  to  bee 
by  Indenture  delivered  to  the  Abbot  of  S'  Auguftines  fafe  keeping,  where  they 
claus :  20.  E.  2.  remained  till  nine  months  after  his  death  when  upon  Afhwednefday  in  the  firft  year 
of  King  Edward  the  third,  by  the  then  kings  coiiiand,  they  were  then  delivered  to 
his  heirs  and  executors  ;  ^UniOltgj^t  which  were  -two  coffers  of  Ivory  plated  with 
filver,  guilt  with  gold,  eighteen  garnifh  of  filver  veffell,  A  violl  of  pretious  oyle, 
A  peece  of  the  wood  of  the  holy  croffe,  divers  pearls,  Emerauds,  Rubies,  and 
Saphires,  A  pair  of  paternofters^  of  great  pearle,  two  croffes  of  Gold,  the  booke  of 
the  law  called  Breton,  The  legend  of  Saints,  and  divers  other  of  great  value  ; 
which  parcells  I  have  here  in  particuler  in  part  expreffed,  to  fhew  this  lord,  in  what 
was  his  and  the  ornaments  of  Berkeleys  Barons,  which  in  thefe  days  they  moft 
efteemed  amongft  their  goods  and  chatties. 

3[n  the  nineteenth  of  King  Edward  the  fecond  were  many  fecret  pra6lices 

290    afoot  I  for  feazing  of  Caftles  and  fetting  prifioners  at  liberty,  for  the  difcontented 

claus.  19.  E.  2.  m:    commons  ready  to  rife  in  Armes,  wanted  difcontented  leaders,  which  caufed  the 
5.  21.  et.  22.  ^ 

kinge  to  remove  both  fodainly  and  fecretly  great  numbers  of  his  principall  prifoners 

both  male  and  female,  (for  Ladies  and  gentleweomen  were  alfoe  praftizers,)  from 

one  Caftle  to  an  other  ;  And  to  write  to  the  conftable  of  this  Caftle  of  Berkeley, 

(as  to  fowerteen  others  the  like,)  That  upon  perill  of  his  life  and  members,  (fub 

periculo  vitse  et  membror,)  and  upon  forfeiture  of  all  his  goods  and  chatties,  hee 

fliould  keep  all  his  prifoners  fafe,  foe  that  none  of  them  fliould  efcape  out  of  this 

caftle. 

J^ijtf  jaj^ijBfccUainciS,  Iju^ftanliric^  anb  tjoiefpitalitp 

I^abingC  thus  in  a  continued  narration  opened  the  life  of  this  lord  Maurice  in 
his  martiall  imployments  at  home  and  abrode,  with  the  black  fuccefs  which  ever 

attends 

1  A  pair  of  Beads  is  a  common  term  for  a  rofary  which  this  mufl  mean.     The  fmall  beads  were 

probably  of  pearls,  but  pearls  could  fcarcely  be  found  large  enough  for  the  large  beads,  and  thefe  probably 

were  of  Gold.     The  expreflion  "  a  pair  of  flairs,"  or  a  "  pair  of  drawers,"  meaning  a  cheft  of  drawers,  is 

flill  very  frequently  heard.     [Ed.] 


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attends  rebellions,  I  will  a  little  overlook  fome  other  paffages  of  his  life  and  prefent 
his  poflerity  with  fome  broken  peeces  thereof,  as  I  found  them  in  my  way,  And 
then  proceede  to  his  wife  and  children,  in  whom  all  his  errors  are  happily  repaired. 

5[n  the  thirtieth  year  of  Kinge  Edward  the  firft,  this  lord  gave  leave  to  the    c"ta  in  caRro 

,  de  Berkeley. 

Abbot  of  Kingefwood  to  convey  water  to  his  monaftry  out  of  hawparke  by  Wotton, 

provided  alwayes  that  when  the  Abbot  and  covent  mended  their  pipes,  they  (hould 

bringe  with  them  neither  bows  arrowes  crofbowes  nets  nor  other  engines,  or  doggs, 

to  hunt  or  kill  his  Deere  in  that  parke  ;  whereto  this  lords  father  and  his  brother 

Thomas  of  Wimondham  were  witneffes. 

C()i$?  lord   Maurice  new  built  the  friery  for  the   fryers  and  brethren  in  the    comp.dePortbury^ 
Holmes,  an  Hand  in  Seavern  and  not  far  from  his  manor  of  Portbury.  eodeannoincaftro 

de  Berkeley. 

Co  the  Abbot  and  covent  of  S'  Auguftines  by  Brifloll,  hee  confirmed  the  carta  in  Caftro 
purchafe  they  made  of  their  land  at  Bradley,  (which  is  a  farme  in  the  tenure  of 
WiHm  Leigh  worth  fifty  pounds  per  ann  at  this  day,)  in  lieu  whereof  they  bound 
themfelves  to  celebrate  yearly  in  their  monaflry  the  Aniverfary  days  of  himfelf  and 
of  his  father  and  mother,  and  of  Maurice  his  fonne,  with  the  fervice  of  nine  leffons 
and  a  Maffe  in  the  morning  and  the  next  day ;  And  that  every  one  of  their  Covent 
that  is  a  preifl:  fhould  fay  one  maffe  for  the  Aniverfaries.  ^n  which  Deed  this  lord 
is  Stiled  nobilis  vir  dns  Mauricius  de  Berkeley,  it  being  in  his  fathers  life  time. 


CfjomniEe  de  Georges,  a  Prieft,  had  in  the  34""  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft  *^'^"^'  '^'  ^"  ^' 
comitted  felony,  for  which  hee  was  indited  at  the  Affizes  in  |  Somerfett-fhiere,  for  291 
whom  this  lord  Maurice  de  Berkeley,  Thomas  de  Gurnay  and  ten  others  became 
bayle  body  for  body.  The  preift  plays  the  knave,  and  appears  noe  more  :  many  of 
the  bailors  are  comitted  to  the  gaole  and  fined,  C{)at  kinge  a  little  before  his  death 
at  the  Sute  of  Alienor  Mautravers,  the  preifls  fifter,  pardons  the  felony  which 
Edward  the  fecond  here  allowes.  And  foe  this  lord  Maurice  and  the  reft  nowe 
pleading  the  fame,  are  difcharged. 

5lntJ  this  lord  obferving  that  one  Richard  Bolour  in  right  of  J  one  his  wife  had    carta  in  caftro 
good  title  to  divers  houfes  and  lands  in  the  Suburbs  of  Briftoll  which  hee  fancied    ^^  Berkeley, 
as  lying  fit  to  his  mannor  of  Bedminfter,  hee  drew  y""  to  Berkeley  Caftle,  and  there 
into  Covenants  That  they  fhould  profecute  a  writ  quod  ei  deforciat  againft  Roger 
Apleby  and  others  who  held  the  faid  land  until!  they  fhould  recover  ;  And  this  fute 
2  I  to 


242 


€^c  Hitjcjef  of  tl)c  25crhricpjef 


to  bee  at  the  charges  of  this  lord  Maurice  and  his  Councell,  And  that  they  fhould 
ufe  no  other  Councell  but  his  and  fuch  as  hee  appoints,  And  that  after  recovery 
they  fhould  within  fifteen  dayes  grant  to  him  the  faid  Maurice  and  his  heirs  referv- 
ing  to  the  faid  Jone  her  life  in  one  of  the  faid  houfes,  And  to  have  ten  pounds  in 
money  from  this  lord  ;  for  performance  of  which  covenants  this  lord  Maurice  tooke 
of  them  a  Statute  of  one  hundred  pounds :  I  leave  the  cenfure  hereof  to  the  divine 
rule  Quod  tibi  fieri  non  vis,  alteri  ne  feceris.  And  fac  alijs,  fieri  quod  cupis  ipfe  tibi. 
Doe  to  others  as  thou  wouldft  bee  done  unto. 


comp:  de  Portbury . 

II.  E.  2.  in  Caftro 

de  Berk. 


iCo  prevent  all  prefentments  againft  him  in  the  Comiffion  of  Trailbafton  againft 
intruders  into  other  mens  lands,  extortioners,  oppreffors,  Champerners,  and  the  like 
offenders,  This  lord  bribed  the  Jury  for  Portbury  hundred  with  the  guift  of  twenty 
{hillings :  Slnll  fuch  as  would  have  given  evidence  againft  him  with  fourty  nine 
fhillings,  pro  favore  habendo  coram  Jufliciarijs  de  Trailbafton  in  negotijs  fuis  ibm, 
to  have  favor  in  his  buifineffes  before  the  Juflices  of  Trailbafton. 


comp:dePortbury. 

14.  E.  2:  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


C|)C  hufbandries  this  lord  ufed  were  carved  in  the  fame  mould  his  prudent 
father  had  cut  out,  which  this  lord  Maurice  rather  amended  :  J&OC  carefull  hee 
feemed  to  bee  of  his  woods  being  preferved  in  a  Country  and  time  of  plenty.  That 
at  his  abodes  at  Portbury  hee  fpent  much  turfe,  yearly  drawn  out  of  certaine  grounds 
there  called  oxcroft^  which  as  they  retaine  the  name  to  this  day,  foe  are  they  from 
grounds  of  noe  worth  lately  become  good  meadow  and  pafture  ;  Sfinb  if  I  added 
that  my  direftion  turned  them  and  wrought  that  alteration,  the  tenants  thereof 
would  fay  I  mifreported  not. 


292  C()C  accompts  of  all  this  lords  receipts  and  difburfments  were  ingroffed  |  yearly 

in  parchment  with  fingular  exaftnes,  as  alfo  were  his  fathers  :  The  profits  of  his 
three  hundreds  of  Bedminfter  Portbury  and  Hareclive  were  allwayes  caft  up  in  one 
roll  togeather,  and  one  year  with  another  yeilded  him  threefcore  pounds  or  more, 
As  alfo  they  did  to  his  father ;  which  at  this  day  yeald  cleerly  to  their  owners  (I 
write  what  I  know)  fcarcely  three  pounds  ;  The  obfervation  whereof  miniftreth 
caufe  filently  to  bewaile  the  troups  of  lawiers,  Attornies,  and  Sollicitors ;  the 
Country  malice  and  envy  that  rageth  in  this  age  with  the  inferior  fort ;  they  re- 
courfe  to  weftminfter  hall,  (our  cockpitt  of  revenge,)  upon  each  poor  adion  and 
occation  ;  the  civill  warres  of  my  dayes  there  rageinge,  wafting  more  treafure  and 
time  then  the  difunion  of  the  houfes  of  York  and  Lancafler  ever  did  the  unitinge  : 
<©nf  of  the  maine  caufes  why  my  neighbors  growe  poore  with  more,  when  their 
fathers  grew  rich  with  leffe.  3[f)C 


i;?26 


%\U  of  a^auriff  tljc  Cljirb 


243 


CljC  rankes  and  orders  in  this  lords  family,  the  expence  in  dyett  and  proviffions, 
and  the  quality  of  his  attendants  after  hee  was  called  to  parliaments  amongfl;  the 
peeres,  was  not  inferior  to  his  fathers  ;  for  plures  adorant  folem  orientem  quam 
occidentem,  The  funne  rifeing  hath  more  worfhippers  then  the  funne  fetting  Qpott 
his  return  from  the  warrs  in  Scotland  in  the  S'*"  year  of  King  Edward  the  fecond, 
then  alfo  in  prepareing  to  take  upon  him  the  government  of  Berwick,  hee  caufed  to 
bee  taken  an  Inventory  of  his  houfliold  furniture  in  each  chamber  in  Portbury, 
wherein  is  expreffed  what  was  in  cameris  militum,  in  his  knights  chambers,  in 
cameris  armigero^,  in  his  Efquires  chambers,  and  the  like,  whereof  I  fhall  obferve 
more  in  the  life  of  his  fonne  and  heire:  And  in  the  11*  of  the  faid  kinge  fower 
yeares  before  his  father  dyed,  had  fowerfcore  and  eight  yeomen  in  ordinary  at  his 
houfe  in  portbury. 


comp:de  Portbury. 
8.  E.  2  :  et  al :  in 
caftro  de  Berkeley. 


comp:  de  Portbury 
et  garderob:  1 1 .  E. 
2.  in  caftro  de 
Berk: 


dpon  thefe  and  the  like  honorable  bafes  was  reared  the  fair  buildings  of  this 
lord  Maurice,  who  not  only  had  the  honor  and  reall  dignity  of  a  peere  of  the  realme 
in  his  fathers  life  time,  as  hath  been  faid,  but  the  materialls  and  flronge  fmewes  alfo; 
A  great  eflate  in  jurifdiftions,  lands,  and  offices,  to  fupport  it,  equal!  unto  if  not 
exceeding  his  fathers  :  Soe  that  this  Barony  of  Berkeley  had  nowe,  enixa  gemellas, 
eaned  and  nurfed  up  fuch  a  couple  of  twins,  as  the  Kingdome  in  each  inftance  could 
not  parralell  ;  But  multis  nimium,  nulli  fatis  fortuna  dedit,  fortune  hath  given  too 
much  to  many,  enough  to  none.  As  this  lords  charadler  declares:  for  difcontent  hee 
was,  and  accordingly  hee  tafted  the  fower  fruites  thereof,  as  before  hath  been 
declared  :  Onely  happy  in  his  wife  and  children  as  nowe  doth  followe.  | 

^10  Wik  293 

'^t  10  before  touched  in  part,  howe  this  lord  in  the   17'^  of  kinge  Edward  the    Pafch:  fin:  in  fccio 

firft.  tooke  to  wife  Eve  daughter  of  Ewdo  lord  3uch  and   of   IVIillicent  his  wife,    '^'    '  ^' 

daughter  and  coheire  of  the  lord  Wittm  de  Cantilupe  and  of  the  lady  Eve  his  wife,    ptita  de  banco  in 

daughter  and  co-heire  of  Wittm  de  Bruefe  and  Eve  his  wife,  one  of  the  fifters  and    ^'"^=  .'9- E- /• 
°  .  _  rot.  2.  in  dorfo. 

co-heires  of  Marfhall  Earle  of  Penbroke  ;  by  whom  in  younger  yeares  then  any  of   pat  6  E  4  pars 

his  anceflors  or  pofterity,  this  lord  had  iffue  five  fonnes  and  one  daughter,  as  after    2 :  m.  5. 

folio  weth. 


C1)C  portion  fhee  brought  in  money  was  eight  hundred  markes  payable  by  one    daus.  17  E.  i. 
hundred  markes  each  quarter,  fave  that  fower  hundred  marks  was  paid  at  the  end    '"  '^°^° 
of  the  firfl  :  For  fecurity  whereof  fhee  gave  her  recognijance  dated  the  25'^  day  of 
June  in  the  1 7'''  of  kinge  Edward  the  firft,  with  condition  that  if  fhee  failed  pay- 

212  ment 


244 


€l)e  Urteief  of  tlje  2£>crftdcpief 


1321 


pat.  20.  E.  3.  pars. 

I.  m  :  18.  22. 

fin  :  in  banco:  13. 

E.  I. 

nnagn:cart:fol.32i 

in  caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

cart,  irrot.  in  banc 

regis  :  17.  E.  I. 

Term.  Trin. 

ptito  de  banco : 

19.  E.  I.  rot.  2.  in 

dorfo.Term.  hillar: 

carta  irrot.  in  arce 

Lond.  17.  E.  2. 


Terin  Trin.  in 

banco  17.  E.  i. 

rot.  6. 


ment  then  to  be  levied  of  her  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Northton,  Bedford,  Rutland, 
Wilteffe,  Som'fett,  Devon  and  others  ;  which  accordingly  was  paid  and  the  recog- 
nizance difcharged  as  the  record  fhews,  where  alfo  it  is  noted,  That  for  this  money 
the  lord  Thomas  de  Berkeley  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Millicent,  the  mariage  of 
Maurice  his  fon  and  heire,  fhortly  after  which  the  mariage  was. 

CljC  lady  Millicent  mother  to  this  Eve,  was  firft  maryed  to  Oliver  de  monte 
alto,  which  name  fhe  retained  all  her  fecond  marriage,  and  in  her  fecond  widowhood 
alfo  ;  And  by  feverall  affurances  conveyed  to  y=  faid  Eve  her  daughter  the  manors 
of  Brightmerfton  and  Mildefton  in  Wiltfhire,  with  the  advowfon  of  Mildefton,  to 
her  and  the  heires  of  her  body  at  one  peny  rent,  And  the  mannors  of  Edenworth 
and  Milverton  and  ten  pounds  rent  in  Bridgewater  in  the  County  of  Somerfett  in 
frank  marriage  with  this  Maurice.     To  which  conveyance  five  Judges  are  witrieffes. 

31lnD  at  the  fame  time  in  the  faid  1 7""  of  Edward  the  firft,  the  lord  Thomas  the 
father  of  this  lord  Maurice,  conveyed  likewife  to  this  lord  Maurice  and  to  his  lady 
Eve  then  his  wife,  and  to  the  heires  of  theire  bodies,  the  manor  and  Hundred  of 
Bedminfter,  A  member  whereof  was  Radecliveftreet  in  Briftoll  aforefaid,  referving 
the  like  yearly  rent  of  one  peney :  And  added  further  That  if  the  faid  Eve  furvived 
her  hufband,  fhee  fhould  have  dower  of  all  his  other  lands,  in  regard,  (faith  y'  deed,) 
this  mariage  is  made  with  confent  of  him  the  faid  lord  Thomas  de  Berkeley.  | 


294 

3.  cartas  in  caftro 

de  Berkeley. 

Rental :  de  Portb. 

8.  E.  2. 

Comp.  de  Hinton. 

8.  E.  2.  in  caftro 

de  Berk. 

comp:de  Portbury. 

II.  E.  2.  et  al :  in 

caftro  de  Berkeley. 


carta  in  caftro 
de  Berkeley. 

claus  :  20.  E.  2. 
m  :  12. 


"C^ijaf  Eve  dyed  on  S'  Nicholas  day  (then  the  fifth  of  December)  Anno  1314. 
in  the  eighth  year  of  kinge  Edward  the  fecond,  after  fhee  had  been  his  wife  twenty 
and  fix  years  ;  happy  in  her  funeralls  that  fhee  lived  not  to  fee  the  rebellion  and 
imprifonment  of  her  huft^and  and  of  her  two  fonnes  Thomas  and  John,  and  herfelf 
to  fue  for  maintenance,  as  two  ladies  her  predeceffors  had  done  before  her  :  And 
was  buryed  in  y*"  p'rifh  Church  of  Portbury  in  the  County  of  Somerfet ;  for  the 
repofe  of  whofe  foule  dayly  prayers  were  fonge  in  the  faid  church  by  a  Spetiall 
preift. 

3ilbOUt  two  years  after  her  death  this  lord  Maurice  in  the  Tenth  year  of 
Edward  the  fecond,  tooke  to  his  fecond  wife,  the  lady  Ifable  daughter  of  Gilbert  de 
Clare  Earle  of  Glouc'  and  Hereford,  by  whom  hee  had  noe  iffue.  ^t\Ct  furvived 
him.  And  haveing  had  foe  little  comfort  of  her  firft  mariage,  would  not  hazard  a 
fecond  taft  of  the  fowre  or  fweet  of  wedlock  :  but  dyed  his  widowe  in  the  feventh 
year  of  kinge  Edward  the  third  .  1338. 

for 


1326 


aifc  of  a^auricc  rtje  Cljirb 


245 


I  m.  I. 

fin  :  10.  E.  2.m  :  15 

Ifable  unmaried. 


for  the  maintenance  of  her  youth  before  mariage,  this  lady  Ifable  had  from    Efchaet.  i.  Eij. 

the  grant  of  her  brother  Gilbert  Earle  of  Gloucefter  the  fixth  of  December  in  the    '"  0^°".  Berks,  et 

firft  year  of  Edward  the  fecond  for  her  life,  the  manors  of  Shipton  and  Buriforde    claus:  i;  E.  3. 

in  Oxfordlhire,  Spenhamland  in  Berks  and  Faveld  and  Mars  in  Gloucefterfhire,    ''''"q'  ^^ "  '•'■ 

^  pat.  8.  fc,.  2.  pars. 

which  fhee  brought  to  her  hufband  as  part  of  her  mariage  portion,  which  the  kinge 
the  fame  yeare  confirmed  :  %\\  which  with  the  refl;  of  her  hufbands  eflate  and  lands 
being  feared  into  the  kings  hands  in  the  fifteenth  of  his  raigne,  becaufe  (faith  the 
record,)  hee  was  de  querela,  of  the  part  of  Thomas  Earle  of  Lancafter  in  profecu- 
tion  of  the  Spenfers,  Shee  upon  petition  and  Inquifition  thereof  by  Jury  found  in 
the  firft  of  Edward  the  third,  had  nowe  reftitution  unto,  according  to  her  eflate  in 
the  fame. 

QlnlJ  the  third  of  May  following  was  by  her  fonne  in  lawe  the  lord  Thomas    carta  in  caftro 

Berkeley  endowed  with  the  manor  of  Wotton,  and  Wotton  Marchant  with  the  fayre  ,      '      , 

'  magn:chart.  fo.io. 

and  Market  there,  And  of  the  manor  of  Symondfall,  which  with  the  increafe  of   in  caaro  de  Berk. 
23!'  6?  S"*  out  of  the  manor  of   Bedminfter  in  Somerfetfhire,  where  by  his  fecond    carta  in  cailro 
deed  thirty  eight  days  after  the  former,  confirmed  to  her,  whereupon  by  the  fame 
deed  fhee  releafeth  to  him  all  a6tions  and  clayme  to  dower.  | 


de  Berkeley. 


3Cnt>   havinge  had  upon   mariage  and   foone  after  eftablifhed   upon   her  the  295 

manors  and  hundred  of  Portbury,   Kingefton  Seimor,  and  fome  others,  Shee  by  '^^^^  "^""^  R'co 

deed  in  the  third  year  of  Edward  the  third  releafeth  Portbury  manor  and  hundred  12.  E.  2. 

to  her  faid  fonne  in  lawe,  referving  the  refidue  in  that  County,  after  fhee  had  gotten  ^^^^  in  caftro 

her  pardon  for  fuch  part  of  her  Joynture  lands  as  were  holden  in  Capite,  and  con-  fin.  20.  E.  2.m.  5 

veyed  to  her  without  Lycence.  ^^^'=  '°-  ^-  "•  ™  = 

1.  Ct)Orna^  eldeft  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice,  fucceeded  in  the  barony  as  after 
followeth. 

2.  fll^llliricc  was  the  fecond  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice,  upon  whofe  eminent    Berkeley  of  Stoke, 
defervings,  not  fomewhat  to  inlarge,  would  wronge  the  three  honored  families  of 

the  Berkeleys  of  Stoke  Gifford  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  and  of  Bruton  in  the 
County  of  Somerfet,  and  of  Boy  Court  in  the  County  of  Kent,  to  all  whome  this 
Maurice  was  ftockfather  :  In  which  places  his  male  pofterity  with  opulent  poffeffions 
florifheth  at  this  day  .  1624. 

%t  hath  already  in  the  life  of  this  lord  Maurice,  beene  touched  howe  this  Sr   Rot.  Scotiae.  8.  9: 
Maurice  his  fecond  fonne  attended  his  faid  father  in  the  eighth  and  ninth  years  of   Rot^'claus-o  E  2 

Edward    "1:7: 


246 


€fjc  Hitc^  of  tlje  2&ftftricp^ 


Rot. 

in  :  9.  E 

.  2. 

m 

2  : 

claus 

;  10  :  E 

2, 

m.  13. 

20. 

Rot. 

Scotiffi. 

10. 

E 

.  2. 

Rot. 

Scotiae. 

II. 

E.  2.  m:  4.  12. 

et. 

16. 

Edward  the  fecond  whilft  hee  was  governor  of  Berwick  upon  Twede,  then  being  a 
knight  and  about  feaventeen  yeares  of  age ;  And  alfoe  howe  this  Sf  Maurice  in  the 
Hke  maner  attended  the  faid  lord  his  father  in  the  tenth  year  of  that  kinge  into 
Wales,  when  hee  went  thither  Jufticier  of  wefl  and  fouth  Wales  ;  And  alfoe  in  his 
condu(5t  of  one  thoufand  foote  out  of  weft  Wales,  and  of  two  hundred  out  of  the 
foreft  of  Dean  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  and  one  hundred  out  of  the  land  of  Gower 
in  Wales  the  year  after  towards  the  warres  with  Scotland.  311n&  alfo  howe  this 
Maurice  in  like  manner  went  with  his  faid  father  and  with  his  elder  brother  into 
Scotland  in  the  eleventh  yeare  of  that  kinge,  what  time  Roger  lord  Mortimer  went 
generall  of  that  army.  | 


296 

Rot.  claus :  II :  E. 


2.  m:  19. 
claus.  13.  E.  2. 


25ut  howe  this  S'  Maurice  and  his  elder  brother,  Thomas  Berkeley  of  Beoly 
their  unckle,  John  Berkeley  of  Erlingham  their  cozen,  Richard  Veell  and  more  then 
forty  others,  riotoufly  enterd  into  Paynfwicke  parke  in  the  7'^  year  of  kinge  Edward 
the  fecond,  then  the  land  of  Adomarus  de  Valentia  Earle  of  Penbroke,  makeing 
havocke  of  his  Deer  there  ;  And  howe  unmannerly  they  after  handled  the  Coroners 
of  that  County  when  they  were  to  have  been  outlawed  for  the  faid  facfl,  with  the 
fol.  [252,  253.]    iffue  thereof,  fee  after  in  the  life  of  the  lord  Thomas  the  third. 


Rot.  fin.  15.  E.  2. 
m  :  19 


Walfingham  fol : 
115- 


Efchaet.  15.  E.  2. 

N?.[46] 

fin.  16.  E.  2.  m:26. 

divs.  cartse  cm 

Rico  Berkeley  de 

Stoke. 

10:  ii:et.  12.  E.  2. 

divers :  cartfe  in 

caflro  de  Berkeley 

II.  E.2  et  34.  et. 

35-  E-  3- 

Rot.  pat.  15.  E.  2. 

pars.  2.bisindorfo. 

pat.  19.  E.  2.  pars. 
2.  et  divers  :  at. 


5(t  hath  alfoe  bene  formerly  touched  howe  this  S''  Maurice  went  with  his  father 
in  the  i  ^^^  yeare  of  the  faid  kinge  Edward  the  fecond  into  France  when  hee  was 
made  Steward  of  the  Dutchy  of  Aquitaine  :  And  how  after  his  fathers  returne  for 
England  and  his  pertakeing  with  the  difcontented  lords  againft  the  two  Earles 
Spenfers  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  that  kings  raigne,  the  faid  lord  contrary  to  his 
fafe  conduft,  was  from  Cirencefter  comitted  prifoner  to  the  kings  Caftle  of  Walling- 
ford,  where  fower  years  after  hee  dyed  ;  %nti  howe  as  well  the  lands  of  the  lord 
Maurice  as  of  this  S'  Maurice  his  fonne  were  feazed  into  the  kings  hands  as  forfeited 
for  that  their  rebellion  :  At  what  time  hee  had  the  manors  of  Bradley  by  Wotton  in 
the  County  of  Glouc,  and  Brightmarfton  and  Mildefton  in  the  County  of  Wiltefs, 
And  the  manors  of  Edenworth  Milverfton  and  Kingfton  Seimor  in  the  County  of 
Soiiifett,  and  fome  others  by  divers  grants  from  his  father  and  grandfather. 

3It  hath  alfoe  bene  declared  howe  this  S'  Maurice  and  his  elder  brother  Thomas 
with  other  their  kinfmen  and  complices,  rebellioufly  whirled  about  into  many  Coun- 
ties of  this  Kingdome,  burning  and  deftroying  whatever  they  could  find  that  was 
the  faid  Earles  Spenfers  in  revenge  of  their  fathers  unjuft  committment;  %nJs  howe 
after  many  proclamations  and  Comiffions  for  their  fuppreffion  and  apprehenfions, 

Thomas 


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Thomas  was  taken  prifoner  and  comitted  to  the  Tower  of  London  ;  but  this 
Maurice  was  one  of  thofe  who  by  his  often  and  fecret  fliiftings  cauteoufly  avoyded 
the  Toyles  pitched  for  his  taking,  till  the  flate  changed  within  fower  years  after  foe 
topfy  turvy  that  the  kinge  himfelf  was  made  a  prifoner,  and  the  two  Earles  Spenfers 
executed  as  Traytors  :  Ctpoit  which  change  of  wind  and  tide,  This  S'  |  Maurice  from  297 
his  hidden  and  lurking  places  of  retirement,  prefented  himfelf  abroad  in  Armes,  and 
foe  ably  aflifled  the  Queen  and  her  party  in  purfute  of  the  kinge  her  hufband  and 
other  her  enemies,  That  imediately  hee  fell  into  fpetiall  favor  with  the  Queen  and 
the  young  prince  her  fonne  called  Edward  the  third,  as  now  followingly  is  declared. 

C|)C  22'!"  of  February,  (a  month  after  Edward  the  third  began  his  raigne,)  this  ^laus:  i.E.  3.  pars 
S'  Maurice  had  reftitution  of  all  his  manors  and  lands  in  the  Countyes  of  Glouc. 
Wiltefs  and  Somerfet,  which  had  bene  formerly  feazed  into  the  hands  of  kinge 
Edward  the  fecond  for  his  rebellion  as  aforefaid:  All  or  the  moft  whereof  continued 
in  his  male  pofterity  till  this  and  the  laft  age,  as  after  doth  appeare  %nti  fhortly  after 
his  reftitution,  the  lord  Thomas  his  elder  brother,  in  the  third  year  of  Edward  the 
third,  confirmed  to  him  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body  the  forefaid  manors  and 
lands. 


cartas  in  caflro  de 
Berkeley.  3.  E.  3. 
et.  18.  R.  2. 


QHnll  the  like  confirmation  of  the  faid  manors  of  Bnghtmefton  and  Milverflon  cartae  cm.  Rico 

i,/-i-  Ti-iii/-  iiT^i  ir  Berkeley  de  Stoke, 

was  in  the  18.  of  kinge  Richard  the  fecond,  made  by  1  homas  the  fourth  then  lord  is.  r.  2. 

Berkeley  to  this  S'  Maurice  Berkeleys  grandchild  then  of  Stoke  Gifford  aforefaid. 


fin.  17.  E.  3.  m.  2. 

claus.  2.E.  2.m.3o. 


CljC  1 7'^  of  December  in  the  firfl  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  the  Kinge,  then 
at  Winchcomb  in  Glouceflerfhire,  grants  to  this  ST  Maurice  the  cuflody  of  the 
manors  of  Tewxbury  and  Sodbury  then  in  his  hands  by  the  attainder  of  Hugh 
Spenfer  the  younger,  whereof  reftitution  was  after  made  to  Ellenor  his  widowe, 
becaufe  they  were  of  her  inheritance  faith  the  record. 

4Ct)f  2I'^  of  Aprill  in  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  fent  this  S'  Maurice  w'!'  two    pat.  i.E. 3. pars.  2. 
others  to  bring  from  the  Caftle  of  Briftoll  to  him  into  the  North  parts  where  then    pat.  4!  e.  3.  pars 
hee  was  with  his  Army,  fuch  Armories  and  other  munitions  as  were  there,  with  a    2-  m:  8. 
mandate  to  all  Sherrives  and  other  fubje6ls  to  be  ayding  to  them  in  that  fervice, 
and  to  provide  them  cariages  &c.  At  which  time  this  Sr  Maurice  was  keeper  of  the 
faid  Caftle  with  his  brother  John,  as  after  followeth. 

€J)£  22"'  of  Aprill  in  the  fecond  year  of  Edward  the  third,  this  S'  Maurice  was    liberal.  2.  E.  3. 
made  Conftable  of  the  Tower  of  London,  which  place  hee  held  till  the  22'''  of    Rot.  fin :  2.  E.  3: 
Auguft  following.  STtjC    ™"  '3" 


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€|)c  Hibcjef  of  t^e  SibctMep^ 


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298  'CJjC  4'!*  of  March  in  the  faid  fecond  year  went  out  a  Comiffion  to  hear  |  and 

pat.  2.  E.  3  :^pars  determine  the  offences  comitted  by  Berenger  and  others  in  takeing  away  eight 
horfes,  twelve  oxen,  forty  fheep,  and  thirty  two  Swanns  from  this  Sy  Maurice,  out 
of  his  manor  of  Brightmerflon  in  Wiltfhire. 

Pat.  2.  E.  3:  pars.  d)C  26'''  of  December  in  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  then  at  Glouc^  by  the  affent 

2.  m.2.  ^£  Ifable  his  mother,  comitted  to  this  S'  Maurice  the  cuflody  of  the  Caftle  and 
Town  of  Gloucefler,  To  hold  at  pleafure,  w'.*"  a  mandate  to  all  officers  to  bee  aidinge 
to  him  therein  as  need  (hould  require. 


Extract  don:  4.  E. 

2.  m.  12. 
pat.  4.  E.  I.  pars. 

I.  m.  14. 


^|)C  4"'  of  July  in  the  4*  yeare  of  Edward  the  third.  It  was  at  Woodflock 
agreed  between  the  kinge  and  this  S'  Maurice  That  hee  fhould  attend  the  kinge 
all  his  life  time.  And  in  his  warrs  to  ferve  him  with  14  men  at  Armes  And  in  time 
of  peace  to  attend  his  perfon  :  for  which  the  kinge  grants  him  -  90"  per  annum  to 
be  received  yearly  from  the  Prior  and  Covent  of  Kirkftall,  who  paid  foe  much 
yearly  into  the  Exchequer  :  And  to  have  alfo  the  wholl  farm  rent  of  Andevor. 


pat.  4.  E.  3.  pars.  'CfjE   12'''  of  Aprill  the  fame  year,  this  S'  Maurice  purchafed  the  manors  of 

fin  •  in  ?anco  ^1     Kings  wefton  and  Ailberton  in  ffee  of  Sr  Thomas  Ap-Adam  holden  in  Capite  :  And 
E.  3.    the  23*^  of  July  following  hee  had  a  Lycence  to  demife  divers  parts  of  thofe  manors 
holden  in  Capite  for  life  or  years  to  any  of  his  Ten'.' 


Extract  don :  5. 


CijC  Thirtieth  of  May  in  the  fifth  of  Edward  the  third,  the  kinge  granted  to 


T-  ^'  this  S'  Maurice  for  his  life  in  confideration  of  the  good  and  laudible  fervice  to  him 

pat.  5.  E.  3.  pars.  *-  _  ° 

i.m:  2:et  pars.  2:  done,  the  manors  of  Mawerden  and  Winferton  in  the  County  of  Hereford,  which 

™  ■  ^^'  were  Roger  lord  Mortimers  of  Chirke,  of  the  value  of  one  hundred  pound  per  Ann. 


fin:  5.  E.  3.  m:  25.  '2Cf)C  27'.''  of  February  the  fame  year  for  like  confideration,  the  kinge  grants  to 

this  S'  Maurice  the  manor  of  Penrith,  to  hold  at  pleafure. 

Extract  don.  6.  CtjC  22*''  of  January  in  the  6'*'  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  for  like  confideration 

c     /;  T-       ^'  ^'    granted  to  this  S'  Maurice  for  his  life,  the  manors  of  Fulbroke  and  Wefthall  and 
fin:  6.  E.  3.  m:  I.     o  ' 

pat  6.  E.  3:  m:  4.    divers  lands  in  Upton,  Toueton,  and  Swynebroke  in  the  County  of  Oxford  which 
were  Hugh  le  Difpenfers  the  elder. 


claus :  7.  E.  3  'CljC  twentieth  of  Aprill  in  the   7'^  of  his  raigne   upon   this  S'  Maurice   his 

pars  1 .  m  :  9.    pej-j^ion  to  the  kinge,  fhewing  that  fifty  marks  were  unpaid  to  him  of  that  hundred 

pound 


'326  Uifc  of  ili^mirifc  tljc  OT^irb  249 

pound  which  hee  was  to  receive  for  thirty  men  at  Armes,  which  hee  retained  in  his 
company  at  the  Seidge  of  Berwitce,  the  kinge  now  allowes  it  him  out  of  his  farm 
rent  of  ffulbroke  and  Wcfthall  aforefaid.  | 

CljC  firrt  of  November  in  the  S'""  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  then  at  Newcaflle    299 
upon  Tyne,  in  confideration  of  the  good  fervice  of  the  faid  S'.  Maurice,  grants  to    f'"-  ^-  f--  3-  f"-  4 
him  the  cuftody  of  all  the  Caftles  manors  and  lands  afwell  in  England  as  in  Wales 
which  John    Mautravers  late  held,   being  of  the   inheritance  of  John   Gifford  of 
Brimesfeild  deceafed,  and  which  by  the  forfeiture  of  John   Mautravers  came  into 
the  kings  hands,  To  hold  for  his  life  according  to  the  extent  thereof  made. 

C|)C  tenth   of  July   the   fame   yeare,    the  kinge  pardons   this   S'   Maurice   the    jiat.  8.  E.  3.  p 
offence  hee  comitted  in  killing  fome  of  his  Deer  in  his  forefi:  of  Shirewood.  i  :  m.  6 : 

CljC  fifth  of  Auguft  in  the  fame  yeare,  This  S'  Maurice  hath  a  licence  to  alyen    pat.  8.  E.  3.  pars: 
in  fee  the  manors  of  Kingfwefton  and  Aylberton  in  the  County  of  Glouc.  to  Thomas    ^ '  '"'  ^ 
lord  Berkeley  his  brother  and  to  Wittm  de  Side,  (who  was  that  lords  fleward,)  And 
that  they  may  regrant  them  to  himfelf  and  to  Margery  his  w-ife  and  to  the  heires  of 
himfelf :  At  this  time,  it  feems  this  S".  Maurice  marryed,   And  thefe  two  manors 
hee,  in  the  fourth  of  this  kinge  j^urchafed  in  fee  of  S'  Thomas  Ap-Adam  knight  as    pat.  4.  E.  3.  pars. 
aforefaid. 

Z'^C  23'''  of  February  in  the  nynth  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge,  then  at  Newcaflle    P''^^-  9-  *■-  3- pars 
upon  Tyne,  grants  to  this  S^  Maurice  in  confideration  of  his  good  fervices  done,  all 
the  goods  and  chatties  which  were  of  John  Mautravers  the  younger  or  which  hee 
had  the  day  hee  forfeited  them,  in  whofe  hands  foever  they  bee. 

CljC  third  of  June  in  the  fame  year,   the  kinge  pardons  this  S'  Maurice,   S'    pat.  9.  E.  3.  pars. 
Wittm  de  Whitfeild,  and  the  Abbot  of  Malmefbury,  for  receiving  John  Mautravers 
the  vounger  after  hee  was  banifhed  the  Kingdome. 


I.  m:  35. 


I.  m  :  14. 


CIjC  eighth  of  June  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge,  then  at  Yorke,  in  confideration    fin:  9.  E.  3.  m:  13. 
of  the  dayly  good  fervices  of  this  S^  Maurice  abated  the  fee  farme  rent  of  ffulbroke 
and  Weflhall  from  48';-  19!  04''  to  twenty  pound  p  ann,  and  foe  this  S'  Maurice  to 
pay  afterwards. 


3i'n  the  fame  nynth  yeare  the  kinge  in  confideration  of  the  dayly  fervices  of    Extract  don.  9.  E.; 
this  S'  Maurice,  gave  him  two  great  Wardfhipps,  expreffed  in  the  record.  ?-^et^  i^?    '•  3-  m 

2  K  Cf)e 


5:  et.  15. 


250 


€ljc  %i)3c^  of  ti)c  25cThdcp^ 


pat.  ir.  E.  3.  pars.  (^jjp  jg  of  December  in  the  eleventh  yeare,  the  kinge  grants  to  this  S'  Maurice 

^'  "^ '    '    and  his  heires,  the  manors  of  Kingflanley,  Roclchampton,  Stonehoufe,  Stoke  Gifford 

300    and  Walls  in  the  County  of  Glouc.  and  the  manors  |  of  Afliton  ats  Afherton,  Corton, 

Extract  don.  1 1 .    Sharnton,  Codeford  and  Stapleford  in  the  County  of  Wilts,   All  which  were  John 

.  3.  m:  3.    QjffQj.(jg  ^]^g  rebel],  To  hold  them  of  the  cheife  lords  :  And  a  writ  then  went  forth 

to  Margaret  the  widdow  of  the  faid  John  Gifford  comaunding  her  to  Atturne  for  the 

faid  manors  of  Stonehoufe,  Stoke  Gifford,  Walls  and  Afhton  which  fhee  holds  for 

her  life  :  And  in  this  record  it  is  teftifyed  howe  this  S'  Maurice  de  Berkeley  was 

daily  at  the  kings  fide  affifting  him  and  continually  imployed  in  his  fervice. 


code.  m.  8  :  9. 


Extra  :  doii.  11. 
E  3.  m  :  6.  et :  9. 
pat.  1 1.  E.  3.  pars. 
3.  m.  37.  et  pars.  i. 


%\\it  the  twenty-eighth  of  March  in  the  faid  eleventh  yeare,  the  kinge  grants 
to  this  S'  Maurice  and  Margery  his  wife  in  confideration  of  his  daily  fervices,  the 
faid  manors  of  Mawerden  and  Winferton  in  the  County  of  Hereford,  and  the  manors 
of  Fullbroke  and  Weflhall  in  the  County  of  O.xon,  and  divers  other  lands  and  tene- 
ments in  Upton,  Tainton  and  Swinbroke,  To  hold  to  them  and  the  heires  of  the 
faid  S''  Maurice. 


^n  this  year  went  out  a  Comiffion  to  James  de  Audele  and  to  this  S'  Maurice 


Rot.  Scotije.  II. 

Rot.  vafcon.  11.    de  Berkeley,  lords  of  Cantebaghan  in  South  wales,  to  aray  500.  men  for  the  kings 
^-  3-    prefent  warre  in  Scotland,  and  five  hundred  more  for  his  prefent  warre  in  Gafcoigne. 


pat.  12.  E.  3:  m.  (CljC  16''' of  July  in  the  1 2''' of  Edward  the  third,  this  S'  Maurice  went  over  with 

'"'    the  kinge  to  his  warrs  in  France,  and  had  his  tres  of  prote6lion  and  of  freedom 
from  futes  and  difquiets  in  his  eftate  whilft  hee  fliould  bee  in  the  kinges  fervice. 

fin.  13.  E.  3.  m  :  S\^  ^^^  ^  3'*"  ^^  ^^^^  kinge,  dyes  Margarett  the  widowe  of  John  Gifford  of  Brimes- 

"''^'    feild,  whereby  thofe  forefaid  manors  which  fhee  held  for  her  life,  fell  to  the  poffeffion 
of  this  Sir  Maurice  and  his  heires. 


claus:  13.  E.  3.  i^f^t  S'!"  of  Aprill  in  the  faid   13"'  yeare,  the  kinge  comands  his  Treafuror  and 

pars.  I.  m .  13.    g^j-Qp^^  Qf  [j^g  Exchequer,  to  caft  up  all  the  debts  which  this  S^  Maurice  owed  him, 

and  to  certifye  him  thereof  under  their  feals,  which  were  fliortly  after  releafed  unto 

him. 


'CI)C  25'''  of  November  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  then  at  Antwerp,  in  his  patent 


Pat.  vafcon.  13. 

E.  3.  m  :  7.  i-       "  ^  '  ^     ^ 

301    made  to  this  S'  Maurice,  hath  thus,  Sciatis  quod  nos  |  probitatem  ftrenuam  et  fideli- 

tatem  probatam  dilefti  et  fidelis  noftri   Mauricij  de  Berkeley,  necnon  locum  bonum 

quem 


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quem  in  guerris  et  alijs  negotijs  nris  indies  nobis  tenet,  debite  meditantes,  dedimus 
ei.  the  Caftle  and  manor  of  Briniesfeild  in  the  County  of  Glouc,  which  was  John 
Mautravers  our  enemy  and  rebell,  faith  the  kinge,  To  hold  to  the  faid  Maurice  and 
his  heires  at — 28'!'  10'  00''  rent. 

Cf)C  S'!'  of  March  the  fame  year,  the  kinge  grants  licence  to  this  S'  Maurice  to  pat.  13.  E.  3.  pars, 
enfeoffe  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  and  Peter  de  Berkeley,  Clark,  his  brothers,  of  his  '■  "*  ■  ^^' 
manors  of  Kingeftanley  Stonehoufe,  Rockhampton,  Stoke  Gifford  and  Walles  in 
the  County  of  Glouc.  and  of  Sharnton,  Corton,  Codeford  and  Orchafton,  and  the 
moytie  of  the  manor  of  Eliflon,  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  all  holden  in  Capita,  And 
for  them  to  regrant  the  faid  manors  to  him  the  faid  Maurice  for  his  life,  the  re- 
mainder to  John  Mautravers  his  nephew  and  to  the  heires  male  of  his  body.  The 
remainder  to  the  right  Heires  of  the  faid  S^  Maurice  for  ever. 

CljC  S*  of  Aprill  in  the  i4'!'yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  recites  That  whereas    pat.  14.  e.  3. 

in  the  thirteenth  yeare  of  his  raigne  hee  gave  to  this  S'  Maurice  and  his  heirs  the    P"®-  'J  ™-...'S- 

1  1      ,  T    1        iv/r  1-  Extract  don :  i4- 

Caftle  and  manor  of  Brimsfeild  which  was  John  Mautravers,  paying  28.  10?  rent    e.  3.  m:  17. 

per  Annum,    Now  the  kinge,  for  confiderations  mentioned  in  that  patent,  and  for 

the  good  fervices  of  the  faid  Maurice  done  fmce  unto  him,  grants  to  him  the  faid 

Maurice,  the  faid  Caftle  and  manor  with  all  the  knights  fees,  warrens,  parks  &c., 

to  the  fame  belonging.  To  hold  to  him  and  his  heires  without  rent,  of  the  cheife 

lord  by  the  fervices  accuftomed,  And  to  bee  difcharged  of  all  the  rents  and  arrerages    claus :  16.  E.  3. 

behind  unpaid.  A  defedl;  in  which  grant  is  by  a  new  grant  repaired  in  the  fixteenth    ^^"^  '  "^'  ^'' 

of  that  kinge. 

3Cntl   the   18*  of  June  in  the  faid    14'''  yeare,  this  S'  Maurice  goeth  with  the    Rot.  AUemon 
kinge  in  his  warres  to  France,   And  hath  his  tres  of  protection  and  freedom  from    ^■^-  E-  3-  m:  21. 
futes  as  before  :    And  makes  Wittm  de  Side  and  Wittm  de  Cheltenham,  his  eldefl 
brothers  two  principall  officers,  his  Atturnies  in  all  buifmeffes  in  his  abfence.  | 

Cl)C  22""  of  June  in  the  fame  14'''  yeare  this  S'  Maurice  had  the  kings  warrant  302 

to  receive — 156'!  3.  4''  due  to  him  for  his  wages  whilft  hee  laft  ferved  the.  kinge  claus:  14.  E.  3. 

beyond  the  feas,  to  be  paid  by  the  receiver  of  the  fubfidies  :    And  the  like  for  15.  e.  3  pars.  i. 

i46'i-  3?  4*!  the  yeare  after.  ^  '■  ^■ 

3[n  the   16*  yeare  of  this  kinge,  this  S'  Maurice  went  with  the  kinge  into    Rot.  franc.  16.  E. 
France  to  the  warrs  there,  of  whofe  (retinentia)  retinue,   were,  (amongfl  others,)    ^  '"=26. 
2  K  2  John 


€l)c  %i\3C^  of  tl)c  25ccftcIcpiS 


1321 


John  Mautravers  the  younger,  John  de  Button,  Nicholas  de  S'^ 
and  Simon  Baffett,  knights,  his  Gloucefterfliire  neighbours. 


Mauro  ats  Seymor, 


claus :  15.  E.  3.  ^fl^  ^^^  fifteenth  yeare  of  this  kinge,  was  this  S'  Maurice  created  a  Banneret, 

™'  "■    as  alfo  was  Thomas  de  Bradflon  his  unfeperable  companion  in  Armes,  of  whom  I 
fol-  [337]    fhall  write  in  the  life  of  the  next  lord  Thomas  the  third. 

claus:  16.  E.  3.  CljC  25"^  of  February  in  the  faid  16"'  yeare,  the  kinge  fomons  a  great  Councell 

par.  I.  in  dorfo.    jj^  jj^g  nature  of  a  parliament  to  be  holden  at  Weftminfter  in  ci'ino  claufi   Pafche 

next,  And  fends  his  writ,  (amongft  others  of  the  nobility,)  to  this  S'  Maurice  de 

Berkeley  vt  interfit  nobifcum  et  cum  prelatis  et  ceteris  magnatibus  Anglie,  confilium 

impenfurus  de  arduis  rebus  regni :  By  the  fame  words  is  a  Baron  by  writ  created  at 

fol.  [38]    this  day  called  to  a  parliament,  as  already  in  thefe  relations  hath  been  fhewed. 

claus.  16.  E.  3.  CfjC  22'^  of  July  in  the  fame  yeare,  this  S'  Maurice  had  a  warrant  to  receive 

par.  2.  ni  32.    j^jg  ^agfes  for  himfelf  and  his  twenty  men  at  Armes,  thus  viz!  for  himfelf  beingr  a 
claus:  17.  E.  3.  °  ;  °  _ 

pars.  I.    Banneret.  4^  per  diem,  for  each  of  his  fower  knights.  2^  per  diem,  for  each  of  his 

Efquiers  12'*  per  diem.  And  for  every  Archer  61  per  diem  ;  which  was  paid  him  out 

of  the  cuftome  of  woolls  at  fix  pound  per  facke. 


Scotia.  17.  E.  3. 
m.  4. 


Cf)C  I8'^  of  Augufl  in  the  1 7'^  of  this  kinge,  this  S'  Maurice,  Henry  de  Percy 
and  Thomas  de  Lucy  are  fent  Comiffioners  into  the  Marches  of  Scotland,  to  treat 
and  agree  with  William  Earle  Dowglas,  and  to  drawe  and  receive  him  into  the 
kinges  favor  and  freindfhipp  and  to  fecure  him  thereof,  and  to  doe  all  things  con- 
duceinsf  to  that  end.  I 


■^01  3iW  the  fame  roll  it  is  recited   That  at   the   inftance  of  the  pope  and  of  the 

Scotia  17.  E.  3.  reverend  fathers  the  Cardinalls  fent  from  him,  the  kinge  is  content  to  treat  of  a 
truce  with  the  kings  of  ffrance  and  of  Scotland  ;  And  accordingly  this  S":  Maurice 
and  others  are  fent  into  the  Marches  of  Scotland  with  abfolute  authority. 


Rot.  franc.  17 

F,.  3.  ni  :  16, 

Hollings:  fol:  364 

.^ddition  toTrevel 

[)at.  17.  E.  3.  pars 

J.  ni  :  20 

claus.  17.  R.  3 

pars.  I.  111.  8 


9tnb  upon  his  returne  in  the  begining  of  February  following,  went  with  the 
kinge  into  France,  where  againe  this  Sr  Maurice  is  a  Comiffioner  from  the  kinge, 
joined  with  Henry  of  Lancafler  the  Earle  of  Derby  to  treat  with  the  Comiffioners 
of  the  French  kinge  about  the  Crown  of  France,  when  a  truce  for  three  years  was 
agreed  upon,  and  a  reference  of  fending  further  Comiffioners  to  Rome,  to  ftand  to 
the  agreement  of  the  pope  :  IDtjifl)  imployments  declare  this  S'  Maurice  to  bee  a 
very  able  gentleman,  fitted  tam  marti  quam  mercurio.  Cf)e 


1326  Uifc  of  a^aiirifc  ti^c  <ri)irb  253 

CfjC  Twentieth  of  May  in  the  fame  yeare,  the  kinge  gives  this  S'  Maurice  for    eode  pars.  2.  m.  4. 
his  good   fervice,  two   hogflieads  of  wine   yearly  for  his  Vifc  out  of  the  Port  of 
Brifloll,  and  a  warrant  to  his  officers  there  to  dehver  them  accordingly. 

Cf)C  is'!"  of  June  in  the  I8'^'of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  grants  to  this  S'  Maurice,  f,n.  18. E.  3.  m:  18. 
the  cuflody  of  all  the  lands  in  Hert  and  Hertneffe  in  the  Bifhopricke  of  Durham, 
which  hee  held  in  right  of  the  heire  of  Robert  de  Clifford  his  ward,  rendringe  the 
value  found  in  the  extent ;  for  the  valewing  whereof  I  have  obferved,  that  the  day 
before,  this  S'  Maurice  made  himfelf  the  fole  Comiffioner,  and  fped  thereafter  in  his 
bargin.  Howbeit  the  Jury  called  togeather  refufed  to  bee  fworne  or  prefent,  faying,  pat.  20.  E.  3.  pars, 
they  onely  were  to  bee  chardged  by  their  BiOiop  and  comiffioners  returned  by  him 
and  his  minivers,  And  therefore  leafl  they  (hould  incurr  his  excommunication  and 
the  curfe  of  holy  S'  Cutbert  they  refufed. 

Cf)C  next  yeare  the  kinge  remitted  to  this  S'  Maurice  his  farm  rent  of  Hert  and    claus.  19.  E.  3. 

Hertneffe  in  Durham  aforefaid,  which  Ihews  hee  made  fjood  the  kintjs  errant  to  him,    P^I^^'  ^-  a^~^^' 

'  &  &    &  '     extract  don.  19. 

without  S'  Cutbert  &  the  Jury.  E.  3. 

^{)C  fame  yeare  this  S'  Maurice  went  with  the  kinge  in  his  warrs  into  France,    franc  19.  E.  3  ps. 
And  with  him,  de  comitiva  fua,  of  his  retinue,  the  heires  of  Beamond,    Fleminge,     ''  '"'    '    '  ''*' 
S!  John,   3'-''°  Mauro,   S' John  Palton,  S'  John  Tracy,  S'i  Thomas  Button,  and  many 
other  knights.  All  which  |  had  their  freedoms  and  protections  from  futes,  upon  this    304 
S'  Maurice  his  teftimony  onely  that  they  did  goe  with  him  under  his  colours. 

CljC  fame  yeare  the  kinge  granted  to  this  S'  Maurice  and  to  S'  Thomas  de    ffin:  19.  E.  3. 
Bradftone  joyntly,  the  cuftody  of  all  the  lands  that  were  Cicelyes  the  wife  of  Bryan 
de  Hickelinge,  during  the  minority  of  J  one  her  daughter  and  heire. 


m.  26. 


Cl)C  7'^  of  July  in  the  twentieth  of  Edward  the  third,  this  S'  Maurice  went  to    franc.  20.  E.  3. 
the  warrs  in  France,  haveing  S"'  Simon  Baffet,   Hugh  de  Rodborough  and  divers    ^^^^'  ''  ™'  ^' 
other  the  like  retinue  as  in  the  former  yeare  ;  And  nowe  went  the  prince  of  Wales 
after  called  the  black  prince. 

CljC  2  1'!"  of  March  before  in  the  fame  yeare,  this  S'  Maurice  and  the  faid  S'    fines  pro  exoner- 

Thomas  de  Bradftone  were  authorifed  to  make  compofition  with  all  perfons  in  the    ^'"^^^  militioe.  20. 

....  E.  3.  m.  I.  2.  21. 

Counties  of  Gloucefter  and  Wilts,  that  were  able  and  of  ability  in   the  valewe  of 

their  land  to  find  a  Soldier,  and  did  not  in  the  laft  yeare,  according  to  the  ordinance 

made, 


254 


€|)c  HitJcjaf  of  tfic  25crhdcpss 


1321 


made,  nowe  to  pay  foe  much  money  as  the  charge  of  a  foldier  of  fuch  a  condition 
came  unto. 


franc  :  20.  E.  3. 
pars.  I.  m.  24.  et 


5intl  were  alfo  imployed  to  mufter  and  Arme  every  man  this  year  between, 
in  dorfo.  16  .  and  .  60. years  in  the  faid  Counties;  And  this  yeare  the  preffes  were  the  deepeft 
that  are  obferved  in  any  age  before,  both  to  withftand  the  Scots  and  French  both 
by  land  and  fea  at  home,  and  to  goe  with  the  kinge  and  prince  into  France ;  wherein 
the  Comiffions  fay  That  PhilHp  de  Valloys  the  French  kinge  had  affembled  an  huge 
power  at  fea,  machinans  fi  poffit  hnguam  delere  AngHcanam,  intending  to  the  unter- 
moft  (fic)  of  his  power  to  extirpe  the  Englifh  name. 


eodem.  pars.  2.  in  3llnb  in  thefe  rolls  divers  Soldiers  are  difchardged  in  the  Counties  of  Somerfett, 

or  o  IS.  Lgjf-gftgj-^  Warrwick  and  others,  quia  de  retinentia  Mauricij  de  Berkeley,  becaufe 
Rot.  obfid:  Calefij  they  were  of  the  retinue  of  this  S'  Maurice  de  Berkeley  ;  whofe  retinue  in  Armes 
at  that  time  was  a  Banneret  fix  knights .  32.  Efquires,  30.  Archers  on  horfeback  and 
.  200 .  Archers  on  foot.  31!nl)  at  this  time  it  is  collefted  by  the  mufters,  that  each 
great  Captaine  had  for  the  mofl  part  their  own  Tenants  with  themfelves  :  5Cnb  now 
this  26'''  day  of  Augufl  in  this  twentieth  yeare  of  this  kinge  Edward  the  third,  was 
fought  the  great  battle  of  Crefcy,  which  intirely  fell  to  the  Englifh,  as  after  in  the 
fol.  [376]    life  of  the  lord  Thomas,  this  S'  Maurice  his  elder  brother,  is  declared.  | 


21.  E.  3.  in  fccio. 


PoHchron.  lib.  7. 

cap  :  44. 

Daniell :  fo  :  200. 


305  %nti  nowe  alfoe  is  John  Copland  made  a  Banneret  for  takeing  the  kinge  of 

pa  .  20.     •  3-^pars.    g^^j-g  pj-Jfoner  in  the  warre  called  bellum  dunellum,  whilft  the  kinge  of  England 
was  beyond  feas. 


fin:  25.  E.  3.  m.  22: 

claus.  25.  E.  3. 

m.  21. 


Efcaet.  21.  E.  3. 

no  :  51.  pofl  mort. 

Mauric.  de 


3ln&  the  4'*"  of  September  following  in  this  twentieth  year  of  his  raigne,  the 
kinge  fits  down  with  his  Army  before  Callice,  At  the  feidge  whereof  the  retinue  of 
this  S'  Maurice  was  as  aforefaid,  where  hee  dyes  the  I2'^  day  of  February  following, 
in  the  21'!"  yeare  of  Edward  the  third  Anno.  1346.  leaving  Thomas  his  fonne  and 
heire  then  thirteen  years  old,  by  the  faid  Margery  his  wife  daughter  and  heire  of 
S'  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Uley,  who  furvived  him  and  dyed  his  widowe  three  years 
Berkeley,  g^fjgj.  jj^  jj^g  25*  of  this  king  :  To  which  Thomas  as  the  Inquifitions  after  his  fathers 
death  doe  fliew,  difcended  in  fee  the  manors  of  Maurden,  and  Wolfreton  in  the 
County  of  Hereford,  the  manors  of  Fulbroke  and  Wefthall  in  the  County  of  Oxon, 
The  Caftle  and  manors  of  Brimsfeild,  Kingeftanley  Rockhampton,  Kingfweflon, 
Aylberton,  Stonehoufe,  Stoke  Gifford,  Uley,  and  Bradley,  in  the  County  of  Glou- 
cefler;  Kingfton  Seimor  and  Edenworth  in  the  County  of  Somerfct;  and  Sharenton 

Orchefton, 


1326  Hifc  of  a^nurifc  the  Zfiixti  255 

Orcherton,  S|  George,  Well;  Codeford,  Coreton  and   Bright-marfton  in  the  County 
of  Wilts,  and  divers  other  lands  and  Tenements  in  thofe  Counties. 

Cl)C  third  day  after  the  death  of  the  faid  Banneret  Maurice,  the  kinge  grants    Rot.  franc. 

to  Thomas  his  fonne  and  heire,  then  alfoe  with  his  father  under  the  walls  of  Callice,    J;""'^'^'-  ^<^"-  ^'■ 

K.  3.  m.  0.  et.  10. 

for  the  laudable  fervice  fake  of  the  faid  S'  Maurice  done  at  that  Seidge,  Ac  volentes  claus.  21.  E.  3.  ps. 

eo  pretextu,  (faith  the  kinge,)  honori  et  comodo  Thomae  filij  et  heredis  ipius  Mauricij  l^g^2i  e\  pars 

providere,  the  profit  of  his  fathers  lands  during  his  minority,  togeather  with  his  own  i-  m.  15. 

marriage:  And  the  I8■^of  March  following  againe  confirms  the  fame.     And  the  Mich:rec. infci-io. 

third  of  June  following  the  faid  Margery  hath  dower  affigned  to  her  of  her  hufbands  cum  rem  ^thefaui- • 
lands,  over  and  befides  thofe  five  manors  whereof  fhee  was  Joyntly  feized  for  life  by 
her  hufbands  conveyances,  as  is  aforefaid. 

^Inb  the  I3'^  of  July  followinge  the  kinge  grants  lycence  to  the  [faid]  Margery    pat.  21.  E.  3.  pars 
to  marry  her  felf  at  her  pleafure,   when  and  to  whom  fliee  would  ;    howbeit  flie    ^  ™' 
never  did.  | 

CI^C  Kinge  haveing  granted  to  the  faid  Thomas  fonne  of  the  faid  Sf  Maurice    306 
the  cuftody  of  his  own  lands  dureing  his  minority  difcended  to  him  from  his  father,    claus.  22.  E.  3. 
fome  had  wrongfully  entered  into  part  of  them.  The  kinge  the  8'^  of  Auguft  in  the 
22'*'  yeare  of  his  raigne,  comands  Simon  Baffet  knight  his  Efcheator  of  Gloucefler- 
fliire,  and  Robert  Ruffell  his  Efcheator  of  Wilts,  that  they  feaverally  reftore  thofe 
lands  to  the  faid  Thomas,  and  to  fee  hee  have  noe  wronge. 

Zi^t  thirtieth  of  September  following  in  the  faid  22'''  yeare  A  commiffion  iffues  pat.  22.  E.  3.  pars, 
out  in  behalf  of  John  Mautravers  the  younger,  fonne  of  John  Mautravers,  to  enquire  ^'  ™"  ^^' '"  "ono- 
by  Jury  in  the  prefence  of  the  faid  Thomas  fonne  and  heire  of  S'  Maurice  Berkeley 
deceafed,  whether  hee  in  his  life  time  did  enfeoffe  his  brothers  Thomas  lord  Berkeley 
and  Peter  de  Berkeley  Clark,  of  the  mannors  of  Kingflanley  and  Rockhampton  in 
ffee,  And  whether  the  faid  lord  Thomas  releafed  to  the  faid  Peter,  and  whether 
the  faid  Peter  regranted  the  fame  to  the  faid  S'  Maurice  for  life,  the  remainder  to 
the  faid  John  Mautrevers  and  to  the  heirs  males  of  his  body  :  And  howe  the  Jury 
after  the  death  of  the  f"*  S'  Maurice  found  That  hee  dyed  feafed  of  the  faid  manors 
in  fee  Simple,  which  was  not  foe;  which  queflion  in  regard  of  the  great  and  general! 
Plague  that  raged  over  England,  feemes  for  a  time  to  have  flept  undetermined. 


25ut  at  the  parliament  begun  in  the  Twenty  fifth  of  Edward  the  third  the  faid  Rot.  parliam.  25. 

elv  ^-  3-  P^i's-  2- ' 

^  claus.  25.  E. 

as  m.  12.  et  17. 


John  Mautravers  was  reftored  in  bloud,  and  to  all  his  lands  and  goods  as  abfolutelv    ^-spars.  2.  n'Jss. 

°  ■'     claus.  25.  E.  3. 


2  56  €f)c  HitcjS  of  tfjc  2£»crhricpj9E  1321 

as  hee  flood  in  the  fourth  of  that  kinge  when  hee  was  attaynted  by  parliament  upon 

pars :  in  dorfo.    fufpition  of  the  death  of  Edmond  Earle  of  Kent  the  kinges  unckle,  hee  then  being 

"^'  ^^     abfent  out  of  the   Reahne  :    And  accordingly  hath  his  writs  to  the  Sherifes  and 

E  .,     Efcheators  to  bee   put   into  the  poffeffion   of  the  mannors  of  Coreton,  Sharnton, 

cart,  et  patent.  21.    Codeford,  Stapleford  and  Afherton  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  which  had  been  granted 

rex  fuit  in  obfid  :    to  the  faid  S'  Maurice  de  Berkeley  as  aforefaid  :  And  for  the  Caftle  and  manor  of 

Calefij.     Brimesfeild,  and  for  the  manors  of  Kingeflanley,  Rockhampton,  Stonehoufe,  Stoke 
pat.  25.  E.  3.  m.  _  . 

22.  pars.  2.    Gifford,  and  Walles  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  which  alfoe  had  been  granted  to 

the  faid  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  as  before  appeares,  And  the  like  into  all  other 
307  Countyes  where  hee  had  any  lands.  311tttl  in  the  patent  |  roll  of  this  yeare  are  the 
reafons  of  this  reftitution  excellently  rendred,  with  a  declaration  of  the  fubjedls 
birthright,  whereto  the  other  records  in  the  margent  excellently  tend  ;  As  alfo  do 
the  records  of  Rot.  claus  :  15.  E.  3.  membr  :  14.  And  rot.  patent.  15.  E.  2.  pars.  i. 
m.  4.  bis.  And  rot.  parliament.  14.  E.  2.  holden  at  Weftminfler,  And  rot.  parlia- 
ment. 15.  E.  2.  holden  at  Yorke,  And  rot.  parliament.  21.  R.  2.,  And  rot.  claus: 
19.  E.  3.  pars.  2.  m.  22  :  in  dorfo,  And  rot.  parliament.  21.  E.  3.  for  reverfall  of 
Mautrevers  attainder.  And  rot.  parliament.  6.  H.  6.  touching  the  Duke  of  Glou- 
cefter, worthy  upon  occation  to  bee  confulted  withall,  the  choycefl  peeces  that  are 
X  of  Record  in  the  kineses  courts. 


claus.  25.  E.  3.  ^t)C  26*  of  May  in  the  25"'  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  recites  That  whereas  hee 

"^ '  ^''  had  the  28'^  of  March  in  the  21'.''  of  his  raigne,  in  confideration  of  the  good  fervice 
of  Sy  Maurice  Berkeley  who  dyed  at  the  feidge  of  Callies,  granted  to  Thomas  his 
fonne  and  heire  then  within  age,  his  fathers  lands,  togeather  with  his  own  marriage, 
That  now  to  doe  him  a  further  pleafure,  being  to  goe  with  him  in  his  warres  beyond 
feas,  And  that  he  may  decentius  et  potentius  fe  parare  more  decently  and  power- 
fully provide  himfelf,  hee  grants  unto  him  the  lands  that  Margery  his  mother  lately 
deceafed  held  for  her  life ;  And  at  this  time  was  this  Thomas  but  feaventeen  years 
**  old  and  three  monthes. 

fin.  28.  E.  3.  m.  2:  'Cl)C  12"*  of  June  in  the  Twentyeighth  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  this  Thomas 

de  Berkeley  nowe  called  of  Vley,  fonne  of  S'  Maurice  de  Berkeley,  for  twenty 
marks,  had  a  licence  to  purchafe  in  fee  the  manor  and  Advowfon  of  Rockhampton 
of  the  faid  S'  John  Mautrevers,  which  was  nowe  regranted  to  the  faid  S'  John 
Mautrevers  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body,  with  a  remainder  to  the  heires  of 
claus.  28.  E.  3.  this  Thomas  in  fee:  In  the  iffue  of  which  Thomas  it  continued  till  S'  Richard 
°'^°'    Berkeley  in  the,  6'^  f^  8'!'  9'i'  and  10'!'  years  of  Queen  Elizabeth  feverally  allyened 

the 


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life  of  a^nuricc  tl)c  Cfjirb 


257 


the  fame   to   the   particular   farmers  thereof;    And  this  yeare  alfoe  was  the  faid 
Thomas  Berkeley  of  Uley  knighted.  | 


3!n  July  in  the  29'!'  of  this  kinge,  this  S'  Thomas  de  Berkeley  goes  beyond 
feas  with  the  Prince  of  Wales  Into  France  ;  And  haveing  a  little  before  marryed 
Katharine  fifler  and  coheire  of  John  Buttetort  Efquier,  fonne  and  heire  of  S'  John, 
(who  as  a  peere  of  the  realme  and  fomoned  to  the  parliaments  in  the  3.  4.  5.  6.  7. 
and  S'*"  yeares  of  Edward  the  fecond,)  fettles  his  eftate  in  the  manors  of  Kiiigf- 
wefton,  Aylberton  and  others  upon  her  for  her  life:  And  nowe  went  alfoe  in  company 
togeather  Maurice  eldefl;  fonne  of  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  his  cozen  germaine,  S' 
Nicholas  Berkeley  of  Durfley,  S'  Peter  de  Veell  fonne  and  heire  of  S'  Peter  de 
Veel  of  Tortworth,  and  divers  other  of  thofe  parts,  as  after  followeth.  And  before 
his  return,  was  in  the  yeare  followinge  at  the  wonderfull  battle  of  Poitiers,  foe 
incredibly  celebrated  in  hiflories,  wherein  the  Englifli  had  twice  foe  many  prifoners 
as  they  were  themfelves,  whereof  more  is  faid  hereafter  in  the  life  of  the  next  lord 
Thomas. 


308 

pat.  29.  E.  3.  pars. 
a.  m.  17. 

claus  :  3.  4.  5.  6. 
7.  et  8.  E.  2.  inter 
fomon  pliam  : 
franc.  29.  E.  3.m.8. 
fin.  29.  E.  3.  m.  2. 
Efcaet.  de  ad  quod 
damn.  29.  E.  3. 
n°  32 

vafcon.  29.  E.  3. 
m:  I.  5.  8. 
Cooper  fol.  241 
et  divers,  al. 

fol,  [380] 


CljC  8""  of  September  in  the  33*?  year  of  his  raigne,  licence  is  granted  to  the    Scotia.  33.  E.  3 
faid  S'  Thomas   Berkeley  of  Vly  to  let  his  lands  in   Brugham,    Merfinden,   and    '"'  ^' 
Herfhill,  in  Scotland  neere  Berwike,  which  now  lye  wade  and  untilled,  to  what 
perfons  hee  would.     SClli)  the  kinge  at  his  requeft  takes  into  his  prote6lion,  all  fuch 
his  tenants  and  farmers  the  better  to  encourage  them  to  take  of  him  ;  And  this  the 
rather  becaufe  hee  is  nowe  going  with  us  into  France,  faith  the  kinge  in  this  record. 


claus :  33.  E.  3. 
dorfo. 


CljC  28'^  of  Oftober  following,  the  kinge  took  fhip,  and  with  this  S'  Thomas  ffin.  33.  E.  3. 

de  Berkeley  of  Vley,  went  S'  Edward  Berkeley,  Si:  Nicht  Berkeley,  S^  Simon  Baffet  !"   ^' 

of  Vley,    Maurice  fonne  of  Maurice    Berkeley  grandchild  of  Thomas  then   lord  pars.  2.  rn.  14.  15. 

Berkeley,  Sr  Peter  de  Veel  and  others  of  that  family  and  neighborhood  ;  And  the  i8etpars.3.m.  3. 
kinge  returned  the  I8'^  of  May  next  after. 


^n  the  35'^  of  Edward  the  third,  dyed  the  faid  S' Thomas  de  Berkeley  of  fin.  35.  E.  3.  m.  4. 

Vley,  the  fryday  before  Micfimas  day  then  twenty  feaven  years  old  ;  And  held  the  ^Lus.  ik  E  3.  m. 

manors  of  Kingefweflon,  Aylberton,  Vley,  and  Kingflon  Seimor,  Joyntly  with  the  *■  3-  7- 

faid  Katharine  his  wife,  who  furvived  him.  And  the  manors  of  Brightmerflon  and  pars.  i.  n?  n. 

Mildefton  in  |  the  County  of  Somerfet  to  himfelf  and  his  heires,  And  the  manors  fin- I'R- 2m:i». 

of  Ruthnocke  and  Stratfeild  in   Hampfhire,  leaving  Maurice  his  fonne  and  heire  Efcaet-  n.R.  2. 

then  three  years  old,  whofe  wardfliip  for  body  and  lands,  was  for  fowerfcore  marks  fi"  •  37-  E.  3-  m  8. 

,  fin.  12.R.  2.m.  19. 
2  L                                                                                                                           granted 


258 


Efcaet.  1 1 :  R.  2. 
pofl  mort 
Katharine. 


€l)c  Uibcjof  of  tl)c  25crHdcpsf  1321 

granted  the  12*  of  November  in  the  27'^  of  Edward  the  third  by  the  kinge,  to  S' 
John  de  Thorpe  to  whom  the  faid  Katharine  was  remarryed  ;  And  fhee  after  dyed 
in  the  1 1'*"  of  Richard  the  fecond. 


pat.  50.  E.  3.  pars. 
2.  m.  4. 


franc  :  3.  R.  2. 


code  :  m.  25. 


C|)C  8'!"  of  January  in  the  50"*  of  Edward  the  third,  the  kinge  granted  to  S' 
Edward  Berkeley  knight  (of  Durfley,)  the  cuftody  of  the  mannor  of  Bradley  in  the 
County  of  Gloucefter,  which  was  the  faid  Thomas  Berkeleys  of  Uley  deceafed, 
being  in  his  hands  in  the  minority  of  Maurice  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  S'  Thomas. 

CIjC  forefaid  Maurice  Berkeley  in  June  in  the  third  of  Richard  the  fecond,  then 
wanting  three  monthes  of  his  full  age,  goes  over  to  the  warrs  in  France  in  the 
retinue  of  S'  Robert  de  Knolls.  SHrib  the  12*  of  July  following  Robert  Cherlton 
and  Hugh  Farrington  were  by  the  Kinge  affigned  guardians  of  the  faid  Maurice 
fonne  and  heire  of  Thomas  de  Berkeley  of  Vley,  yet  within  age  :  And  goes  into 
Britaine  in  the  retinue  of  John  Duke  of  Brittaine  the  kings  brother,  to  take  care  of 
his  eflate  for  a  yeare  following :  In  which  voyage  the  faid  Maurice  de  Berkeley  is 
knighted. 


claus.  3  :  R.  2.  CljC  fifteenth  of  February  in  the  third  of  Richard  the  fecond,  this  S'  Maurice 

'^'  fueth  his  livery  for  the  manors  of  Rockhampton,  Stoke  Gifford,  and  Walles,  which 
fin[i]s  in  banco,  by  a  fyne  levyed  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  third,  were  by  John  Mautravers  knight 
entailed  to  himfelfe  and  the  heires  males  of  his  body,  And  for  default  of  fuch  iffue 
to  Thomas  fonne  of  Banneret  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Vley  knight  and  his  heirs  for 
ever  ;  which  S'  John  Mautravers  is  now  dead  without  iffue  male.  And  the  faid  S' 
Thomas  Berkeley  is  alfoe  dead,  And  the  f'^  S'  Maurice  is  his  fonne  and  heire,  who 
now  proveth  his  age  and  hath  livery  of  thofe  manors. 


franc.  6.  R.  2.  ^ClltJ  in  the  6'^  of  Richard  the  fecond,  this  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Uley  goeth 

■  ^'  againe  to  the  warrs  in  ffrance. 

franc:  9.  R.  2.  ^Ulltl  in  the  9'.''  of  Richard  the  fecond,  the  faid  S'  Maurice  goeth  againe  in  the 

""■  ■^^'  retinue  of  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  for  the  defence  of  Gaunt.   | 

310  C!)C  faid  S'.  Maurice  de  Berkeley  in  the  fifteenth  of  Richard  the  fecond,  was 

claus.  15.  R.  2.  Q^g  Qf  jj^g  knights  of  Gloucefter  fliire  for  the  parliament. 
pars.  I.  in  dorfo. 

vafcon.  17.  R.  2.  ^fjijj  in  the  17*  of  Richard  the  fecond,  this  S'  Maurice  went  with  John  Duke 
of  Aquitaine  and  Lancafter  the  kings  unckle  into  Aquitayne.                                   ^n 


1326 


nUe  of  fliBmiricc  rt)c  <ri)irli 


259 


■01n  the  2I'^  of  Richard  the  fecond  ilTued  out  a  Comiffion  to  Thomas  lord 
Berkeley  and  others  to  enquire  of  the  parcell  of  ground  which  this  S'  Maurice  had 
inclofed  at  Stoke,  and  thereof  made  a  parke  without  the  kings  lycence,  wherein  many 
of  the  kings  leidge  people  claymed  Comon  ;  As  alfoe  to  arreft  diverfe  rebellious 
perfons  in  Stoke,  Winterbourne,  and  Frampton,  who  warlikely  arrayed  had  made 
feme  attempts  thereupon. 


pal.  2  J.  R.  2.  pars 
3.  m.  23.  in  dorfo. 


5[n  the  firfl  yeare  of  Henry  the  fourth,  this  S'  Maurice  for  ten  marks  had 
lycence  to  alyen  the  manors  of  Kingefvveflon,  Ailberton,  and  Rockhampton  holdcn 
in  Capite  to  S'  John  Berkeley  of  Beverflon  and  others,  whereby  hee  eftated  Jone 
his  wife  for  life,  And  the  next  year  dyed  on  faterday  after  Michaelmas  day  in  the 
fecond  of  Henry  the  fourth,  feifed  of  the  manors  of  Brightmerflon  and  Mildeflon 
in  the  County  of  Wilts,  And  the  manors  of  Kingefweflon  Aylberton  and  Rock- 
hampton in  the  County  of  Glouceller,  wherein  the  faid  Jone  hath  her  life  ;  And  of 
the  manors  of  Vley,  Bradley,  Stoke  Gifford,  and  Walles  in  the  faid  County  of 
Gloucefter ;  And  it  is  found  that  the  faid  Jone  is  gravida,  great  with  child,  which 
if  it  mifcarry.  Then  is  Ifable  daughter  of  Maurice  Berkeley  grandfather  of  this  S' 
Maurice,  nowe  dead,  his  heire  aged  fifty  years  ;  And  the  21'!"  of  December  follow- 
ing, the  mannors  of  Kingefweflon,  Aylberton,  and  Rockhampton  were  delivered  to 
the  faid  Jone,  to  hold  for  her  life  accordingly. 


fin  :  I.  H.  4.  pars. 

2.  m.  8. 

Pafch.  fin.  12.  R. 

2.  rot.  I. 

Efcaet.  2.  H.  4. 

n<?  39.  in  com. 

Wilts. 

fin.  2.  H.4.  m.35. 

claus.  2.  H.  4.  m. 

19.  pars.  I. 

ult.  voluntas  ddli. 

Maur.  1400.  2  H. 

4.  cum  regiflra. 


3IonC  is  fhortly  after  deliver'd  of  a  fonne  called  Maurice,  the  wardfhip  of  the  claus.  2.  H.  4. 

body  and  lands  of  which  poflhumus  Maurice,  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  S'  Maurice  /     „ 

'                                       ^  pat.  3.  H.  4. 

and  Jone,  was  on  the   i6'l'  of  February  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  Henry  the  fourth  pars.  1.  m.  24. 
aforefaid,  granted  to  S'  Francis  Court  one  of  the  kings  knights  :  And  againe  alfoe 
the  28'^  of  November  in  the  third  of  the  faid  kinge.  | 


511nl)  this  poflhumus  Maurice  fhortly  after  in  the  8'^  year  of  Henry  the  fourth,    311 

then  about  eight  years  old,  was  by  fi.x:  Inquifitions  in  the  feverall  Counties  of  Wor-    Efcaet.  8.  H.  4.^ 
.  .  ,  .  n?  46.  pofl.  mort 

cefter,  Warwicke,  Southhampton,  Leicefter,  Stafford,  and   Buckingham,   after  the    jocofe  vxoris 

death  of  Joyce  the  wife  of  S^  Hugh  Burnell  onely  daughter  and  heire  of  John    ""go^is  Bumell. 

Buttetort  Efq^  fonne  of  S^  John  Buttetort  knight,  found  to  bee  one  of  her  cozens 

and  heires,  as  alfoe  of  the  faid  John  and  S'  John  Buttetort ;  That  is  to  fay  fonne  of 

S'  Maurice  Berkeley  fonne  of  S'  Thomas  Berkeley  and  Katharine  his  wife,  one  of 

the  fifters  and  coheires  of  the  faid  John  Buttetort  Efrj^  children  of  the  faid  S'  John 

Buttetort  knight,   whereby  upon  the  partition  afterwards  made  amongft  the  faid 

fifters  and  their  iffues,  the  poffeffions  of  this  poflhumus  Maurice  were  much  in- 

2  L  2  larged  ; 


fin.  9.  R.  2.  m.  7. 
pat.  6.  E.  4.  pars. 
2.  m  :  5. 


i6o 


€f)c  %i\ic0  of  tljc  25crhricp3S{ 


1321 


larged  ;  And  the  manors  of  Weoly,  Northfeild,  and  fome  others  in  the  County  of 
Worcefler  allotted  to  him  and  his  heires. 

Efcaet.  9.  H.  5^  ^Jjp  office  in  the  9'^  of  Henry  the  fifth,  the  faid  Jone  is  found  to  have  dyed  in 

Johanns;  et.io.H.    the  1 3'!'  of  Henry  the  fourth,  And  the  faid  Maurice  her  fonne  to  bee  nowe  neere 
5.  melius  inquirend    one  and  twenty  yeares  of  age. 


fin.  I.  H.  6.  m.  i. 
clau:  I.  H.  6.  m.  2. 
Efcaet.  I.  H.  6.  n? 
23.  jncoiii.  Somfet 
pro  Kingflon 
Seimor. 


