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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and. King Henry the Second, used that if any theeves were taken, either in the Court or Towne of Dursley, to bring them the same day to the Castle of Berkeley, if the day sufficed; and there they were accustomed to receive their judgment, and to have justice extended upon them : and if that day of their taking sufficed not, then to bee brought the morrow after to the said Castle * At this time one Adam Still was Constable of the Castle; John Greel, Porter; John Dun, servant to the Constable, the Under- gaoler ». In the thirteenth century the Constable of the Castle was usually allowed a salmon for his dinner on the first Sunday in Lent *. : In 1307 King Edward II. granted the Manor of Berkeley Castle to Piers Gaveston *. In 1321, Maurice Lord Berkeley being in rebellion, the Castle and adjacent Demesne were seized, and the custody committed to Simon de Dirby; but, two years after, the trust was consigned to John Frelond, with the fee of twenty marks for his paines. — In 1325 a writ was issued to the Constable to keep all his prisoners safe; ‘‘for in this year,’ says Mr. Smyth, “were many secret prac- tises afoot for seazing of castles, and setting prisoners at liberty, for the discontented commons, ready to yise in armes, wanted discon- tented leaders; which caused the King to remove, both sodainely and secretely, great numbers of his principal prisoners, both male and female, for ladyes and gentlewomen were all practisers, from one e 9? castle to another °. Hugh Spenser the elder held the Castle during the imprisonment of Maurice Lord Berkeley ; but the Queene [of Edward II.] passing by Berkeley restored the Castle to this Lord Thomas, together with all the Honour of Berkeley, though just before the King, from Tin- terne Abbey, had ordered the custody of it, with all the men he could raise, to Thomas de Bradston ‘. a Smyth’s Lives, p. 266. e Smyth’s Lives, pp. 289, 290, from Fin. b Id. p. 267. © Id. p. 232. 15, 16, 17 Edw. II. and Claus. 19 Edw. II. d Claus. 1 Edw. II. — Fosbroke. f Smyth's Lives, p. 336.

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