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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of the Berkeley Family. 167 ‘“‘ Item. Prests to the nombr of .... and more, which went with their crosses next before the hersse [the horse-litter ]. ‘‘ Item. After the horse-leter v gyntilwomen mourners. ~ © Item. Aft them Mr. Recorder and I, Mr. Bonde and my cozen Portes, in stede of thexecutors and sup’visors. Corporations attending great Funerals. —“ Item. Then Mr. Maire, the Master of Yeld (Guild or Town-hall), Aldermans, She- riffs, Chamberleyns, and Wardens. ** And soe she was conveid to the Mothir Church the ...., where she rested in the queere, before the high auter, all that night, and had their a solemn derige (Psalm v.); and the Maire and his Bredren went into Saynt Mary hall, wher as a drynkyng was made for them, fyrst kakys (cakes), comfitts, the secund course marmelot, redd wyne, and claret, and the third course wafris and blanch powder, with rom- ney and muskedele*; and I thank God, noe plate ne spoones wast lost, yet ther was xx desyn spones. ““ Upon Monday she sate forward, aft masse, with the said lights and crafts, the seid v mourners rydyng in sed-saddles, and ther horses tressed with blacke; Mr. Recorder and I, Mr. Bonde and Porter, rydyng aft theym; and then Mr. Maire, Aldermen, Sheriffs, War- dens, and Chamb’leynes, rydinge in like order as they were; and at Bynley Brigge met my Lord th’ Abbot of Combe, with his mitre, sensyng the herse; and in his company Mr. Browne, Mr. Broughton, and many othir, ye may be sure, to the nombr of v or vi thousand pepull. Iam of a suerty ther was at everye sittynge above eleven or twelve score messes, and the bordes (tables) was divers times set, and Thomas Berkeley’s Prest (Priest) say the orderynge of all. . & Written at Caloughdon the xvi day of Aprille. <¢ Your servaunt, Tuomas Try.” [Re-printed from Fosbroke’s Economy of Monastic Life, p. 82. ] * Genoese and Hungarian wines. Warton’s English Poetry, vol. II. p. 253.

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