'CijC  29'^  of  July  in  the  firft  yeare  of  Henry  the  fixth  the  faid  poflhumus 
Maurice  fonne  of  the  faid  S'.  Maurice  and  Jone,  nowe  of  full  age  and  a  knight, 
fueth  his  livery  for  his  lands  in  the  fix  Counties  of  Gloucefler,  Wigorn,  Stafford. 
Southton,  Wilts,  and  Somerfet,  which  Henry  the  fourth  and  Henry  the  fifth  had 
one  and  twenty  yeares  in  ward. 


franc:  5.  H.  6.m.  '^n  the  fifth  of  Henry  the  fixth,  this  poflhumus  S'  Maurice  went  into  France 

^'    ■    in  the  Army  of  John   Duke  of  Bedford  Regent  of  France  ;  and  had  lycence  to 
rot.  Cambij.  5.  H.  ,         ,  .  ,  ,  .        , 

6.  m :  6.    retume  fourty  round  to  bee  paid  him  there. 

fintg.  H.  6.  m.  17.  SCittl  in  the  nynth  of  Henry  the  fixth  by  the  name  of  S^  Maurice  Berkeley  of 

Stoke  knight  was  high-Sherife  of  Gloucefterfliire. 


claus  :  9.  H.  6.  in 

dorfo:  m  :  7. 

pat.  24.  H.  6.  ps.  I. 

dorfo  et  mult,  at : 

312 


51!nt>  in  the  fame  yeare  is  inrolled  a  deed  dated  the  twentieth  of  December  in 
the  eighth  of  Henry  the  fixth,  whereby  this  pofthumus  Sf  Maurice  by  the  name  of 
S'  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Gifford  Stoke,  |  knight,  fettled  the  manor  of  Vleigh  upon 
himfelf  and  Ellen  his  wife  and  the  heires  of  their  two  bodies.  The  remainder  to  his 
own  right  heires  :  About  which  time  it  feemes  hee  married  the  faid  Ellen.  And  for 
the  mofl;  part  hee  lived  in  Worcefterfliire  where  hee  was  long  in  Comiffion  of  the 
peace  ;  And  was  alfo  in  Comiffion  of  the  peace  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter  in  the 
Seaventeenth  of  Henry  the  fixth  and  allwayes  after. 


Rot.  pdoii.  36.  CfjC  kinge  the  6'^  of  January  in  the  36'''  of  Henry  the  fixt  grants  to  this  S' 

■    ■    Maurice  by  the  name  of  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Stoke,  knight,  als  Maurice  Berkeley 
of  Vleigh,  knight,  a  generall  Pardon. 


claus  :  38.  H  :  6. 
in  dorfo  :  m.  22. 


Ci)C  4""  of  February  in  the  38'^of  Henry  the  fixt,  this  Sf  Maurice  Berkeley  and 
John  Bradftone  Efq,  became  bound  by  recognizance  to  John  Bifhop  of  Worcefter 
in .  400 .  marks,  with  condition.  That  if  the  faid  S'  Maurice,  Wittm,  Thomas  and 
Maurice  his  fonnes  perform  the  award  of  Richard  Choke  the  kings  ferjant  at  lawe, 

and 


1326  Hife  of  lia^nuricf  t()c  Cfjirli  261 

and  of  William  Nottingham  the  kings  Atturncy,  and  of  Thomas  Younge,  Arbitrators, 
indifferently  chofen  betweene  the  faid  Bifliop  and  them,  Then  the  recognizance  to 
bee  voyd. 

CflC  12'^  of  July  in  the  firft  of  Edward  the  4'!'  this  pofthumus  S'  Maurice  by  Rot.  pdon.  i.  E. 

the  name  of  Maurice   Berkeley  of  Weoly  in  the  County  of  Worcefler,  knight,  ats  "*'  "^ '  '^' 

of  Stoke  Gifford  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  knight,  hath  another  generall  pardon  ; 

And  the  26''"  of  November  in  the  4'^  yeare  of  that  kinge  dyeth  this  pofthumus  S'  Efcaet.  4.  E.  4. 

Maurice,   feized  of  the   often  named  manors  of  Kingefwefton,   Aylberton,    Rock-    ";  ^9-  po^  "lort. 

,  Mauric :  Berkeley 

Hampton,    Uleigh,   Bradley,   Stoke  Gifford,  and  Walles,   in  the  County  of  Glouc  :    mittis  in  diverfis 

And  of  Kingfton  Seimor  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,   And  of  Rotherwike  in  the    *-°'"- 

County  of  Southton,  And  of  Brightmerfton  and  Mildefton  in  Wiltfhire,   And  that 

Wittm  is  his  fonne  and  heire  twenty  and  eight  years  old;  after  whofe  death  Ellen    daus:4.  E.  4.  m.  i. 

his  wife  was  endowed  by  writ  dated  the  23!*  of  February  in  the  faid  4'!*  yeare  of 

Edward  the  4'^  in  the  prefence  of  the  faid  William  Berkeley  Efq^  fonne  and  heire 

of  the  faid  pofthumus  S'  Maurice,  in  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Somerfet,  Worcefter, 

Hampftiire,  and  Wiltefs.  | 

Ct)ij9^  Wittm  Berkeley  maryed  Anne  daughter  of  S'  Humphry  Stafford,  And    313 

by  deed  dated  the  ^o"*  of  Aprill  in  the  fifth  of  Edward  the  fourth  fetled  his  manors    ^^'i'"?'  9-  E-  4-  n>. 

•'  .        .  .  _  a6.  m  dorio. 

of  Rockhampton  and  Vleigh  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  and  his  manors  of  Bright- 
merfton and  Mildefton  with  the  Advowfon  of  Mildefton  in  the  County  of  Wilts, 
upon  himfelf  and  the  faid  Anne  his  wife  and  the  heires  of  their  bodyes,  with  the 
remainder  to  the  right  heires  of  himfelf 

Cl)t  6'^  of  November  in  the  9""  of  Edward  the   fourth   the  kinge  grants  a    Rot.  pardon.  9. 
generall  pardon  to  this  Wittm  Berkeley  by  the  name  of  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Weoly    ^-  4-  m-  21- 
in  the  County  of  Worcefter,  ats  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Northfeild,  ats  Wittm  Berkeley 
of  Uleigh,  ats  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Stoke  Gifford,  ats  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Briftoll,  ats 
Wittm  Berkeley  of  the  City  of  Worcefter,  Efquier. 

CI)C  fecond  of  February  in  the  49'''  of  Henry  the  fixt,  (ats  the  lo'""  of  Edward    ^qj.  pdon:  49  H. 
the  4''',)   this  Wittm  hath   from    Henry  the  6'^  a  generall  pardon,  by  the  name  of    6  m.  5. 
Wittm  Berkeley  of  Weoly  in  the  County  of  WorceP,  ats  Wittm  Berkeley  fonne  and 
heire  of  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Vleigh,  knight,  deceafed,  with  four  other  ats  diet.   And    Rot.  Pardon  16 
in  the  16'''  of  Edward  the  fourth  hath  another  generall  pardon  with  eight  alias  diet:    ^-  4-  ™-  4- 
It  feemes  that  either  hee  or  the  times  were  fickley  That  hee  foe  often  tooke  phyfick 
of  this  kind.  CJjC 


262  €iic  Hitcjef  of  t!)c  ^ctMep^  1321 

claus:  II.  E.  4.  (^fjf  23'^  of  December  in  the   1 1**"  of  Edward  the  fourth  this  Wittm  by  the 

Mich:rec:  14.  E.    name  of  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Stoke  Gifford,  Efq^  becomes  bound  to  Ellen  late  the 
4.  rot.  5.  m  fccio    ^jfg  Qf  Maurice  Berkeley,  knight,  in  fifty  pounds  to  pay  thirty  pounds  the  firll  of 
November  after. 


cum  rem :  thefaur. 


pat.  II.  E.  4.  pars. 
2.  m  :  17. 


Indenture  in  y«pell 
office,  bundle  8. 


CljC  13""  of  December  in  the  fame  1 1"*  yeare,  the  kinge  grants  another  generall 
pardon  to  this  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Weoly  in  the  County  of  Wigorn,  ats  of  Stoke 
Gifford,  ats  of  Vley,  Efquier. 

311nll  in  the  14""  of  Edward  the  fourth  this  Wittm  is  by  the  kinge  retained  to 
ferve  him  in  France  with  a  band  of  men  by  Covenants  agreed  upon  in  a  paire  of 
Indentures  between  them,  yet  remaining  in  the  pell  office  at  Weflminfler.  | 


314  ^n  Aprill  in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fourth,  this  Wittm  Berkeley  by  the 

4.m:  23!    name  of  Wittm  Berkeley  late  of  Weoly  ats  of  Vleigh,  Efquier,  goes  beyond  feas 
with  George  Duke  Clarence  the  kings  brother. 


Rot.  claus  :  1 6.  E. 
4.  m:  15.  in  dorfo: 

fin:  15.  E.  4.m:  19. 


Cl)C  24*  of  January  in  the  14"'  of  Edward  the  4*  Ellen  lady  Berkeley  of  Stoke 
Gifford  widowe,  late  the  wife  of  S'  Maurice  Berkeley,  knight,  releafeth  to  Maurice 
Berkeley,  Efq^,  her  third  fonne,  all  her  right  in  the  manors  of  Bradley,  Wotton, 
Nibley,  Comb  iuxta  Wotton,  and  in  Bradflon  which  the  faid  Maurice  late  held  to 
him  and  the  heires  of  his  body  by  the  grant  of  Wittm  Berkeley  late  of  W'eoly  in 
the  County  of  Wigorn,  Efq^.,  his  eldefl  brother:  which  Maurice  dyes  in  the  i8'''of 
Edward  the  fourth. 


I 


Mich:  rec:  in  fccio 
cum  rein  thefaur: 
27.  Eliz:  rot.  108. 
original.  16.  H.  7. 
rot.  48.  55.  in  fccio 
cum  rem  thefaur. 
Rec:  23.  H.  7. 
rot.  17. 


Terin  pafch.  16. 

H.  7.  in  banco. 

Glouc  :  Sorn 

Wiltefs. 


'C!)iiS  S^  Wittm  Berkeley,  (knighted  about  the  firft  of  Richard  the  third,)  was 
by  parliament  in  the  firft  of  Henry  the  7""  attaynted  of  treafon  by  takeing  part  with 
that  kinge,  flaine  at  Bofworth  feild  in  the  third  of  his  raigne  ;  And  his  manor  of 
Stoke  Gifford  and  others  which  by  his  Attaynder  efcheated  to  the  Crowne,  were 
fhortly  after  granted  by  Henry  the  y^^  to  his  unckle  Jefper  Earle  of  Penbroke  and 
the  heires  males  of  his  body  :  Howbeit  this  Sr  Wittm  obtained  fome  part  of  his  old 
poffeffions  by  compofition  in  the  4'''  of  Henry  the  feaventh  ;  And  in  the  1 1'^  of  that 
kinge  was  reftored  by  parliament  in  bloud  ;  And  haveing  been  tamperinge  with  the 
faid  Earle  of  Pembroke  for  rehaveinge  of  all  his  lands,  the  faid  Earle  dyes  without 
lawfull  iffue  in  the  fame  1 1'^  yeare  of  Henry  y"  7'''  And  alfoe  this  S'  Wittm  dyes  five 
years  after  in  the  iG'*"  of  that  kinge,  leaving  iffue  two  fonnes,  Richard  Berkeley  of 
Stoke  Gifford  and  John  Berkeley  of  Bradley,  not  haveinge  (as  it  may  feeme)  fully 
revefted  himfelf  in  all  his  ancient  inheritance  before  hee  dyed.  Cije 


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263 


Clje  faid  Richard  eldeft  fonnc  of  the  faid  S^  Wittm,  by  the  grant  of  Henry  the  °'^*j^''''-  '^-  ^^-  7- 

7'''  in  the  faid  yeare  of  his  fathers  death,  became  perfecflly  fetled  in  his  fathers  old  Mich.rec.  27.  Elir 

poffcffions;  And  after  maryed  Elizabeth  daughter  of  S'  Humphry  Conifby,  by  whom  Mi"ch°ec  8  H  8 

hee  had  iffue  S'John  Berkeley  of  Stoke  knight,  and  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Bruton  rot.  40. 

kni",  Anne  maryed  to  S'  Thomas  Speke  knit^ht,  Mary  maryed  to  S'  Wittm  ffrancis,  rot  39. 

and  Dorothy  firll  maryed  to  S'  Nicholas  Waddam,  and  |  fecondly  to  M'  Gibbes,  of  3^5 

which  daughters  is  plentifull  iffue  ;  And  after  the  f''  Richard  dyed  in  the  fifth  yeare    Efcaet.  5.  H.  8. 

in  C^titicdlAr 
of  Henry  the  eighth  feized  of  the  often  mentioned  manors  of  Stoke  Gifford,  Vleigh, 

Kingefweflon,  Rockhampton,  and  Berwike,  in  the  County  of  Glouc:  and  of  divers 

others  in  other  Counties  ;  (having  in  the  23'^  of  Henry  the  7'*"  fold  his  manor  of 

Kingefton  Seimor  to  S'  Thomas  Try,)  leaving  John  Berkeley  his  fonne  and  heire 

then  three  years  old. 

CI)C  faid  John  Berkeley  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  Richard  maryed  Ifable  daughter    Original.  32.  H.  8. 
of  S^  Wittm  Denis  of  Durham,  grandchild  of  Maurice  lord  Berkeley  the  fifth  of  that    |?^t.  44.  b  fccfo  ^' 
name,  the  Marques  Berkeleys  brother  and  heire,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  Richard    2m.  rem.  thes. 
Mary  and  Elizabeth  :  And  in  the  35"^  of  Henry  the  S'!"  fold  to  Richard  Buckland 
Marchant,  and  others,  his  faid  manors  of  Brightmarftone  and  Mildeftone  in  the 
County  of  W^ilts,  which  had  lineally  defcended  in  this  line  from  the  firft  guift  thereof 
made  to  Banneret  Maurice  in  the  1 1*  of  Edward  the  2^.  as  before  is  written.  ^°''  1^3 'S] 

5CnD  the  faid  S'  John  in  the  ;^y^^  of  Henry  the  8'^,  (knighted  the  yeare  before,)    voluntas  Jofiis 
dyed  of  an  hurt  received  by  the  fplinter  of  a  (hip,  (as  I  have  been  informed,)  at    ,^^cu?prerog.^'*^' 
Portefmouth,  which  in  the  24''' of  June  in  that  yeare.  Anno.  1545.  caufed  an  addition    CanI 
to  his  will,  as  therein  appears,  leaving  the  faid  Richard  his  eldeft  fonne  to  bee  the 
kings  ward,  then  of  the  age  of  fowerteen  yeares  :  whereby  this  faire  branch  may 
perceive  it  felf  in  the  feaven  laft  defcents  fince  it  iffued  from  the  elder  ftock  to  have 
been  five  times  in  ward,  And  the  profits  of  their  lands  for  72  yeares  duringe  thofe 
wardfhips  taken  by  the  Crown. 


Ci)C  faid  Richard,  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  S'  John  Berkeley,  firft  mar)^ed 
Elizabeth  daughter  to  Wittm  Read  of  Milton  Efcj,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  Henry 
Berkeley,  Elizabeth  maryed  to  S'  Thomas  Throkmorton  of  Tortworth  knight, 
Mary  maryed  to  S'  John  Hungerford  of  Down  ampny,  knight,  and  Katharine 
marryed  to  Rowland  Lee  of  Longborrow  Efq!,  Ann  and  Dorothy  ;  Of  whom,  and 
of  Mary  and  Elizabeth,  fifters  of  this  S'  Richard  and  their  feverall  iffues,  read  after 
in  the  life  of  Maurice  lord  Berkeley,  the  fifth  of  that  name  :  And  fecondly  mar}^ed 

Ellenor 


Mich  :  fines  26. 
Eliz.rot.S.  in  fccio 
cum  rem :  thefauf. 


fol.  [627] 


264  €l)e  %i\it^  of  tfft  S^crhdcpjat  1321 

Ellenor  daughter  of  S'  Robert  Jermy  Efq'  and  widowe  of  Robert  Rowe  Efquire, 
fon  of  S'  Thomas  Rowe  Knight,  by  whom  hee  had  noe  iffue  ;  which  Ellenor  is  yet 
liveinge .  Anno .  1628.  | 

316  Cl^i^  S'  Richard,  (whofe  unvaluable  worth  and  well  defervings  in  his  Country 

governments  I  many  years  obferved,)  was  knighted  about  the  ii""  yeare  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  And  was  in  the  38'''  yeare  of  her  raigne  made  Leivtenant  of  the  Tower, 
to  whofe  trufl,  (before  commitment  to  that  prifon,)  Robert  Deverox  Earle  of  Effex 
was  comitted,  to  bee  kept  at  Effex  houfe  in  the  42"'  yeare  of  the  faid  Oueene. 

3Cnl>  was  author  of  that  excellent  booke  entituled  A  difcourfe  of  the  felicity  of 
man  or  his  fummum  bonum,  printed  in  Anno.  1598.  the  fortieth  year  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  ;  from  whofe  good  counfells,  in  the  firfl  of  kinge  James,  what  time  hee 
was  intreated  by  Henry  then  lord  Berkeley  to  keep  the  Solempnity  of  the  feafl  of 
Chriflmas  with  him  and  others  of  like  ranke  at  Berkeley  Caflle,  I  willingly  acknow- 
ledge, (as  from  his  faid  booke,)  to  have  reaped  profit  and  advantage:  nothinge  therein 
amiffe  fave  the  printers  error  in  printing  his  name  Barckley  for  Berkeley  :  hee  was 
one  of  the  knights  of  his  County  for  the  parliament  in  the  firfl  of  Kinge  James, 
whofe  Affociate  was  S'  Thomas  Berkeley  father  of  the  nowe  lord  George  :  And 
buried  in  the  was  high  Sherife  of  the  County  in  the  feaventh  of  Elizabeth,  A  deputy  Leivtenant 
Gants  church,  ^j-  ^j^  bounty,  And  dyed  in  the  fecond  of  Kinge  James,  leaving  Henry  his  fonne 
and  heire,  and  others  as  aforefaid  :  having  alyened  his  manor  of  Rockhampton  as 
formerly  is  mentioned  to  the  perticular  Tenants  thereof;  As  likewife  hee  did  his 
manor  of  Vley  in  the  S'*"  of  Elizabeth,  And  his  manor  of  Kingfweflon  to  Wittm 
Winter  Efq'  in  the  1 2'^  of  Elizabeth  the  old  poffeffions  of  his  Anceflors,  as  formerly 
appeareth. 

•CtjC  faid  Henry  eldefl  fonne  of  the  faid  S'  Richard  marryed  Mirryell  daughter 
of  Thomas  Throkmorton  of  Caughton  in  the  County  of  Warrwick  Efq',  by  whom 
hee  had  iffue  Richard  Berkeley  of  Stoke  that  yet  lives,  Anno  .  1624,  Elizabeth 
dead  without  iffue,  and  Margaret  marryed  to  John  Tomlinfon  of  Brifloll  Marchant, 
who  have  iffue  Richard. 

(^fjC  faid  Richard  Berkeley,  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  Henry,  firfl  maryed 
Mary  daughter  of  Robert  Rowe  aforefaid,  fifler  of  Sir  Thomas  Rowe,  Knight, 
Chancellor  of  the  mofl  noble  order  of  the  Garter,  between  whome  is  iffue  S'  Maurice 
Berkeley  knight,  Elizabeth,  Helena  marryed  to  George  Elliot  of  Godallminge   in 

the 


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the   County   of  Surry    F.fcj",  |   Mirriell    in:iryetl    to   John    fldcft    fonne   of  Anthony    317 
Abington  of  Dowdfwell  Hfci",  John,  Thomas,  Giles,  Katharine,  Mary,  Margarett, 
Richard,  and  Robert,  that  nowe  are  Anno.  1624.   And  fecon[d]ly  maryed  Jane  the 
double  widowe  of  two  remarkable  gentlemen  of  the  name  of  Molins,  by  whom  hee 
hath  noe  ilTue. 

5'n  the  deferved  commendations  of  the  excellent  endowments  of  the  faid 
Richard,  one  of  the  deputy  Leivtenants  of  the  County  of  Glouc,  And  for  which 
hee  was  in  the  12"!'  of  kinge  James  chofen  one  of  the  knights  of  y'  Shire  for  the 
parliament,  I  would  as  profufely  poure  out  large  praifes  as  of  any  gentleman  I  know 
in  the  Weft  of  England  ;  but  fufpition  of  flattery,  (with  tJiofe  that  know  him  not 
nor  mee.)  is  to  bee  avoyded  :  Hee  yet  fk)uriflieth  at  Randcombe  in  that  County 
Anno  .  1628. 

CljC  faid  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  knight,  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  Richard,  firft 
maryed  Elizabeth  daughter  of  S^  Edward  Coke  knight,  late  cheife  Juftice  of 
England,  by  Elizabeth  his  fecond  wife,  widowe  of  Wittm  Hatton  ats  Newport 
knight,  by  whom  hee  hath  iffue  Frances  only;  And  fecondly  maryed  Mary  daughter 
of  S'  George  Tippinge  of  Whitfeild  in  Oxfordfhire  knight,  by  whome  hee  hath  iffue 
Richard  and  George,  Anno  .  1628. 

CI)tSf  S'  Maurice  through  the  great  hopes  of  his  Country  conceived  of  him, 
was  chofen  knight  of  the  Shire  for  the  parliament  in  the  iS'l"  yeare  of  kinge  James, 
then  not.  22  .  years  of  age,  5fi!lb  fecondly  in  the  2I'^  yeare  of  the  faid  kinge,  'Sfillll 
thirdly  for  the  parliament  holden  in  the  firft  yeare  of  kinge  Charles  :  Then  alfo 
made  one  of  the  deputy  Leivtenants  of  his  County  :  And  with  much  quiet  reapeth 
the  fruite  of  a  peaceable  Country  life  at  Stoke  Gifford  aforefaid,  the  antient  and 
often  mentioned  feat  of  his  Anceftors  Anno.  1628,  newly  become  the  father  of  his 
faid  fecond  fonne. 

CIjC  faid   S'  Maurice   Berkeley  of  Bruton,  fecond  brother  of  the  forefayd  S'    Berkeley  of 
John  Berkeley,  was  ftandard  bearer  to  kinge  Henry  the  S'!"  king  Edw?  the  6'''  and 
Queen  Elizabeth  ;  and  dyed  in  the  23'*"  yeare  of  her  raigne  :  And  by  Katharine  his 
firft  wife,  daughter  of  Wittm  Blount  lord  Mountjoy  and  widowe  of  Champer- 

noun,  had  iffue  three  fonnes  all  knights  viz' :  S'  Henry  Berkeley  of  Bruton,  ST 
Edwafd  Berkeley,  who  after  maryed  Elizabeth  Berkeley  of  Bradley,  widow  of 
Edward    Berkeley    Efq'    of  whome  |  after,  Sf   Francis    Berkeley  of   Ireland,    (all    318 

2  M  remarkable 


266  €l)c  Hibc^  of  tf)c  25cthdcp^  1321 

remarkable  gentlemen  in  their  times  and  martially  inclined,)  and  three  daughters 
Gertrude,  marryed  to  Edward  Home  Efq',  Elizabeth  marryed  to  Perfevall 

Efq',   and  Anne  marryed  to  S'  Nicholas   Poyntz  late  of   Simmondfall   knight,  of 
whom  is  iffue  Robert  Poyntz  and  others,  As  alfo  is  iffue  of  the  other  two  daughters. 

(CI)C  faid  S'  Henry  Berkeley  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  Sf  Maurice  maryed 
Margery  daughter  of  Wittm  Ligon  Efq'  and  widowe  of  S'  Thomas  Ruffell,  by 
whome  hee  had  iffue  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  knight  and  others,  And  after  dyed  in 
the  43'''  of  Elizabeth.  .  •  ' 

(^l)f  faid  S'  Maurice  Berkeley,  eldeft  fonne  of  the  faid  S'  Henry,  maryed 
Elizabeth  daughter  of  S' Wiftm  Killigree  knight,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  S^  Charles 
Berkeley,  Maurice,  Slayne  at  the  Ifle  of  Ree,  William,  John,  Margaret  and  Jone 
that  nowe  are  .  Anno  .  1624  .  And  after  the  faid  Sf  Maurice  dyed  in  the  i^'^  of 
fol.  [630]  Kinge  James.  Of  whom  read  more  in  the  life  of  Maurice  lord  Berkeley  the  fifth 
of  that  name. 

Berkeley  of  CijC  faid  S'  Maurice   Berkeley  of  Bruton,  fecond  brother  of  the  faid  S'  John  . 

Boycourt  in  Kent.  Berkeley,  was  fecondly  marryed  to  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Anthony  Sands  of 
Throughby  in  the  County  of  Kent  Efq' ;  And  was  of  the  bedchamber  to  Queene 
Elizabeth,  And  lyeth  honorably  buried  in  the  parifh  Church  of  Clerkenwell  ;  By 
whom  the  faid  Si:  Maurice  had  iffue  Robert  Berkeley,  John  Berkeley  knight,  dead 
without  iffue,  and  Margaret  ;  the  faid  Robert  dyed  in  the  yeare  of  kinge 

James,  And  is  buried  in  the  Cathedrall  church  of  Canterbury  with  this  Epitaph. 

Hee  thats  imprifoned  in  this  narrow  roome, 
Wert  not  for  cuftome,  needs  noe  verfe  nor  Tombe  ; 
Nor  can  from  thence,  a  monument  bee  lent 
To  him,  thatmuft  bee  his  tombes  monument  : 
And  from  the  vertues  of  his  lafting  fame 
Ad  honor  to  his  hearfe,  nor  that  unto  his  name  ; 
ffor  when  this  gaudy  monument  is  gone, 
Children  of  the  unborn  world  that  fee  the  ftone 
That  covers  him,  will  to  their  fellowes  cry 
Tis  here,  Tis  here  abouts,  Berkeley  doth  lye. 
To  build  his  tombe  then  was  not  thought  foe  fafe 
Whofe  virtues  muft  outlive  his  Epitaph.  | 


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267 


3Cn&  by  Elizabeth  his  wife,  daughter  of  Lougher  Efquier,  a  docflor  of   319 

the  civill  lawe,  the  faid  Robert  leaft  iffue  four  fonnes  :  viz'  Michaell  Berkeley, 
Maximillian,  Maurice,  and  John  ;  And  two  daughters  :  viz!  Anne  marryed  to  M' 
Henry  Kinge,  eldeft  fonne  of  dotlor  John  Kinge  late  Bifliop  of  London,  and 
Penelope,  that  nowe  are  .  Anno  .  1624  .  and  the  faid  Anne  hath  iffue  John  and 
Henry  Kinge,  Anno  1628.  Of  which  Michaell  Berkeley  his  proper  worth  ties 
mee  to  teftifye,  That  hee  hath  poliflied  his  excellent  wit  with  learned  fludies,  and 
the  profitable  ufe  of  many  years  travells  in  the  cheifeft  Chrillian  Cities  and  king- 
doms. 


Cl^  forefaid  John   Berkeley  of   Bradley,   younger   brother  of  the  faid    Rich^    Berkeley  of 
Berkeley  of  Stoke,  by  Katharine  his  wife  daughter  of  S'  Richard   Deverox  lord      ^^   ^^' 
Ferrars,  had  iffue  James  Berkeley  of  Bradley,  who  by  Joyce  his  wife  daughter  of 
Mf  Pettit  had  iffue  John,  Brice,  Joyce,  Jane  and  Anne. 


iCljC  faid  John  fonne  of  John  dyed  in  the  fifth  of  Oueene  Mary  without  iffue. 
The  faid  Brice  by  Anne  his  wife  daughter  and  co-heire  of  Tho'  Whittington  Efq' 
had  iffue  Elizabeth  only,  and  dyed  in  the  21""  of  Elizabeth  ;  who  had  to  her  firft 
hufband  Edward  Berkeley  Efqr  who  lyeth  buried  in  the  Chappell  at  Berkeley 
Church,  And  dyed  in  the  ig'**  year  of  Queen  Eliz.  ;  To  her  fecond  hufband  S! 
Edward  Berkeley,  and  to  her  third,  Nicholas  Strangewayes  Efq^,  All  whom  fhee 
furvived,  haveing  had  noe  iffue  by  any  of  them,  and  dyed  in  the  Tenth  of  kinge 
James  at  Bradley  by  Wotton,  where  fliee  lyeth  buryed. 

Cl)C  faid  Joyce,  fifler  of  John  and  Brice,  was  maryed  to  Wittm  Stumpe  Efq!, 
and  had  iffue  James  and  John  :  James  by  the  daughter  of  Edward  Bainton  had 
iffue  Elizabeth  onely,  marryed  to  S'  Henry  Knevett,  who  had  iffue  Katharine 
maryed  to  Thomas  Howard  Earle  of  Suffolk,  nowe  lord  high  Treaforer  of  Eng- 
land :  161 7  .  and  Elizabeth  maryed  to  Thomas  Clinton  nowe  Earle  of  Lincoln, 
Anno.  161 7  .  of  both  whom  are  many  noble  decendants  :  And  Frances  maryed  to 
S'  William  Bevill,  of  whom  alfo  is  iffue  ;  And  alfo  of  the  faid  John  Stumpe  is 
plentifull  iffue. 

Wi^  faid  Jane,  the  fecond  fifler  of  the  faid  John  and  Brice,  is  dead  w'^out  iffue. 

CfjC  faid  Anne  their  third  fifter  was  married  to  Thomas  Champneis  of  Elberton 
in  Berkeley  hundred,  who  had  iffue,  Henry,  Anne  and  Bridget :  Of  Henry  Champ- 
neis is  plentifull  iffue  ;    Anne  his  fifler  is  dead  without  iffue  :  And  |  Bridget  was    320 

2  M  2  marryed 


Original,  in  Sccio. 
I  E.  6.  pars  3. 
rot.  7.  12.  cum 
rem.  thefaur. 


268 


€l)e  EibCjS  of  tlic  25crhricpj^ 


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marryed  to  John  Afide  of  Vpton  Cheiney  in  the  Parifli  of  Bitton,  his  firft  wife,  who 
had  iffue  Edward  Afide,  Anne  marryed  to  WiUiam  Harte,  Jane  marryed  to  Henry 
Stubbs,  and  Margaret  marryed  to  John  Britton  of  Bitton,  who  are  all  in  life  and 
have  plentifull  iffues,  Anno.  161 7.  .     ' 


Berkeley  of 

Shropfhire. 

Rot.  protedl.  et 

attorn :  Scotiae.  28. 

E.  I.    Comp.  Rec. 

in  caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


3.  3fof)n  Berkeley,  third  fonne  of  this  lord  Maurice,  is  the  Stocke  father  of  the 
families  of  the  Berkeleys  of  ShropHiire,  from  whom  they  are  defcended  ;  Of  him  I 
have  not  found  whereof  further  to  inlarge  myfelf.  Then  that  in  the  28'''  yeare  of 
Edward  the  firft,  hee  was  with  his  father  and  two  elder  brothers  in  Scotland  at  the 
expugnation  of  the  Caftle  of  Carelaveroke,  held  inexpugnable. 


Origin: manufcript  gjluij  Hkewife  at  the  warres  againfl  the  -Scots  in  the  29  .  3o'^  and  32'^  yeares  of 

de  Aflaeflon  in    that  kinge  ;  And  Hkewife  in  the  Journey  into  France  in  the  firfl  of  Edward  the 
Com  Norf :    fg^ond  ;  All  which  are  more  largely  mentioned  in  the  lives  of  his  faid  father  and 
elder  brothers. 


diverfae  cartae  in 

CaflrodeBerkeley. 

magn  :  chartul  : 

it)m  fol.  33. 

Rot.  claus  :  17. 

E.  2.  m  :  II. 


carta  cum  lotie 

Somers  de  Came. 

dat.  20.  Novem  : 

18.  Eliz  : 


pat.  6.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  in  dorfo. 


25p  feverall  conveyances  in  the  8*1'  11'!'  13"''  and  fifteenth  yeares  of  kinge 
Edward  the  fecond,  his  father  the  lord  Maurice  conveyed  to  this  third  fonne  for  his 
better  maintenance,  the  lide  manor  of  Kingefwefton  in  Kingefweflon,  the  manor  of 
Wefton  Lawrence,  and  divers  lands  in  Cromhale,  Awre,  and  Ettelowe,  in  the 
County  of  Gloucefter  :  And  upon  the  feaft  day  of  the  Epiphany  in  the  fifteenth  of 
the  faid  kinge,  his  faid  father,  (a  few  dayes  before  his  own  committment  to  Walling- 
ford  Caftle,)  conveyed  to  him  and  the  heires  males  of  his  body,' All- his  lands  and 
tenements  at  Plaunches  in  Came  with  the  fervices  of  his  Tenants  there,  which  his 
father  the  lord  Thomas  had  purchafed  of  Thomas  Monmoth  lord  of  Planches, 
rendringe  for  the  fame  yearly  on  midfomer  day  Unam  capellam  rofa^,^  one  chaplet 
or  garland  of  Rofes  for  all  fervices.  And  this  farme  of  Planches  continued  in  the 
male  line  of  this  John  Berkeley  untill  the  18"'  yeare  of  Oueene  Elizabeth,  what 
time  Wittm  Berkeley  of  Creffage  in  the  parifli  of  Cond  in  Shrops'  for .  190!'  alyened 
the  fame  to  Lawrence  Somers  and  his  heires,  whofe  fonne  John  Somers  nowe 
liveth  in  the  fame.  And  for  his  garland  of  rofes  payeth  one  peny  rent  yearly  to  the 
manor  of  Came  .  Anno  .  1622  .  And  for  thefe  lands  of  Plaunches   in    Came  did 

Katharine 
1  Rents  of  Rofes  were  very  common  in  Mediaeval  times,  as  common  as  rents  of  Barley-corns  and 
Pepper-corns  have  been  in  modern,  and  thefe  varied  in  colour— red  during  the  Lancaftrian  jeigns  and 
white  when  the  Yorkifls  fucceeded  to  the  crown.  They  were  ufually  made  payable  on  the  feaft  of  St. 
John  Baptift.  Any  number  of  examples  might  be  quoted;  we  will  mention  only  one.  In  1566  a  rent 
of  "  a  Chaplet  of  white  Rofes  was  paid  to  the  Crown  for  lands  in  Gafk,  at  the  Manor  of  Gafk,  on  the 
feaft  of  St.  John  Baptift,"  (Hift.  MSS.,  Com.,  v.  623.)  but  the  rent  was  ufually  a  fmgle  rofe.     [Ed.] 


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Hifc  of  ili^auricc  tljc  CftirD 


269 


Katharine  the  widowe  of  Monmoth  arraigne  an  Affize  againft  this  John,  by  the 
name  of  John  fonne  of  Maurice  de  Berkeley. 

Efcaet.  in  arce 
J!t)i]^  John  was  in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  found  by  Jury  to  partake    london.  15.  E.  2. 

with  this  lord  Maurice  his  father  againfl  that  kinge  ;  whereupon  his  lands  by  the  „,   ,, 

Sherife  of  the  County  of  Glouc:  were  feized  into  |  that  kinges  hands  :  howbeit  in  321 

the  yeare  following  hce  found  meanes  to  have  a  certificate  That  hee  was  none  of  fQ^rifaft  pars  2 

thofe  that  refufed  to  come  to  the  kinge  then  goinge  againft  his  Contrariants,  when  16.  E.  2.  m.  17. 

hee  was  fent  for,  And  thereupon  had  reftitution  to  his  faid  lands. 

25ctlllcniC  the  fetting  of  kinge  Kdward  the  fecond's  funne,  and  the  dawning  of   P^'-  '•  ^-  3-  P^rs. 
his  fonnes  raigne,  kinge  Edward  thethird,  (then  but  cuflos  of  the  Realme,)  made    Rot.  perv :  clans, 
this  John,  togeather  with  his  fecond  brother,  keeper  of  Briftoll  Caftle,  which  office    '•    •  3-  •"  :     : 
and  charge  in  the  yeare  following,  was  rendred  for  the  ground  why  this  John  was 
pardoned  his  ferviceinto  Scotland  With  the  kinge,  which  otherwife  hee  ought  to 
have  performed  for  the  knights  fees  he  held  in  Capite,  faith  the  record. 

CI)i|ef  John  Berkeley  had  iffue  John,  who  was  called  alfoe  John  de  Planches    cartae  in  caflro 
from  the  faid  farm  of  Planches,  And  hee  had  iffue  John  Berkeley  ats  diet  Planche,    vafcon.  36  E.  3. 
from  the  faid  farm  alfoe  ;  To  whom  in  the  Twentieth  of  Edward  the  fixth,  Thomas    m-  2- 
Wike  lord  of  Durfley  granted  an  Anuity  of  fourty  fhillings  p  ann  for  his  life  ;  And    g.  4:  rot.  353.  in 
this  John  had  iffue  Edmond,  father  of  John,  who  by  the  marriage  of  the  daughter    banco  in  com. 
and   heire  of  John    Feckenham,  in   the   County  of  Worcefter    Efq'  rnlarged    his    claus :  20.  H.  6. 
poffeffions  with  the  moyties  of  the  manors  of  Bradley  and  Stoke  in  that  County  ;    ™  •  '3-  '4-  et.  17. 
by  whom  hee  had  iffue  Edmond,  who  by  Elizabeth  his  wife  daughter  of  M'  Poyner 
of  Bef.ow  Efqf  had  iffue  John,  who  by  Sibill  his  wife  daughter  of  John  Mempaffe 
gent,  had   iffue  two  fonnes   Edward   and  William,    and   a  daughter  called   Alice 
marryed  to   Henry  Stanley  of  le   Hal  in  the  County  of   Radnor  Efqf  The  faid 
Edward  was  of  the  meniall  retinue' of  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  the  fifth  of  that  name, 
and  dyed  in  his  houfe  without  iffue  about  the  twentieth  yeare  of  Kinge  Henry  the 
eighth  ;  And   the   faid   Wittm   brother  of  the   faid   Edward   was  firft  maryed    to 
Katharine  daughter  of  Wittm  Chambers  Efq'  And  fecondly  to  Elizabeth  daughter 
of  Richard  Day  Efq'  by  both  whom  hee  had  iffue  as  followeth. 


dorfo. 


23p  the  faid  Katharine  his  firft  wife,  hee  the  faid  Wittm  had  iffue  Thomas,  and 
Edmond  ;  which  Thomas  by  Jane  his  firft  wife,  daughter  and  he're  of  Wittm  ffelton 
of  Eudnes  in  the  County  of  Salop  Efq",  enlarged  his  eftate  with  the  manors  of 

Eudnes 


270 


Clic  Hibc^  of  tijc  25nrftdEpsf 


1321 


Eudnes  and  Aftrell  in  the  fame  County,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  George  Berkeley 
that  dyed  without  iffue,  ffrancis  Berkeley  of  Eudnes  nowe  living.  Anno.  1622  .  who 
hath  marryed  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Rowland  Dutton  of  Hatton  in  the  County  of 
322  Chefter  Efq!',  and  others  :  And  the  |  faid  Thomas  by  Frances  his  fecond  wife, 
daughter  of  M'  Hanbury  of  Beanhall  in  the  County  of  Worcefter  Efq',  had  iffue 
two  daughters,  Suzan  and  Margarett,  from  whome  are  iffue  Anno  .  1622.  And  the 
faid  Edmond  brother  to  the  faid  Thomas,  by  Mary  his  firfl  wife,  daughter  of  the 
faid  Wittm  ffelton  hath  iffue  Francis,  William,  Samuell,  Chriflobell,  and  Hefter,  of 
whome  are  iffue  Anno.  1622  .  ;  And  by  Rebecca  his  fecond  wife  hath  iffue  Ifaack. 

^l^C  forefaid  Wittm  brother  of  the  faid  Edward,  who  dyed  without  iffue,  dyed 
in  the  44'!'  of  Elizabeth ;  And  was  hee  that  is  before  mentioned  to  have  alyened  the 
farme  of  Planches  ;  And  by  the  faid  Elizabeth  his  fecond  wife  daughter  of  Richard 
Day  Efq^  had  iffue  Wittm,  who  by  Frances  his  wife,  daughter  of  George  Detton  of 
Detton  in  the  County  of  Salop,  hath  iffue,  Samuell,  George,  William,  Edward, 
Mary,  Elizabeth,  Anne,  Frances,  Martha,  Suzanna,  Hefter,  Jane  and  others,  Anno 
.  1622.  Sl^Ote  of  this  fair  branch  I  am  not  inabled  to  write,  through  want  of  help 
from  their  perticular  evidence. 


Comp.  de  Alking- 

ton  20.  E.  2.  in 

caflro  de  Berkeley. 


4.  <lButlO  de  Berkeley,  fometime  written  Ivo,  the  fourth  fonne  of  this  lord, 
(named  after  his  mothers  father  the  lord  Zouch,)  was  bred  a  fcholler  in  Oxford,  At 
whofe  inception  there,  (foe  is  the  word,)  the  twentieth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  the 
parfon  of  Slimbridge,  (which  I  conceive  to  bee  his  Vnckle  James,)  prefented  him 
with  a  boare,  which  in  the  feedinge  had  eaten  one  Quarter  and  two  BuHiells  of 
beanes. 


pat.  I.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m  :  20. 


CljC  third,  of  March  in  the  yeare  followinge,  beinge  the  firft  of  Edward  the 
third,  the  kinge  gave  him  the  prebend  of  Yago  in  the  Church  of  S'  Patricke  of 
Dublin  in  Ireland. 


pat.  2.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m  :  2. 


Comp.  de  Alking- 

ton  2.  E.  3.  in  call. 

de  Berk. 

Com ;  Rec:  code 

anno  ibm. 


2[l)C  3I'^  of  May  in  the  fecond  of  Edward  the  third,  this  Eudo  is  by  the  kinge 
prefented  to  the  Church  of  Lampradevaur [?]  in  the  Dioces  of  Si  Davids  in  Wales: 
which  the  next  yeare,  the  kinge  refuminge,  afilgned  him  one  hundred  pounds  in 
prebendaries  in  lieu  thereof 

3|n  the  end  of  which  fecond  yeare  hee  dyed  at  Bradley  by  Wotton  under  edge, 
whilfl  the  lord  Thomas  his  elder  brother  there  kept  houfe,  as  after  followcth  ;  And 

WclS 


1326  Uifc  of  Sl^nuruc  tl)c  Zi\ivti  271 

was  buried  in  the  monaftry  of  Kingefwood  one  mile  from  thence,  not  then  paft  the 

age  of.  23  .  yeares  :  for  the  better  repofe  of  whofe  foule,  each  night  from  his  .death  eo^/.a^n'^no'^^  ''^'^ 

to  his  buriall,  was  a  dirige  fonge,  And  after  his  funerall,  were  his  tricennalia,  his  com :  garde;ob : 

trentalls  or  monthes  mind,  celebrated  at  Glouc:  and  Brifloll,  by  the  fryers  minors  |  |jj'^  *'    '  ^'  ^^^' 

fryers  preachers  and  Carmelites.    CfjC  charges  of  his  funerall  at  Bradley  and  Kingf-  323 

wood  Abby  cofl — 06'.'  1 1*  06*!  ob. 

5.  3i^ftCt  the  fifth  fonne  of  this  lord,  was  alfo  bred  a  Scholler  at  the  fame  time,  Comp :  hofpic:  2. 
and  under  the  fame  Tutor,  with  his  brother  Eudo  :  To  whome  king  Edward  the    ggf)^. 

third  the  tenth  of  December  in  the  firil  of  his  raigne  gave  the  prebend  Ywerne    P=*'  '•  E-  s-  pars. 
Minrtre  belonging  to  the  Abby  of  Shafton. 

Cfjf  1 7'^  of  May  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  writes  to  the  Pope    Rot.  Roma  2.  E. 
to  difpenfe  with  the  age  of  this  Peter,  That  hee  might  receive  his  ecclefiaflicall  pro-        ™'  ^' 
motion  with  cure  of  Soules,  being  now  twenty  yeares  old,  whofe  honor  and  profit 
hee  much  defires  :  And  writes  alfoe  to  fome  of  the  Cardinalls  to  affifl  him  in  the 
prpfecution  of  this  grace. 

Ct)f  firfi:  of  January  in  the  4"!"  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  gives  him  the  prebend  pat.  4-  E.  3.  pars, 
of  Horton,  fix  miles  from  Berkeley,  belonging  to  the  Church  of  Salifbury:  ^^  •    ^  .     ^^^ 

2.  m  :  18. 

C()C  12'!'  of  Aprill  the  fame  yeare,  this  Peter  is  fetled  by  the  kinge  in  the  j^nj"*.  •  3- P^"- 
office  of  praepofitura  in  the  Church  of  Wells  ;  which  place,  although  the  kinge  pat.  9.  E.  3.  pars, 
exprefly  forbids  to  queflion,  yet  a  long  controverfy  arofe  thereupon  ;  But  beinge  ''^t  ,0  £  ^  p^ps 
nowe  become  the  kings  chaplen,  in  the  end  hee  carryed  it ;  And  after  had  another    3TO-4-et  25- E.  3. 

prebendary  in  that  Church  from  the  kings  guift.  pat  14.  E.  3.  pars. 

3.  m.  16. 

2llnll  the  25'^  of  November  in  the  14'*'  of  his  raigne  the  kinge  gives  more  to    pat.  15.E.  3.  pars, 
him  the  prebend  of  Brithelinge,  in  his  free  Chappie  of  Haflings,  in  the  Dioces  of    ^'  ™'  '^ 
Chichefter. 

i^Ct  dyed  in  the  is'!"  of  that  kinges  raigne,  1341,  then  about  32  years  old,  And  Comp.  Rec.  15.  E. 

^yas  buryed  at   Horton  aforefaid,  where  hee  had  a  prebend  that  belonged  to  the  ggrk  • 

Church  of  Salifbury  as  before  is  faid  ;   And  where  a  Chaplen  had — 53?  4"!  by  the  pat.  roll:  21.  E.  3. 

yeare  allowed  to  finge  maffe  for  his  foule.  ™   5-  et  ^°- 

6.  3fi6fablc  onely  daughter  of  this  lord  Maurice,  was  two  years  after  his  death  by    comp.  Rec.  i.  et. 

the  care  of  her  eldeft  brother  the  lord  Thomas,  marr\-ed  at  Berkeley  Caftle  in  June    '  E.  3.  comp. 

.      hofpic.  2.  E.  3. 
m 


272 


€Ijc  Hibc^  of  tt)c  23crhdcp^ 


1321 


pafch.  rec:  6.  E.  3.    j^^  ^^^  fecond  veare  of  Edward  the  third,  to  Robert  lord  CHfford  the  young-er  ;  upon 
rot.  6.  Glouc.  in  •'  . 

Sccio    the  death  of  whofe  father  Robert,  the  lord  Berkeley  fuppofeing  his  fonne  to  bee 

claus  2^E  x  mTe     within  age,  bought  his  marriage  of  the  kinge  for — 500'!'     Howbeit  by  Inquifition  it 

324    proved  that  hee  was  of  full  age  :  whereupon  after  |  the  labour  of  fower  yeares,  and 

the  expence  incident  to  futes  of  that  condition,  hee  got  againe  his  money  out  of  the 

Exchequer. 

I^OtC  that  in  the  private  evidence  of  this  lord,  both  father  and  fonne  are  written 
Roger,  but  in  the  records  Robert  Clifford. 


Comp.  Recept.  2. 

E.  3.  in  caflro  de 

Berke  : 

Comp :  hofpicij 

ibm  2.  E.  3. 

rot.  claus.  2.  E.  3. 

dorfo. 


comp.  Recept. 
pi-didt. 


Newl :  pedegr  :  in 

cafl.ro  de  Berkeley. 

Inq  :  in  Com. 

Soiiifet  I.  E.  3. 

manca  pod  mort. 

Mauric  ;  in  arce 

london. 


3ri)E  portion  given  with  this  lady  in  marriage  by  her  faid  brother,  was  one 
thoufand  pounds,  and  fifty  marks,  payable  by — 333".  6^  8"^.  a  yeare,  fecured  by  a 
recognizance  in  Chancery  :  Towards  the  rayfmg  whereof  her  brother  levied  511pb  of 
his  freeholders  :  The  weddinge  apparell  was  in  a  gown  of  Cloth  bruni  fcarloti  of 
brown  fcarlett  with  the  cape  furred,  lyned  with  the  beft  muniver:  ^ffC  lord  Berkeley 
her  brother  and  his  lady,  beinge,  (for  the  more  honor  of  the  bride,)  apparelled  in 
the  like  habit :  w"**  howfoever  nowe  out  of  ufe,  yet  time  may  returne  us  the  fame 
fafhion,  before  this  parchment  whereon  I  write  bee  turned  into  duft,  as  the  Receivers 
accompt  almofl  is,  my  warrant  for  this  paffage  :  her  faddle  with  the  furniture  cofl; 
five  pound  fetched  from  London  :   I  have  not  found  any  iffue  that  fhee  had. 

Cfte  feale  this  lord  ufed  in  the  lifetyme  of  his  father,  was  as  his  fathers,  with 
the  difference  of  a  file  and  three  lambeaux  ;  Afterwards  for  the  fhort  time  of  his 
liberty  as  his  fathers  without  any  variation. 


Note.— The  firft  Seal  is  an  exa6l  fac  fimile  of  Smyth's  drawing,  but  the  legend  fhould  certainly 
read  :s'MAVRicr:DE:BERKE',  eye: 

J^is  2Dcnt^  nnb  ^iatt  of  25urian 

^Ijijgi  lord  Maurice  dyed  a  prifoner  in  the  Caflle  of  Wallingford  y'  31'!'  day  of 
May  .  Anno  .  1326  .  in  the  19"'  yeare  of  king  Edward  the  fecond,  then  aged  about 
forty  fix  yeares,  of  which  hee  fate  lord  fower  yeares  ten  months  and  ten  days  : 
Howbeit  of  that  fliort  terme  hee  only  enjoyed  liberty  five  months  and  fowerteen 

days. 


1326 


Hifc  of  !!!l^auricc  tt)e  Ci)trti 


273 


days.  From  Wallingford  where  his  body  was  firll  hurycd,  It  was  by  the  care  of 
his  fonne  and  heire  within  the  yeare  following,  removed  and  folemly  buryed  in 
the  I  monaftery  Church  of  S!  Auguftines  by  Briftoll,  in  the  fouth  lie  under  the  Arch 
before  the  quire  doore;  And  when  his  firft  Aniverfary  day  came  to  bee  folempnized, 
his  eldeft  fonne  fpent  in  the  folemnity  thereof  in  maffes  and  doales  &c — 9'!  ii'  6'! 
whereby  'appears  the  miftake  of  Grafton,  writing  that  to  this  lord  Maurice  was 
comitted  the  cuftody  of  kinge  Edward  the  fecond  in  his  Caille  of  Berkeley,  whereas 
hee  was  dead  fix  monthes  before,  and  a  prifoner  to  that  kinge  as  moft  playnly  hath 
been  declared  ;  which  error  Grafton  feemes  to  have  taken  from  the  manufcript  of 
Robert  de  Gloucefter,  as  more  largely  followes  in  the  life  of  the  next  lord  Thomas. 


Carta  in  Caflro 
de.  Berk. 

325 

com  p.  rec.  i.  E. 
3.  in  Caflro  de 
Berkeley. 
Grafton  chron  : 
fo  :  213. 

Rob',  de  Glouc. 
in  vita.  E.  3.  cum 
Rob t  Cotton  mitte 
fol.  [346J 


25cingr  in  prifon  hee  made  his  will,  nameing  Thomas  his  eldcfl  fonne  at  that    certificate  5.  E  3. 


in  caflro  de  Berk  : 
compide  Portbury 


time  a  prifoner  alfoe  in  Pevenfey  Caftle  in  Suffex,  William  of  Avening  a  preift  his 
Chaplen   and   Receiver,    John   Champneis  and    Henry    Rokehill   his   Steward,    his    itjm.u.  e 
Executors,  which  was  after  proved  before  the  Biiliop  of  Worcefter,  which  I  have 
not  yet  met  withall. 


Cf)U^  I  leave  this  reftlefs  lord  at  reft,  difrobed  of  thofe  Armes  which  .  22  . 
tymes  in  the  Voyages  of  foe  many  years  hee  had  put  on,  in  the  fervices  of  the  two 
kings  Edward  the  firft  and  Edward  the  fecond,  in  theire  feverall  warres  againft  the 
VVelih,  Scots,  &  French  ;  as  formerly  in  the  life  of  the  lord  Thomas  his  father  and 
of  himfelf  from  matter  of  record,  and  of  evidence  and  hiftory  not  to  bee  excepted 
againft,  hath  beene  mentioned  in  particuler. 

J^i^  lanD^  tD!)crcof  Ijcc  l>pcD  ^afcijcD 

Co  ayde  me  in  this  title,  is  only  one   Inquificon  after  this  lords  death  in  the 
County  of  Somerfet  remaining  unperiflied  in  the  Kings  Courts,  And  that  alfo  much 
maymed  ;  Howbeit  by  the  kings  feazures  of  his  lands  almoft  five  yeares  before  hee 
dyed,  and  his  receiving  the  profits  thereof  all  that  time,  and  the  returne  of  thofe    clivers:  compi:in 
Accompts  into  Berkeley  Caftle,   I   find  that  hee  had  at  his  commitment  the  two    16.  17.  18. 19.  E. 
burrough  townes  of  Berkeley  and  Wotton,    and   the   manors  of  Wotton    Forren,    ^et- '•  et.  2.  E.  3. 
T  T  (Ml  •  •  ^°^  ^'^  '■  'S-  ^-  ^' 

Hame,  Alkmgton,   Hinton,   Hurft,  Slimbridge,   Came,   Cowley,   Simondfall,  Awre,    m.  15. 

Rockhampton,  Kingftanley,  |  Kingfwefton,  Stanley  Pountlarge,  Snedham,  and  the    326 
hundreds  of  Berkeley  and   Blideflowe,  and  divers  faire  farmes  lands  and  rents  in 
Frampton  upon  Seavern,    Upton  S?  Leonard,   Ettelowe,  Awre,  Arlingham,  Wike, 
and  Faveild,  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  And  the  Advowfons  of  Slimbridge  and    Kfcaet.  i.  E.  3. 
Wotton.  And  the  manors  of  Portbury,   Wintred,   Milverfton,  Portefhued,   Bright-    Somerfct.'^°'" 
2  N  marfton, 


274  €l)c  Ei\JCjBf  of  tijc  25ctftdcp^  1321 

Original  :in  Sccio     marflon,  Tykenham  and  Bedminfter,  and  Radeclive  flreet,  and  ten  pound  rent  in 
I.E.  •?.  rot.  7.  . 

Bridgwater,  and  the  hundreds  of  Portbury,  Bedminftre,  and  Hareclive,  and  divers 

lands  in  Chedder  and  Tickenham  in  the  County  of  Somerfet. 

311nll  the  manors  of  Great  and  Hde  Wenden  in  the  County  of  Effex. 

StnD  the  faire  houfe  in  Si  Andrews  parifh  near  Baynards  Caflle,  which  after 
came  to  bee  called  Berkeleys  Inne  in  London. 

fin.  15.  E.  2.  m.  9.  5ilntl  divers  houfes  in  Berwike  upon  Twede  and  in  the  confines  thereof, 

et.  15. 

5llntl  the  manors  of  Shipton  under  Whichwood,  and  Buriford  ats  Burford,  in 
the  County  of  Oxford. 

cartse.  9. 10.  li.et.  ^Cllb  the  manors  of  Kingflon  Seimor  with  the  advowfon  thereof  in  the  faid 

12.  E.  2.  in  caflro     r^         ^        re  r  ^ 

de  Berkeley.    County  of  Somerfet. 

5lln!)  the  manor  of  Great  Rollright  in  the  County  of  Warwicke. 

5111  which  with  others,  in  five  monthes  after  his  death  returned  and  came  to 
his  eldeft  and  other  fonnes,  as  after  will  bee  declared, 

€i)c  ayplication  aiiD  uM  of  !)i^  life 

The  ufe.  I.   CljC  life  of  this  lord  approveth  divers  principalis. 

iCIjat  it  is  ignorance  and  indifcretion  for  a  Subjeft  to  force  his  prince  by  violent 
meanes  ;  for  hee  that  would  move  a  greater  ftrength  than  his  own  muft  worke  with 
his  head,  not  with  his  hands  :  And  the  fafeft  way  to  fucceed  in  every  enterprife  is 
to  watch  fit  circumftances  and  to  prefent  our  endeavours  with  opportunities.  And 
not  upon  any  difcontent  whatfoever,  to  fubje6l  to  ruine  in  an  inftant  our  honor  and 
eflate,  which  with  much  fludy  labor  and  time  hath  been  ere6led :  The  error  whereof 
in  the  lafl  feaven  yeares  of  this  lords  life,  tumbled  down  the  lives  and  fortunes  of 
twenty  great  lords  with  himfelf  | 

327  2.  -5ilgainC,  this  lords  poflerity  may  bee  warned  by  this  his  Anceflors  example, 

to  fliun  difcontent,  which  beinge  unmoderated,  of  all  difeafes  is  mofl  dangerous  and 
hard  to  cure  in  great  fpirrits  and  in  perfons  of  high  place  :  Anger  in  fuch  maketh 

them 


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them  willinge,  and  greatnefs  promptcth  them  to  abilitie  to  revenge  :  And  where 
fuch  difcontent  hath  taken  hold,  it  hath  ever  wrought  their  own  or  other  mens 
dellriiclion,  as  pregnantly  is  feene  in  the  life  and  death  of  this  high  flyinge  lord  ; 
whereas  a  neffeAiry  patience  with  this  lord  might  either  have  filenced  his  great 
fpirrit,  or  his  noble  greatnefs  have  defpifed  the  dignities  of  the  Spenfers  his 
enemies,  And  foe  have  avoyded  the  toyle  hee  was  taken  in. 

3.  5llgninc,  fith  pofperity  in  any  family  may  not  bee  looked  for,  without  often 
interuptions  :  And  that  the  funne  which  warmeth  the  hapieft  family  is  often  in 
clouds,  and  fometimes  in  Eclipfe,  as  nowe  with  this  lord,  A  wife  patience  and 
watching  of  faire  weather  when  to  goe  abroad,  was  needfull ;  which  this  lord  more 
neglected  then  I  hope  his  pofterity  thus  warned  hereafter  will. 

4.  ^CgahtC,  fith  every  man  is  mofl  properly  faid  to  be  fuch  a  man,  as  hee 
declares  himfelf  in  his  lafl;  refolutions  ;  And  that  the  glory  of  our  life  flands  fpetially 
in  well  endinge  :  if  this  lord  had  been  well  advifed,  noe  confideration  fhould  have 
moved  him  to  retire  from  his  former  vertue,  nor  to  have  abandoned  the  reputation 
hee  had  got,  of  a  vertuous  and  valiant  man  :  which  I  wiOi  his  pollerity  may  thinke 
upon. 

5.  3(l0ahir,  this  lords  error  prompteth  to  his  pofterity  the  truth  of  the  proverbe, 
That  to  ab^tainc  anD  tli^trUSft  are  two  mayne  fmewes  of  wifdome  :  for  had  this  lord 
either  abftained  from  offendinge  at  firft,  or  from  caftinge  himfelf  into  the  arms  of 
thofe  enemies  whom  hee  had  difpleafed  :  Or  diflrufted  (as  wifdom  willed)  the  deceit- 
full  heart  of  man,  and  howe  deep  the  feat  of  Mallice  is,  efpetially  in  the  bofome  of 
an  enemy  implacably  offended,  hee  would  have  fearched  deeper,  ere  hee  had 
adventured,  whereby  hee  had  preferved  his  body  from  that  prifon  wherein  it 
Languifhed  till  death,  And  his  pofterity  from  that  imminent  perill  of  ruine  where- 
into  by  this  error  it  was  ingulphed  ;  But  the  mercy  of  the  Almighty  takes  this 
family  by  the  chinne  and  keeps  the  |  head  from  drowninge,  as  wonderfully  nowe  328 
followes  in  the  life  of  this  lords  fonne  and  heire  to  bee  declared. 

6.  ^CgahlC.  the  practice  of  this  lords  enemies  affures  the  truth  of  bibibc  Ct 
iinynrn  ;  fever  the  confpirators  and  their  devices  are  confounded  ;  which  it  appears 
they  did,  by  fweetning  fome  with  promifes,  and  by  curcumventinge  others  by  fraud, 
whereby  they  brake  that  ftrength  not  by  force  to  have  been  diffolved,  which  wari- 
nefs  in  this  lord  and  his  adherents  might  have  prevented. 

2  N  2  7.  3f!0ahir, 


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7.  3il0iUnc,  from  the  precipitous  exceffes  of  this  lord  may  bee  drawn  a  leffon 
for  his  pofterity  ;  by  prudence  and  other  vertues  neffefary  to  their  fublime  eftates 
to  fuftaine  themfelves  from  fodaine  flideings  beneath  their  proper  values  :  And  to 
knowe  Howe  neffefary  moderation  is  for  the  coolinge  of  the  overboylings  of  prof- 
perity  and  greatnefs  :  And  not  to  bee  tranfported  with  a  defire  of  revenge ;  not 
wifely  waighing  the  quality  and  power  of  an  empire,  (againfi;  which,  this  their  great 
anceflor  undertooke,)  which  in  him,  foe  greate  and  martiall  a  man,  was  a  grand 
and  ruinous  error,  found  and  felt  too  late  to  the  overthrowe  of  himfelf,  and  the 
indangering  of  his  pofterity,  if  meanes  almoft  miraculous  had  not  by  divine 
ordinance  prevented  it,  as  followeth  in  the  next  life. 

8.  ^gaine,  the  life  of  this  lord,  checkes  the  vulgar  proverbe,  ^oonc  ripc  ^omit 
rotten  ;  and  of  thofe  that  like  not  to  fee  an  infant  over  hopefull,  afifirminge  that  a 
tree  overlaid  with  bloffomes  cannot  all  profper,  one  of  them  muft  fay  they  needs 
rob  the  other  of  moifture  and  growth  :  And  that  in  fuch  pregnant  beginings,  one 
faculty  ftarves  another,  and  at  laft  leaves  the  mind  faplefs  and  barren  ;  And  there- 
fore advife  to  pull  off  fome  of  the  too  frequent  bloffomes  that  the  reft  may  thrive ; 
concludeing  that  it  is  good  wifdome  to  moderate  the  exceffe  of  the  parts  or  progreffe 
of  over  forward  childhood,  which  the  prefident  of  this  lord  fully  confutes,  as  his  life 
hath  declared,  ffor 

Such  as  in  youth,  th'art  found  to  bee, 
Such  age,  in  age,  will  render  thee.  | 

329  9.  QCgaine,  the  remarkable  paffages  of  the  two   Earles  Spenfers  and  of  the 

lords  Audely  and  Damery  mentioned  in  this  lords  life,  affures  us  of  the  uncertainty 
of  great  mens  eftates  ;  And  that  the  circle  of  humane  aftions  and  events  is  foe 
large,  that  noe  eminent  family  is  longe  without  fome  change  :  five  times  hath  this 
great  and  opulent  family  of  the  Berkeleys  bene  difpoyled  of  all  her  poffeffions, 
thereby  without  meanes  or  maintainance  :  The  rebellion  of  the  lord  Robert  the 
fecond,  fhewes  the  firft,  The  rebellion  of  this  lord  Maurice  the  third  againft  kinge 
Edward,  ftiewes  the  fecond  :  The  cafe  of  James  lord  Berkeley  in  the  time  of  Kinge 
Henry  the  fixth,  when  neither  an  houfe  to  harbor  in,  land  nor  liberty  of  body  was 
left  to  him  or  his  fonnes,  fhewes  the  third  :  Maurice  the  fifth,  brother  and  heire  to 
William  Marques  Berkeley  of  new  to  begin  the  world  with  nothinge,  fhewes  the 
fourth  :  and  when  Queene  Elizabeth  had  extended  all  the  lands  of  the  lord  Henry 
in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  her  raigne,  for  leavying  the  huge  meane  rates  of  Wotton, 
(not  to  fpeak  of  the  like  extent  profecuted  by  his  laft  wife  upon  a  Statute  of  ten 

thoufand 


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thoufand  pounds,)  fhevves  the  fifth  :  Iiifomuch  as  great  families  are  noted  to  bee,  as 
Stages,  whereon  are  reprefented  the  viciffitudes  of  various  fortunes,  whereby  the 
pride  of  great  men  may  bee  abated,  and  humility  planted,  whofe  topp  will  bee  in 
heaven,  though  the  roote  be  in  earth. 

10.  3ll0dtnc,  from  the  fall  of  this  lord  a  wife  obfervation  is  confirmed.  That 
many  worthy  fervants,  (afwell  to  the  Crowne,  as  to  his  peeres,)  in  themfelves  of 
great  defervinges,  oft  tymes  by  behavinge  themfelves  over  infolently  toward  their 
mafters,  both  in  refpecH:  of  their  fervice  done,  and  alfoe  by  flattering  themfelves  with 
a  falfe  opinion,  that  either  theire  mafters  cannot  miffe  them,  or  that  they  dare  not 
offend  them,  have  by  this  kind  of  pride  overthrown  themfelves,  otherwife  deferving 
great  honour  and  refped:.  A  prefident  in  this  lord  full  to  the  poynt,  whereby  his 
poflerity  may  make  a  twofold  ufe,  by  furvey  of  it  felf  and  of  the  fervants  under  it.  | 

11.  SajSitip,  If  I  were  to  anatomize  the  wayes  and  thoughts  of  this  lord  330 
Maurice,  and  to  parralell  him  by  an  exa6l  characfter,  my  obfervations  would 
perfonate  him  with  Duke  Biron,  who  lofl;  his  head  under  Henr)^  the  fourth  of 
France  ;  And  with  Robert  Earle  of  Effex  who  in  like  manner  layd  downe  his  life 
under  Queen  Elizabeth  of  England  :  Neither  if  old  Plutarch  were  to  prefent  the 
world  with  more  twins,  could  hee  find  from  the  Cradle  to  the  grave  fitter  perfonages 

to  compare  then  this  lord  with  one  or  both  of  them  ;  In  the  glaffe  of  whofe  printed 
hiflories,  is  to  the  life,  fhewn  the  life  of  this  lord  to  his  prefent  poflerity. 

12.  5llnb  for  conclufion  ;   If  this  lord  Maurice  (quem  honoris  caufa  non  poffum    2  Cor.  13.  r.  5. 
non  nominare),  had  either  minded  the  Apoftle's  rule  of  Quifque  explaret  feipfum,  ^'  ^''  ^ 
have  fought  himfelfe  in  himfelfe  :  Or  put  in  practice  that  of  Siracides,  That  what- 

foever  we  take  in  hand,  to  remember  firft  the  end,  and  then  we  fhall  never  doe 
amiffe  ;  Or  that  of  the  Poet,  Orbis  quifque  fibi,  nee  te  quaefiviris  extra,  out  of 
himfelfe  to  have  well  fearched  into  himfelfe;  hee  would  not  have  lofl  thofe  Epithites 
of  Vir  Nominatiffimus,  et  vir  fpeftatiffimus,  given  him  by  approved  hiflorians  of  his 
own  times,  as  Enfignes  of  his  remarkeable  eminency  and  defervings  ;  |^or  with  a 
precipitate  refolution,  by  an  overvaluinge  of  his  owne  abilities,  have  wraflled  againfl 
the  power  of  a  Monarchy,  prizinge  the  purchafe  of  his  will  at  a  higher  rate  than 
life  or  fortunes ;  And  which  was  as  bad,  by  an  inconfiderate  feverance  of  the 
meanes  from  the  End,  and  the  End  hee  aymed  at  from  the  Meanes  hee  ufed,  foe 
grofly  to  have  miffed  the  marke,  as  to  have  punifhed  himfelfe  much  more  then  his 
enemy  whom  hee  aymed  at;  Coo  forgetful  alfo  (as  his  life  hath  declared,)  That  true 

happines 


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happines  or  unhappines  confifts  in  its  arrival  at  its  haven,  and  that  it  Uttle  importeth 
a  man  to  have  well  deferved,  or  to  have  efcaped  this  or  that  ftorme,  unles  hee  come 
fafely  to  land  ;  and  howe  it  is  the  evening  that  comendeth  the  day,  and  our  End 
that  crowneth  our  a6lions  ;  I  wifh  that  his  forgetfulnes  may  bee  hereafter  better 
thought  upon,  and  prove  a  warninge  to  his  poflerity. 


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fitti^  a^auticii  tcccti. 


^\)t  Cifc  of  2^l)oma6  tl)c  itljixb  333 

€^  me  of  Thomas   Lord  Berkeley  the  third  of  that    ^Se'^Sd": 
name,  filled  in  writings,  Thomas  de  Berket  And  Thomas    pat.  4.  e.  3.  ps.  i. 
dominus   de   Berkelee  And   dfis  Thomas   dns  de  Berkelee    dorfo. 
And  Thomas  de  Berkelee  baro.  And  dns  Thomas  de  Berket    ^"°- 
dns  de  Berket.      51!nb  may  bee  called  Thomas  the  Ritch. 
Contcmporarp  with  the  firft .  35  .  yeares  of  King  Edward  the 
third  from.  1326.  till.  1361. 

JB^O^e  life   I    prcfent   to  his  pofterity  under  thefe   fifteene 
titles .  viz' 

I. — i^i0  birth  and  age  of  adolefcency  with  his  parliamentary  tryall . 
fol  :  [334.]     A  difcourfe  of  Thomas  de  Bradfton  His  fervant . 

fol:  [33 7.] 

2. — l^ijBf  hufbandry  and  hofpitality  .  fol  :  [357.] 

3.— ©ijef  buildings,  fol  :  [364.] 

4. — J^i]^  Forren  imployments  in  warrs  and  embaffes .  fol  :  [366.] 

5. — l^ij^  recreations  and  delights  .  fol  :[38i.] 

6. — l^ijef  purchafes  of  land  .  fol  :  [382.] 

7-^^10  fuites  in  lawe  .  fol  :  [388.] 

8.— j^ijEf  Almes  and  devotions  with  his  pentions  and  rewards  to  his 
fervants  and  frends .  fol  :  [390.] 

9. — i^isf  nii^CCilania  or  various  paffages  .  fol  :  [395.] 
10. — ^10  wives  .  fol  :  [402.] 
II. — j^ijEf  iffue  .  fol  :  [405.] 
12. — J)ijSf  feale  of  Armes  .  fol  :  [417.] 
13. — J)i]S  death  and  place  of  buriall .  fol  :[4i8.] 
14. — l^isf  lands  whereof  hee  died  feized  .  fol  :  [418.] 
iS.^CljC  5tpplication  and  ufe  of  his  life  .  fol  :  [422.] 


28o 


€t)£  Eibci9f  of  t|je  ^ttht\e^0 


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334 

Inq.  in  Coin 

Somfet.  I  :  E.  3. 

pod  mort  Maur : 

pat.  I.  E.  3.  ps.  I. 

m.  8. 

claus  :  19.  E.  3. 

m  :  22.  24. 

liberal,  i:  E.  3. 

m :  4. 

claus  :  I.  E.  3.  ps: 

I.  m :  22. 

original :  in  fccio. 

I.  E.  3.  rot.  7. 


c 


^ift  fiirtf)  and  age  of  atiofe^cnicp  toitf)  |)i^  parliamnttarp  trpaH. 

I^C  lord  Maurice  as  hath  been  faid  after  fower  years  imprifonment  and  an 
half  is  dead  before  releafment,  Thomas  his  eldeft  fonne  duringe  that  time 
and  ftill  continueth  prifoner,  firft  in  the  Tower  from  whence  hee  efcaped, 
then  in  the  Caflle  of  Berkamfleed  in  Hartfordfhire,  Then  in  Pevenfey  Caflle  in 
Suffex,  from  whence  God  that  worketh  after  his  own  will,  thus  wonderfully  draweth 
him  out. 

Butchered,  imprifoned  banifhed  are  neer  half  the  Baronage  of  England  in  the 
lafl  fix  years  of  Kinge  Edward  the  fecond  ;  abufed  thereunto  by  the  overrulinge 
power  of  the  two  Spenfers,  Hugh  the  father  Earle  of  Winchefter  and  Hugh  the 
fonne  Earle  of  Gloucefler,  (often  before  mentioned,)  whom  the  State  generally 
hated  ;  The  height  of  whofe  greatnefs  with  the  kinge  drew  on  the  depth  of  hatred 
from  Queen  Ifable  his  wife  towards  them,  with  the  generall  difcontent  of  the  whole 
Realme,  as  partly  hath  been  touched. 


Speed  ^n  Gafcoigne  arife  troubles  betweene  the  Englifli  and  the  ffrench  :   Queen 

et  divers,  at  chron:  -^  ..T^.^  ■      r  ■  1     r       rr  •  -ii 

Ifable,  as  the  fitteft  mftrument,  is  fent  over  to  negotiate  thole  anaires  with  the 

ffrench  kinge  her  brother  :  which  fhee  foe  laboreth  as  matters  are  quietted,  upon 

Condition,  that  the  kinge  her  hufband  would  give  to  his  eldeft  fonne  prince  Edward, 

the  Dutchy  of  Aquitayne  whereby  his  homage,  in  lieu  of  his  fathers,  might  at  his 

unckle  the  French  kings  hands  bee  accepted,  about  which  the  ball  of  difcord  was 

banded  :  This  is  affented  unto.  And  the  prince  fent  over  ;  Roger  Mortimer  lord  of 

Wigmore,  this  lord  Thomas  father  in  lawe,  efcapeth  out  of  the  Tower,  and  there 

clius.  17.  E.  2.    alfoe  arriveth  :  ^otDC  are  noe  plots  wanting  againft  the  two  Spenfers,  and  againfl 

kinge  Edward  himfelf  for  their  fakes;  CljC  homage  beinge  done,  &  peace  eftablifhed 

with  the  ffrench  kinge,  the  Queen  and  Prince  are  fent  for  into  England  :  They 

obey  not,  but  prepare  to  returne  in  Armes:  ^n  London  they  are  openly  proclaymed 

enemies  of  the  Kingdome,  and  |  baniflied  with  all  their  adherents  :    Ct)C  Queene 

and  prince  her  fonne,  (then  neere  fifteene  yeares  of  age,)  with  an  Armed  power  the 

25"'  of  September  in  the    I9'^  of  her  hufbands  raigne,   arrive   in   Suffolke  :   The 

kinge,  deftitute  of  frends  means  courage  and  counfell  to  refift,  flyeth  from  London, 

which 


Hollings:fol:337. 

et  divers  :  alij 

Anno.  1325. 

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which  had  refufcd  to  aiTift  him,  into  the  Wcfl  :   «ri)C  Queene,  Prince,  Mortimer  and 

their  whole  powers  purfue  the  kinge  and  come  to  Oxford  :  CI)C  Londoners  in  favor 

of  the  Queene,  commit  many  outrages,  get  into  their  hands  the  Tower  of  London, 

And  fet  at  Uberty  all  the  prifoners  therein,  which  alfo  was  done  by  the  Queenes 

comand  throughout  England  to  the  great  increafe  of  her  Army  ;  3llnb  thus  on  y'  16'!*    claus:  19.  E.  1. 

of  Ocilober  is  this  lord  Thomas  releafed  out  of  Pevenfey  Caftle  in  Suffex,  to  which    ^a-^TE^'^ps-  i 

prifon  hee  had,  the  9'^  of  November  before,  been  fecretly  removed  from  the  Caftle    m.  22. 

of  Berkamfteed,  in  which  places  and  in  the  Tower  of  Lond  :  hee  had  continued    \valirini:h'iol  125' 

prifoner  from  a  fewe  months  after  his  fathers  commitment  to  Wallingford  Caftle, 

nowe  there  dead  the  laft  of  May  before. 


Co  Oxford  by  the  Queens  direction,  and  of  the  lord  Mortimer  (now  her 
minion,)  hafteth  this  lord  Thomas,  from  whence  they  come  to  Glouc,  thence  to 
Berkeley,  thence  to  Briftoll  in  purfuit  of  the  kinge  :  oTIlM  lord  Thomas  howe  well- 
comefoever  hee  found  himfelf  to  the  Queene,  prince,  and  his  father-in-lawe,  yet 
warily  under  an  outward  fliewe  of  entertayning  them  at  Berkeley,  fendeth  to  take 
poffeffion  of  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  which  hee  entrufteth  under  the  cuftody  of  his 
fathers  old  fervants,  nowe  his,  whome  hee  knew  to  bee  faithfull  ;  And  bringeth 
thereinto  (pro  munitione  inde)  for  defence  thereof  foe  much  wheate,  beanes,  oates, 
and  barley,  And  killeth  foe  many  beofes  and  other  beafts  as  might  well  ferve  both 
for  entertaynment  of  fuch  guefts  and  to  endure  a  reafonable  feidge  ;  3Cntl  by  reafon 
that  the  kinge  fmce  the  comitment  of  the  lord  Maurice  this  lords  father,  had  kept 
his  manfion  houfes  and  granges  in  his  own  hands,  and  not  let  them  out  for  rent  but 
ftocked  them  with  his  own  cattle,  according  to  the  forefaid  prefentment  of  the  Jury 
in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  his  raigne  which  then  prefented  it  to  bee  moft  for  the 
kinges  profit  foe  to  doe,  as  before  hath  been  faid;  This  lord  Thomas  nowe  alfo 
entred  upon  the  faid  Cattle,  flieep,  oxen,  kine,  horfes,  and  the  like,  and  had  fuch 
corne  and  hay  as  at  the  kings  charges  were  inned  and  brought  into  the  barnes  in 
harveft  about  a  month  before  ;  And  had  alfo  fuch  implements  tooles  and  materialls 
of  I  hufbandry  as  were  ufed  in  manuringe  the  demefnes  of  his  manors  ;  which 
though  hee  found  much  decayed,  from  the  condition  wherein  they  were,  when  the 
kinge  firft  feazed  them,  yet  was  hee  not  a  little  beholdinge  to  that  Juryes  prefent- 
ment, whereby  all  fuch  cattle  and  implements  were  thus  preferved.  And  what  hee 
found  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley  of  the  treafure  or  goods  of  Hugh  Spenfer  the 
younger  Earle  of  Glouc  :  who  held  the  fame  fince  his  fathers  comitment,  hee  had 
more  difcretion  then  to  comitt  to  any  writinge  that  might  tell  mee .  300 .  yeares 
after,  of  what  value  or  condition  they  were. 

2  o  SllnD 


comp:  de  Came  et 
Cowley:  20.  E.  2. 
et  I.  K.  3.  et  de 
Hame  Alkington 
et  at  maner  :  in 
caflrode  Berkeley. 


Efcaet.  15.  E.  2. 
numb.  [42] 
fol.  [286] 


336 


Comp:deWotton, 
Came.  Cowley, 
Slimbridge,  Hurft 
et  al  :  i.  E.  3.  in 
caflrode  Berkeley. 


orijc  %i\ic^  of  rtjc  2&crhclcpief 


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HoUingh  : 

Walfingham.  fo  : 

125. 


honor  de  Berk. 


3l!ntl  to  declare  the  generall  wellcome  of  this  lords  returne,  his  Tenants  of  his 
feverall  manors  prefented  him  with  a  recognition  of  forty  (hillings,  thirty  fhillings, 
twenty  fix  fhillings  and  eight  pence,  and  twenty  fhillings  the  peece,  accordinge  to 
theire  proportion. 

]^oUinSC^{)tatl  and  other  printed  chronicles  tell  us,  That  from  Gloucefler  the 
Queene  paffed  by  Berkeley  and  reflored  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley  which  Hugh 
Spenfer  the  younger  Earle  of  Gloucefler  had  held,  unto  this  lord  Thomas,  heire  to 
the  lord  Maurice  Berkeley  lately  before  dead  in  prifon  within  the  Caflle  of  Walling- 
ford,  togeather  with  all  the  appurtenances  to  the  l^oiior  of  Berkeley  appertayning, 
And  that  from  thence  fhee  went  to  Brifloll  two  dayes  before  Simon  and  Jude. 


(,  3llnb  it  may  here  not  unfitly  bee  noted,  That  the  fifteenth  of  the  faid  O^lober, 

at.  20.  E.  2. m.  12.    (but  the  day  before  this  lord  was  difcharged  out  of  his  imprifonment  in  Pevenfey 

Caftle,)  The  kinge   from  Tintern   Abby  in   the   farthefl   edge  of  Glouceflerfhire, 

awarded  his  commiffion  to  Thomas  de  Bradfton  to  leavy  foe  many  men  at  Armes, 

light-horfe  men,  and  Archers  on  foot,  and  other  foldiers  as  hee  could,  for  the  defence 

and  fafe  keepinge  of  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  And  alfoe  to  bring  thofe  men  to  him 

if  need  fhould  foe  require,  to  goe  againft  his  enemies  and   ftrangers  which   had 

entered  his  Kingdome,  And  then  fent  him  withall  a  large  Comiffion  of  Affiftance  : 

And  by  an  other  comiffion  of  the  fame  fifteenth  of  October  granted  him  the  Cuftody 

of  the  faid  Caftle  of  Berkeley  :  2&Ut  thofe  very  houres  wherein  thefe  Comiffions 

travelled  but  fixteen  miles  to  feeke  Bradfton  at  his  houfe  at  Bradfton,  two  miles 

337    from  Berkeley,  foe  |  ftrongly  wheeled  about  the  affaires  of  State,  That  the  kinge 

.-  was  forfaken  almoft  by  all,  And  thofe  very  foldiers  ferved,  in  part  to  defend  the 

Caftle  for  their  old  landlord  this  lord  Thomas  ;  And  the  reft  to  goe  with  him  and 

with  Thomas  de  Bradfton,  to  purfue  the  kinge. 


Thomas  de 
Bradfton. 


vj!. 
I'M   .• 


(iDf  which  Thomas  de  Bradfton,  (a  moft  remarkable  gentleman  and  faithful] 
fervant  to  this  family,  and  as  perfitt  a  foldier  as  lived  in  his  time,  and  of  a  frefti 
memory  in  his  family  and  in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  to  this  day,)  take  here  a  fewe 
of  his  choice  eares  picked  up  in  my  paffage  through  the  old  feilds  of  thefe  times  ; 
And  the  rather  becaufe  I  after  mention  him  in  my  applications  and  ufes. 

