1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
3. catholicism

WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE,
Mbat
to
sec
bow
ano
ORIGINAL
WITH
2ND
tbc
of
IRciobbouvbooo.
ENLARGED
BY
COMPILED
KV
HEKKUK"
it
A
EDITION,
MARGARET
see
SKETCHES,
ALSO
^Description
to
AND
GOKIIAM,
ISABELLA
TOLSKV
1897.
TAIT.
"\VouK", WOTTON-UNDER-EIKSE.
PREFACE.
of
object
CHE
in
felt
the
with
the
one
with
the
district
and
and
under-Edge
and
passing,
to
The
admirers
and
little
book
neighbourhood
now
interest.
the
this
gain
and
some
Geologist,
of
beautiful
locality
much
;
to
supply
is
to
to
connect
enable
the
Botanist,
scenery
to
tastes.
1077097
gratify
will
their
ages
past,
unacquainted
those
of
slight knowledge
the
long
want
a
the
find
its
beauty
Archaeologist
in
various
Wotton-
pursuits
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE
Parish
IH1S
of
Berkeley,
from
the
called
either
Jhindreda,
from
the
of
part
Cotswold
Hills
the
from
well
is
downs
is the
They
"
in
air
obtained
on
a
is well
tillage;
"Combe"
Town
the
or
double
name
under
prospect,
British
little
and
"
especially
which
with
hence
its
it commands
Ridge;"
Ridge," from
richly beset
"
valley,
from
may
the
be
villages
each
districts
Landed
or
into
again
pleasant
ence,
emin-
wooded.
The
sand, derived
brow
original
extensive
an
of
land
the
rich, and
soil
the
Weold
language and
kind
signifying a tcood, and
a
together make
The
of
overlooks
town
Wottou-under-Edge
"
were
;
into
calcareous
of
seat
mild,
their
England
parts make
they rest; some
carefully tilled, bear oats and
when
chief
thin
a
which
others,
:
vale
with
on
sheltered, the
forward.
Toed
rocks
situated
Alfred
counties
divided
were
teen
nine-
King
of families
RaiiLjv, which
covered
are
oolite
good sheep
The
barley.
Cotswold
the
of
divided
was
number
Hundreds
Proprietors' in each : these
is
Titfiings).
Wottou-under-Edge
half
a
Gloucester.
of
into
GSiiii
j|fcounty
CHIEK.
time
parts
divided
T()\\XK
and
two
from
south
some
south
miles
C'harh'eld, and
from
(Before
Hundred
the
four
Dursley,
east
YE
in
lies
the
ample
seen
the
and
farmhouses.
there
the
growth
from
meaning
in
Saxon,
of
tautology.
the
to
both
a
"Wood
name
and
east
beautiful
"West
hill
called
and
luxuriant
vale,
Beyond,
on
a
1"
clear
day,
be-
can
"X-
)TT"
Wf
"EK-E1
f XI
Hill
LansdoAvn
seen
"GE.
Bristol, Sod-
Bath.
near
Upton Monument,
Berkeley
Hill, Hawkesbury
buiy Camp
of the Romans),
the Severn
Castle, Wickwar,
(tlie Sabrina"
"
Dean
eroAvned
Avith
all
to
the
the
of
befallen
had
rejoicings.)
of
planting
a
and
them
His
for
Lordship
town
also
of
Wotton
the
a
number
of
place
hill and
its
the
the
beautiful
AA'ay,
a
of
group
firs
crowned
again
Jubilee
round
War
(a fate
in
trees
; Lord
memoration
com-
Fitzhardinge
substantial
a
time
Waterloo
the
at
Aviih
the
at
Crimean
the
these
Bath,
bonfire
Avail
for
occasionally blow.
strong gales which
annual
small
a
granted the
payment
for
right
seats
approaches
upon
after
building
the
into
made
Victoria's
Queen
protection against
rest
and
Avas
mark
land-
a
were
and
Berkeley
between
peace
former
hill is
The
fir trees, which
Scotch
country
celebration
which
Y
of
clump
a
"Knoll"
The
mountains.
Welsh
the
ruthlessly destroyed
were
of
and
Forest,
:
benches
visitors
admire
stretched
to
years,
of
the
one
the
tipon
this
to
twenty
crest
delightful height
and
they ascend,
as
panorama
of
term
a
and
around
out
in
enjoy
may
fort
com-
"In
them.
