Volume 1

Berkeley manuscripts. Abstracts and extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, illustrative of ancient manners and the constitution; including all the pedigrees in that ancient manuscript. To which are annexed, a copious history of the castle and parish of Berkeley, consisting of matter never before published; and biographical anecdotes of Dr. Jenner / By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, M.A. F.S.A.

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke

Date:: 1821

Credit: Berkeley manuscripts. Abstracts and extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, illustrative of ancient manners and the constitution; including all the pedigrees in that ancient manuscript. To which are annexed, a copious history of the castle and parish of Berkeley, consisting of matter never before published; and biographical anecdotes of Dr. Jenner / By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, M.A. F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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iS nl er 8. TT took and beate all that were Burgesses of Bristol] there found, and im- prisoned and most wickedly them there treated.” MS. Veel, p. 274. MS. Berkeley. Poneys for Children. — Thomas Lord Berkeley gave his son Thomas a horse, which cost 5s., when he was a boy, and began to ride upon the downs of Portbury. Id. p. 225. Crosses, when assumed in Arms. — The Crosses were assumed in the Arms when 60,000 Noblemen in England vowed to go to the Holy Land. Td. p. 228. Crusades, performed by Proxy. — Maurice, son of this Lord Thomas, gave £.100 to Sir John Veel to go to the Holy Land in his stead, and thus absolve his father’s vow. Jhid. Females, rarely leaving Home. — Joan, lady of this Lord Thomas, though forty years a wife, never travelled ten miles from the houses of her husband in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset. Id. p. 230. Timber, Growth of, Consequence of Inclosures. —Through this Lord’s Inclosures, which were very small, Mr. Smyth saw, in 1622, oaks just cut down, which he knew, by trial of their age, must have then been in their infancy, and owed their birth to these Inclosures. Id. p. 233. Alms given to the poor Tenants. — Joan Lady Berkeley died March 19, 1309, and her husband gave ten quarters of wheat and beanes from each of his Manors to the poor bondsmen tenants to pray for her. (Id. p.217.)—He used to give up to his poorer copyholders many of their days’ works ; and in times of scarcity loaned them wheat. Id. p. 213. : ....9d wife==Thomas Lord==Joan (1st wife), daughter of William de Ferrars, jun. Earl of Berkeley, ob. Ferrars and Derby, by Margaret, his 2d wife, daughter and Jul, 23, 1321. | coheir of Roger de Quincey Earl of Winchester, by Ellen, his | first wife, daughter and heir of Allan Lord of Galloway in Scotland. This Lady Joan was married about 51 H. II. and died March 19, 1309. A See al 1. Maurice, 2. Thomas, ancestor John, ob. s. p.==Hawise. James, a Bishop, Isabel, un- next Lord. of the Berkeleys, 10 E. II. bred a Scholar, married. of Wymondham. under theAbbot Margaret, of Kingswood, unmarried.

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