JipCC  was  born  at  Bradfton  within  the  Parifli  of  Berkeley,  the  ancient  feat  of  his 
father,  grandfather  and  other  his  Anceftors,  All  of  them  homagers  to  the  Caftle  of 
Berkeley  for  their  manors  of  Bradfton  and  Stinchcombe  holden  by  knights  fervice, 

And 


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283 


And  in  a  contiiuiall  relation  of  fcrvice  and  dcpcndancc  to  the  father,  grandfather 
and  other  the  Anceftors  of  this  lord  Thomas  :  And  this  Thomas  de  Bradfton  foe 
clofely  adheringe  to  this  lord  Thomas  and  to  the  lord  Maurice  his  father,  in  their 
rifinge  againfl;  the  kinge  and  the  two  Earles  Spenfers  his  minions.  That  his  lands 
in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fecond  were  feazed  as  aforefaid  to  the  kinge,  And 
his  life  remained  under  the  kings  angry  power,  and  of  the  faid  Earles  Spenfers 
againfl  whome  hee  had  difplayed  his  banner,  j^otobctt  hee  foe  wifely  wrought, 
That  in  the  next  yeare  for  one  hundred  marks  hee  redeemed  both  his  life  and 
lands,  findinge  fureties  and  takeing  oath  pro  bono  geflu  fuo  egrJi  regem,  for  his 
good  behaviour  towards  the  kinge.  SCiiD  thereupon  the  17*  of  ffebruary  in  the  16'!" 
of  Edward  the  fecond  had  his  pardon.  5tllD  the  aj'.*"  of  March  his  utlagary  dif- 
charged  &  his  lands  reflored. 


fin:  15.  E.  2.  m. 

IS-  '9- 

claus  :  de  terr.  for. 

15.  et  16.  E.  2.  ps. 

dorfo. 

eade  pars.  m.  5. 

claus.  16.  E.  2. 

m.  13. 

fin  :  16.  E.  2.  m. 

13.  20. 

pat.  16.  E.  2.  pars. 

I.  m.  I. 

claus.  19.  E.  2. 

dorfo. 


3Cnll  wittily  windinge  himfelf  into  favor,  obtained  within  two  yeares  after  truft  pat.  19.  E.  2.  pars, 
from  the  kinge.  And  a  grant  of  the  cuftody  of  Kingfwood  Chafe  by  Briftoll,  with 
other  grants  of  profit. 

5[nt)  the  next  yeare  hee  is  trufted  to  rayfe  foldiers  for  the  defence  of  the  kinge  pat.  20.  E.  2. m.  12. 
and  of  his  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  which  hee  turned  the  contrary  way  as  hath  been  faid. 

Sllnb  for  his  good  fervice  in  purfute  of  the  kinge,  the  Queene  in  fewe  monthes  | 

after  in  the  firft  yeare  of  her  fonnes  raigne  gave  him  two  wardfhipps  ;  And  the  338 

kinge  made  him  valletus  regis,  one  of  the  groomes  of  his  chamber  :  And  pardoned  ^"l.-  P*""^  :  claus. 

°                                                °                             °                   .                                            ^  I.  E.  3.  m  6.  et.  7. 

him  his  forefaid  fine  of  one  hundred  markes  to  that  time  unpaid.  claus.  i.  E.  3.  pars. 

I.  ID.    21. 

3CnD  the  fame  yeare  the  kinge  (praifing  his  good  fervice,  et  quod  non  defiflit  pat.  i.  E.  3.  m.  8. 
iuxta  latus  noflrum  continue  morando,)  gives  him  an  other  wardfhip. 

311nb  upon  the  comendacons  of  Oueene  I  fable  obtained  divers  benefitiall  futes.  Rot.  don  :  extr.  2. 

into  whofe  favor  hee  deeply  ingratiated  himfelf,  '  ^' 

3lltb  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  the  kinge  is  called  by  the  kinge  dileftus  valettus  pat.  2.  E.  3.  m:  2. 

,,.,,.,     ,1                          .                       r                   1                  •          1      1     •  Extracft.  don :  4. 

regis ;  And  m  the  4    and  5 .  yeares  receives  many  tavors  and  promotions  both  in  g  ^ 

England  and  in  Aquitayne  beyond  feas  in  the  kings  fervices,  to  his  great  honor  '■°'-  vafcon.  5.  E. 

and  profit. 


5Crtb  in  the  fame  5'^  yeare,  the  better  to  fupport  himfelf  in  the  order  of  knight-    fin-  5-  E.  3.  m.  35. 
hood  which  hee  had  nowe  taken  upon  him,  the  kinge  grants  to  him  the  manor 
202  of 


284 


€|jc  Hitcjef  of  tl)c  2Bcrhricp^ 


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of  Barton  by  GIouc  :  in  farme,  thirteen  miles  from  his  paternall  inheritance  and 
habitation. 


Rxtract  don.  7.  E. 

3.  m.  4. 

pat.  7-  E.  3.  pars. 

2.  m.  27. 

cart.  8.  E.  3.  m  : 

ult. 

extractdon.8.E.3 

pat.  8.  E  3.  pars. 


eodem 


SCltb  in  the  7'^  yeare,  the  kinge  grants  to  him  and  his  heires,  the  manors  of 
Stratton  and  Knoll  by  Briftoll  late  Thomas  de  Gurnayes,  w".''  were  given  to  him  by 
the  confent  of  all  the  Barons  and  prelates  of  the  land,  for  the  good  fervices  hee  had 
done :  And  thefe  were  alike  remote  on  the  other  fide  of  his  dwellinge. 

511nll  in  the  S'""  yeare  grants  a  lycence  to  give  his  faid  manor  of  Knoll  by  Briftoll 
to  a  Chaplen  and  his  fucceffors  to  celebrate  in  his  Chappell  at  Bradfton  for  ever,  for 
his  own  foule  and  the  foules  of  all  faithfull  people.  And  a  comiffion  at  the  fame 
time  to  execute  marfhall  lawe  upon  offenders  in  divers  Countyes. 


Extract  don.  9.  SCllb  in  the  9'^  yeare  were   divers  great   wardfhips   and  cuftodies  of  manors 

claus  o  E  ^  m     granted   to   him,    as   further   teftimonies   of  the   kings  great   favour  and   his   own 


5-  et.  15. 


defervings. 


claus.  II.  E.  3.  PS.  Stub  in  the  ii'*"  yeare  of  the  kinge  gave  him  a  fliip  called  Chriftmas  taken  in 

I.  membr.  4.    fj^ht  from  the  French  his  enemies  by  Marchants  of  Briftoll .  and  in  the  fame  yeare 
'3.  m :  8  9.    had  divers  other  great  futes  fpecifyed  perticularly  in  the  records  marginald. 


pat.  vafron.  13.  E. 
3.  m.  8.  et.  22. 


9(!nt)  in  the  I3'^  yeare  y'  kinge  gave  him  the  man"'  of  Shalford  in  Surrey  to  him 


and  his  heires. 


339  3lnl)  the  fame  yeare  gave  him  three  other  great  guift.s,  with  this  teftimony 

pat  vafcon.  13  E.    anexed,   That  in  his  continuall  fervice,  hee  fpared  noe  coft,  nor  refufed  any  perill 
3- '"  =  "  =  ^3-    of  his  body. 

eodem  :m:  12.  31Iltll  the  fame  yeare  the  kinge  ere6led  him  into  the  ftate  of  a  Banneret,  And 

claus  :  15.  E.  4.  ^^^  ^^^  better  maintenance  of  that  honor,  gave  him  .  500 .  marks  p  Ann  :  to  him  and 
his  heires  out  of  the  Exchequer,  untill  hee  could  provide  for  him  foe  much  land  in 
England,  which  his  heires  at  comon  lawe  receyveth  at  this  day,  1628. 

Ext.  don.  14.  E.  3.  3Cnll  in  the  14'!"  yeare  of  his  raigne  gave  him  the  Caftle  and  manor  of  Thlbmer,[?] 

■"•  T-    and  part  of  the  lordftiip  of  Buelt  in  South  Wales,  to  him  and  his  heires,  togeather 
fin.  14.  E.  3.  m.  2.  ^ 

with  the  wardfliip  of  Wittm  de  la  More. 

Rot.  fine  p^dia :  5tnll  the  fame  yeare  the  kinge  granted  him  all  the  temporalties  of  the  Arch- 

""  ■■  '4-    Bifliop  of  Yorke  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter.  %n 


1 36 1  Hifc  of  iTtjonia^  t|jc  €l)irt»  285 

•^IJn  the  fifteenth  yeare  the  kinjjje  gave  him  .  i93''.'  out  of  the  Exchequer,  And    claus.  15.  E.  3.  \ib. 
imployed  him  a  Comiffioner  into  Scotland,  with  Henry  of  Lancafler  Earle  of  Darby,    scotia.  15.  Iv  3. 
in  the  affaires  of  that  kingdome.  •"  •  4- 

5CnlJ  the  14'!'  of  Augufl;  that  yeare  hee  agrees  to  goe  with  the  kinge  in  his    pat.  15.  E.  3.  ps. 

next  journey  beyond  feas,   And  at  his  charges  to  find  forty  men  at  Arms,  whereof     '       ,.  '      _ 

-•  '        •'  '^  ■'  Alcm.ui.  15.  E.  3. 

one  to  bee  a  Banneret,  five  to  bee  knights,  ten  Armed  men,  twenty  Archers  &c,    m.  15. 
and  that  month  goes  accordingly. 

CfjC  25*  of  ffebruary  in  the  r6'?"  yeare,  the  kinge  writes  to  him  to  bee  prefent    claus:  16  E.  3. 
at  his  great  Councell  to  bee  holden  at  Weflminfler  in  crino  claus  :  pafche,  vt  inter- 
fuit  nobifcum  et  cum  prelatis  et  ceteris  magnatibus  Anglie,  confilium  impenfurus  de 
arduis  rebus  regni,  &c. 


5(lutl  nowe  againe  is  his  patent  of  Banneret,  and  gTiift  of.  500  .  marks  p  ann    pat.  16.  E.  3.  ps. 

made  beyond  feas,  confirmed  to  him  and  his  heires  in  England.     And  in  the  next    Rot  Rom.  17.  E. 

yeare,  the  i  7'.''  of  the  kinge  hee  is  called  a  Baron,  And  is  after  called  to  parliament    3-  m :  3. 

^  '^  r   T-  1  1     1         1  •    I  claus :  eifde  annis. 

by  writ  as  a  Baron  in  .  21  .  22  .  24.  25  .  27  .  28  .  29  .  et  31  .  of  Edward  the  third,  as 

in  the  dorfe  of  clofe  Rolls  of  thofe  yeares  in  the  Tower  of  London  amongfl  the 

fummons  of  parliaments  appeares. 

0'n  the  iq'.*"  yeare  the  kinge  granted  him  fower  great  futes  in  wardfhips  and    Extra  :  don :  19: 

*"o"eys-  fin.i9E.3m.26. 

2?ltt  in  nothinge  appeares  the  kinges  affection  to  him,  nor  his  defervings  under 

the  kinge,  more  cleerly  then  in  the  kings  tres  written  for  the  redemption  of  his    claus:  19.  E. 3. 
o   •  J  o  I-  pars  :  2.  dorfo. 

fonne  and  heire  Robert  de  Bradflon  who  in  his  journey  towards  the  holy  land  was 
taken  prifoner  by  the  Citizens  of  Piza.  And  |  in  the  arrefls  which  the  kinge  made  34° 
of  all  the  perfons  and  their  goods  of  all  the  marchants  and  Inhabitants  of  Piza  and 
Si  Luke  that  were  in  London,  till  hee  were  delivered  ;  And  in  comittinge  twelve  of 
the  cheifefl  of  them  to  the  Tower  of  London  till  they  procured  his  deliverance  and 
of  all  his  affociates,  upon  the  undertakinge  whereof  they  were  at  lafl  bayled .  corpus 
pro  corpore,  body  for  body. 

^n  the  22'!'  yeare  the  kinge  grants  to  him  and  his  heires  the  manors  of  Duns    Rot.  Scotu-e.  22. 
and  Chernfide  neer  Barwicke  upon  Twede,  and  likewife  divers  lands  and  Tenements      '  ^' 
in  Calais. 


€tit  EibCiS  of  tfjc  23crftckpiS 


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pat.  22.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m.  43. 


%lifi  the  fame  yeare  gives  him  fix  hoggefheads  of  wine  yearly  duringe  his  life 
out  of  the  port  of  Briftoll  :  All  which  are  ever  mentioned  in  all  grants  to  bee  for 
the  good  fervice  of  this  great  foldier  Thomas  de  Bradflon. 


pat.  33.  E.  3  pars.  JCntl  nowe  broken  with  Armes  and  age  and  retired  to  dye  at  home  at  Bradflon 

aforefaid  ;  hee,  as  the  lafl  of  his  workes,  becomes  the  fpetiall  meanes  for  wallinge 

of  Gloucefler  Towne,  of  the  Caftle  whereof  hee  had  the  keepinge  with  threefcore 

Efcha :  34.  E.  3.    pounds  p'  ann  out  of  that  Towne  for  his  life  ;  And  foe  layeth  downe  his  laborious 

poa  mort^Thoj^de    y^f^  ^.^  j.^^^  j^^  ^j^^  ^^.h  ^f  ^^^^  kinge  leaving  Thomas  his  grandchild  for  his  heire 

pat.  34.  E.  3.  pars,    then  but  eight  yeares  old  ;    for  that  his  own  fonne   Robert  dyed  fhortly  after  his 

releafment  out  of  Piza.     3lnD  this  young  Thomas,  (whofe  Wardfhip  Queen  Phillip 

had,)  before  the  2  2'^  of  his  age,  dyed  alfoe,  leaving  one  only  daughter,  As  in  other 

colle6lions  of  mine,  and  in  my  defcription  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  I  have  at 

large  tranfmitted  to  the  knowledge  of  this  noble  family. 


3.  m:  7. 

Regis,  feod 

militum. 


%Ct  this  family  conceive  this  digreffion  to  bee  the  leffe  impertinent  becaufe  this 
Thomas  de  Bradflon,  nowe  a  peere  of  the  realme,  was  a  fervant  to  this  family,  and 
fworne  brother  in  Armes  to  S^  Maurice  this  lord  Berkeleys  martiall  brother,  Stock 
father  of  the  houfes  of  Stoke,  Bruton,  and  Boycourt,  as  hath  beene  faid,  who  rofe 
togeather,  ferved  togeather  at  many  battles,  and  fhared  alike  in  the  kings  favors, 
and  are  menconed  togeather  in  moft  of  the  former  records  here  marginald,  and 
fevered  not  theire  faythes  nor  martiall  fervices,  till  S'  Maurice  dyed  at  the  feidge 
of  Calais  ;  And  becaufe  alfoe  it  bringeth  an  honor  to  this  family  to  have  fent  forth 
fuch  an  approved  foldier  and  faithfull  fervant  under  fo  able  and  juditious  a  kinge  ; 
341  And  for  that  the  |  memory  of  well  defervinge  fervants  have  a  place  in  the  honorable 
catalogue  of  theire  mafters  pofterity ;  dulcius  eft  aere,  pretiofum  nomen  habere ;  5inl) 
did  beare  Argent  on  a  Canton  gules  a  rofe,  or,  barbed  proper,  the  bearings  of  his 
pofterity  to  this  day,  by  the  Bradftons  late  of  Winterborne  in  Gloucefterfliire :  But 
I  ceafe  this  digreffion  and  returne. 


comp  :  miniflror. 

20  :  E.  2.  et   I.  E. 

3  :  de  Hurft 

flimbridg,  Came, 

Hame,  Alkington 

<fec. 


Ipot  longe  after  the  Queenes  paffage  with  her  Army  to  Briftoll  upon  the  firft 
accompt  taken  of  the  Reeves  and  Baylyes  of  this  lords  manors  and  lands  in  thofe 
parts,  they  complayne  before  his  Auditor,  That  the  Earle  of  Lancafters  men  as  they 
travelled  with  the  Oueene  from  Glouc'  through  the  manors  of  Slimbridge  and  Hurft 
to  Berkeley  and  thence  to  Briftoll,  tooke  away  with  them  theire  hens  geefe  ducks 
and  other  poultry,  whereby  they  loft  all  theire  eggs  and  breed  for  this  yeare  ;  And 
howe  their  horfes  eat  their  oats  and  hay,  tooke  away  their   faddles,  brake  their 

Chappie 


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Chappie  or  oratary  doore,  (which  cod;  4''  the  inendinge,)  wherein  y'  mannerlynefs  of 
the  accompt  doth  not  charge  the  Earles  men  with  fleaUnge,  but  with  alyenateing 
thofe  things  ;  And  conclude  with  an  other  misfortune  in  their  hufbandries  of  this 
yeare,  That  their  lord  in  his  journey  with  the  Queene  and  the  Earle  to  Brifloll  and 
thence  into  Wales,  purfuinge  the  kinge  and  the  two  Earles  Spenfers,  foe  extreamly 
over  labored  their  mares  ufed  in  his  cariages,  that  they  cafl:  their  foles,  And  foe  had 
noe  younge  colts  of  Store  this  yeare. 

Che  like  alienatinge  the  Reeve  of  Ham  complayneth  the  foJdiers  made  in  his    Comp :  de  Hame 
-^  ^  n  1  .  20:  E:2:incaaro 

manor,  about  S'  Lukes  day;  And  fheweth  what  quantyties  of  wheat  oatcs  and  other    de  Berkeley 

provifions  hee  fent  in  from  that  manor,  ad  muniendum  caflrum  de  Berkeley  contra 

adventum  dnae  reginse,  for  defence  of  the    Caftle  againft  the  Queenes  cominge, 

wherein  the  providence  of  this  lord  Thomas  imployed   his  brother  Maurice  and 

Thomas  de  Bradfton  of  both  whom  I  have  formerly  written. 

CljC  Reeve  of  Wotton  complaineth  likewife  of  the  Earle  of  Kents  men,  howe 
that  in  theire  paffage  with  the  Queene  towards  Briftoll,  they  brake  his  barnes  doore, 
and  wafted  five  quarters  and  an  half  of  his  oates. 

Ct)C  like  complaint  make  the   Reeves  of  the  mannors  of  Hinton,  Alkington,    Comp :  de  Came . 
and    other  manors,    each   fhewinge    their  own   loffes,    and    what    provifions    they    in  CaRro  de 
delivered  for  defence  of  the  Caftle  :  Thofe  of  Came  and  Cowley  complayninge  of    l^t-'rl^eley- 
the  lord  of  Henalts  men,  who  in  their  carts  caryed  |  away  to  Briftoll  theire  wheat    342 
and  oates;  Thofe  of  Hame,  of  the  lord  Audelyes  men  who  caryed  away  their  fwine 
and  other  cattle  ;   whereby  it  may  feeme  they  were  quartered  in  all  thofe  coafts 
round  about  the  Caftle  :  howbeit  I  find  not  any  fillable  to  induce  that  any  of  the 
Army  entred  the  Caftle,   which  for  that  time  the  wifdome  of  this  lord  Thomas 
feemeth  alfoe  to  have  himfelfe  forborne  to  doe. 

5lloit0C  with  the  Queene  and  prince  and  their  Army  goeth  this  lord  Thomas  Stow  et  al : 
to  Briftoll,  where  Hugh  Spenfer  the  elder  Earle  of  Winchefter  was  taken,  And 
without  anfweringe  for  himfelf  was  drawn  and  hanged  in  his  Armor,  taken  down 
alive,  and  bowelled,  his  bowells  burnt,  his  head  fmote  of  and  fent  to  Winchefter, 
his  body  hanged  up  againe  and  after  fower  dayes  cut  to  peeces  and  caft  to  dogs  to 
bee  eaten. 


ffrom  thence  through  Wales  in  fearch  after  the  kinge,  the  Queene  and  her    Trivet,  m.  5. 
Army  come  to   Hereford:  The  kinge  on  the  16''' of  November  is  found  out  and    Speed. 

taken. 


288 


€1)0  Hiijcjef  of  t|)c  25crhdcp$f 


1326 


Stow. 
Howe  et  al. 


taken,  with  Hugh  Spenfer  the  fonne  Earle  of  Gloucefler ;  The  kinge  is  conveyed 
to  Kenellworth,  The  Earle  is  brought  to  Hereford,  where  clad  in  his  coat  Armor 
hee  was  dragged  to  the  place  of  Execution,  where  beinge  firfl  hanged  upon  a 
gallowes  fifty  foot  high,  was,  afterwards  beheaded  and  cut  into  quarters,  his  head 
fett  up  at  London,  and  his  quarters  in  fower  Parts  of  the  Kingdome. 


comp.  hofpic. 
1  :  E.  3. 

pat.  17.  E.  2.  ps.  2 
m  :  19. 


'^I)C  Oueene  with  her  fonne  Edward,  Roger  Mortimer  and  others,  in  the  end 
of  December  come  to  London,  where  a  parliament  is  fomoned  to  bee  holden  the 
morrowe  after  the  Epiphany,  the  7'^  of  January  :  This  lord  Thomas  from  Hereford 
returneth  to  Berkeley  by  Wigmore,  the  Antient  feat  of  the  lord  Mortimer,  where 
hee  hath  the  firfl  fight  of  his  wife  Margaret  fince  his  inlargment,  whom  hee  had 
maryed  fix  yeares  before  ;  And  fhee  newly  come  thither  from  the  priory  of  Shuld- 
ham  in  Norfolke  where  fhee  was  kept  prifoner. 


Stow. 

Comp:  recept.  1.2. 

E.  3.  in  CaRro  de 

Berkeley. 


343 


l^abtn^C  made  a  fhort  flay  at  Berkeley,  this  lord  hafleth  to  the  firfl  day  of  the 
parliament,  whereat  were  prefent  all  the  Nobility  of  the  Realme  ;  where  they  all 
agree  that  the  old  kinge,  (who  had  hanged  and  cut  of  foe  maney  of  theire  fathers 
and  brothers,  and  imprifoned  foe  many  of  themfelves  and  theire  frends,  and  con- 
fifcated  I  their  eflates,)  was  not  worthy  to  weare  the  Crowne,  but  for  divers  caufes 
was  to  bee  defpofed  ;  And  his  fonne  prince  Edward  is  then  elefted  kinge  in  his 
fathers  roome,  the  25*  day  of  that  January,  Anno.  1326,  when  his  father  had 
raigned  nineteene  years,  and  as  much  as  from  the  y'^  of  July  before. 


Rot :  parliament 
I  :  E.  3. 


claus.  I  E.  3.  ps.  I. 
m :  2r.  22.indorfo. 


fin:  I.  E.  3.  m.  22 

original,  i.  E.  3. 

rot.  7.  in  fccio. 

pafch.  4.  E.  3.  rot. 

7.  8.  rec  :  ibm 

rot.  fin.  I.  E.  3. 

m.  22 

Baronia- 


3llt  this  parliament  it  was  on  the  third,  and  after  on  the  13*  of  February 
declared  ;  That  the  rifinge  of  Thomas  the  noble  Earle  of  Lancafler,  Maurice  lord 
Berkeley,  and  others  of  that  adherency,  was  bona  iufla  et  legitima  querela,  a  good, 
jufl  and  lawfull  complaint,  And  that  every  lord  and  other  of  that  adherency  fliould 
bee  reflored  to  their  honors,  manors,  lands  and  goods:  The  17'!*  and  22'''  of  which 
ffebruary,  this  lord  Thomas  hath  perticular  writs  directed  to  feverall  farmors,  for 
reflitution  and  redelivery  of  his  lands  in  the  Countys  of  Glouc,  Somerfet,  Berks, 
where  hee  was  prifoner,  and  other  places^  by  vertue  of  the  faid  att  of  parliament. 
The  27'^  of  that  month  hee  doth  his  homage  &  hath  livery  of  all  his  manors  and 
lands  difcended  unto  him  by  the  death  of  his  father ;  And  the  kings  writ  of  the 
next  days  date  to  Truffell  Efcheator  on  this  fide  Trent,  to  give  him  feizin,  favinge 
dower  to  the  lady  I  fable  his  fathers  widdowe  :  In  which  record  a  memorandum  is 
entred,  that  this  lord  Thomas  recognized  upon  his  oath,  That  hee  held  in  Capite 
his  fathers  lands  per  baroniam,  in  baronage  by  three  knights  fees  for  all  fervices. 

3llnb 


I36I 


Uiff  of  <ri)onia^  rjjc  ^TljirD 


289 


3llnll  upon  proces  after  awarded  for  payment  of  the  releefe  due  upon  his  fathers 
death,  and  of  the  releefe  due  upon  the  death  of  his  grandfather,  who  dyed  in  the 
fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fecond  as  hath  bene  faid,  (continued  againft  him  till  this 
4*?  of  Edward  the  third,)  hee  nowe  appeares  and  by  plea  acknowledgeth  to  hold 
per  baroniam,  as  all  his  anccflors  to  this  time  have  done  fmce  the  grant  of  Henry 
the  fecond  to  Robert  fonne  of  Hardinge,  which  hee  there  pleadeth,  with  the  grants 
and  confirmations  of  king  Henry  the  fecond,  Richard  the  firfl;,  kinge  John,  and  of 
this  kinge  in  the  4'^  of  his  raigne,  made  to  his  Anceftors  and  himfelfe  :  And  that 
whereas  the  tenure  of  his  lands  were  originally  by  five  knights  fees  in  the  firft 
charters  of  kinge  Henry  the  fecond,  hee  nowe  fliews  that  Thomas  Ap-Adam,  (for 
Beverflone  and  Kings  wefton,)  is  to  difcharge  him  of  one  knights  ffee  and  an  half: 
And  that  John  fitj  Nicholl,  (for  Hull  and  Nympsfeild,)  is  to  difcharge  him  of  the 
other  half  of  a  knights  ffee,  upon  the  feoffments  of  his  Anceflor  Robert  his  abavus, 
his  great,  great,  great  grandfathers  father,  made  to  them  ;  Soe  only  three  knights 
fees  remained  for  himfelf. 


pafch  :  fine.  4.  E.  ■^. 

rot.  2:  bis  in  fccio 

cum  rem  thcfaur  : 

Baronia. 

pafch  :rec:4.  E.  3. 

rot.  7.  8.  in  fccio. 


Abavus  was  good 
latin  V,'}'  a  chequer 
Clark  that  had  no 
better. 


Origin.  28.  H.  3. 
Baronia. 


5lln&  further  fheweth  That  of  old  his  releefe  for  the  barony  of  Berkeley  was  . 
loo'l,  but  nowe  fince  the  ftatute  of  magna  charta  of  the  liberties  of  England  it  is  butt 
one  I  hundered  marks,  And  foe  is  ready  to  pay,  and  doth  pay:  This  is  that  excellent    344 
record  I  formerly  touched  in  the  lyves  of  the  lord  Robert  the  firft  and  of  Thomas    fol-[203] 
the  fecond. 


2E>Ut  it  may  truly  bee  averred  notwithftandinge  the  faid  plea.  That  after  the 
death  of  the  lord  Robert  fonne  of  hardinge,  one  Thoufand  marks  was  paid  by  the 
lord  Maurice  his  fonne  to  the  kinge  for  his  releefe  called  the  fine  of  his  land  :  And 
after  the  death  of  the  faid  Maurice,  one  thoufand  pound  was  paid  by  the  lord  Robert 
his  fon  for  his  Releefe,  pro  fine  hereditatis  fuae,  for  the  fine  of  his  land  ;  The  firft 
beinge  ftalled  to  bee  paid  in  two  yeares,  And  the  later  by .  200'!-  in  hand,  and  by 
fourty  pound  each  half  yeare  after  :  And  after  the  death  of  the  faid  Robert  fonne  of 
Maurice,  which  happened  in  the  4'^  of  Henry  the  third,  one  hundred  pound  was 
paid  by  Thomas  his  brother  and  heire  for  his  Releefe,  which  is  the  firft  of  that 
fume  ;  And  foe  like  wife  was  one  hundred  pounds  paid  in  the  28'''  of  Henry  the 
third  for  a  Releefe  of  the  Barony,  after  the  death  of  the  faid  Thomas,  by  the  lord 
Maurice  his  fonne  and  heire  ;  what  time,  though  magna  charta  had  been  ena6led 
nineteen  years  before,  yet  it  was  not  fo  rooted  as  to  beare  ripe  frute,  which  was  one 
of  the  pretences  of  the  Barons  warrs  with  that  kinge  as  formerly  hath  been  touched. 
But  indeed  one  hundred  marks  and  noe  more  was  paid  after  the  death  of  Maurice 

2  1'  lord 


Rot.  gipse.  2.  R.  I. 
fub  titio  de  novis 
promiffis. 


Rot.  pipae.  3.  R.  r. 
de  novis  promifTis, 
et  4.  5.  6.  et.  7.  R. 
1.  fub  titlode  novis 

obl.itis. 

nova  oblato.  4.  H . 
3.  in  rot.  pipae. 
Rot.  pipK.  28.  H. 
3.  nova  oblata. 
pafch.  rec.  4.  E.  3. 
in  fci-io  rot.  7.  8. 


290  €I)c  Hitocjef  of  ti^e  SBcrhdcpjef  1326 

lord  Berkeley,  fonne  of  the  faid  Thomas,  who  died  in  the  9*  of  Edward  the  firft, 
claus.  12.  E.  I.    by  Thomas  fonne  and  heire  of  the  faid  lord  Maurice  as  in  his  life  hath  appeared  ; 
m;  10.    y^j^^j  ^^^^  ^^g  jj^g  f^^.(^  of  that  fumme,  and  the  firft  true  frute  of  magna  charta  that 
had  ripened  to  this  family. 


bund  :  efchaet.  i. 
E.  3.  in  turre. 


'CfjUjflf  having  traced  this  lord  to  his  perfe6l  eftablifhment  in  his  barony,  I  will 
looke  one  cubite  back,  and  fhew  That  whilft  y°  parliam!  was  in  continuance  the  Io'^ 
of  that  February,  this  lord  fueth  out  writs  of  diem  claufit  extremu  into  divers 
Counties,  to  enquire  of  what  lands  and  of  what  Eftate  his  father  the  lord  Maurice 
dyed  feazed  :  The  injuryes  of  time  and  worfe  keepers  of  Chancery  records  of  this 
nature,  have  left  to  my  time  one  only  Inquificon  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  which 
is  alfo  half  torne  and  maymed,  found  upon  the  24'!'  of  the  fame  month,  the  day  of 
S'  Matthias,  which  fheweth  that  hee  was  feazed  of  the  manors  of  Bedminfter, 
Portbury,  Radecliveftreet,  and  of  the  third  part  of  Kingfton  feimor,  and  of  the 
hundreds  of  Bedminfter,  Portbury,  and  Hareclive,  and  of  Certaine  lands  in  Afhton 
in  that  County,  untill  hee  became  a  Rebell  unto  his  kinge,  and  againft  Hugh  Spenfer 
the  younger  ;  |  for  which  caufe  on  the  munday  after  the  purification  of  our  lady  in 
the  15'*"  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  feazed  into  his  hands  the  faid  manors  hundreds  and 
lands,  and  imprifoned  the  faid  Maurice  at  Wallingford,  where  hee  dyed  ;  l^otUbcit 
it  is  moft  certaine  That  the  tenth  of  ffebruary  a  writ  of  diem  claufit  extremu  was 
fued  out,  and  an  Inquifition,  (and  the  fame  after  exemplifyed  under  the  great  feale,) 
was  taken  by  force  of  that  writ  before  John  Hampton  Efcheator  of  Gloucefter  fhire, 
fin:  I.  E.  3.  m.  27.  at  Glouc  the  thirfday  next  after  the  feaft  of  S'  Valentine  the  firft  yeare  of  this  kinge 
Edward  the  third  in  the  faid  parliament  time  ;  whereby  it  was  found  by  Jury  that 
the  faid  lord  Maurice  father  of  this  lord  Thomas  was  feazed  in  fee  of  the  Caftle  and 
hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  of  the  manors  of  Came,  Hame,  and  Wotton  ;  &  howe 
that  kinge  Edward  the  fecond  alleadged  againft  the  faid  lord  Maurice  That  hee  was 
contrary  to  Hugh  Defpenfer  the  younger,  (I  followe  the  very  words,)  wherefore  the 
fame  kinge  affirmed  the  fame  Maurice  to  bee  his  enemy  and  his  rebellior.  And  for 
that  caufe  feazed  the  faid  Caftle  hundred  and  manors  into  his  hands  the  munday 
next  after  the  purification  of  our  lady  the  yeare  of  his  raigne  the  fifteenth.  And 
tooke  the  faid  Maurice,  and  him  in  prifon  with  held  at  Wallingford  untill  hee  there 
dyed  in  prifon  ;  3Cnll  hereupon  reftitution  was  had,  and  livery  fued  by  this  lord 
Thomas  as  aforefaid. 


345 


multffi  antiquae 

colle6l :  et  tran- 

fcript.  temp.  H.  6. 

et.  4.  in  caftra  de 

Berkeley. 


pat.  I.  E.  3.  ])ars. 
I.  m.  8. 


3£nJ)  this  lord  the  better  to  fet  his  eftate  upright,  and  his  perfon  rectus  in  curia, 
(as  lawyers  fpeake,)  hee  the  23'!' of  March  following  fues  out  his  pardon,  as  well  for 

his 


1361 


%ik  of  <j:t)onin!es  tl)c  <Cl)irD 


291 


his  offence  in  breaking  of  prifon  in  the  Tower  of  London  in  the  time  of  this  kings 
father,  and  efcapinge  thence,  as  for  all  robberies  murders  and  felonies  by  him  com- 
mitted, and  for  which  hee  had  been  indited  and  outlawed. 


iiingc  Edward  the  fecond  from  the  day  of  his  depofing  by  parliam',  and  by  his 
own  refignation  on  the  25'!"  of  January.  1326,  remayned  at  Kiltgworth  Caftle,  untill 
by  Henry  Earle  of  Leicefter  who  there  had  the  keepinge  of  him,  hee  was  by  Inden- 
ture delivered  to  this  Thomas  lord  Berk:  S' John  Maltravers  and  S' Thomas  de 
Gurnay  :  Maltravers  and  Gurnay  convey  him  to  the  Caftle  of  Corffe,  thence  to 
Brilloll  Caflle,  And  laftly  upon  the  s'.""  day  of  Aprill .  1327.  unto  Berkeley  Cafi:le, 
where  the  faid  lord  Thomas  curteoufly  received  him,  being  for  his  expences  allowed 
five  pounds  the  day  ;  But  ere  longe  the  lord.  Berkeley  is  comanded  by  tres  to  ufe 
noe  familiarity  with  Edward  the  late  kinge,  but  to  deliver  over  the  government  of 
his  Caftle  to  Maltravers  and  Gurnay,  which  with  heavy  cheere,  (I  write  myne 
authors  words,)  perceiving  Avhat  violence  was  intended,  hee  doth  :  And  forthwith 
departed  from  his  Caftle  to  other  his  dwellinge  places  :  when  foone  after,  the  faid 
late  kinge  was  fliut  up  in  a  clofe  chamber,  |  where  with  the  ftynch  of  dead  carcafes 
laid  in  a  Celler  under  him,  hee  was  miferably  tormented  many  days  togeather,  and 
well  nigh  fuffocated  therewith,  the  paine  being  allmoft  intollerable  unto  him  ;  But 
that  not  fufificinge  to  haften  his  death,  which  was  defired  and  covertly  comanded  by 
the  Oueene  and  her  fautors.  The  faid  S' John  Maltravers  and  S'  Thomas  de  Gurnay 
and  their  complices,  ruflied  in  the  night  time  into  his  chamber,  and  with  great  and 
heavy  featherbeds  fmothered  him,  thrufting  an  hollowe  inftrument  like  the  end  of  a 
trumpett  or  glifterpipe  into  his  fundament,  and  through  it  a  red  hot  iron  up  into  his 
bowells,  whereby  hee  ended  his  life,  with  a  lamentable  loud  cry  heard  by  many  both 
of  the  towne  and  Caftle,  which  was  on  S'  Mathews  day  the  2 1'^  of  September,  having 
been  depofed  the  25.  of  January  eight  months  before  ;  311liD  this  is  that  S'  Thomas 
de  Gurnay  fonne  of  Thomas,  fonne  of  Thomas,  the  fecond  fonne  of  Ancelme  lord 
de  Gurnay,  difcended  of  Robert  lord  of  Were,  third  fonne  of  Robert  fitj  Harding 
firft  lord  of  Berkeley  :  Of  which  S'  Thomas  de  Gurnay  I  there  promifed  to  write  in 
this  lords  life,  As  alfoe  you  fhall  heare  more  of  him  a  fewe  leaves  after. 


Stow  et  divs  :  at. 
Walfingh:  fo:  127. 
Polichron.  lib.  7. 
cap.  44. 

Comp.de  Hame  5 
Apr:  3  non. Aprill. 
Glouc.  manufcript 
t'-um  dccano  ijjm. 
claus.  I.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m  :  I  ;  et :  3. 

Howe.  227. 
Stowe.  Speed : 
Holl:Tho:  de  la 
Moore,  fabion  :  et 
divers,  al. 
to  Bradley. 

Thomas  de  la  more 
in  vita  E.  2. 
Wallingh  :  fo.  127. 


Efchaet.  13.  E.  3. 

pat.  13.  E.  3.  pars. 
2.  dorfo. 

claus:  1 4. E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m:  18.  et.  19. 
fol.  [64] 


23ut  before  I   proceed  further,  becaufe  the  hiftories  of  Martin  lately  printed,  Rot5t  de  Glouc. 

Caxton  and  fome  others,  have  delivered  the  murther  of  this  kinge  to  bee  at  Corffe  "}=i""'"  • '"  ^'f 

'  °  E.  3.  cum  RoBto 

Caftle,  And  that  Robert  de  Glouc.  in  one  place  of  his  hiftory  written  in  the  26'.''  of  Cotton,  mitte.  et 

Henry  the  6"'  endinge  with  this  kinge  Edward  the  third,  hath  affured  us,  That  S'  ^*^°"^"^- 
Henry  of  Lancafter  who  had  his  father  in  ward,  did  by  Edward  the  thirds  cofnand, 
2  p  2                                                                                                                       deliver 


292 


Zi^t  %iMc0  of  tijc  25crhdcpjef 


1326 


deliver  him  by  an  Indenture  to  S"^  Thomas  de  Berkeley  and  to  S' John  Mautravers, 

And  howe  they  lad  him  from  kenellworth  to  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  and  there  kept 

him  fafely,  3finD  in  another  place,   That  hee  foe  beinge  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley 

„     ■     r      under  the  ward  of  S'  Maurice  de   Berkeley  and  of  S'  John  Mautravers,    It  was 

Thomas    not  longe  after  That  Edward  the  third  by  the  Counfell  of  Mortimer,  granted  the 

ward  of  S'  Edward  his  father  to  S!  Thomas  de  Gurnay  and  to  the  aforefaid  John 

Mautravers  by  his  comiffion,  puttinge  out  the  forefaid  Maurice  ;  Then  they  led  him 

to  the  Caftle  of  Corffe,  where  they  kept  him  to  S'  Mathewes  day  in  September . 

Anno.  I.  E.  3.     1 327,  And  there  was  murthered  by  Gurnay  &  Mautravers  and   after  buryed  at 

Gloucefter. 

Grafton  fo :  3Cntl  for  that  Grafton  and  fome  others  feeme  doubtfull  whether  it  was  at  Corfe 

or  at  Berkeley,  I  will  for  the  love  of  truth  deliver  a  fewe  authorities,  (omni  excep- 
tione  maiores,)  fuch  as  cannot  bee  excepted  againft,  And  yet  fuch  as  are  not 
mentioned  in  Thomas  de  la  More,  Baker,  Canon  of  Ofney,  Walfmgham,  ffroyfart,. 
Polichronicon,  ffabian,  Campden,  Hollingfhead,  Stow,  Speed,  Howe,  nor  others  ; 
who  nevertheleffe  have  unanimoufly  delivered  his  death  to  bee  at  Berkeley  Caftle, 
347  and  not  elfwhere  ;  And  foe  cleere  the  place  of  death  which  hath  |  beene  foe  much 
controverted  amongfl  authors. 


chronicon  Walteri 

Froucefler. 

manufcr. 

cum  decanoGlouc. 

pat.  4.  R.  2.  pars,  i 


3[n  tJ)f  cuftody  of  the  Deane  and  Chapter  of  Glouc.  is  a  faire  manufc!  Chronicle 
fummarily  colle6fed  by  Walter  Frocefter,  a  monke  in  the  Abby  of  Glouc.  living  at 
this  time  within  fifteen  miles  of  Berkeley,  after  Abbot  of  that  monaflery,  deduced 
down  by  him  to  the  twentyeth  yeare  of  kinge  Edward  the  third,  who  writeth  thus . 
viz! 


Glouc:  m  :  5.  (SlltoatD  the  fecond,  fonne  of  Edward,  began  his  raigne  in  the  yeare.  1307,  in 

the  19'!"  whereof  hee  was  dekinged  :  Taken  at  Neath  Caftle  in  Weft  Wales,  but 
brought  to  bee  kept  at  Kenellworth,  And  the  third  of  the  nones  of  Aprill,  was 
tranflated  from  Kenellworth  to  Berkeley  Caftle,  where  when  many  confpired  for  his 
delivery.  About  the  feaft  of  S'  Mathewe  the  Evangelift,  was  with  a  fiery  hot  fpit 
thrufl  into  his  fundament,  moft  wickedly  murdered,  and  buryed  in  the  Church  of 
S'  Peter  here  with  us  at  Glouc  :  And  in  another  place  thus  :  Et  poft  mortem  prae- 
di6li  regis  &c  And  after  the  death  of  the  faid  kinge,  his  venerable  body,  (which  the 
next  monafteries  of  S!  Auguftine  of  Brifloll,  S!  Mary  of  Kingfwood,  and  S'  Aldelme 
of  Malmefbury,  for  dread  of  Roger  de  Mortimer  and  Queene  I  fable  and  theire 
complices  feared  to  receive,)  was  by  John   Toky  then  Abbot  of  this  Church  of 

bleffed 


I36I 


Uifc  of  Cfjomoflf  tfic  CfiirD 


293 


bleffed  S'  Peter  of  Glouceflcr  with  his  chariot  honorably  adorned  with  the  armes 
of  the  f"^  church,  brought  from  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley  to  the  Church  of  the  faid 
Monaftery  of  Glouc;  And  by  the  whole  Covent  folemly  atircd,  was  with  the  pro- 
ceffion  of  the  whole  City  honorably  received,  and  in  the  North  part  of  the  Church 
there,  neere  to  the  great  Altar,  buryed  :  This  Abbot  Toky,  mine  author  fucceeded, 
then  a  monke  there,  and  prefent  at  his  funerall.  Of  which  Abbot  then  a  very  old 
man,  and  of  the  benefitts  hee  received  from  the  fonne  for  this  honor  done  to  his 
fathers  body,  the  marginald  record  declareth. 


pat.  2.  E. 
2.  m  :  a. 


3.  para. 


^t^€  Accompt  of  Wiitm  Afide  Receivor  to  this  lord  Berkeley,  accomptinge  for  comp.  recept.  in 
a  yeare  from  Michaelmas  in  the  Twentieth  of  Edward  the  fecond  to  the  fame  feafl  j^g"^',  ^^  ^ 
in  the  firfl;  of  Edward  the  third,  fheweth  that  hee  received  to  this  lords  ufe .  7oo'l- 
de  camera  fcaccarij  doni  regis,  out  of  the  receipt  in  the  kings  Exchequer,  for  the 
Expences  of  the  houfe  of  the  kinges  father,  whilft  hee  was  at  Berkeley,  And  hath 
in  his  faid  accompt  an  allowance  of— 31!  i"?  paid  by  him  to  S'  Thomas  de  Gurnay, 
fent  to  Nottingham  from  Berkeley  by  this  lord  Berkeley,  with  his  tres  to  advertize 
the  Oueene  and  the  kinge  her  fonne  of  the  death  of  the  late  kinge  his  father  there ;  claus. 
And  the  fifteenth  of  May  the  fame  yeare,  an  allowance  of  500'!  more  from  the  kinge 
paid  him  by  John  de  Langton  keeper  of  the  Caftle  of  kerfilly  for  the  fame  caufe.  | 


claus. 
26. 


E.3. 

1.  et  3. 

2.  E.  3. 


CljC  Accompts  of  the  Reeves  of  Hame  and  Alkington  and  of  other  manors  of   348 
this  lords  neere  Berkeley  Caftle,  and  there  likewife  yet  remaining,  made  for  their    Berkdey'caflle 
receipts  and  payments  and  deliveries  within  the  faid  yeare,  exprefly  fhew  what 
provifions  and  Acates  they  fent  from  their  feverall  granges  and  manor  houfes  from 
the  fifth  day  of  Aprill  then  beinge  palmfunday,  when  at  fupper  time  the  kinge  was    claus :  i.  E.  3.  ps. 
firft  brought  prifoner  to  Berkeley  Caftle,  untill  his  death  there  the  21'!"  of  September    '•  ™  ■  3- 
following.  ^ 


5llnll  the  Accompt  of  this  faid  lords  Receivor  for  the  yeare  following  in  the  comp :  recept.  2 
fecond  of  Edward  the  third,  ftieweth  what  hee  paid  for  dyinge  of  the  white  canvas  '  ^' 
black  for  coveringe  the  Chariot  wherein  the  body  of  the  Kinge  was  carryed  from 
Berkeley  Caftle  to  Glouc;  what  the  cords,  the  horfecollens,  the  traces,  and  other 
neceffaries  perticularly  coft,  ufed  about  the  Chariot,  and  conveyinge  of  his  body 
thence  to  Gloucefter ;  in  vno  vafe  argenteo  pro  corde  di6li  dni  regis  patris  reponendo, 
— 37'  oS!'  for  a  filver  veffell  to  put  the  kings  hart  in — t,-;":  08^.  ^n  oblations  at 
feverall  times  in  the  Chappie  of  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley  for  the  kings  foule — 21^  In 
expenfes  of  the  lord  Berkeleys  family  goinge  with  the  kings  body  from  Berkeley  to 

Glouc  : 


claus. 
26. 


294 


€^e  aii\)CiS  of  tt)c  25crhrifp^ 


1^,26 


pat  2.  E.  3-  ps.  2 

m.  2 

claus.  25.  E.  3 

m.  10 

pat.  t.  R.  2.  ps.  2 

m.  23 


Glouc  : — 1 8' =  09''  And  many  the  like  perticularityes  ;  IDtjCtCtO  add  thefe  records 
here  margined,  more  then  evincinge  the  truth  of  this  matter,  whereby  this  lord  is 
allowed  five  pounds  by  the  day  for  the  kings  expenfes  whilft  hee  was  at  his  keep- 
inge  at  Berkeley,  and  for  foe  longe  time  as  his  body  remayned  at  Berkeley  after  his 
death. 


Rot.  parliam.  4.  'Jla^dp  whereas  by  parliament  holden  on  niunday  after  S!  Katharines  day  in 

E.  3.  in  turre    ^.j^^  ^th  yg^re  of  the  faid  kinge  Edward  the  third,  the  forefaid  Roger  de  Mortimer 

then  Earle  of  March,  (father  in  lawe  to  this  lord   Berkeley,)  was  condemned  of 

Treafon  and  executed,  one  of  the  articles  whereupon  hee  was  condemned  by  that 

parliament,  is,  that  where  the  kings  father  was  fetled  at  Kenellworth,  there  to  bee 

ufed  as  to  kingly  dignity  appertaineth.  That  hee  affuminge  regall  power  to  himfelf 

without  warrant,  conveyed  him  thence  to  Berkeley  Caftle,  where  hee  was  by  him 

Rot.  parliam.  28.    and  his  fautors  trecheroufly  murdered  :  3ilnt>  the  fame  is  againe  affirmed  in  parlia- 

^  ^'    ment  in  the  28'^  of  Edward  the  third,  when   Roger  Mortimer  his  grandchild  is 

reftored  and  this  attainder  reverfed  :  |^otU  for  any  writer  to  fay  contrary  to  this 

record,  befides  the  untruth   hee   delivereth,  is  to  accufe  the  wholl  reprefentative 

349    body  of  all  the  eftate  of   the   Realme  |  of  ignorance  and  falfhood  ;    ilD^itl)  with 

the  records  next  following  doe  more  then  fuffice  for  cleering  of  this  point.  That 

kinge  Edward  the  fecond  was  murdered  at  Berkeley  Caftle. 


Hollinglh:fo:348. 


Rot.  pari :  4.  E:  3. 


fll^orttnicr  foe  great  as  noe  fubjeft  his  equall,  and  fo  generally  hated  as  none 

Ptita  coronae  in    fo  much,  could  not  fall,  but  his  fonne  in  lawe  this  lord  Berkeley  mufl  fuffer  fome 

4.^E?'3.  n^^'ie    adverfity  for  his  fake  ;  wherefore  at  the  fame  parliament,  it  was  before  the  kinge 

Glouc :  Wigorn.    demanded  of  this  lord,  That  whereas  kinge  Edward  his  father  was  delivered  to  the 

cuflody  of  him  and  of  John  Maltravers  to  bee  fafely  kept  by  them  in  the  Caftle  of 

the  faid  lord  Berkeley  of  Berkeley  in  the  County  of  Glouc;  and  being  murdered 

in  the  fame  Caftle  and  in  theire  cuflody,  how  hee  could  quit  himfelf  of  the  kings 

death  :    Hee  anfwereth  That  hee  was  neither  knowinge,  helpinge  nor  procuringe 

A  little  to  much    thereto,  nee  vnquani  Scivit  de  morte  fua  vfque  in  prefenti  parliamento  ifto  nor  ever 

pleadmg.    j^j^g^  thereof  untill  this  prefent  parliament,  whereof  hee  is  ready  to  acquite  himfelfe 

as  this  prefent  parliament  fhall  award  :  Whereupon  it  is  faid  to  him,  That  feeing 

hee  is  lord  of  the  faid  Caftle  of  Berkeley,  And  that  the  kinge  was  delivered  to  the 

cuflody  of  him  the  faid  lord  Thomas  and  Maltravers,  to  bee  fafely  kept,  of  whom 

and  whofe  fafe  cuftody  they  accepted,  hee  is  to  anfwere  for  the  death  of  the  kinge  : 

W^ttetO  this  lord  Thomas  replyes.  That  true  it  is  That  hee  is  lord  of  the  faid 

Caftle,  And  that  hee  and  John  Maltravers  received  the  kinge  into  their  cuftody  to 

bee 


I36I 


%ik  of  €t)oma0  tf)C  €l)irli 


295 


bee  fafely  there  kept,  But  withall  faith  That  at  fuch  time  as  the  kinge  was  murdered 

hee  was  fo  fick  at  Bradley,  out  of  the  faid  Caftle,  that  hee  loft  his  memory  ;  Where-    4-  miles  of. 

unto  it  was  againe  replyed,  That  having  the  cuftody  of  the  kinge  comitted  to  him 

and  to  the  faid  John  aforefaid.  And  fith  hee  had  placed  his  minifters  and  under- 

keepers  for  that  overfight.  That  hee  by  any  fuch  infermlty  of  ficknefs,  could  not  fo 

excufe  himfelf,  but  that  hee  muft  in  fuch  cafe  anfwere  for  the  kings  death  ;  llDtjCTCtO 

hee  anfwers  that  hee  did  place  with  y'  faid  John  Maltravers  fuch  keepers  and  fer- 

vants  for  the  fafe  keepinge  of  the  kinge,  as  hee  as  much  trufted  as  in  himfelf;  "3I!nt> 

for  tryall  that  hee  is  not  guilty  of  the  death  of  the  kinge,  nor  any  way  affentinge, 

helpinge  or  procuringe  thereunto,  hee  puts  himfelf  upon  his  Country  ;  Whereupon 

twelve  knights  are  upon  the  octaves  of  S'  Hillary  next,  impanelled  and  fworne.  Qui 

dicunt  fuper  facrm  fuum,  &c.  who  fay  upon  theire  oaths  That  Thomas  de  Berkeley    veredict  juratory. 

is  not  guilty  of  the  death  of  the  father  of  the  kinge  that  now  is  |  nor  was  affentinge,    350 

aydinge  or  procuringe  thereunto,  And  that  at  the  time  of  the  kings  death  hee  was 

foe  fick  at  Bradley  that  it  was  generally  defpaired  of  his  life  ;  And  the  Jury  being 

afked  whether  he  fled  or  abfented  himfelf  upon  the  murder  aforefaid,  fay  not  :   But 

becaufe  the  faid  Thom"  de  Berkeley  placed  Thomas  de  Gurnay  and  Wittm  de  Ocley 

keepers  under  him,  by  whome  the  kinge  was  murdered,  further  day  is  given  to  hear 

his  judgment  at  the  next  parliament,  And  in  the  mean  time  to  ftand  comitted  to 

Ralph  de  Nevill  Steward  to  the  kings  houfe  ;  %liti  it  follows  in  the  record,  That    code  n?  18. 

afterwards  in  this  parliament,  the  prelates,  Earles  and  Barons  befought  the  kinge 

for  Thomas  de  Berkeley  to  bee  delivered  from  his  imprifonment  upon  his  bayle, 

which  the  kinge  granted,  but  hee  to  anfwere  at  the  next  parliament. 


I.  in  dorfo. 


C()C  next  year  the  fifth  of  the  kings  raigne,  was  another  parliament  whereto    Rot.  parliam.  5. 
this  lord  Thomas  is  not  fomoned  by  any  writ  ;  but  amongft  the  petitions  of  that    ,     1 '"  ^'^^^ 
parliament  it  is  thus  entred,  3111^0  the  prelates  Earles  and  Barons  prayed  the  kinge    claus :  5.  E.  3.  ps. 
for  St^onsiClir  Cljomas  be  ^Jcrfeclcp  that  hee  would  deliver  him  from  his  bayle,  And 
thereupon  the  kinge  charged  them  that  hee  fhould  bee  forthcominge  at  the  next 
parliament ;  fll^orc  I  find  not  to  bee  hereat  done,  fave  that  this  lord  as  Executor  to 
his  father,  petitioned  the  kinge  and  his  Counfell  in  this  parliament  to  pay  him .  600'' 
for  his  fathers  cuftody  of  the  Town  of  Berwike  ;  And  that,  that .  600"  might  quit 
fuch  debts  as  either  hee  or  his  Anceftors  owed  the  kinge  upon  Exchequer  proces, 
which  was  afranted  ;  Howbeit  the  kinee  the  twentieth  of  November  in  that  fifth  of 


claus.  5.  E.  3.  ps. 


Rot.  tractat 


his  raigne  fent  to  have  this  lord  with  divers  others  of  the  Nobility  to  bee  with  him    P'"''^'  °^^' 
^  ...  lullar.  5.  E.  3. 

in  octilbts^  hiHartj  followinge,  to  have  their  counfells  in  divers  waighty  affairs  arifen 

fince  the  laft  parliament. 


296 


€f)c  EiljfjBf  of  tl^  23crhdcp^ 


1326 


pat.  II 
pars.  I.  r 


E.  3- 
1  :  28. 


351 


CljUiSi  in  attendance  flood  this  lord  at  divers  parliaments  following,  untill  a 
parliament  holden  at  Yorke  in  the  9'^  of  the  kinge,  wherein  all  the  former  proceed- 
ings being  recited,  this  lord  prayed  the  peeres  to  give  him  judgment  accordinge  to 
the  faid  verdi6l ;  whereupon  the  kinge  charged  all  the  Earles  Barons  and  Prelates 
there  affembled,  upon  their  allegiances,  to  avife  whether  hee  was  guilty  of  the  kinge 
his  fathers  death  or  not,  or  aiding,  affenting  or  procul-inge  thereunto  ;  who  all 
affirmed  upon  their  allegiances,  hee  was  not  guilty  ;  But  fay,  notwithftanding,  in 
regard  fo  horrible  a  murder  was  comitted  in  his  Caflle,  then  in  his  cuftody,  they 
would  not  then  precifely  determine  of  it,  but  referred  the  matter  and  him  to  the 
kings  pleafure;  the  kinge  thereupon,  (faith  the  record,)  finding  that  the  faid  Thomas 
de  Berkeley  was  found  not  guilty.  And  that  all  his  lords  were  of  the  fame  mind, 
hee  in  Juftice  now  acquited  him  alfo,  et  eat  inde  fine  die  ;  Referving  neverthelefs 
power  to  difpofe  further  of  him  by  parliament  hereafter,  as  by  the  comon  Counfell 
and  advice  thereof  fliall  bee  found  to  ftand  with  Juflice  and  the  kings  pleafure;  3lnll 
laftly  at  this  parliament  holden  the  II'^of  his  raigne,  all  the  Earles  Barons  and 
prelates  doe  acquite  the  faid  lord  Thomas  in  all  things,  faving  fome  fault  of 
negligence,  And  adjudge  him  free  from  henceforth  for  ever,  witnefs  the  I6'^  of 
March  in  the  Eleventh  of  Edward  the  third. 


^fjUjBf  after  tryall  and  feaven  years  attendance,  is  this  lord  cleered,  it  being  the 
only  prefident  that  is  pregnant  in  that  kind  ;  wherein  I  conceive  the  reafon  why 
hee  was  not  tryed  by  his  peeres,  but  by  knights,  to  bee  ;  becaufe  then,  (for  matter 
of  faft,)  they  had  been  both  his  Judges  and  Jurors  ;  Afterwards  I  find  him  a  Tryer 
of  petitions  for  Gafcoigne,  Wales,  Scotland,  the  Ifles  and  other  forren  parts,  at  the 
Rot.  parliament  parliaments  holden  in  the  14  .  15  .  17  .  18  .  20 .  21'!'  and  28'.''  years  of  Edward  the 
eifdem  annis.     third 


comp  :  fenli 
hofpicij  1.  E.  3.  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley. 


25ut  if  I  were  to  objedl  againfl;  the  verdit  of  the  twelve  knights,  (which  faved 
the  life  and  barony  of  this  lord,)  I  would  urge,  out  of  this  lords  own  evidence,  That 
hee  could  not  lye  fick  at  Bradley  the  ai'f"  of  September,  (the  day  the  kinge  was 
murdered,)  becaufe  the  accompt  of  his  Steward  of  houfhold,  declareth  that  hee 
came  not  thither  till  Michaelmas  even,  which  was  the  7'^  day  after:  And  if  fick  at 
that  time,  yet  not  fo  infirmed  as  to  loofe  his  memory,  for  hee  prefently  wrote  his 
tres  and  fent  them  by  S'  Thof  Gurnay,  (the  regicide,)  the  next  day  at  his  charges 
to  Nottingham,  to  advertize  his  father  in  lawe  Mortimer,  the  Queene  mother,  and 
the  young  kinge  her  fon,  thereof,  which  unles  upon  fome  ground,  hee  would  not 
have  fent  for  wellcome  newes,  And  of  all  others,  why  was  S'  Thomas  Gurnay  made 

the 


1361  Uifc  of  Cljonin?  tftc  <rt)irD  29" 

the  meffenger,  unles  it  was,  (as  it  was,)  to  take  him  from  the  earth,  for  teUing  of 

tales  in  the  world  ;  ID{)tlt  fecret  intelligence  paffed  betweene  the  father  in  lawe,  and 

fon  in  lawe,  I  will  not  further  conjecfture,  then  that  this  lord  much  connived  and  by 

a  fecond  diredlion  brought  back  by  Gurnay,  kept  fecret  the  kings  death  till  All  S"    comp.  |/dict. 

followinge  ;   by  which  time  and  longe  before  hee  had  fo  well  recovered  his  health, 

as  hee  attended  the  kings  body  to  Gloucefler,  and  fpent  many  of  the  intervenient 

days  in  huntings  hawkings  &  other  fports  of  the  feild  ;  SajStip  when  Gurnay  in 

mens  opinions  was  fled,  this  |  lord  concealed  him  with  wonderfull  fecrecy  till  this    352 

tryall  by  parliam!  was  paft.  And  then  upon  a  private  leafe  and  tre  of  Atturney  of   carta  in  cadn. 

his  lands  of  Beverflon  Over  and  others,  for  his  life  and  his  wives,  hee  furnefhed    ^*^  Berkeley. 

him  for  his  flyinge  with  money  and  other  requifites.  And  then  allfo  had  a  feoffment, 

(but  without  date,)  from  him  of  Betefle  and  other  lands,  which  manifeflley  fhew 

with  what  art  this  lord  fliufled  his  cards.     And  thus  alfo  by  what  hath  hitherto  bene 

faid  appeareth  how  grofly  Polidor  Virgill  hath  erred,  writing  that  this  lord  Thomas    Poiij .  virgil : 

was    executed   for  the  treafon    of  murdering  his  kinge,   Edward   the  fecond  ;   A 

notorious  lye.  That  this  unattainted  family  may  not  brooke. 

CI^C  hungry  appetite  I  had  to  bring  this  lord  to  liberty,  and  to  fee  him  reftored 
to  his  Eftate  and  barony,  with  the  iffue  of  his  parliamentary  tryall,  (which  clofely 
followed  upon  the  heeles  of  the  former,)  and  were  in  a  kind  of  connexion  de- 
pendant upon  the  laft  a6l  of  the  laft  lords  life,  have  drawn  mee  to  outrunne  the 
pupill  part  of  his  firft  twenty  yeares  whereto  I  now  lookebacke  ;  havinge  alfo  fully 
cleered  the  old  error.  And  proved  that  the  faid  kings  death  was  at  Berkeley  Caftle, 
and  not  elce  w^here,  which  I  undertooke  to  prove. 

Cl)i£>  lord  was  borne  about  the  22'''  yeare  of  Edward  the  firfl,  in  the  days  of 
his  grandfather,  who  lyved  to  fee  him  about  twenty  fix  :  And  was  (as  hath  beene 
faid)  about  thirty  at  the  death  of  the  lord  Maurice  his  father  ;  But  whether  hee  had 
his  youths  education  under  his  grandfather  at  Berkeley  Caflle,  or  under  his  father 
at  Portbury,  I  have  not  obferved. 

CI)£  firfl:  time   I  can  fully  viewe  his  youth,  is  in  the  21'!"  of  his  age  in  Paynf-    pat.  12.E.  z.dorfo: 

wicke  park,  eleaven  miles  from    Berkeley,  then  the  inheritance  of  Adomarus  de 

Valencia  Earle  of   Penbroke,   half  brother  to  kinge   Henry  the  third,  where  hee 

with  his  brother  Maurice,  Thomas   Berkeley  of  Beoly  their  unckle,  John  Berkeley 

fon  of   Robert    Berkeley  of  Arlingham  their  cozen,  Thomas  de   Bradllon,  (of  all 

whom    I    have  already  written.)   and   about   forty  others,  mofl;  riotoufly  ftole  and    fol :  [296] 

^  ^  -J     clajs  :  13.  E.  ;. 

2  Q  earned    ^   ,^ 


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€f)c  Xitocjef  of  tljc  23crhc!cpjS 


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353 

pat.  13.  E.  3.01:5. 


pat:  13.  E.  2. 
m.  14. 


carried  away  the  Earles  deere,  whereof  the  Earle  complaining,  A  comiffion  to 
enquire  of  the  fa6l  was  awarded,  whereby  they  were  found  guilty  by  inditement, 
And  after  outlawed  thereupon  ;  And  in  Auguft  the  yeare  following,  the  kinge  fome- 
what  feeminge  to  leane  to  the  Earle  his  neere  kinfman,  commands  that  as  many  | 
of  thofe  riotors  as  could  bee  taken  fhould  bee  comitted  to  the  comon  goale  without 
baile.  And  to  make  worfe  the  former  offence,  (naught  of  itfelf,)  this  lord  Thomas 
and  his  brother  Maurice  fhortly  after,  (by  a  worke  of  a  worfe  impreffion,)  fet  upon 
the  four  Coron's  of  the  County,  and  would  not  fuffer  them  at  their  County  Court  to 
record  the  exigents  of  their  outlawries,  nor  to  execute  thofe  things  which  to  their 
offences  appertained,  concerning  themfelves  and  their  riotous  companions  :  for 
which  fecond  riotous  offence  alfo,  they  the  7'^  of  March  after  procured  their  feverall 
pdons  from  the  kinge  then  at  Canterbury,  as  they  were  going  into  gafcoigne  in  the 
kings  fervice  with  theire  father,  where  they  abode  all  the  time  of  their  fathers  flay 
as  already  hath  bene  faid. 


pat.  15.  E.  2.  ps 
2.  in  dorfo.  bis. 


^^t  next  time  I  meet  with  this  lord  Thomas  in  record,  is  after  his  fathers 
committment  to  Wallingford  Caflle,  waftinge,  burning,  pulling  downe,  deflroying, 
and  carrying  away  out  of  the  lands  of  the  two  Earles  Spenfers,  the  father  and  the 
fonne,  in  the  fifteenth  of  the  faid  kinge,  without  meafure  or  mercy,  whatfoever 
houfes  goods  or  chatties  of  theirs  they  could  find  or  feaze  on,  in  the  Counties  of 
Oxon  Berks  and  others,  which  hee  with  his  riotous  and  rebellious  affociates  con- 
tinued, (in  revenge  of  his  fathers  unjufl  imprifonment,)  untill  by  vertue  of  many 
comiffions  fent  with  proclamations  into  many  Counties,  hee  was  taken  and  clapt  up 
in  the  Tower,  as  formerly  in  the  life  of  the  lord  Maurice  his  father  is  more  largely 
written  ;  from  whence  hee  after  efcapes,  but  is  againe  taken  and  clapt  up  in  Berk- 
hamfteed  Caflle,  And  afterwards  removed  into  Pevenfey  Caflle  by  the  fea  fide  in 
Suffex,  And  from  thence  delivered,  as  alfo  hath  beene  faid. 


Rot.  Scotije.  II.  5lnb  the  Rolls  of  Scottifh  affairs  in  thefe  times  doe  intimate,  That  in  the  12'!" 

12.13.    -2.01.12.    ygg^j.^  ^1"  j.j^jg  j^inge   Edward  the  fecond,   this  lord   Thomas   with  his  faid  brother 

Maurice  were  in  armes  in  thofe  Scottifh  warrs,  both  under  the  lord  Roger  Mortimer 

lord  of  Wigmore,  and  the  lord  Wittm  la  Zouch  which  imployment  is  probable  to 

have  been  a  prime  caufe  of  the  lord   Mortimers  affetling  him  for  his  fon  in  lawe  ; 

which  in  fiiort  time  after  bore  fuch  fruite  That  before  the  Sunday  after  S!  James's 

carta  in  caftro  de    day  in  the  14'!' yeare  of  that  kinge  hee  was  marryed  to  Margaret  daughter  to  the 

'^Efch^'poamori    ^^'^^  ^o^d   Mortimer;  for  by  the  lord   Mortimers  deed  of  that  days  date,  the  faid 

Tho.de  Berkeley.    Thomas  and  Margaret  his  then  wife  were  eflated  in  the  manor  of  Awre,  and  in  the 

35-  E.  3. 

finis,  ft  E.  2.  moytie 


1 36 1  Uifc  of  <ri)onuTfi{  tftc  <n)irD  299 

moytie  of  the  Recflory  thereof,  and  of  tlie  hundred  of  Bledeflow  in  the  County  of 
Glouc  :  And  in  the  next  yeare  this  Thomas  purchafed  of  one  |  Luida,  divers  lands    354 
in  Chelvey  in  the  County  of  Wilts  to  himfelf  and  to  the  faid  Margaret  his  wife  and 
the  heires  of  his  body  ;    Howbeit  though   hee  at  her  fathers  houfe  at  Wigmore 
Callle  thus  there  tooke  her  to  wife,  which  was  more  then  a  year  before  his  grand- 
father dyed,  and  more   then   as  much   more  before   his  father  and   himfelf  were 
imprifoned,  yet  hee  never  brought  her  to  any  of  his  own  or  of  his  fathers  or  grand- 
fathers houfes  till  after  both  their  deaths  and  his  own  inlargment  out  of  prifon  and 
rertitution  to  his  lands,  which,  (as  hath  been  written,)  was  more  then  feaven  years    claus.  2.  E.  3.  in 
after  ;  Neither  did  Mortimer  pay  or  give  fecurity  for  payment  of  that — 850"  portion    °'.""^- 
which  this  lord  Thomas  was  to  receive,  (befides  the  faid  land,)  w'!"  his  wife,  untill    Thomae  de  Berke- 
the  fecond  of  March  in  the  fecond  yeare  of  kinge    Edward  the  third,  which  was    Berkeley  ^°    ^ 
then  agreed  to  be  paid,  and  was  accordingly  paid  by.  150'.'  each  half  yeare:    In 
which  fecond  yeare  hee  brought  her  to  Berkeley:  And  (as  I  conceive)  then  (through 
her  tender  years,)  unto  his  bed  ;  And  if  kinge  James's  maxime  ftand  That  abfque 
copula  nullum  coniugium,  then  alfoe  firft  to  be  his  wife  ;  for  whofe  better  welcome    in  cafu  Coin 
hee  both  repaired  and  enlarged  his  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  as  his  officers  Accompts  of    ^^^^  c'  Somerfet. 

that  yeare  doe  (hewe  ;  And  had  there  with  him  the  Queene  mother,  his  father  in    ^'""P-  ^^cept. 
•"  "^  I.  et.  2.  bj.  3.  in 

lawe  her  favorite,  the  lord  Clifford  of  the  North,  and  many  other  dates  of  honor    caflro  dc  Berk, 
and  quality,  as  his  nuptiall  guefts  ;  which  popular  port,  (the  condition  of  the  cheife 
parties  confidered,  in  the  place  of  the  kings  death,  then  felt,  feene  and  rejoyced  at,) 
aggravated    this    lords    fufpicon,    and    his    parliamentary   tryall    that    fhortly    after 
followed:  what  more  of   this   marriage  is   to  bee  faid,   fhall   followe   under  mine    fol.  I402I 
accuftomed  title  of  this  lords  wife. 

%t  fuch  time  in  this  firft  yeare  of  Kinge  Edward  the  third  as  this  lord  Thomas  Accompt  of  each 
firft  entered  upon  his  fathers  lands,  after  the  kings  five  years  poffeffion  and  his  own  "'^"°'' '"  ^^^^^ 
as  longe  reftraint  in  feverall  prifons,  hee  found  for  the  moft  part  all  his  granges  and 
manor  houfes,  dovehoufes.  Stables,  O.xhoufes,  mills,  cratches,^  cubs,-  waynes.  Carts 
and  Plows,  (all  thefe  are  named,)  foe  out  of  repaire  and  decayed,  That  the  fubftance 
of  half  the  accompts  of  the  Reeves  and  Baylyes  of  each  manor,  for  y'=  two  next 
years,  containe  only  the  wages  and  works  of  Carpenters,  Sawiers,  Mafons,  Wheel- 
rights,  millrights,  Tylers,  and  the  like  :  Even  as  Henry  lord  Berkeley  found  the 
ruins  in  his  houfes  of  Wotton,  Portbury,  and  Berkeley  Caftle,  when  in  the  firft  of 
Queene  Mary,  after  58  years  poffeffion  in  the  Crowne,  hee  entred  upon  them  ;  And 

2  Q  2  the 

1  Panniers,  cradles  or  hooks,  for  afles  or  mules,  hand-barrows. 

2  Cribs  or  racks  for  Cattle.     Thefe  words  are  dill  in  ufe  in  Glouceflerlhire. — [Ed.] 


oo  €Ijc  Eibcjef  of  tijc  23crhdcp;0f  1326 

355  the  oxen,  kine,  fheep  and  other  |  cattle  that  manured  and  were  bred  and  fed  upon 
thefe  granges  and  manor  houfes,  fo  decayed,  or  degenerated,  or  both,  That  as  the 
faid  ace"  do  fhewe,  few  or  noe  great  faires  or  marketts  were  in  thofe  parts,  whereat 
this  lord  was  not  himfelf  as  at  Wells,  Gloucefter,  Winchcomb,  Tetbury  and  others  ; 
where  alfo  hee  new  bought  or  changed  the  feverall  grains  that  fowed  his  arrable 
lands  ;  And  whether  it  were  his  knowledge  drawn  from  his  grandfathers  wifdome 
and  experience,  or  his  own  obfervations,  or  that  afifliftion  had  made  him  wife,  I 
leave  it  to  that  fupernall  wifdome  that  imparted  it  ;  25ut  perfwaded  I  am,  (and 
fomewhat  my  youth  and  age  have  obferved  and  feen,  as  well  in  the  books  and 
method  of  the  kings  houfhold,  as  of  other  great  lords  and  families,)  That  noe  lord 
then  livinge  did  eftablini,  And  fewe  or  none  in  thefe  days  doe  or  can,  foe  good  an 
order  or  method  for  accompts  for  hufbandry  and  thrivinge,  And  for  true  dealinge  of 
Servants  and  Accomptants,  through  whofe  hands  any  of  his  money,  corne,  cattle, 
Acates  or  houfhold  provifions,  were  to  come,  as  hee  did.  3Ilntl  a  little  to  enlarge  this 
inftance,  the  Accompts  of  Henry  Peche  Supervifor  hofpicij  domini  Steward  of  the 
houfe  of  Berkeley  in  the  fecond  of  this  kinge,  is  not  unworthy  of  imitation,  wherein 
by  a  perfed:  method  every  days  receipts  of  all  provifions  and  Acates  into  the  houfe, 
the  dayly  expences  of  each  office  in  the  houfe.  as  of  bread  fpent  in  the  pantry,  beere 
in  the  buttry,  butter  in  the  larder,  Acates  in  the  Kitchen,  wine  in  the  Celler,  oates 
and  other  corne  out  of  the  granary,  beoffes  and  other  beafts  out  of  the  Slaughter 
houfe,  and  the  like,  Are  fb  exaftly  fet  downe.  That,  the  age  confidered,  it  would 
beget  admiration,  and  thrufl  good  hufbandry  and  imitation  upon  that  fonne,  that  in 
a  true  levell  beholds  this  Anceflor.  ^CllD  in  this  and  fome  other  accompts  is  feene 
what  provifion  was  fent  for  the  dinners  or  fuppers  of  this  lord,  when  hee  continued 
huntinge  in  his  parkes,  and  abrode  at  the  fox,  wherein  hee  would  lye  out  whole 
nights  in  the  feilds  and  woods  :  And  howe  frutefull  an  effec!:!;  this  prudent  eftablifh- 
ment  of  his  houfhold  affaires  produced,  efpetially  in  this  firfl  entrance  to  his  eflate, 
the  after  part  of  his  life  doth  aloud  found  out,  and  invite  his  poflerity  to  imitation. 

311ntl  knowing  what  good  fucceffe  attendeth  each  bufinefs  which  taketh  oppor- 

01-6    tunity  of  time  by  the  forehead,  Hee  in  the  faid  parliament  |  time  as  Executor  to 

claus:  1.  E.  3.    his  father.  Executor  of  the  lord  Thomas  his  father,  exhibits  his  petition  to  the  new 

ps.  I.  m  :  20.    lyings  Counfell,  Hiewing  how  that  the  corn  in  his  manors  and  granges,  his  cattle  and 

other  goods,  after  the  death  of  his  faid  grandfather,  were  feazed  upon  in  all  his 

manors  by  John  Hampton,  then  Sherriffe  of  GlouceRerfliire,  and  others  by  the  then 

kings  commandment,  and  by  them  detained  untill  the  fame  were  delivered  unto 

James  de  Broughton,  to  whom  the  cuflody  of  the  faid  manors  and  granges  were 

comitted, 


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301 


comitted,  who  fold  them  to  the  then  kings  ufe  &c  :  And  prayeth  recompence. 
Whereto  hee  receiveth  order  from  the  kings  command  the  8'!"  of  February,  (but 
thirteen  days  after  the  ele6lion  of  the  kinge,)  directed  to  his  Treforer  and  Barons 
of  the  Exchequer,  That  if  it  may  appear  in  his  accompts  That  fuch  goods  came  to 
the  ufe  of  his  father,  That  reftitution  of  the  value  fliould  bee  made  unto  him  :  Then 
which  this  lord  aiked  no  more. 

'311nb  beinge  returned  from  this  parliament,   fhortly  after  held  his  Courts  of    comp.  dc 

r    II  I  •       Slimbridj^e, 
recognition,  whereat  by  Henry  Rokehull  and  others  hee  tooke  the  fealtyes  of  all  his    Hurrt.it.it.r.K.j. 

Tenants. 

3in  the  courfe  of  his  whole  life  I  feldome  obferve  him  to  continue  one  \frhole 

yeare  togeather  at  any  one  of  his  houfes,  but  havinge  many  furnilhed  hee  eafily 

removed,  (without  removing,)  As  Berkeley  and  Beverfton  Caftles,  Awre,  Wotton, 

Portbury,  Bedminfter,  Bradley  Wendon  and  others ;  and  I  generally  obferve  That 

at  fuch  times  as  hee  was  in  warrs  abrode,  as  often  and  longe  hee  was,  or  did  alibi 

perhendinare    continue    at    tylts,   turnaments   or   other    haftiludes,   as   often   wholl 

monthes  togeather  at   Worcefter,   Coventry,   Dunftable,  Stamford,    London,  Win- 

chefler  Exeter  and  other  places  hee  did  :   Or  was  at  the  parliament  at  London, 

Yorke,  Lincolne,  or  the  like  places,  his  good  and  frugall  lady  withdrew  her  felf  for 

the  moft  part  to  her  houfes  of  leafl  refort  and  receipt  ;  whether  for  her  retirement 

or  frugality,  or  both,  I  determine  not :  which  courfe  at  this  inftant  hee  put  in  vre, 

fifor  in  this  firft  of  Edward  the  third  havinge  a  fewe  monthes  continued  at  Berkeley 

after  his  returne  out  of  the  North,  upon  Michaelmas  eve  hee  removed  from  thence    Comp :  Wiftm 

to  Bradley,  whence  the  22'!' of  Oclober  hee  returned  to  Berkeley  And  from  thence    Capellfenhhofpic. 

the  18'!"  of  Decern'  hee  went  to  keep  his  Chriftmas  at  Portbury,  havinge  in  thefe 

57  days  fpent  at  Berkeley.  72  .  fat  hoggs  valued  at  12'.'  i?  10?;  In  which  time  his 

poultry  Acates  came  to — 15'!  03?  09  ;    After  Chriflm^s  he  travelled  againe  |  into    357 

the  North  to  Blith,  Yorke,  and  other  places,  In  which  Tourney  hee  fpent — 8i'ii4L8^    ^P^^P  '■  Nigel Ide 

_  *  .  .  kingfcote  incaflro 

As  the  accompts  of  Nigell   de    Kingfcote,  mafter  of  his  horfe  in  that  Journey,    de  Berkeley. 

declared  :  In  which  kind  of  courfe  I  held  it  poffible  for  mee  to  have  tracked  this 

lord  in  all  his  removings  for  the  thirty  five  next  years  till  his  death. 


^10  fjusbnnDqi  and  !)o^pitaUtp 
Cf)t^  lord  had  in  his  hands  at  one  time  togeather,  all  the  demefnes  of  the    divers .- cartje  et 
manners    of    Berkeley    and    Wotton    Burroughs,    Hame,    Appleridge,    Alkington,    [„ Ta'flro  dfBerk ■ 
Hinton,  Hurft,  Slimbridge,  Came,  Cowley,  Wotton-fforren,  Symondfall,  Beverfton, 

Woodmancot, 


302  €l)e  Hitc^  of  tt^t  25crferfcp^  1326 

Woodmancot,  Upon  S'  Leonards,  Over,  Kingfwefton,  Tockington,  Tormarton, 
Charfeild,  Huntingford,  Tortworth,  Veelham,  Weflonbirt,  Aylberton,  Compton 
Greenfeild,  Seintcle,  Awre,  Blideftowe,  Tokinhall  and  Pirton,  Leckhampton, 
Hatherley,  Yarkeley,  and  fome  others  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter.  And  of  the 
manors  of  Portbury,  Bedminfler,  Portfhead,  Barewe,  Gurney,  Tykenham,  King- 
fton  Seimor,  Brighmerflon,  Sokke  and  fome  others  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  3l!nt> 
of  the  manors  of  Great  Wendon,  httle  Wendon  and  Eafl  Stanes  in  the  County  of 
Effex.  5llnD  of  the  manors  of  Burghull,  Tullington,  Rotchull,  Winterbourne, 
Madington,  Orkefden,  Childengfton,  Langly  Burell,  Shulden,  Sapworth,  Wintred, 
Eftham,  Ekington,  Chippenham,  Lolledon,  Wefllond,  Side,  Norton,  Bornhill, 
EHfton,  Plimpton,  AbHngton,  Alton,  Penleigh,  Netherham,  Exton,  Hamburell, 
Moneweden,  and  fome  others  in  other  Counties,  befides  divers  perticular  farmes  in 
feverall  places  in  this  enumeration  not  remembred  :  <£>t  all  which,  (according  to  the 
ufage  of  thofe  times,)  hee  kept  the  demefne  lands  in  his  hands,  and  flocked  them 
with  his  owne  oxen,  kine,  flieep,  fwine  and  other  cattle  ;  3?!^  fome  of  which  manors 
hee  had  his  flockesof  .  1500.  fheepe,  In  fome  1000,  900,  800,  700,  600,  500,  400, 
and  in  none  under  300.  %t  Beverflon  in  the  feaventh  of  Edward  the  third,  hee 
did  fheare .  5775  .  fheepe,  which  were  going  in  thofe  manors  thereto  adjoyning.  | 

358  "^n  each  manor,  and  almofl  upon  each  farm  houfe  hee  had  a  pigeon  houfe,  and 

in  divers  manors  two,  And  in  Hame  and  a  few  others,  (where  his  dwelling  houfes 
were,)  three  :  from  each  houfe  hee  drew  yearly  great  niibers  As.  1300.  1200.  1000. 
850  .  700 .  650  .  from  an  houfe,  And  from  Hame  one  yeare  .  2 1 5 1  .  young  pigeons. 