Elizabeth, the Earl of Leicester with an
reign of Queen
of
and
multitude
of
attendants,
a
extraordinary number
to
AVotton, and thence to Miehaelw"fod
Country people, came
like a little park
Lodge, casting down
part of the pales, which
then
let
enclosed
the Lodge, (for the gates were
too narrow
to
in his train)and
from
where
he
thence
to Wotton
Hill,
played
the
a
match
ball
old
AA'as
at
a
Stoball."
proverbs
resembling Cricket.
game
of the Hundred
of Berkeley
"When
foggy
"
local
Let
The
(Smyth's Manuscript)
mist
turns
that
When
West
Then
Hill
AVotton
Horton
cloth
Towne
tis time
way
into
Ridge
to
wear
sowe
wood
The
rain
"
or
Stool-
are
folloAA'ing
concerning
a
of
beware
Stoball
the
hill.
Cap,
that.
"
is
motley
barley.
is in a great measure
of the Cotswolds
superior healthiness
due to the dryness of the atmosphere, countries
abounding with
calcareous
seldom
A'isited
with
matters
are
epidemic disorders.
eous
Azote
of most
or
epidemics. In calcarSepton is the cause
the excess
countries
of Septon in the air is prevented by
fast as it is
its attaching itself to the quicklime of the soil,as
The
"X-
WoTT"
extricated
forms
in other
places
compounds.
"
various
the
of
rear
present
John
King
named
:
Maurice
hold
to
the
body
being
office
of
become1
to
jurisdiction,nor
Parliament,
called
was
the
on
of
the
to
being
the
Fair
vigil,on
the
and
cloaks
of
been
abandoned,
been
resuscitated.
a
neighbouring
Mayor and
the
is
the
Corporation
following inscription:
to
"
BERKELEY,
only
very
DOXO
MAJORIS
USA
PRO
a
Ex
"
DE
the
weekly
Town
upon
is to say,
That
"
exaltation
such
fair
and
fairs."
Aldermen
"
have
shall
long
Crier"
Mace, with
PRCEHOX
AuGUSTI
AYorrox,
the
COM
:
A.D.
England, the Rose of
Kngland, the Thistle of Scotland, the Lily of France, the Harp
of Ireland, and
of the
the
arms
Berkeley family. Flemish
weavers
came
over
considerably during the reigns of Henry
1. and
Madox
in his History of the Exchequer
tions
menStephen
John
tines
that
cities and
that
to
Towns
paid
King
they
A cloth maker
in Gloucestershire
might buy and sell dyed cloth.
AY ebb
had
the- surname
of
given him by King Edward
I I 1 and
there
was
;l
privilege granted to the cloth makers
the
in this country, that
cloth any
settled
they might weave
1747."
it
Upon
are
the
Royal
Arms
:
DE
since
lately
ing
pertain-
handsome
sui
be
The
has
of office
emblem
BURGI
to
first Parliament
of the
and
his
after
Member
a
held
days,
markets
the
of
dress
Almost
be
morrow
market
tin1
but
to
magisterial
send
the
three
the
011
such
to
to
was
last
yearly, to
day, and
without
but
power
before
Market
unless
its
On
granted
Avas
leet, and
court
"
The
1201.
charter
spot
a
a
annual
Borough
burgh
"
tire.
the
of
reign
and
de Berkeley, his mother,
them
Jointure, empowering
it
a
".Borough,
constituting
and
the
Aldermen,
Mayor
Alderman,
an
the
Holy Cross.'
prejudice of
(
the
hats
it
in
Friday, and
had
in
of
the
at
Town,"
in the
Johanna
and
consist
chosen
fire in the
of
a
stood
i
and
atmosphere
which
Old
"
III
fair, also
a
to
Town,
the
Henry
\\Ottou
of
and
corporate
term
of
Berkeley,
the1 Manor
in the
is commemorative
time
markets,
Mayor
"
Brands
Lord
held
Old
:
destroyed by
was
one,
restoration, in the
who
it is wafted
The
site is still called
the
"The
l"X 1 )E It- E I )( ;K.
of
\s
"
"
"
length
his
"
NYotton
harinae
breadth
or
suited
Itinerary/'
"
one
A
prat y Market
faire
to
written
lonae
their
in
Tote
Streie.
the
tic,
and
own
Leland,
convenience.
reign
icelle
of
Henry
occupied wit
it xtonditlie
A^III
he
i
in
calls
Clothiartt,
cli/rinae toward*
V""
\VOTTOX-
f XJ )E U- E 1)0 K
.
only, it
is
probable there
takes
note
in his
time.
Leland
/"". /////." Though
others
were
of
street
one
ing1
follow-
The
century, vizwritings of the next
Place, Chipping
High Street, Sow Lane, the Chipping or Market
Church
Hawe
Lane, and
Street,
Lane, Bradley Street,
Sym Lane (or Seam Lane,) the edge of the Borough. There has
been
alteration
no
and
Saxon
near
the
than
the
The
"
;
rest
of the
Haven
out
Merlin's
Culverhay
years
in
hills in
In
12th
Haren
"
is
cot
being formerly
signifying
word
"Merlin's
Haven," which
bleak, woody hill,probably
a
of
kind
a
a
Culver,"''1
pigeon,
Welsh
a
dated
hawk,
Wales,
a
Aug.
while
state
re
Merlin
hence
its
name
rank
of semi
Jacobi
madness,
a
field
Ogilvie.
f
"
H(pg
"
Chaucer.
573
called
"
was
name
had
about
wandered
mentioned, (Gentleman's Magazine.)
*
have
others
the
legendary court
forty years among
deed
pigeon
was
ago
"
of
no
days of Harold
person
without
his hawk, a gift of two
Norway hawks
John
the
welcome
a
: but
present by King
Arthur
be
of Arthurian
Haven," may
origin as
"; in
his
a
from
from
or
Merlin,"
"
the
Haven"
"
streets, but
of the
names
Cloud,"
"Merlin
hundred
considered
"
as
a
Merlin's
stirred
"
Hoeg,"f a hedge,
church
bank."
more
"
"
the
in the
added, such
been
"a
in
appear
names
Bear
"
for
A.IX
Mare
Lane
"
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
"
or
Borough
"
or
market
Lane."
and
of
"10
yearly.
lu
the
time
provide
of
himself
"
the
Butt-
Kdward
IV.
with
bow
the
"
or
(freene
The
"
of
borough : the Chipping,
Stoning- Cheping," with the
('hoping" pay a gTouiid rental
formerly an archery ground,
edge
Cheping,"
Stone
house
another
"
was
every
of his
Knglishman
was
ordered
and
butts
to
were
height,
to
township, for the inhabitants
shoot
feast
at on
boy does not love to hear of
Hood"
would
"Robin
and all his exploits; every
tree
supply
and
bow
the entrails
furnished
of beasts
a
a
arrows,
string,and
thus
of destruction, none
the
was
procured a rude instrument
less deadly because
simple.
Charles
I. had
a
garrison in Wotton, consisting
temporary
of a regiment
of horse
driven
(according to Corbet), who were
of
the
the
under
Colonel
town
out
by
Parliamentary Party
of
six
tin; loss
killed, twelve
Massey, and
having suffered
directed
to
be
a
own
in every
days. Wliat
put up
so
escaped to Bristol.
prisoners the vest
for
the
King by eight hundred
men,
garrisoned
hundred
with
Backhouse
horse
two
Captain
l.y
made
It
and
and
was
again
5^-*^*
attacked
dragoon.-..
"
"
-
0
'
WOTTOX-UXDER-EDGE.
the
latter
Carolus
"
shown
I."
in
forced
being
sketch
in
found
was
in
godly Martyrs
\^
died
They
in them
in
; that
conscience
is
Old
the
it is
being
highly probable
and
of
To
sing.
time
in
between
of the
he
when
and
1701
"
PAYD
Booke
THE
MAJESTIE
DRANKE
[The
and
the
AT
of
"
became
subject
The
present
the
1703
TRUMPETTERS
AT
(CHARLES
II.) 10s.
PROCLAYMING
THE
clothing trade
TO
M.A.,
was
also
at
who
AVut-
serious
to
impressions.
worship was
place of
stood
1701
where
and
the
following entry, 1660,
BUBB
MAJESTIE
woollen
carried
KINGES
THE
JAMES
KlNGES
formerly
were
the
and
sermons
School
PROCLAYMING
PAYD
time
in
were
cottages which
is the
that
at
who
Grammar
Free
Accbmpts"
manufactures
a
Martyrs.)
spot in
martyrdom took place.
no
regular History has
stands
were
purchased
present Chapel now
in 1703.
Trustees
to
conveyed
present Chapel was
a
work
blotted
A
the
In
woman.
Lord
the
of
godly Society
a
was
(Ancient Manuscript.)
erected
a
life with
1662, particularlyas
"
Master
joined himself
ton
and
assembling together to pray and repeat
this society the Rcvd
Joseph Woodward,
at that
was
the
House
Wotton-
at
in this town
Dissenting Church
originated in the ejectment of the
it
that
previously there
habit
Book
one
oldest
the
Ministers
Nonconformist
fire
Horn
life,and
was
(Foxe's
pointed out where
Town
Meeting
kept, but
been
them
unto
death
was
" )ld Town
Of
death
The
is
gloriouslydid
faith, so
constant
a
and
by
John
viz-
Edge, Gloucestershire,
under-
stamped
town.
9ov
consumed
were
the
garden,
a
--
Two
Coins
retreat.
a
discovered
frequently
are
our
beat
to
on
cloth
very
FUU
"5
and
WINK
5s.