5llt  thefe  manor  houfes  hee  kept  geefe,  duckes,  peacocks,  hens,  capons,  and 
chickens,  in  great  proportions,  drawing  from  fome  of  them  .  200  .  and  from  fome 
many  more  of  a  kind  in  each  yeare  ;  And  many  thoufands  of  their  eggs  yearly  from 
one  place  ;  ijCllfC  alfoe  hee  yearly  had  great  flore  of  hony  and  wax,  and  fmall  nutts, 
(whereof  from  Hame  of  a  certainty  from  his  Copiholders  hee  had  fifteene  Bufhells 
each  yeare  ;)  ^liO  thofe  manors  on  the  further  fide  feaverne  and  adjoyning  to  the 
fforreft  of  Deane,  and  in  the  Chafe  of  Micklewood  in  Alkington,  hee  had  divers 
heards  of  goats,  and  a  fuperintendant  Officer  over  the  inferior  called  his  Mafter 
goat-heard  ;  from  whence  300  .  kids  in  each  yeare  came,  when  leafl,  to  the  Larder, 
and  Roes  heere  and  in  his  parks,  if  capreoli,  be  latin  for  Roes.  5F'^0'^  hence  alfoe 
came  the  oxen,  bullocks,  calves,  flieep,  and  lambs,  w".''  they  weekly  killed  in  theire 
houfes,  in  fuch  an  extraordinary  proportion  as  may  feeme  uncredible,  unles  a  due 
confideration  bee  taken  of  the  nature  and  manner  of  great  lords  hufbandries  in 

thefe 


1 36 1  Uife  of  Cfionmsf  tfic  Zi\ntt  303 

thefe  times,  which  cannot  any  other  ways  fo  well  bee  underftood  as  by  lookinge  into    tomj)i  in  caRro 

de  Herkeley. 
their  accompts. 

jrroni  hence  alfo  came  their  great  proportions  of  wheat,  rye,  barly,  oates,  peafe, 
beanes,  and  ffetches,  apples  and  pears,  whereof  great  quantities  of  cider  and  perry 
were  yearely  made. 

%n\i  thefe  Accompts  yearly  made  by  the  Reeves  and  Bayliffs  hufbanding  the 
Demefnes  of  theire  manors,  and  fuch  other  meffuages  and  lands  as  refted  in  their 
hands,  will  tell  him  that  defireth  to  cafl  an  eye  into  their  granaries,  what  at  the  end 
of  each  yeare  remained  of  old  ftore  in  each  manor  and  place  :  what  in  each  place 
was  reaped  and  wynowed,  what  fold  at  Marketts,  what  (hipped  to  fea,  what  from 
thence  fpent  in  the  lords  houfe,  what  in  the  ftable,  what  by  the  doggs,  And  what  by 
the  hens  and  pigeons,  by  the  falcons,  |  tarfells,  and  other  hawkes  ;  what  wheat  and  359 
beans  was  given  to  the  poore,  and  to  fryars  and  other  religious  orders  of  ordinary 
allowance  each  yeare,  and  how  much  of  wheat,  barley  and  oates  was  yearly  made 
into  malt,  (an  hulbandry  almoft  loft  in  this  age,)  with  many  the  like  perticulars. 

3CniJ  when  the  Reeve  or  Bayly  at  the  end  of  his  yeare,  left  his  office  to  a    plures  huius 
^  ..         .        .  .      r  -^1  i(-ii-i  ■        r  ^    r        ■       generis  in  caftro 

fucceffor,  the  Inventory  is  fo  exa(;:t,  what  cattle  oi  each  kmd,  gram  01  each  lort  m    ^^  ^g^k. 

the  barn  gralnar)'  or  corne  on  the  ground,  what  poultry  of  each  fort,  what  waynes, 

carts,  fullows,^  harrows,  drags,  rollers,  cribs,  axes,  hatchets,  fithes,  hammers,  reap- 

hooks,  bufhells,  pecks,  brafs,  pewter,  old   iron,  butter,  cheefe,   bacon,   cheefvates, 

cheefclouts  and  other  perticulars,  (of  each  kind  to  bee  thought  upon,)  remained, 

which  was  by  writing  in  parchm'  indented  delivered  over  to  the  next,  That  it  cannot 

but  give  us  caufe  almoft  of  wonder,  And  to  fay  non   fine  prudenti   fecit  ratione 

vetuftas,  cundla,  out  of  our  old  forefathers  feilds  wee  reap  the  beft  frutes  of  our 

modern  underftandings  :  And  laudamus  veteres  fed  noftris  vtimur  annis,  wee  Juftly 

praife  our  forefathers  doings,  but  imitate  our  own  appetites. 

Cljis  courfe  of  hufbandry  with  little  or  noe  interruption  in  effe6l,  was  continued 
from  the  time  of  kinge  Henry  the  third  to  the  fifth  yeare  of  kinge  Henry  the  fifth, 
the  fpace  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  yeares  ;  &  howe  longe  before,  thofe  parchment 
Rolls  that  fhould  have  informed  us  are  turned  into  duft  :  And  then  this  noble  family 
clave  afunder,  parting  it  felf  into  two  ftreams  and  branches,  that  yeilded  no  better 
frute  in  the  next  century  of  yeares  then  rancor  and  contention.  As  in  the  life  of  the 
lord  James  the  firft  will  be  declared. 

'  Ploughs. 


304 


€f)e  Hitf^  of  tt)c  25crftritpiS 


1^,26 


Rot.  pari.  21.  R.  2. 
ps.  2.  m.  6.  in 
turre  Londin. 


Math:  14. vers,  i 


Comp  :  Rec.  i. 

E.  3.  et  20.  E.  3. 

in  caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


CljC  parliament  roll  tells  us,  That  in  the  fifteenth  of  Edward  the  fecond,  what 
time  this  lords  father  and  his  complices  made  havock  of  the  goods  and  catde  of 
Hugh  Spenfer  th'elder,  then  Earle  of  Winchefter,  hee  had  in  thofe  manors  which 
hee  wafted,  2000  hoggs,  120  kine,  40  .  tun  of  wine,  160.  carts,  600.  bacons  fower- 
fcore  carcafes  of  beoffe,  and  500  .  of  muttons  in  the  larder  ready  killed,  befides 
divers  others  in  that  record  fpecifyed  ;  And  thefe  only  in  a  fewe  of  thofe  many 
Counties  wherein  hee  had  like  manors  ftocked  with  like  cattle,  which  in  thefe  times 
of  ours  wee  hold  as  a  wonder,  admireing  the  numbers.  3JlnJ)  as  I  was  fumming  up 
the  certaine  numbers  of  this  lords  fheep  in  the  7'^  2o'^  and  3o'^  yeares  of  Edward 
360  the  third,  out  of  the  Accompts  of  thofe  |  years,  thereby  to  pick  out  a  comon 
medium,  holding  my  numbers  not  much  inferior,  (wherein  to  the  akeing  of  mine 
eyes  I  continued  fixteene  houres  obftinate,)  An  old  profane  tale,  (which  eafed  mee,) 
prefented  it  felf  to  memory,  of  an  old  prieft  in  the  end  of  Henry  the  8'^'  raigne, 
who  readinge  the  gofple  of  the  day  out  of  the  I4'^  of  S!  Math,  of  Chrifts  feeding . 
5000 .  men  befides  weomen  and  children  with  five  loaves  and  two  fifhes,  the  well 
meaning  preift  read  but .  500  .  w':''  his  Clark  obfervinge,  privately  told  him  his  booke 
was .  5000 .  I  know  well  enough  anfwered  the  preift,  but  my  parifhoners  will  fcarcely 
beleeve  me,  though  I  fay  but .  500  :  In  like  fort  my  readers,  like  thofe  parifhioners 
or  preift,  would  returne  on  mee.  If  I  prevent  them  not  in  my  felf:  But  lefs  labour 
it  is  to  beleeve  mee  in  this,  then  to  re-examine  my  calculation  :  I  verily  thinke 
That  noe  two  of  the  greateft  houfkeepers  of  this  kingdom  amongft  the  Nobility  at 
this  day,  fpend  fo  much  in  groffe  proviffions  of  beoffe,  mutton,  fwines  flefh,  bread, 
beere,  pultry,  pigeons  and  eggs,  as  this  lord  in  his  ftandinge  houfe  ufually  did  : 
whofe  check-roll  of  his  attendants  and  houfehold  fervants  and  theire  qualities  may 
give  fattisfaftion  herein  :  CJjC  knights  that  had  wages  by  the  day  and  their  double 
liveries  of  gowns  furred,  were  ufually  twelve,  often  more,  each  of  them  two  fervants 
and  a  gartion  or  page,  and  allowances  for  the  like  number  of  horfes  ;  Ct)C  Efqures 
that  alfo  had  wages  by  the  day,  each  of  them  one  man  and  a  page,  and  allowance 
in  like  manner  for  their  horfes,  were  twenty  and  fower,  often  more  :  from  whence 
may  bee  conjectured  what  the  number  of  inferior  degrees,  and  of  Officers  and 
minifters  of  houfhold,  might  in  probability  bee  ;  31  ^^tt  confident  That  the  mouthes 
of  his  ftanding  houfe,  each  day  fed  were  three  hundred  at  leaft  :  And  in  greatnefs 
of  Traine  this  lord  exceeded  his  grandfather. 


Comi).  p'-dia  5rrom  one  manor  was  ufually  delivered  one  hundred  and  threefcore  quarters  of 

wheat  by  the  yeare.  And  from  another  one  hundred  and  forty,  from  another  one 
hundred  quarters,  and  after  fuch  proportions  from  divers  others  :  each  day  fpent 
much  above  two  quarters  of  wheat  in  the  bakehoufe  and  paftry.  %\\ 


1 36 1  Hifc  of  a:i)onn\0  tl)c  CliirD  305 

SHU  the  knights  robes  were  of  cloth  of  ray,  and  of  a  baflard  fcarlet,  |  furred    361 

Com] 
itiiii. 
carl'.   17.  18.  E.  3. 


with  miniver  of  the  befl,  And  the  habit  of  the  lord  hinifelf  was  thereto  forted.  Comp.  16.  E.  3 

11)111. 


Cljf  robes  of  an  Efquier  were  of  fine  brod  ray  collour  cloth,  furred  with  a 
courfer  fort  of  myniver  ;  And  fo  were  the  Clarks  of  the  Chappie  and  homines  de 
offico,  the  officers  of  houfehold  and  waiting  weomen. 

C!)C  livery  of  the  gartion  and  underfervants,  were  all  of  them  of  cloth,  and 
furred  with  Coney,  lambikinne,  and  budge,  each  a  degree  under  other ;  And  I  have 
obferved  eight  brode  fcarlets  and  of  ray  for  the  knights,  and  twelve  for  the  Efq? 
Chaplens  and  officers,  to  have  beene  provided  in  one  yeare  for  theire  robes. 

SUllb  for  the  honor  of  all  parts  lord  mafter  and  knight  fervant,  I  will  relate  the 
faire  difcent  of  S'  John  Tracy,  (one  of  this  lords  knights,)  As  alfo  was  S'  John  Tracy 
his  father  to  Thomas  the  fecond,  grandfather  to  this  lord,  who  was  father  of  Wittm 
Tracy,  father  of  Wittm  Tracy,  father  of  Henry  Tracy,  (who  dyed  in  the  i;'!"  of 
Henry  the  7'^)  father  of  Wittm  Tracy  who  dyed  in  the  22'!'  of  Henry  the  8'^ 
Father  of  W™  Tracy  who  dyed  in  y°  20'.''  of  Henry  y*  8"'  before  his  father,  (and 
after  his  death  had  his  bones  burned  for  proteflant  herefy,)  father  of  Henry  Tracy, 
father  of  S'  John  Tracy  who  dyed  in  the  33'.'' of  Elizabeth,  father  of  S'  John  Tracy 
that  yet  liveth.  1620.  A  noble  pedegree  of  feaven  difcents  higher  in  this  kingdome 
fmce  the  Norman  conqueft  in  the  younger  line,  then  here  I  have  for  brevity  fet 
downe  :  The  like  I  could  write  for  three  or  fower  other  of  the  km'ghts,  meniall 
fervants  to  this  lord. 

3lf  I  could  affure  my  felf  that  this  young  lord  George,  (who  nowe  weares  the 
honor  of  his  Anceftors,)  would  but  once  in  maturity  of  his  yeares,  advifedly  read 
over  fome  of  thefe  accompts  of  his  Anceftors  courfes  and  fafhions  of  regulateing 
their  eftate,  if  hee  were  gone  aftray  or  had  outrun  his  receipts,  (as  not  unlike  it  is, 
but  his  firft  head  or  foare  age  may,)  I  would  conclude  that  thereby  hee  would  bee 
reclaymed  :  The  hand  is  reafonably  eafy  after  a  little  acquaintance,  as  foone  attained 
as  the  lawe  ffrench  of  Littleton  ;  The  latin  fmooth  and  delightfull ;  Stub  becaufe  the 
whole  body  of  them  in  the  time  of  this  lord  Thomas  is  too  vaft  in  the  generall,  I 
will  commend  to  his  reading  only  thofe  two  of  the  firft  and  fecond  years  of  Edward 
the  third,  to  fliewe  him  how  this  his  Anceftor  began  the  firft  yeare  hee  entred  upon 
his  land  ;  And  thofe  other  of  the  twentieth  of  that  kinge,  whereby  taking  the 
begining  and  middle  of  his  life  into  confideration  hee  may  caft  |  up  the  reft  of  his  362 
yeares  before  and  after  by  a  probable  medium. 

2  R  /;  <©f 


3o6 


€f)e  SlibCiGf  of  rtje  25crftricp^ 


1326 


Comp  :  20.  E.  3. 
in  caflro  de  Berk  : 


<©f  this  twentieth  yeare  there  is  a  moft  exa6l  abftraft  alfo,  of  all  this  lords 
expenfes  for  that  yeare,  as  well  inward  at  home  as  forren  abrode,  (a  double  fteeled 
glafs  for  poflerity,)  fhewing  what  hee  that  yeare  fpent  in  wheat,  beans,  peafe  gray 
and  white,  barly,  malt,  wheat  malt,  and  barly  malt,  and  malt  of  dredge  or  mung- 
corne,  and  of  oates  ;  in  oates  hay  and  litter,  in  oxen,  bullocks,  kine,  calves,  fheep, 
fwine  of  all  forts,  goates  and  kids,  coneys,  peacocks,  hemes,  feafants,  ducks,  geefe, 
capons,  hens,  chickens,  fwans,  pigeons,  cheefe  of  cows,  milk  of  goates,  and  fheepf- 
milk,  butter,  creame,  and  rice  :  3llnll  what  in  forren  As  in  fpice,  wine,  liveryes,  and 
the  like,  which  in  all  humility  I  invite  the  nowe  lord  George  to  read,  and  digeflingly 
to  confider  off;  the  totall  whereof  came  to  1309'i  14!  6?  o^.  And  on  the  dorfe 
thereof  hee  fhall  fee  an  hufbandly  obfervation  how  much  in  each  kind  was  this 
yeare  expended  leffe  then  in  the  former  yeare  :  And  yet  had  cleere  remaining  to  his 
purfe  in  the  end  of  all  1 150'.'  18!  8^  of  that  years  favinge. 


Abftradl  comp : 

recept.et 

garderob:  20.  E.  3. 

linea.  7. 


311ntJ  for  the  horfes  which  this  lord  this  yeare  kept  in  the  houfe,  let  thefe  words 
in  the  Accompt  that  cannot  lye  or  flatter,  tell  us  their  number.  3In  f^no  et  litera 
pro  .  1 538 1  .  equis  .  viz!  pro  feno  et  litera  vnius  equi  per  diem  et  no6lem  .  i?c(j. 
That  is  expended  in  hay  and  litter  for  fifteene  thoufand  three  hundred  fowerfcore 
and  one  horfe,  at  a  peny  farthing  for  a  day  and  night  for  an  horfe,  80I'  i'  aj^'!  mean- 
ing after  the  maner  of  Accompts,  That  foe  many  horfes  were  one  day  with  another 
in  the  ftable,  as  came  to  foe  many  in  the  yeare,  which  was  above  one  hundred  horfe 
for  each  day  in  the  yeare  one  with  another. 


3(n  the  fecond  yeare  of  his  Barony  his  Receivour  had  clearly  remaininge  in  his 
hands  upon  his  Accompts  when  all  debts  and  purchafes  were  paid  452'' :  2' :  o^. 

3[ri  the  ninth  yeare — 659'' — 7? 

3|nthe  1 9'!^  yeare — 977 — 16' — 5^ 


3fn  the  twentieth  yeare  aforefaid — 1 150" — 18' — 8^  as  hath  beene  faid  ;  And  fo 
rather  each  yeare  increafing  then  diminifliing,  befides  what  was  in  the  lords  private 
purfe,  and  in  the  Cafli  of  ftore,  whereinto  y"  the  remainder  of  each  yeare  was  cafl  ; 
363  And  befides  the  debts  owinge  |  to  him  at  the  end  of  each  yeare,  which  are  expreffed 
to  bee  many.  3lf  this  lord  George  fliall  propofe  this  Anceftor  for  his  prefident,  or 
his  grandfather  Thomas  the  fecond,  hee  fhall  fee  what  frutes,  the  plants  called  good 
order  and  good  hufbandry  doe  beare.  And  fhall  not  fee  nor  know  what  eight,  ten 

or 


1 36 1 


life  of  CljoniaiBi  t!)c  CljirD 


307 


or  twelve  in  the  hundred  meaneth,  from  which  I  pray  God  deliver  him  and  his 
pofterity.  ^1)0  nobility  and  great  gentry  of  this  kingdome  have  noe  trades,  are 
noe  Marchants  :  provident  faving  of  their  rents  and  fines  and  well  regulateing  of 
their  eflates  in  their  occupation,  which  if  they  negledl  they  foone  feele  the  want 
and  fmart  ;  The  Gloucefterlliire  proverb  within  the  hundred  of  Berkeley  is,  That 
favinge  mufl  equall  havinge,  elce  want  will  at  the  years  end  bee  Auditor  and 
Accomptant. 

Cl)C  irregularityes  and  diforders  of  our  days  may  not  appeare  in  Ace*:"  to 
pofterity  :  wee  will  fpend  all  and  more  at  the  years  end,  and  not  be  able  to  fay 
howe,  or  wherein  :  It  is  a  bafe  thinge  now  adays  to  behold  the  Accompt  of  John 
Stoke  in  the  twentieth  of  kinge  Edward  the  third  colledlor  feodi  coquinse,  collecflor  Comp :  20.  et.  22. 
of  the  Kitchen  fee  to  this  great  lord,  and  foe  of  former  and  after  years,  (hewing  g  3- '"  caftr  =  de 
how  much  of  the  fame  greafe  was  fold  for  money.  And  how  much  thereof  was 
fpent  in  greafmg  of  the  waynes,  carts  and  other  imployments,  and  how  much  re- 
mained in  the  veffell  at  home  for  ftore. 

3|n  the  23"?  of  this  kinge  foe  great  was  the  plague  within  this  lords  manor  of    Comp :  manerij  de 
Hame,  That  foe  many  worke  folks,  (as  amounted  to  .  1144  .  days  worke,)  were       n™  h  ^ij   k^i '" 
hired  to  gather  in  the  corn  of  that  manor  alone,  as  by  their  deaths  fell  into  the  lords 
hands,  or  elce  were  forfaken  by  them. 


3|n  fteed  of  purchafes  may  bee  the  two  improvements  which  this  lord  made 
out  of  his  wafte  of  Slimbridge  warth  ;  The  one  of  twenty  acres  in  the  9*  of 
Edward  the  third  now  called  Katharine  Cookes  leyes.  The  other  of  fifty  fower 
acres  of  the  faid  warth  in  the  tenth  of  the  faid  kinge  now  called  new  leyes,  worth 
at  this  day  more  pounds  then  acres.  %0  alfo  the  like  hee  did  of  divers  parcells  of 
Michaelwood  Chafe,  and  in  other  places,  to  a  great  value,  not  afkinge  leave  of  the 
clowted  fhoe  and  Commoner,  whether  it  ftood  with  his  likeing  or  not.  As  after  in 
the  title  of  purchafes  more  largely  followeth. 


Carta  in  cafl.ro  de 
Berkeley.  9.  E.  3. 
Comp:  prjepOiti 
de  Hurfl  et 
Slimbridge  in  9. 
10.  II.  12.  E.  3. 
et  pollea,  in 
caflrode  Berkeley. 

videfol:[384] 


3J  tDifi  conclude  this  honorable  title  of  this  lords  hofpitality  with  y'  petition  of   petitio  in  parli : 

4.  E.  3.  n?  loi.  in 
arce  Lend  : 


S'  John  Berkeley  of  Durfley,  exhibited  in  parliament  in  the  fourth  yeare  of  kinge 
Edward  the  third,  which  may  affure  us  of  |  this  lords  great  port  and  family,  who 
therein  complaineth  againft  him.  That  the  Sherife  and  other  ofticers  and  other 
minifters  of  Juftice  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter  were  this  lords  houfhold  fervants, 
and  of  his  ftanding  wages  and  livery,  And  therefore  could  have  no  Juftice  againft 
him,  nor  redelivery  of  his  cattle  by  this  lord  unjuftly  impounded  as  hee  alleadged. 
2  R  2  %it3i 


364 


3o8 


€f)c  %i\}c0  of  tijc  25frhdcp^ 


1326 


31InD  further,  this  honorable  title  which  I  now  conclude,  may,  (by  confideringe 
the  magnificence  of  nobility  in  this  lords  perfon  and  his  days,)  fhewes  us  the  root 
from  whence  fprunge  thofe  antient  ceremonies  ufed  throughout  the  kingdome,  con- 
tinued from  antiquity  till  the  days  of  our  laft  fathers  ;  That  whenfoever  any  noble 
man  or  peere  of  the  Realme  paffed  through  any  parifh  all  the  bells  were  accuftomed 
to  bee  runge  in  honor  of  his  perfon,  and  to  give  notice  of  the  paffage  of  fuch 
eminency  ;  And  when  their  tres  were  upon  occafions  read  in  any  affemblies,  the 
Commons  prefent  would  move  their  bonnets  in  token  of  reverence  to  their  name 
and  perfon. 

Who  would  not  ftoupe  to  ferve  them  at  their  feet. 
Where  fuch  nobility  and  vertue  meet. 


Comp  :   de    Slim- 

bridg  et  Hurfl.  i. 

E.  3.  in  caflro  de 

Berkeley. 


^10  fiutltiingjfli 

3[n  the  firft  yeare  of  kinge  Edward  the  third,  which,  (as  before  I  have  faid,) 
was  the  firfl;  alfo  of  this  lords  reftitution  to  his  lands  and  barony,  this  lord  built  a 
faire  houfe  at  his  manor  of  Aure  on  the  other  fide  Seavern,  oppofite  to  his  manors 
of  Slimbridge  and  Hurft  ;  and  from  out  of  Redwood  by  Hurft  hee  carryed  three 
fcore  okes  to  the  waters  fide,  and  then  by  boat  to  Aure  in  furtherance  of  that 
buildinge  ;  wherein  I  thinke  hee  humored  with  his  wife  and  her  father  the  lord 
Mortimer,  in  building  upon  y"=  land  hee  had  with  her. 


Comp :  rec :  et  '^n  the  fame  yeare  and  the  year  following,  hee  fomewhat  built,   but  more 

gard  I.  et.  2.  E.  3.    beautified,  his  caflle  of  Berkeley,  the  rather  arainft  the  marriaere  of  his  only  fifler, 
in castde Berkeley  .    .  -r     /    1  ?■  ^^  1      •  1  r 

and  the  receiving  thither  his  own  wife,  (whom  his  Tenants  wellcomed  with  a  prefent 

365    of  3'.'  19'  6''  in  gold,)  |  And  againfl  the  cominge  of  the  Oueene  mother  and  her 

minion  the  H  Mortimer  this  lords  father  in  lawe. 


Comp.  rec.  et 

minifler. 

Maner.  2.  3  et  4 

E.  3.  in  Caftro  de 

Berkeley. 


'Cl)C  fame  yeare  alfo  and  the  next  followinge,  hee  had  work  enough  to  doe  in 
reedifying  his  granges  and  farme  houfes,  decayed  duringe  the  poffeffion  of  kinge 
Edward  the  fecond,  as  formerly  is  faid  ;  And  in  buildinge  of  the  fquare  pile  of 
flone  worke  of  the  lodge  of  Newparke,  (then  alfoe  made  an  impaled  parke,)  which 
name,  becaufe  other  parks  of  this  lords  adjoyning  were  more  antient,  it  then  had 
and  dill  retayneth. 


Comp.  Recept.  '^M  the  16"'  of  kinge  Edward  the  third  this  lord  of  new  built,  (then  ruinated,) 

'^  ^d^  r"  k^f "^^    '■^^  great  high  Tower  of  the  north  part  of  the  keep  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  called  at 


de  Berkeley 


this 


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llifc  of  Cfjoimxitf  t!)c  iTljird 


309 


this  day  Thorps  Tower,  (becaufe  hee  holdeth  his  hind  at  Wanefwell  by  guard 
thereof,)  which  coft  him  one  hundred  and  eight  pounds  three  fhiUings  and  a  peny, 
fetching  mod  of  the  flones  by  boat  from  feavern.  And  the  Tuft  ftone  from  Durfley 
by  land. 

3In  the  iS'!"  and  .  19'!*  yeares  of  the  faid  kinge  hee  built  the  newe  worke  at  the    Comp.  Recept. 
Caftle,  (foe  then  called,)   which  is  that  part  without  the  Keepe  on  the  northeaft    p^n' 'j  ^p^'i.'" 
next  the  little  parke,  and  next  to  the  great  kitchen,  the  roofe  whereof  Henry  the 
feaventh  brought  from  Wotton  as  tradition  tells  us. 

3In  the  20'.''  yeare  of  the  faid  kinge,  hee  built  a  new  houfe  at  Over,  which  John    Comp.  Rec  20  E. 
Dowle,  now  lord  thereof,  of  late  tooke  down,  erefting  a  fairer  in  the  place,  after  the    '^^^^\  a  ro    e 
fafhion  of  thefe  our  times,  But  the  aged  countenance  of  the  firfl,  fhewed  the  beauty 
and  sfreatnefs  it  had  at  this  time. 


C!)C  fame  yeare  hee  beflowed  one  hundred  pounds  in  repairing  his  houfe  at    Comp.  de  Wotton 
•,,,  \      1  ■         1  I      1-1  in  eodem  anno. 

Wotton,  And  m  other  years  the  like. 

3^n  the   22"!  and   23'!'  years  of  that   kinge  hee  much  re-edified  his  Caftle  of   Comp.Rec.eifdem 
Bevefton,  where  hee  fpent  many  months  in  the  yeare,  efpetially  after  it  was  become 
the  Joynture  of  his  fecond  wife,  and  entayled  upon  her  children.    Others  lye  hidden 
from  mee.  j 

J^ijf  forrcn  implopnicntjtf 
1$Ctcin  I  will  turn  my  felf  to  this  lords  imployments  under  king  Edward  the 
third,  after  the  death  of  the  lord  Maurice  his  father,  leaving  thofe  other  fervices 
wherein  hee  bore  Arms  in  the  life  of  his  grandfather  and  father,  to  the  mentions 
thereof  in  their  lives  already  made,  and  to  what  hath  been  before  touched  in  the 
life  of  this  lord  himfelfe. 


annis.  in  Cailro 
de  Berkeley. 


366 


Ci)C  S'^  of  Aprill  in  the  firft  of  kinge  Edward  the  third,  the  kinge  writes  to    Rot.  Scotise.  i.  E. 
this  lord  to  meet  him  at  New  Caftle  upon  Tyne,  upon  Affenfion  day  followinge,    ^j  ™  '  ^'  £ 
with  all  his  forces  to  goe  againft  the  Scotts.    And  the  28■^  of  the  fame  month  by  his    i.  m.  2j.  dorfo. 
fecond  tres,  direfts  this  lord  and  Maurice  his  brother,  and  John  Maltravers  the    r^^.^j  g  ,'  ;„  ^ 
younger,  to  goe  to  the  Caftle  of  Briftoll  And  thence  to  bringe  with  them  to  him    caftrode  Berkeley, 
into  the  north  parts  all  his  Armories  and  other  things  which  they  fhould  there  find, 
giving  them  a  further  authority  to  take  up  for  convey  thereof  what  carriages  they 
would,  when  where  and  how  they  would  :  Accordingly  they  keep  their  time.  And 

(hordy 


3IO  €f)c  Hitc^  of  tt)c  ^evMep0  1326 

Daniell  fol.  185  et  fliortly  after  both  the  Armies  of  Englifh  and  Scottifli  encounter  at  Stanhope  parke: 
Howbeit  though  the  EngHfh  were  thrice  greater  and  might  prefently  have  vanqufhed 
their  enemies,  yet  by  the  treafon  of  fome  greater  men,  (as  it  was  bruted,)  they  all 

Rot.  pv :  claus.  i.    efcaped  :  with  which  treafon   Mortimer  this  lords  father  in  lawe  was  three  years 

.  3.  m  .  II.  e     .    ^fj-gj.  charged  in  parliament  and  executed.     And  the  third  of  July  following,  this  L? 

and  John  Maltravers  come  back  from  Yorke,  by  leave  obtained  of  the  kinge,  with 

the  allowance  of  two  hundred  pounds  for  their  Journey.     And  then  alfoe  received 

claus :  I.  E.  3.  ps.  from  the  kinge  an  unufuall  Comiffion,  (greater  then  of  any  lieutenancy  and  an  ill 
prefident  to  poflerity,)  under  y"  great  feale,  dated  the  firft  of  July  in  the  faid  firfl 
yeare  of  his  raigne  whereby  they  two  were  made  principales  et  capitales  cuflodes 
pacis,  principall  and  cheife  Juftices  of  the  peace,  in  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter, 
Wilts,  Oxon,  Berks,  South  ton,  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  and  Hereford,  to  furvey  and  over- 
fee  the  a6lions  and  behaviours  of  all  Juftices  and  Magiftrates  in  thofe  Countyes, 
howe  they  had  or  fhould  demeane  themfelves,  And  to  punifli  both  them  and  all  other 
offenders  in  thofe  Countyes  by  death  or  otherwife,  with  a  command  to  all  Sherifes 

pat.  I.  E.  3.  pars.    ^^^^  other  Subiefts  to  avd  and  attend  them  in  execution  thereof;  from  March  before 
I.  m  dorfo.  _  _      ■'  •' 

which  comifs.  for  the  laft  five  months,  this  lord  and  S'  William  de  Wauton  one  of 

367    his  I  houfhold  had  only  been  in  Comiffion  for  the  peace  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter, 

and  none  other  with  them. 

Comp.  Rec :  2.  E.  ^tt  the  fecond  yeare  of  that  kinge,  this  lord  was  fent  againft  the  Scotts,  as 

^  *"    ^  Berk^    ^^'^  ^^^  repreffing  of  inrodes  and  incurfions,  as  to  treat  about  a  peace;   In  which 

Howe.    Journey  this  onely  I   find.  That  for  his  provifion  on  the  way,  hee  tooke  with  him 

from  Berkeley  nine  Lampry  pyes  ;  unles  I  fhould  fay  they  were  to  give  the  Queene 

mother,  or  his  father  in  lawe  the  lord  Mortimer ;  whofe  recognizance  the  fecond  of 

claus.2.E.3.dorfo.    March   at  Yorke  hee   then    had   for  payment  of — 850'i  for  his   daughters   portion 

formerly  by  this  lord  taken  to  wife  as  hath  beene  faid. 

claus:3.E.3.dorfo.  CJjC  14'^  June  in  the  third  yeare  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge,  (then  but  three  dayes 

before  returned  out  of  France,)  wrote  fpetially  to  this  lord  to  come  to  him  to 
Windfor  the  morrowe  after  Mary  Magdalens  day,  to  have  conference  with  himfelfe 

daus.4.E.3.dorfo.  of  the  affaires  of  the  kingdom  ;  At  what  time  the  tres  were  fent  to  divers  others. 
And  in  like  maner  was  this  lord  fent  unto  the  5'^  of  June  in  the  4'!'  of  the  kings 
raigne,  to  come  to  Ofney  Abby  on  the  day  of  y^  tranflation  of  S'  Thomas  for  the 
like  conference.  And  the  like  againe  the  fame  yeare  to  bee  at  Nottingham  on 
munday  next  after  the  feaft  of  S!  Katharine  the  virgin  for  the  like  conference  with 

claus.5.  E.  3.dorfo.  the  kinge.  And  the  like  againe  the  fifth  of  Noveml  in  the  fifth  yeare  of  the  kings 
raigne  to  come  to  the  like  conference  to  Weftminfter  o6labis  hillarij  next  after. 


1 36 1  Hifc  of  €I)omnjtf  tfjc  2ri)irti  311 

3in  the  6'.''  yeare  the  kinge  comands  his  flierife  of  Gloucefter  fliire  to  Arme    claus:6.E.3.m.i6. 
and  fend  him  one  hundred  Archers  for  his  Irifh  fervice,  to  bee  chofen  by  the  advice 
only  of  this  lord  Thomas. 

CtjC  21'''  of  March  in  the  7'.''  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  fends  to  this  lord  to  meet    claus.  7.  E.s.dorfo. 
him  on  Trinity  funday  next  after  at    Newcaftle  upon  Tyne,  cum  equis  et  armis    m  27  ^ 

quanto  decentius  et  potentius  poterit,  with  horfe  and  Arms  as  decently  and  power-    claus.  7.  E.  3.pars. 
fully  as  hee  could,  to  goe  againft  the  Scotts  :  And  to  this  warre,  out  of  the  County 
of  Glouc  :  were  fent  .  500  .  footmen,  1000  .  quarters  of   Wheat,   500  .  quarters  of 
beanes  and  .  300  .  bacon  hoggs. 

3fintl  to  the  accord  made  between  the  kinge  of  England  and  Mounfieur  Wittm    Rot.  ScotLne :  7.  E. 
de  Keth,  governour  of  Berwicke  under  the  Scotts,  to  deliver  up  the  Town  if  the    3-  ""  ■  i  ■ 
kinge  of  Scotts  did  not  ayd  them  by  a  day,  this  lord  Thomas  was  a  witnefs,  and 
one  of  thofe  lords  that  gave  oath  for  the  king  of  England  to  |  performe  the  agree-    368 
ment,  dated  the  I6'^  of  July  at  the  feidge  of  Berwike. 

3II1U)  upon  the  I9'^  of  that  July  is  a  great  viftory  obtained  by  battle  againft  the    claus :  7.  E.  3.  ps. 
Scots,  for  which,  the  22'*'  of  the  fame  month,  publicke  thanks  is  commanded  to  bee 
given  to  God  throughout  all  England  for  fo  great  a  vidtory. 

^n  the  9'*'  of  the  kings  raigne  this  lord  was  with  the  kings  Army  in  Scotland,    clausrg.  E.3.m.8. 

and  there  had  of  his  own  proper  retinue,  thirty  eight  men  of  Arms,  whereof  himfelf 

a  Banneret  and  fi.x  other  knights,  And  for  his  wages  received  of  the  kinge — 190"    libercomphofpitij 

And  had  more  of  his  own,  twelve  Archers  horfemen,  for  which  hee  received — i6l'    et  garderob  : regis 

cum  Eao.  Dering. 
16?  00 — wages.  bar? 

31nb  in  recompence  of  his  fomers  fervice,  the  13'''  of  October  then  at  Berwike  Rot.  claus  19.  E. 
upon  Twede,  hee  obtained  this  favor ;  That  whereas  hee,  as  well  for  his  owne  debts  ^'  "^' 
as  for  the  debts  of  his  father  as  of  other  his  Anceftors,  owed  divers  fums  of  money 
to  the  kinge.  And  that  whereas  the  kings  father  owed  to  the  lord  Maurice  his  father 
.  600'!  for  the  time  hee  was  governour  of  Berwike  which  Is  unpaid.  That  now  upon 
Accompt  one  debt  fhould  bee  fet  againft  an  other,  as  in  juftice  was  fit,  And  accord- 
ingly each  to  bee  difcharged  againft  the  other. 

CijC  6'!'  of  May  in  the  tenth  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne,  the  king  fends  to  this    Rot.  Scotiae.  10. 
lord  to  keep  fafely  all  the  ports  and  landing  places  in  the  three  Countyes  of  Glouc.    ^-  3'  """  ^5- 

Wigorn. 


312 


€l)c  HitocjS  of  tljc  2Bcrhclcp^ 


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liber  cum  Edo    Wigorn.  and  Hereford,  lead  the  Scots  or  any  other  forreyners  with  whom  they  had 
Deenngp-^  ict    (-Q^ifederated,  (meaning  the  Welfh,)  fliould  annoy  his  people  in  thofe  parts,  who  in 
great  numbers  with  much  fhippinge  were  now  upon  the  feas  :  which  forefaid  booke 
fhewes  the  meffengers  wages  bringing  thefe  tres  from  the  kinge  to  this  lord. 


claus  :  10  :  E.  3. 
in.  dorfo  : 


369 

Scotia  :  10.  E.  3. 
m.  5. 

liber  cum  Edo 
Deering  p''dict 


Rot.  Scotias.  11. 

E.  3.  m  :  3. 

Rot.  Vafcon.  1 1 . 

E.  3.  m:  26.  et.  28. 


Comp.  garderob. 

II.  E.  3.  in  cafl.ro 

de  Berk  : 

claus  :  II.  E.  3. 

dorfo.  ptes.  2.et.  3. 

Comp  ;  garderob. 

p''dict. 

claus  :  predidl 

pars.  2.  dorfo. 

pat :  II.  E.  3. 

pars.  2.  m  :  3. 


iZTljC  24'^  of  Augufl  followinge,  the  kinge  in  his  writ  fent  to  this  lord,  declares 
that  hee  had  held  a  fpetiall  treaty  with  the  kinge  of  ffrance,  to  have  had  paffage 
through  his  Country  towards  the  holy  land,  and  for  a  finall  peace  to  bee  had 
betweene  himfelfe,  the  kinge  of  France,  and  the  Realme  of  Scodand  ;  And  how  hee 
had  received  his  anfwer  from  the  kinge  of  France,  That  hee  would  help  the  Scots 
all  hee  could.  And  that  accordingly  hee  armed  men  and  fhips  in  great  multitudes, 
And  therefore  requires  this  lord  to  meet  other  Noble  men  at  Nottingham  on  mun- 
day  next  after  S'  Mathews  day,  to  conferr  w'  was  to  bee  done  therein.  | 

Watt  with  Scotland  is  determined  upon  The  County  of  Gloucefter  fends 
thither.  2500.  Soldiers,  befides  the  townes  of  Glouc  :  and  Briftoll  ;  And  this  lord  I 
find  to  bee  at  Strivelin  in  Scotland  with  the  army  the  tenth  of  November  follow- 
inge, where  hee  had  of  his  own  retinue  nineteen  men  at  Arms  and  others  ;  %v^ 
for  his  fervice  from  the  I7'>  of  November  in  the  Tenth  yeare,  till  the  tenth  of 
December  following,  received  for  himfelf  being  a  Banneret  4'  a  day,  for  each  of  his 
knights  2?  a  day.  And  for  each  other  man  at  Arms .  12?  a  day. 

%  gOOll  part  of  the  former  part  of  the  ii'!"  yeare  of  this  kings  raigne  was  by 
this  lord  beflowed  in  mufteringe  and  Arming  of  foldiers  in  the  Counties  of  Glouc  : 
Somerfet,  Worcefter,  and  Hereford,  fome  of  each  County  to  goe  for  Scodand,  and 
fome  for  France  ;  And  the  better  to  fpeed  the  fervice,  gave  him  herewithall  a 
Comiffion  and  power  to  ufe  martiall  lawe  if  need  required,  as  his  fole  Leivtenant  in 
thofe  Counties  :  which  fervice  performed,  hee  went  himfelf  in  the  end  of  that  yeare 
with  fome  of  thofe  men  againft  the  Scots,  whom  the  French  kinge  had  ftirred  to 
take  arms,  the  fooner  to  withdraw  the  Englifh  out  of  France  where  the  warrs  grew 
very  hott :  In  which  Northerne  Journey  this  lords  charges  came  to — 269^  4L  S-  o^- 
His  younge  fonne  Maurice,  (after  lord,)  then  waiting  upon  him,  of  the  age  of  feaven 
yeares;  occationed  perhaps  by  the  death  of  the  lady  Margaret  his  mother,  who 
dyed  the  fifth  of  May  the  fame  yeare  ;  5l!nb  in  this  yeare  the  kinge  fent  three 
feverall  times  to  this  lord  to  attend  him  at  Stamford,  Weftminfter,  and  againe  at 
WeftiS  to  confult  of  the  great  affaires  of  the  kingdome  with  him,  which  times  hee 
kept  ;  At  the  lafl;  whereof  the  propofitions  were  agreed  upon,  which  throughout 

England 


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Hifc  of  OTfjoniaflf  tftr  Cl)irb 


3'3 


England  were  to  bee  imparted  to  the  people  in  each  County,  efpetially  touching  the 
kinge  of  ffrance  nolens  nee  paci.  nee  pacis  tradatui  confentire,  who  would  neither 
agree  to  peace,  nor  to  have  any  treaty  for  peace,  And  thereby  was  the  Englifh 
Crown  like  to  bee  put  to  importable  expences  :  And  fo  follow  the  propofitions  in 
this  roll,  wherein  the  kinge  defireth  to  know  his  fubjeds  minds  :  To  import  which 
to  this  County  of  Glouc.  were  appointed  this  lord  Thomas,  Wiftm  Tracy  and  Wittm    Comp  :  garderob. 

nil  P'dlCl 

de  Cheltenham  two  of  his  houfhold  knights. 

3llnt)  havinge  received  an  other  Comiffion  from  the  kinge  in  06lober,  to  |  ^  ;„  (jorfo! 
repreffe  the  infolencies  offered  by  Armed  perfons  to  the  Bifhop  of  Bath  and  Wells  370 
in  his  manor  of  Chedder  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  which  manor  the  kinge  had 
licenfed  him  to  difafforeft  and  to  hold  free  in  feveralty,  and  to  make  a  parke  there 
&c.,  who  beinge  many  in  number  both  of  horfe  and  foot,  had  beaten  wounded 
imprifoned,  yea  and  robbed,  diverfe  of  the  Bifhops  fervants.  And  for  that  neither 
the  Sherife  of  y'  County  nor  the  Juftices,  (though  thereto  by  the  king  fpetially 
comanded,)  had  repreffed  them,  Therefore  this  lord  was  required  to  goe  to  the 
place,  make  proclamation  of  the  kings  peace,  and  to  arrefl  and  punifh  all  thofe 
offenders ;  which  beinge  done,  hee  hafted  towards  the  borders  and  warrs  of  Scotland. 


3lln&  returninge  from  Scotland  about  the  midle  of  winter,  was  in  the  firfl: 
openinge  of  the  fpringe  and  for  fome  part  of  the  fomer  followinge,  (being  the  1 2'^  of 
the  kings  raigne,)  imployed  in  mufteringe  and  Arming  of  foldiers  in  the  County  of 
Gloucefler,  Worcefler  and  Hereford  ;  In  which  Counties  this  lord  was  alfo  in 
Comiffion  for  the  peace,  And  had  alfo  in  them  (almofl)  an  unlimetted  authority  of 
Leivtenancy  by  other  patents  and  comiffions  ;  The  moft  of  which  foldiers  were 
fent  into  France  where  the  Englifh  had  great  warrs  both  by  fea  and  land.  3Cntl  as 
this  lord  in  thefe  Counties  was  much  imployed  about  the  wools  which  were  now 
become  the  kings  fole  comodity  for  the  better  maintenance  of  his  great  warrs,  Soe 
as  fafl  in  other  places  were  other  Comiffioners  imployed  in  borrowinge  the  chalices 
and  other  plate  of  Abbots  and  Churches,  for  the  kings  more  fpeedy  paffage  beyond 
feas  with  his  Army. 


Vafcon.  12.  E.  3. 
m.  1 1. 

Rot.  Aliraan.  12. 
E.  3.  pars.  2.  m  :  i. 
et.  ter  poftea. 


Rot.  Aliman  eod : 
anno:  pars.  i.m.  18. 


Sfinti  in  July  in  this  yeare  was  this  lord  joyned  with  Richard  Earle  of  Arundle,    pat.i2.E.  3.dorfo. 
to  array  and  furnifh  with  Armes  for  thefe  forren  warrs  all  the  able  men  in   the 
Counties  of  Glouc,  Worcefler,  Hereford,  Salop,  Stafford,  Warrwike  and  Leicefter  ; 
And  with  Hugh  Courtney  Earle  of  Devon  for  the  arminge  of  all  the  able  men  in 
the  Counties  of  Cornwall,  Devon,  Somerfet,  and  Dorfet,  and  fome  others,  for  the 

2  s  faid 


314 


€l)e  Hitcjef  of  tljc  23crfedcp3Bf 


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claus.  12.  E.  3.  ps. 

1.  dorfo.  et  pars.  2. 

et.  3.  in  dorfo. 


faid  warrs  ;  Cf)C  Comiffions  of  record  for  this  year  fhewinge  this  lord  to  bee  more 
generally  imployed  in  thefe  martiall  and  Civill  fervices  under  the  kinge,  then  any 
other  fubje6l  whatfoever. 

25c?ilJfjS  in  point  of  Counfell,  I  find  this  lord  in  this  yeare  alfo,  as  well  before 
the  kings  departure  for  ffrance,  (who  tooke  fliip  at  Orwell  |  the  16'!'  of  July,)  as 
after  his  departure,  (his  fonne  Edward  the  Duke  of  Cornwall'  being  left  protedlor 
of  the  Realme  in  his  abfence,)  to  have  been  fent  for  to  Counfell  and  conference 
thrice  this  yeare  to  Northton  and  Weftm.  ;  whereby  it  muft  neffeffarily  bee  con- 
cluded that  this  lord  was  a  moft  able  and  prudent  lord,  fitted  for  Mars  and  Mercury. 


claus  :  13.  E.  3. 
ps.  I.  m  :  47. 


SUnJ)  as  a  recompence  for  his  late  fervices,  obtained  from  the  faid  Protestor  a 
Warrant  to  the  Treaforer  and  Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  declareing  how  that  the 
kinge  owed  him  upon  three  bills — 52'.'  6?  8^  for  his  horfes  loft  in  the  late  Seidge  of 
Dunbar,  requireing  them  to  fee  him  p""  that  money,  if  they  find  not  the  fame 
already  paid. 


Rot.  Alieman.  13. 
E.  3.  in  dorfo. 


5[n  ffebruary  in  the  begining  of  the  I3'^  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne,  this  lord 
was  againe  imployed  in  Arminge  of  foldiers,  as  well  in  Aid  of  the  kinge  beyond 
feas,  as  to  refift  the  invafions  of  the  Scots  at  home,  and  to  defend  the  feas  againfl 
the  French,  who  with  a  great  navy  were  ready  to  invade  the  land  ;  And  as  the 
words  of  the  record,  (here  marginald,)  exprefly  are,  All  able  men  throughout  the 
kingdom  were  now  armed  and  imploy'd,  And  indeed  the  wholl  land  was  more  now 
improved  to  her  utmoft,  then  I  have  obferved  it  on  record  at  any  other  time  :  yet 
did  this  lords  own  County  of  Glouc.  Arme  out  for  thefe  warrs  this  fpringe,  but.  563  . 
men,  through  his  favor  towards  it. 


Rot.  parliamen.  3llnb  as  foone  as  this  lord  was  returned  from  the  parliament  holden  in  is"."" 

13.  E.  3.  pars.  I.  Mictiis  this  yeare  by  the  faid  proteftor  in  the  kings  abfence,  (whereat  an  exceffive 
Alieman.  13.  ^  contribution  was  given  for  the  kings  warrs,  but  upon  fuch  wife  terms  as  is  fit  to 
bee  a  prefident  for  after  ages.)  The  kinge  the  6'!'  of  November  followinge  writes 
to  Wittm  Truffell  his  Admirall  to  deliver  to  this  lord  one  ftronge  fhipp  of  his  fleet 
well  and  fufficiently  furniflied,  of  thofe  that  then  were  goinge  out  of  the  mouth  of 
Thames,  for  himfelf  and  his  company  to  w^'ftand  the  invafion  of  the  enemy  in  the 
wefl  part  of  England. 

CbDO 


1  The  Letters  Patent  creating  Prince  Edward  Duke  of  Cornwall  bear  date  17  March,  nth  Edw.  III.   [Ed.] 


I36I 


Hifc  of  OTlioninisf  the  Cl^ird 


3'5 


Z\S30  other  troublefome  Comilhons  this  lord  Executed  alfo  this  yeare  in  the    pat.  1 3.  E. 3.  dorfo. 
Counties  of  Glouc.  and  Somerfet ;    The  laft    whereof  fheweth    howe    S'  Alan  of   in  dorfo. 
Cherleton  knight  and  his  complices,  havinge  firfl  been  himfelf  robbed  and  his  houfe 
broken,  after  joyned  with  the  theeves  and  robbed  many  others,  comittinge  divers 
burglaryes  in  thofe  and  other  Counties,  which  by  this  lord  were  to  bee  fuppreft. 


Claus  ;  14.  K.  3. 
yars.  I.  in  dorfo. 


CljC  2 1  "J"  of  ffebruary  in  the  ^4'^  of  his  raigne,  the  kinge  out  of  ffrance  landed 
at  Orwell  ;  And  havinge  held  his  parliament  in  May  hee  the  22'.'' of  June  |  follow- 
inge  tooke  fliipping  againe  at  the  fame  place,  whom  this  lord  Thom?  as  a  mod  able 
fea  Captaine  attended  ;  And  the  fecond  day  after,  being  S!  John  baptifl;  day,  gave  a 
great  overthrowe  to  the  ffrench  Navy  then  quiet  in  the  port  of  Swyne  in  fflanders, 
prepared  to  have  impeached  the  paffage  into  France,  for  which  vi(5lory  the  28'!"  of 
that  month  publicke  thanks  to  God  were  commanded  to  bee  given  throughout  the 
land  ;  3Ilt  which  time  the  king  of  England,  to  flrengthen  his  navy,  had  a  fewe 
weeks  before  taken  up  all  fiiipps  here  at  home  of  the  burthen  of  thirty  Tuns  and 
upwards  ;  511ntl  by  his  comiffion  dated  the  16"'  of  March  before,  gave  authority  to  Alieman.  14.  E.  3. 
this  lord  to  arreft  all  fhips  above  that  burthen  in  the  port  of  Briftoll,  and  in  the 
Counties  of  Somerfet  and  Gloucefter,  to  bee  at  Sandwich  by  palmfunday  after. 


29. 


d)f  Army  which  the  kinge  this  fommer  in  the  14"'  of  his  raigne  had  in  ffrance 
was  great  ;  concerninge  which  it  was  by  Indenture  between  the  kinge  and  this  lord 
agreed.  That  hee  fhould  goe  with  him  into  France  and  ferve  as  Marfhall  of  his 
Army  with  Thirty  men  at  Armes  of  his  own  providing,  befides  others,  as  the 
Indenture  in  the  Pell  office  at  Weftin  declares  ;  for  which  thirty  men  at  Armes  hee 
had  the  kings  pay  ;  the  refidue  hee  then  had  were  of  his  own  private  company. 
In  battle  firfl,  lafl  in  retreats,  in  breefe 
In  a6lion,  foldier  :   In  direftion,  cheefe. 


Indenture  in  le 
pell  office  bundle : 
1 T.  cum  Edo 
warde  mitt. 


3a  the  agreement  made  at  Bruffells  betweene  the  kinge  of  England  and  the  Rot.  Alieman.  14. 
Duke  of  Brabant,  for  a  manage  betweene  the  kings  eldefl  fon  and  the  Dukes  elded 
daughter,  bearing  date  this  midfomer  day,  amongfl;  other  (nobles  homes  de  part  le 
roi  dengleterre,)  this  lord  Thomas  was  one  of  the  twenty  fix  that  undertooke 
performance  for  the  kinge  of  England.  From  whence  returninge  into  England, 
the  kinge  the  24'''  of  Augufl  wrote  to  this  lord,  to  bee  at  Michaelmas  after  at  New- 
caflle  upon  Tyne  with  as  many  men  as  hee  could  Arme,  to  goe  with  others  of  his 
ranke  againfl  the  Scots,  to  raife  the  Seidge  which  the  Scots  had  planted  about  the 
Caflle  of  Strivelen. 

2  s  2  ffitit 


Scotia :  14.  E.  3. 
in  dorfo. 


;i6 


Cl|c  Hibetf  of  tf)c  25crftricpjBf 


1326 


l)at.  1 4.  E.  3.  pars. 

I.  in  dorfo  quater. 

claus  :  14.  E.  3. 

dorfo. 

373 

Rot.  parliam.  15. 
E.  3- 

claus  :  15.  E.  3. 
ps.  2.  in  dorfo. 
eodm.  m  :  39. 


ffibc  or  more  other  Comiffions  this  lord  executed  in  this  yeare,  before  and  after 
his  journey  into  Scotland,  in  the  Counties  of  Cornwall,  Devon,  Somerfet,  Dorfet, 
Wigorn.  Glouc.  Wilts,  and  others,  for  the  peace  of  thofe  places,  and  furtherance  of 
the  kings  affairs,  befides  |  his  attendance  in  parliament  :  from  whence  noe  fooner 
almoft  returned,  (which  began.  15".^  Pafche  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne, 
whereat  hee  was  one  of  the  Tryers  of  petitions,)  but  the  12'.''  of  June  following, 
hee  was  required  by  the  kinge  to  come  to  him  to  the  Tower,  to  confult  there  with 
other  noble  men  of  the  urgent  affaires  of  the  kingdom  ;  The  effeft  of  which  con- 
fultation  appeared  in  a  proclamation  of  the  firft  of  Ocftober  followinge,  fent  into  all 
the  Counties  of  England,  whereby  the  kinge  declared  that  hee  did  retra6l  the  lawe 
made  at  the  lafl  parliament,  becaufe  it  was  exprefly  contrary  to  the  laws  and 
cufloms  of  England,  and  to  his  kingly  dignity  not  only  prejuditiall  but  reproachfull 
alfoe  :  And  therefore  fith  hee  was  bound  by  his  oath  to  the  obfervation  and  defence 
of  the  laws  and  cufloms  of  England  and  of  his  own  rights  and  prerogatives,  Hee 
nowe  did  of  right  recall  what  hee  had  at  the  faid  parliament  improvidently  affented 
unto  and  done,  wrefled  from  him  by  overmuch  importunity,  when  indeed  hee  did 
but  diffemble  his  affent  ficut  opportuit,  as  it  behoved  him  upon  neceffity  of  his 
forren  affaires  that  then  preffed  him  ;  And  therefore  now  revokes  that  Statute  And 
declares  it  to  bee  of  noe  force. 


claus :  15.  E.  3. 

ps.  3.  in  dors  :  m. 

vlt. 


5ft  feemes  this  A61  of  the  kings  bread  noe  good  bloud  in  the  bofomes  of  the 
refl  of  the  peeres  not  prefent  at  this  Tower  conference,  (for  only.  22  .  were  called 
by  the  kinge,)  for  the  Arch-bifhop  of  Canterbury  forthwith  after  calls  a  provinciall 
Synode,  and  intends  to  proceede  by  eclefiafticle  cenfures  againft  the  kinge  and  all 
that  counfell  that  advifed  him  to  jthe  recallinge  of  this  Statute  ;  whereof  the  kinge 
beinge  timely  advertifed  writes  to  him  the  firft  of  Oflober,  declareing  the  wholl 
matter  as  before,  and  exprefly  forbids  him  to  proceede  in  any  fuch  courfe,  either  in 
corroboracon  of  that  pretended  Statute,  or  to  the  diminution  of  his  regall  preroga- 
tive, or  to  the  detriment  of  any  of  his  Counfellers  or  ferv'.'  that  were  lately  with  him 
at  the  revocation  thereof,  upon  his  utmoft  perill  ;  which  if  hee  obey  not,  hee  will 
hold  him  as  his  enemy  and  a  violater  of  his  regall  rights  :  Addinge  that  if  hee  had 
not  affented  to  that  prejuditiall  Statute  by  diffimulation,  all  his  fubjedls  had  rifen 
and  departed  in  difpleafure  and  difcord,  and  his  warrs  with  ffrance  and  Scotland  had 
perifhed. 


Eode  :  m  p'did.  Ci)C  like  at  the  fame  time  the  kinge  wrote  to  the  Bifliop  of  London, 

noe  more  hereof. 


I  find 


apon 


1 36 1  Hifc  of  CljomnjBf  ttjc  Ctjirb  3^7 

Opon  this  lords   returne  from  the  Tower  conference,  hee  was   imployed   in  ^*^',- '"'  '^'   "  ^' 

divers   Comiffions  touchinge  the  peace  and  government  of  the  people   in    the  |  claus.  15.  K  3. 

Counties  of  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  Gloiicefler,  and  others,  the  reft  of  the  fomer  time,  as  ^I^. 

in  former  times  hee  was  moftly  accuftomed.  et.  pars.  2.  m  :  7. 

QCnlJ  the  4'!*  of  December  followinge,  the  kinge  from  Newcaftle  upon  Tyne,  claus :  1 5.  E.  sjps. 
writes  to  this  lord,  declareing  that  hee  was  nowe  come  thither,  And  y'  by  the  purifi- 
cation of  our  lady  next  hee  muft  returne  from  thence  by  reafon  of  his  great  affaires 
with  France,  And  therefore  intreats  him  in  all  the  love  hee  may.  That  in  fuch  a 
neceffity  of  affairs  and  ftate  as  he  now  ftands  in  hee  would  be  partaker  of  his  labor 
and  travell.  And  to  come  thither  to  him  by  the  24'^  of  January  next,  to  ride  upon 
their  march  into  Scotland,  And  to  bringe  with  him  fifteene  men  at  Armes,  and  his 
Archers  :  And  this  at  this  time  to  doe,  as  hee  loves  him,  and  that  hereof  hee  will 
have  fuch  a  confideration  as  fhall  defervedly  content  him. 

<£>Ut  of  thefe  Northern  parts,  hee  is  the  25'^  of  February  followinge,  fomoned    claus:  16.  E.  3. 
by  the  kings  writ  to  bee  the  morrow  after  Efter  day  at  the  kings  great  Counfell  at    P^-  '•  '"  dorfo. 
Weftminfter,  there  to   advife  with  other  noble  men   of  the  great  affaires  of  the 
kingdome  ;  whither  alfo  in  like  fort  were  called  Maurice  Berkeley  his  brother  and 
Thomas  de  Bradfton,  of  both  which  worthies,  I  have  already  written. 

%t  this  time   this  lord  takes  upon   him  to  bee  warden  or  governor  of  the    Rot  Scotiae.  16. 
Marches  over  againft  Scotland,  And  agrees  with  the  kinge  that  hee  will  bee  there      '  ^' '"'  '°'  ^  '   '^' 
the  fecond  of  June  followinge.  And  there  make  his  abode  with  thirty  men  at  Armes 
of  his  owne,  whereof  himfelf  to  bee  one,  one  Banneret,  fix  knights  and.  23  Efquires, 
and  twenty  Archers  for  the  defence  of  thofe  parts,  and  for  the  repulfe  and  deftruc- 
tion  of  the  Scots  his  enemyes,  for  one  quarter  of  a  yeare  from  the  date  of  this 
Indenture  betweene  the  kinge  and  him,  under  the  wages  of  4'  a  day  for  himfelf,  2f 
a  day  for  each  knight,  12"!  for  each  Efqf  and  6^.  a  day  for  every  Archer ;   which  for 
the  quarter  is  here  faid  to  come  unto — 222'ii9' — 5Cntl  this,   togeather  with  one 
hundred    pounds   more    of  the  kings   free  g^ift  to  him,   to   bee  paid  out  of  the 
Cuftomes  of  Wools  in  the  Counties  of  Cumberland  and  Weftmoreland,  the  one    Speed,  fo :  570. 
half  at  S'  John  Baptift,  the  other  at  Lammas.     And  at  this  time  it  was.  That  this    BuchaMrf -et'at  • 
lord  at  Blackbourne  in  Scotland,  then  generall  of  kinge  Edwards  forces,  gave  that 
great  overthrowe  to   the   lord  Wittm    Douglas,  whereof  often  mention   is  in   the 
Scottiili  and  other  Hiftoryes. 

€1^ 


3i8  €f)c  lii\3c0  of  tl)C  2Bcrkrirpi^  1326 

375  '^l)C  26'!^  of  September  followinge  the  kinge  writes  to  his  Colle6lor  |  Wittm  de 

ot.    cotiae.  I  .    Dyj-gfnig   commandinofe,  (as  before  hee  had  done,)  that  under  the  pavne  of  forfeit- 
Jbi.  3.  m  :  7.  ■-       ^  '  r    J 

ing  all  hee  had  to  loofe  or  forfeit,  hee  fhould  forthwith  pay  to  this  lord  Thomas  de 
Berkeley — 222'.' — 19?  for  his  wages,  nowe  being  in  the  Marches  of  Scotland  at 
Carleion  for  the  fafe  cuftody  thereof,  with  a  certaine  number  of  men  at  Armes  ; 
And  one  hundred  pounds  more  which  hee  had  given  him  ;  for  want  whereof  hee 
was  ready  to  quit  the  place  to  the  kings  great  prejudice  and  danger  of  the  king- 
Rot,  fin.  17.  E.  3.  dome  ;  I^oVObcit  hee  had  not  this  money  till  the  I8'^  of  May  in  the  yeare  following, 
And  then  it  was  paid  out  of  the  cuflome  of  the  woolls  in  the  port  of  Souttiton. 

Claus.  16.  E.  3.  CljC  tenth  of  May  this  yeare,  the   kinge  by  his  privy  feale  commands  the 

ps.  I.  m.  7-^^-^^7-  Sherife  of  Somerfet  and  Dorfet  fhires  to  pay  to  this  lord  Thomas  as  a  Baron .  20' 
a  day.  And  to  Wittm  de  Cheltenham  as  his  fervant .  5^  a  day  out  of  the  profits  of 
the  extracts  of  the  fines  and  amercements  which  in  their  feverall  feffions  in  thofe 
Counties  fhould  arife,  accordinge  to  an  ordinance  lately  taken  by  him  and  his 
Counfell,  whereby  each  Earle  fhould  have .  26?  8''  per  diem,  each  Baron  20?  each 
Banneret  .  i^^  4^  each  Knight  6'  8^  And  each  ferviens  (minifter)  .  5f  per  diem, 
wherein  they  fhall  intend  the  execution  of  the  kings  Comiffion  for  hearinge  and 
determininge  exceffes  and  diforders  amongfl  his  people.  Cljij^  allowance  fomewhat 
countervailed  the  travell  and  expences  this  lord  was  at  in  execution  of  many 
Comiffions  this  and  other  yeares  in  diverfe  Countyes,  as  appeareth. 

Rot.  franc.  i8.  E.  ^iH  the  I8'^  of  the  kinge,  this  lord  with  Thomas  de  Bradflon  and  Simon  Baffet, 

then  Sherife  and  Efcheater,  were  authorized  firft  to  Arme .  222  .  men,  and  after. 
400 .  more,  out  of  the  County  of  Glouc.  and  Briftoll,  to  bee  conduced  whither  this 
lord  or  Thomas  de  Bradflon  fhould  dired;!. 

pat.  18.  E.  3.  pars.  SCntl  this  lord  and  Thomas  de  Bradflon  were  at  this  time  alfo  authorized  to  put 

the  ordinance  in  execution.  That  each  fubje6l  havinge .  loo'i-  p  anfi.  fit  fagittarius  et 
eques ;  Havinge  ten  pound  land  fit  hobellarius  armatus,  a  light  horfeman  armed  ; 
and  fhewes  how  having  25'!  fit  homo  ad  arma  ;  Havinge  50"-  land  habeat  fecum 
unum  alium  hominem  ad  arma:  havinge  loo'V  land  habeat  fecum  tres  homines  ad 
arma:  havinge  above.  loo'l'  land  to  bee  affeffed  at  more  men  att  armes,  accordinge 

^  to  the  faid  rates :    But  this  was  fomwhat  eafed  the  fame  yeare,  becaufe  (faith  the 

record)  the  people  were  overmuch  greeved  therew'!* 

^*    '  2  in^dorfo  '^tlti  at  this  time  were  only  this  lord  and  Thomas  Berkeley  of  Cubberly,  W"  | 

376  Tracy,   and  Wittm  de  Cheltenham   aforefaid,   in  Comiffion  of  the  peace  for  this 

County 


1 36 1  Uifc  of  iCl)onia.a  tt]C  Zi\ivtt  319 

County  of  Gloucefter  :   which   Cheltenham  with  this  lord  fat  and  executed  many    clans :  19.  E.  3. 
Comiffions  alone,  touching  the  peace  in  this  and  other  yeares. 

9llnD  as  well  this  as  the  laft  yeare  was  this  lord  Thomas  at  the  two  parliaments    Rot.  pari:  18.  E.  3. 
at   Weftminfter,    And   thereat    fpetially   imployed   as   a   Comittee   in    the    painted    tjn^arce  LondT 
Chamber  without  the  parliament  houfe,  the  rather  here  noted  for  the  name  of  that 
chamber  yet  remaininge. 

■311  the     I9'^  of  the  kinge  this  lord    was  in   Scotland   with   all   his  houfliold    Comp:  rec:  20.  E. 
knights,  whofe  good  fervices  under  him  hee  rewarded  at  his  returne,  as  his  receiv-    Berkeley, 
ours  Accompts  Ihewes. 

5Cnb  beinge  from  thence  returned  to  Berkeley,  the  kinge   the  28*  of  Aug',    Rot.  franc:  19.  E. 

•  3-  ptirs  :  2.  m  :  8. 

writes  to  this  lord  and  to  Thomas  de  Bradflon  and  to  the  Sherife  of  the  County  of 

Glouc  :  That  thev  caufe,  under  the  conduft  of  this  lord  and  Bradflon,  all  the  able    ^°^-  ^""'^-  '9' K- 
■'  .  3.  ps.  I.  m.  4.  6. 

men  of  this  county  of  Glouc  :  to  bee  at  Portfmouth  three  weeks  after  Michaelmas    et.  8.  et  pars.  2. 

day,  to  goe  with  the  kinge  to  fuccour  his  frends  and  to  make  an  end  of  the  warrs    "^"  '  ^'' 

with  ffrance  at  once  ;  This  as  the  marginalls  fhew,  was  the  greatefl  preparation  for 

men  and  provifion  that  formerly  had  been  made  for  ffrance. 

<0f  the  twentieth  yeare  of  this  kings  raigne,  hiftoryes  run  to  this  effe6l  ;    The    Daniellfo:  198: 
truce  that  had  for  three  yeares  been  made  with  ffrance  expires:  July  is  come,  the    i{c,w.  242.  etal: 
kinge  imbarks  himfelf  for  ffrance  with  forty  thoufand  Englifli  men  in  the  greatefl 
fleet  that  ever  paffed  the  Seas  for  ffrance  :  landeth  in  Normandy  :  The  famous  city 
of  Cane  in  Normandy  is  befeidged  and  taken  by  affalt,  with  more  than  one  hundred 
other  forts  and  places  of  defence  :  And  to  end  the  worke  of  that  blouddy  fomer, 
The  great  and  ever-memorable  battle  of  Crefcy  is  fought  upon  the  26'!'  of  Auguft    Anno.  1346. 
in  this  Twentieth  yeare.  Anno .  1346  .  where  the  viflory  fell  intirely  to  the  Englifh  :    Speed  fol :  579. 
And  one  of  the  fpetiall  great  men,  (faith  Daniell,)  who  were  AcStors  in  this  worke,    ^' 
was  this  lord  Berkeley.     The  french  kinge  flyes  from  the  feild,  leaving  the  two 
kings  of  Bohemia  and   Majorca,  his  companions  in  Arms,  (fighting  on  his  part,) 
flayne  in  the  feild,  with  foe  great  a  number  more  as  the  fword  in  two  days  and  one 
night  could  devoure,  for  proclamations  on  either  part  had  made  it  death  to  take  a 
prifoner :    The  4'^  of  September  following  Calaice  is  befeidg'd   by  the  kinge  the 
fpace  of  eleven  months  eare  hee  taketh  it ;   under  the  walls  whereof  S'  Maurice 
Berkelev  of  Stoke,  this  lords  fecond  brother,  one  of  the  beft;  foldiers  of  his  time,    fol :  [305] 
leaves  his  bones,  as  formerly  hath  beene  written,   j 

|5ohJe 


320  €|)c  Hibcief  of  tijc  'ilbctMcp0  1326 

377  l^otoc  heare  what  the  records  of  this  yeare  do  deliver;  the  kinge  the  I2'^  of 

Rot.  Norm.  20.    j^jy.  i^j^^^gt;!^  ^^  Hoges  in  Normandy  with  prince  Edward  his  eldefl  fon,  it  being  his 

rot.  cart.  20.  E.  3.    firft  Journey,  and  then  of  age  of  fifteene  yeares,  leaving  Lyonell  his  fecond  fon 

"^  ■  ^'    cuftos  of  England,  to  whom  this  lord  is  affociated  as  one  of  his  Counfell  for  the 

better  government  of  State  affaires ;    And  thereby  hee  became  a  Witnefs  with 

others  of  the  Counfell  to  the  grants  and  deeds  of  the  faid  Cuftos  made  in  the  kings 

abfence. 

claus.  20.  E.  3.  f^^C  30'.''  of  July  the  parliament  is  fomoned  by  the  Cuftos  of  England,  to  bee 

pars  2.  in  dorfo.    j^Qj^jg^j  ^^  Weflm.  on  munday  after  the  feaft  of  the  nativity  of  our  lady,  whereat  this 

pat.  21.  E.  3.    lord  was  prefent.  And  at  this  time  is  cuftos  forefta^  regis  citra  Trentam,  Juftices  in 

^^*   ''2  •  in  dorfo     •^'''^  °^  ^^^  kings   forrefts  and  Chaces  on  the  fouth  fide  of  Trent,  with   the  fee 

of  one  hundred  pounds  p  ann,  havinge  the  fifteenth  of  the  fame  July  received  a 

generall  Comiffion  for  execution  of  the  flatutes  of  Winchefter  and  Nortliton  for 

confervation  of  the  peace  in  the  County  of  Gloucefler. 

Rot.franc:  20.E.3.  C|)C  tenth  of  March  before,  this  lord  received  the  kings  Comiffion  with  Thomas 

pars.  t.  m  :  24.  Berkeley  of  Coberley,  Wittm  Tracy,  and  Wittm  de  Cheltenham,  to  fee  carefully  to 
the  prefervacon  of  the  fea  coafts  in  the  County  of  Glouc,  And  appointed  the  Soldiers 
of  the  Counties  of  Worcefter  and  Hereford  to  bee  aydinge  to  them  whilft  the  kinge 
fhould  bee  beyond  feas  in  ffrance  againft  Phillip  de  Valois  his  adverfary,  who  had 
affembled  an  huge  power  at  fea,  machinans  fi  poffit  linguam  delere  Anglicana,  devi- 
fing  if  hee  can,  to  blot  out  the  Englifh  tongue,  faith  this  record. 

eodem :  m :  23.  31ntJ  the  thirtieth  of  the  fame  month,  this  lord  is  directed  to  fend  one  hundred 

of  thofe  two  hundred  Archers  to  Carmarthen  in  South  wales,  which  hee  and  Thomas 
de  Bradflon  had  chofen  arrayed  and  tryed  in  the  County  of  Glouc :  to  goe  from 
thence  into  Gafcoigne  in  ffrance,  under  Henry  Earle  of  Lancafter  and  Derby. 

franc.  20.  E.  3.  %t^  the  8*  of  December  this  lord  is  further  direfled  to  fend  to  the  kinge,  then 

pars.  2 .  m  .  17.    ^^  ^j^^  Seidge  of  Calais,  twenty  men  at  Arms  and  forty  Archers,  de  familia  fua>  of 
his  own  houfhold,  or,  as  hee  thought  good,  to  provide  them  of  others  elce  where. 

Rot. franc. 2 I.E. 3.  (CljC  tenth  of  Aprill  in  the  2I'^  of  the  kings  raigne,  this  lord,  with  Robert  fit5 

pars.  I :  m  :  17.    p^y^g  and  John  Wake,  havinge  formerly  beene  required  with  the  Sherife  of  Dorfet- 

fiiire  by  the  Cuftos  of  England  to  keep  all  the  havens  and  coafts  where  fhipps  may 

arrive  in  the  County  of  Dorfet,  and  to  refift  all  that  arrive  or  come  by  fea  or  land 

of 


i';6i 


Hifc  of  CJjoninef  tl)c  <ri)irD 


321 


of  what  quality  foever,  And  to  that  end  to  Arme  all  men  in  that  County  ahk-  to 
bear  weapon.  |  And  to  doe  further  whatfoever  they  think  requifite  for  the  fafe 
keepinge  that  Country  by  fea  and  land,  And  to  depute  what  Captaynes  and  officers 
under  them  they  pleafe,  with  abfolute  power  to  punifli  all  refra6lory  and  rebellious 
perfons,  &c.  Now  for  that  this  lord  Thomas  de  Berkeley  hath  noe  land  in  that 
County  but  is  continually  abidinge  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  And  for  that  the  faid 
John  Wake  is  fent  for  to  come  to  the  kinge  at  Calais,  Therefore  John  Mautravers 
the  younger  and  Nicholas  de  Poynt3  are  fubftituted  in  their  places. 


378 


CfjC  h'!"  of  May  in  the  faid  2I'^  yeare,  the  kinge  then  at  the  feidge  of  Calais,  Rot  franc:  2  i.E.  3 
and  expeding  battle  from  the  French  to  raife  that  Seidge  by  an  huge  Army  which  ^^'^'  ' '  "' '  '°- 
marched  thitherwards,  writes  to  this  lord  Thomas  to  this  effe6l :  Becaufe  wee  (faith 
the  kinge)  certainly  underftand,  That  our  enemies  of  ffrance  having  gathered  to- 
geather  all  the  power  thereof  will  give  us  battle  before  Whitfontide  next,  whereby 
wee  fhall  have  need  of  your  ayd  in  this  time  of  nefeffity,  Therefore  wee  do  defire 
you  in  the  faith,  love,  and  allegiance  that  you  doe  owe  us.  That  confidering  the 
neceffity  of  the  premiffes,  you  fend  unto  us  foe  many  men  at  Arms  and  Archers,  as 
well  of  your  own  family  as  which  otherwife  you  can  raife  and  well  Arme,  according 
to  the  degree  of  your  callinge,  not  flaying  for  the  fliiping  of  their  horfes  ;  And  this 
•wee  pray  you  to  perform  as  you  love  us,  and  our  honor,  and  our  fafety  and  defence 
of  our  kingdome. 


(Upon  which  faire  and  gratious  invitement  this  lord  went  over  fea  in  perfon. 
And  as  by  the  antient  roll  of  the  Seidge  of  Calais  appears,  had  there  of  his  own 
retinue,  a  Banneret,  fix  knights,  32.  Efquiers,  30 .  Archers  on  horfback,  and.  200. 
Archers  on  foot,  under  his  command  ;  But  the  French  retireinge  this  lord  forthwith 
returned  for  England. 


Hollingfh:  fo:  369. 
379:  et  divers:  alij 
Rot.  olifidioii 
Calefii.  21.  E.  3. 
in  thefaur :  fccij. 


claus 
ps  2  : 


21:  E.  3. 
in  dorfo: 


tCfjC   imployments  of  this  lord   Thomas   in  delivering   of  the   goales   in    this    pat:  21.  E.  3.  pars 
County  of  Glouc.  and  others,  and  in  attendinge  at  the  parliaments,  and  in  leavyinge    ^'  '"        °' 
of  aid  after  forty  fhillings  for  every  knights  fee  to  make  the  kings  eldeft  fon  knight, 
and  in  repaire  to  the  Cuftos  of  the  Realme  upon  fpetiall  fomons  in  point  of  Counfell, 
with  other  of  the  nobility,  with  the  execution  of  their  Comiffions,  gave  him  in  this 
fommer  no   manner   of  reft ;    wherein    none  proved   more  troublefome   then   the 
appeafing  and  punifhing  of  a  very  great  affembly  of  mofi;  riotous  and  rebellious 
perfons  of  the  Counties  of  Glouc.  |  and  Somerfet  and  of  BriftoU,  who  had,  (as  the    379 
record  fpeaks,)  taken  upon  them  regall  power,  and  Chofen  a  Captaine  in  the  nature 

2  T  of 


322 


€f)c  %i\it^  of  tljc  25n:ftclcpjt 


1326 


of  a  king  to  govern  them  ;  And  after  proclamations  by  them  made,  had  enterd 
upon  divers  fhips  laden  with  come  and  other  provifions,  ready  to  goe  by  the  kings 
command  into  Gafcoigne,  And  by  violence  had  taken  the  fame  away  and  had 
beaten  and  wounded  divers  of  the  Mariners. 

i^^e  king  returns  from  the  taking  of  Calais  in  Odober  in  the  21*  of  his  raigne, 
And  the  fecond  of  December  following  hee  grants  to  this  lord  and  his  heirs  to  have 
two  faires  yearly  at  Newport  within  the  parifh  of  Berkeley,  The  one  in  the  vigill, 
de  fol.  [385]  day  and  morrow  of  the  Tranflation  of  S!  Thomas,  And  the  other  in  the  vigill  day 
and  morrow  of  Si  Maurice,  which  in  that  fmall  throughfare  hamblet  pcell  of  the 
manor  of  Alkington  do  continue  to  this  day  :  And  this  feemes  to  bee  y'  reward  of 
his  late  Journey  in  the  Seidge  of  Calais. 


pat.  21.  E.  3.  pars. 

3.  in  dorfo. 

cart.  22.  E.  3. 


pat.  22.  E.  3.  ps.  3. 
m  :  I.  et.  1 1. 


VValfineham  et  at. 


pat.  23.  E.  3.  ps.  3. 
in  dorfo. 


HoUings:  379. 
Froifard.  cap.  151. 


Froifard.  fo.  74. 


380 


SUnll  the  tenth  of  January  in  the  2  2'^  yeare  of  this  kinge,  are  the  kings  licences 
to  this  lord  to  alien  his  Caftle  and  manor  of  Berkeley,  whereof  much  in  many  places 
of  this  hiftory  upon  feverall  occafions  is  after  written. 

<©f  which  22*  yeare  and  the  next  of  the  kings  raigne  is  little  to  bee  written, 
nothinge  being  done  abrode,  in  effe6l,  through  the  great  mortality  of  the  plague 
that  raged  all  over  the  land  ;  which  as  the  hifloriographers  of  that  time  deliver, 
confumed  nine  parts  in  ten  of  the  men  through  England,  fcarce  leaving  a  tenth  man 
alive  ;  more  then  the  Comiffions  to  this  lord  and  others  to  governe  the  people  and 
to  punifh  offences  in  the  Counties  of  Glouc  :  Oxon  and  Berks. 

Cljat  important  peece  which  force  could  not  keep,  trechery  praftifeth  to  regaine; 
Calais  to  the  greife  of  France  continued  Englifh  ;  The  French  do  practize  with  the 
Captaine  thereof  for  betraying  the  Town  into  theire  hands  ;  The  Conditions  are 
agreed  upon.  And  twenty  thoufand  Crowns  are  received  ;  king  Edward  hath  notice 
of  the  plot:  Hee  not  more  carefully  choofeth  out  feaven  of  his  principall  martial! 
worthys  for  valor  and  wifdom,  then  fecretly  hee  conveys  himfelf  with  them  to  Calais, 
the  evening  before  the  Town  fhould  bee  delivered  :  of  whom  this  lord  Thom^  is 
one  :  The  ffrench  approach  to  receive  the  Town,  having  paid  their  money,  |  The 
king  fights  as  a  Comon  foldier  under  the  banners  of  thefe  worthies,^  The  ffrench 
are  flaine  down  right,  The  Town  is  preferved,  The  king  with  his  feaven  Martial! 
worthies  returneth  for  England,  And  this  lord  is  come  back,  ere  hee  was  miffed  at 
Berkeley.  €lje 

1  The  King  placed  his  men  in  ambufcade  in  the  rooms  and  towers  of  the  Caftle,  and  faid  to  Sir 
Walter  Manny,  "  Sir  Walter,  I  will  that  you  be  chief  of  this  enterprife,  and  I  and  my  fon  will  fight  under 
your  banner." — (Froifs.  I.  p.  192.)     [Ed.] 


I36I 


Sifc  of  €t)onia!e^  t!)c  €t)trti 


323 


CljC  ao'.*"  of  March  in  the  24'!"  of  his  raigne,  the  king  writes  to  this  lord,  That  Ko'.  franc.  24  K. 
whereas  by  the  comon  confent  of  his  Barons,  hee  purpofeth  fpeedily  to  goe  beyond 
feas  for  the  neceffary  defence  of  the  kingdom,  for  which  Expedition  many  of  the 
nobles  do  provide  themfelves,  quanto  potentius  poffmt,  to  their  utmofl  powers.  And 
thereupon  (faith  the  king)  wee  wrote  to  you  to  come  to  us  and  our  Counfell  to 
Wefliii  with  all  fpeed,  (or  fome  for  you,)  to  treat  with  our  Counfell  for  the  manner 
of  your  going,  But  having  hitherto  heard  nothing  from  you  thereof,  wee  now 
ftriftly  command  you  to  come  to  us  in  perfon  to  WefliS  the  morrow  after  Efter 
day,  to  treat  with  our  Counfell  about  your  going,  And  to  doe  w'  by  our  Counfell 
fhall  then  bee  ordered  ;  And  this  omit  not  as  you  love  our  honor  and  the  falvation 
and  defence  of  the  kingdome. 

•CljC  14'^  of  June  in  the  26'''  of  his  raigne,  the  king  writes  to  this  lord  Thomas,    franc.  26.  E.  3. 
Guido  de  Brian  and  Thomas  de  Bradfton,  to  keep  ftrongly  the  fea  coafls  in  the 
Counties  of  Glouc  :  and  Hereford  againfl  the  king  of  France,  who  provides  an  huge 
Army  to  invade  the  land  by  incurfions,  giving  them  an  abfolute  authority  to  raife 
any  forces  to  that  end. 


3(  find  by  divers  chronicles  That  this  lord  in  the  29'''  of  the  king  went  over    Hollings:  fol:  389 
with  the  prince  of  Wales  into  firance,  who  was  that  year  made  by  the  king  his    ^^  diverrls  •  at^ 
father  governour  of  Gafcoigne  and  Aquitaine,  with  whom  went  alfo  Maurice  this 
lords  fon  and  heire  ;  And  that  both  of  them  in  the  year  following  were  with  the 
prince  at  the  great  battle  of  Poityers  fought  the  19"' of  Sept'  1356.  where  the  kinge    ^1:  [429] 
of  ffrance  with  his  fon  Phillip  were  taken  prifoners  :  whereat  alfo  this  faid  Maurice 
by  his  overmuch  valour  was  taken  prifoner  as  after  followeth  in  his  life  :  Neither 
did  this  lord  return  from  the  french  warrs  till  the  31*?  yeare  of  the  kings  raigne,    Comp:dePortbury 
when  the  age  of .  65  .  and  greife  for  his  fons  captivity  whifpered  to  him  to  lay  down 
thofe  Arms  which  thrice  in  the  raigne  of  the  laft  king  and  22  .  times  in  the  firfl 
thirty  years  of  this,  in  the  voyages  of  fo  many  years  hee  had  put  on,  againfl;  the 
French  by  fea  and  land,  &  againfl  the  fcots  and  Welfh  ;  And  to  prepare  for  that 
quiet  fleep  of  grave,  from  whence  fo  good  a  lord  cannot,  (ayded  with  gods  mercy 
in  chrifl,)  but  awake  to  immortality,  w"^  y°  title  of  his  Almes  and  devotions  may  y*" 
better  affure  us.  | 


31-  E.  3. 

pat.  32.  E.  3.  pars. 

3.  in  dorfo  bis. 


CouttjinS  the  delights  of  this  lord  Thomas  ;    hee  much  enlarged   Whitcliffe    381 
parke,   And  inflead  of  the  hedge  which  each  three  years  was  with  excreffence  of   de'^Berkelev'^" 
2  T  2  thornes 


324 


€l)e  3lit)Ci6f  of  tl)c  ^cthck)}^ 


1326     .; 


Comp:  rec.  2.  E.  3. 
in  callro  de  Berk 


thornes  there  growing,  new  made,  and  the  old  fold,  hee  firfl  paled  it,  And  therein 
put  certaine  white  deere  which  hee  had  of  Wittm  de  Monte  Acuto  Earle  of  Salifbury; 
A  ftrain  of  variety  above  any  of  his  Anceftors. 


cartse  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
See  fol.  [149] 


f$CC  alfo  added  Catgrove,  hanging  grove  and  other  grounds  to  Newparke, 
which  before  and  at  this  day  for  the  mofl  part  confifteth  of  the  lands  that  antiently 
were  part  of  the  manor  of  Appleridge,  half  now  fwallowed  in  name  and  fubftance 
by  its  great  neighbour  the  manor  of  Hame. 


Comp :  manij  de 
Alkington.  12.  E.  3. 
in  caflro  de  Berk : 


3|n  the  Accompt  of  Alkington  in  the  I2'^  of  this  king,  I  find  that  at  the  Court 
of  that  manor,  the  Jury  (called  the  homage)  were  amerced  3?  4^  which  was  leavyed 
upon  them,  for  concealing,  that  is  not  prefenting,  the  death  of  a  Stagg  that  was 
there  Stolen,  which  word  (cervus)  is  the  firfl  which  I  have  met  with  in  this  family, 
And  therefore  conceive  that  this  lord  Thomas  now  firfl  brought  in  thither  that 
beafl  of  venery,  and  put  them  into  that  Chafe  of  Michael  wood,  parcell  of  that  manor 
of  Alkington. 


jpOi;  the  hounds  which  this  lord  kept  for  feverall  Chaces,  let  their  number  bee 


Comp  :  de  Hame 
22.  et.  23.  E.  3.  et 
at :  m  Caflro  de    eftimated  by  one  kind  of  meat  they  eat,  being  fourty  fower  quarters  and  one  bufhell 

of  oats  from  the  manor  of  Hame  in  the  23?  of  king  Edward  the  third  ;  And  as 
many  from  Alkington  and  fower  other  feverall  manors  :  And  in  the  year  before  from 
the  faid  manor  of  Hame,  78 .  quarters  and  three  Bufhells,  And  neer  the  like  pro- 
portion from  other  manors:  And  as  it  feemeth  this  lord  was  fo  much  delighted  with 
this  fort  of  recreation,  That  hee  and  his  brothers  have  kept  out  4  nights  and  days 
togeather,  with  their  nets  and  dogs,  in  hunting  of  the  fox  ;  And  furely  nature  round 

Comp :  manr  de    about  his  manors  of  Simondfall  and  Wotton  had  fitted  the  foile  and  Country  as 
Uotton.  I.  E.  3.     _      _  .... 

in  callro  de  Berk:    invitements  thereunto,  wherein  to  this  day  it  is  no  more  renowned  and  pra<5lifed,  as 

I  fhall  more  largely  touch  in  my  defcription  of  Berkeley  hundred ;  And  with  this 

delight  of  hunting  this  lord  began  and  dyed.  | 


382 

Comp  :  Will  :  de 

Syde  I.  E.  3  in 

caflro  de  Berk : 

Comp:  nianer :  de 

ham:  20.  E.  3.  in 

cafl :  de  Ber  : 

Comp  :  rec.  ibm. 

20.  E.  3. 


311^  for  this  lords  faulcons  and  other  hawkes,  his  Reeves  accompts  of  Hame 
Portbury  and  Wotton  do  tell  us,  That  they  have  eaten  five  and  fix  of  their  hens  in 
a  night  and  day,  whilfl  this  lord  and  his  falconers  flayed  with  them  in  thofe  manors. 

3ln  the  middle  of  this  lords  life,  hee  payed  fifteen  fhillings  for  a  tarfell  gentle, 
and  35'  for  a  falcon  ;  In  which  fports  neither  the  ufe  nor  delight  is  reprehenfible, 
but  the  abufe. 

fot 


1361  jllifc  of  €t)oniajtf  tf}c  Zinvb  325 

Jfor  this  lords  other  delights  in  martiall  Julls  and  Turneaments,  let  it  fuffice,  Comp :  garderob  : 
That  in  the  firfl;  year  of  Edward  the  third  liee  went  to  Blyth,  Yorke,  and  Northton;  caflro  de Berkeley. 
And  there  at  Jufts  &  Turneaments  fpent  at  thofe  places — 53'!:  y'. 

Silll)  in  the  fecond  year  to  Hereford,  And  there  at  Jufts  and  Turneaments 
fpent — 29'i  6t  4'!- 

3finD  the  fame  year  at  Coventry  fpent — 5',';  14';  03'! 

%\ib  the  fame  year  at  Exeter — 50!  4^  ob.  And  that  his  Armour  for  his  body 
that  year  coft  him — i  I'i  8i  11? 

send  therein  exercifed  his  meniall  Efq"  alfo,  In  dono  dni  armigeris  fuis  pro    eode  :  1.  E.  3. 
haftiludio  apud  Briftoll, — 26=  8f — Given  to  his  Efquiers  for  to  play  at  Spearplay 
at  Briftoll— 26L  8^ 

3CniJ  fo  in  divers  other  years  till  age  grew  on  :  I  avoid  prolixity,  And  have 
written  of  thefe  manner  of  Exercifes  in  the  former  lives  of  two  or  more  of  this 
lords  Anceftors. 

J^i^  purcljajBicjS  of  Siinli 
]^il\)tn0  already  given  a  taft  of  this  lords  hufbandry  and  of  the  orders  hee 
eftablifhed  for  the  regulating  his  revenue  and  expences,   you  fhall,  (as  from  the 
fruitfull  effecfl  which  order  produced,)  take  a  taft  of  the  fruite  by  the  lands  hee 
purchafed. 

3ln  the  firft  year  of  Edward  the  third,   the  year  of  the  reftauration  of  his    p^'^y?  '^^^°  ^' 
Barony,  this  lord  purchafed  divers  lands  in  his  man"^  of  Alkington  of  Wittm  Gold. 

^|)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  Roger  Burghull  the  manor  |  of  Tullington,    3^3 

And  two  parts  of  the  manor  of  Burghull  in  the  County  of  Hereford.     And  the    Berkeley. 

manor  of  Hatherly  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  And  alfo  all  his  goods  and  chatties,    finis :  i.  E.  3.  in 

banc  : 

5Itt  the  fecond  year  this  lord  purchafed  of  S'  Wittm  de  Wawton,  one  of  his    ^arta  in  caftro  de 
own  houfhold  knights,  all  his  lands  Tenements  and  bondmen  in  Clapton,  Hame    Berkeley, 
and  Berkeley. 

'4ri)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  S'  John  de  la^River  knight,  divers  lands  and 
Tenements  in  Chricklade  in  Wiltfhire  ;  And  more  after  in  24'^  of  the  fame  kings 
raigne.  31^ 


326 


€Jje  EibCiei  of  tfjc  2£»crferiep^ 


1326 


Cart»  in  caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


pat.  2.  E.  3.  ps.  I. 

m.  4. 

Inquis  :  35.  E.  3. 


3ln  the  third  year  of  the  fame  king  hee  purchafed  of  John  Sant-Mareis,  ats 
de  Salfo  Marifco,  all  his  lands  Tenements  and  Mills  in  Woodford  in  his  own  manor 
of  Alkington. 

%^  for  his  manor  and  lands  in  Awre,  as  hee  had  the  one  moitie  with  his  wife, 
pofl.  mortTho:    in  marriage,  fo  were  others  there  of  better  value  formerly  purchafed  in  the  firfl  of 

df*  Berk*  • 

Edward  the  fecond  of  Jone  Ban  of  Midhurfl ;  for  which  Town  I  ferved  as  a  Burges 
in  the  I8'^  of  kinge  James  for  that  parliament. 

CfjC  fame  year  hee  bought  out  the  eflate  of  the  lady  I  fable  his  mother  in 
law,  which  fhee  had  for  life  in  the  manor  &  hundred  of  Portbury,  and  of  all  her 
other  lands  in  that  County  fave  in  Kingflo  Seim' 

3(n  the  4'^  year,  (the  year  of  his  parliamentary  purgation,)  hee  purchafd  of  S' 
Thomas  Ap-Adam  the  manor  of  Monweoden  and  Munden  in  the  County  of  Suffolk, 
which  I  fable  Haftings  then  held  for  life  by  the  demife  of  the  faid  S'  Thomas. 

iCfjC  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  the  fame  S;'  Thomas  Ap-Adam  the  caflle  of 
Beverfton,  and  the  manors  of  Beverfton  and  Over  in  the  County  of  Glouc:  and  the 
manor  of  Barew  Gurnay  and  a  meffuage  and  fower  Carucates  of  land  in  Tickinham 
in  the  County  of  Somerfet ;  All  which  John  fon  of  the  faid  S^  Thomas  Ap-Adam 
after  releafed  ;  And  then  alfo  buying  out  divers  freeholders  lands  that  lay  inter- 
mingled with  the  demefne  lands  of  Beverfton,  hee  forthwith  ftocked  the  fame  w'^ 
1500 .  weathers  hee  bought  of  S'  John  de  la  River  lord  of  Tormarton. 

Cl)f  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  John  Blake  and  Petronella  his  wife  divers 
lands  and  tenements  in  Rochull,  Whitton,  Crete  and  Stoke. 


Cart  in  caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


Cart  in  callr  de 

Berk 

chartul.  393 

pat.  4.  E.  3.  ps.  I 

dorfo. 

claus.  s.E.3.dorfo, 

code  in  dorfo 

cart  in  caflro  de 

Berkeley. 

Claus.  49  E.  3.  in 

dorfo  :  m  :  33. 


cart  in  caflro  de  'CIjC  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  John  ffreeman  and  Margaret  his  wife  the  fifth 

Berkeley    p^j.j.  ^f  jj^^  manor  of  Iron  A6lon,  in  the  County  of  Glouc  ;  whereof  read  among:  the 
finis.  4.  E.  3.  m    ^  •'  ° 


banc,    law  futes  of  Henry  lord  Berkeley  the  firfl.  | 


384 


Rot.  cart:  4.  E.  3. 
m  ;  25.  et  26. 


(CljC  fame  year  hee  purchafed  (but  without  date)  of  S'  Thomas  de  Gurnay  divers 
lands  and  teriements  in  Betefly  Gorft,  Tuddenham,  and  elce  where  within  the  lord- 
fhip  of  Strigoill. 

3tnJ)  the  8'^  of  June  the  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  the  king  a  Confirmation  of 
the  manor  of  Berkeley  and  Berkeley  hemes,  wherein  are  recited  the  Charters  of 

Henry 


1 36 1  Uifc  of  €f)onia.fi{  rf)f  3ri)irb  327 

Henry  the  fecond,   Richard  the  firll,   and  king  John,  formerly   mentioned  ;    And    cariae  in  caRro  de 

•  •     11  1  •  ,  1  •     1     •  I  r        ■  1  •  f  Berfklcley  fub 

withall  a  grant  to  him  and  his  heirs  to  have  return  oi  writs  and  execution  ot  proces    figjUo 

within  his  hunderd  of  Berkeley;  To  which  lohn  Mautravers  then  Steward  of  the    Pafch:rec:4.  E.  3. 

kings  houmold  was  a  witnes;  which  grant  (faith  the  record)  is  made  out  of  the  kings 

willingnes  to  doe  this  lord  a  further  pleafure. 

3!n  the  fame  4'f'  and  5'^  years,  by  feverall  deeds  of  feverall  lords,  hee  purchafed    car^  in  caftr :  de 
the  manor  of  Compton  Greenfeild  near  Brifloll. 

3in  the  6'^  year  hee  purchafed  divers  houfes  and  lands  in  Brifloll  of  feverall    Cart  in  caftr :  de 
perfons  by  divers  deeds. 

5!n  the  7'!"  year  hee  purchafed  Betefly  paffage  over  Seavern,  with  the  fifhings 
and  divers  lands  in  Betefly,  Gorft:,  and  Sodbury  ;  In  w'!"  Betedy  his  father  Maurice 
had  before  in  the  1 1'^  of  Edward  the  fecond  bought  divers  other  lands. 

5In  the  lo'!"  yeare  of  this  kinge  Edward  the  third,  (which  may  bee  placed  in    Comp.  de  Slim- 
the  ranke  of  a  faire  purchafe,)  hee  inclofed  out  of  the  warth  of  Slimbridge,  fifty    gt" /z^  E  \°  et'in 
acres,  now  called  new  leyes,  and  twenty  acres  more  of  the  fame  warth  adjoyning    ^''js  annis 
to  the  former  on  the  North  fide,  firfl  called  Cliffords  mead,  becaufe  then  let  to 
Clifford  of  Frampton,  And  at  this  day  called  Katharine  Cookes  leyes,  becaufe  it    fee  fol.  [363] 
was  let,  (for  fower  lives  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  4*,)  to  Katharine  Cooke,  a 
woman  of  remarkablenefs  in   Frampton  aforefaid,   by  whofe  poffeffion  her  name 
feems  perpetuated,  though  fhee  bee  dead  almoft .  200 .  yeares  agone. 

■^^n  the  13''' yeare  hee  purchafed  of  John  de  Becklawe,  divers  lands  in  great    cart  in  caftr :  de 
and  little  Wenden  in  Effex,  &  alfo  all  his  goods  &  chatties  there.  Berkeley. 

^f)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  S'.  Ralph  Wallington  lord  of  Yate,  the  manor    fin ;  in  thefau? 
of  Elifton  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  in  the  names  of  Side  &  Goldmere  his  meniall    ^^  gg^k 
fervants,  and  all  his  goods  and  chatties  there. 

iCljC  fame  year  hee  purchafed  divers  other  lands  in  Betefly,  Gorft,  and  Tuden-    Cart  in  caftr.  de 
ham,  of  Thomas  fon  of  Hugh  Gurnay  of  Harpetree. 


Berk. 


Cl)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  divers  lands  &  tenem"  in  Gofington  and  Hurft  in    Cart  in  Caftro  de 
y'  County  of  Glouc  :  of  ]x\°  fon  of  Roger  Gofington.  |  "  ^  ^^' 


328  €l)c  tlibcjef  of  tfjc  ^cvMcp0  1326 

385  ^n  the  I6^^  year  hee  purchafed  of  Ralph  de  Cobham,  the  manors  of  Orkefden 

Cart  in  caRr^de    ^^^  Childingfton,   and  all  his  lands  in  Bourdfeild,  Sheve,  Aldington,  and  Shard- 
marfh,  and  all  his  goods  and  Chatties  in  them. 

Cart  in  caflro  de  ^j^  ^j^g   j  ^th  y^^j.  j^^^  purchafed  the  manor  of  Winterburne   Madington,    in 

Wiltfhire,  And  the  manor  of  Eflanes  in  Effex,  of  John  Moynge  and  of  Julian  his 
widdow  and  Executrix,  And  bought  all  her  corn  growing  in  thofe  2  man''.' 

^ftro"deBl'rkelV"  '^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^^^  purchafed  of  John  de  la  Mare,  the  manor  and  advowfon  of 

et.  2.  cartas  ibm.     Langly  Burell. 

finis  in  caflro  de  ,^jj(.  fame  year  hee  purchafed  by  fine  of  Elias  de  Aylbrighton  and  Jone  his 

wife,  the  manor  of  Barewe  in  Somerfetfhire. 

5111  the  1 8'^  year  or  thereabouts  hee  purchafed  the  manor  of  Sages  called  Sages 
place,  and  Sages  Livelode,  within  the  prifh  of  Slimbridge,  of  John  Sage,  then  of  the 
value  of  1 7'i  p'  anil ;  whereof  I  fhall  write  more  largely  in  the  life  of  Maurice  lord 
Berkeley  the  fifth  of  that  name. 

finis.  18.  E.  3.  m.  Ct)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  the  manor  of  Iveden  in  the  County  of  Buck  : 

7.  in  recept  fc=^cij.    .^{^j^j^  j^gg  {-qIj  againe  twelve  years  after  to  Doly  and  others.  The  fame  being  all 
in  dorfo :    the  land  hee  at  any  time  parted  from,  after  hee  had  once  purchafed,  for  ought  I 
could  ever  find. 

cartas  in  caftro  ^[^  the  20'''  year  or  thereabouts  of  the  faid  kings  raigne  hee  purchafed  in  the 

names  of  his  faid  Servants  Goldmere,  Syde  and  others,  divers  lands  and  tenements 
in  Downhatherly  Leckhampton  and  Bentham  in  the  County  of  Glouc  : 

Comp.  manij  de  ^fjt  the  ai'.*"  year  by  the  manage  of  Katharine  the  widdow  of  S'  Peter  Veell, 

am.  21.     .3.    ^^.^  j^^j  j^^j  ^j^^  manors  of  Charfeild   and   Tortworth,    flocked   with   Cattle,   and 

ElC3.Ct.   Q.   R..  2  I 

in  turre  poR  mort  Huntingford  and  Veelham  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  3Ilntl  the  manor  of  Plympton  in 
diet  Katharine.  ^.^^  County  of  Devon  5fin&  divers  lands  in  Clyvelade  in  the  County  of  Worcefter, 
SilnD  divers  lands  in  Chelworth  and  Colcote  in  the  County  of  Wilts ;  3IInD  the 
manors  or  Ablington  Alton  and  Penleigh  in  the  fame  County  ;  And  the  manor  of 
Netherham,  the  4""  part  of  the  manor  of  Exton,  And  the  manor  of  Hamburell,  and 
the  hamlet  of  Berermell  in  the  County  of  Somerfet. 


Cart.22.E.3.m.ii.  '€l)C  fecond  of  December  in  the  2I'^  year  hee  purchafed  of  the  king  two  fairs 

r  term.  i.  H. 
n  banco,  rot. 
187.  Glouc  : 


Hillar  term.  i.  H.    ^.^  ^^^  holden  at  his  Town  of  Newport  near  Berkeley,  The  one  in  the  vigill  the  day 
4  m  banco,  rot. 

and 


I36I 


Hifc  of  Cljoniajef  tijc  CIjirD 


329 


and  the  morrow  after  the  day  of  the  Tranflation  of  S!  Thomas,  And  the  other  in 
the  vigill  the  day  and  the  morrow  after  S!  Maurice  ;  fele6ling  out  (as  it  may  feeme) 
thofe  two  Saints  days  in  an  honorable  memory  of  his  own  name  and  of  his  eldeft 
fon  who  fucceeded  him  in  his  barony,  whereof  former  mention  is  made  amongfl 
this  lords  forren  imployments.  | 


vide  fol  :  [379] 


•^fn  the  22'!  yeare  hee  held  under  the  kinge  the  office  of  Juftice  in  Eire  of  the 
kings  forrefts  Chaces  and  parks  on  this  fide  the  river  of  Trent,  with  the  fee  of  100'' 
p  ann.  As  for  feme  time  before  hee  had  done. 

Clje  fame  year,  in  the  name  of  Cheltenham  and  Weftyke  his  fervants,  hee 
purchafed  the  manor  of  Woodmancote  with  the  members,  in  Nibly  and  Came,  of 
Robert  de  Swinburne,  which  hee  fo  did  to  preferve  the  tenure  which  was  antiently 
of  him  by  knights  fervice,  as  to  this  day  it  is. 

C|)C  fame  year,  in  the  names  of  Befford  Efham  and  Vey  his  fervants,  hee 
purchafed  the  manor  of  Weftonbirt  in  the  County  of  Gloucefler. 


386 

[)at.  20.  E.  3.  ps. 
2.  dors  : 

liberal.  21.  E.  3. 
rot.  fin :  21.  E.  3. 
dorfo. 

Magn.  chartul. 
fol.  3.  in  cafl.ro 
de  Berkeley. 
Com  :  pleas.  25. 

E.  3. 

Term  :  Trin.  rot 

2.  in  cartis. 

cart  in  cart.r.  de 
Berk. 


(CljC  tenth  of  January  in  the  fame  21^.  yeare,  hee  purchafed  of  the  kinge  a 
licence  to  alyen  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley  and  the  manors  of  Berkeley,  Hame,  Apple- 
ridge,  Alkington,  Hinton,  Wotton,  Simondfall,  Came,  Cowley,  Slimbridge,  and 
Upton  S'  Leonards,  and  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  and  the  viewes  of  franckepledge 
to  the  faid  manors  appertaining,  and  the  Advowfons  of  the  Churches  of  Wotton  and 
Slimbridge;  And  accordingly  by  fine  in  Efter  Terme  in  the  23'!  yeare  of  that 
kinge,  hee  intayled  the  fame  with  divers  remainders  over.  As  after  followeth  in  the 
end  of  his  life. 


pat.  22.  E.  3.  pars. 
3.  m.  I.  II. 
pat.  6.  R.  2.  pars. 
2.  m  :  13. 

fol. 


finis  in  banco.  23. 
E.  3. 


311ntl  in  like  fort  hee  entayled  by  fine  the  manor  of  Portbury,  in  the  26""  of  that    finis  in  coi  banco 
kinge  ;  In  which  faid  22?  year  the  plague  fo  generally  raged  over  the  whole  Land, 
that  neither  Hillary  nor  Efler  terms  were  that  year  held  at  all. 

3In  the   24'?"  year,  hee  purchafed   of  Sr  John  de  la   River  a  meffuage  and    p"', '"  '^^^^'  ^^ 
Carucate  of  land  in  Cricklade  in  the  County  of  Wilts. 


CljC  fame  yeare  hee  purchafed  of  Walter  Naffe  lord  of  Naffe,  (but  the  deed    Cartse  in  caftro 
hath  no  date,)  all  his  lands  and  tenements  in  Came  to  himfelf  for  life.  The  remainder 
to  Maurice  his  fon  begotten  on  Katharine  his  wife  and  the  heires  males  of  his  body, 

2  u  The 


330 


€l)c  HiljeiGf  of  rtjc  25crftric|i^ 


1^,26 


The  remainder  to  the  heires  males  of  the  bodies  of  the  faid  Thomas  and  Katherine 
with  remainder  to  his  right  heires  ;  which  is  now  the  inheritance  of  John  Trotman, 
called  Naffe  court. 

Cartincaftr.de  ^^  the  25'!'  year  hee  purchafed  of  Jeffry  Goffelin  the   manors   of  Shulden, 

pat.  25.E.  3.  ps.3!    Chippenham,  Lolledon,  and  Weftlond,  and  the  hundreds  of  Chippenham,  Bifhopef- 
™  '•  ^-    ton  and  Boulewe,  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  for  his  life  and  feaven  yeares  after. 


carta  in  caftr.  de 
Berkeley. 


SrijC  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  Thomas  fon  of  Henry  Warren  divers  lands 
and  tenements  in  Lidney,  Tockenhale,  and  Naffe,  on  the  other  fide  Seaverne  againft 
Berkeley.  | 


387 

Cart  in  caft  :  de 

Berk  : 

magn :  chart,  ifeni 

fo :  294.  295. 

fin  :  25.  E.  3.  m.  2. 

pat:  25.  E.  3.  ps.  2. 

m.  14. 


Cl)C  fame  yeare  hee  purchafed  of  the  prior  of  Lanthoney  divers  lands  in 
Cowley  and  other  places  adjoyning,  at  this  day  called  Cancourt,  To  hold  to  himfelfe 
for  life,  the  remainder  to  Maurice  his  fon,  and  the  heires  males  of  his  body,  &c..  As 
hee  before  had  fetled  his  manor  of  Cowley :  for  this  purchafe  hee  gave  the  advowfon 
of  Awre  which  the  Prior  the  next  year  appropriated. 


cartce  in  caftro  de  5n  ^^^  ^^'-^  Y^^^  ^^^  purchafed  of  John  de  Manners,  divers  lands  in  Ticken- 

Berkeley.  |^^j^  ^^  hiinfelf  for  life.  Remainder  to  Edmond  his  fon  and  the  heires  males  of  his 
body,  with  remainder  to  the  heirs  males  of  him  the  faid  Thomas  and  Katharine  his 
wife,  &c. 


Cart  in  caftro  de 
Berk: 


3n  the  27'?"  year  hee  purchafed  of  S'.  John  de  A6lon  divers  lands  in  Chedder 
in  the  County  of  Somerfet. 


Cartae  in  caft.ro  '^Xl  the  29'^  year  hee  purchafed  to  himfelf  and  Katharine  his  wife  and  the  heires 

de  Berkeley,  j^^jgg  ^f  their  bodies,  of  Piers  Chilworth,  the  manor  of  Tokington,  for  the  quiet 
enjoying  whereof  againfl  S'  Nicholas  Poyntz  of  Cory  Mallet,  they  had  from  Piers 
a  rent  charge  of  40'.'  p  ann  out  of  Brodway  and  Ellworth  :  And  after  purchafed  out 
the  right  and  interefl;  of  S'  Nicho'  Poyntz,  with  the  Advowfon  of  the  Chappie  there, 
by  deed  without  date. 


Carl:  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley: 


CI^C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  Grimbald  Pauncefoot  the  manor  of  Sokke  in 
Somerfetfliire,  To  hold  to  himfelf  for  life,  the  remainder  to  Edmond  his  fon  and 
the  heirs  males  of  his  body.  The  remainder  to  Maurice  his  brother  and  the  heirs 
males  of  his  body,  The   remainder  to  the  heires  males  of  the  body  of  the  faid 

Thomas 


1 36 1  %iic  of  Cljoimtf  tfjc  OTfiirli  331 

Thomas  and  Katharine,  (between  whom  Edmond  and  Thomas  were,)  The  remain- 
der to  his  own  right  heires. 

3fn  the  23"^  yeare  hee  purchafed  divers  lands  in  Wixftowe  at  the  woodend  of   Can  in  caft :  de 
Hill,  part  whereof  are  laid  into  Newparke.  ^^^^  '• 

^ftf  35'^  year,  wherein  this  lord  dyed,  I  have  referved  to  mention  in  generall 
or  in  groffe  many  hundreds  of  purchafes,  which  (each  year  fome,  in  his  whole  life,) 
hee  made,  in  buying  within  his  feverall  manors  left  him  by  his  Anceftors,  thofe 
perticular  freeholds  which  their  great  error  in  that  point  had  created,  whereof  I  have 
made  mention  in  the  lives  of  Rob'  the  2^  Thomas  y=  i"  Maurice  the  2?  and  Thomas  fols :  [134,  187] 
the  2?  Againft  which  the  wholl  life  of  this  great  lord  and  hufband  was  a  continuall 
complaint  ;  And  which  againe  I  touch  in  the  life  of  the  lord  Maurice  this  lords  fon. 
]@l)at  other  purchafes  this  great  rich  lord  and  landmongre  made  I  fearched  not  to 
fee,  having,  to  the  glutting  of  my  felf,  found  many  more  then  could  bee  faid  of  any 
other  Baron  of  his  time,  as  formerly  appears  ;  notwithftanding  the  multitude  of 
evidences  and  |  deeds  which  upon  alyenations  and  otherwife  have  been  drawn  out  388 
of  the  evidence  houfe  of  this  antient  family,  which  I  have  not  been  enabled  to  fee. 

I^i^  0utc0  in  HatDc 

25fttOCCn  this  lord  Thomas  and  John  Berkeley  of  Durfley  were  many  and  long 
contentions,  which  drewe  their  originalls  from  a  grant  of  retorna  brevium  and  other 
liberties,  which  this  lord  obtained  from  the  Crown  in  the  4'!^  year  of  king  Edward 
the  third  within  his  hundred  of  Berkeley;  In  which  year  the  faid  John  Berkeley  petitio  in  parliam: 
prudently  yet  unneighbourly,  takeing  the  advantage  of  the  time  upon  this  lords  '^'  ^'  3"  "°  '°'' 
troubles,  exhibites  his  petition  in  parliament,  fhewing  that  hee  holds  the  man?  of 
Durfley  and  Newton  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  of  the  king  by  knights  fervice  in 
capite,  And  that  this  lord,  being  one  of  the  guardians  of  the  peace  there,  by  his 
Seigniory  and  office  hath  often  wrongfully  diflrayned  him  by  his  plow  Cattle,  And 
no  deliverance  will  bee  made  of  them  by  the  Sherife  nor  by  his  Bayliffe  or  other 
minifters,  car  il  tent  a  fes  fees  et  a  fes  robes  et  de  fon  menage,  for  that  the  Sherife  de  return  breviu. 
Bayliffe  and  minifters  are  all  of  his  fee  and  livery  of  his  houfhold  :  And  fo  by  his 
Seigniory  and  by  Dures  and  by  colour  of  a  new  purchafe  which  of  late  hee  hath 
made,  and  by  aid  and  maintenance  of  S'  Roger  de  Mortimer  late  one  of  the  kings 
Counfellors,  to  have  return  of  writs  and  all  other  royall  franchifes  within  this  hun- 
dred of  Berkeley  which  before  was  gildable,  would  incroach  to  him  the  attendance 
and  Seigniory  of  him  the  faid  John  to  his  difinherifon  and  to  the  damage  of  the 

2  u  2  king 


33  2 


€l)c  %iMc^  of  tl)c  23crhckpjBf 


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king  whereof  hee  now  prays  remedy  in  this  high  court  of  parHament. 
hereto  was  That  the  rolls  of  the  Chancery  fhould  bee  viewed. 


The  anfwer 


pat.  6  E.  3.  pars  2. 
in  dorfo. 


389 


brevia  regis.  10. 

E.  I.  3. 

bundle  in  turre. 

Lond. 


Trin:  20.  E.  3.  rot. 
72.  in  banco  regis 


Comp.rec.  2o.E:3. 
in  caflro  de  Berk  : 


CljC  next  paffage  I  find  between  thefe  two  angry  neighbours,  is  two  years  after, 
the  1 1'^  of  September  in  the  6'^  year  of  the  faid  king,  when  upon  the  complaint  of 
this  lord  a  Comiffion  is  awarded  to  Enquire,  That  whereas  Thomas  Devifh  Bayliffe 
of  this  lords  hundred  of  Berkeley,  had  according  to  the  ufe  of  old,  replevyed  the 
cattle  of  Robert  le  Webbe,  which  the  faid  John  Berkeley  of  Durfley  had  impounded, 
And  had  attached  fix  oxen  of  the  faid  John  Berkeleys,  to  caufe  him  to  come  and 
anfwer  y'  faid  Webb  in  the  faid  taking  in  his  hundred  Court  of  Berkeley,  and  being 
about  to  impound  them  :  whether  the  faid  John  Berkeley,  Nicholas  his  fon  and 
Richard  brother  of  the  faid  John,  and  fix  others,  refcuffed  ]  thofe  fix  oxen,  And  took 
withall  the  goods  of  this  lord  Thomas  to  the  value  of  fourty  pound  there  found. 
And  beat  and  wounded  his  faid  Bayliffe  whereby  for  a  longe  time  hee  loft:  his 
fervice,  or  not,  And  accordingly  to  determine  the  fame. 

3iIbOUt  three  years  after,  this  John  Berkeley  by  his  petition  exhibited  againft 
this  lord  Thomas,  informs  the  faid  kinge,  That  within  his  manor  of  Durfley  hee  and 
his  Anceftors,  time  out  of  mind  of  man,  had  ufed  by  his  Baylyes  to  have  within  his 
manor  of  Durfley  all  manner  of  Somons,  diftreffes,  and  Attachments,  And  that 
neither  y"  Sherife  of  the  County  of  Glouc  :  nor  his  baylyes,  might  enter  into  his 
faid  manor  of  Durfley  in  execution  of  any  thing  to  his  office  appertaining,  but  in 
default  of  hira  and  his  baylyes  ;  whereupon  the  king,  the  24*^  of  Aprill  in  the  ninth 
of  his  raigne,  fends  his  comiffion  to  the  Sherife  of  the  faid  County  requireing  to 
bee  certifyed  by  him  of  the  truth  of  this  petition  ;  who  returns  anfwer  That  fince 
hee  was  Sherife  hee  had  noe  ways  intermedled  in  that  manor  of  Durfley,  But  that 
the  Sherife  that  was  next  before  him  had  dire(^led  his  warrants  to  the  baylyes  of  this 
lord  Thomas,  of  his  hundred  of  Berkeley,  as  hee  himfelf  hath  alfo  Still  done  fince  hee 
was  Sherife ;  But  knows  not  by  what  warrant  the  faid  lord  claimes  to  have  fomons, 
diftreffes,  and  attachments.  25ut  thus  refted  not  this  buifines  ;  for  in  the  13*  of  the 
faid  kinge,  this  lord  Thomas  brought  his  a6lion  againft  the  faid  John  de  Berkeley, 
for  refcuffing  one  Robert  Leighton  who  ftood  indited  of  felony,  and  whom  this  lords 
bayly  wou'd  have  brought  unto  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley  and  there  have  imprifoned 
him,  untill  from  thence  hee  might  have  been  conveyed  to  Gloucefter  goale,  as 
hee  and  his  Anceftors  lords  of  the  dominion  of  Berkeley,  time  out  of  mind,  had 
accuftomed  to  do.  ^CIjC  defendant  in  perfon  confeffeth  the  action,  whereupon  this 
lord  recovered  fourty  pound  damage,  which  being  tryed  before  Wittm  Tracy  and  his 

fellow 


I36I 


Hifc  of  <Cl)onWitf  tl)f  Cljird 


333 


claus  : 
dorfo. 


14.  E.  3. 


fellow  Juftices  in  the  13'.''  of  Edward  the  third,  refled  for  feaven  years,  And  now 
was  execution  taken  out,  and  the  fourty  pounds  leavyed,  upon  the  occation  of  new 
futes  arifinge  between  them,  as  the  Receivours  Accompts  declares. 

^CtilUj^C  the  land  is  longe  fince  departed  from  this  family,  I  omit  the  mention- 
inge  of  a  tedious  fute  which  this  lord  had  againfl:  John  ffraunces  in  the  fubburbs  of 
Briftoll,  which  hee  claimed  as  an  Efcheat  for  the  felony  of  John  Tavernor  who  had 
abjured  the  land  ;  wherein  for  Juflice  this  lord  petitioned  the  parliament. 

5fn  the  16"'' of  this  kinge,  John  Neell  of  Briftoll  and  others  take  away  one  V^^'  «6.  E.  3. 
hundred  pounds  worth  of  this  lords  goods  at  Bedminfter  under  the  |  kings  protecflion  ogo 
as  hee  fuggefted,  and  beat  and  imprifoned  his  man  Woodfend,  then  in  defence 
thereof,  whereby  hee  loft  his  fervice,  contrary  to  the  kings  protection  ;  whereupon 
iffued  a  Comiffion  to  hear  and  determine  the  fame  :  wherein  I  conceive  hee  fped 
the  better  becaufe  it  was  dire6led  to  John  fitj  Nicholl  his  next  neighbour,  and  other 
of  his  approved  friends. 

3[n  the  I8'^  year  hee  profecuted  a  writ  of  Scire  facias  againft  Thomas  Cooke 
in  the  County  of  Northton. 

3(n  the  23?  year  of  Edward  the  third,  John  fon  of  Odo  de  A6lon  Efq'  brought    pat.  22.  E.  3.  ps. 

an  Affize  of  novell  diffeifin  as[ainft  this  lord  and  others,  for  lands  in  Kingfton  by    ^ ■.      °'c.       „ 

°  '  &  /     pat.  23.  E.  3.  ps. 

Slimbridge. 


1.  dorfo. 
pat.  29.  K.  3. 

2.  dorib. 
See  fol  : 


ps. 


^10  %lim0  anti  Dctiotionj^  tottt)  pcn^toitj^  ant>  rctDacb^  to  t)i^  jsfecliant^  aitb  ott^ct^ 

Chisf  lord  in  the  firft  of  king  Edward  the  third,  (the  firft  alfo  of  his  reftitution,    ^^S^-  chartut. 

.  ,  .  fo.  29.  in  caftr.  de 

as  hath  been  faid,)  gives  to  Wittm  de  Stinchcomb  an  hopefull  Scholler,  five  pounds    Berkeley. 

a  year  for  his  better  maintenance  untill  hee  fhall  be  promoted  to  a  benefice  of 

twenty  pounds  a  yeare. 


cartas  Indent  in 
caft.ro  de  Berkeley. 


3[n  the  4'!"  year  of  that  king,  hee  granteth  to  Walter  de  Combe  and  the  heires 
of  his  body,  a  place  of  land  called  the  Church  hay  containing  twenty  pearches  at 
Wortly,  to  build  a  chappie  upon,  in  honor  of  S'  John  Baptift,  paying  one  peny  rent; 
for  which  hee  faithfully  promifed,  that  all  the  Chaplens  there  celebrating  fhould  for 
ever  have  the  faid  lord  Tho?  and  his  heires  in  memory,  in  life  and  death,  in  all  the 
maffes  and  orifons  laid  in  that  chappie. 

3In  the  fame  year  this  lord  for  the  health  of  his  foule  and  of  Margaret  his  wife,    Car!  in  caftr.  de 
and  of  his  heires  and  anteceffors,  and  of  all  the  faithfull  departed,  confirmeth  to  y' 

Abbot 


334  ^ff^  %i)3e0  of  tijc  25n:Kdqi^  1326 

Cart  in  caftr.  de  Abbot  of  S'.  Auguftines  all  the  guifts  and  grants  of  his  Anceflors,  reciting  herein 
the  deeds  made  by  his  father  and  grandfather  to  the  faid  Abbot  :  and  in  the  1 1'^ 
year  granteth  more  to  the  faid  Abbot,  all  fuch  Eflrays  and  Cumelings^  as  by  the 
Baylyes  of  the  faid  lord  fhould  bee  taken  or  found,  upon  the  Abbots  demefnes, 
within  his  hundred  of  Berk''. 

Cart  cum  WiH^o  ^I)c  fame  year  hee  gave  to  S^  Richard  Rivers  knight  and  to  Sara  his  wife  and 

^"'^    ^See"fol     '■^  ^'^  heires,  Comon  of  paflure  upon  Slimbridge  Warth  for  all  their  fheep  levant 
391    and  couchant  upon  their  lands  and  tenements  in|Kingflon,  Goffmgton,  Slimbridge, 
and  Hurft,  all  times  of  the  year,  w'^out  any  thing  to  bee  paid  in  name  of  Agiftment 
or  any  other  ways  :  which  beare  the  name  of  Rivers  lands  to  this  day,  and  accord- 
ingly enjoy  this  privilege  of  tack  free. 

Carta  in  caftro  ^^n  the  9'^  year  this  lord  releafeth  to  the  pryors  of  Barewe  and  the  Nunns 

e  er  e  ey.  ^^^^.^^  jj^g  finding  of  a  flieepfold  of.  i6o.  fheep  upon  his  land  in  Barewe,  whereto 
they  ftood  bound  ;  In  recompence  whereof  they  grant  to  keep  the  Aniverfary  day 
of  the  lord  Maurice  this  lords  father,  the  lafl  of  May,  And  the  Aniverfary  day  of 
the  lady  Eve  his  mother  the  5'!'  of  December,  yearly,  And  likewife  the  Aniverfary 
dayes  of  himfelfe  and  of  Margaret  his  wife  after  they  are  departed  this  life.  And  to 
diflribute  26^  6^  on  the  feverall  days  of  their  Aniverfaries  for  pittance  to  the  Covent 
of  that  place,  And  that  the  chaplen  celebrating  thefe  Aniverfaries  fhall  have  as 
large  a  pittance  on  thofe  days  as  any  of  the  Nunns. 

Comp :  miniftror.  '^tl  the  fame  year,  (as  hee  accuflomably  did  in  others,)  when  the  houfes  of  the 

'"b^IcI  ^  fryers  Carmelites,  and  other  orders  of  fryars  in  BrifloU  and  Glouc.  were  taxed  to 
pay  any  fifteenth  or  other  duty  to  the  king,  this  lord  fent  to  them  either  all  or  mofl 
part  of  the  money  in  eafe  thereof. 

Cart  in  caftr.  de  "^tx  the  1 1•^  year  hee  granted  a  rent  charge  of  16?  by  the  yeare  for  ever  iffuinge 

•^^''^"    out  of  his  manor  of  Over  to  the  chantry  preift  fmging  maffe  in  the  chappie  of  Over. 

cartae  in  caftro  (C!}C  24'''  of  June  the  fame  1 1*  year,  hee  gave  certaine  lands  in  Portbury  to  the 

de  Berkeley,    ^j^^^  ^j-  ^.j^^^  Church  for  ever,  to  celebrate  the  Aniverfary  day  of  the  lady  Eve  his 

mother  on  S!  Nicholas  day,  by  devoutly  faying  a  placebo  and  a  dirige  with  a  maffe. 

And  giving  to  the  two  chaplens  there  if  they  bee  prefent  at  the  folemnity  thereof — 

2?  a 

1  Comelinges — newcomers,  ftrangers. 

For  they  have  cumulyngys  yn  and  oute. 

Of  fvvyche  ftiulde  men  have  grete  doute. — Harl.  MS.  1701.  fo.  15.     See  Halliwell.     [Ed.] 


1361 


Hifc  of  orijoiuaflf  tljc  Cljicb 


335 


2"^  a  peece,  And.  2^  to  the  ringers,  And  12?  to  the  poore  ;  And  for  the  Aniverfary 
of  Margaret  his  wife  deceafed  the  fifth  of  May  laft.  And  his  own  Aniverfary,  when 
hee  (hall  depart  this  life,  in  manner  as  is  before  expreffed  for  the  lady  Eve  :  And 
yearly  giving  fome  portion  of  money  to  S'  Johns  Jerufalem,  And  to  the  Churches 
of  Wells  and  Bath,  being  the  mother  Churches  of  thofe  weflern  places. 

Cf)C  fame  yeare  hee  gave  to  the  Chaplen — 30'  by  the  yeare  out  of  his  man!  of  cartre  in  caftro 

Bedminfter,  and  a  meffuage  in  Brilloll,  to  fmg  in  the  Abby  Church  of  S!  Auguflines,  pat.  n.  E.  3!  pars, 

for  the  foule  of  Margaret  his  wife  deceafed,  and  of  his  own  foule  when  hee  dyes,  ^-  "'•  3- 
and  of  all  faithfull  people  departed. 

•CijC  fame  yeare  hee  gave  a  meffuage  and  fifty  acres  of  land,  and  fourty  (liillings    I*'*'-  "■  ^'-  3-  pars, 
rent,  in  Portbury,  to  a  priert;  to  fing  in  our  ladies  Chappie  there,  for  the  fouls  of  all 
his  Anceftors,  of  himfelf  and  his  fucceffors  and  of  all  fiiithfull  people.  | 

31llllJ  the  fame  year  gave  land  to  Wittm  Godwin,  vicar  of  the  Church  of  Port-    392 
bury.  To  hold  fundendo  praeces  pro  animabus  dominae  Evae  matris  meae,  Margarettae    ^f"^'*  '"  '^^'^'  '^^ 
quandam  v.xoris  meae,  et  mei,  to  pray  for  the  foules  of  the  lady  Eve  his  mother, 
Margaret  fometime  his  wife,  and  of  himfelf. 


^11  the  I2'^  and  other  years,  hee  did  of  courfe  diftribute  yearly,  five  quarters  of    Comp:  n.  et.  12. 
„..  ..  ,..  ...  J         J"  ^  E.  3  et  at.  in  caftr. 

de  Berkeley. 


beans  amongft  divers  poore  bondmen  of  his  own  in  Almes. 


I 


•  3fn  the  1 7'!"  year  of  the  faid  king,  hee  founded  a  Chantry  in  the  Chappie  of  S! 
Maurice  in  Newport  by  Berkeley,  endowing  it  with  divers  Meffuages  lands  and 
rents  in  Berkeley,  Wotton,  Alkington  and  Hull  ;  The  prefentation  of  the  preifl 
whereunto,  was  limited  to  Wittm  de  Syde  parfon  of  Awre  a  fpetiall  officer  of  this 
lords,  for  life,  and  after  to  this  lord  Thomas  and  his  heires  :  And  by  his  charter  of 
foundation  appointed  what  kind  of  maffe  and  prayers  fhould  bee  faid  and  funge 
upon  ufuall  dayes,  ordinary  holidays,  and  fpetiall  feftivalls,  in  foe  devout  and  holy  a 
manner.  That  unleffe  hee  had  been  a  fchollar  to  John  Wickleefe,  (who  now  lived,) 
hee  could  not  have  come  nearer  to  the  docftrine  of  thefe  prefent  days  in  the  Church 
of  England,  forbidding  this  his  preift  to  take  any  money  of  any,  or  to  bee  fervant 
or  chaplen  to  any  but  God  only  in  fpiritualities,  And  to  himfelf  in  honeft  and 
neceffary  temporalities  ;  And  that  hee  fhould  live  chaflly  and  honeflly,  and  not 
come  to  Marketts,  Alehoufes,  or  Tavernes,  neither  fhould  frequent  plays  or  unlaw- 
full  games  ;  ^.n  ^  word  hee  made  this  his  preift  by  thefe  ordinances,  to  bee  one  of 
thofe  honefl  men  whom  wee  miflake  and  call  puritanes  in  thefe  our  days  :  which 
Wolflon  bifhop  of  Worcefter  by  his  Epifcopall  authority  confirmed.  C|)C 


carta:  in  cafl.ro 
de  Berkeley. 


336  €t)c  %iMc^  of  tJjc  25rrhriepsr  1326 

carta  in  cafty  de  '^TfjC  like  Chantry  the  fame  year  this  lord  ere6led  in  his  manor  of  Side,  endow- 

ing it  with  the  like  competency  of  maintenance  for  the  preift,  and  with  ordinances 
for  his  converfation  in  each  refpe6l  as  before. 

cart  in  caftro  de  Cljt  like  chantry  the  fame  yeare  hee  eredled  in  the  chappie  of  Wortly  in  the 

■    parifh  of  Wotton,  and  endowed  it  with  like  poffeffions  for  maintenance  of  the  preift, 
And  with  like  ordinances  for  his  honefty  and  converfation  as  before. 

carta  in  caflr.  de  ^Jjf  Hke  chantry  was  the  fame  year  by  him  founded  in  the  Chappie  of  Cam- 

bridge in  the  parifh  of  Slimbridge,  And  endowed  it  with  like  poffeffions  for 
maintenance  of  the  preift,  and  with  the  like  ordinances  :  For  all  which  Chantrys 
hee  procured  both  y°  kings  licences,  &  y'  Bifhops  confirmacbns.  | 

393  3ln  th^  forefaid  ii'l"  year  this  lord  gave  to  Atwell  chaplen  to  our  bleffed  lady 

Cart  in  caflro  de  ^^le  virgin  in  the  church  of  Berkeley  and  to  his  fucceffors,  two  meffuages  and  divers 
lands  in  Hame,  To  the  end  they  ftiould  on  the  day  of  Petronilla  the  virgin,  hold  the 
Aniverfary  of  the  lord  Maurice  his  father  in  Berkeley  Church,  And  on  the  fame 
day  diftribute  for  his  foule  .  12?  viz!,  for  knolling  the  bell .  i?  for  oblation  at  the  maffe 
.  i^  And  to  ten  Chaplens  in  the  fame  Church  ten  pence,  if  they  bee  prefent  at  the 
placebo  and  dirige  and  at  the  maffe  ;  And  for  foe  many  of  them  as  bee  then  abfent, 
to  give  their  pence  apeece  to  the  poore ;  3lllUJ  after  the  fame  manner  ftiall  do  yearly 
for  the  foule  of  Margaret  his  late  wife,  on  the  fifth  of  May  yearly.  And  fo  alfo  for 
his  own  foule  the  day  that  hee  ftiall  goe  the  way  of  all  flefti.  9l!ntl  further  that  the 
faid  Chaplen  and  his  fucceffors  fhall  for  ever  have  in  theire  memento  the  foules  of 
the  faid  lord  Maurice,  and  of  the  lady  Margaret,  and  his  owne  ;  And  upon  every 
day  after  their  maffe,  ftiall  fay  one  de  profundis  for  the  faid  foules,  and  all  foules 
departed  :  Of  which  if  any  fayler  bee  in  performance,  hee  and  his  heires  to  diftraine 
the  lands  now  given,  and  retaine  the  diftreffe  till  all  thefe  devotions  bee  performed. 

Carta  in  caftro  3'^    the    19*  year    this    lord    ere6led   the    like   chantry   in   the   Chappie   of   S' 

de  Berkeley.     Katharine  of  Katharine  Pulle  near  Briftoll,  And  endowed  it  with  divers  meffuages 
m.  28.  in  dorfol    and  lands  in  Portbury,  Efton,  and  Bedminfter  ;  for  which  hee  procured  the  kings 
licence  dated  the  6'^  of  ffebruary  that  yeare. 


carta  in  caftro  31"  ^he  fame  year  hee  ere6led  another  Chantry  in  the  Church  of  his  man'  of 

de  Berkeley.    Over,  endowing  it  with  a  meffuage  and  two  yard  land  there,  to  finge  for  the  foules 
1.  26.  in  doko.    of  himfelfe  and  of   Margaret  his  late  wife,  and  all  faithfull  people  departed,  for 
which  hee  alfo  procured  the  kings  licence  dated  the  I2'^  of  March  that  yeare. 


Sn 


1 36 1  2tifc  of  iCljoma^  tfjc  €l)ir&  337 

3,11  the  Twentieth  yeare  of  the  faid  king,  this  lord  gave  to  the  prior  and  fryars    Cari  in  callro.  de 
heremitcs  of  Briftoll,  divers  lands  in  the  fuburbs  of  Brilloll.  ^""^  • 

C!)C  fame  year  hee  purchafed  of  the  Abbot  of  S!  Auguflines  a  place  within  his    Carta  in  caftro 
monaftery  for  a  Chaplen  of  his  own  to  dwell  in,  to  pray  daily  for  the  foules  of  all         Berkeley, 
faithfull  people  departed  ;  which  hee  inclofed  with  a  wall,  And  endowed  the  Chaplen 
and  his  fucceffors  with  a  competent  maintenance  in  lands. 

9.'n  the  21'!'  year  this  lord  ere6ted  an  heremitage  in  Bedminfter,  And  therein  I     carta  in  caftro -.  de 

Kcrkcl  * 
placed  one  John  Sparkes  an  heremite,  to  pray  for  him  and  his  during  his  life.  ^q. 

3llnil  the  fame  year  hee  gave  to  the  Cuftos  of  S!  Katharine's  of  Bedminftre    carta  in  caftr  de. 
a  parcell  of  land  near  to  his  faid  hofpitall,  for  which  hee  bound  himfelf  and  his      ^^    ' 
fucceffors  to  pour  out  their  prayers  for  the  fouls  of  his  father  and  mother,  and  of 
Margaret  his  late  wife. 

3(n  the  22^  year  this  lord  founded  an  other  Chantry  in  the  Abbathy  of  S!    carta  in  caftro  de 
Auguflines,  and  endowed  the  Chaplen  with  divers  lands  and  houfes  in  Briftoll  for    pat.  22.  E.  3.  ps.  i. 
his  plentifull  maintenance,  there  to  fmg  for  the  foule  of  Margaret  his  late  wife,  and    '"  ■  '"• 
of  himfelf  when  hee  dyeth,  the  placebo  and  dirige  with  the  comendation  ;  And  to 
fay  for  himfelf  whilft  hee  lived,  the  colle6l  dominus  qui  caritatis  dona  cm  fecret,  et 
pofl   com  pertifi  :   And  after   his  death   the  colledl  of  dominus  cui  proprium  efl 
mifereri,  cm  fecret  et  com  pertineii  :  And  the  morrow  after  their  Anniverfary  days 
fhall  fully  finge  the  office  of  the  dead  with  a  maffe  ;  eflablifhing  like  orders  as  before 
hee  had  done    in    his    Chantry  of    Newport,   ordaining  herein   further,  That  the 
Chaplen  fhould  at  his  admiffion  take  oath  to  obferve  thofe  ordinances  as  farr-as  the 
frailty  of  humane  condicon  will  permit,  which  the  Bifhop  of  Worcefler  confirmed, 
under  a  curfe. 

<©n  palmfunday  in  the  23?  yeare  of  the  faid  kinge,  this  lord  meekly  offered  to    comp  :  de  Ham. 
our  bleffed  lady  in  Berkeley  Church  a  pound  of  virgin  wax,  pro  candela  caritatis,  as    de  Berk  et  in^ 
a  light  of  charity  ;  And  a  bufhell  of  fine  wheat,  pro  pane  benedicflo,  to  make  holy    ^nnis  fubfequen. 
bread  ;  And  this  was  annually  continued  to  after  generations  by  this  and  other  lord 
Berkeleys  fucceeding. 

'^n  the  24'^  year  or  near  thereto  hee  founded  a  like  Chantry  to  the  former,  in  Regiftr  Wigorn 
the  great  Church  of  Worcefler,  endowing  it  with  maintenance  as  aforefaid,  and  with  '^"™  ^1*° '  '^™' 
like  ordinances. 

2  X  3in 


338  €l)c  Uitc^  of  tl^e  23cchricpsf  1326 

comp.de  Ham. 48.  ^n  the  251"  year  this  lord  gave  divers  lands  to  the  Chantry  of  Shepperdine,  by 

Berk :    Hill,  in  the  confines  of  this  hundred  of  Berkeley,  for  the  better  maintenance  of  the 

Regist.  Wigorn.    pj-eift  fmging  there,  whereto  hee  and  his  poflerity  afterwards  prefented  as  founders. 

divers :  compi  in  ^^  the  26'?"  year,   out  of  his  landgable^  rents  of   Briftoll,  hee  gave  yearly — 

caflro de Berkeley.       i;    ,,    0,1  -n  r  r        1       r     1        r    1       1    1     iv/r  1  •     1  -r     •      r^ 

38.  E.  3.  at  at.    3-  °-  o-  to  a  preiit,  to  iinge  lor  the  ioule  of  the  lady  Margaret  his  late  wife  in  S' 

Auguftines  Church  by  Briftoll. 

comp.  predid.  SCttll  the  like  rent  yearly  hee  gave  out  of  the  fame  to  another  preifl  to  finge  for 

her  foule  in  the  monaftery  of  Keinfliam. 

395  '^fjiiSf  lord  ufed  alfo  certaine  generall  works  of  mercy  and  bounty  ;    As  |  to 

comp.  Recept  in    contribute  to  the  Abbots  charges  of  S'  Aguftines,  Kingfwood,  and  divers  others, 

caflr.  de  Berk,    ^^^id  to  the  fryars  minors  of  Briftoll,  Glouc.  and  other  orders,  when  they  went  to  the 

generall  Chapiter  of  their  whoU  order,  fometime  holden  at  Lincolne,  Salifbury  and 

other  remoter  places. 

Sl^anp  other  of  feverall  kinds  were  the  pious  works  of  this  noble  lord,  as  fundry 
fhort  entryes  in  the  Accompts  of  his  receivours  and  other  his  houfliold  officers  do 
point  to  his  poflerity,  here  altogeather  by  mee  unremembred,  becaufe  I  difcerne 
them  but  in  the  twilight,  longe  after  the  fetting  of  his  funn,  and  not  at  noone-tide 
in  the  cleernes  of  his  day,  as  thefe  before  mentioned.  311nb  pardon  mee.  Oh  my 
god,  in  my  overflowing  affection  to  this  lord  Thomas,  If  I  break  out  in  prayer  before 
thee,  to  remember  the  duft  of  this  thy  honorable  fervant,  refting  in  Berkeley  Church, 
in  the  travells  and  pious  ways  wherein  hee  walked  ;  And  forget  not  (lord)  thy 
Trevifa  in  poli-  doftrine  taught  him  by  thy  learned  fervant  his  Chaplen,  John  Trevifa,  vicar  of  the 
cap:  32.  fame  Church,  whofe  bones  reft  there  alfoe  ;  That  though  his  Anceflors  guifts  to 
Abbyes  in  old  time,  and  fome  of  his  own,  bee  more  wafted  in  gluttony  pride  and 
outrage  of  the  owners,  then  in  fuftenance  and  need  of  men  and  guefts,  yet  the 
givers  fhall  not  lofe  theire  mede,  for  their  will  and  intent  is  weyed  in  thy  ballance, 
and  their  good  deeds  fhall  follow  them,  with  the  reward  of  glory  and  immortality. 
3ilntl  thou  lord  that  knoweft  whereof  wee  are  made,  and  that  wee  are  but  duft.  And 
that  by  the  inftindl  of  that  nature  wherein  thou  haft  created  us,  wee  are  more  pronely 
led  by  our  own  Anceftors  examples,  grant  that  the  lord  George  now  wearing  the 
honor  of  this  Anceft'  may  bee  led  by  his  example  to  beare  like  fruite  to  this  noble 
lord,  whom  now  I  leave  at  reft,  expe6ling  a  Joyfull  refurreftion,  out  of  thine  own 

affu  ranee, 
1  A  Quit-rent,  or  Ground-rent.     [I'-d.] 


1 36 1 


%ik  of  Cftoniflirf  ti)c  2ri)ir& 


affurance,  That  bleffed  are  the  dead  which  dye  in  their  Lord,  for  they  reft  from 
their  labours,  and  their  works  follow  them. 


339 


J^ijrf  misffrilnniix  or  linrioufli  pa^^agciflf  not  aprtp  rrtmrcabk  iinDcr 
tftc  fornirr  ritlcjet 

5fn  the  firft  year  of  kinge  Edward  the  third  and  alfo  of  this  lords  Barony,  hee 
fent  a  difh  of  pears  from  Berkeley  to  Ludlowe,  to  his  mother  |  in  lawe  the  lady 
Mortimer,  in  novitate  frucFlus,  for  the  rarity  of  the  fruite,  faith  his  Receivours 
Accompts  ;  And  I  will  vainly  fay,  out  of  my  fruterers  humour,  That  to  know  that 
fruite  I  would  twice  on  foot  travell  to  Ludlowe. 


396 

comp.  I.  E.  3.  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley. 


CfjC  third  of  July  the  fame  year,  the  king,  (as  the  writ  imports,)  willing  to  doe  pat.  i.  E.  3.  ps.  2. 
this  lord  a  pleafure,  difchargeth  him  from  his  fervice  with  his  Army  into  Scotland,  "^'  "' 
which  hee  was  by  the  tenure  of  his  barony  to  have  done.  And  renders  the  reafon, 
becaufe  hee  is  intending  other  buifines  of  his  whereof  hee  hath  charge;  which,  (If 
I  may  bee  allowed  to  explaine  a  kings  fecret,)  was  to  looke  to  his  father  king 
Edward  the  fecond,  fecretly  brought  to  his  Caftle  of  Berkeley  the  5'^  of  April! 
before. 


IBtiUam  de  la  Marchia  late  Bifliop  of  Bath  and  Wells  was  to  bee  canonized    Rot.  Romse.  3.  E. 
for  a  Saint,  as  the  kings  tres  defired,  written  to  the  Pope  and  all  his  Cardinalls  ;  To    3-  ^-  5- 
this  Saint  this  lord  Berkeley  was  Executor,  a  buifines  that  fpent  more  of  his  time 
than  two  martiall  expeditions  into  Scotland  ufually  did. 

3|n  the  fecond  of  Edward  the  third,  this  lord  fent  a  porpois  taken  in  his  ffifhing  comp. re.  2.E.3.in 
in  Seavern  to  the  Queen  mother  for  a  token,  then  at  Worcefler ;  Of  which  River  '^^^'■° '^^  ^^'''^e'ey- 
and  her  fillies,  read  at  large  in  my  defcription  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley. 


3.  m. 


I^abtngc  paid  the  kinge.  500':  for  the  wardfhip  of  Robert  fon  and  heir  of  Robert  Claus: 
de  Clifford,  hee  was  found  by  office  to  bee  of  full  age  at  the  death  of  his  father.  And  '^' 
therefore  could  not  enjoy  the  benefit  of  his  grant  ;  whereupon  the  kinge,  (faith  the 
record,)  unwilling  to  offer  him  injuriam  or  duriciam,  wrong  or  hard  meafure,  comands 
his  Treafuror  by  his  writ  of  privy  feale  dated  the  15*  of  May  in  the  fecond  year  of 
his  raigne,  to  make  him  repaymi  but  it  came  not  to  his  purfe  in  fower  yeares  after. 

iCI^e  13'!*  of  May  the  fame  year,  the  king  pardons  to  this  lord  the  purchafes    pat.  2.  E.  3.  ps.  i. 
which  Maurice  his  father  made  without  licence,  of  a  Meffuage  and  two  Carucates    "^'  '*' 
2x2  of 


340  €t)c  Hibc^ef  of  tl^c  25crfedcp^  1326 

of  land  in  Upton  by  Glouc,  of  Germanus  de  Tunbridge ;  And  of  a  Meffuage  and 
yard  land  in  Afhton  in  Somerfetfhire,  bought  by  him  of  John  Coferer  ;  And  of  the 
moytie  of  the  manor  of  Awre,  and  of  the  hundred  of  Blediflowe,  and  of  the  moytie 
of  the  Advowfon  of  the  Church  of  Awre,  of  Adomerus  de  Valentia  Earle  of  Pem- 
broke ;  And  the  purchafe  which  this  lord  himfelf  had  made  of  the  other  moytie  of 
397  the  I  faid  manor  hundred  and  Advowfon  of  Awre,  of  Roger  de  mortuo  mari,  w"* 
were  all  holden  in  Capite. 


pat.  4.  E.  3.  pars.  ^(jc  ig'.'^  of  06lober  in  the  4*  of  Edward  the  third,  the  king,  (then  at  Notting- 

ham,) grants  licence  to  this  lord  to  let  for  lives  or  years  any  of  his  lands  in  his 
manors  of  Berkeley,  Hame,  Came,  Cowley,  Slimbridge,  Hurfl,  Alkington,  Hinton, 
Awre,  Wotton,  Simondfall,  Beverfton  and  Upton  by  Glouc :  in  the  County  of 
Gloucefter ;  And  in  Portbury  and  Afhton  Lions  in  the  County  of  Somerfet ;  All 
which  (faith  this  record)  are  holden  of  the  King  in  Capite ;  And  his  Tenants  foe 
takinge,  to  hold  them  without  the  impeachment  of  his  Efcheator  or  other  his 
officers. 

pat.  7.  E.  3.  pars.  ^Cltb  the  firft  of  July  in  the  7'!"  of  his  raigne,  gives  this  lord  leave  to  cut  down 

certaine  oakes  to  the  value  of  forty  pounds,  within  his  manor  of  Bedminfter,  being 
within  the  kings  Chace  of  ffillwood  near  Briftoll ;  And  to  difpofe  of  them  at  his 
pleafure. 


Rot.  fin.  10.  E.  3.  /CflC  2  2^!  of  December  in  the  Tenth  of  that  kinge,  the  king  for  one  thoufand 

™"  ''    marks  grants  to  this  lord,  the  mariage  of  the  heire  of  John  de  la  Ware,  with  the 

claus:  12.  E.  3.    profits  of  his  lands,  untill  the  full  age  of  the  heire.  And  foe  from  heire  to  heire 

pars.  2.  m.  15.    ^jj^^j]]^  g^^, .    jj^  ^j^g  margent  of  which  roll  is  this  memorandum  That  the  3o'^  of 

Augufl  in  the  12'''  of  the  king,  thefe  tres  patents  were  deliver'd  up  and  cancelled, 

becaufe  the  faid  John  de  la  Ware  at  the  time  of  this  grant  was  livinge,  and  fo  ftill 

is,  and  in  health  :  A  fecond  error  by  this  lord  comitted  in  buying  of  Wardfhips  : 

Rot  parliam.  14.  %n  the  I4'^  year  of  the  faid  kinge,  this  lord  was  one  of  thofe  twenty  y'  were 

^'  ^'  by  parliament  affigned,  out  of  the  ability  of  their  eftates,  to  undertake  to  pay  to  the 
king  then  in  ffrance,  the  Ayd  then  granted  to  him,  fooner  then  otherwife  it  might 
conveniently  bee  leavied  in  England. 

Rot.  pari:  15.  E.  3.  5llnb  in  the  year  following  was  at  the  parliament  one  of  the  Tryers  of  petitions, 

"°  7-  8.    -yvhat  time  many  were  exhibited  by  the  Clergy  nobles  and  Comanalty  concerning 

their  Antient  liberties.  fll^np 


i36r 


%\k  of  <ri)onui£t  t()c  Zf)kti 


341 


a^onp  were  the  imployments  of  this  lord  in  civill  affaires  for  the  government 
and  quiet  of  the  Country,  which  moft  years  hee  underwent  in  diverfe  Counties,  As 
in  the  Counties  of  Glouc.,  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  Wilts,  Hereford,  Southampton  and 
others  ;  Some  of  the  principall  whereof  are  witneffed  by  thefe  records,  being  all  in 
fpetiall  matters  and  not  in  the  ordinary  comiffions  of  the  peace  :  Pat :  2.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  in  dorfo  bis :  et  eode.  pars.  2  :  dorfo  :  /  pat :  3.  E.  3.  pars.  i.  in  dorfo  bis :  pat  6. 
E.  3.  pars.  2.  in  dorfo  :  /  pat.  8.  E.  3.  pars.  i.  in  dorfo.  /  pat.  15.  E.  3.  pars.  2.  |  in 
dorfo  :  /  pat.  16.  E.  3.  pars.  i.  in  dorfo :  /  fines.  19.  E.  3.  m.  5  :  /  pat.  22.  E.  3.  pars, 
3.  in  dorfo:  /  pat.  24.  E.  3.  pars.  2.  in  dorfo  :  /  pat.  25.  E.  3.  pars.  i.  in  dorfo. 


398 


CI)at  this  lord  was  fitted  tarn  marti  quam  mercurio,  both  a  great  foldier  and  a    comp :  de  Slim- 
great  hufband,  let,  (befides  what  hath  been  faid,)  his  improvments  made  in  many  of   ^""8^.  3-  et  10. 
his  manors  declare  :  for  in  the  third  of  Edw?  the  third  hee  tooke  in  and  held  in    de  Berkeley, 
feveralty  divers  parcells  of  Slimbridge  W^arth  ;  which  hee  fo  well  relifhed.  That  in    carta  in  caftro  de 
the  tenth  of  Edward  the  third  hee  inclofed  twenty  acres  more,  which  being  then  let  ^'       •'■ 

to  one  Clifford  was  called  Cliffords  mead,  and  now  Katherine  Cookes  leyes ;  And 
fhortly  after  inclofed  fifty  four  acres  more  of  the  fame  Warth  then  called  new  clofe,  ( 

now  new  leyes  ;    At  which  time  and  for  fome  years  after  they  yealded  but  6"*  the 
acre,  now  at  this  day  worth  twenty  fhillings  the  acre  ;  whereof  read  under  the  title    fol  [384] 
of  his  purchafes  more  at  large. 

3fn  contriving  of  e.xchanges  both  for  land  and  tenure,  to  draw  thereby  fcattered    pat.  in  turre.  17. 
parcells  togeather,  this  lord  went  beyond  the  bed  of  his  Anceflors,  as  many  inflru-    at  in  caflr  de^  ^ 
ments  of  lands  within  his  manors  of  Alkington,  Wotton,  Came,  Slimbridge,  and    Berkeley. 
others,  declare ;  foe  well  fitted  with  pithy  words  and  fubftance  as  I  know  not  whither 
to  repaire  for  the  like  prefidents  :    A  profitable  and  harmleffe  hufbandry  :   In  all 
which,  Wittm  de  Syde  his  great  officer  parfon  of  Awre,  was  his  fpetiall  agent. 

J^ec  often  held  in  one  year  fower  Leets  or  views  of  frankpledge  in  Berkeley    Comp :  burgi  de 

Berk '  I  ^   E    X 
Burrough,  wherefrom,  impofeing .  4*!  and .  6'!  upon  a  brewing  of  Ale,   and  renting    et  al. 

out  the  Toll  or  profit  of  the  wharfage  and  markett  there  to  the  Maior  of  the  Town, 

hee  drew  yearly  from  that  art  much  more  then  the  rent  of  the  burrowe :  3?n  the  1 3^ 

of  Edward  the  third,  284 .  tollceflers,  which  I  call  brewings,  yealded  unto  him  by 

the  Catchpolls  Accompt — 8'!  6',  which  now  yeild  nothinge. 

^tl  the  7'^  of  Edward  the  third,  an  agreement  was  between  the  Abbot  of  S'    carta.  7.  E.  3.  in 
Auguflines  and  this  lord  made  for  the  entercomoning  of  their  tenants  of  Portbury,    '^^  ^'        ^^      ^' 
Leigh,  and  Afhton,  and  for  their  mutuall  inclofeings  and   holding  other  parts  in 
feveralty  free  from  Comon.  0[lt 


342 

pat 


€|)c  %i\yc^  of  rtjc  2&cchdcpiS 


1326 


18.  E.  3.  pars. 
I.  m  :  45- 

399 


Inq  :  19.  E.  3.  in 
caftro  de  Berkeley. 


5in  the  I8'^  of  Edward  the  third  paffed  a  fmall  exchange  of  land  between  this 
lord  and  the  pryor  of  S'  John  Jerufalem,  where  for.  21?  rent  of  |  land  in  Brifloll, 
which  the  pryor  conveyed  to  him,  this  lord  conveyed  to  the  pryor  fower  acres 
adjoyning  to  the  manfion  houfe  of  the  faid  pryor,  which  upon  obfervation  I  certainly 
conceive  to  be  the  very  ground  where  S"  Michaell  Stanhope  dwelt  and  dyed,  ex- 
tended to  the  gate  of  the  priory,  and  now  the  inheritance  of  the  lady  Elizabeth  his 
daughter,  wife  of  George  now  lord  Berkeley  Anno.  1624. 

3|n  the  19'!"  of  Edward  the  third,  the  kinge  directed  forth  his  Commiffions  to 
this  lord  and  others,  to  enquire  by  oath  what  each  mans  eflate  in  lands  was  in  the 
County  of  Glouc  :  and  Briftoll,  from  five  pound  to  one  thoufand  pound  ;  which  this 
lord  was  not  more  flowe  in  executinge  then  in  returninge  thofe  Inquifitions;  for 
fome  of  them  remaine  under  the  feals  of  the  Jurors  of  Berkeley  Caflle  to  this  day  ; 
wifely  forefeeing  how  dangerous  fuch  prefidents  might  prove  both  to  the  prefent 
and  fucceeding  ages  :  Neither  have  I  obferved  the  records  remaining,  to  warrant 
thofe  proceedings,  whereupon  I  conceive  they  were  after  difallowed  by  king  and 
flate,  as  being  againfl  the  lawe  and  native  liberty  of  the  Subjeft. 


liberal.  21.  E.  3.  fCt)!^  lord,  in  the  2I'^  of  Edward  the  third,  was  made  Juftice  in  Eire  of  all  the 

n.  22.    .3.  m:  29.    j^jj^gg  fforrefts  Chaces  and  parks  on  this  fide  Trent,  which  is  already  touched. 

Comp.  de  Slim-  'Ct)i;S  lord,  in  rewarding  the  merrits  of  his  cheifefl  officers  whofe  fervices  hee 

bridge  24.  E.  3.  at    ^q(\_  imployed,  ufed  an  heroick  liberality,  wherein  the  inftance  of  Wittm  de  Chelten- 
diverfeatnncallro  ^     ■'  ^        , 

de  Berkeley,    ham  may  ferve,  on  whom  hee  conferred  lo'i  16=  4''.  fee  for  his  life,  And  the  prefent 

rent  of  his  lands  in  Arlingham,  which  was  much  more ;  And  the  Wardfhip  of  the 

carta  in  caflro    heire  of  John  Berkeley  of  Wike  by  Arlingham,  with  the  profit  of  that  manor  alfoe 

duringe  his  minority  :    And  the  manor  of  Pyriton  and  little  Marfhfeild,  which   I 

cannot  ellimate  at  leffe  then  .  250"  p  ann  :  The  like  liberality  hee  reached  to  Wittm 

de  Syde  his  Receivour,  parfon  of  Awre,  whom  I  hold  for  the  honefler  man  :  for  no 

fooner  was  hee  dead  but  feaventeen  petitions  were  preferred  to  this  lord  againft 

him,  which  yet  remaine  in  parchment  in  Berkeley  Caftle  ;  And  as  I  have  obferved 

of  this  lords  bounty  ufed  to  thefe  two,  fo  might  I  divers  others,  as  Vey,  Goldmere, 

and  others. 


de  Berkeley. 


Comp:  rec:  16.  et.  (J^f  this  lords  other  liberalityes,  the  Accompt  of  his  Receivour  in  the  20'^  of 

de  Berkeley.    Edward  the  third,  (the  middle  year  almofl  of  his  Barony,)  fhall  fuffice  |  to  informe, 

400    (many  others  yet  remaining  declaringe  the  like;)    311^  how  to  John  fit3  Nicholl,  a 

gentleman 


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gentleman  his  Neighbour,  towards  the  mariaj^^c  of  Margaret  his  daughter  hee  gave 
ten  pound  :  To  Afton  and  Chvedon  two  of  his  fervants  tiiat  contended  in  a  title  of 
land,  the  better  to  compofe  their  controverfy,  hee  gave  twenty  pound ;  To  the  pryor- 
effe  of  Betlond  hee  gave  fourty  fliillings,  Towards  the  amending  the  high  ways  by 
Knubbyefaflies  near  Berkeley — 13!^  4**.  To  the  Abbot  of  S!  Auguftines — 5''-  To  S' 
John  Tracy  and  others  of  his  houfhold  knights,  for  their  good  fervice  whilft  they 
were  with  him  in  the  Scottifh  warrs,  ten  pounds  apeece  ;  In  which  year  alfo  hee 
clothed  one  and  thirty  poore  people  from  head  to  foot  &c,  with  many  the  like  here 
omitted  appearing  in  that  accompt,  and  in  many  others  of  other  years. 

3[n  the  later  days  of  this  lord  Thomas  flourifhed  John  Trevifa,  a  gen'  of  an    SurveyofCornwall 
antient  family  bearing  gules,  a  garbe,  or,  born  at  Crocadon  in  Cornwall,  a  fecular    Vy  ji'^',"'^.  f    .^ 
preift  and  vicar  of  Berkeley  ;    who  tranflated   the  bible,    Polichronicon  of  Raph    Polichron :  fo.  2. 
Higeden   ats   Raynulphe   monke  of  Chefler,  Bartholomewe  of  the  proprieties  of   And."cenf '^r  °' 
things,  and  divers  other  treatifes  all  into  Englifh,  dedicating  the  two  firft  to  this    n°  '8. 
lord,  and  the  reft  to  this  lords  fon  and  grandchild,  as  in  their  lives  appear :  ^In  a 
diologue  (wherein  hee  makes  this  lord  and  himfelf  the  fpeakers)  in  his  polichronicon, 
hee  argueth  the  profit  arifinge  by  hiftories,  and  the  neceffity  of  tranflations  into  the 
Englifh  tongue  :  In  urging  whereof  hee  bringeth  in  this  lord  Thomas  inftancing  his 
own  Chappie  in  Berkeley  Caftle,  wherein  the  Apocalips  (faith  hee)  is  written  on  the 
walls  and  roofe  in  latin  and  french  :  which  in  this  year.  1622.  fo  yet  remaineth, 
fomewhat,  but  not  much,  defaced.^     CtjCiSHC  books  of  Polichronicon  grow  fomewhat 
rare,  which  if  againe  they  fhould  bee  printed,  (as  not  unlike,)  would  either  loofe  their 
original  epiftle,   or  have  Trevifa  his  old  phrafe  and   Ideome  of  y'  time,  altered  ; 
which  to  prevent,  fhall  here  follow  in  Trevifaes  own  words. 


C|)e  Epiftle  of  mee  Sr  John  Trevifa  Chapelain  unto  lord  Thomas  of 
Berkeley  upon   the  tranflation  of  Polichronicon    into   our    Englifh 
tongue. 
IDCttltf)  and  worfhip  To  my  worthy  and  worfhipfull  lord,  S'  Thomas  lord  of 
Berkeley  ;   I  John  Trevifa  your  preeft  and  bedeman,  obedient  and  boxom  to  worke 
your  will,  holde  in  herte,  thenke  in  |  thought,  and  meen  in  mynde,  your  needfull    401 
meninge  and  fpeech  That  yee  fpake  and   faid,  that  you  would  have  Englifh  tranfla- 
tion of  Ranulphus  of  Cheflers  books  of  Cronikes,  Therefore  I  will  fond  to  take 

that 
1  Some  portion  of  thefe  infcriptions  yet  remain  in  the  Chapel  of  Berkeley  Cadle,  and  have  been 
reproduced  in  facfimile  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Cooke,  F.S.A.,  in  Vol.  I.,  p.   138,  Tranfafiions  of  the  Brijlol  and 
Gloucejkrjhire  Archaological  Society.     [Ed.] 


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liber  :  vlt :  fo.  389. 

but  fol  :  316.  in 

another  tranllation 


that  travell,  and  make  Englifh  tranflation  of  the  fame  bookes,  as  God  granteth  mee 
grace ;  for  blame  of  backbiters  will  I  not  blin,  for  envy  of  enemyes,  for  evill  fpitinge 
and  fpeech  of  evill  fpeakers,  will  I  not  leave  to  doe  this  deed  ;  for  travell  will  I  not 
fpare  comfort  I  have  in  medefull  makeing  and  plefmge  to  God,  and  in  knowing  that 
I  wote  that  it  is  your  will;  for  to  make  this  tranflation  clere  and  plaine  to  be  known 
and  underftandyn,  I  fome  place  I  fliall  fet  word  for  word,  and  a6liffe  for  aftiffe,  and 
paffife  for  paffife,  arowe  righ  as  it  ftandeth  w'^'out  changinge  the  order  of  words, 
And  fet  aftife  for  paffife,  and  ayenward  ;  And  in  fome  places  I  muft  fet  a  refon  for 
a  word,  and  tell  what  it  meaneth  :  But  for  all  fuch  changing,  the  meaning  fhall 
ftand  and  not  be  changed  ;  but  fome  words  and  names  of  Cuntries,  of  londs,  of 
Cities,  of  waters,  of  rivers,  of  mountaynes  and  hills,  of  perfons  and  of  places,  mufl 
be  fet  and  ftand  for  himfelf  in  her  own  kinde  ;  as  Afia,  Europia,  Africa,  and  Siria, 
mount  Athlus,  Sina  and  Oreb,  Marach  and  Jurdan,  and  Arnon,  Bethlem,  Narrareth, 
Jerufalem,  and  Damafcus,  Hanibal,  Rafm,  Afuerus,  and  Cirus,  and  many  fuch  words 
and  names  :  If  any  man  make  of  thefe  bookes  of  Conyckes  a  better  Englifh  tranfla- 
tion and  more  profitable,  God  do  him  mede  ;  And  becaufe  you  make  me  doe  this 
medefull  need,  hee  that  quitteth  all  good  deeds  quite  your  mede  in  the  bliffe  of 
hevyn,  in  welthe  and  likinge  with  all  the  holy  Saints  of  mankind,  and  the  nyne 
orders  of  Angellis,  as  Angells,  Arkangells,  principatus,  poteftates,  virtutes,  domina- 
tiones,  trones,  cherubim  and  feraphim,  to  fee  God  in  his  bliffefull  face  in  joy 
without  any  end,  Amen. 


5ilnll  in  the  end  of  his  faid  tranflation,  hee  concludeth  thus  :  God  bee  thanked 

for  all  his  deeds,  This  tranflation  is  ended  on  thurfday  the  I8'^  of  Aprill .  1357  .  the 

31*  year  of  king   Edward  the  third,  the  year  of  my  lords  age   S'  Thomas  lord 

mifprinted.  35.    Berkeley  that  made  mee  make  this  tranflation,  the — 65'!'. 
for:  65.  ^ 

Balaeusdefcriptor.  25ut    Bale    delivers    the    learned   labors   of   this  Trevifa   more   largely   thus  ; 

Angl :  centur.  7.  Johannes  Trevifa  genere  et  patria  &c.  John  Trevifa,  a  gentleman  of  Cornwall, 
was  a  preift  and  vicar  of  Berkeley,  a  man  famous  for  learning  and  eloquence,  who 
402  efpetially  above  others  laboured  to  adorne  the  Englifh  |  tongue,  and  to  remove  the 
old  harflines  thereof,  whereby  hee  became  very  deere  unto  many  of  the  nobles  of 
the  land,  but  efpetially  to  his  excellent  lord  Thomas  of  Berkeley  :  And  amongft 
other  fludies  which  much  delight  the  minds  of  men,  hiflories  and  antiquities  beft 
pleafed  him,  as  from  whence  the  befl  Councells  and  examples  of  life  might  bee 
drawn  :  wherein  whilft  hee  fludioufly  labored,  hee  fometimes  fhewed  himfelf  harfh 
and    bitinge   towards    monks    and    their   profeffion,    taxing   their   pride,    riot    and 

hypocrify ; 


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hypocrify  ;  As  where  hee  faith,  wee  read  that  Chrifl  inflitutcd  Apollles  and  preifls, 
but  never  ordained  monkes  or  begging  fryars,  with  many  other  the  like  taunts. 

3'ntO  the  Enghfli  tongue  hee  likewife,  at  the  requefl;  of  his  faid  lord  Berkeley,  Balaius  predict, 
(faith  Bale,)  tranflated  the  wholl  bible,  as  well  as  the  old  as  new  Teftament,  and 
many  other  works,  which  Bale  there  rehearfeth  in  particuler  ;  And  continued  his 
polichronicon,  (faith  Bale,)  unto  the  year  of  Chrifl,  1397.  being  the  21'!'  of  king 
Richard  the  fecond  ;  till  when  and  fomewhat  after,  himfelf  florifhed.  More  of  this 
learned  and  vertuous  Chaplen  Trevifa  after  followeth  in  the  lives  of  Maurice  the 
fourth,  and  of  Thomas  the  fourth,  fon  and  ijrandchild  to  this  lord. 


CfjC  firfl;  wife  of  this  lord  was  Margaret,  to  whom  hee  was  maryed  in  the  13'.'' 
of  king  Edward  the  fecond,  in  the  life  of  the  lord  Thomas  his  grandfather,  as 
formerly  hath  been  faid  ;  by  whom  hee  had  iffue,  Maurice,  Roger,  Thomas, 
Alphonfus,  and  lone,  of  each  of  whom  as  followeth  ;  And  dyed  the  fifth  of  May  . 
1337  .  in  the  1 1'.''  of  that  king,  fhee  then  under  thirty  years  of  age  ;  And,  (as  Abbot 
Newland  hath,)  was  worfhipfully  buried  in  the  Church  of  S!  Augufj  tines  monaflery, 
in  the  great  tombe  under  the  Arch  between  the  elder  Chappie  of  our  lady  and  the 
north  I  fie  there;  whofe  Aniverfary  day  was  yearly  folemnized  in  Portbury  Church 
in  honor  of  her  memory  by  the  endowment  of  her  hufband,  and  in  many  other 
places,  as  formerly  is  written.  Cfjijtf  lady  Margaret  was  daughter  of  Roger 
Mortimer  lord  of  Wigmore,  (created  Earle  of  March,)  and  of  the  lady  Jone  his 
wife  daughter  and  heire  of  Sr  Peter  Genevill,  fon  of  Edmo^  Mortimer  and  the  lady 
Margaret  ffendles  his  wife,  fon  of  Roger,  fon  of  Ralph  lord  Mortimer  of  Wigmore 
and  the  lady  Gladis  his  wife,  fifler  and  heire  of  David  prince  of  North-Wales, 
children  of  Lhewelyn  ap  Jorwerth  the  fuperior  prince  of  all  wales,  right  heir  of 
memorable  Cadwalader  the  laft  king  of  the  Britains .  viz'  the  fon  of  Jorwerth,  the 
fon  of  Owen  Gwyneth,  the  fon  of  Gruffyth,  the  fon  of  Conan,  the  fon  of  lago,  the  fon 
of  Edwall,  the  fon  of  Meiric,  the  fon  of  Edwall  voell,  the  fon  of  Anarawd,  the  fon  of 
Roderi  Mawr,  the  fon  of  Efylht,  the  daughter  and  fole  heir  of  Conan  Tyndathwy, 
the  fon  of  Roderike  Molwynoc,  the  fon  of  Edwall  Ywrch,  the  fon  of  the  faid 
Cadwalader  the  laft  king  of  the  Britains ;  whom  the  Saxons  fury  about  the  year  of 
Chrifls  incarnation  .  658  .  drave  into  a  corner  of  the  kingdome  called  wales,  where 
the  former  princes  ruled  and  raigned  ;  which  faid  pedigree  is  approved  by  many 
writers  without  contradidlion  of  any. 

2  Y  The 


fol  :  [353] 

cart  in  caflr  de 
Berk  : 

Newl :  pedg.  in 
caflrode  Berkeley. 


403 


Powell,  fo  :  315. 
316. 


Powell  :  3 1 5 
Galf.  monm  :  et 
divers  at. 


346 


€l)c  libcief  of  tijc  ^ttMtp^ 


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vetvs  rotul.  in 

cafl  :  de  Berkeley. 

comp.de  Ham.  2 1. 

E.  3.  in  caftro  de 

Bar: 

foundac:lib.fchol3e 

de  Wotton  cm 

Epo  Worcefler  : 

clau.s  :  17.  E.  3. 

pars.  I.  m.  8. 

Efcaet.  in  turre 

9.  R.  2.  in  ijfde 

Com. 


404 


comp.  ballivi.  38. 

E.  3.  in  cadre  de 

Berk. 


Efchaet.  9.  R.  2. 

pat.  37.  E.  3.  pars: 

I.  m.  17. 

Augufl.  pcd  :  in 

caflr.  de  Berkeley. 

fines.  9.  R.  2.  m. 

orig.  in  fccio. 
9.  R.  2.  rot.  3.  et.  5. 


The  dowry  which  this  lady  Margaret  brought  to  her  hufband  in  land  and 
money  is  already  mentioned. 

3CftCt  the  death  of  which  Margaret,  this  lord  lived  a  widower  ten  years  one 
month  and  twenty  fix  days,  And  then  on  teufday  the  third  of  y"  Calends  of  June 
in  the  year .  1347  .  in  the  21'.''  year  of  kinge  Edward  the  third,  being  S!  Peters  day, 
tooke  to  wife  at  Charfeild  fower  miles  from  Berkeley,  where  fhee  then  dwelt, 
Katharine  the  widow  of  S'i  Peter  le  Veell  knight,  and  daughter  of  S".  John  Clyvedon 
knight  and  of  the  lady  Emme  his  wife,  who  there  had  lived  a  widow  fower  years 
before.  i§»t)CC  was  fruitfull  to  her  hufband  both  in  lands  and  children,  ^n  lands 
fhee  brought  with  her  the  manors  of  Charfeild,  Tortworth,  Huntingford,  and  Veel- 
ham  ats  Hamveell,  and  fome  others  in  the  County  of  Gloucefler ;  And  divers  lands 
in  Clyvelode  in  the  County  of  Worcefter,  And  the  manor  of  Plympton  in  the  | 
County  of  Devon,  And  the  manors  of  Ablington,  Alton,  and  Penleigh,  and  divers 
lands  and  tenements  in  Chelworth  and  Colcole  in  the  Com  of  Wilts,  And  the 
manors  of  Netherhame,  Hamburell,  the  hamlet  of  Berermell,  and  the  fourth  part  of 
the  manor  of  Exton  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  and  fome  others. 

<©f  which  fhee  held  in  fee  the  manors  and  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Somerfet 
and  Worcefter,  and  the  lands  in  Chelworth  and  Colcole  in  Wiltefs,  by  the  feverall 
conveyances  of  S'  Peter  Veel  her  hufband,  which  came  to  John  Moygne  fon  of 
Jone  daughter  of  the  faid  S'  Peter  Veel  and  Katharine  :  The  refidue  fhee  held  for 
her  life  from  her  faid  hufband  and  his  father :  And  the  Accompt  of  Richard  Lidney 
bayly  of  Portbury  hundred  in  the  38'.*"  of  Edward  the  third,  will  enforce  beleife 
That  fhee  alfo  held  the  manor  of  Chedder  in  Somerfetfhire,  for  which  fhee  under- 
went a  tryall  at  the  Affizes  there  that  year. 

3Jn  children  fhee  was  as  fruitfull,  for  in  leffe  then  five  years  after  this  her  fecond 
mariage,  fhee  brought  to  this  lord  four  fons,  Thomas,  Maurice,  Edmond  and  John, 
as  after  followeth. 

Cl)t^  lady  Katharine  furvived  alfo  this  lord  her  fecond  hulTiand  twenty  fower 
years  and  upwards.  And  in  the  fecond  year  after  his  death,  out  of  devotion,  went 
beyond  feas  a  Journey  in  pilgrimage  upon  the  kings  licence  for  a  years  abfence,  but 
whither,  the  record  fpeaketh  not  ;  And  dyed  the  thirteenth  of  March  Anno  .  1385  . 
in  the  ninth  year  of  kinge  Richard  the  fecond,  and  lyeth  buried  in  the  parifh  Church 
of  Berkeley,  with  her  hufband,  in  a  faire  monument  grated  round  with  iron  barrs, 
under  the  fecond  Arch  before  the  rode  on  the  fouth  fide  of  that  Church. 


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^Ijrc  held  alfo  for  hor  life  by  the  conveyances  of  this  lord  her  fecond  hufl^and, 
the  Manors  of  Beverfton,  Tockington,  Over,  Compton-Greenfeild,  and  kings-wefton, 
in  the  County  of  Gloucefler,  which  with  others  came  after  her  death  to  her  fon  and 
heir  S'  John  Berkeley,  as  after  followeth  :  And  alfo  the  manors  of  Wotton  Burrow, 
Wotton  fforren,  Symondfall,  and  Came,  in  the  faid  County,  And  the  third  parts  of 
the  hundred  of  Berkeley  and  of  Bedminfter  in  Somerfetfliire,  w'*"  later  came  after 
her  death  to  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  her  hufbands  grandchild.  | 


^fjfC  was  alfo  a  lady  rich  in  many  good  works,  And  amongfl  others  fhee 
founded  the  free  fchoole  and  Chantry  in  Wotton  under  edge.  And  alfo  S!  Andrews 
Chantry  in  Berkeley  Church,  in  the  two  lafl  yeares  of  her  life  ;  And  whilfl  fhee 
lived  gave  to  the  Abby  of  Kingfwood  an  yearly  pention  of  fix  markes,  And  when 
fhee  dyed  many  rich  guifts.  And  endowed  them  with  fair  poffeffions  of  her  own 
purchafe  which  were  confirmed  by  her  faid  hufbands  grandchild,  as  the  deeds  doe 
fhew  ;  And  by  her  will  left  her  fon  S'  John  Berkeley,  Henry  Waryner,  and  WitJm 
Smallcombe,  her  Executors  :  Of  her  I  fliall  fpeake  more  in  writing  of  the  iffue 
proceeding  from  this  lord  and  her,  w''^  now  follow  in  order. 


405 

pat :  7.  R.  2.  pars. 


Regiflr :  monast 
(ie  kingefwood  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley- 
carta;  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 
Efchaet.  in  turre 
9.  R.  2.  poll  mort 
diet  Katharine. 


i^i^  i00m  bp  W  fit0t  toifc 

1.  <©f  Maurice  who  hath  the  prerogative  of  primogeniture,   I   after  write  as 
lord,  the  fourth  of  that  name. 

2.  lHogcr,  (in  many  old  deeds  and  colledlions  by  miflake  called  alfo  Robert,  yet 
but  one,)  fecond  fon  of  the  faid  lord  Thomas  &  Margaret,  dyed  without  iffue. 


cartse  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


3.  'CljomajEf  the  third  fon,  for  his  portion,  had  in  the  11'.''  of  Edwl  the  third, 
conveyed  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  males  of  his  body,  by  this  lord  his  father,  divers 
lands  in  Faveild  ;  And  in  the  18'.''  of  Edward  third  hee  conveyed  more  to  him  and 
to  the  heires  males  of  his  body  the  moytie  of  the  manor  of  Elifton  in  Wiltfliire; 
And  in  the  23^  of  Edward  the  third  conveyed  more  to  him  and  to  the  heirs  males  fine:])afch:23.E.3. 
of  his  body  the  manors  of  Syde  and  Weflonbert,  with  the  advowfon  of  the  Church 
of  Syde,  The  remainder  to  the  heirs  males  of  the  body  of  the  faid  lord  on  the  body 
of  the  faid  Katharine  to  bee  begotten  ;  which  grant  Maurice  |  his  elder  brother 
confirmed  ;  And  by  another  deed  his  faid  father  conveyed  to  him  his  manors,  lands, 
Tenements,  rents,  revertions,  and  fervices,  in  Over,  Kings  weflon,  and  Weflon  S' 
Lawrence,  to  hold  to  him  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body,  rendring  fourty  pound 
rent  p  ann:  to  his  father  during  his  life,   And  after  that  only  a  rofe  ;   Howbeit  hee 

2  Y  2  dying 


cartae  in  caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


40& 

carta  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley, 
finis  ill  banco. 


348 


€l)c  %iMc^  of  tfft  23crftckpiS 


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dying  without  iffue  in  that.  23"!  of  Edward  the  third,  then  aged   near  nineteene 
yeares,  All  the  faid  manors  and  lands  reverted  to  his  father  the  donor. 


fine  pafch:  23. E. 3. 
finis  de  banco. 


4.  $III))I)on^U^  the  fourth  fon,  lived  to  bee  eflated  after  his  brother  Thomas 
death  in  the  moytie  of  the  manor  of  Elifton,  by  the  fine  of  his  father,  in  the  23''.  of 
Edward  the  third,  and  of  the  manor  of  Kingefwefton  and  fome  others,  but  fhortly 
after  dyed  without  iffue* 


finis  de  banco.  17. 

E.  3.  2 

cartae.  16.  et.  17. 

E.  3.  in  caflr.  de 

Berk. 

fundac :  cantarice 

de  Cambridge 

cum  Epo  wigorn. 

claus:  36.  E.  3.  m: 
43.  in  corn  Wilts. 


5.  '^onc  only  daughter  of  the  faid  lord  Thomas  and  Margaret,  was  in  the 
feaventeenth  of  Edward  the  third,  (fhee  then  about  the  age  of  fowerteene,)  maryed 
to  S^  Reginald  Cobham,  who  gave  (amongft  other  things)  in  mariage  with  her . 
20oo'!-  in  money,  and  the  manor  of  Langly-Burell  with  the  advowfon  of  that  Church, 
which  this  lord  her  father  the  fame  year  had  purchafed  of  Sf  John  de  la  Mare 
knight :  Her  Jbynture  was  two  hundred  pounds  p  anfi :  And  if  her  hufband  dyed 
before  hee  had  purchafed  other  land  to  her  for  her  life  with  that  two  thoufand 
pounds,  Then  fliee  to  have  the  fame ;  Reginald  dyed  in  the  36'?  of  Edward  the 
third.  And  this  Jone  furvived,  and  held  the  faid  Langley-burell  after  his  death,  And 
in  the  43'^  year  was  affigned  dower  in  Kent  of  her  faid  hufbands  lands.  More  of 
her  I  have  not  looked  after.  I 


407 

vetus  rotul  :  in 
caftro  de  Berkeley. 


€l)ii6t  iotti0  ififjSuc  6p  l^i^  ^econtx  tDifc 
I.  'CtjoniQiEf,  the  firft  begotten  fon  of  this  lord  and  Katharine,  was  borne  at 


Berkeley  Caftle  the  7'^  of  June  Anno.  1348.  in  the  22'^  yeare  of  Edward  the  third, 

which  was  a  year  and  three  weeks  after  their  mariage  ;  whofe  godfathers  were 

Wolftan  Bifhop  of  Worcefter,   Maurice  his  fathers  eldefl  fon,  (after  lord,)  and  the 

faid  S'  Thomas  de  Bradflon  ;    And  Margaret  wife  of  S'  Maurice  Berkeley  of  Vley 

de  Berkeley    if^t  hjg  godmother :  But  though  hee  dyed  the  next  year  after,  yet  had  conveyed  to 

finis.  23.  E.  3.    him  ere  hee  dyed  the  manor  of  Kingf-weflon  and  fome  other  lands, 
in  banco. 


cartae  in  caftro 


vetus  rotul :  p''dict 


cartae  in  caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


2.  fll^auriCC,  the  fecond  begotten  fon,  was  born  at  Berkeley  Caftle  likewife  on 
the  27'^  of  May.  1349.  Anno.  23.  E.  3.,  which  was  eleaven  days  within  the  year 
after  the  birth  of  their  former  fon  ;  And  was  baptized  y°  fame  day  by  Raph  then 
Abbot  of  S!  Auguftines  by  Briftoll :  And  the  forefaid  Maurice  Berkeley,  (after  lord,) 
and  Mawd  wife  of  Simon  Baffet  of  Vley  knight,  were  his  god-parents.  And  though 
this  Maurice  alfo  dyed  very  young,  yet  in  the  29'^  of  Edward  the  third  hee  had  a 
remainder  in  the  manor  of  Sokke  in  the  County  of  Somerfet  and  other  lands  lymited 
to  him. 

3.  «iEbmonti, 


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3.  (JBDmOlltl,  their  third  begotten  fon,  was  born  likewifc  at  Berkeley,  on  the 
lo'!"  day  of  July  Anno.  1350.  in  the  24'^  year  of  Edward  the  third,  which  was  a 
year  and  fix  weeks  after  the  birth  of  his  brother  Maurice,  and  was  baptized  the 
fecond  day  after  by  the  faid  Abbot  of  S!  Auguftines,  who  alfo  was  one  of  his  god- 
fathers, and  Wittin  de  Syde  afore  mentioned  parfon  of  Awre,  (his  fathers  Receivor,) 
the  other.  And  the  lady  Agnes  wife  of  the  faid  S'  Thomas  Bradftone  his  godmother. 
3IInt>  although  this  Edmond  alfo  dyed  very  younge,  yet  had  conveyed  to  him  in  the 
26'^  of  Edward  the  third,  the  manor  of  Barewe  gurney  and  divers  lands  in  Chedder 
and  Tykenham  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  and  in  ffaveld  in  the  County  of  Glou- 
cefter ;  And  in  the  29'!'  of  Edward  the  third,  the  manor  of  Sokke  in  the  County  of 
Somerfet,  and  divers  meffuages  and  lands  in  Chedder,  which  upon  his  death  without 
iffue  in  the  life  of  his  |  father,  came  to  his  next  brother  John,  by  force  of  his 
remainder  in  tayle  limited  in  thofe  conveyances. 


vetus  rot.  p'dict 

Ecfaet.  35.  E.  3. 
ps.  I.  m.  12. 

claus  :  35.  E.  3. 

m.  5. 

carta  in  caflro 

de  Berk. 

finis  in  banco. 

carta.  29.  E.  3.  in 

caflro  de  Berkeley. 


408 


4-  3i0l)n  the  fourth  and  youngefl  fon  of  this  lord  Thomas  and  Katharine,  was    vetus  rotul.  in 
born  at  Wotton   under  edge  the   21*  of  January  Anno.  1351  .in  the  end  of  the    caRro  de  Berkeley 
twenty-fifth  yeare  of  king  Edward  the  third,  whither  not  longe  before,  his  parents    Berkeley  of 
had  purpofely  removed  from  Berkeley,  which  was  eighteen  months  after  the  birth    Beverfton. 
of  his  brother  Edmond ;  And  was  the  fecond  day  after  his  birth  baptized  by  Henry 
fifurneus  parfon  of  Slimbridge;  whofe  godfathers  were  the  pryor  of  Bath  and  S' John 
Tracy  one  of  his  fathers  meniall  knights.  And  the  lady  Jone  wife  of  S!  Thomas 
Botiler  his  godmother. 

#f  this  John  and  his  pofterity  I  will  fomewhat  inlarge  my  felf,  becaufe  hee 
was  ftockfather  to  that  honorable  and  eminent  family  of  the  Berkeleys  called  of 
Beverfton  caflle  in  the  County  of  Gloc'  and  of  Bittefhorne  in  the  County  of 
Soutftton,  who,  as  after  appeares  for  many  difcents,  longe  florifhed  in  great 
eminency  with  opulent  poffeffions,  little  inferiour  to  this  noble  family  of  the 
Berkeleys  of  Berkeley  Caflle. 


Ctji^  John,  of  all  the  children  iffuing  from  this  fecond  manage,  had  the  bleffmg 
to  furvive  his  father ;  At  whofe  death  hee  was  of  the  age  of  nine  years  and  nine 
monthes  ;  And  alfo  his  mothers  death  happening  twenty  four  years  after,  what  time 
hee  was  of  the  age  of  thirty  and  fower  years. 

Cljifif  John,  by  the  great  indulgence  of  this  lord  Thomas  his  father  and  by  the 
powerfull  working  of  his  mother,  had  by  feverall  conveyances  fetled  upon  him  in 

the. 


pat :  26.  E.  3.  ps. 
2.  m.  13.  23. 
claus  :  35.  E.  3. 
m:  2.  et.  5. 
Efchaet  :^  6^  H.  6. 
poll  mort  ijiius 
Jofiis. 


350 


€i)c  %iMc0  of  ttft  23frfedcp^ 


1326 


carta  in  caflr. 

de  Berk. 

fines  in  banco 

eifd  ann 

fin  :  9.  R.  2.  m.  i. 

4.  et  5. 

ptita  in  banco.  37. 

E.  3.  in  dote 

409 

Hillar  :  fin.  2.  H. 

4.  in  fccio. 

Efchaet :  35.  E.  3. 

pofl  mort  Tho : 

de  Berk. 

claus  :  49.  E.  3. 

m.  33  in  dorfo. 


carta  in  Caftro 
de  Berkeley. 


the .  26'^  of  king  Edward  the  third,  when  hee  was  not  two  years  old,  and  in  a  fhort 
time  after,  the  Caftle  and  manor  of  Beverflon,  and  the  manors  of  Tockington,  Over, 
Compton  Greenvile,  Kingewefton,  Woodmancote,  and  Syde,  with  many  lands 
Advowfons  and  other  hereditaments  in  the  villages  and  parifhes  of  Wotton,  Nibley, 
Came,  ffaveild,  Wefton  birt,  Leckhampton,  Down  hatherly,  Bentham,  Alveflon,  and 
others  in  the  County  of  |  Glouc  :  3llnt>  the  manors  and  Advowfons  of  Cernecote, 
Chelworth,  Caldecote,  and  Bere  Revell  in  the  County  of  Wilts ;  Slnb  the  manors 
of  Barewe  Gurney,  Exton,  Netherham,  and  Sock,  with  divers  lands  and  meffuages 
in  Tykenham  and  Chedder  in  the  County  of  Somerfet ;  Sllnti  fome  others  in  the 
Counties  of  Devon,  Wigorn,  and  Dorfet,  which  I  here  omit :  SCitb  the  faid  lady, 
not  fattisfied  as  it  feemeth  with  this  great  morfell  thus  cut  out  from  the  heire  of 
this  noble  family  to  her  fon,  but  fhee  procured  all  thofe  affurances  made  to  her 
children  to  bee  confirmed  by  the  feverall  Deeds  of  Maurice  her  hufbands  eldeft  fon 
and  heire,  affoone  as  hee  came  to  one  and  twenty  years  of  age. 


^ffl0  S"^  John  who  was  knighted  about  the  tenth  of  Richard  the  fecond,  firfl: 

maryed  Elizabeth  daughter  and  heire  of  S^  John   Bettefhorne  knight  and  of  the 

finis :  23.  H.  6.    lady  Goda  his  wife,  by  whom  hee  had  the  manors  of  Bettefhorne,  and  many  others 

at.  m  caflr  de    ^^  great  value  in  the  Counties  of  Southton,   Wilts,  Somerfet,  and  Dorfet  :  3intl, 

Berkel :    which  was  the  greatefl  dowry,  fhee  brought  him  fourteen  fons  and  two  daughters. 

claus :  24.  H.  6.    %x^  fecondly  this  S'  John  maryed  Ellinor  daughter  of  S'  Robert  de  Afhton  by 

Efcaet :  23  H  6.    whom  hee  had  no  iffue.     3lntl  thirdly  maryed  Margaret  the  widow  of  S'  Thomas 

poftmortMagaret.    Breoufe  of  Tetbury,  who  furvived  him  feaventeen  yeares,  by  whom  alfo  hee  had  no 

iffue. 


Efchaet:  6.  H.  6.  ^tllll  dyed  in  the  fixth  year  of  king  Henry  the  6'^,  then  of  the  age  of .  76  . 

"jo^feis ^Berkeley'  Y^^""^-  Having  in  the  ii'?  and  17*  and  twentieth  years  of  king  Richard  the  fecond, 
and  in  the  4'.''  of  king  Henry  the  fourth,  bene  chofen  a  knight  for  the  parliament  in 

Rot.  fin.  et  claus.  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Somerfet,  and  Hampfh' ;  And  nine  times  high  Sherife 
of  the  Counties  of  Gloucefler,  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  Hampfliire,  and  Wiltefs,  in  the 
14'.''  16'.''  I8'^  and  21'.''  of  Richard  the  fecond.  And  in  the  4'.''  8*  and  .  12'.''  of  Henry 
the  fourth.  And  in  the  fecond  and  third  yeares  of  Henry  the  fifth. 


Rot.  pdon.  21. 
R.  2.  m:  13. 


3fn  the  21'!"  of  Richard  the  fecond  hee  obtained  a  generall  pardon  from  that 
kinge,  for  adheringe  to  the  Duke  of  Gloucefter  and  Earle  of  Arundle. 


pat.  I.  H.  4.  ps.  I.  3II11IJ  in  the  firft  and  1 1'!"  of  Henry  the  fourth  founded  two  Chantrys,  the  one 

'"■  ^^'    in  Meere  Church  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  And  the  other  in  Bettefhorne  in  the  parifh 

of 


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of  Ringwood  in  Hampfhirc,  for  the  fouls  health  of  himfclfe  and  his  firll;  wife,  and 

of  her  father  and  mother  :  Leaving  the   faid   manors   of   Beverflon,  Tockington, 

Over,  Compton  Greenfeild,   Kings  wefton,   wodmancote  Side   and  others   in   the 

County  of  Gloucefter,  And  divers  other  manors  in  |  the    Counties   of  Southton, 

Wilts,  Wigorn,  Devon,  Somerfet,  and  Dorfet,  (which  I  paffe  over,)  to  difcend  upon    fin:  6.  H.6.  m:  18 

Maurice  his  fon  and  heire,  greater  then  the  eftate  of  James  lord  Berkeley  the  firfl    m.  i.  3.  5. 

of  that  name,  that  then  lived  at  Berkeley. 


fin.  I.  H.  4.  ps.  2. 
in.  16. 

pat.  1 1.  H.  4.  [)S. 
I.  m  :  3. 

410 


lai^flUriCC  Berkeley,  knight  eldefl  fon  of  the  faid  S'  John,  knighted  in  the  life 
time  of  his  father,  and  of  the  age  of  thirty  years  at  his  fathers  death,  was  comonly 
ftiled  of  Beverfton,  but  fometimes  of  Bettefhorne  in  Hampfliire,  fometimes  of 
Chadwich  in  Wiltfhire,  fometimes  of  Netherhame  in  Sonierfetfliire,  and  fometimes 
of  Chefflode  in  Worcefterfhire. 


Rot.  ])don.  15. 
H.  6.  m:  28. 


3In    the    I4'^  and    I5'^  of  king    Henry  the    fixth    hee    was    high    Sherife    of  Rot.  fin.  14.  II.  6. 

Gloucefterfhire.  ">=  "•  ^'-  'S-  H.6. 

m.  29. 

claus  :  37.  H.  6. 

'd)C  16'.''  of  December  in  the  ;i7'^  of   Henry  the  fixth,  the  king  having  in  a  *"■  '^" 

gratious  patent  recited  the  good  fervices  of  this  S'  Maurice  done  unto  him,  doth 

out  of  his  defire  to  favour  and  eafe  his  old  age,  from  thenceforth  exempt  him  from 

all  manner  of  fervices,  which  the  State  or  Comon  wealth  might  require  of  him. 

5Cnb  fo  in  peace  this  S'  Maurice  layeth   down   his  laborious  life  to  reft,  the  Newl :  ped.  et.  2. 

year  next  enfuing,  then  entred  into  his  fatall  clymaftericall  year   of  fixty  three,  t|;  i"  p^*^"^"  *^^ 

leaving  iffue  by  Lora  his  wife,  daughter  of  Henry  lord  fit3  Hugh,  who  furvived  Efchaet:6.  H.  6.^ 

him,    Maurice,    Edward,   and  others  ;    To  whom   hee  left  as  ample  and  opulent  'jJi^'"7^  ^°^  ""°" 

poffeffions  as  hee  received  from  his  parents,  or  which  accrued  to  him  by  mariage,  as  611:38.  H.  6.111.3. 

the  liveryes  fued  by  his  heire  the  yeare  of  his  death  in  the  Counties  of  Glouc  :,  ^^"^'^  ■     •    •  ™- 
Southton,  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  Wigorn.,  and  others  do  declare. 


Ci)C  faid  !3l^aunte  fon  of  S'  Maurice,  was   comonly   ftiled  of  Bettefhorne   in    Efchact:  38.  H.6. 


Hampftiire,  of  the  age  of  Twenty  fix  years  at  his  fathers  death. 

3ln  the  firft  year  of  Edward  the  fourth  hee  was  high-flierife  of  Hampftiire, 
And  in  the  third  year  of  that  king  of  Gloucefterftiire,  And  fo  in  the  11'.''  year  of 
that  kinge,  when  alfo  his  brother  Edward  was  high  Sherife  for  Hampfliire,  And 
Thomas  Berkeley  of  Wymondham  for  Rutlandfliire. 

gfti 


pofl  niort :  Maur. 
Berkel.  mil:  et.  14. 
E.  4.  port.  mort. 
Maur:  Berk:  mtt. 
fin.  II.  E.  4.  m.  5. 


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411  3(n  the  8*  year  of  Edward  the  fourth  hee  was  chofen  one  of  the  |  knights  of 

n.    .    .4.  m.  10.    j.j^g  parliament  for  the  County  of  Gloucefter,  as  alfo  was  his  brother  Edward  for 
Hampfhire. 


Rot.  pdon.  9.  E.  4 

m.  22 

pat :  9.  E.  4.  ps.  2 

dorfo 

pat.  10.  E.  4.  ps 

7.  dorfo 


pat.  II.  E.  4.  pars. 
2.  m  :  lo. 


^n  the  ninth  of  Edward  the  fourth  hee  was  knighted  and  became  the  kings 
fervant,  and  one  of  the  knights  for  the  body  of  the  kinge. 

Cf)e  fifteenth  of  ffebruary  in  the  ii'.""  of  Edward  the  fourth,  the  king  in  con- 
fideration  of  his  manifold  good  fervices  done  unto  him,  grants  to  this  S'  Maurice 
for  his  life,  the  office  of  Conftable  of  the  Caftle  of  Souttiton,  with  the  yearly  ffee  of 
ten  pounds.  At  which  time  hee  was  alfo  Leivtenant  of  Newforefl  :  And  now  alfo 
takes  a  generall  pardon  from  the  king,  with  twelve  ats  di<5lus,  unwilling  belike  to 
bee  miflaken  in  that  pardon. 


5[n  the  1 2'^  of  Edward  the  fourth  hee  was  of  the  privy  ftandinge  Counfell  of 
that  king,  and  as  able  a  gentleman  as  thofe  Counties  had  any,  as  the  records  of  his 
many  imployments  under  that  king  do  affure  his  poflerity  :  In  which  favour  and 
difpatches  of  State  buifmes  hee  continued  till  untimely  death,  the  fifth  day  of  May 
in  the  fourteenth  of  Edward  the  fourth,  bereaved  that  king  of  a  prudent  Counfellor 
and  Servant,  then  of  the  age  of  fourty  and  two  years,  leaving  William  his  fon  and 
heire  then  of  the  age  of  twenty  and  three  years,  and  Katharine  his  daughter, 
fin:  14. E. 4. m.  15.  ^^ggQ^te^  of  Anne  his  wife  daughter  of  Reginald  Weft  lord  de  la  Ware,  his  only 
children  :  And  hee  and  his  wife  lye  buryed  at  Chrift  Church  in  Hampfhire  ;  To 
which  William  difcended  all  the  former  poffeffions  of  this  S'  Maurice  and  his 
Anceftors  in  the  Counties  of  Gloucefter,  Somerfet,  Dorfet,  Wiltefs,  Southton, 
Devon  and  others. 


pat.  12.  E.  4.  pars. 

I.  in  dorfo. 

pat.  22.  E.  4.  pars. 

2.  m:  14. 

Efchaet:  14.  E.  4. 

pofl  mort.  Mauric. 

Berkeley. 


(CfjC  faid  WiHm  fon  of  the  faid  S!  Maurice  was  an  Efquire  of  the  body  of  king 
Edward  the  fourth  before  the  death  of  his  father,  And  did  partake  of  many  gratious 
favours,  offices,  and  imployments  of  truft,  under  that  king,  as  thefe  records  do 
witneffe,  (viz')  claus.  14.  E.  4.  m.  20./pat.  14.  et.  15.  E.  4.  in  dorfo./claus.  15.  E.  4  : 
m:  i6./fines.  15  :  16.  et.  17.  E.  4./fin.  20.  E.  4.  m.  3. /pat.  20.  E.  4/.Efchaet.  14.  E. 
4.  poft  mort  Mauricij  de  Berkeley  mit./pat  17.  E.  4.  pars.  i.  m.  i5./fin.  18.  E.  4.  m. 
6./pat  18.  E.  4.  pars.  i.  m.  5./15.  et.  23./pat.  19.  E.  4.  m.  20.  | 

412  3lnD  in  the  fixteenth  and  twentieth  of  Edward  the  fourth  this  Wittm  was  high 

fin.  15.  16.  17.  et.    Sherife  of  Hampftiire  :  And  in  the  feaventeenth  of  Edward  the  fourth  was  high 

Sherife  of  Somerfet  and  Dorfet  fhires.  3lllU> 


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%nti  laflly,  by  the  name  of  Wittni  Berkeley  one  of  the  Efquires  for  y'  body    j.at.  22.  E.  4.  pars. 

of  the  kins;,  fon  and  heire  of  Maurice  Berkeley  knight  late  one  of  the  kniijhts  for    ?;  '",'  '"*"    . 
^  _  --  h  t.  Newl.  ped:  m 

the  body  of  the  faid  kinge,  and  one  of  his  Counfellors  of  State,  obtaines  of  king    caftrode  Berkeley. 
Edward  the  fourth  in  the  22^  of  his  raigne,  Hcence  to  give  ten  marks  land  by  the 
year  in  Mortmaine  to  the  pryor  of  Twyneham  in  Hampfliire,  to  pray  for  the  foules 
of  the  faid  S'  Maurice  and  of  Anne  his  wife,  and  of  him  the  faid  William  and 
Katharine  his  wife  who  was  daughter  of  Wittm  lord  Stourton. 


3In  the  firft  year  of  king  Richard  the  third,  this  S^  William  Berkeley  plotted 
with  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  Moreton  Bifliop  of  Ely  and  many  other  perfonages 
of  great  note,  to  dekinge  that  Vfurper  Richard  the  third,  and  to  advance  to  the 
Crown  Henry  Earle  of  Richmond,  after  called  king  Henry  the  feaventh.  And  by  his 
manage  with  the  Lady  Elizabeth  eldefl;  daughter  of  king  Edward  the  fourth,  to 
unite  in  one  the  two  houfes  of  Yorke  and  Lancafter :  But  the  plott  being  difcovered 
by  king  Richard,  before  it  was  fully  ripened,  Though  this  S'  Wittm  Berkeley  by 
flight  beyond  feas  to  the  faid  Erie  of  Richmond  prevented  the  loffe  of  his  head  ; 
Yet  was  hee  thereupon  the  fame  year  by  parliament  attaynted  of  treafon,  with  the 
Efcheat  of  all  his  lands,  which  forthwith  were  by  that  ufurping  king  given  away  to 
feverall  perfons  whom  hee  favoured,  as  the  marginalls  do  fhewe  :  Howbeit  upon  his 
returne  into  England  with  the  faid  Earle  of  Richmond,  and  the  death  of  the  faid 
Vfurper  flaine  in  the  battle  of  Bofworth  feild  the  year  after,  hee  was  reinvefted  in 
his  former  poffeffions  ;  But  fo  litle  a  while  rejoyced  hee  himfelfe  in  that  better 
fortune,  That  the  fame  year  his  happines  accrued,  hee,  in  Anno .  14S5  .  the  firft  year 
of  Henry  the  feaventh,  (haveing  before  been  knighted,)  dyed  of  the  fweating 
ficknefs  w'''out  iffue  male  of  his  body,  whereby  the  Caftle  and  manor  of  Beverflon 
and  thofe  other  manors  and  lands,  by  vertue  of  the  faid  Entayles  made  in  the  26''' 
and  other  years  of  Edward  the  third,  remained  |  and  came  to  Edward  Berkeley 
before  mentioned,  unckle  to  this  S'  Wittm,  and  younger  fon  of  the  faid  S'  Maurice 
his  father. 


Marten,  fo:  319. 


pat.  I.  R. 3. pars.  2. 
et.  pars.  3. 
pat.  2.  R.  3.  pars.  i. 
et.  2. 


Efchaet.  i.  H.  7. 
in  Cane  :  port, 
mort  Will. 
Newl.  pad:  in 
caflr.  de  Berkeley. 


3IInb  as  for  the  faid  Katharine  the  only  fifler  of  this  S"^  Wittm  Berkeley,  fhee 
was  firfl  maryed  to  John  lord  Stourton,  And  after  to  Sr  John  Brereton,  by  whom 
fhee  had  iffue  W^arburgh,  maryed  to  S'  Wittm  Compton,  from  whom  many  honor- 
able perfons  of  great  note  and  eminency  at  this  day,  are  difcended. 


<Et>tDarb  Berkeley  aforefaid  knight,  brother  of  S'  Maurice,  and  after  the  death 

of  his  Nephewe  S'  Wittm,  the  only  heire  and  male  of  this  family  of  Beverflon  of 

2  z   •  the 


354 


€f)c  %i\ic0  of  t^e  25crhclcpj8f 


1326 


claus:  eifd  annis. 

fin.  10.  H.  7.  et  in 

anno  predict. 


Efchaet.^i.  H.  8. 
pofl  mort.  Alicire. 


Micfias.  rec.  in 

fccio  7.  H.  7.  rot. 

34.  cm  rem. 

thefaur. 

Pafch  :  rec.  ibm 

16.  H.  7.  rot.  9. 

414 


Efchaet.  5.  E.  6 
pofl  morT.  Wirt 
Berkel :  mittis 


the  Bodyes  of  the  faid  lord  Thomas  and  lady  Katharine  his  fecond  wife,  had  to  his 
firfl  wife  Chriflian  the  daughter  and  heire  of  Richard  Holt  Efq^  who  had  iffue 
between  them  Lora  maryed  to  John  lord  Mount  Joy,  father  by  her  of  John  lord 
Mount  Joy  and  others,  whofe  poflerities  in  many  remarkable  familyes  yet  flourifh, 
Anno.  1620. 

3llnb  to  his  fecond  wife  had  Alice  the  widowe  of  John  Poyntz  Efq^,  by  whom 
hee  had  iffue,  i  Thomas  Berkeley,  2  Maurice  Berkeley,  and  3  William  Berkeley; 
And  in  the  tenth  of  Henry  the  feaventh  was  high  Sherife  of  Gloucefter  fliire.  And 
in  the  II'^  15*  and  20'.*'  of  Edward  the  fourth,  for  Hampfhire.  And  in  the  8'^  of 
Edward  the  fourth  knight  of  the  parliament  for  that  County,  And  often  otherwife 
imployed  by  the  State  in  places  of  great  trufl,  3llnb  dyed  in  the  21'''  of  Henry  the 
feaventh  ;  And  Alice  furviving,  dyed  fhordy  after  in  the  firfl  of  Henry  the  8'^,  and 
left  thofe  antient  poffeffions  of  Beverfton  and  the  other  entayled  manors,  with  many 
other  faire  poffeffions,  to  difcend  upon  his  fons  as  after  followeth. 

€I^C  forefaid  Cfjomajf,  eldefl;  fon  of  the  faid  S'  Edward,  maryed  Elizabeth 
daughter  of  George  Nevill  lord  Abergavenny,  And  dyed  in  the  life  of  his  faid  father 
in  Anno.  1500.  the  fifteenth  of  Henry  the  feaventh,  leaving  iffue  by  his  faid  wife 
one  fon  and  four  daughters  viz'  John,  fix  years  old  at  the  death  of  his  grandfather 
S'  Edward,  |  And  dyed  the  kings  ward  without  iffue  ;  %0VCl  the  eldeft  daughter  was 
maryed  to  John  Afhburnham  of  Afhburnham  in  Suffex  Efq^,  father  of  John,  father 
of  Sir  John,  father  of  John  and  William  that  now  are  .  1624.  3lnn0  the  fecond 
daughter  was  maryed  to  John  Brent  of  Charinge  in  Kent  Efq",  father  of  Margaret 
who  was  maryed  to  John  Deringe  of  Buckley  in  Kent  Efq!  father  of  Richard 
Deringe  father  of  Sir  Anthony,  father  of  Sr  Edward  Deringe  knight  and  Baronet 
that  now  is  Anno.  1624.  (whofe  help  in  this  difcent  I  thankfully  acknowledge,)  who 
firfl  maryed  Elizabeth  eldefl  daughter  of  Nicholas  lord  Tufton,  by  whom  hee  hath 
iffue  Anthony  ;  And  fecondly  maryed  Anne  daughter  of  S'  John  Afhburnham 
aforefaid,  by  whom  hee  hath  iffue  Edward,  Anno  .  1628.  <!Eli5fl(lCt^  the  third 
daughter  of  the  faid  Thomas  was  maryed  to  Sr  George  Herbert  of  Aberconway  in 
North  Wales,  knight,  brother  of  Witim  Herbert  Earle  of  Penbroke.  And  5illicc 
the  fourth  daughter  was  maryed  to  George  Whetenhall  of  Eftpeckham  in  Kent 
EfqT,  who  had  iffue  Thomas,  father  of  S'  Henry,  father  of  George,  Henry,  and 
Francis  Whetenhall  that  now  are.  Anno  .  1624. 

dl^nuncc  the  fecond  brother  of  the  faid  Thomas,  dyed  without  iffue  the  ninth 


poamonWirti    ^f  September  in  the  fifth  of  Henry  the  8'\  before  the  faid  John  his  nephewe. 


IDilliam 


1 36 1  Uifc  of  OCJjomajBt  tl)c  Cljicli  355 

SDintani  the  thin.1  fon  of  the  faid   Edward  and  youngefl  brother  of  the  faid    6.  K.6.  i)s.i.rot.49. 
Thomas,  was   alfo   a   knight,   And   inaryed    Margaret   daughter  of   Wittm    Pawlet    J'^/'^'^  =  ■'^91 '° 
Marques  of  Winchefter,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  John  Berkeley  knight  and  others,    rot.  36. 
And  dyed   in  the   fifth   year  of  Edward   the   fixth,  leaving   his   forefaid  entayled 
poffeffions  to  difcend  upon  the  faid  John  his  fon  and  heire,  after  knighted. 

Cl)C  faid  S'  John  Berkeley  knight,  fon  and  heire  of  the  faid  S!  Wittm,  firfl:    See  fol : 
maryed  ffrances  daughter  of  S'.  Nicholas  Poyntz  of  A(5lon  in  the  County  of  Glou- 
cefter,  knight,  and  of  |  Jone  his  wife  daughter  of  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  the  fifth  of   4^5 
that  name,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  John,  Jone  a  profeffed  Nunne,  Katharine,  and 
Margaret  :   And  after  maryed  a  fecond  wife  by  whom  hee  had  no  iffue  ;  whofe  ill 
governed  life  after  her  hufbands  deceafe  is  unworthy  of  any  memoriall  in   thefe    Efchaet.jjs.  Eli/. : 
relations  :  And  hee  dyed  the  I8'^  of  06lober  in  the  24'^  of  Elizabeth.  Berkeley  mittis. 

•^I  fjaVlC  often  heard  Henry  lord  Berkeley  report  this  Sr  John,  (his  familiar 
freind  and  kinfman,)  to  bee  a  very  able  and  well  fpoken  gentleman,  and  as  eminent 
a  parliament  man  as  any  of  his  time  :  yet  wafted  hee  all  that  antient  patrimony, 
which  from  the  faid  firfl  entayles  thereof  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  third  had 
difcended  upon  him,  as  heire  male  of  thofe  entayles,  e.xcepting  only  his  Caflle  and 
manor  of  Beverflon,  from  whence  hee  and  his  Anceflors  for  all  the  former  difcents 
had  had  their  denomination  of  ^ttUzic^^  of  2&C\)Critfton,  And  thereby  were  diflin- 
guiflied  from  other  branches  of  this  noble  roote  and  family. 

5!ol)n  Berkeley  fon  and  heire  of  the  faid  S!  John,  maryed  Mary  daughter  of 
John  Snell  Efq!,  by  whom  hee  had  iffue  as  followeth  ;  And  in  the  39'''  of  Elizabeth 
alyened  the  Caftle  and  manor  of  Beverflon  to  S' John  Poyntz,  and  hee  fhortly  after 
to  Henry  fiieetwood  of  Grayes  Inne  Efq',  And  hee  fhortly  after  to  S'.  Thomas 
Earflfeild,  And  hee  againe  to  the  faid  Henry  ffleetwood,  And  hee  againe  to  St 
Michaell  Hickes  knight,  whofe  fon  and  heire  S'  William  Hickes,  a  Baronet,  now 
holdeth  the  fame,  Anno.  1628.  5CnD  though  this  family  had  many  great  poffeffions 
rended  and  taken  from  their  male  lines  at  feverall  times  by  the  heires  general! 
that  it  fent  forth,  as  formerly  Appeares,  yet  the  heires  males  ftill  held  up  with  equall 
eminency  to  the  greatefl  gentry  of  that  County,  afwell  in  lands,  Allyes  and  matches 
of  their  children,  as  in  the  quality  of  their  perfons,  till  now  that  their  high  tide,  by 
thefe  two  3(oi)lVS  the  fon  and  father,  is  cafl  into  a  lower  ebbe  and  condition  ;  which 
I  hartely  wifh  may  with  a  higher  fpringe  returne  againe  from  fome  great  ocean 
floud  and  fill  their  former  banks  and  chanell.  | 

2  z  2  %tQ} 


356 


€l)c  5li\JCiGi  of  tl)c  25cchdcp^ 


1326 


416  3illltl  therewith  ended  all  the  faid  poffeffions  entayled  by  the  faid  lord  Thomas 
and  Katharine,  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  third,  upon  the  iffue  males  of  their  two 
bodies,  as  often  already  hath  been  faid  ;  whereby  I  may  juftly  fay  without  wronging 
the  iffue  male  of  that  mariage  yet  livinge,  That  their  honorable  name  and  difcent 
hath  for  the  prefent  over  lived  their  fortunes. 

^t)C  faid  John  Berkeley  in  the  I8'^  of  king  James  went  into  Virginia,  where  in 
the  year  following  hee  was  with  many  others  maffacred  by  the  natives,  leaving  iffue 
by  his  faid  wife,  Maurice,  John,  Henry,  William,  Edward,  Thomas,  Mary,  ffrances, 
Elizabeth  and  Anne  ;  Of  whom  read  more  in  the  life  of  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  the 
fifth  of  that  name. 

Silnll  if  the  males  of  this  branch  fhall  hereafter  defire  to  bee  recreated  with  a 
further  knowledge  of  their  Anceftors  changes  and  chances,  in  the  various  paffages 
of  their  generations,  Thefe  following  records  will  give  light  therein,  none  of  which 
are  before  mentioned  ;  viz!  Record  :  in  fccio  Term:  hillar:  5.  H.  4.  rot.  3.  cum  rem 
thes :  /  Coiii  banc  :  Term  pafch.  18.  H.  6.  rot :  312.  /  pat.  i.  H.  4  :  pars.  7.  m.  25. 
in  dorfo.  /  et  4  H.  4.  pars  2  in  dorfo  /  Pat.  i  E.  4.  pars  i  dorfo  /  Pat  3  E.  4.  dorfo  / 
Rec  :  de  terfn  Michis.  7.  H.  7.  rot :  34.  cum  reiii  thefaur  :  in  fccio.  et  ibm  pafch  33. 
H.  8.  rot.  39.  /  et  ibm  Hillar.  3.  E.  6.  rot.  12.  /  et  ibm  original.  6.  E.  6.  pars.  i. 
rot.  49  /  et  ibm  Michis  rec  :  39.  Eliz:  rot:  107.  /  Rot.  pardon.  10.  et.  11.  H.  4.  m. 
5.  /  pat.  6.  E.  4.  pars.  i.  m.  15.  /  et  dorfo.  m.  5.  /  pat.  7.  E.  4.  pars.  2.  m.  2.  /  pat. 
8.  E.  4.  pars.  i.  m  :  18.  /  Mich:  fin.  8.  H.  6.  in  fccio.  | 

1$i0  ^CA\t  of  ^UrmcjGf 

417  Ciji^  lord  was  conftant  in  his  feale  of  Armcs,  never  by  him  altered  ;  for  with 
the  feale  hee  began  in  the  firft  of  Edward  the  third  when  hee  entred  upon  his 
barony,  hee  ended  in  the  35'^  of  the  faid  kinge,  when  hee  left  it  with  his  life,  '^n 
diameter  an  Inch  and  fomewhat  better,  charged  with  the  Cheveron  and  ten  croffes 
borne  cornerwife,  circumfcribed  .^igiUum  €f)0mc  1)C  23crfeclcc,  fupported  with  two 
mairemaydes,  having  the  Bifhops  mitre  for  the  creft,  which  now  by  him  was  firft 
affumed,  but  not  charged  with  the  croffes.      Behold  the  figure  thereof.^  | 


1  It  will  be  obferved  that  there  is  a  confiderable  difcrepancy  in  the  defcription  of  the  feal  given  by 
the  Author  and  the  figure  which  he  appends.     It  is  fo  in  the  Original.    [Ed.] 


Efchaet.  in  tune 
35.  E.  3.  port 
mortem  pretl(5li 
Thomse. 

Comp:  de  Slimbf. 
35.  et  36.  E.  3.  in 
caflrode  Berkeley. 
Newl  :  ped.  et  3. 
at:  in  cafl.ro  de 
Berkeley 


136 1  Uifc  of  Ct)onin;rf  tJjc  Zf^ntx  357 

f^i^  ticatii  ii"t)  pitvc  of  bucian  4x8 

Eft  commune  mori,   mors  nulli  jiarcit  honori. 
To  dye  is  comon.  All  in  this  have  (hare 
for  death  impartial!,  will  noe  honor  fpare. 

CIjC  Eve  of  Simon  and  Jude  the  27'^  of  October  .  Anno.  1361  .  in  the  35'^ 
year  of  king  Edward  the  third,  is  the  laft  of  this  lords  days,  then  aged  .  68  .  yeares 
and  fomewhat  upwards,  of  which  hee  fate  lord  35  .  yeares  and  five  months  and  nine 
days;  And  lyeth  buried  by  y'  body  of  Katharine  his  fecond  wife  in  Berkeley  Church, 
as  formerly  is  written,  in  a  faire  Tombe  with  their  refemblances  yet  remaining, 
beautifyed  with  the  Efchucheons  of  his  Amies  ;  And  in  the  fouth  window  over 
againft  the  faid  monument  are  the  pi6lures  or  monuments  of  their  three  forefaid 
children,  Thomas,  Maurice,  and  Edmond,  who  dyed  young,  as  formerly  is  written  : 
Sdntl  I  wifh  that  time  it  felf  may  never  weare  out  it,  or  the  memoriall  of  his  life. 
But  that  as  a  fixed  ftarre  in  the  fphear  of  this  family,  the  example  of  his  life  may 
guide  his  pofterity  to  honor  and  honorable  frugality,  as  the  ftarre  in  the  eaft  did 
the  wife  men  to  Chrift,  and  there  ftand  over  the  gates  of  this  houfe,  as  that  bleffed 
ftarre  did  to  them  :  Thrice  happy  in  the  bleffmg  of  Maurice  his  eldeft  fon,  (now 
lord  after  him,)  A  fon  of  Mars  and  a  perfe^l  builder  upon  the  hufbandly  founda- 
tions of  his  father,  and  a  rayfer  of  thofe  ftrudlures  to  an  higher  pitch,  as  after 
followeth. 

€t)c  lanD^  tDljcccof  tl)ijef  lorb  DprtJ  ^ci^Oi 

3[lt  Efter  Terme  in  the  23'!"  yeare  of  Edward  the  third,  (not  two  years  after    fin  23.  E.  3.  in 
this  lords  fecond  manage,  and  as  it  may  feeme  upon  the  occation  of  the  frute  that    ban  =  et 'n  caftro 
fprange  therefrom  by  the  birth  of  Thomas  their  fon,)  hee,  (having  before  obtayned       ^  22  E  ^  pars, 
the  kings  lycence  to  that  end,)  leavyed  a  fyne  to  the  faid  William  de  Syde  and    3™-  '•  et.  11. 
others  |  of  his  Chaplens  and  fervants,  of  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley  and  of  the  manors    419 
of  Berkeley,    Hame,  Appleridge,  Alkington,    Hinton,  Wotton,  Simondfall,  Came, 
Cowley,  Slimbridge,  and  Upton  S!  Leonards,  and  of  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  with 
the  viewes  of  franke  pledge  to  the  faid  manors  belonging.  And  of  the  Advowfons 
of  the  Churches  of  Wotton  and  Slimbridge  in  the  County  of  Glouc  ;  with  a  render 
back  to  himfelf  for  life.  And  after  to  the  faid  Maurice  his  fon  and  heire  apparent 
and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body.  The  remainder  to  the  heires  males  of  the  body 
of  the  faid  lord  Thomas  and  Katharine  his  fecond  wife.  The  remainder  to  the  right 
heires  of  himfelfe  for  ever. 


358 


€f)c  EitJCjst  of  tt^e  25frftdepjf 


1326 


fines  :  26.  E.  3.  in 

banco :  et  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 


carte  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


5llllb  in  Trinity  Terme  in  the  26'!"  of  Edward  the  third,  leavyed  the  like  fine  of 
the  manor  and  hundred  of  Portbury  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  with  a  render  to 
Maurice  his  eldefl;  fon  for  Hfe,  The  remainder  to  the  faid  lord  for  his  Hfe.  The 
remainder  to  the  heirs  males  of  the  body  of  the  faid  Maurice,  The  remainder  to 
the  heirs  of  the  faid  lord  begotten  on  the  body  of  the  faid  Katharine,  The  remainder 
to  his  own  right  heirs  for  ever. 

$Ilntl  at  the  fame  time  by  feverall  deeds  conveyed  to  certaine  feoffees  the  fore- 
faid  manors  and  libertyes,  with  larger  words  than  are  contained  in  the  faid  fines, 
who  forthwith  regranted  the  fame  with  the  like  eflates  and  remainders  over  as  are 
expreffed  in  the  faid  fines  ;  which  deeds  though  they  beare  noe  dates,  yet  were 
made  at  the  fame  times,  whereof  my  felfe,  upon  futes  and  queflions  (efpetially  for 
tenures  and  liberties,)  made  more  profitable  ufe  to  the  benefit  of  this  noble  family 
than  I  could  have  done  by  the  faid  fines. 


4^tt)Ct  fines  and  deeds  at  thefe  times  alfo  were  leavyed  and  made  by  this  lord, 
of  divers  other  manors  and  lands  of  like  eftates  with  like  remainders  over,  whereof 
becaufe  they  are  alyened  from  the  family,  I  forbeare  the  mention  in  this  place, 
haveing  touched  fome  of  them  before,  and  fome  others  hereafter  followe  upon  other 
occations. 


51  toiU  not  peremptorily  determine  upon  what  grounds  thefe  fines  were  by  this 
lord  thus  leavyed,  and  his  faid  barony  and  lands  thus  entayled ;  911^  whether  to 
avoid  the  like  danger  of  forfeiture  and  Efcheat  to  the  Crown,  as  his  father  and 
420  himfelf  by  their  rebellions.  And  himfelf  by  the  ill  Cuftody  |  of  Edward  the  fecond, 
had  wellnigh  cafl  their  houfe  into :  <f!>t  whether  it  was  the  doing  of  his  fecond  wife 
for  the  advancement  of  her  fons  with  fo  great  and  new  remainders  :  <!Dc  whether  it 
was  the  wifdome  of  the  faid  lord  to  ceafe  thereby  the  importunacies  of  a  ftep- 
mothers  requefls,  that  never  thinketh  fhee  hath  gotten  enough  for  her  own  children : 
<£>t  whether  his  ambition  to  perpetuate  his  name  and  barony  togeather,  as  longe  as 
iffue  male  of  his  body  by  either  wife  fhould  remayne :  <Dt  whether  the  ambition  of 
Katharine,  thereby  to  hem  in  and  circle  into  honour  and  nobility  the  iffue  male  of 
her  own  body,  but  the  onely  breath  of  Maurice  then  being  between,  and  not  other- 
wife  to  attaine  the  honor  of  this  barony,  being  but  of  the  half  bloud  to  the  faid 
Maurice  :  <Ot  whether  the  wifdome  and  requefls  of  the  faid  Maurice  by  himfelf,  or 
the  lady  his  wife,  or  by  either  of  their  kindred  or  freinds  who  were  of  great  worth 
and  potency,  or  upon  what  other  grounds  or  motives.     25ut  fare  I  am  the  good 

providence 


I  ^6 1 


Itifc  of  Cfjonuxfif  tljc  Cljird 


providence  of  the  god  of  mercy  to  the  male  line  of  this  family  had  a  hand  therein  ; 
for  otherwife,  by  the  death  of  the  lord  Thomas  Berkeley  fon  of  this  Maurice,  the 
firft  remainder  man,  happening.  68.  years  after,  in  the  s'!"  yeare  of  Henry  the  fifth, 
the  name  of  Berkeley  lord  Berkeley  had  been  fwallowed,  And  the  male  line  of  this 
lord  then  been  in  the  eftate  of  thofe  honorable  gentlemen  whofe  name  overlived 
their  fortunes,  by  havinge  litle  left  unto  them  by  their  Anceftors  for  their  mainten- 
ance ;  but  by  fervice  or  other  heoroicke  undertakeings  are  to  lay  the  groundwork 
of  new  familyes  and  of  new  honors ;  As  after  more  amply  upon  riper  caufe  I  fliall 
write  in  the  life  of  the  lord  James  the  firft,  and  the  firfl  man  that  relifhed  the  fweet- 
nefs  of  the  fruite  which  thefe  fines  to  the  heires  males  did  beare. 


359 


3Cnti  for  fuch  other  manors  lands  and  hundreds  whereof  this  lord  now  dyed    Efchaet.  35.  E.  3. 

"  "fcaetor. 

35- E.  3- 


feized,  they,  (with  thefe  aforefaid,)  are  mentioned  in   Inquifitions  after  his  death    in°sc»Vio  ^^'^^°'' 


found  the  fame  year,  which  yet  remaine  in  the  Tower  of  London  ;  As  the  manor    »"  baga. 

of  Awre,  the  manor  of  Hurft,  two  and  twenty  marks  rent  in  fframpton,  with  others.    Rot.  hn  •  35  E.  3! 

whereof  mention  fhall  more  properly  bee  made,  after  the  death  of  the  faid  Maurice,    m  :  n. 

who  was  by  his  fathers  conveyance  eflated  in  poffeffion  |  longe  before  hee  dyed,  in    421 

many  of  them,     '^n  which  Inquifitions  are  mentioned  alfo  the  manors  and  lands 

which  then  remained  and  came  to  John  Berkeley  his  half  brother,  who  at  this  time 

upon  the  death  of  this  lord  Thomas  was  near  ten  years  old,  as  before  is  touched. 


CfjC  tenth  of  November  following  the  faid  Maurice  doth  his  fealty  and  hath  Mich :  rec.  in 

livery  of  the  faid  lands,  and  his  homage  refpited  ;  And  pleadeth  in  discharge  of  the  (."urn'^re^m  thes^' 

releefe  demanded  of  him,  how  his  father  dyed  feized  but  of  an  eftate  for  his  life,  by  daus :  35.  E.  3. 

reafon  of  the  faid  fine  leavyed  as  aforefaid,  which  is  allowed;  And  the  year  after  fin:35.E. 3.m.  11. 

in  the  36'i'  of  Edward  the  third  makes  his  homage  to  the  king  accordingly.  claus :  35.  E.  3. 

j^oto&cit  two  years  after  that,  the  faid  Maurice  is  againe  by  proces  called  into  Miliar :  rec :  in 

the  Exchequer  for  his  fuppofed  releefe  ;  where  hee  pleadeth  in  barre  and  voucheth  ^um  rem.  thes : 

the  former  record  of  his  fealty  &  homage,  and   the  kings  licence  to  his  father  to  hillar :  fin :  iKm 

alyen,  And  his  faid  fine  to  the  heires  males  leavyed  thereupon  ;  Averring  that  hee  pat.  23.  E.  3.  pars. 

is  not  to  pay  any  releefe  for  that  his  father  had  but  an  eftate  for  life.  And  foe  is  ^-  ™'  '• 
difcharged. 


3ln  this  37'^  of  Edward   the  third,  and  (as  may  bee  conceived,)  upon   the    Inq :  37.  E.  3.  in 
occation  of  this  Exchequer  fute,  an   Inquifition  by  Jury  was  taken  at  Gloucefter,    ^^''^^°- 
(where  this  lord  was  prefent,)  before  Wittm  de  Oldbury  Ingroffatore  fc^cij,  ingroffer 

of 


36o  €t)c  Hibcitf  0f  tijc  25crhdcpi9f  1326 

of  the  great  roll,  (as  I  conceive  his  office,)  by  vertue  of  a  fpetiall  Comiffion  to  him 

out  of  that  Court  direcfled,  whereby  it  was  found,  That  the  manors  of  Berkeley, 

Hame,  Alkington,  Hinton,  Hurft;,  Slimbridge,  Came,  Wotton,  Symondfall,  Cowley, 

Baronia.    Arlingham,  and  Portbury,  are  of  the  barony  of  Berkeley,   et  eandem    baroniam 

rem  thes:  in  hillar    faciunt,   and   make  the  fame   Barony ;    %nh  in  the  fchedule  annexed  to  the   faid 

37.  E.  3:    Inquficon,  are  the  knights  fees  which   belong  to   the  faid   Caflle  and  manor  of 

Berkeley,  whereof  read  more  largely  in  my  Regifter  booke  of  the  lord  Berkeleyes 

tenures  by  knights  fervice,  And  before  in  fol :  [178] 

comp :  de  pertic  :  ^jjj^j,  f^^j^  ^^5  j|^g  perfonall  Eftate  of  this  lord,  That  fhortly  after  his  death  his 

36.  E.  3.111  callro  '  .  .  •^ 

de  Berkely.    eldefl  fon,  and  widdowe  bought  for  their  parts,  of  his  Executors,  to  the  value  of — 

1326!!:  4L  oi  of  his  fheep  and  cattle,  at  fome  of  his  farme  houfes.  | 

422  €f)c  application  an&  U0e  of  Iji^tf  life 

The  ufe.  i.  ;^0  clafpe  up  this  lords  life  which  to  his  poflerity  fhould  ever  lye  unfolded, 

Infleed  of  applying  his  adlions  to  the  benefit  of  this  prefent  lord  and  his  poflerity,  I 
avowe,  That  having  now  obferved  his  imployments  at  home  and  abrode,  in  peace 
and  warre,  by  fea  and  land,  the  ordinary  and  extraordinary  Commiffions  hee 
executed  in. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.  and  more  Countyes,  in  moft  years  of  this  kings 
a<5live  raigne  ;  befides  the  publike  muflers  in  as  many  or  more  Countyes,  which  in 
like  manner  hee  was  imployed  in,  befides  the  goale  deliveries  in  many  Counties 
whereat  hee  was  by  fpetiall  direction  required  to  bee,  togeather  with  his  half  years 
or  rather  each  quarters  travells  to  parliaments,  and  to  confultations  of  the  nobility 
alone  in  matter  of  flate,  his  frequent  and  more  then  yearly  goings  to  Jufts  and 
Turneaments,  togeather  with  the  times  which  his  private  eflate  required  ;  It  cafts 
mee  into  a  kind  of  unbeleefe  that  fo  many  difpatches  could  not  bee,  by  any  one 
man  ;  And  yet  by  one  fo  carefully  following  his  private  ftudyes  and  hufbandries, 
and  the  art  of  thriveing,  efpetially  alfo  to  pick  out  fo  many  days  and  times  for  his 
hawkes  and  hounds,  which  hee  in  much  variety  of  fport  and  chafe  followed  and 
delighted  in  ;  I  further  affuringe  this  family  That  though  I  have  drawn  the  thread 
of  this  lords  life  to  a  troublefome  length,  yet  have  I  in  the  winding  up  thereof  call 
afide  near  a  fourth  part  of  the  leffer  ears  which  my  gleanings  had  picked  up  and 
brought  into  my  loofer  papers  :  But  hee  is  now  at  reft.  And  hath  to  accompt  for  as 
fewe  idle  houres  as  any  man  I  have  ever  obferved.  Hotb  let  it  bee  noe  offence  in 
mee  to  wifh  this  lord  to  come  againe,  or  that  hee  that  now  lives  and  wears  his 
honor,  and  others  after  him,  may  bee  like  unto  this  lord  Thomas  the  third,  whom 
now  1  leave  in  duft  againft  my  will :  Acknowledging  That  beleife  muft  ftraine  hard 

to 


\ 


1 36 1  Eifc  of  iJftonw^  rt)c  2ri)irD  361 

to  make  his  life  probable  with  his  poflerity  :  And  had  not  all  his  acftions  by  mee 
herein  mentioned,  been  written  in  the  times  of  the  doing,  |  and  acknowledged  by    423 
generall  vote  and  matter  of  record,  fcarcely  would  the  legend  bee  more  Apochriphall 
and  lefs  to  bee  beleived. 

2.  3il0iltnc  this  family  upon  a  ferious  confideration  and  putting  togeather  of  the 
lives  of  this  lords  rebellious  father  and  himfelfe,  cannot  in  their  inward  retirements 
but  pra6lically  know  and  confeffe,  the  bleffed  providence  of  Allmighty  god  extended 
to  the  prefervation  of  their  houfe  ;  And  how  his  hand  returned  the  points  of  their 
g^reat  errors  to  the  increafe  of  their  greater  good  :  And  in  a  thankfull  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  great  mercies  extended  to  the  root,  put  forth  their  future  branches  in 
their  feverall  generations  to  bear  fruite  anfwerable  to  fuch  extraordinary  bleffmgs. 

3.  3llS(^inC,  though  it's  true  That  in  the  fpringe-time  of  our  youth  wee  ought 
to  plant  and  fow  all  our  proviffions  for  a'longe  and  happy  life  ;  And  as  wee  fow  wee 
reap,  And  that  from  thiftle  plants  wee  gather  no  grapes,  yet  the  obfervation  of  this 
lords  life,  in  youth  the  fouleft  of  any  in  his  generations,  before  thirty  exceedingly 
flayed  wife  and  thriving,  and  fo  till  death,  increafmg  :  And  on  the  one  fide  it 
verifies  that  mifery  makes  wife,  and  affliction  bringeth  underftanding :  So  on  the 
other  fide,  it  takes  away  defpaire  from  the  parents  in  his  poflerity,  when  their 
children  fhall  in  youth  deviate,  as  hee  did :  For  of  this  lord,  (notwithflanding  the 

foule  ways  wherein  hee  longe  walked,)  it  may  bee  faid  as  of  king  David  That  hee    Cron:  29.  vers.  28. 
dyed  in  a  good  old  age,  full  of  dayes  riches  and  honour,  And  Solomon  his  fon 
raigned  in  his  fleed  :  A  lord  whofe  wholl  life  is  a  double  text  for  his  poflerity.  If  I 
could  deliver  him  as  fit,  for  the  text. 


424  blank 


3  A 


®l)e  Cife  of  itlanricc  tijc  JFouvtl) 


425 


Cljf  %ik  of  Maurice  lord  Berkeley  the  fourth  of  that 
name,  ftiled  in  Writings  Mauric  filius  dni  Thome  dni 
de  Berkelee,  And  Mauric  fit  dni  Thome  de  Berkelee  And 
Mauricius  filius  Thome  de  Berkelee  And  dns  Mauricius  de 
Berkele  And  dns  Mauricius  dfis  de  Berkelee  And  Mauricius 
de  Berkely  dfis  de  Berkeley.  And  Mau?  de  Berkele  chivaler 
filius  dni  Thome  dni  de  Berkelee.  And  ufed  to  write  That 
hee  had  fuch  and  fuch  lands  ex  conceffione  dni  Thome  dni 
de  Berkele  venerabilis  dfii  et  patris  mei,  By  the  grant  of 
the  lord  Thomas  lord  of  Berkele  my  venerable  lord  and 
father. 

31nb  may  bee  called  Maurice  the  valiant. 
Contnnpocarp  with  Edward  the  third  from.  1361  .  till  1368 
Wi\o0e  life  I  have  delivered  under  thefe  twelve  titles  .  (viz'.  ) 


diverfoe  cartre  io 
CaftrodeBerkeley. 
paL35.  E.j.dorfo. 
Efchaet  :42.  E.  3. 
in  diverfis  com. 


3  A  3 


— l^iiSf  birth  and  youths  education — fol :  [425] 

— f^i^  hufbandryes  and  hofpitalyties — fol  :  [427] 

— J^ijSf  forraigne  imployments — fol :  [428] 

— J^i|f  purchafes  of  lands — fol  :  [433] 

— J^tjef  Almes  and  devotions — fol  :  [434] 

— l^ijef  mifcellaines  or  various  paffages,  not  aptly  to  bee  reduced 

under  titles — fol  :  [436] 
— I^ijef  wife— fol  :  [436] 
— J^ijtf  iffue— fol  :  [438] 
— I^iflf  feale  of  Arms— fol  :  [440] 
— l^i£?  death  and  place  of  buriall — fol :  [441] 
— i$i0  lands  whereof  hee  dyed  feized — fol  :  [442] 
— 2ri)e  application  and  ufe  of  his  life — fol  :  [443] 


364 


€l)e  %iMt^  of  tljc  25crfedep^ 


1361 


Efcaet  •.  35.  E  3. 

in  Com.  Somerfet 

pars.  I  :  m  :  1 2. 


c 


^i0  25nti)  anb  poutljiBf  education 

I^tS  lord  Maurice  was  borne  in  the  end  of  the  fourth  yeare  of  Edward  the 
third,  near  about  the  time  of  his  fathers  tryaLl  in  parliament  for  his  life 
and  fortunes,  as  in  his  life  is  already  written.  | 


426 

cartje  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 


Comp  :  garden 

1 1 .  E.  3.  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley. 

A  younge  knight, 

to  prevent 

wardfliip. 

cartse  in  caflro 

de  Berkeley 

finis  de  recordo 

in  banco. 


3[n  the  eleaventh  yeare  of  the  faid  king,  about  the  feaventh  of  his  age,  what 
time  his  mother  dyed,  his  father  placed  him  at  Portbury  under  the  tuition  of  Wittm 
de  Syde,  parfon  of  Awre  and  his  fathers  Receivour,  often  before  mentioned  :  And 
the  fooner  to  initiate  this  his  fon  in  good  hufbandry,  demifed  to  him  for  his  life  his 
two  manors  of  Portbury  and  Bedminfter  with  their  hundreds,  at  the  rent  of.  266'! 
13I  4?  for  payment  whereof  at  fower  equall  quarters,  the  faid  Wittm  de  Side  be- 
came his  fchollers  furety  ;  SCntl  yet  his  father  the  fame  year  took  him  alonge  with 
himfelf  in  that  martiall  voyage  which  hee  made  into  Scotland  ;  perhaps  to  mollify 
the  griefe  of  his  wifes  death  :  In  which  Journey  this  Maurice  was  knighted,  then 
about  feaven  years  old. 

3[n  the  1 2'^  year  of  that  king,  and  the  8'^  of  his  age,  hee  (then  a  knight)  with 
y^  portion  of  his  wife„  or  purfe  of  his  father,  purchafed  to  himfelfe  and  his  heirs,  of 
Ralph  Wallington,  the  revercon  of  the  manor  and  advowfon  of  Orchefton,  and  the 
moytie  of  the  manor  of  Eliflon,  which  Margaret  the  widow  of  S'  John  Gifford  of 
Brimesfeild  then  held  for  her  life. 


claus  :  12.  E.  3. 
pars.  2.  in  dorfo. 
Efcaet :  in  turre. 
42.E.3.et.i3.R.2. 
et.  5-  H.  5. 
comp.  de  Slim- 
bridge  12.  E.  3.  in 
titlo  defer!  reddit 
claus  :  42.  E.  3. 
m.  7. 
fines.  5.  H. 
5.  m.  14. 


<Ci)C  fame  12'!*  year  hee  was  marryed  to  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Hugh  lord 
Spenfer  then  about  eight  years  old,  upon  which  mariage  his  father  by  his  Deed 
dated  at  Beverflon  the  28'!"  of  September  in  the  I2'^  of  Edward  the  third,  conveyed 
to  him  and  his  wife  and  to  the  heires  males  of  their  two  bodyes,  the  manor  of  Hurft 
and  twenty  two  markes  of  free  rent  in  Frampton  upon  Seavern,  and  as  many 
particular  meffuages  and  lands  in  Came  as  in  old  rents  amounted  to,  12'i  10*  p  ann. 
But  though  thus  maryed  at  eight,  yet  had  hee  no  iffue  by  her  till  about.  12  .  or.  13  . 
years  after. 


1368 


Uifc  of  a^aurirc  tljc  fourttj 


365 


5[n  the  16'!"  of  king  Edward  the  third,  (this  Maurice  then  aged.  12.  years) 
the  lord  Thomas  his  father  conveyed  to  him  for  his  life,  his  manor  of  great  Wenden 
in  Effex,  and  ten  pound  rent  which  hee  received  of  Wittm  lord  Zouch  out  of  his 
manor  of  Bridgwater  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  To  hold  under  the  rent  of  one  red 
rofe. 


cartas  in  cailro  de 
Berkeley. 


CIjC  fecond  year  after  upon  his  returne  from  Spaine,  his  father  mitigated  the    cartx.  2 1 .  et.  24. 
rent  of  his  leafe  of  Portbury  &c.  unto .  200 .  markes ;  And  in  the  24'^  of  Edward 


the  third,  abridged  the  rent  unto  one  |  hundred  pounds  ;  And  that  only  to  bee  paid, 
tanque  le  dit  Maurice  eyt  botee  baner,  et  quel  houre  q'il  ey  botee  baner,  from  thence 
forth  noe  rent  at  all  :  And  this  happened  at  the  incomparable  battle  of  Poytiers  in 
the  Thirtieth  of  this  king,  what  time  this  Maurice  w^s  .  26  .  years  old,  whereof  read 
after  in  his  forraigne  imployments. 

CI)t^  lords  hufbandries  were  as  his  fathers,  And  as  his  fathers  true  apprentice 
therein,  hee  had  learned  his  trade  aright :  The  order  of  his  affaires,  qualities  of  his 
fervants  and  attendants,  in  the  rankes  of  knights  Efquires  and  other  degrees,  in  the 
government  of  his  houfe,  and  allowances  to  each,  they  were  continued  as  his  father 
left,  and  by  the  fame  officers,  as  their  feverall  Accompts  in  each  office  yet  remain- 
inge  do  declare.  And  in  the  laft  year  of  his  fathers  life,  after  return  from  his 
captivity,  was  in  full  fruition  of  all. 


Berkel 
427 


Comp  :  de  garde- 
rob  :  40.  E.  3.  et 
dilificomp.  36.38. 
40.  et.  41.  E.  3.  in 
caflr.  de  Berkeley. 


31  finil  in  the  fourtieth  and  one  and  fourtieth  of  Edward  the  31  two  accompts    Comp :  miniftr. 
of  the  profits  of  the  Caftle  gardens  at  Berkeley,  of  the  apples  fold,  and  of  the  perry    '*°n  ^'j'^r  \\  '" 
and  cider  there  made,  whereas  in  the  laft .  35  .  yeares  of  his  fathers  life,  I  met  not 
with  the  like. 

3lnb  in  the  36*?  of  Edward  the  third  this  lord  had  in  divers  of  his  manors,    Comp.  p'dict.  36. 
greater  flocks  and  heards  of  fheep  and  cattle  than  were  in  three  or  fower  years    predid^ 
before  his  fathers  death. 


3tnll  in  the  41'!'  of  Edward  the  third,  this  lord  had  a  vineyard  at  Berkeley,  for 
fourteen  days  wherein,  in  fcouring  the  ditches  and  better  inclofinge  of  the  fame,  hee 
paid  to  a  workman  at  .  3"?  the  day  .  3!  6^  An  hulbandry  alfo  I  found  not  in  his 
fathers  days,  learned  perhaps  by  this  lord  whilft  hee  was  prifoner  in  ffrance  or  a 
Traveller  in  Spaine. 


Comp.  burgi  de 
Berkeley.  41.  E.  3. 
in  caflr.  de  Berk. 
Campden  Englifti 
fol.  71.  72. 


366  €fjc  %i\3e0  of  tfje  ^cthclc^0  1361 

Compi  predidti.  %v3j  for  the  tranfporting  of  his  wooll  and  corn,  both  unto  feverall  coafts  and 

ports  of  this  kingdome,  and  into  forraigne  parts  ;  And  for  the  importation  back  of 
forren  wines  and  wares  needfull  for  his  ufe,  had  a  barke  or  fhip  of  his  own,  which 
I  thinke  was  firft  introduced  by  his  father.  | 

428  ^^^  forraigne  inipIopmmtjS 

Comp :  garderob.  J^otD  that  in  the  feaventh  year  of  his  age,  his  father  took  him  along  with  him- 

de  Berk  :    ^^^^  '"^°  Scotland,  is  before  touched,  what  time  hee  was  knighted. 

Comp:  Rec:  16.  '^tjC   Receivours   accompt  of  lord   Thomas   his   father,   for  a  year  ending  at 

E.  3.  m  caftro  de    Michaelmas  in  the  16""  of  Edward  the  third,  hath  thus  ;   In  dono  dni  dno  Mauricio 
Berk :  ' 

filio  fuo  pro  itinere  fuo  verfus  Granado — 66!!_  13L4I  Given  by  the  lord  Thomas  to 
S;  Maurice  his  fon  for  his  expences  towards  Granado  .  661^  1 3L  4^-' 

Comp:  Rec  :  18.  ^Cllb  the  Accompt  of  the  Receivour  for  the  year  ending  at  Michaelmas  in  the 

^•3-  '"ggj^gig'^^  iS'!-  of  Edward  the  third  hath  thus  ;  In  dono  dni  Wittmio  Gray  nuncio  dni  Thome 
Weft  venienti  de  partibus  Granado  cum  Uteris  dni  Mauricij  filij  fui — 4^  Given  by 
the  lord  Thomas  to  William  Gray,  fervant  to  S'  Thomas  Weft,  bringing  tres  from 
Granado  to  him  from  S^  Maurice  his  fon — 4^;  At  this  time  this  S"^  Maurice  was 
about  fourteen  years  old  ;  but  upon  what  occation  this  travell  and  two  years  abfence 
was  in  Spaine  I  find  not,  unles  to  gaine  the  Language  with  experience,  and  to  keep 
him  from  accompanying  with  his  wife. 

t^f^t  receivours  Accompts  for  the  year  ending  at  Michaelmas  in  the  20'!'  and 

ai'l"  years  of  king  Edward  the  third,  have  thus  ;   In  dono  dni,  dno  Petro  Corbet  in 

itinere  fuo  vltra  mare  cum  dno  Mauricio  fill  diii — lo''.'    In  reward  to  S';  Peter  Corbet 

going  beyond  fea  with  S'  Maurice  my  lords  fon — lo'V      At  this  time  hee  was  about 

fabianetat:    fixteene.     Stiill  now  were  great  and  blouddy  warrs  in  Gafcoigne  and  Normandy, 

Hollingedi :    wherein  the  Englifh  yearly  mightely  prevailed  upon  the  ffrench  ;  5llnt>  on  the  26'^ 

Speed,    ^f  Augl  in  this  21'^  year  was  fought  the  ever  memorable  battle  of  Creffy,  to  the 

How.  fol:242.    endlefs  honor  of  the   Englifh  name,  whereat  this  young  foldier  and  knight  was; 

ffr  iffard  ^vol°i'    ^^'^  ^^  ^  conceive  then  attendant  on  the  black  prince,  upon  whom  the  fury  of  that 

165.  et  at:    battle  was  poured,  as  by  our  Englifh  Chronicles  is  delivered. 

3£ntl  as  probably  may  bee  gather'd,  from  this  time  or  fomewhat  before,  this 
Maurice  was  de  retinentia  principis  one  of  the  princes  dayly  attendants  ;  whofe 
particuler  name  and  imployment  though   I   find  not  of  eight  years,   yet  I  cannot 

bee 


1368 


Hifc  of  a^auricc  t!)c  f  ourtl) 


367 


bee  led  to  beleive  fo  valiant  a  |  man  in  the  prime  of  his  youth,  boldencd  with  battle    429 
and  vidiory,  lay  idle,  the  kingdom  fo  labouring  in  aiflion  at  home,  and  in  Armes 
beyond  feas. 


^fjC  king  in  the  zg'?"  year  of  his  raigne  makes  prince  Edward  his  eldefl  fon 
Leivtenant  generall  for  Gafcoigne  and  Aquitaine,  whither  that  year  hee  goes ; 
And  with  the  prince  went  Thomas  then  lord  Berkeley,  this  lord  Maurice  by  the 
name  of  Mauricius  filius  Thome  de  Berkeley  miles,  and  divers  others  of  their  Allies 
and  neighbors,  as  after  followeth,  where  all  of  them  do  winter. 

3inlJ  upon  munday  the  I9'^  day  of  September  in  the  thirtieth  of  king  Edward 
the  third,  Anno.  1356.  was  fought  the  feirce  and  cruell  battle  of  Poitiers  in  France, 
by  the  black  prince  (fo  called  for  his  redoubted  martiall  deeds,  and  not  from  his 
comple6lion,)  and  his  lords  of  England  ;  whereat  were  taken  prifoners  John  the 
French  king  and  his  fon  Phillip  :  And  amongfl  others  of  the  Englifh,  in  the  middle 
ward  of  the  battle  with  the  prince,  (faith  Howe  and  others)  was  the  lord  Maurice 
Berkeley,  (then  about  26  .  years  of  age,)  fon  to  Thomas  lord  Berkeley  then  living 
very  old  :  who  (to  ufe  the  words  of  Stowe,  Howe,  &  others,)  calling  this  Maurice  a 
worthy  man,  for  the  fpace  of  two  hours  togeather  with  his  men,  never  fpared,  but 
would  bee  ftill  in  the  forefront  of  the  battle,  invadinge  his  enemies  with  the  firfl ; 
^fjijEt  Maurice  being  in  the  Dolphins  guard,  (the  french  kings  eldefl  fon,)  fowed 
blows  amongfl  them,  firfl  with  a  fpear,  then  with  a  fword,  and  at  length  being  all 
alone  compaffed  with  the  multitude  and  forely  wounded  was  taken  prifoner ;  Thus 
Howe  and  they. 


Rot.  vafcon  :  29. 
E.  3.  m:  I.  8. 
ffranc  :  29.  E.  3. 
m.  8. 

Hollings  :  fo  :  346 
et  alij 


Speed,  fol :  582 
How.  256.  262. 
Stow  :  406. 
Fabian  et  at: 
fome  writers  fay 
the  battle  was  :  22. 
Septem.  but  ero- 
nioufly. 


2£>Ut  ffroifard  the  french  preifl,  a  man  much  efleemed  for  the  fidelity  of  his    Froifard.  fo.  82. 
hiflory,  related  the  valor  and  fortune  of  this  Maurice  thus  :    3(Imon0e  the  battles, 
recountrings,  chafes,  and  purfuits,  that  (faith  hee)  were  made  that  day  in  the  feild, 
it  fortuned  that  an  Efquier  of  Picardy  called  John  de  Helenes  was  fled  from  the 
battle  and  met  with  his  page,  who  delivered  to  him  a  new  frefh  horfe,  whereon  hee 
rode  away  alone  ;    The  fame  feafon  there  was  in  the  feild  the  lord  Berkeley  of   aged.  26. 
England  a  young  lufly  knight  who  the  fame  day  had  reared  his  banner,  And  hee 
all  alone  purfued  the  faid  John  de  Helenes  ;  And  when  hee  had  followed  the  fpace 
of  one  League,  the  faid  John  turned  againe,  and  laid  his  fword  |  in  the  refl  infleed    430 
of  a  fpeere,  and  fo  came  running  towards  the  lord  Berkeley,  who  lift  up  his  fword 
to  have  ftroken  the  Efquire  ;  but  when  hee  faw  the  flroke  come,  hee  turned  from 
it,  fo  that  the  Englifhman  loft  his  flroke.  And  John  flrake  him  as  hee  pafl  on  the 

arme, 


368 


€1^  %i\ic^  of  tljc  25crhdcp^ 


1361 


arme,  that  the  lord  Berkeleys  fword  fell  into  the  feild  ;  when  hee  faw  his  fword 

down,  hee  alighted  fodainly  of  his  horfe,  and  came  to  the  place  where  his  fword  lay, 

And  as  hee  flouped  down  to  take  up  his  fword,  the  french  Efquier  did  peck  his 

fword  at  him,  And  by  hap  flrake  him  through  both  the  thighes,  fo  that  the  knight 

fell  to  the  earth  and  could  not  help  himfelfe  :  And  John  alighted  of  his  horfe  and 

tooke  the  knights  fword  that  lay  on  the  ground,  and  came  to  him,  And  demaunded 

The  tranflation    if  hee  would  yeald  him  or  not ;  The  knight  then  demaunded  his  name,  Sr  faid  hee, 

hath  Tho:  but    j  i^i^ht  lohn  de   Helenes,   But  what  is  your  name;  Certainly  faid  the  knight  my 
erronioufly.  o        j  j  •  j  o  j 

name  is  Maurice,  and  am  lord  of  Berkeley,  a  faire  caftle  on  the  river  of  Seavern  in 
the  Marches  of  Wales  :  well  S'  quoth  the  fquire,  then  you  fhall  bee  my  prifoner  and 
I  fhall  bring  you  in  fafe-guard,  and  I  fhall  fee  that  you  bee  healed  of  your  hurt : 
well  faid  the  knight  I  am  content  to  bee  your  prifoner,  for  you  have  by  law  of 
Armes  wonne  mee  :  Then  hee  fware  to  bee  his  prifoner,  refcue  or  not  refcue  ;  Then 
the  Squire  drew  forth  the  fword  out  of  the  knights  thighs,  and  the  wound  was  open, 
then  hee  wrapped  and  bound  the  wound,  and  fet  him  on  his  horfe,  and  fo  brought 
him  faire  and  eafily  to  Chaterleant,  and  there  tarryed  more  then  fifteen  dayes  for 
his  fake,  &  did  get  him  remedy  for  his  hurt ;  And  when  hee  was  fomewhat  amended, 
then  hee  gat  him  a  litter  and  fo  brought  him  at  his  eafe  to  his  houfe  in  Picardy, 
there  hee  was  more  then  a  year  before  hee  was  perfectly  whole ;  And  when  hee 
departed  hee  paid  for  his  ranfome  fix  thoufand  nobles  :  And  fo  this  Squire  was 
made  a  knight  by  reafon  of  the  profit  that  hee  had  of  the  lord  Berkeley.  Thus 
ffroiffard  :  I  hold  it  no  error  in  fifroiffard  to  give  the  title  of  lord  to  this  Maurice, 
for  his  father,  (whofe  death  followed  in  the  fifth  year  after,  and  before  ffroiffard 
had  ended  his  hiflory,)  had  imparted  to  him  the  better  half  of  his  Eflate,  and  the 
management  (in  effe6l)  of  all  the  reft,  And  was  by  the  death  of  his  father  become 
lord  Berkeley. 


pars  :  I.  m  :  29. 


431  CI^C  king  by  his  tres  patents  dated  the   I2'^  of  ffebruary  in  the   34'''  |  of  his 

pat :  34.  E.  3.    raie^ne  recites,  That  whereas  at  the  requeft  of  the  Earle  and  Countes  of  Arundle, 

arc   ■    I      TTl  ■    -7n  o  ^        '  1 

the  Earle  of  Salifbrigg  had  obtained  leave  of  thofe  to  whom  his  deere  and  beloved 
friend  Maurice  Berkelee  knight  is  prifoner,  for  him  to  come  into  England  and  here 
to  difpatch  his  bufines,  untill  the  twentieth  day  after  Michaelmas  next,  And  by  that 
day  to  returne  and  bee  in  the  prifon  and  place,  which  to  him  fliall  bee  affigned  by 
his  mafter  or  miftres  without  deceit ;  And  therefore  wee  (the  king)  now  promife  in 
good  faith,  That  noe  impeachment  or  difturbance  fhall  be  done  or  permitted.  Nor 
wee  will  permit  that  the  faid  Maurice  fhall  bee  hindred  to  break  his  oath  in  not 
returning  againe  to  his  prifon  beyond  fea  at  his  day  :  And  if  it  fliall  happen  that 

any 


1368 


Hifc  of  a^flurice  tfjc  f  ourti) 


369 


any  of  our  fubjecfls  (hall  impeach  or  fo  hinder  that  the  faid  Maurice  fhould  not 
return,  wee  promife  (en  bone  foi)  in  the  word  of  a  kinj^  That  hee  fliall  regoe  to  his 
prifon  at  the  faid  time.  Witnes  thefe  our  trcs  patents  at  Weftminfter  the  12'!"  of 
ffebruary  in  the  34'^  of  our  raigne  of  England  and  of  ffrance  the  twenty  firfl. 


^CCOrDtngip  this  lord  Maurice  comes  into  England,  and  returnes  to  his  prifon 
before  his  day  affigned  ;  And  in  what  fort  the  fame  month  hee  wrought  his  inlarge- 
ment,  let  a  fair  inflrument  in  French  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley  after  the  imperiall 
order,  dated  at  Calais  the  28'''  of  Oftober.  1360,  (which  was  the  fame  34'''  of  Edward 
the  third,)  declare,  which  hath  thus;  CljC  honorable  and  noble  man  Mounfieur 
Maurice  de  Berkeley  chivaleir.  hath  agreed  for  his  ranfome  for — 1080".  of  Englifli 
money  flerling,  for  payment  whereof  Henry  Duke  of  Lancafter  and  S'  ffranke  de 
Hale  knight  are  become  his  fureties.  And  thereupon  hee  is  difcharged  of  his  im- 
prifonment  and  of  his  faith  given  :  which  agreement  is  made  in  the  faid  Dukes 
chamber  at  Calais  with  John  Conte  de  Sacrebruche,  who  by  his  deed  declareth  thus 
much. 


cartae  in  caftro 
de  IJerkeley. 


<lEitf)CC  the  difference  of  coynes  in  their  valewes  in  feverall  kingdoms  :  Or  that  patent.  34.  E.  3. 
of  ffroiffards .  6000.  nobles  now  remained  unpaid  1080'!'  may  reconcile  the  variance; 
And  it  is  to  bee  noted  that  the  f^  Earle  of  Saliibrigg,  by  whofe  means  this  lord 
came  over  into  England,  was  at  this  time  a  prifoner  to  the  king  of  England  in 
Wallingford  Caflle  :  where,  upon  what  provocation  I  find  not,  hee  and  his  fervants 
in  May  after,  were  beaten  ;  whereat  the  kinge  feemed  highly  difpleafed,  fending  a 
fpetiall  Commiffion  to  enquire  the  truth  and  manner  thereof.  | 


CllijSf  battle  of  Poytiers  is,  with  all  impartiall  hiftorians  of  what  nation  foever, 
preferred  before  all  others  fought  before  or  fmce  by  the  Englifh,  Grecians,  Romaines, 
or  by  any  other  nation  in  the  world,  and  to  bee  obtained  by  the  greateft  military 
valour  and  virtue  :  They  confider  it  with  thefe  circumftances  :  The  whoU  kingdome 
of  France  was  then  fetled  in  a  willing  obedience  under  one  mighty  and  valiant  king: 
A  king  whofe  reputation  abrode  was  no  leffe  then  his  puiffance  at  home:  Under  the 
honor  of  whofe  floure  de  lices,  the  king  of  Bohemia  had  held  it  an  honor  to  ferv'e 
in  perfon  :  At  whofe  call  the  Genowaies  and  other  bordering  flates  redily  tooke 
Armes  :  A  king  unto  whom  a  prince,  the  Dolphin  of  Viennois,  gave  away  his 
dominion  for  love  :  And  to  whom  the  king  of  Majorca  fold  that  goodly  Territory 
for  money.  The  Country  of  france  it  felf  fenced  on  every  fide,  to  y'  help  of  it  felf 
and  to  the  difadvantage  of  the  Englifh.     Noe  fadlion  either  generall  through  the 

3  B  Country, 


432 


2-   3- 

4- 
5- 
6. 


370 


€f)c  HibtiSf  of  ttic  25crhdcpjf 


1361 


Rot.  ffranc  :  29. 

E.  3.  m  :  8. 

Rot.  vafcon.  29. 

E.  3.  m  :  I.  8. 


433 


tifroifard  :  fo  :  81. 
83.  et  alij. 


Country,  or  particular  through  the  provinces  or  cities  thereof,  but  each  eagerly  bent 
againft  the  Englifh.  The  French  as  well  experienced  in  feats  of  warre  as  the 
EngliOi,  and  in  the  opinions  of  men  their  fuperiors.  In  Armes,  in  horfe,  in  health 
of  body,  and  in  all  proviffions  greatly  beyond  the  Englifh.  And  as  Serres  and  other 
ffrench  hiflorians  have,  their  kinge  had  all  the  advantages  over  our  prince  Edward, 
both  of  number,  force,  fhewe.  Country,  and  conceit.  And  withall  the  choice  of  all 
his  horfmen,  then  the  beft  in  all  Europe,  with  the  greateft  and  wifefi;  Captaines  of 
his  wholl  Realme,  More  at  the  houre  of  battle  hee  could  not  have  wifhed  for.  '^ntl 
yet  the  golden  mettle  of  this  Englifh  Army  of  eight  thoufand,  (furrounded  on  each 
fide  with  more  then  threefcore  thoufand  French,  better  appointed,  and  no  leffe 
experienc'd  warriours,)  fodainly  leavied  for  this  Journey  from  following  the  Cart 
and  fitting  on  the  fhop  ftall,  beat  this  French  Army  out  of  the  feild  ;  And  from  the 
midft  of  thofe  forces  brought  the  king  and  his  fon  Phillip  prifoners  into  England. 
<©Ut  of  the  County  of  Glouc  went  about .  300 .  of  thefe  foldiers,  many  of  whom  were 
the  kinfmen.  Allies,  neighbours,  and  tenants,  of  this  lord  and  his  father,*  As  Thomas 
Berkeley  of  Uley,  Nicholas  Berkeley  of  Durfley,  Peter  de  Veel  of  Huntingford, 
Symon  Baffet  of  Uley,  knights,  and  others,  The  pofterityes  and  Surnames  of  many 
of  whom  continue  of  eminent  note  |  about  Berkeley  Caflle  to  this  day  :  5i!nll  I  may 
avouch  That  the  genius  &  naturall  courage  of  thefe  my  Country  Captaynes  and 
their  Soldiers,  thus  for  ever  renowned  in  this  wonderfull  battle,  liveth  in  their 
pofterities  that  now  flourifh,  as  the  next  ages  will  declare  when  they  have  fuch  a 
king  and  prince  to  follow  :  iCI^c  foile  where  I  write  and  live,  and  the  acquaintance  I 
have  in  the  midft  thereof,  with  divers  of  the  pofterity  of  thefe  heftors,  calls  upon 
mee  to  celebrate  the  funerall  memory  of  thefe  my  Allyes,  and  neighbours  with  this 
memoriall,  to  the  Eternizing  of  each  of  their  fames  without  offence  or  flattery.  %vSi 
I  feeme  yet  alfo  to  hear  ecchoinge  in  mine  eares  thofe  brave  and  heroicke  words  of 
that  great  Captaine  S'  John  Chandois,  (my  Countryman  alfo,)  fpoken  to  the  prince 
in  the  fury  of  this  battle,  when  hee  wifely  obferved  the  firft  diforder  in  the  ffrench 
Army  :  ^c\D  Sir,  take  your  horfe,  ride  forth,  God  is  this  day  in  your  hands,  the 
French  king  will  bee  yours  if  hee  bee  well  fought  withall  ;  And  furely  foe  hee  was, 
even  beyond  credit,  and  to  the  height  of  fome  heroicall  fable.  And  thereby  became 
his  prifoner. 


Rot.  cart  :  22.  E. 

3.  m  ;  J I . 

carta  fub  figillo 

in  caflr  :  de  Berk : 


f$i^  purcljajicjBf  of  Uant>0 

^t)C  8'^  of  Aprill  in  the  22'!'  year  of  Edward  the  third,  (the  18'''  of  this  lords 
age,)  hee  purchafed  of  the  king  in  fee,  a  market  every  munday  and  two  faires  in 
the  year  within  his  Town  of  Portbury,  The  one  in  the  vigill  day,  and  morrow  of 

S!  John 


1368  3lifc  of  iU^auricc  ff)c  foiirtl)  371 

S'  John  ante  portam  latinam,  And  the  other  in  the  vigill,  day,  and  morrowe  of  All 

Saints  ;  which  grant  was  the  27'^  of  January  in  the  third  and  fourth  of  Phillip  and    pat.  3.  et.  4.  Ph : 

Mary,  confirmed  to  Henry  lord  Berkeley  and  his  heires.  *^^  ^'^'■• 

3(lt  the  26'^  and  28'^  of  Edward  the  third,  hee  alfo  purchafed  divers  lands  and    carta  in  caaro  de 
Tenements  in  Chrykefton  and  Uphill  in  Somerfclfliirc  by  the  name  of  Mauricius    ^'^'■'"^'*=>'- 
de  Berkeley  dns  de  Portbury. 

3fit  the  fame  time  hee  purchafed  the  manor  of  Phillips  norton  in  ffee  of  John    ^ana  in  caflro 
»«•  L  de  Berkeley. 

Mattrevers  the  younger. 

carta  in  caftro 
^In  the  38'!"  of  Edward  the  third  hee  purchafed  divers  meffuages  lands  and    de  Berkeley. 

Tenements   in   Slimbridge,    Kingflon,   Gofington,  and    Hurfl,  within  the|prifli  of   434 

Slimbridge,  of  John  fon  of  Odo  of  A6lon. 

3llnb  afwell  in  the  eight  laft;  years  of  his  fathers  life,  as  in  the  next  feaven  years,    diverfre  cartae 
till  his  own  death  followed,  hee  purchafed  and  drew  in  as  many  freeholders  lands    '"  ca^ro  de  Berk : 
within  his  feverall  manors,  as  were  offered  to  bee  fold  :   CijC  enfeoffing  of  which  was 
the  great  error  of  the  lord  Robert  the  fecond,  Thomas  the  firft,  and  efpetially  of 
Thomas  the  fecond,  after  the  flatute  of  donis  conditionat :  as  no  doubt  but  the 
complaint  of  this  lord  Maurice  was,  afwell  as  his  fathers  ;  upon  which  ftringe  I  have    fol  :  [120,  134I 
already  warbled  in  the  ill  harmony  of  the  fix  lafl;  lords  lives. 

3ln  the  41'f'  of  Edward  the  third,  hee  purchafed  the  Advowfon  of  the  Chappie    carta:  in  caAro 
of  Hillefly,  in  Hawkfbury  parifli,  of  Wiilm  de  Cheltenham,  of  whom  alfo  the  year    *^^  Berkeley. 
before  hee  purchafed  divers  lands  and  Tenements  in  Piriton  and  Etlowe,  inlargeing 
thereby  his  manor  of  Aure. 

J^ifif  SWmcsf  anb  bctotion.flf 

Co  tl)C  end  that  the  two  Chappells,  the  one  of  our  lady  and  the  other  of  S^  guUa  papai ;  ,8. 
John  baptift,  founded  in  the  Caflle  of  Berkeley,  (the  one  in  the  Keep  over  the  E.  3.  in  caftro  de 
great  well,  the  other  at  the  upper  end  of  the  great  hall  ftaires,  whereof  mention 
was  made  in  his  fathers  life,  in  the  dedicatory  epiftle  of  learned  Trevifa  his 
Chaplen,)  might  bee  renued  and  frequented  with  due  honors  ;  This  lord  the  25'^  of 
May  in  the  thirty  eigth  year  of  Edward  the  third,  Anno.  1364 .  procured  of  pope 
Urbane  the  fecond,  forty  days  pardon  and  releafeof  the  penance  enjoyned,  to  every 
one  that  fhould  in  the  faid  chappells,  on  the  feftivall  days  of  the  yeare,  heare  maffes, 

3B  3  or 


372 


€fjc  %iMt0  of  tl)c  25crkcIcpiS 


1361 


435 


or  fay  kneeling  three  Ave  Maryes,  or  (hould  give  any  veflments,  ornaments,  gold, 
filver,  books,  chalices,  or  any  other  Aydes  of  charity  to  the  faid  Chappies  ;  And 
whofoever  fliall  there  pray  for  the  obtainer  of  thefe  prefents,  &  for  the  life  and  good 
eflate  of  the  noble  lord  Maurice  de  Berkeley,  and  of  the  noble  lady  Elizabeth  his 
wife,  and  of  their  children,  (the  obtainers  thereof,)  and  for  the  foules  of  the  lord 
Thomas  his  father,  and  being  in  purgatory,  (hall  bee  alfo  releafed  of  forty  dayes  of 
the  penance  enjoyned  them  :  which  for  the  |  infallibility,  is  alfo  under  the  feales  of 
Eleaven  Cardinalls.     Thus  the  bull. 


cart:  in  caflro  de 
Berk: 


3|n  the  I4'^  of  Edward  the  third,  the  king  at  the  fuit  of  this  Maurice,  (then 
but  ten  years  old,)  gave  licence  to  Wittm  de  Syde  his  fathers  receivour,  to  found  a 
Chantry  in  the  Church  of  Came,  and  to  endow  it  with  two  meffuages  two  yard  land 
and  five  pound  rent  in  Berkeley,  Came,  and  Wotton,  which  was  the  a6l  of  this 
Maurice. 


3Ilnll  for  his  liberality  to  the  hofpitall  of  Longbridge,  it  is  before  expreffed  in 
the  life  of  the  lord  Maurice  the  firft  ;  where  I  began  and  ended  with  that  hofpitall. 


cartae  in  caflro  de 
Berkeley. 


3In  the  23?  year  of  the  faid  king,  this  lord  gave  divers  lands  in  Portbury  to 
Walter  Rope  his  chaplen,  to  pray  daily  in  the  Chappie  of  that  manor  for  the  happy 
eftate  of  his  venerable  lord  and  father,  and  of  the  lady  Katharine  his  wife,  and  of 
himfelf  and  of  Elizabeth  his  beloved  wife.  And  for  the  foules  of  the  lord  Maurice 
and  lady  Eve,  and  for  the  foule  of  his  moft  deere  lady  and  mother  the  lady 
Margaret  of  Berkeley,  with  a  claufe  of  re-entry  if  the  prayers  fhould  ceafe  and  bee 
negledled  the  fpace  of  one  monthe  ;  foe  that  Deed. 


carta  in  cafl.ro  de 
Berkeley. 


5ilntl  the  very  like  grant  this  lord  made  of  divers  lands  in  the  faid  manor  of 
Portbury  to  Richard  March  his  chaplen,  upon  S'  Valentines  day  in  the  28*  year 
of  the  faid  king ;  makeing  as  it  feemes,  the  words  of  the  former  the  prefident  in 
drawing  this  latter ;  Alluding  in  both  to  the  guift  hee  made  the  fame  yeare  to  the 
Chappie  of  Longbridge  by  Berkeley,  mentioned  in  the  life  of  Maurice  the  firft  of 
that  name. 


cart*  in  cafl.ro  de 
Berkeley. 


3[n  the  40'!"  year  of  that  king,  this  lord  alfo  gave  to  Wittm  Winchcombe 
Chaplen,  an  houfe  before  the  gate  of  Saint  Auguflines  Monaflery,  with  the  garden 
and  dovehoufe  thereof,  and  divers  houfes  in  brode  fkreet  in  Brifloll,  to  pray  in  that 
monaftery  efpetially  for  the  foule  of  his  mother  the  lady  Margaret. 


1368 


Hifc  of  fll^auricc  tl)c  f  ourtl) 


373 


HDittl  thefe  faire  fruites  which  came  rcdily  lo  hand  I  have  contented  my  felfe, 
without  further  fearch  under  the  boughs  and  leaves  which  this  honorable  tree  did 
beare.  | 

^10  a^ijefcdlaincjrf  or  tarioiuaf  nffaircflf  not  aptip  to  be  rcDucctJ  uiilinr  titlejrf  436 

3in  the  fourtieth  of  Edward  the  third,  this  lord  fent  the  king  fix   Lampryes,    Comp  :  garder : 
the  firfl  that  were  taken,  which  coft  him — 61!.  7L  2!.      And  for  carriage  of  them  to    caRrode  Berkeley. 
the  king — 6L  Si     And  the  year  following  the  firft  two  Lampryes  taken  in  the  end 
of  December  coft  him  26!.  8^  the  peece,  fent  alfo  to  the  kinge. 

^hc  fame  year  in  Aprill  hee  fent  other  fix  lampryes  to  the  Abbot  of  Glaflon-    Comp :  recept : 
n  A  42.  E.  3.  in 

bury,  which  coft  him — 31L  6?  caftro  de  Berkeley. 

511nD  this  courfe,  in  prefenting  the  king  with  lampryes,  hee  continued  as  his 
father  all  his  life  before  him  had  done,  if  they  were  in  England. 

<©f  the  antient  eftimation  of  which  fifh,  I  write  more  largely  in  my  defcription 
of  Berkeley  hundred,  when  I  fall  upon  the  river  of  Seavern. 

3In    what    fort  the  government  of   the  Abby  of   Saint  Auguflines  and   the    pat:  40.  E.  3.  pars. 
pofTeffions    thereof  were,   in    the  fortieth  of   Edward    the  third,  comitted    to    the 
governance  of  this  lord  and  others,    I  have  before  written  in  the  life  of  Robert 
the  firft,  the  founder  thereof. 


I^ijef  l©ifc 

Ct)at  the  lady  Elizabeth  wife  to  this  lord,  was  the  daughter  of  Hugh  lord 
Spenfer,  and  marryed  in  Auguft  in  the  1 2'^  year  of  Edward  the  third,  almofl  •  23 . 
years  before  his  father  dyed,  and  what  was  then  affured  for  their  prefent  main- 
tenance and  for  her  Joynture  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  is  before  touched :  Sfinb  now 
upon  the  death  of  her  hufband  was  affigned  to  her  for  dower  the  two  third  parts  of 
the  manor  of  Portbury,  and  the  third  part  of  the  manor  of  Portefhned,  and  one 
meffuage  and  dovehoufe  and  one  yardland  there,  and  ten  pound  rent  |  p  ann  in 
Bridgwater  in  the  County  of  Somerfet,  And  a  meffuage  and  divers  lands  in  Saynloe, 
And  the  manors  of  Cowley,  Upton  S!  Leonards,  and  Awre,  with  the  hamblets  of 
Etlowe  and  Blackney,  with  the  hundred  of  Blediflow,  in  the  County  of  Glouc  : 
And  the  manors  of  great  and  litle  Wenden  in  the  County  of  Effex,  And  thirty 
(hillings  rent  in  Cricklade  in  Wiltfhire,  in  full  fatisfa6lion  of  dower,  delivered  to  her 
the  third  of  September  after  her  hufbands  death.  i|^0C 


claus  :  12.  E.  3. 
vt.  antea 


claus  :  42.  E.  3. 
m  :  II. 

carta  in  caflro 
de  Berkeley. 

437 

Efcaet   in  turrc  : 
13.  R.  2:  poflmort 
Eliz.  dni  Berkeley. 


claus ; 
pars.  : 


12.  E.  3. 

.  dorfo. 


374  3r|jc  %i\ye0  of  tijc  25crftcIcpjBf  1361 

Comp :  rec  :  i6.  J^jj;  mariage  portion  was  one  thoufand  marks,  payable  by  200  marks  each  half 

Berkeley.  Y^ar,  by  a  recognizance  acknowledged  by  Hugh  le  Difpenfer  her  brother,  the  laft 
whereof  was  paid  in  the  16'*'  of  king  Edward  the  third  ;  And  was  maryed  in  very 
tender  years,  And  hee  then  in  the  eighth  year  of  his  age  as  before  is  touched. 

Comp:  rec:  et  M>^(C  had  an  yearly  allowance  from  her  hufbands  Receiver  of  20L  each  quarter, 

E.^3!  in'^callrotk    P''°  ^xpenfis  in  camera,  for  expences  in  her  chamber.     The  year  of  her  hufbands 
Berkeley,    ficknes,  fhee  made  a  newe  gowne  for  her  felfe,  of  cloth  furred  throughout  with 
Cony  fkins  out  of  the  kitchen. 

carta  in  caRro  ^In  the  46'^  of  Edward  the  third,  fhee  gave  fourty  markes  in  money  to  Sibill 

Abbeffe  of  Wilton,  then  in  the  fourth  year  of  her  widowhood. 

2Bp  her  the  faid  lord  Maurice  had  iffue  fower  fons  and  three  daughters,  of  each 
of  whom  afterwards. 

Efcaet :  i3.^R.  2.  .jSJjec  furvived  her  hufband  one  and  twenty  years  and  one  month  and  five  days, 

po    mor      iz.    j^^^  maryed  not  after  his  death.  Albeit  fhee  was  not  then  paft  the  age  of  thirty 
eight  yeares. 

^IjCC  dyed  the    if^  of  July  in  the   13'!'  of  Richard  the  fecond.  Anno.  1389. 

Newl :  pedgr :  in    And  was  buryed  in  the  parifh  church  of  Si  Botulphes  in  London,  having  the  year 

^Cart  in  callro  Te    before,  by  the  name  of  dame  Elizabeth  de  Berkeley,  dame  de  Portbury,  granted  for 

Berkeley    her  life  a  fon  trefcfi  et  tres  bien  ame  fit3  Thomas  de  Berkeley  feignior  de  Berkeley 

the  faid  manors  of  Portbury  and  Portefehede  at  the  rent  of  one  hundred  markes. 

fin:  13.  R.  2.  m:  5.  %{tCt  her  death  writs  of  diem  claufit  extrem  went  into  the  Counties  of  Glouc  : 

438    Wilts,    Effex,   Somerfet  and  Dorfet  to   inquire  |  according  to  the  courfe  of  the 

claus.  13.  R.  2.    chancery,  whereupon  fhee  was  by  feverall  inquifitions  found  to  die  feazed  of  the 
pars.  I.  m.  26. 
fee  fol.  [451]    feveral  manors  and  lands  formerly  mentioned,  and  as  after  followeth  in  folio 

I.  <©f  Thomas  this  lords  eldefl  fon  I  fhall  after  write  as  the  fourth  lord  of  his 


2.  ^I^mCjtf,  fecond  fon  of  this  lord  Maurice,  is  of  right  to  bee  numbred  in  the 
honorable  catologue  of  his  generations  ;  And  juflly  in  thefe  collecflions  to  bee  one 

of 


1368  Itifc  of  a^miritc  ttjc  jrourtl)  375 

of  the  one  and  twenty  whofe  lives  I  offer  unto  this  family  ;  Hee  being  the  maine 
bridge  by  which  the  Caftle,  honor,  and  barony  of  Berkeley,  is  conveyed  to  their 
fucceffion  ;  ]Bf)0lt1  for  diftincftion,  (and  not  unaptly  as  after  doth  appear,)  I  call 
James  the  Wellhman  :  contemporary  with  Edward  the  third,  Richard  the  fecond, 
and  Henry  the  fourth. 

5*or  his  fervice  againft  the  French  hee  was  rewarded  with  the  honor  of  knight- 
hood ;  And  after  maryed  Elizabeth,  (written  alfo  Ifable,)  the  daughter  and  heir  of 
S'  John  Bluet  ats  Bloet  knight,  and  of  the  lady  Katharine  Worgan  his  wife  ;  by 
whom  hee  had  the  Welfh  manors  of  Raglan,  Talgarth,  Tore,  Edifhall,  Straddewy, 
and  others,  as  after  followeth  ;  And  the  manor  of  Daglingworth  in  the  County  of 
Glouc  :  And  lived  in  Wales  with  his  wife  at  her  faid  houfes  there. 

IBljitf)  S^  John   Bluet  ats  Bloet  was  the  fon  of  Ralph  Bluet  ats  Bloet  and  of   vetus  manufc :  in 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  daughter  and  heire  of  Reys  Ap-Ryes  fon  of  Reys  Ap-howell, 
from  whom  after  the  iffue  of  Phillip  Ap-Reys  elder  brother  of  the  faid  Reys  Ap-    h.  6. 
Reys  was  dead  without  iffue,  feme  of  the  faid  manors,  togeather  with  the  manors  of 
Bremles,    Langoyde,   and  the  Seigniory  of  Cantrefhelley,  remained  and  came  to 
James  lord   Berkeley  fon  and  heir  of  this  S'  James. 

Co  this  S'  James  and  Elizabeth,  king  Henry  the  fourth,  in  the  firfl  of  his  Pat.  i.  H.  4.  pars, 
raigne,  confirmed  the  town  and  Caflle  of  Ragelan  in  the  County  of  Monmouth,  ^'  ™  '  '^' 
which  Earle  Richard  fon  of  Earle  Gilbert  gave  in  the  time  of  king  Henry  the 
fecond  to  Walter  Bloet  and  his  heires,  to  hold  by  one  Welfh  knights  fee,  %nti 
further  now  confirmes  to  this  ST  James  and  Elizabeth  the  grant  of  a  market  and 
fair  in  their  man"^  of  Straddewy  in  the  Cantred  of  Talgarth,  which  king  Edward 
the  firfi;  in  the  26'''  of  his  raigne  granted  to  John  Pichard  and  his  heirs  ;  'Co  both 
which  antient  families,  this  Elizabeth  (faith  the  record)  is  heire.  | 

Co  this  James,  this  lord  Maurice  his  father,  in  the  one  and  fortieth  of  Edward    439 
the  third,  gave  the  manor  of  litle  Madhfeild,  To  hold  to  him  and  the  heires  males    carta  in  caflro  de 
of  his  body,  widi  a  remainder  to  Maurice  his  brother  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his 
body. 

^n  the  4'^  of  Henry  the  fourth,  the  king  comitted  to  this  S' James  the  keeping    claus:4.  H.4.m.  i. 
of  the  caflle  of  Tretour  in  Wales,  And  requires  him  to  fortify  the  fame  ftrongly 
againft  Owen  Glendourdy. 

5&P 


376 


€l^c  HitJCiSf  of  tffc  SBcrhdcpiBf 


1361 


Newl :  ped  :  in 
caftro  de  Berkeley. 


25p  the  faid  Elizabeth  his  wife,  called  the  lady  of  Raggeland,  hee  had  iffue 
James,  after  lord  Berkeley,  whofe  life  draweth  from  me  a  large  relation  :  And 
Maurice,  to  whom  his  father  and  mother  conveyed  for  his  maintenance  the  manor 
of  Raggelan,  &c.  But  hee  dying  without  iffue,  the  fame  came  to  his  faid  elder 
brother. 


Will  in  the  prerog. 
6.  H.  4.  1405. 

Newl.  ped  :  in 
caftr.  de  Berkeley. 


"Cfji^  S'  James  dyed  the  I3'^  of  June  in  the  fixth  year  of  king  Henry  the  fourth. 
Anno.  1405.  twelve  years  and  one  month  before  his  elder  brother;  And  lyeth 
buried  in  the  Tombe  of  his  father  in  the  monaftery  of  S!  Auguftines  by  Briftoll,  as 
after  followeth.  As  in  his  will  he  had  defired,  whereby  hee  gave  fix  marks  penfion 
to  a  preift  for  a  year  to  pray  for  his  foule  after  his  death  ;  And  thereof  made  the 
faid  Elizabeth  ats  Ifable,  his  wife,  James  his  fon,  and  Edmond  ffourd  his  fervant, 
his  Executors. 


divers  carts  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley. 


J^ijf  faid  wife  was  after  maryed  to  William  Thomas  a  gentleman  of  her  owne 


nation. 


Newl.  ped  :  in  3.   ^f^ijlt  Berkeley,  the  third  fon  of  this  lord  Maurice,  in  the  fourth  year  of  king 

caftr  de  Berkeley.    Rj^hard  the  fecond,  went  with  the  lord  Thomas  his  eldeft  brother  into  Brittaine,  as 
franc:  4.  K.  2.  ' 

m  :  15.  16.    in  his  life  is  written;    In  which  martiall  expedition   I  conceive  hee  dyed  without 

iffue. 


fin  :  in  banco  in 
Com.  Devon  : 

E.  3.  pafch 

Rot.  fin:  28.  E.  3 

m  :  15.  bis 

claus  :  45.  E.  3 

dorfo. 


440 

fin:  in  banco.  30. 
E.  3- 


4.  fll^auriCC  Berkeley,  the  fourth  fon  of  this  lord  Maurice,  was  a  knight  and 
follower  of  the  prince  of  Wales  in  his  ffrench  warrs.  And  about  the  aS'!*  of  king 
Edward  the  third  maryed  with  Jone  the  daughter  and  heire  of  [William  Hereward] 
by  whom  hee  had  the  manors  of  More,  Dodefcote,  and  Blithmifham  in  the  County 
of  Devon;  And  the  manor  of  Penecerron  [Pencarrow]  in  the  County  of  Cornwall,^ 
And  a  manor  in  Compton  Greenvile  (not  the  former)  in  the  County  of  Glouc  :  w"^ 
by  fine  in  the  28'^  of  Edward  the  third  fhee  fettled  upon  her  hufband  and  her  felf 
and  the  heires  of  their  two  bodies,  with  a  remainder  to  her  own  |  right  heirs.  %nti 
by  another  fyne  two  years  after,  for  default  of  iffue  of  her  own  body,  fhee  gave  a 
Remainder  to  Thomas  Berkeley  of  Vley  and  Katharine  his  wife,  and  to  the  heires 
males  of  their  bodies,  of  whom  I  have  formerly  written  in  the  life  of  the  lord 
Maurice  the  third. 


cartse  in  caftro  J^otobcit  this  S'  Maurice  dyed  fhordy  after,  leaving  Maurice  his  fon  and  heire, 

de  Berkeley,    vvhofe  wardlhip  S'  John  Welington  lord  of  Yate  granted  to  Elizabeth  lady  Berkeley 

his  grandmother,  by  Deed  dated  the  24'^  of  Aprill  in  the  45'^  of  Edward  the  third. 

1   See  Note  C,  page  380.  5.    ]liatl)anne 


1368 


Hifc  of  a^auricc  tijc  fourti) 


377 


5-  ]liatf)anne  this  lords  eldeft  daughter  became  a  Nunne,  at  Whirwell  in  the  comp.  garden  41. 

County  of  Southton.  [.^E^'iSro 

de  Berkeley. 

6.  %Qttt^  his  fecond  daughter,  for  ought  I  find,  dyed  without  iffue  and  un-  comp:Rec:  41.  6. 

marved.  E.  3.  in  caR.  de 

'  Berk. 

7-  <di5al»rtf)  his  third  and   youngeft  daughter,   dyed  alfo  without  iffue  and  Comp.  p'dict.  41. 

unmaryed.  ^'  3- 

J^i^  ficak  of  SCrmciat 

CljC  feale  of  Armes  which  this  lord  ufed,  was  the  cheveron  and  ten  croffes, 
but  without  fupporters  or  creft,  encirculed,  ^Siginum  iSl^aiincij  bc  25crhclcp.  In 
diameter  about  an  inch  and  half      Behold  the  figure.  | 


Note. — Here  again  the  feal  does  not  quite  agree  with  the  defcription.     [Ed.] 

I^isf  Dcatf)  anb  place  of  buriaU 

Vixit  dum  voluit,  voluit  dum  chrifle  volebas. 
Hee  lived  whilft  hee  would,  hee  would  untill 
Hee  did  fubmit,  (O  chrifl;)  unto  thy  will. 

(©It  the  8'^  of  June  then  the  feaft  day  of  Corpus  Chrifti,  in  the  42'i'  of  Edward 
the  third,  Anno.  1368.  his  foule  returneth  to  him  that  gave  it,  after  a  lingringe 
ficknes  of  many  monthes,  at  his  caflle  of  Berkeley,  then  of  the  age  of  thirty  and 
feaven  yeares  and  upwards ;  never  (for  ought  I  can  conceive)  thoroughly  cured  of 
the  wounds  hee  received  at  the  battle  of  Poytiers  :  Of  which  time  hee  had  been 
lord  fince  the  death  of  his  father  fix  years  feaven  months  and  eleaven  dayes,  And 
lyeth  buryed  in  the  monaflery  church  of  S'  Auguftines  by  Brifloll,  with  his  mother 
the  lady  Margaret,  in  the  fame_  great  Tombe  under  the  Arch  between  the  elder 
chappie  of  our  lady  and  the  north  Ifle. 


441 


Newl :  ped  :  faith 
hee  died.  8  :  Junij. 
1369.  but  erreth 
therein. 

Comp.  de  Slim- 
bridge,  Ham  : 
HintonetBlideflo. 
42.  E.  3.  in  caftro 
de  Berkel : 
Comp.  42.  E.  3.  in 
caflro  de  Berkeley. 


ftom  the  time  of  his  death  untill  his  internment,  were  continuall  mafles  faid  for    comp:  Recept 
his  foule  in  the  Churches  of  Berkeley,  Wotton,  and  other  parifhes  adjoyning :    His    predia. 
3  c  receiver 


378 


€f)c  HibCitf  of  tlje  25crhricpjf 


?6i 


comp :  de  Hinton    receiver  at  one  time  in  one  fum  delivered  towards  his  Sepulture — /ilL   i6Lo8i. 
42.  E.  3.  m  callro 

de  Berkeley.    The  Reeve  of  his  manor  of  Hinton  fpent  three  quarters  and  feaven  bufhells  of 

beanes  in  fatting  one  hundred  geefe  towards  his  funerall,  And  divers  other  Reeves 

of  other  manors  the  like,  in  geefe  duckes  and  other  pultry;  which  are  all  the  broken 

fragments  I  have  found  at  his  funerall. 


442 

Efcaet.  42.  E.  3. 

n?  1 2.  in  divers  : 
Com.  pod  morl 
p'dict  Mauricij 


<©f  this  lord  it  is  truly  faid  diu  vixit,  licet  non  diu  fuit,  hee  lived  longe,  though 
hee  dyed  younge  :  Hee  hath  the  teflimony  vit^  bene  actee,  of  a  noble  life  well  ledd. 

€fje  lanli^  toljcrcof  tJjijS  locD  itittx  ^ei^th 

(Co  Thomas  his  eldeft  fon,  of  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and  upwards,  hee  left  the 
inheritance  of  thefe  manors  and  lands.  | 

The  Caftle  and  Town  of  Berkeley 
The  manor  of  Hame 
The  manor  of  Appleridge 
The  manor  of  Alkington 
The  manor  of  Hinton 
The  manor  of  Hurfl 

The  manor  of    Slimbridge    with  the 

Advowfon 
The  manor  of  Came 
The  manor  of  Cowley 
The  burrow  Town  of  wotton 
The  manor  of  Wotton  fforren  with    the 

Advowfon 
The  manor  of  Simondfall 
The  hundreds  of  Berkeley  &  Bledifloe 
The  manor  of  Upton  S'  Leonards 
The  6'^  part  of  y°  manor  of  Afton  Ilger 
The    manor   of   Aure,    with    Etloe    and 

Blakeney 
The  manor  of  Pirton 
22  .  marks  rent  in  fframpton 
Divers  lands  in  Saintloe  and  Tokenhall 
The  manor  of  litle  Marfhfeild  to  James 

his  fon 
The  Ifle  of  Stepholmes  in  Seavern 
The  Advowfons  of  Hillfley,  Sheperdine, 

and  other  Chappies  and  Chantries 


In 


the   County  of 
Gloucefter. 


The 


In    the    County   of 
Somerfet. 


1368  Utfc  of  iH^nuricc  tljc  f  oiirrfj  379 

The  manor  of  Bedminftre 

The  manor  of  Portbury  acc'.ed   but  two 
parts 

The  third  p!  of  y"  manor  of  Portfhead 

The  manor  of  Parke  in  Bridgwater 

The  three  hundreds  of  Bedminflre,  Port- 
bury,  and  Hareclive. 

Divers  lands  in  Criflon  and  Uphill 
Divers  lands  in  Chicklade  in  the  County  of  Wiltefs.  443 

Divers  houfes,  Cellers,  and  fhopps,  in  the  parifh  of  S'  Andrewes  of  Caftle 
Baynard,  and  other  places  in  the  City  of  London. 

The  mannors  of  great  and  litle  Wenden  in  the  County  of  Effex. 

%0  by  the  feverall  Inquifitions  in  each  of  thofe  Counties,  found  after  his  death, 
in  the  42'^  of  Edward  the  third,  remaining  in  the  Tower  of  London,  and  by  feverall 
Accompts  and  other  evidences  in  the  Caftle  of  Berkeley  appeareth. 

I^CC  alfo  made  a  will  proved  at   Hertlebury  before  the   Bifhop  of  Worcefter,    Comp;  Rec:42. 
And  alfo  before  the  Archbifhop  of  Canterbury,  whereof  I  have  feene  but  fragments,    ^  ^'  '"  ^^'^''°  ^*^ 

€l)c  application  anb  ujefc  of  fjifif  life 

I.  ^flC  example  or  rather  error  of  this  lords  life,  admoniflieth  his  poflerity  to  The  ufe. 
moderate  their  valour  and  height  of  courage  with  judgement  and  difcretion,  the  true 
attendants  of  true  fortitude  and  valour.  The  overheat  and  boldnes  of  whofe  ill 
guided  manhood  in  that  in-utterable  battle  of  Poytiers,  (as  that  of  noble  S.'  Phillip 
Sidney  at  the  brave  fight  before  Zutphen  in  Gelderland,)  ended  both  their  days  in 
like  ages,  by  like  errors,  to  the  great  prejudice  of  their  families  and  damage  of  the 
State,  that  feldome  becomes  the  mother  of  fuch  comaunders  :  Between  which  two, 
(to  the  befl  extent  of  my  obfervations,)  the  parralell  runns  fo  even  in  comparifon, 
That  I  find  not  a  fitter  chara6ler,  whereby  to  deliver  to  this  family  the  image  of  the 
life,  adlions,  and  death  of  this  their  valient  Anceftor,  then  in  the  frefher  memory  of 
that  ever  memorable  knight  and  foldier  S'  Phillip  :  whofe  epitaph  erefted  in  S' 
Pauls  Church  in  London  in  Anno.  1586.  feemes  alfo  fitted  for  revivinge  the  memory 
of  this  lord  Maurice,  the  befl  of  fchollars,  foldiers,  travellers,  houfkeepers  and  good 
hufbands  of  his  time,  age,  and  ranke.  | 

3  c  3  ,  2.  SCjjaine 


38o  €I)c  UibcjBf  of  tfje  ^ctMt^0  1361 

444  2.  5llgainc  by  a  timely  mariage  for  his  fon,  this  lord  avoided  the  wardfhip  of 

his  body  :  whereby  hee  made  choice  of  the  family  whereinto  hee  beft  liked  to  graft 
his  pofterity  :  drew  to  himfelf  a  great  portion  by  that  mariage  ;  prevented  the  pay- 
ment of  a  greater  which  the  king  would  have  had  :  And  inabled  his  own  affaires 
with  the  ftrength  and  favour  of  that  family  whereinto  his  fon  was  matched  ;  The 
obfervation  whereof  may  be  profitable  to  his  pofterity  hereafter. 

Note  C. 

Pencarrow  is  now  the  feat  of  Lady  Molefworth.  At  the  end  of  the  13th  century  the  manor  of  Pen- 
carrow  was  held  of  the  Dynham  family  by  Walter  Hay,  who  had  a  fon  Serlone,  who  died  in  his  father's 
life-time,  leaving  two  daughters,  Johanna  and  Thomafme.  Walter  Hay  left  this  manor,  the  manor  of 
Amal-eglos,  and  other  lands  to  his  grand-daughter  Johanna  and  the  heirs  of  her  body,  in  default,  remainder 
to  her  filler  Thomaflne  and  her  heirs  and  affigns  for  ever.  Johanna  married  Sir  Richard  Stapledon, 
Knt.,  brother  of  Walter,  Bifhop  of  Exeter.  Richard  de  Stapledon  having  no  iffue,  in  1306  a  fine  was 
levied  in  which  Mailer  Walter  Stapledon,  clerk,  was  plaintiff,  and  the  faid  Richard  de  Stapledon  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defendants,  wherein  the  faid  Richard  and  Johanna  acknowledged,  in/er  alia,  the  manors 
of  Pencarrow  and  Amal-eglos  to  be  the  right  of  the  faid  Walter,  and  obliged  their  heirs  to  warrant  the 
fame  for  ever  (Ped.  Fin.  34  Ewd.  I  Eafler  No.  3.  Cornw.)  In  1320  another  fine  was  levied,  in  which  the 
fame  Walter,  then  defcribed  as  Bifhop  of  Exeter,  was  plaintiff,  and  Richard  de  Stapledon  and  Johanna  his 
wife  defendants,  wherein  the  right  of  the  Bifliop  to  the  faid  two  manors,  &c.,  was  acknowledged,  where- 
upon the  Bifliop  granted  the  fame  to  the  faid  Richard  and  Johanna  and  the  heirs  of  their  bodies,  in 
default  lemainder  to  William  Hereward  and  the  heirs  of  his  body,  in  default  remainder  to  the  right  heirs 
of  the  faid  Richard.  (Ped.  Fin.  13  Edw.  H.  Trinity  No.  i.  Cornw.)  Richard  de  Stapledon  and  Johanna 
his  wife  died  without  iffue,  when  Maurice  fon  of  Maurice  Berkeley  and  Johanna  his  wife,  daughter  and 
heir  of  the  faid  William  Hereward,  entered  into  poffeffion  in  right  of  the  remainder  created  by  the  laft 
above-mentioned  fine,  and  were  difpoffeffed  by  John  de  Penhirgard  as  heir  of  Thomafine  the  fecond 
daughter  of  Serlone  Haye,  which  Thomafine  married  Bartholomew  de  Penhirgard,  who  had  a  fon  Maurice 
who  was  the  father  of  the  faid  John.  An  a6tion  was  brought  againR  the  faid  John  for  unlawfully  diffeifin 
them.  It  was  tried  at  Launceflon  25  Edw.  III.,  and  the  jury  found  the  fines  to  be  good  and  that  John  de 
Penhirgard  was  bound  to  warrant  the  a6t  of  his  anceflrefs,  of  which  at  the  time  he  could  not  have  had 
any  knowledge,  in  cutting  off  his  own  inheritance.  (Aflize  Rolls,  Cornwall,  25  Ewd.  Ill  N.  2-23-6.)  See 
Maclean's  Hiflory  of  Trigg  Minor,  vol.  I.  pp.  442,  443. 

In  the  fame  work  there  is  alfo  a  defcent  of  the  Berkeleys,  but  whether  of  the  Berkeleys  of  Berkeley 
Callle  or  of  Durfley  we  are  not  at  prefent  able  to  flate.  They  held  the  manor  of  Cant  in  Cornwall.  Simon 
Berkele,  who  was  dead  in  12th  Edw.  I.,  married  Margery,  daughter  and  heir  of  Johanna,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Alan  Bloyou  (ob  1305)  by  Johanna,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Peter  Nanfkewe,  Knt.,  who  re- 
married Sir  Walter  Bloat  and  died  1343-  Sinvon  Berkele  had  a  fon  of  his  own  name,  who  married 
Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  Oliver  Carminou,  and  had  ilTue  Bartholomew  Berkele,  who  had  ilfue  Benedidl 
and  Margaret.  Benedict  held  the  manor  of  Cant  in  1354  and  was  living  in  1365,  and  left  iffue  a  daughter 
and  heir  named  Johanna.  Margaret  married  Thomas  Cheynduit  of  Bodanan,  and  both  were  living  in 
1354.  They  had  iffue  a  fon,  John  Chenduit,  who  married  his  coufin  Johanna  and  died  without  iffue 
in  1426.     See  the  fame  work  under  Cant  and  Cheynduit. 


INDEX    TO    SUBJECTS 


Note. — That  in  this  and  the  following  Indices  no  attempt  is  made  to  diflinguini  the  different  individuals 

of  the  fame  name,  or  the  different  mode  of  fpelling  them,  and  that  one  reference  only  is  given 

notwithdanding  the  name  may  occur  more  than  once  on  the  fame  page. 


Abingdon,  Pedigree  of  ...         ...         ...         ...     265 

Ap-Adam,  Pedigree  of   ...         ...         ...         ...       54 

Accounts...         ...         ...         ...  161 — 166,306 

A<fl  of  Parliament  retracfted  by  the  King  as  being 
prejudicial  to  the  kingdom     ...  ...  ...     316 

Aids  levied,  7,  8;  and   12,   Henry  II.  on  the 
11       on   marriage  of  Maud  the   Kings  eldeft 

daughter,  15,  28,  45 
11       Redemption  of  Richard  I.  ...         ...       90 

11       General      ...  ...  ...  ...        143,  340 

Arms — 

Berkeley,  Richard       ...  ...  ...  ...      120 

M        Thomas  I.  ...         ...         ...         121,   122 

11        Maurice  II.  ...  ...         149,   150 

11        Thomas  II.  ...   208,  209,  214,  219 

11        Maurice  III.  ...  ...         226,   272 

11        Thomas  III.  ...  ...  ...     356 

II        Maurice  IV.  ...  ...  ...     377 

Bradflon  286 

Defpenfer         288 

Trevifa  343 

Array,  CommifTions  of,  48,  228,  250,  254,  312,  313, 
314,320 
Arundel,  Pedigree  of      ...  ...         ...         ...     189 

Afhburnham,  Pedigree  of  ...  ...  ...     354 

Augufline's  St.  Abbey,  Chantry  founded  ...     335 

Banneret,  retinue  of       ...  ...  ...         ...     254 

Bannockfbum,  battle  of  ...         ...         ...     182 

Barons'  Letter  to  the  Pope        ...         ...         ...     176 

II       Wars,  92 — 96,  136,  138, 139,  140,  169,  186,  187 
Barons,  Spiritual  &Temporal,  difquifitionon2S,  30-32 
Baffet,  Pedigree  of         ...         ...         ...         ...     121 

Baftardy,  Propofal  to  Legitimatize        ...         ...     117 

Bedminfler,  Chantry  founded  in  Manor  Houfe,  88,337 
"  Belle  and  Burhgeit,"  Explanation  of  franchife 

o{,  note...         ...  ...         ...  ...         ...       62 

3D 


Bells,  Common,  Briftol  ...  ..  ...        196,   200 

II  II         Shrewfbury       62 

Benevolence  for  ranfom  of  Lord  Berkeley       ...     183 

Berkeley,  Affumption  of  the  name        ...  68,  83 

Its  derivation...  ...  ...  ...       84 

Difquifition  thereon  ...  ...  ...       85 

Name  improperly  affumed  by  others 
/7a  ;  its  corredl  orthography  ...       86 

Berkeley  Borough,  Cufloms  of  341 

II  "  Franchifes  of,  note  ...         ...       62 

II         CaRle,  Ereflion  of      ...  ...         ...       23 

11         Church,  Chantries  founded        336,  337,  347 
Berkeleys  of  Cubberley,  Defcent  of      ...  56,  57 

II  Durfley,  Saxon  defcent  of  ...       32 

II  II        Fall  of  the  Family         ...       33 

II  II        Not  Sa,\on,  note  ...  56,  57 

II  II        Defcent  of, ;'/'.,  defcent  from 

Robert  Fitz  Harding  143 

Berkeley  Family  five  times  ruined        276 

II       Hundred,  Jurors  of,  prefent  the   Lord 

for  unjuR  exadlions  131 

II       Lady  Ifabel,  her  parentage,  144,  r45,  146,  200 
II  11  II      Her  death  ...  ...      147 

11      Nunnery,  deflr.-i6lion  of  26 

II      ofWymondham  ...  210,211,241 

•I       Pedigree  of,  fee  Pedigrees 
Berwick,  Siege  of  ...  ...         ...  ...     172 

Bettefhorne,  par.   Ringwood,  Chantry  founded     350 
Birthright  of  Subjedls,  Records  relating  to       ...     256 

Bloet,  Pedigree  of  375 

Bofworth,  Battle  of         ...  ...  ...         262,  353 

Bradflone,  Chantry  founded  at 284 

Bradftone,  Sir  Thomas,  .Account  of  him         282,  286 

II  II         Created  Banneret        ...     284 

II  "         Summoned  to  Pari.     ...     285 

Briftol,  St.  .\uguftine's,  Chapel  founded  in      ...     337 

Chantry  ib. 


382 


INDEX    TO    SUBJECTS 


Briflol,  St.  Augufline's  Abbey,  Foundation  of  35 

I,                      11             Infcription  over  the  gate  37 
,1                       II              Abbot   difcharged    from 

attendance  in  Pari.  ...  44 

11         Contentions  with  the  Town  of    177,  196,  197 
198,  199,  200,  201,  229,  230 

Briflol,  Cuflom  for  Brewing  Ale            ...          ...  90 

11        Hermitage           ...          ...          ..           ...  337 

"  Brotcorne,"  Explanation  of,  W(7/(?         ...         ...  155 

Browning,  Pedigree  of   ...          ...          ...          ...  375 

Burial  Dole          98 

Burrowbridge,  Battle  of ...          ...         ...          ...  239 

Buttetort,  Pedigree  of    ...          ...          ...          ...  259 

Caerlaverock,  Siege  of    ...  ...  175,  208,  226 

Calais,  Siege  and  Capture  of     ...  254,  256,  321 

11       Betrayal  of,  defeated       ...  ...  ...     322 

Cambridge,  Chantry  founded 336 

Came,  Chantry  founded  in  Church  of  ...  ...     372 

Chantries,  divers,  founded  ...  70,  71,  86,  87.  88,  no, 

III,  131,  203,  333—338,  347,  350,  371,  372 

Charter  de  Forefla,  granted        93,116 

Charters,  Ancient,     ...         22,  23,  24,  28,  62  note,  64 
Chefler,  Comjnon  Bell  zt,  note    ...  ...  ...        62 

Church   Plate  Seized,  by  way  of  Loan,  to  the 

King's  ufe         313 

Clergy,  Precedence  of    ...  ...  ...  ...       43 

Combat  between   Maurice    IV.   Lord  Berkeley 

and  John  de  Helenes,  at  Poidliers 367 

Combe,  Pedigree  of        ...  ...  ...  ...      112 

Common  Fields  ...  ...  ...  ..  ...      113 

Crefcy,  Battle  of  211,254,319,366 

CrofTes,  borne  in  Armes,  Origin  of        210 

Cubberley,  Defcent  of  Berkeley  of       ...  56,  57 

"Cumelinges,"  Explanation  of,  note      ...  ...     334 

"  Curtail   Dun    Horfe,"   roiici-ni  favi  cum  capitc 

albo  ct  crijla  nigra,  a  Dun  Curtail  Horfe  with 

a  white  head  and  black  mane.  Explanation  of     208 

Cuftoms,  as  regards  Widows       192,  193 

M  M       Folding  of  Sheep  at  Simonfall     193 

11         of  Work  for  the  Lord...  ...  ...     203 

II         as  regards  Brewing  Ale  ...  90,  341 

Deer,  Amercements  for  killing  ...         ...        112,  174 

II     Stealing 246,  249,  252,  253,  298 

Defeat  of  the  French  Navy  at  Sluys      315 

Defpenfer,  Pedigree  of  ...         ...         ...         ...     232 


Defpenfer,  Hugh,  the  elder,  executed  ...          ...  287 

II                II              younger,  executed          ...  288 

Difafforeflation  of  Manors          ...          ...          ...  114 

Domefday            ...          ...          ...          ...         ...  27 

"  Drage,"  Explanation  of,  note  ....                   ...  155 

"  Dreint,"  Explanation  of           ..           ...          ...  120 

"  Dun  Curtal  Horfe,"  Explanation  of               ...  208 

Economy,  Agricultural,  155 — 164,  166,  167,  300,  302, 

303.  3°4,  306,  3°7 

Economy,  Domeflic  ...   166,  167,  168,  206,  207,  242, 

300,  301.  303.  3°6,  307 
Edward  L  King,  charge  againfl  him  of  having 
removed  and  deflroyed  the  Records  of  Scot- 
land refuted,  note        ...         ...          ...          ...  178 

Edward  IL  King,  his  treatment  and  murder  at 

Berkeley  Caftle            291 

Edward  n.  King,  his  burial       ...          ...          ...  293 

II       the  "  Black  Prince,"  why  fo  called      ...  367 
Enclofures            ...          ...          ...          ...         113,  114 

England,  Norman  Conquefl  of ...          ...          ...  i 

Englifh  Language  firil  ufed  in  Charters            ...  135 

Efcuage,  45,  46,  51,  52,  90,  109,  115,  130,  133,  134, 

135.  17°.  204 

Eftates.  General  Inquifition  as  to  value  of       ...  342 

Evefham,  Battle  of          138 

Fair  granted  at  Almondefbury  ...          ...          ...  43 

Falkirk,  Battle  of  173.   20S 

Farm   Accounts,    Method    of   Keeping,    temp. 

Ed.  L,  n.,  in 155.  156 

"Fence-Month,"  Explanation  of,  w/f 171 

Fines,  Statute  of              iS7 

Fitz  Harding,  Pedigree  of          20 

Fitz  Nichol,  Thomas,  Defcendants  of  .. 

ForeRs,  Charter  of 

Franchifes  of  Berkeley   ...  

French  Wars,  92,   115,   121,  125,  133,  134,  169,  172, 

173,  208,  209,  211,  212,  226,  250,  251,   253,  254, 

257,  258,  260,  262,  268,  273,  310,  313,  315,  319, 
321,  322,  323 


48,  5° 
93,  116 
...       62 


Gant,  Pedigree  of  5^ 

Glouceder,  the  town  walled       286 

Gurnay,  Pedigree  of       52,53,291 

Hanging  firft  fuffered  by  nobles             ...      ^   ...     240 
Harding,  Life  of,  by  Abbot  Newland i,  5 


INDEX    TO    SUBJECTS 


383 


Harding,  Argument  for  his  defcent 
Hawks,  Value  of 
Holmes  The,  Priory  there  re-built 
"Holy  Bread"  defined,  note     ... 
Hounds,   The  Confimiption  by  ... 
Houfehold  Kllablifliment 


•       5— '3.    '9 

324 

241 

70 

324 

214,  252,  304 


Ifabel,  daughter  of  Richard  Earl  of  Cornwall : 
her  birth  confulcred    ...  ...  144,  145,  200 

Jews,  Injuflice  to  ...  ...  ...         ii6,   126 

Juflices  of  the  Peace,  Chief        .  ...         ...     310 

Katherine  Pull,  Chantry  founded  at     ...  ...  336 

Katherinc's,  St.,  Hofpital  founded        ...  ..  89 

Keinfliani  Abbey,  Chantry  founded  at ...  ...  338 

Kenilworth,  Di<flum  of  ...          ...          ...  ...  143 

"  Kid,"  Meaning  of        ...          ...          ...  ...  220 

Kingfcote,  Defcent  of  family     ...          ...  58,59 

Knighthood   conferred  at  a  very  early  age  to 

avoid  wardlhip            ...          ...          ...  ...  364 

Lampreys,  Value  of        ...         ...         ...         ...  373 

Land  Meafures  settled    ...          ...          ...          ...  205 

Lewes,  Battle  of ...          ...          ...          ...          ...  138 

Lewis  of  France  offered  by  the  Barons  the  Crown 

of  England  ...          ...          ...  95 

"              ci       His  treachery  ...          ...          ...  95 

Liberties,  Ancient  29,  45,  65,  130,  131,  141,  191,  192, 

193,  195,  196,  201,  204 

Liveries  of  Knights,  Efquires,  &c.         ...          ...  305 

Longbridge,  Hofpital  of  Holy  Trinity  founded  69 

M                    1.                  M            M       diffolved  71 

Lorwinge  Hofpital,  Foundation  of        ...          ...  69 

Magna  Charta     ...          ...          ...          ...  ...       31 

!■            II     granted  at  Runnymead  ...  93,  116 

Marie,  Firfl  ufe  of  for  Manure  ...         ...  ...      141 

Marleborough,  Statutes  of          ...          ...  ...      143 

Meere  Church,  Chantry  founded  in      ...  ...     350 

"Meiny,''  Meaning  and  Derivation  of,  >ioU  ...     214 

Merton,  Statute  of          ...          ...          ...  ...      ii6 

"  Mixtilon,"  Explanation  of,  wi?/^           ...  ...     155 

Money,  in  ancient  times,  i/ank  and  mimero,  ex- 
planation of,  note         ...         ...  ■••30 

II       difference  in  value  of  ib.  very  fcarce  ...     10 1 


Money,  decreafed  value  of      160,  161,  162,  163,  164 

Monmouth,  Common  Be// at,  note         ...  ...       62 

Mortimer,  Pedigree  of    ...          ...          ...  ...     345 

Mortmain,  Statute  of      ...          ...          ...  ...      144 

Newland  John,  his  life  of  Harding        ...  ...     1,5 

Newport,  Chantries  founded      ...          ...  335,  337 

"  Nomina  Villaruni  "  of  Gloucefterniire  ...      184 

Ordinance  for  fitting  out  Horfemcn      ...  ...     318 

Ornaments   and  Jewels  of  Maurice  HL  Lord 

Berkeley  feized            ...          ...          ...  ...     240 

Over,  Chantry  founded  ...          ...          ...  ...      334 


Pagenham,  Pedigree  of  . . . 

"  Painted  C'hamber"  at  Weftminflei 

"  Paternoflers,"  a  pair  of,  explained 

Pedigreks — 
Abingdon 
Ap  Adam 
Arundel 
Alliburnham    ... 

Baffet 

Berkeley  of  Beverflon 

M  Bradley  ... 

fi  Bruton  and  Boycourt 

II  Coberley... 

M  Cornwall... 

Durney  ...  55,  55 

11  Scotland,  France,  &c. 

M  Shropfhire 

11              Stoke  Gifford      ... 
Uley        

11  Wymondham 


Bloet     ... 

Browning 

Buttetort 

Combe  de 

Defpenfer 

Fitz  Harding 

Gant     ... 

Gurnay 

Kingfcote 

Mortimer 

Pagenham 


2>3 

mentioned     319 
240 

26s 

54 

...     189 

•••     354 
121 

353— 35S 
267—268 
265,  267 
56.  57 
380 
note,  56,  57,  143 

73 

268 — 272 
245.  259—265 

25s 

209—213 

375 

49.  50 

259 

112 

232 

20 

.._.   52 

..  52,  S3,  291 

58,  59 

345 

2'3 


Z"^  2, 


INDEX    TO    SUBJECTS 


Pedigrees — Continued — 

Poyntz... 

Tracy   ... 

Trye 

Veel     

Yate 

"  Pilcorne,"  Explanation  of,  note 
Plague  prevailed 


48,  49 
•••  3°S 
...  149 
17 
148,  150 
■•■  155 
255.  307 


Poidtiers,  Battle  of  257,  323,  367,  369,  377,  379 

Portbury,  Chantry  at  founded  ...  ...  88,  334,  372 

Poyntz,  Pedigree  of        ...  ...  ...  48,  49 

Precedence  given  to  a  Clerk     —  ...         ...       43 

Precocity,    remakable    in    Maurice    III.    Lord 
Berkeley  ...         ...         ...  ...        224,  225 

Prices  of  Com,  Cattle,  Poultry,  &c.,  temp.  Ed.  I., 
II.,  III.,  and  Rich.  II 161—164 


Privileges  of  Berkeley  Borough 


130 


Rebellion  againfl  Edw.  II.  ...  232 — 240,  246,  247 
Red    Book,    Exch.,    Nicholas    Fitz    Harding's 

Return  of  Knights  Fees         ...  ...  15,  28 

Rents,  fixed,  Evils  of       loi,  113,  134,  142,  157,  160 

II       Floral,  &c.,  note 268 

Robber,  A  Knightly  315 


Sacrilege,  Evils  of 

Saxony,  Duke  of,  married   Maud,   daughter  of 

Henry  II 

Scotland,  Wars  in    121,  130,  169,  172,  173,  174, 

176,  177,  178,  179,   180,   181,   182,   185,  186, 

200,  208,  209,  226,  227,  243,   246,  250,  254, 

269,  273,  298,  309,  310,  312,  313,  319,  343, 

366 
Scotland,  Records  of  not  deftroyed  by  Edw.  I., 

note 
Seals  of  Berkeley  59,  76,  99,  121,  122,  149, 

167,  210,  272,  356,  377 
Scutage  (see  Efcuage) 
Servants,  Order  of  ...  ...  ...  130, 

Severn,  Ravages  of,  at  Awre 

Ships,  all  of  30  tons  burden  and  upwards,  taken 

up  for  the  King's  fervice 

Shrewfbury,  Common  Bell  zX. 

" Shrowds,"  Meaning  of,  «<'('<f    ... 

Side,  Chantry  founded    .. 

Slimbridge  Church,  Endowment  of  Lamp 

Sluys,  Great  Naval  Vidtory  at 


Statute  de  lionis  cond/tionah'ius,  its  n{fe€\.s,  157,  158,  204 

M     of  Fines,  its  effedls  157 

"         Forefls...          ...          ...          ...  ...     116 

Statutes  of  Marlborough             ...          ...  ...      143 

Statute  of  Merton            ...          ...          ...  ...      116 

11           Mortmain       ...          ...         ...  ...     144 

n           Quia  emptores  terrarum         ...  ...     204 

Statutes  of  Ruthland       ...          ...          ...  ...     170 

M            Weftminfter  ...          ...         ...  ...      143 

Stryveling,  Battle  of        ...          ...             177,  209,  227 

Tenures  of  Copyhold  Tenements          ...  ...     193 

Thorp's  Tower  built        ...          ...          ...  ...     309 

Timber,  means  of  knowing  the  age  of  Trees  ...      161 
Tithes,  power  to  grant  beyond  the  parifh  in  which 

they  grew         ...          ...          ...  ...       67 

11     Abufes  relating  to            ...          ...  67,68 

11     Beech  wood,  fhrowds,  willows,  &c.,  not 

liable  to            ...          ...          ...  ..       114 

Tournaments  prohibited...  ...  147,  148,  188 

Tracy,  Pedigree  of          ...          ...          ...  ...     305 

Trevifa  John,  his  letter  to  Lord  Berkeley  ...     343 

Trial  by  Battle    ...          ...          ...          ...  132,  133 

Trye,  Pedigree  of            ...         ...          ...  ...      149 


46 

175- 
199. 
268, 

364. 


178 
15°. 


243 
112 

315 
62 
114 
336 
131 
313 


Veel,  Pedigree  of 


17 


318 


Wages  of  a  Baron 

11       Knights,  Gentlemen,  and  others  of  the 

Lord's  Houfehold  166,  252,  304,  312,  317, 
318 

Wallingford,  Common  £ell  at,  note        ...         ...  62 

Wei fh  Wars,   114,   121,   127,  134,  135,  137,  138,  142, 

169,  170,  172,  208,  209,  226,  273,  312 

Weftminfter,  Statutes  of             ...          ...          ...  143 

William,  Duke  of  Normandy,  Conquers  England  i,  2 

Wool,  feized  to  the  King's  ufc   . . .                      ...  313 

Worcefter  Cathedral,  Chantry  founded  in         ...  337 

Wortly,  Chapel  founded             ...          ...          ...  333 

11       Chantry  ...          ...          ...          ...          ...  336 

Wotton,  Eftabiilliment  of  New  Town  of           ...  ii8 

Wotton  under  Edge,  Chantry  founded  at         ...  347 

Wotton  Parks,  tithes  of 66,  67 

Writing,  Ancient,  Art  of  reading  eafily  acquired  305 


Yate,  Pedigree  of 


148,  149 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OE    PERSONS 


Abingdon,  265 

Abrincis,  Earl  of  Chefler,  19 

Aden  de,  194,  330,  343,  371 

Albaniara,  Will,  de,  31 

Albury,  16  * 

Aldrington,  192 

Aliamor,  Q.,  65 

Alnod,  fee  Eilnoth 

Amnevill,  de,  194 

Anjou,  Earl  of,  42 

Ap-Adam,  54,  175,  184,  248,  249, 

289,  326 
Apleby,  241 
Ap-Reys,  375 
Argenton,  Reg.  de,  46 
Arundel  of  Lanheron,  189,  ped.  ib. 
Anindel,  234,  313,  368 
Afaph  St.,  Bifliop  of,  36,  42,  66 
Afhburnham,  354 
Aflileworth,  de,  201 
Afhtun,  234,  237,  350 
Afide,  268,  293 
Athelftan,  King,  29 
Athia,  Gerard  de,  90 
Atwell,  336 
Alwood,  69,  88 
Aubeny,  d',  Lord,  166 
Audeley,  231,  234,  237,  238,  250, 

276,  287 
AuguRines,  St.,  Briflol,  Abbots  of,  2, 

23.  24,  33.  38.  39.  42.  43.  55.  65, 
68,  77,  78,  79,  82,  88i  89,  109, 1 10, 
114,  127,  165,  168,  184,  201,  241, 
292.  334.  338.  341,  343.  348,  349 
Auguftines,  St.,  Briflol,  Canons  of, 

43.  '09:  110 
Avening,  273 
Awre,   Parfons  of,  335,  341,   342, 

349.  364 
Aylbrighton,  328 
Aymer,  145 

Baa,  228  « 
Baalun  de,  20 
Sainton,  267 
Baker.  292 
Baldefmere,  231 
Ban,  326 
Banton,  Julian  de,  34 


Barewe,  Priors  of,  334 

Ballet,  120, 121,  149,  159,  165,  252, 

255.  257.  318.  348,  370 
Ballard,  89 
Bath,  Priors  of,  349 
Bath  and  Wells,  Bps.  of,  114,  165, 

313.  339 

Bathone,  132,  133 

Baud,  213 

Baynham,  i 7 

Beauchamp,  174 

Beaufitz,  139 

Beaumont,  213,  213  n,  253 

Becklawe,  327 

Bedford,  Duke  of,  260 

Beech,  239 

Befford,  329 

Bello  fago,  de,  197 

Beoley,  Robert  de,  83 

Berenger,  248 

Berkeley,  Lords  of  (in  fucceffwn) 

Harding — his  life,  i  ;  his  defcent, 
ib.,  his  coming  into  England,  ib. 
fettled  at  Briflol,  2  ;  Account  of 
him  b\'  .\bbot  Ncwland,  2 — 5  ; 
covenants  and  marriage  with 
Berkeley  of  Durfley,  3 ;  his  birth 
conlidered,  5 — 13,  19;  his  going 
to  Jerufalem,  9,  10  ;  mayor  of 
Briflol,  7  ;  his  arms,  13  ;  his  wife, 
14;  his  iffue,  14 — 17  ;  his  death, 
17  ;  his  lands,  iS;  the  application 
of  his  life,  ib.;  37,  48,  64,  73,  109 

Berkeley.  Robert  I.,  his  birth  and 
education,  22  ;  of  the  manor  of 
Berkeley  and  Berkeley  hernefs, 
26  ;  of  Barons  temporal  and 
fpiritual,  30  ;  of  what  lands  this 
lord  was  feized,  34  ;  his  founding 
of  St.  Augufline's  Abbey,  35  ; 
his  wife,  44  ;  his  iffue,  45  ;  his 
feal,  59  ;  his  death  and  place  of 
burial,  ib.,  his  lands  whereof  he 
died  feized.  60  ;  the  application 
and  ufe  of  his  life,  61  ;  289,  373 

fee  Fitz  Harding,  Robert 

Berkeley,  Maurice  I.,  Lord,  3,23, 
25,  40,  42,  45,  47,  60,  63  ;  his 
birth   and   education,    64  ;   the 


ingratitude  of  the  Abbot  of  St. 
Augufline,  66  ;  his  alms  and  de- 
votions, 69  ;  his  wife,  72  ;  his 
iffue,  74  ;  his  feal,  76  ;  the  fame 
iltujl.  ib.,  his  death  and  place  of 
burial,  ib.,  the  lands  whereof  he 
died  feized,  77  ;  the  application 
and  ufe  of  his  life,  78 ;  82,  109, 
191,  289,  372 
Berkeley,  Robert  IL,  Lord,  40, 

73.  74.  77  ;  I'ife  of,  81  ;  his  birth 
and  education,  82  ;  his  alms  and 
devotions,  86  ;  his  mifcellanies, 
90  ;  his  wives,  97  ;  his  feals  of 
arms,  99,  illujl.,  ib.;  his  lands 
whereof  he  died  feized,  ib.;  the 
application  and  ufe  of  his  life, 
101  —  106;  io8,  109,  no,  113, 
123,  149,  189,  276,  289,331,371 

Berkeley,  Thomas  L,  Lord,   69, 

74,  89,  92,  99  ;  his  life,  105 — 
124;  his  entry  upon  his  barony, 
106  ;  his  fuits  in  law,  107  ;  his 
alms  and  devotions,  no;  his 
further  law  fuits,  iii;  his  hus- 
bandries, 113;  his  foreign  employ- 
ments, with  other  paffages,  114  ; 
his  wife,  117  ;  his  iiTue,  119;  his 
feals,  121  ;  his  death  and  place 
of  burial,  122  ;  his  lands  whereof 
he  died  feized,  122  ;  application 
and  ufe  of  his  life,  123;  125,  126, 
129,    130,   154,    157,    158,   289, 

290.331.  371 

Berkeley,  Maurice  IL,  Lord,  53, 
70,  1 15,  116,  117,  118,  119,  120  ; 
his  life,  125;  his  manner  of  enter- 
ing upon  his  barony,  125;  his  fuits 
in  law,  127-140;  his hufbandries, 
140 — 144  ;  his  wife,  144 — 147  ; 
his  iffue,  147 — 149;  his  feals  of 
arms,  149,  150;  his  death  and 
burial,  150;  his  lands  whereof 
he  died  feized,  150,  151  ;  the 
application  and  ufe  of  his  life, 
151  ;  157,  166,  169,  188,  19s, 
203,   205,   289,   290,   331 

Berkeley,  Thomas  II.  Lord,  23, 
52,  118, 128,  129, 130,  131,  141, 


386 


INDEX    TO    NAMES    OF    PERSONS 


i43>.  145.  147.  148,  149.   '5°; 

his  life,  153  ;  his  birth  and  age  of 
adok'fcency,  154;  his  hufband- 
ries,  154  ;  prices  of  cattle,  corn, 
poultry,  etc.,  161  — 165  ;  his  hos- 
pitalities, 165 — 168;  his  foreign 
employments,  etc  ,  168  — 187,  his 
recreations  and  delights,  187 — 
188  ;  his  purchafes  of  lands,  189 
•^190  ;  his  fuits  in  law,  190  ; 
his  alms  and  devotions,  201  — 
204  ;  mifcellanies,  204,  205  ;  his 
wife,  205  — 207  ;  his  feal  of  arms, 

219  ;  his  death  and  burial,  ib., 
his  lands  whereof  hee  dieil  feized, 

220  ;  the  application  and  ufe  of 
his  life,  221;  223,  224,  226,  231, 
244,  24s,  247,  273,  289,  300, 
3°5'  306,   331,   371 

Bekkklky,  Maurice  I II.,  Lord,  58, 
172,173.  175.  177.  178,  i79>-i8o, 
182,  183,  185,  186,  187,  193, 
196,  197,  198,  199,  200,  201, 
202,  210,  219,  220  ;  his  life, 
223  ;  his  birth  and  education, 
224 ;  his  foreign  employments 
and  rebellion,  225  ;  his  mif- 
cellanies, hufbandries,  and  hofpi- 
tality,  240  ;  his  wife,  243  ;  his 
iffue,  245;  his  feal,  272;  his  place 
of  burial,  272  ;  his  lands  whereof 
he  died  feized,  273  ;  the  applica- 
tion and  ufe  of  his  life,  274  ; 
280,  281,  282,  283,  288,  289, 
292.  30°.  309.  311.  327,  334, 
336,   339,   372,   376 

Berkkley,  Thomas  III.,  Lord,  23, 
31,  40,  54,  100,  i3f,  151-  218, 
224,  237,  245,  246,  249,  251, 
254,  255,  259,  271,  273  ;  his 
life,  279  ;  his  birth,  etc.,  280; 
his  hufbandry  and  hofpitality, 
301  ;  his  buildings,  308  ;  his 
foreign  employments,  309  ;  his 
recreations  and  delights,  323  ; 
his  purchafes  of  land,  325  ;  his 
fuits  at  law,  331  ;  his  alms,  devo- 
tions, etc.,  333  ;  his  mifcellanies, 
etc.,  339  ;  his  wives,  345  ;  his 
iffue,  347,  his  feal  of  arms,  356  ; 
his  death  and  place  of  burial, 
357  ;  the  landi  whereof  he  died 
feized,  ib.,  the  application  and 
ufe  of  his  life,  360 — 363  ;  365 
366,  367,  372 

Berkeley,  Maurice  IV.,  70,  312, 

323.  330,  331,  345,  .347,  35°; 
his  birth  and  education,  364  ; 
his  hufbandries  and  hofpitalities, 


365  ;    his  foreign   employments, 

366  ;  his  purchafes  of  lands,  370; 
his  alms  and  oblations.  371  ;  his 
mifcellanies,  373;  his  wife,  ib.; 
his  iffue,  374  ;  Ins  feal  of  arms, 
377  ;  his  death  and  place  of 
burial,  ib.,  the  lands  whereof  he 
died  feized,  378  ;  the  application 
and  ufe  of  his  life,  379 

Berkeley,  James,  the   VVelfliman, 

374,  375,  378 
Berkeley,  Thomas  IV.,  Lord,  56, 
112,  141,  146.  247,  345,  347,  374, 
376 
Berkeley,  James  I.,  Lord,  25,  112, 

146,  149,  276,  351,  359,  375 
Berkeley,  Willl^m,  Marquis  of 

Berkeley,  2,  12,  71,  263,  276 

Berkeley,  Maurice  V.,  Lord,  263, 

276,  328 

VI.,  Lord,  25 

II  Thomas  V.,  Lord,  49, 

269,  355 

11  Henry  I.,  Lord,  6,  73, 

146,  149,  190,  191,  205,  264,  276, 

299,355 
Berkeley,  George,  Lord,  33,  55  n, 
79,  84,  116,   170,   189,   192,   213, 
305,  306,  338,  342 
Berkeley,  Agnes,  377 
'I  Alexander,  75 

M  Alice,  72,73,74,269,354 

II  Alphonfus,  345,  348 

II  Anne,  263,  266, 267,  270, 

352,  353,  354,  356 
Berkeley,  Bartholomew,  380 
11  Benedift,  75,  380 

II  Brice,  267 

II  C  hriflobell,  270 

II  David,  75 

II  Dorothy,  263 

II  Edmond,  269,  270,  330, 

331,  346,  349,  357 
Berkeley, .Edward,  iii,  257,  258, 
265,  267,  270,  353,  354,  355,  356 
Berkeley,  Eleanor,  264 
II  Ellen,  262 

n  Elizabeth,  67,  148,  149, 

192,  213,  263,  264,  265,  266,  267, 
269,  270,  354,  356,  372,  374,  375, 

376,377 
Berkeley,  Eudo,  270,  271 

Eve,  243,  334,  335,  372 

Felicia,  148 

Frances,  265,  270,  356 

Francis,  270 

George,  270 

Giles,  265 

Hawifia,  214,  215 


Berkeley,  Helena,  143,  264 

Henry,  20,  32,  143,  194, 

208,  213,  264,  265,  266,  356,  371 
Berkeley,  HeRer,  270 

Hugh,  75 

II  Ifaac,  270 

II  Ifabel,  70,  121,  130,  137, 

138,  144,  145,  147,  148,  149,  175, 

200,  202,  203,  210,  211,  218,  244, 

259,  263,  271,  288,  326,  375,  376 

Berkeley,  James,  Bp.  of  Exeter,  215, 

216,  218,  270 
Berkeley,  James,  17,  207,  214,  267, 

374 

Berkeley,  Jane,  265,  267,  269,  270 

M  Joan,  109,  no,  117,  118, 

119,  128,  131,  134,  148,  190,  194, 

202,  203,  205--207,  211,  221,259, 

266,345,348,355,376 

Berkeley,  John,  55/7,  75,  129,  143, 

148,  149,  175,  176,  177,  179,  201, 

209,  211,  214,  215,  244,  245,  246, 
247,  259,  262,  265,  267,  268,  269, 
297,  307,  331,  332,  342,  346,  347, 
35°,  354-355,  356,359,  376 

Berkeley,  Joyce,  267 

11  Julian,   86,   87,   96,   97, 

98,  149 
Berkeley,  Katherine,  71,  213,  257, 
258,  259,  265,  267,  269,  329,  330, 
3,3^>  346,  347,  349,  353,  354,  355, 
356,357,358,376,377 
Berkeley,  Laurence,  211,  212 
11  I.ettice,  148 

Lucy,  86,  87,  98,  106 
11  Margaret,  120,  148,  149, 

174,  213,  218,  264,  265,  266,  270, 
288,  298,  299,  312,  333,  334,  335, 
336,  337,  338,  345,  346,  347,  348, 
355-372,377 
Berkeley,  Margery,  127,  148,  213, 

249,  250,  254,  255,  256,  266 
Berkeley,  Mary,  213,  263,  265,  270, 

355,  356 
■Berkeley,  Matilda,  147,  348 

II  Maurice,  20,  37,  54,  69, 

74,  88,  100,  139,  146,  147,  174, 
178,  186,  205,  207,  208,  210,  212, 
213,  228,  228  n,  229,  233,  236, 
241,  245,  247,  257,  25S,  260,  261, 
262,  264,  265,  267,  269,  287,  297, 
298,309,317,319,329,  345,  348, 
349,  351,  352,  353,  354,  3S6,  357, 
358,  359-375.,  376 
Berkeley,  Maximillian,  267 
11  Michael,  267 

II  Mirryall,  264,  265 

II  Nicholas,  128,  129,  213, 

257,  332,  370 


INDEX    TO    NAMES    OF    PERSONS 


387 


Berkeley,  Patricius,  75 
11  Penelope,  267 

Peter,  251,  255,  271 
IVtronilla.  213 
i'  Ralph,  of  Durlley.  32 

M  Rebecca,  270 

<•  Richard,    20,    119,    120, 

121,  214,  256,  262,  263,  264,  265. 
267,332 

Berkeley,  Robert,  20,93,  "9'  '43. 
148,  149,  172,  173,  175,  179,  194, 
234,  265,  266,  267,  297 

Berkeley,  Roger,  of  Durlley,  2,  3, 
4,  5,  20.  22.  25,  28^,  30,  32,  37,  41, 
42.  55,  56.  69.  72,' 74,  143,  345 

Berkeley,  Samuel,  270 

"         Simon,  77,  147, 148, 149, 
370,  380 

Berkeley  of  Stoke  Gifford,  Banneret 
245—254 

Berkeley,  Sufan,  270 
■•  Sybil,  269 

n  Thomas,  20,  69,  73,  74, 

119,  148,  149,  172,  173,  174,  175, 
178,  179,  182,  183,  186,  201,  207, 
208,  209,  210 — 214,  228,  229,  233, 
234,  237,  238,  244,  246, 254—257, 
258,  259,  260,  264,  265,  269,  270, 
318,  320,  345,  346,  347,  354,  355. 
356,  357- 359- 370- 376 

Berkeley,  Walter,  75 
"  Warburgh,  353 

11  William,  20,  26,  56,  73, 

74,  75,  100,  119,  120,  213,  114, 
260,  261,  262,  266,  268,  269,  270, 
352.  355.  356 

Berkeley,  Vicars  of,  173 

Berrin,  213 

Betlond,  Priorefs  of,  343 

Bettefhorne,  350 

Bevill,  267 

Bigod,  142,  172 

Bird,  57  n,  198 

Biron,  213,  213  //,  277 

Birton,  77 

Bifeth,  23,  24,  25,  65 

Bisford,  87 

Bifley,  166 

Bitton,  de,  121,  252,  253 

Blake,  326 

Bloet,  20,  46,  375,  380 

Bloyou,  380 

Blunt,  265 

Bohemia.  King  of,  319,  369 

Bohun,  de,  20,  35,  77,  io6,  142, 
187,  190 

Bolour,  241 

Boniface,  Pope,  176 

Borard,  de,  139 


Botillcr,  le,  134,  194,  349 
Bottetort,  de,  55  «,   199,   200,257, 

259 
Brabant,  Duke  of,  315 
liradRon,  Sir  Thomas  de,   282 — 

286.  317.  318,  319,  348,  349 
Bradllone,  218,  229,  234,  252,  253, 

260,  282  —  286 
Braiofe,  Will.,  de,  34 
Brant,  136 
Brent,  354 
Brereton,  353 
Brewfe,  75,  109,  243,  350 
Bridger,  87 
Bridges,  17,  56 
Briflol,  St.  Bartholomew,  Prior  of, 

190 
Briflol,  Conftables  of,  91,  164,  229 
11        ^[ayorand  Burgeflfesof,  196 

197.  198,  199,  200,  229,  230 
Briflol,  Merchants  of,  284 
Britric,  Earl.  18 
Brittany  and  Richmond,  Duke  of, 

47-  258 
Britten,  268 
Brokele,  228  n 
Brokefby,  213 
Brooke,  208 
Brdughton,  300 
Browning.  48,  49.  50 
Bruce.  Robert,  177,  179,  180,  181, 

185,  199 
Bruen,  de.  107 
Brun.  de,  145 
Buckbert,  72 
Surges,  112,  212 
Burgeis,  212 
Burgh,  de,  108  « 
Burghull,  325 
Burke,  213  /; 
Burnell,  259 
Butler,  no 
Button,  de,  fee  Bitton 

Cambridge,  Sheriffs  of,  212 

Camden,  William,  145,  147,  210 

Came,  de,  83.  120 

Camera,  de,  159 

Camuile,  de,  129 

Canterbury.  Archb.  of,    217,   218, 

230.  316,  379 
Cantelo,  de,  56 
Cantelupe,  de,  243 
Caple,  28 
Carminou,  380 
Carew,  Richard,  144 
Chambers.  59,  269 
Champemoun,  265 
Champneis,  267,  268,  273 


Ch.indos,  56,  370 
Charles  I.,  King,  265 

It        IV.,  King  of  France,  252 
Chameles,  210 
Chcdder,  56,  57,  57  //,  58 
Chcefmonger.  le,  197,  198 
Chcltcnliaui.  de,  251,  313,  318,  319 

320,  329,  342,371 
Chenduit,  380 
Cherlton,  258,  315 
Chideocke,  189 
Chilworth,  330 
Choke,  260 

CirenccRer,  Abbots  of,  165 
Clare  de,  20,  144,  244,  245,  375 
Clarence,  Duke  of,  262 
Clarke,  68 
Clifford,   131,   140.   169,  189,  193, 

253.  272,  299,  327,  339,  341 
Clinton,  267 
Clivedon,  343,  346 
Cobham,  328,  348 
Coke,  265 

Combe,  83,  112,  119,  168,192,333 
Compton,  353 
Conifby,  263 
Cooke,  333 
Coperer,  340 

Copland,  Sir  John,  Ban.,  254 
Corbet,  366 
Cornwall,  E.  of,  23,  25,  65,  137, 

138,  146,  172,  196,  200 
Cornwall,  de,  196 
Cotton,  Sir  Robert,  145 
Courtenay,  313 
Courthope,  213  « 
Court,  259 

CrownatsCredoniaMaurice  de,  145 
Culumbers,  Phil,  de,  23 
Cumin,  Will,  de,  23,  24 
Cuneley,  in 

Damory,  234,  276 

Danyel,  227  « 

David  Lord  of  Denbigh,  170 
"       the  Jew,  1 16,  126 

Day,  269,  270 

Dennis,  72 

Deringe,  354 

Defpenfer,  le,  54, 182, 187,  230  231, 
pe,i.  232  ;  233,  234,  236,  237,  238, 
246,  247,  248,  258,  276,  280,  281, 
282,  283,  287,  288,  290,  298,  303, 

373.  374 
Detton,  270 

Devereux,  264,  267,  277 
Devifh,  332 
Dittewell,  71 
Dode  Geffr)',  233 


388 


INDEX    TO    NAMES    OF    PERSONS 


Doly,  328 
Dorney,  1 1 1 

Dorfetfliire,  Sheriffs  of,  318,350,352 
Douglas,  Earl  of,  252 
11         William,  317 
Dowle,  309 
Dray  cot,  33 
Driby,  de,  235 

Dudley,  Amb.,  E.  of  Warwick,  5 
Duncepouche,  5 
Dunflanville,  de,  Rob.,  23 
Durefme,  de,  318 
Durfley,  de  John,  83 
Dutton,  270 
Dynham,  380 

Earftfield,  355 

EaRmead,  149 

Ednoth,  8,  12,  19,  20 

Edward,  King,  the  Confeffor,  i,  20, 
56,  93 

Edward  I.,  King,  28,  43,  45,  83, 
117,  118,  119,  120,  125,  129,  130, 
131,  154,  138,  139,  140,  142,  143, 
144,  146,  147,  148,  150,  157,  161, 
164,  165,  167,  168,  169,  170,  177, 
178,  189,  192,  193,  194,  196,  204, 
Z08,  214,  224,  226,  243,  273,  297 

Edward  II.,  King,  28,  31,  43,  54, 
128,  146,  149,  157,  162,  164,  165, 
166,  168,  173,  184,  186,  188,  201, 
209,  210,  214,  215,  222,  223,  224, 
326,  227,  229,  232,  233,  240,  241, 
243,  244,  246,  247,  268,  269,  270, 
272,  273,  276,  280,  283,  288,  289, 
291,  292,  293,  294,  297,  298,  304, 
3°8,  327- 345.  358 

Edward  III.,  King,  28,  31,  43, 
54,  129,  147,  163,  173,  200,  210, 
211,  217,  218,  219,  240,  244,  245, 
247,  254,  255,  256,  257,  258,  270, 
272,  273,  280,  281,  283,  285,  287, 
288,  289,  290,  291,  292,  293,  294, 
396,  297,  299,  302,  303,  305,  307, 
308,309,  310,  311,  312,  313,  314, 
315,  322,  327,  331,  333,  339,  340, 
341,342. 

Edward  IV.,  King,  44,  144,  212, 
261,  327,  352,  353 

Edward  VI.,  King,  265,269,352,355 

Edward  Prince  of  Wales,  226,  253, 
257;  Duke  of  Cornwall,  314,  323, 
376 

Ekefwike,  de,  77 

Elia,  73 

Elizabeth, Queen,7 1,  145,  213,  256, 
264,  265,  266,  276,  277 

Elliot,  264 

Ellis,  A.  S.  19,  20,  56  n 


Ely,  Archd.  of,  137 
II     Bifhop  of,  193 
Engewald,  5 
Englifli,  210 
Efham,  329 
Efpeter,  195 
Efiex,  Sheriffs  of,  137 
Eflcourt,  58 
Eflmead,  196 
Eflmond  St.,  44 
Euflace,  89 
Evefham,  Abbot,  112 
Exeter,  Bifhops  of,  35,  42,  66,  217 

II        Archd.  of,  54 
Eyton,  R.  W.,  19 

Faire,  le,  5 

Farrington,  258 

Feiland,  de,  94 

Felton,  269 

Ferley  (Farley  Monkton,)  Prior  of, 
94 

Fernebrand,  199 

Ferrars,  205,  206,  208 

Ferror,  70 

Fettiplace,  17 

Fitz  Arthur,  5,  20 

Fitz  Gerald,  Warine,  23,  25,  65 

Fitz-Guido,  Robert,  in 

Fitz  Hamond,  Will.,  65 

Fitz  Hamon,  de,  23,  25 

Fitz  Harding,  Agnes,  17,  20 
11  Cicely,  17,  20 

II  Ellas,  5,  15,  20 

"  Eve,  39,  40,  42,  44 

II  Jordan,  5,  17,  20,  23 

II  Maud,  17,  20 

II  Maurice,  17,  20,  39 

II  Nicholas, 15, 20, 39, 65 

Fitz  Harding,  Ropert,  2,  4;  cove- 
nants of  marriage  of  fon  Maurice, 
4,  5,  19;  ped.  of,  20;  his  birth 
and  education,  21  ;  grants  of 
Bitton  and  Berkeley,  22,  23  ; 
grant  of  barony,  25  ;  Canon  of 
Briflol,  25  ;  lands  of  which  he 
was  feized,  34 — 35  ;  founding  of 
St.  Augufline's  Abbey,  35,  41  ; 
firfl  wife,  44  ;  his  ifTue,  45,  52,  55, 
56  ;  his  feal,  59  ;  his  death  and 
burial,  59  ;  his  lands,  60;  appli- 
cation of  his  life,  61-62  n;  64,  65, 
82,  83,  100,  109,  123,  129,  141, 
i9i,i94,2oi,289,29i,feei^(?/^<'r// 

Fitz-Hugh,  351  [  Lorti. 

Fitz-John,  132 

Fitz-Marcam,  140 

Fitz  Maurice,  Richard,  20 
II  Maurice,  20 


Fitz  Maurice,  Henry,  20 
Fitz-Maurice,  of  Ireland,  171 
Fitz  Nichol,  iffue  of,  47 — 50 
Fitz-Nicholl,  John,   128,  184,  289, 

333.  342.  343 
Fitz  Nicholas,  Ala 
Fitz-Nicholas,  John,  227  n,  228  n 

II  Nicholas  Fitz-Ralph, 

128 

"  Jordan,  20 

II  Roger,  20, 46,83,128 

Fitz  Ofbert,  20 
Fitz- Payne,  189 
Fitz  Richard,  Robert,  1 1 1 
Fitz  Robert,  5 

II  Fitz  Harding,  29 

n  Eliz.,54 

II  M  Ala,wife 

of  Nicholas 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Aldena, 

20,  65 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Helena, 

20,  55  ;  defcendants  of,  55,  55  n, 

S6 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Henry, 

20,  43,  54,  55,  55  n 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Margaret 

20 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding.  Maurice, 

20,  23,  29,  42,  43,  45,  65,  194 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Robert, 

52,  S3 
Fitz  Robert,  Fitz  Harding,  Thomas, 

20,  29,  54 
Fitz  Robert,  Nicholas,  20,  43,  45 ; 

his  mar.  and  iffue,  46,  65,  128 
Fitz-Roy,  145 
Fitz- Warren,  134,  195 
Flaxley,  Abbots  of,  165 
Fleetwood,  355 
Fleminge,  253 
Foliot,  Rich.,  35,  77 
Fourd,  de,  133 
Fourd,  376 
Foxcote,  de,  236 
France,  Kings  of,  90,  95,  179,  252, 

254,  277,  280,  312,  320 
Francis,  263 
Fraunces,  333 
Frelond,  John,  236 
Freeman,  326 
Fremont,  86 
Furneus,  349 
Fufl,  49 

Galloway,  Lord  of,  205 
Gardner,  Wm.,  192 
Gaunt,  de,  20,  51,  52,  53,  83,  97, 
107.  123 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OF    PERSONS 


389 


Gaveflon,  Piers,  182 

Georges,  241 

Gcnevill,  345 

Genoefe,  the,  369 

Gernons,  R.indle  de,  E.  of  Cheller,3 

Geynlbiirough,    \Vm.,     Bifliop    of 

Worcefler,  179 
Gibbes,  159,  263 
Giffard,   20,  46,   76,  97,    107,  112, 

114,  123 
Gifford,  231,  233,  234,  249,  250, 

364 
Glaflonbury,  Abbot  of,  373 
Glaflover,  195 
Glendowen,  Owen,  375 
Glover,  44 
Gloucefler,  Countefs  of,  127 

II         de,  120,  197,  273,  291 
Earlsof,  15,  20,34,  35, 

51,83, 144, 191,  206,  230,  232,  233 
GlouceRer,  Knights  of  the  Shire, 

48,  350 
Glouceller,  Abbots  of,  49,  50,  53, 

69,  165,  190,  202,  203,  292 
Glouceller,  Sheriffs  of,  97,  108, 109, 

III,  112,  115,  116,  126,  134,  13s, 

136,  175.  '81,  187,  235,  260,  264, 

269,300,307,311,318,  319,  332, 

35°.  351.  352' 354 

Glouceller,  Friars  Minors,  338 

Godwin,  E.,  i  ;  his  corrupt  treat- 
ment of  the  Nunnery  of  Berkeley, 
26,  60 

Godwin,  Wm.,  335 

Golafer,  William,  129 

Gold,  325, 

Goldefborowe,  74 

Goldington,  239 

Goldmere,  327,  328 

Gomer,  1 1 7 

Goffelin,  330 

Goffmgton,  327 

Goumay,  de,  20,  fee  Gurnay 

Goyle,  195 

Gray,  212,  366 

Greel,  192 

Greindon,  234 

GriflSn,  Prince  of  Wales,  135,  142, 
169 

Grove,  de  la,  196 

Guido,  the  Pope's  Legate,  1 1 1 
II      fon  of  Tecius,  46,  46  « 

Guion,  Earl  of,  42 

Gordon,  120 

Gurnay,  20,  52,  53,  54,  98,  122, 
131,  241,  291,  292,  293,  295,  296, 
297i  326,  327 

Gwa,  John  de,  132 

Gwalo,  Papal  Legate,  95 

3E 


Hale,  369 

Hall,  213 

Hamelin,  Sir  John,  210 

Hampton,  234,  237,  290,  300 

Hanan,  de,  23,  77,  194 

Hanbury,  270 

Hanllead,  233 

Harding,  49 

Harold,  King,  i,  19 

Har|)etree,  de,  52,  53 

Harle,  2  68 

Harvey,  JL05 

Hafele,  cie,  5,  17,  20 

Hallings,  326 

Hatton,  ats  Newport,  265 

Haward,  199 

Hay.  75,  III,  380 

Haynault,  Lord  of,  287 

H.ayward,  195 

Helenes,  John  de,  of  I'icardy,  367, 

—369 
Henry  L,  King,  2,  23,   24,   29,  32, 

41,  91,  92 
Henry  H.,  King,  2,  3,  4,  5,  20,  21, 

22,  23.  24,  25,  26,  28,  30,  31,  33, 

34,  37,38,  41,  42,  43,  55,  59,  63, 
74,  82,  141,  192,  289,  327 

Henry  HL,  King,  31.  91,  96,  98, 
109,  112,  113,  114,  115,  116,  119, 
120,  121,  122,  125,  127,  128,  129, 
130,  131,  132,  133,  134,  135,  138, 
139,  140,  141,  143,  144,  145,  146, 
150,  '54, 169,  195,  5oo,  289,  297, 
3°3 

Henry  IV.,  King,  146,  211,259, 
260,  277 

Henry   V.,   King,    141,    146,   211, 

260,  303 

Henry  VL,  King,  54,  144,  212,  260, 

261,  276 

Henry  VIL,  King,  144,  157,  213, 

262,  263,  309 

Henry  VHL,  King,  213,  263,  265, 
269,  305 
Henry,  the  Treafurer,  24 
Heiron,  73 
Herbert,  354 
Hereford,  Canons  of,  89 
de,  239 

11         Roger,  E.  of,  24,  25,  64 

11         Sheriffs  of,  187 
Hereward,  376,  380 
Herle,  Sir  William,  C.  J.,  173 
Herlewine,  Abb.,  Glaflonbury,  20 
Hefding,  Arnulph  de,  46  n 
Hicklinge,  de,  253 
Hickes,  355 
Hicks,  134 
Hind,  200 


Holt,  354 

Home,  266 

Howard,  267 

Humez,  de,  Ric,  23,  24,  25,  65 

Hungerford,  236,  263 

Huntingdon,  Archd.,  217 

11  Sheriffs  of,  213 

Hurd,  17 
Huffey,  213 

Ifabel,  Q.,  218,  280,  281,  282,  283, 
291,  292,  293,  296,  299,  308,  310 

James  I.,  King,  159,  190,  193,  213, 

264,  265,  266,  303 
Jeffrais,  7 1 
Jermy,  264 
Jerufalem,  Hofp.  of  St.  Jolin,  Prior 

of,  342 
Jerufalem,  Knights  of  St.  John  of, 

1 20 
John,  King,  29,  52,  53,  56,  82,  83, 

86,  90,   91,  92,  93,   94,  95  ;    his 

death,  96  ;  100,  loi,  108,  109,  123, 

144,  145,  192.  289,  327 
John,  King  of  France,  367 
Juley,  de,  5 

Kanvill,  de,  75 

Keilway,  de,  92 

Kelligree,  266 

Keth,  de,  31 1 

Kinge,  267 

Kingfcote,  58,  59,  65,  83,  120,  165 

234 
KingRon,  181,  194 
Kingfwood,  Abbots  of,   16.  31,  33, 

72,   112,  119,  131,  132,  133,  165, 

193,  201,  215,  241,  338 
Kirkby,  235 

Kirkllall.  Prior  and  Convent  of,  248 
Kirktemell,Co.  Lanc.,Canons  of,  29 
Knoles,  de,  258 

Lamere,  de,  213 

Lancader,  E.  of,  237,  245,  286,  287, 

288 
Langley,  234,  237 
Langton,  de,  293 

Lanthony,  Abbots  of,  77.  165,  330 
Lee,  263 

Leicefler,  de,  128,  130 
LeiceRerfli.,  Sheriffs  of,  211,  212 
Leigh,  241 
Leighton,  332 
Lewes,  Prior  of,  67 
Lidney,  346 
Ligon,  121,  266 
Lincoln,  Bifliops  of,  194 
II        Sheriffs  of,  234 


390 


INDEX   TO    NAMES    OF    PERSONS 


Landaff,  Bifhops  of,  35,  42,  66,  72, 

77,  165 
Llewellin,  Prince  of  Wales,  135, 137, 

138,  142,  169,  170;  his  death  ib. 
Litchfeild,  de,  211 
Lockington,  de,  133,  134 
London,  Bifhop  of,  316 
Longefpee,  W.,   Earl  of  Salifbury, 

77,  106,  107,  108,  108  «,  109,  r  1 1 
Longo  Campo  (Long  Champ,)  53 
Lougher,  267 

Louis,  Dauphin  of  France,  95,  96 
Lovell,  235 
Lowe,  1 1 9 
Lucy,  de,  139,  252 
Luida,  299 

Luk,  Merchants  of,  171 
Lunge,  le,  198 
Lyonell,  Prince,  320 

Machine,  87 

Maine,  Maurice,  Archd.  of,  19 
Majorca,  King  of,  319,  369 
Malmfbury,  Abbot  of,  249 
Malore,  199 

Maltravers,  228  n,  229,  241,  249, 
251,  252,  25s,  256,  258,  291,  292, 

294,  295'  309,  310,  321,  327,  371 
Mandeville,  228  n 
Manly,  96 
Manners,  330 
Manny,  Sir  Walter,  322  « 
Mapes,  Walter,  216 
March,  de  la,  339 
March,  372 

Mare,  de  la,  164,  328,  348 
Margaret,  Queen,  of  Edw.  L,  176 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Otto.,  94 
Marke,  fon  of  Agnes,  1 1 1 
Marmion,  75 
Marfhall,  20,  29 
Marfhall,  Elenor,  96 

M        Gilbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 

148,  243 
Marfhall,  William  L 

96,  97,  107 
Marfliall,  William,  IL 

96,  97,  107,  108,  108  n,  109,  117 
Martel,  227/2 
Martin,  235,  291 
Mary,  Queen,  145,  267,  299 
Maryes,  St.  de,  5 
Mathevv,  16 
Maud,  Emprefs,  2,  20,  22,  25,  33, 

41,  64 
Mauduit,  127,  130,  132 
MaunfcU,  143,  169,  i8j 
Mecocke,  195 
Mempaffe,  269 


Meriet,  Henry  de,  20 
If         Nicholas  de,  20 

Meflbr,  194 

Middleton,  189 

Molefworth,  380 

Molins,  265 

Monmouth,  112,  165,  268,  269 

Montacute,  324,  368,  369 

Monte  Alto,  224,  244 

Montford,  Simon  de,  138,  169 

Monthermer,  de,  54 

More,  de  la,  55,  194,  284,  292 

Moreton,  Bp.  of  Ely,  353 
M  John,  Earl  of,  51 

Morevill,  de,  90,  100 

Moreville,  Rich,  de,  34 

Morgan,  17 

Mortimer,  147,  148,  187,  211,  231, 
232,  234,  235,  237,  238,  246,  248, 
280,  281,  288,  292,  294,  296,  298, 

299'  3°8,  31°,  33 1>  339,  34°,  345 
Mountford,  212 
Mountjoy,  354 
Mowbray,  75,  97 
Moynge,  328,  346 
Munday,  71 
Mufard,  de,  108 

Nanfkewe,  380 

Naffe,  329 

Neell,  70,  333 

Nevill,  29s,  354 

Newenton,  Roger  de,  83 

Newland,  John,  Abbot,  his  account 
of  Harding,  2 — 5,  6;  his  buildings 
at  Briflol,  12,  33;  44,  74,  84,  89, 
98,  no,  144,  147,  214,  345 

Newport,  fee  Hatton 

Normandy,  Dukes  of,  1,  42,  54,  62  « 

Norwich,  de  106 

Nottingham,  261 

Nova  villa,  de,  228  n 

Ocley,  295 

Ogan,  17 
Oldbury,  de,  359 
Oldifworth,  120 
Ordeny,  de,  114 
Orger,  212 

Otto,  his  dau.-  Margaret,  94 
11     Lord  of  Dudley,  117 
Ou,  William  d',  46  n 
Owlpen,  de,  150,  i68 
Oyly,  d',  20 

Pagenham,  213 
Palton,  de,  253 
Parker,  197 
Parfons,  50 


Pauleflieye,  228  « 
Pauncefoot,  330 
Paynel,  20,  52,  190 
Peauton,  de,  20 
Peche,  300 
Peckenham,  269 
Pembroke,  E.  of,  234 
Penbrugges,  228  n 
Penhirgard,  380 
Percy,  252 
Perfevall,  266 
Pettit,  267 

Philip  n..  King  of  France,  90,  95 
M      IV.,  M  179 

..      VL,    (de   Valois)    King   of 

France,  254,  319,  320,  323 
Philip,  Dauphin,  of  France,  367 
Pliilip  and  Mary,  371 
Phillippa,  Queen,  286,  287,  288 
Pichard,  375 
Planca,  de,  5,  33 
Plantagenet,  Geoffry,  2,  25,  41 

M  Edmond,  Earl  of  Lan- 

caller,  169,  193 
Plantagenet,    206,   252,  256,   258, 

260,  262,  285,  291,  350,  353,  369 
Plaunch,  de  la,  130 
Pleffitis,  de,  165 
Pont  de  larch,  20,  97 
Portbury,  Vicars  of,  335 
Portington,  Mary,  157 
Poyner,  269 
Poyntz,  defcent  of,  48,  49;  71,  266, 

321,  330,  354,  355 
Preflon,  de,  136 
Pridy,  190 
Purfloe,  72 
Putot,  de,  106 

Quincy,  205,  206 

Ram  fay,  75 

Randolph,  198 

Ram,  de,  47 

Read,  263 

Reading,  .-Abbots  of,  33 

Refus,  fon  of  Mereduck,  172 

Reginald,  in 

Ricart,  Robert,  5,  41,  42,  43 

Richard  I.,  King,  31,  38,  46,  52, 

53,  65,  74,  82,  83,  86,  90,  289,  327 
Richard  H.,  King,   163,  2n,  232, 

247,  258,  346,  374 
Richard  III.,  King,  353 

I.       fon  of  Edwin,  92 
Richmond,  E.  of,  234,  353 
River,  de  la,  325,  326,  329 
Rivers,  334 
Robert,  Duke  of  Normandy,  44 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OF    PERSONS 


391 


Rodborough,  de,  253 

Roffs,   191 

Rokehill,  273,  301 

Rope.  372 

Rofanuiiid,  the  fair,  109 

Rome,  274 

Ruffs,  150 

RulTell.  132,  255,  266 

Rutlandlliire,  Sheriffs  of,  212 

Sacrebruche,  the  conte  de,  369 

Sacy,  de,  115 

Sage,  328 

Saham,  de,  192 

St.  John,  253 

Salilbury,  Earl  of,  fee  Longffpee 

11  Roger,  Bp.  of,  20 

Salop,  Alex.  Archd.  of,  28 

M       Sheriffs  of,  187 
Saltmareis,  de,  24,  25,  65,  100,  189, 

194,  326 
Sands,  266 
Scay,  192 

Schay,  de  Roger,  5 
Scotland,  Kings  of,  254 
Scheville,  John,  120 
Segrave,  Lord,  177 
Selden,  67 
Seymour,  252,  253 
Sheldon.  72 
Side,  de,  249,  251,  327,  328,  335, 

341,  342,  349,  357,  364,  372 
Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  379 
Simonds,  203 

Slimbridge,parfons  of,  150,  270,349 
Slipp,  195 
Smallcombe,  347 
Smyth,  59 
Snill,  355 

Someri,  de,  20, 46,  52,  108, 117, 140 
Somers.  268 
Somerfet,  Sheriffs  of,  97,  169,  318, 

350.  352 
Sparkes,  337 
Speke,  263 
Spenfer.  373 
Spilman,  Sir  Henry,  167 
Spirwit,  1 1 1 
Stafford,  353 

II         Sheriffs  of,  187 
Stancombe.  191 
Stanhope,  342 
Stanley,  269 

11       St.  Leonards,  Prior  of,  69, 

84,  88,  150,  168 
Stapeldon,  Walter,  Bp.  of  Exeter, 

his  death,  217  ;  380 


Stapledon,  Sir  Richard,  380 
Stephen,  King,  2,  20,  21,  22,  24, 

25.  27.  32.  33.  35.  38.  41,  43.  5^ 

64.  74 
Still,  192 

Stinchcombe,  190,  191,  333 
Stoke,  233,  307 
Stone,  de,  5,  121,  133 
Stonere,  238,  239 
Stourtoti,  Lord,  353 
Strangeways,  267 
Stubbs.  268 
Stumpe,  267 
Sudeley,  Lords  of,  166 
Syde,  fee  Side 

Tavernor,  333 

Tavy,  de,  138 

Tecius,  20,  46 

Teleford.  Ivo  de,  100 

Templars,  Knights,  120 

Thomas,  376 

Thorpe,  de,  258 

Throgmorton,  16.  17,  263,  264 

Tillelly.  Dr.,  67 

Tilly,  de,  20,  166,  230 

Tin  worth,  de,  55 

Tippinge,  265 

Toky,  John,  Abbot  of  Gloucefler, 

292.  293 
Tonilinfon,  264 
Tracy,  253,  305,  313,  318,  320,  332, 

349 
Trevifo,  John,  11,19,  338,  343-345 

371 
Truffell,  288,  314 
Trye,  149,  263 

Tudor,  Jafper,  E.  of  Pembroke,  262 
Tufton,  Lord,  354 
Tunbridge,  de,  340 
Twyeham,  Prior,  353 

Uley,  de.  87,  100,  120 

L^rbane,  Pope,  371 

Valence,  de,   127,   145,    172,   246, 

297,  340 
Valers,  de,  149,  203 
Veel,  16,   17,  219,  246,  257,  328, 

346,  370 
Vey,  329 

Viennois,  Dauphin  of,  369 
Vilers,  de,  72 
Vincent,  145,  208 
Vivon,  de,  94,  97,  194 

VVaddam.  263 
Wake,  189,  191,  321 


Walerond,  133 
Wallington,  364 
Wanton,  de,  134 
Ward,  100,  230 
Ware,  de  la,  340 
Warleigh,  de,  i8i 
Warner,  71,72 
Warren,  330 

Earl  of,  145,  234 
Warwick,  Earl  of,  35 
Warwickfliire,  Sheriffs  of,  211,  212 
Waryner,  347 

Wawton,  132,  134,  239,  310,  325 
Wayfer,  192 
Webbe,  50,  57  n,  332 
Wellington,  376 
Wendover,  93 
Weny,  de,  92 

Were,  Roben  de,  20,  50,  54,  83,  1 23 
Weft,  352,  366 
Wefton  de,  92 
Weftyke.  329 
Whetenhall.  354 
Whitfeild,  de,  249 
Whittington,  267 
Wickliff,  John,  335 
Wido,  fon  of  Teci,  46 
Wike,  269 
Wikes,  fee  Wykes 
William,  Duke  of  Normandy,  i,  2, 

44,  222 
Willington,  181 
Williton.  de,  107 
Wilton,  Abbefs  of,  374 
Wilton,  de,  227  n 
Winchelfea,  197 
Winchefler,  Earls  of,  232 
Winter,  264 
Wither,  Rob.,  31 
Woodfend,  333 
Woolnoth,  alias  Webbe,  57 
Woolworth,  57  « 
Worcefter,  Archd.  of,  54 

Bifhopsof,35,36,42,45, 

66,68,  70, 1 10,  179,  260,  261,  273, 

335,  337,  348,  379 
Worcefter,  Sheriffs  of,  187 
Wotton,  Burgeffes  of,  ii8 
Wynterburne,  288  « 

Yate,  148  ;  ped.  of,  148,  149 
York,  Archb.  of,  284 
n      Sheriffs  of,  234 
Younge,  261 

Zouch,  224,  243,  298,  365 


3  E  3 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OF   PLACES 


Ablington  M.,  302,  328,  346 
A6ton,  17 

"       M.,  35,  60,  77,  151 
n       Ilger,  M.,  378 
..       Iron,  M.,  151,  190,326,  355 
Alderley,  84 
Aldington,  328 

Alkington,  191,218,302,325,  335 
\i         M.,  60,  66,  82,  100,  117, 
122,  129,  141,  150,  154,  158,  166, 
235.  236,  273.  2S7,  293.  301.  324, 
326,  329.  340,  341.  357>  360,  378 
AUefton,  17 
Almington,  27 
Almondefbury,  Adv.,   36,   39,  40, 

5S>68 
Almondfbury  M.,  12,  27,  36,43; 
Fair  gr.  at,  43  ;  66,  77,  184,  192 
Alton  M.,  302,  328,  346 
Alveflon,  350 

II         Forefl,  92 
II         Park,  114 
Amal-eglos,  M.,  380 
Angelfey,  169 
Angollifme,  145 
Antwerp,  250 
Appleridge,  66,  M.  77,  100,   122, 

150.  301.  324,  329.  357,  378 
Aquitayne,  228,  229,  230,  246,  258, 

280,  283,  323,  367 
Arlingham,  32,  70,  72,  82,  88,  94, 
III,  127,  192,  193,  210,  273 
"  M.,  27,  36,  60,  77,  89, 

100,  109,  no,  122,  148,  173,  175, 
193,  246,  297,  342,  360 
Afcote  M.,  238 
Aflielworth,  192 

II         Advow.,  36,  39,  40,  55,  68 
II         M.,  12,  36,  184 
Aihton,  237,  289,  340 

II      ats  Afhcrton,  M.,  250,  256, 

341 

Atfield,  145 

Atram,  Co.  Dors.,  20 

Augufline,  St.,  Abbey  of,  17  ;  found- 
ed, 35  ;  40,  42,  45,  51,  64.  66,  72, 


86,  98,  109,   119,   122,   147,   150, 
201,  207,  208,  220,  240,  273,  335, 
337,  345,  373,  376,  377 
Avon,  river,  171,  197,  199, 
Awre,  112,  164,  190,  268,  273,  302, 
308 
11     Advow.,  299,  330,  340 
II     M.,  117,  273,  298,  301,  326, 

340,  359,  371,  373,  378 
Aylberton,  192 

M.,  50,  52,  53,  54,  131, 

248,  249,  254,  257,  259,  261,  302 
Aylbrighton,  fee  Aylberton 

Bagrugge,  86 

Bannockburn,  209,  227 

II  Battle  of,  182 

Barew  Gurnay  M.,  326,  350 

Bare  we,  334 

Barrow  M.,  20 

Barton,  by  Glouc.  M.,  284 

Battle,  Abbey,  29 

Baynard's  Caflle,  274,  379 

Beckbrooke,  Line,  71 

Bedminfler  Hund.,  35,  51,  52,  99, 
123,  128,  131,  150,  191,  220,  235, 
237,  242,  267,  274,  282,  290,  307, 
324,  329,  331.  332,  336,  339,  347, 
373,378,379 

Bedminfler,  hermitage  at,  337 
II  St.  Katherines,  337 

II  M.,  20,  23,  34,  60,  77, 

83,  86,  88,  89,  98,  99,  106,  123, 
131,  150,  154,  155,  164,  191,  196, 
199,  225,  235,  236,  241,  245,  290, 
301,  302,  333,  340,  364,  379 

Beefeley  M.,  232 

Beoly,  119,  149,  246,  297 

Bentham,  328,  350 

Bere-Revell  M.,  &  Advow.,  350 

Berewe  M.,  27,  51,  302,  328 

Berermell,  328,  346 

Berkeley,  Advow.  of,  33,  36,  39,  40, 
55,  66,  68,  69,  70,  71,  87 

Berkeley,  Barony  of,  3,  5,  12,  31, 
32,  33,  42,  67,   73,  86,  114,  141, 


143,  150,  154,  161,  169,  170,  171, 
172,  193,  194,  243,  289,  329,  342, 
360 

Berkeley  Borough  M.,  60,  77,  88, 
97,  100,  III,  127,  139,  142,  165, 
168,  184,  191,  201,  220,  236,  273, 
292,  3°i,  325,  335,  341,  346,  347, 
378 

Berkeley  Chapel,  267,  293,  343, 
343  " 

Berkeley  Church,  Chant,  founded, 
iZ^^  337,  338,  346,  347,  357,  377 

Berkeley  and  Berkeley  herneffe  M., 
20,  22,  23,  24,  26,  extent  of,  27, 
28  ;  31,  32,  33,  42,  62  ;;,  64,  66, 

69,  71,  72,  73,  74,  77,  82,  83,  8s, 
90,  92,  loi,  108,  109,  III,  122, 
128,  129,  134,  135,  143,  148,  150, 

191,  193,  235,  290,301,  322,  325, 
326,  329,  340,  357,  360,  365,  372 

Berkeley,   Honour  of,   20,   28,   29, 

33,  35,  47,  63,  83,  84,  236,  282 
Berkeley,  Hund.  of,  27,  28,  48,  53, 

70,  85,    94,     109,     112,     114,     I2T, 

122,  127,  128,  135,  158,  184,  191, 

192,  195,  220,  273,  286,  290,  327, 
347 

Berkeley,  Nunnery  of,  26 

M  Par.,  31,  66,  67,  69,  70, 

72,  73,  214,  282 
BerkhamRed  CaRle,  280,  281,  298 
Bernard  Caflle,  London,  236 
Berwick,   167,  172,  175,  177,  182, 
183,  185,  208,  227,  235,  243,  246, 
249,  274,  285,  295,  311 
Berwick  M.,  263 
Bellow,  269 

Bettefhome  M.,  350,  351 
Betefley,  297,  327 
M       Gorfl,  326 
Beverley,  Mon.,  29 
Beverilon,  192,  259,  326 

M  Advow.,  36,  40,  53,  55 

Caaie,  326,  349,  350 
M.,  20,  27,  50,  52,  S3, 
54,  65,  122,  131,  175,  184,  289, 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OE    PLACES 


393 


Beverflon  M. — Continued — 
297.  30'.  302.  309.  326,  340,  347. 
35°.  35'.  353.  355 

Bevington,  31,  127,  191 

Billcfwick  M.,  20,  34,  35,  36 
Hofpital,  52,  53 

Bircliley,  191 

]?i(lioiVs  Ellon  hund.,  330 

Bilteliiorne,  349 

Bitten,  honour  of,  194 
II        M.,  22,  55,  62  /?,  94 
II        Paridi  60,  194,  268 

Bixe  M.,  136,  I  50 

Black  bourne,  317 

Blakeney,  373,  378 

Blakentord,  36 

Blanchiand,  (Blantha  Landa,)  131 

Blidellow  M.,  302 

Blidellowe  Hund.,  273,  299, 373,378 

Blith,  225,  325 

Blithmifliam  M.,  376 

Bodanan  M.,  280 

Bordeaux,  115,  126,228 

Bornhill,  302 

Bolworth  field,  262 

Botolphs,  St.,  London,  374 

Boulewe  hund.,  330 

Bourdfield,  328 

Boy  Court,  245,  286 

Bradenftock,  Mon.,  87,  iii 

Bradley,  17,  84,  118,  119,  120,  164, 

191,  214,  241,  246,  254,  29s 

11         M.,  258,  259,  261,  262,  265 

301 
II         M.,  Co.  Wore,  269,  296 

Bradon  M.,  20 

Bradpen,  87 

Bradllon,  190,  218,  262,  282 

Bratton,  Co.  Dev.,  55  // 

Bray  M.,  Co.  Dev.,  34,  60,  77,  109, 
110,  123,  270,  271 

Bremles  M.,  375 

Brentford,  20,  76 

Bridgwater,  244,  274 

M.,  36s,  373,  379 

Brightmerfton  M.,  244,  246,  247, 
248,  255,  257,  259,  261,  273,  302 

Brimsfield,  233,  234,  249,  250,  364 
II  CaRle  233,  251,  254,  256 

Briflol,  2,4, 5,8, 14, 16, 19,20, 22,23, 
33.  35.  36.  38,  40,  41.  45.  51.  52. 
55,  58,  60,  62  n,  64,  72,  73,  78,  86, 
86,  88,  89,  90,  91,  92,  94,  100,  106, 
114,  122,  131,  136,  143,  150,  154, 
171,  174,  177,  196,  197,  198,  199, 
200,  225,  228,  229,  230,  240,  241, 
244,  253,  261,  264,  271,  281,  282, 
283,  284,  286,  287,  315,  318,  321, 
327,  333.  334,  335.  337.  342,  372 


Hrillol,    Abbey   of    St.    AuguRine 

founded,   35,  40,  42,   44,   52,  59, 

60,  63 

Brillol  CaRle,    90,    94,    164,    229, 

230,  247,  269,  291,  309 

II         Church  of  St.  Nicholas,  51 

11         Friar's  ("armelite,  334 

11  11      Minors,  202,  338 

II         Hermitage  at,  337 

11        Hofpital  of  St.  Katherine 
36,  89,  no,  154 

M  II        of  the   Magdalen 

founded,  42,  44 
liritheling  Preb.,  271 
Brittany,  376 
Brodway,  330 
Brughani,  257 
BrulTels,  315 

Brulon,  245,  263,  265,  266,  286 
Buckland  M.,  20 
Builth  Caflle,  135 

11     Lordfliip  of,  284 
Burell,  302 
Burghill,  302,  M.  325 
Buiiford  M.,  236,  245,  274 
Burrowbridge,  239 
BurncI  Wood,  130 
Button,  fee  Bitton 
Byham  Caflle,  109 

Caen,  319 

Caerlaverock  Caflle,  175,  208,  214, 

268 
Caithnefs,  177 
Calais,  210,  213,  254,  256,  285,  286, 

319,  321,  322,  369 
Caldecotte,  193,  M.  &  Advow.,  350 
Caldicote  Caflle,  106 
Cam  Advow.,  32 
Cambridge  Cha])el,  336 
Came  Church,  372 

II      M.,  27,  60,  77,  96,  100,  117, 

118,  122,  130,  14s,  149,  150,  154, 

166,  184,  202,  220,  235,  236,  268, 

273,  287,  290,  30T,  329,  340,  341, 

347.357.360.  378 
Came  par.,  72,   74,  119,  121,  175, 

191,  194,  203,  207,  214,  218,  268, 

329.350 
Campden,  117 
Cancourt,  330 
Cannoc,  133 
Canonbury,  1 68 
Cant  M.,  380  n 
Cantebaghan,  250 
Canterbury,  229,  266,  298 
Cantokefhed  M.,  51 
Cantrefhelly,  Seigniory  of,  375 
Capland  M.,  20 


Cardncll,  226 

Carleion,  in  Scotland,  318 

Carlide,  174,  178,  179 

Carmarthen,  227 

Cartelege,  151 

Catgroye,  195,  324 

Catherine  Cookes  I.ey.s,  fee  Cooke's 

Catherine 
Cernecotc  M.  and  Advow.,  350 
Cerncy  M.,  34,  36 
Chadwich,  Co.  Wilts,  351 
Charfeild  M.,  302,  328,  346 
Chatellerault,  368 
Chedder,  274,  330,  350 

"  M-,  3 '3.  346,  349 

Chelvey,  299 
Chelworth  Advow.,  350 

11  328,  346,  M.  350 

Chernfide  M.,  285 
CheniuU  M.,  45 
Chellode,  Co.  Wore,  351 
Cliewe,  198,  215 
Childingflon,  302,  328 
Chipjjenham  hund.,  330 

M-.  302,  330 
Chifelhungre,  87 
Chriftchurch,  Hants,  352 
Church-end,  49 
Church  hay,  333 
Chyrkeflon,  371,  379 
Cirencefler,  233,  237,  246 
Clarkenwell,  88,  266 
Clapton,  89,  191,  214,  325 
Clehungre,  149,  191 
Clifford's  Mead,  327,  341 
Clivedon  M.,  191 
Clyvelade,  328,  346 
Coberley  M  ,  27,  32 
Codeford  M.,  250,  251,  255,  256 
Cokerford  M.,  45 
Colcole,  328,  346 
Combe,  16,  17,  58,  n8,  191,  201, 

209,  M.  262 
Compton  Creenfeild  M.,  302,  327, 

347.  350,  35' 
Compton  Greenvile  M.,  376 
Cooke's  Katherine  Leys,  307,  327, 

341 
Coreton  M.,  250,  251,  255,  256 
Corffe  Caftle,  291,  292 
Cory  Malet,  330 
Cofton,  Advow.  of,  193,  205,  211 

II       M.,  205,  21 1 
Cottefwold  Hills,  114 
Coventry,  301,  325 
Cowley,  69,  84,  86,  87,  88,  109,  132 
175,191,202,203,301,330 
II         Advow.,  32,  49,   50 
II         AL,    60,  77,  100,  117,  122 


594 


INDEX    TO    NAMES   OF    PLACES 


Cowley  M. — Continued — 
145,  150.  154,  158,  166,  202,  235, 
236,  273,  287,  329,  330,  340,  357, 
360,  373,  378 

Crecy,  211,  366 

Creffage,  Co.  Salop,  268 

Cricklade,  Co.  Wilts,  325,  329,  373, 

379 
Crocadon,  Cornw.,  343 
Ci'omall  Ad  vow.,  36,  39,  55,  66 

M.,  27,  36,  43 
Cromhall,  134,  192,  239,  268 
Cubberley,    56,    57,    58,    fee    alfo 

Coberley 

Dadington  M.,  238 
Dagling\vorth  M.,  375 
Daventree,  210 
Dean,   Forefl  of,    112,    181,    228, 

246,  302 
Depedene,  239 
Diflicove  M.,  20 
Dodefcote  M.,  376 
Doverle,  riv.,  141 
Dowdfwell,  265 
Down  Ampney,  263 
Downhatherly,  328,  350 
Dublin  Cath.,  270 
Dunbar,  314 
Duns  M.,  285 
Dunflable,  225,  301 
DunRer  Caflle,  107,  120 
Durham,  Bifhopric  of,  253 
Durfeley,  Barony  of,  3,  143 
Durfley,  72,  84,  iii,  117,  191,  192, 
214.  257,  309 
11     Church,  1 1 1 
.1     M.,  4,  20,  25,  27,  32,  55,  55  K, 

56,  57>  57  «.  69,  94,  184,  191,  193, 

269,  331,  370 

EaRbray,  133 

Edenworth  M.,  244,  246,  254 

Edge,  no,  119,  131,  193 

Edifhall  M.,  375 

Edmondfbury,  St.,  92 

Egeton,  109,  127,  191,  314 

Egge,  117 

Ekington,  302 

Elberton  M.,  27 

EliRon   M.,   251,   302,    327,    347, 

348.  364 
Eilworth,  330 
Elmore  M.,  47 
Englifhcombe  M.,  20 
Epfom,  213 

Erlingham,  fee  Arlingham 
Efclefworth  M.,  27,  66 
ERanes  M.,  328 
ERham,  302 


ERon,  336 

Eftpeckham,  354 

Ettelow,  268,  273,  371,  373,  378 

Eveleigh  M.,  27 

Evefham,  114,  120 

Ewcombe  Wood,  86 

Exeter,  116,  126,  301,  325 

Exton  M.,  302,  328,  346,  350 

Eynefbury,  M.,  206,  209 

Fafield,  273,  347,  349,  350 

Fairford  M.,  232 

Faldingworth  M.,  136,  150 

Falkirk,  173,  208 

Faveld  M.,  245 

Ferenton  M.,  52 

Ferneberg,  52 

Fillwood  Chafe,  340 

Filton  M.,  48,  192 

Fifehend  M.,  Co.  Dors.,  34,  36 

Flanders,  173,  174,  205,  226,  315 

Flint  CaRle,  169 

Foxcote  M.,  74,  77,  100,  123 

Frampton,  259,  273,  327,  378 

Frampton-upon-Severn  M.,  71,  112, 

189,  197 
FroceRer  M.,  202,  203 
Frome,  Riv.,  22,  64 
Fulbroke  M.,  248,  249,  250,  254 

Galway,  45 

Gafcoigne,  115,  116,  125,  133,  182, 
184,  196,  229,  250,  280,  296,  322, 

323.  366-  367 
GaRi  M.,  268  n 
Gaunt,  258 
George,  St.,  M.,  255 
Geron  weir,  94,  164 
GlaRonbury,  Abbey  of,  20 
GlouceRer,  107,  109,  in,  114,  117, 
127,  134,  140,  144,  17s,  177,  186, 
187,  191,  196,  198,  200,  227,  235, 
248,  271,  281,  282,  286,  297,  300, 

332,  334,  359 
GlouceRer,  St.  Peter's  Abbey,  32, 
202,  292,  293,  294,  297 
t,         CaRle,    138,    139,   168, 

172,  284,  286 
M         St.  Bartholomew's  Hofp. 

202 
fi         Friars  Minors,  202,  334 
Godalming,  264 
Goodrich  CaRle,  173 
GorR,  127,  327 

Goffington,  74,   191,  327,  334,  371 
11        M.,  27,  60,  74,  77,  100,  131 
Gower,  228,  246 
Granada,  366 
Greenwich,  EaR,  M.,  72 


Crete,  326 
Gurney  M.,  302 
Guernfey,  Ifland  of,  211 

Hailes  Abbey,  144 
Hamburell  M.,  302,  328,  346 
Hame,  112, 131,  133,  190,  191,  195, 
214,  325,  336 
M        M.,  60,  77,  86,88,  89,  100, 

no,  n3,  127,  140,  150,  154,  158, 

166,  180,  184,  201,  220,  235,  274, 

287,  290,  293,  301,  307,  324,  329, 

340,357,  360,  378 
Hames,  112 
Hampton,  77 
Hamveel  M.,  346 
Hannam  M.,  60,  77,  194 
Hardpury,  210 
Hareclyve,  Hund.,  51,  52,  99,  123, 

13',  150,  191,  235,  237.  242,  274, 

290,  379 
Harpetree,  327 
Harry-Stoke  M.,  48 
Hasfeld  M.,  238 
HaRings,  271 
Hatherley  M.,  302,  325 
Hawkefbury,  par.,  371 
Haw  park,  241 
Hereford,  114,  115,  137,  171,  215, 

287,  288,  325 
Herietfam  M.,  138 
Hert,  and  Hertneffe,  253 
Hill  M.,  65,  122,  128,  129,  192,  331 
Hillefley,  84,  Chappel  of,  371,  378 
Hineton,  109,  no,  127,  130,  191, 

19s 
Hinton  M.,  27,  60,  66,  74,  77,  100, 

n7,  122,  145,  150,  154,  1O6,  17s, 

236,  273,  287,  301,  329,  340,  357, 

360,  378 
Hoges  (Hogue  La,)  in  Normandy, 

320 
Holmes,  241,  378 
Hooknorton  M.,  Co.  Oxon,  20 
Horfield  M.,  12,  27,  36,  43,  192 

11         Advow.,  39,  66 
Horton,  prebend  of,  271 
Horwood  ForeR,  114 
Hull  M.,  45,  47,  48,  49,  184,  289, 

335 
Hulmancote,  87,  88,  191,  203 
Huntingford,    i6,   114,    120,    192, 
302,  328,  370 
M.,  346 
HurR,  191,  214,  334,  371 

.1  M.,  60,  77,  100,  117,  122, 
131,  150,  154,  156,  166,  235,  236, 
273,  286,  301,  308,  340,  359,  360, 
378 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OF    PLACES 


395 


Inglcfcumbe  M.,  51 
Inwouds,  149 
Ireland,  45 
Iveden  M.,  328 

Jerufalem,  Hofpital  of  St.  John  of, 


Katherine  Pull,  Chapel,  336 
Katherines,  St.,  Hofp.,  Briftol,  36, 

89,  110,  154 
Keinfliam  Abbey,  338 
Kenilworth  Caflle,  147,   148,  169, 

188,  292 
Kerfilly  (Caerphilly?)  Caftle,'293 
Kikefham  M.,  136,  160 
Kingefcote,  190,  192 

M.,  27,  65,  83,  165 
Kingefwood,  50,  114,  165,  171 
Kingllanley  M.,  250,  251,  254,  255, 

256,  273 
Kingfton,  191,  333,  334,  371 

11  Seymore  M.,   236,   245, 

246,  257,  261,  263,  274,  290,  302, 

326 
Kingflon  Seymore  Advow.,  274 
Kingfweft.on,  192,  248,  268 

rt  M.,  20,  52,  53,  54,  65, 

122,  131,  184,  248,  249,  254,  257, 

259,  261,  263,  264,  268,  273,  289, 

3°2,  347.348,  35°.  351 
Kingfwood  Abbey,  32,  56,  72,  87, 
88,  119,  271,  292,  347 
II  Chafe,  283 

Kinles,  177 
Kinly,  Chantry  of,  49 
KirkRall,  248 
Kirthington  M.,  238 
Knoll  M.,  284 
Knubbyefafhes,  343 

Lampradevaur,  Church  of,  270 
Langly,  302 

Langly-Burell  M.  &  A.,  328,  348 
Langoyde  M.,  375 
Langflan  M.,  46 
LangRane  Advow.,  45 
Lapleifbridge,  203 
Leckhampton,  302,  328,  350 
Lega  M.,  34,  36 
Leigh,  341 
Letchlade  M.,  232 
Lidney,  330 

Lincoln,  3,  175,  176,  186,  338 
Llandaff,  See  of,  72 
Lodewell  water,  131 
Lolledon  M.,  302,  330 
London,  93,   136,   138,   167,   187, 
280,  285,  288,  379 


London  Tower,  120,  136,  177,  235, 
238,  239,  247,  264,  280,  281,  285, 
29'.  298,  301,316,317,  3S9,  379 

Longborrow,  263 

Longbridge,  72,  109, 

11  Hofp.,  63,  69,  70,  71, 

72,  127,  128,  372 

Lopen  M.,  Co.  Soni.,  19,  20 

Lorwinchc  M.,  190 

Lorwinge,  Loringe,  Hofpital  of, 
founded,  69 

Lorwinge,  Farm,  74,  109,  iio 

Ludlow,  339 

Lufignian,  145 

Madington,  302,  M.  328 
Malmefbur)',  51 

"  Abbey,  292 

Mauland,  190 
Marleborough,  143 

11  Caflle,  232 

Mars  M.,  236,  245 
Marflifield,  little,  M.,  342,  375,  378 
Matefdon,  191 

Mawerden  M.,  248,  250,  254 
Meere  Church,  350 
Melton  Mowbray,  212 
Mendip,  165,  171 
Meriet  M.,  Co.  Som.,  19,  20 
Merfinden,  257 
Michaelwood,  16,  66,  113,  158,  159, 

209,  307.  324 
Midhurfl,  326 

Mildeflon  Advow.,  244,  261 
Mildefton  M.,  244,  246,  257,  259, 

261 
Milton,  263 

MilveRon  M.,  244,  246,  247,  273 
Minehead,  120 
Monewedon  M.,  54,  302,  326 
Montgomery,  170 
More  M.,  376 
Morecote  M.,  210 
Munden  M.,  326 
Mynne,  213,  213  n 

Naffe,  330 

11      Court,  330 
Naylefey,  225 
Neath  Caflle,  292 
Neiherham  M.,  302,  328,  346,  350, 

351 

Netleham,  1 28 
Newcaflle,  180 
Newcaflle-upon-Tyne,     185,     186, 

226,  249,  309,  311,  315,  317 
Newenton  M.,  28,  32,  184,  192 
New  Forefl,  352 

"      Leys,  307,  327 


New  Park,  324,  331 

Newport,    137,   146,  191,  195,  231, 

232,  322,  328,  335,  337 
Newton  M.,  331 
New  W^irth,  189,  307 
Nibley,  72,84,  118,  120,  141,  149, 
159,  161,  191,  350 
II       Chapel,  68 
M       M.,  262,  329 
Nimpsfield,  192 

M.,  27,  45,  47,  48,  49, 

65,  123,  128,  129,  289 
Normandy,  319,  320,  366 
Northalerton,  228 
Northampton,  139,  314,  320,  325 
Northfieki  M.,  260,  261 
Northwike  M.,  50,  52 
Norton,  302 

Nottingham,  296,  310,  340 
Nuport,  137,  142,  146 

Okeley,  66,  113 
Oldminfler,  1 10 
Oleby,  212 

Orchaflon  M.,  251,  255,  364 
Orcheflon  .-Xdvow.,  364 
Orkefden,  302,  M.,  328 
Orwell,  314,  315 
Ollewonh  M.,  27,  28,  32,  193 
Ofney  Abbey,  310 
Over,  17,  M.,  50,  52,  53,  54,  297, 
302,  309,  326,  334,  336,  347,  350, 

351 
Owlpen,  192 

Owfellworth,  132,  192,  193,  209 
Ofwelworth  Advow.,  32 
Oxford,  66,  106,  207.  281 

Parham,  89 

Park  M.,  379 

Paul's,  St.,  Church,  London,  379 

Pawlet,  51 

Paynel,  Barony  of,  20 

Paynfwick  Park,  246,  297 

Pedington,  191 

Pencarrow  M.,  376,  380 

Penleigh  M.,  302,  328,  346 

Penrith  M.,  248 

Periton  M.,  238,  378 

Perth,  177 

Pevenfey,  i,  273,  280,  281,  282.  298 

Phillip's  Norton,  371 

Pirton  M.,  77,  302 

Piza,  285,  286 

Planihes,  268,  269,  270 

Plimpton  M.,  302,  328,  346 

Pockhampton,  191,  195 

Poidlieu,  92,  145 

Poi(5liers,  257 


596 


INDEX   TO    NAMES    OF    PLACES 


Pomfret,  240 
Pondelarge,  235,  273 
Portafhead,  45 

f  Advow.,  45 

Portbury,  36,  86,  88,  242,  244,  297, 

334,  336,345,  364,  37°,  372 

11         Advow.,  Co.  Som.,  34,  36 

Hund.,   35,   51,    52,    99, 

109,  123,  127,  131,  141,  150, 

191,  235,237,  242,  245,  274, 

358,  379,  290,  326 

II         M.,  60,  77,  90,  99,  100, 

123,  141,  150,  153,  155,  164,  166, 

175,   'SS-   189,  22°,  235,    236,    241, 

245-  273,  290,  299,  301,  302,  324, 
326,  329,  340,  341,  358,  360,  364, 

365,  372,  373,374,379 
Portefliened    M.,    273,    302,    373, 

374,  379 
Portfmouth,  92,  263,  319 
Powlett,  M.  of,  5  I 

11       Advow.,  35,  36 
Pucklechurch,  1 14 
Purton,  151 
Putelioufe  Weir,  164 
Pyriton  M.,  342,  37 1,  fee  alfo  Pirton 

Radcliffe,  35,  65,  73,  134,  136 

M.,  77,  98,  99,  236,  274, 
290 
11         Hofp.  of  St.  John  at,  72 
Radcliveftreet,  134,  150,  195,  196, 

197,  198,  200,  244 
Raglan  Caflle,  375,  376 

"       M.,  37S 
Randcumbe,  265 
Reading  Abbey,  29,  32 
Redwood,  308 
Redwick  M.,  20,  50,  52 
Rhe,  Ifle  of,  266 

Rhudlan  Caflle,  134,  169,  170,  171 
Ringwood,  par.  Hants,  351 
River's  lands,  194 
RochuU,  326 
Rockhampton  Advow.,  256 

M.,  250,  251,  254, 
255,  256,  258,  259,  261,  263,  264, 

273 
Rodley  weir,  164 
Rokefborough,  181 
Rollright,  Great,  M.,  274 
Rome,  179,  252 
Rotchull,  302 
Rothelan  Caflle,  134 
Rolherwike  M.,  261 
Rualach,  45 
Runnymead,  93 
Ruthnock  M.,  257 
Ryham,  88 


Sages  M.,  328 
Saintloe,  145,  373,  378 
Salifbury,  338 

"  Cath.,  271 

Sandwich,  315 
Sapworth,  302 
Scalford,  212 
Schochland  M.,  51 
Scotland,  246,  296,  339,  364,  366 

II  Marches  of,  252 

Seintcle  M.,  302 
Senlac,  battle  of,  i 
Severn,  Riv.,  23,  26,  87,  112,  114, 

189,  190,  241,  308,  327,  330,  339, 

368,  373,  378 
Shaftefbury  Abbey,  20 
Shafton  (?  Shafteiljury)  Abbey,  271 
Shainton  M.,  250,  251,  254,  256 
Shalford  M.,  Co.  Sum,  284 
Shardmarfh,  328 
Shepnaffe,  113 

Shepperdine  Chantry,  338,  378 
Sheve,  328 

Shipton  M.,  236,  245,  274 
Shirewood  ForeR,  249 
Shrewfbury,  135 
Shouldhani  Priory,  288 
Shulden  M.,  302,  330 
Side,  302,  347,  350,  351 
II     Advow.,  347 
II     Chantry  founded,  336 
Simondfhall,   no,    119,    132,    133, 
141,  173,  175,  191,  266 
II  M.,  27,  60,  77,  100,  1 17, 

122,  131,  14s,  154,  166,  193,  235, 

236,  245,  273,  301,  324,  329,  340, 

347,  357,  360,  378 
Simondfliall  Chapel,  68 
Sinwell,  118 
SiRon  M.,  4,  32,  55 
Slimbridge,  72,  73,  74,   112,   131, 

132,  134,  175,  191,  194,  328,  333, 

334,  336,  371 
Slimbridge  M.,  3,  4,  6,  32,  42,  60, 

73,  77,  98,  100,  106,  112,  122,  143, 

150,  154,  156,  166,  167,  ,189,  235, 

236,  273,  286,  301,  308,  329,  340, 

341,  357,  360,378 
Slimbridge  Advow.,  32,  69,  77,  143, 
215,  273,  329,357,378 
II  Church,  131,  349 

warth,307,327,  334,  341 
Snedham  M.,  273 
Sodbury,  114,  247,  327 
Sokke  M.,  302,  330,  348,  349,  350 
Somerton,  197,  199 
Southampton,  Port  of,  318 

II  Caflle,  352 

Southfielde,  202 


Spelfbury  M.,  238 
Spenhamland  M.,  245 
Spenhenton  M.,  238 
Stamford,  93,  180,  301,  312 
Stanbridge,  46 
Stanes,  93,  302 
Stanford,  225 
Stanford  M.,  238 
Stanhope  Park,  310 
Stanley,  50,  235 

II  Abbey  of,  232 

M.,  273 

II  St.  Leonards,  Priory,  202 

Stapleford  M.,  250,  256 
Stapleton,  16 
Steepholmes,  Ifland,  378 
Stinchcombe,  31,  M.,  282 
Stoke,  326 

II       M.,  Co.  Wore,  269 

II      Gifford  M.,    210,    214,  228, 
245,  247,  250,  251,  254,  256,  258, 
259,  260,  261,  262,  263,  265,  286 
Stokenchurch  M.,  136,  150 
Stone,  133,  191 

Stonehoufe  M.,  250,  251,  254,  256 
Straddewy  M.,  375 
Stratfield  M.,  257 
Stratton  M.,  284 
Striguil,  Lordfliip  of,  326 

II  Honour  of,  46 

Stryvelyne  Caflle,    177,  227,  312, 

Sudwike,  Priory  of,  88 

Swanley,  191 

Swiny,  87 

Swonhunger,  88,  191,  228  n 

Swyne,  (Sluys)  a  port  in  Flanders, 

315 
Swynebroke,  248,  250 
Syde,  fee  Side 
Symondfhall,  fee  Simond/licUl 

Tablesford,  100 

Tainton,  250 

Talgarth  M.,  375 

Tetbury,  118,  213,  300,  350 

Teveleford,  100,  151 

Tewkefbury  M.,  247 

Thames,  River,  314 

Thmmer  (?),  CaRle  and  Manor,  284 

Tholoufe,  45 

Thornbury,  par.,  236 

Thorpe,  210 

Thurkelby,  127 

Tickenham,  274,  326,  330 

•I  Advow.,  36 

M  M.,  Co.  Som.,  20,  35, 

45,  46,  46  «,  274,  349,  350 
Tintern  Abbey,  282 


INDEX   TO    NAMES   OF    PLACES 


397 


Tockington  M,,  302,  330,  347,  350, 

35' 
M  Advow.,  330 

Tokinhall,  378 

«  M.,  302,  330 

Toneton,  248 
Tore  M.,  375 
Tormarton  M.,  302,  326 
Tortworth  M.,   263,  302,  328,  346 
Trailbaflon,  242 
Trent  River,  320,  329,  342 
Tretour  Caftle,  375 
Trotefclive  M.,  138 
Tudenham,  326,  327 
TuUington,  302,  Manor,  325 
Twyneham,  Convent  of,  88 
Tykenham  M.,  302 

Uley  M.,  60,  77,  84,  HI,  120,  121, 
149,  254,  256,  257,  258,  259,  260, 
261,  262,  263,  264,  348,  370,  376 

Uley  Village,  120,  192 

Uphill,  371,  379 

Upton,  213,  248,  250,  273,  302 

Upton  Cheiney,  268 

Upton  by  Glouc,  340 

Upton  St.  Leonards  M.,  329,  357, 
373.  378 

Valence,  145 

Veelham  M.,  302,  328,  346 

Virginia,  356  - 

Vitton  M.,  27 

Wales,  169,  228,  246,  287,  296,  375 

Walgaflon,  127 

Walles  or  Walls  M.,  250,  251,  256, 

258,  259,  261 
Wallingford  Caflle,  187,  230,  235, 

236,  238,  239,  246,  268,  272,  273, 

281,  290,  298,  369 
Wallington,  327 
Wanfwell,  70,  191 
Wapley  M.,  32 
Warth,  The,  112,  189,  307 


Wells,  300 

II       Cathed.,  271 
Wenden    M.,    137,  138,   146,  150, 

>S3.  "55.  274i  3°'.  3°2.  327.  365. 

373.  379 
Weoley  M.,  260,  261,  262 

11        Park,  140 
Were  Advow.,  36 

II      M.,  Co.  Som.,  34,  51,  52 
Weabury,  17 
Weflcote  M.,  151 
Weflhall  M.,  248,  249,  250,  254 
Weftlond  M.,  302,  330 
Weflminflcr,    143,    169,    176,   180, 

187,  204,  232,  252,  262,  285,  310, 

312.  314.  317,  319.  325 
Weflminfler  Abbey,  137 
Weflon  M.,  27,  50 
Weflonbirt  M.,  302,  329,  347,  350 
Weflon  Lawrence  M.,  268,  347 
Whetenhurft,  18 
Whirwell  Nunner)-,  377 
Whitchurch,  Salop,  96 
Whitchwood,  236 
Whiteclive  Park,  140,  323 
Whitfield,  265 
Whitton,  326 
Wickllowe,  195 

Wigmore,  42,  234,  288,  298,  299 
Wike,  1 20,  129,  164,  191,  273,  342 

II      M.  210 
Wimondham,  153,  207 
Winchcombe,  247,  300 
Winchefler,  225,  287,  301,  320 
Windfor,  93,  126,  310 
Winferton,  24S,  M.  250 
Winterbourne,  259,  286,302,  328 
Wintred  M.,  273,  302 
Wigflon,  331 
Wolpeton  ^L,  254 
WoodcheRer,  26 
Woodford,  100,  191,  326 
Woodraancote,  94 

II  M.,  117,  302,  329, 

350,  35' 


Woodftock,  181,  248 
Worcefler,  167,  169,  177,  225,  233, 
261,  301,  339 
II  Ch.,    Chantry    founded 

in.  337 

Worgan,  375 

Worthy  Park,  142 

Wortley,  84,  87,  118,  132,  191,333 
II         Chapel,  336 

Wotton  M.,  77,  86,  87,  98,  100, 
106,  117,  118,  122,  143,  145,  150, 
154,  165,  166,  175,  177,  184,  220, 
235.  23<^.  245.  262,  273,  287,  290, 
299,  301.  324.  329.  340.  341.  357, 
360.  378 

Wotton,  67,  72,  87,  112,  117,  118, 
119,  132,  133,  191,  201,  210,  214, 
215,  236,  241,  246,  267,  309,  335, 

336,347.  35°.  372 
Wotton,  Advow.  of,  a,  36,  40,  55, 

68,  117,  273,  329,  357,  378 
Wotton    Borough,    175,   273,   301, 

347.  378 
Wotton  Church,  377 
Wotton-under-Edge,    16,  58,    347, 

349 
Wotton  forren,  301 

II         Marchant,  245 
Writlinge,  217 
Wykes,  57,  57  ;/,  58 
Wymond,  15 
Wymondham,  207,  208,  210,  211, 

212,  213,  251 

Yate,  327,  376 

Yarkeley  M.,  302 

York,  174,  180,  186,  249,  296,  310, 

325 
Ywerne,  Prebend  of,  271 
Ywis  M.,  51 

Zantoigne,  115,  125 
Zutphen,  379 


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SMALL  PAPER  COPIES 

Ackers,  B.  St.  John,  Efq.,  Prinknafli  Park,  Painfwick 

Allen,  Rev.  William  Taprell,  M.A.,  St.  Briavels'  Vicarage,  Coleford 

Ames,  Reginald,  Efq.,  2,  Albany  Terrace,  Park  Square,  Eaft,  London,  N.W. 

Arrowfmith,  Mr.  J.  W.,  99,  White  Ladies'  Road,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Baker,  Mr.  James,  The  Mall,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Barkly,  Sir  Henry,  i,  Bina  Gardens,  South  Kenfmgton,  W. 

Bartleet,  Rev.  S.  E.,  M.A.,  Brockworth  Vicarage,  Gloucefter 

Baynes,  C.  R.,  Efq.,  The  Lammas,  Minchinhampton 

Bazeley,  Rev.  William,  M.A.,  Matfon  Re6lory,  Gloucefter 

Beach,  The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Michael  Hicks,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Williamftrip  Park,  Fairford 

Beddoe,  John,  Efq.,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  Mortimer  Houfe,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Blathvi^ayt,  Rev.  Wynter  T.,  M.A.,  Dyrham  Re6lory,  Chippenham 

Bourne,  Rev.  G.  Drinkwater,  M.A.,  Wefton-fub-Edge,  Broadway 

Bowly,  Chriftopher,  Efq.,  Siddington  Houfe,  Cirencefter 

Bramble,  James  Roger,  Efq.,  Cleeve  Houfe,  near  Yatton,  Somerfet 

Buckley,  Rev.  Jofeph,  M.A.,  Tormarton  Reftory,  Chipping  Sodbury 

Bute,  The  Moft  Hon.  The  Marquis  of  Cardiff  Caftle,  Glamorganftiire 

Berkeley,  Francis,  Efq.,  Woodfide,  Ripon 

Caldicott,  Rev.  J.  W.,  D.D.,  Grammar  School,  Briftol 

Cattell,  Thomas  William,  Efq.,  Blakeford  Cottage,  King's  Stanley,  Stonehoufe 

Cheltenham  Library,  5,  Royal  Crefcent,  Cheltenham 

Clark,  George  T.,  Efq.,  F.S.A.,  Dowlais  Houfe,  Dowlais 

Clifford,  The  Hon.  and  Right  Rev.  Biftiop,  Bifhop's  Houfe,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Clough,  R.  L.,  Efq.,  13,  Bellevue,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Colby,  Rev.  Frederick  Thomas,  D.D.,  F.S.A.,  Litton  Cheney  Re6lory,  Dorfet 

Collins,  J.  C,  Efq.,  M.D.,  Steanbridge  Houfe,  Slad,  Stroud 

Cooke,  J.  Herbert.  Efq..  F.S.A.,  Berkeley 

Cooke,  W.  H..  Efq..  Q.C.,  F.S.A.,  42,  Wimpole  Street,  London 

Cowburn,  Major  J.  Brett,  Dennil  Hill,  near  Chepftow 


LIST   OF    ORIGINAL   SUBSCRIBERS 

Cox,  Alfred,  Efq.,  Thornhayes,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Cripps,  Wilfrid  J.,  Efq.,  F.S.A.,  Barrifler-at- Law,  Cirencefter 

Croffman,  George  D.,  Efq.,  Friezewood,  near  Briflol 

Derham,  Samuel,  Efq.,  Henleaze  Park,  Weflbury-on-Trym 
Derham,  Walter,  Efq.,  M.A.,  F.G.S.,  Henleaze  Park,  Weftbury-on-Trym 
Dorington,  J.  E.,  Efq.,  Lypiatt  Park,  Stroud 

Downing,  William,  Efq.,  Springfield  Houfe,  Olton,  near  Birmingham 
Ducie,  The  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of,  P.C,  F.R.S.,  Tortworth  Court,  Wotton-under- 
Edge 

Ellacombe,  Rev.  H.  T.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  The  Rectory,  Clyft  St.  George,  Topfham 

Fawn,  Mr.  James,  Queen's  Road,  Briflol 

Fox,  Alderman  Francis  Frederick,  Efq.,  72,  Pembroke  Road,  Clifton,  Briflol 

Fox,  Charles  Henry,  Efq.,  M.D.,  The  Beeche.s,  Briflington 

Fryer,  Kedgwin  Hofkins,  Efq.,  Maitland  Houfe,  Gloucefler 

George,  W.  E.,  Efq.,  Howe  Croft,  Stoke  Bifhop 

George,  Mr.  William,  26,  Park  Street,  Briflol 

Giller,  William  Thomas,  Efq.,  County  of  Gloucefler  Bank,  Gloucefler 

Godwin,  J.  G.,  Efq.,  Chifwick  Houfe,  Chifwick,  London,  W. 

Gofling,  Rev.  J.  F.,  M.A.,  Bream  Vicarage,  Lydney 

Gwinnett,  William  Henry,  Efq.,  Gordon  Cottage,  Cheltenham 

Hale,  Robert  B.,  Efq.,  Alderley,  Wotton-under-Edge 
Hall,  Rev.  J.  M.,  M.A.,  The  Reclory,  Harefcombe,  Stroud 
Havilland,  General  de,  Havilland  Hall,  Taunton 
Hazeldine,  Rev.  William,  The  Priory,  Tyndall's  Park,  Clifton,  Briflol 
Heywood,  Samuel,  Efq.,  F.S.A.,  161,  Stanhope  Street,  London 
Holford,  Robert  S.,  Efq.,  Weflon  Birt  Houfe,  Tetbury 
Hudd,  Alfred  E.,  Efq.,  96,  Pembroke  Road,  Clifton,  Briflol 
Holland,  W.  H.,  Efq.,  Gloucefter 

Jacques,  Thomas  W.,  Efq.,  46,  Apfley  Road,  Clifton,  Briflol 
James,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Highfield,  Lydney 
Jenkins,  R.  Palmer,  Efq.,  Beechley,  Chepflow 


LIST   OF   ORIGINAL   SUBSCRIBERS 

Kay,  Sir  Brook,  Bart,  Stanley  Lodi);e,  Battledown,  Cheltenham 

Keeling,  George  William,  Efq.,  Lydney 

Kerflake,  Thomas,  Efq.,  14,  Weft  Park,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Lancafter,  Thomas,  Efq.,  Bownham  Houfe,  Stroud 
Leigh,  William,  Efq.,  Woodchefter  Park,  Stonehoufe 
Lewis,  Archibald  M.,  Efq.,  Upper  Byron  Place,  Briftol 
London  Library,  12,  St.  James'  Square,  London 
Lucy,  William  C,  Efq.,  Brookthorpe,  Gloucefter 

Maclaine,  William  Ofborne,  Efq.,  Kington,  Thornbury 

Macpherfon,  J.,  Efq.,  Aylefmore  Houfe,  St.  Briavels,  Coleford  (2  copies) 

Margetfon,  William,  Efq.,  Brightfide,  Stroud 

Metford,  Jofeph  Seymour,  Efq.,  31,  Berkeley  Square,  Briftol 

Middleton,  John,  Efq.,  Weftholme,  Cheltenham 

Middleton,  J.  H.,  Efq.,  F.S.A.,  Weftholme,  Cheltenham 

Morgan,  Sir  Walter,  Naifh  Houfe,  Nailfea,  Somerfet 

Morrell,  Frederick  J.,  Efq.,  Broughton  Lodge,  Banbury 

Mullings,  John,  Efq.,  Park  Street,  Cirencefter 

Niblett,  J.  D.  T.,  Efq.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Haresfield  Court,  Stonehoufe 

Norman,  George,  Efq.,  High  Street,  Cheltenham 

Norris,  Venerable  Archdeacon,  D.  D.,  Lower  College  Green,  Briftol 

Oakeley,  Rev.  W.  Bagnall,  M.A.,  Newland,  Coleford 

Palmer,  Rev.  Fielding,  M.A.,  Eaftcliffe,  Chepftow 

Phillimore,  W.  P.  W.,   Efq.,   M.A.,    B.C.L.,   6,   Quality  Court,  Chancery  Lane, 

London,  W.C. 
Phillipps,  J.  O.  Halliwell,  Efq.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  HollingftDury  Copfe,  Brighton 
Playne,  Charles,  Efq.,  Nailfworth 

Playne,  Arthur  T.,  Efq.,  Longfords,  Minchinhampton 
Powell,  John  Jofeph,  Efq.,  Q.C.,  Fountain  Court  Temple,  London,  E.C. 
Prankerd,  P.  D.,  Efq.,  The  Knoll,  Sneyd  Park,  Briftol 
Pritchett,  Charles  Pigott,  Efq.,  Holme  Lea,  Redland  Grove,  Briftol 

Riddiford,  George  Francis,  Efq.,  Barnwood  Lodge,  Gloucefter 
Royce,  Rev.  David,  M.A.,  Nether  Swell  Vicarage,  Stow-on-the-Wold 


LIST   OF    ORIGINAL   SUBSCRIBERS 

Savory,  C.  H.,  Efq.,  St.  John  Street,  CircnceRcr 

Scott,  Charles,  Efq.,  Berkeley 

Selwyn,  Rev.  E.  J.,  M.A.,  Pluckley  Redory,  Afliford,  Kent 

Sewell,  Edward  C,  Efq.,  Elmlea,  Stratton,  Cirencefler 

Simpfon,  J.  J.,  Efq.,  Glen  Llyn,  Ravenfwood  Road,  Redland,  Briftol 

Smith,  R.  H.  Soden,  Efq.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Science  and  Art  Department,  South  Kcnfing- 

ton  Mufeum,  London,  S.W. 
Stanton,  Charles  Holbrow,  Efq.,  65,  Redcliffe  Gardens,  London,  S.W. 
Stroud,  Frederick,  Efq.,  Lewifland,  Cheltenham 

Swayne,  Jofeph  Griffiths,  Efq.,  M.D.,  74,  Pembroke  Road,  Clifton,  Briftol 
Swayne,  S.  H.,  Efq.,  129,  Pembroke  Road,  Clifton,  Briltol 

Taylor,  John,  Efq.,  Briftol  Mufeum  and  Library,  Queen's  Road,  Briftol 
Thomas,  William,  Efq.,  7,  Charlotte  Street,  Queen  Square,  Briftol 
Thorpe,  Difney  Launder,  Efq.,  M.D.,  (Cantab.,)  Lypiatt  Lodge,  Cheltenham 
Trinder,  Edward,  Efq.,  Perrots'  Brook,  Cirencefter 
Tuckett,  Francis  Fox,  Efq.,  F.R.G.S.,  Frenchay,  Briftol 

Waddingham,  John,  Efq.,  Guiting  Grange,  Winchcombe 

Wefton,  J.  D.,  Efq.,  Dorfet  Houfe,  Clifton,  Briftol 

Whitwill,  Mark,  Efq..  Redland  Houfe,  Durdham  Park,  Briftol 

Wickenden,  Rev.  J.  F.,  M.A.,  Stoke  Biftiop,  Briftol 

Williams,  Rev.  Auguftin,  Todenham  Re6lory,  Moreton-in-Marfti 

Williams,  Adin,  Efq.,  Lechlade 

Wilton,  John  P.,  Efq.,  10,  College  Green,  Gloucefter 

Wifeman,  Rev.  H.  J.,  M.A.,  Clifton  College,  Clifton,  Briftol 


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