Od.
paper,
extensively,
7
W""TToN-rM"KK-El"";t.
which
the
at
introduced
was
Brands
"
used
were
"
Although
have
years,
fair
in
works
and
about
mile
built
both
pin"
it
is
wire,
straight
to
water
the
pin factory,the
each
wealth
Avon,
past
fifteen
the
bid
it.
of
Mills, between
Xew
and
Mills
Xew
introduced
of
pins
of
the
a
from
:
esting
inter-
piece
a
of
telephone
no
room
score
two
or
hundred
week:
very
papers
machine
been
ture
manufacper
and
pin
a
of
two
had
produced
used,
action
its
which
there
are
are
the
out
panying
accom-
Little
characteristic
so
pin sticking in the
the precincts of the
turning
the
of
the
by
special industry, and
progress
of
with
valley
Lewis's,
power
noise
vine.
formed
away,
once
the
the
within
venture
machines
:
ton
a
Combe
at
Mills,
Langford
Abbey
deal
in
elastic
and
they
largely
years,
over
resided
of the
within
a
vV:
stream
watch
to
culture
their
restored
and
the
which
life
Tubbs
hundred
one
the
the
the1 hill
on
in the
left
and
the
up
steam
could
Messrs
having
about
of
Mills
CharHeld.
and
braids,
for
of looms
restoring
are
Wotton
a
rattle
few
a
terraces
gradually developed
aid
to
The
weavers
and
still
are
the
:
who
weavers,
activity and
have
passed
former
cloth
clack
r!'own
it is believed
the
industrious
there
Old
them
by
Flemish
l"y sonic
of
the
of
pin
minute
per
is
deafening.
The
\\
Market
former
"Stoning
Cheping
is
transferred
now
leaving
now
All
Library,
public meetings
Town
to
Tlua
three
here,
the
Mill
Church
and
useful
is another
ruined
Sewell,
Vicar,
storied
hive
cloth
for
of
a
the
usefulness
and
Reading
Ante
upper
otherwise
building,
mill, and
few
viz:-
space,
large
or
room.
;
this
from
was
whence
with
is
room
on
tion
applicaly
former-
\\a"
purchased by
hundreds,
thie
Mas
especiallyif connected
local
Kntertainmeut
any
caretaker.
ket
mar-
market
weekly
Chamber
while
for
disused
Henry
this
weekly
cattle sale:
pillars of stoneworjc
with
occupy
Council
or
"Greene
the
the
fortnightly
the
held
but
"
where
Property etc.,
Trust
available
are
called
plot
Fair
supported
rooms
the
"
'
CharHeld
between,
good
Free
by
yearly
the
to
space
some
and
room
a
open
of
foundation
the
upon
in the
Stone
Cheping
the
lately was
until
stood
close
is held
where
is built
which
House,
Cheping"
"
Townhall
held,
Hall
Town
otton
the
into
converted
the
lievd
hum
of
8
\VOTT()\--VN1)EH-EDGE.
many
happy
Boys'
Church
voices
Newspapers
is
tables, smoking
obtained.
maybe
Girls'
for
teas
and
"
had
and
Pitman
of
but
in
Church
Houses,
above
seen
The
the
PERRII
of
with
a
social
"
only
not
much
so
present day.
He
the
may
Knighted
Woolpack'" still
Hugh Perry's Alms
the
entrance
to
his
Mankind.
of
are
paper
news-
reported by
as
contributed
the
tor
inven-
the
as
tribute,
speech
a
has
the
over
to
"
following words-
GRATIA
"
OF
"
AXD
"
"
HVG-I1
ALDERMAN
"
"
TOWNE
"
WAS
"
LONDON
-
FYXDA
"
FOYNDER
'
THIS
:
of Wotton
ESQYIHE
"
"
"
classes
is known
Benefactors
arms
Street
he
reporting of
of the
one
WHICH
IN
a
Wotton-under-Edge,
in
laid under
which
DEO
CITIT
furnished
sewing
"
lived
reader
of the
1894.
May,
supplied
with
"
is also
held
Street
has
every
general accuracy
be regarded as
in
and
Shorthand,
of
system
of
of
use
and
formerly
Phonography
men,
payment
iard
bagatelle and billhaving
allowed
but no
betting, coffee or cocoa
is used
Top Room
Story or
upper
the
in Orchard
house
a
grand
on
amusements.
many
Isaac
Sir
and
admitted,
are
Sunday School
meetings are
piano ; here
grand
of the
"
The
Church
consists
platform
Institute, where
floor,Church
etc., besides
raised
with
quarterly, members
sum
first floor
the
"
School
Sunday
piano ; second
small
outpours
WHO
"
WAS
"
AND
"
"
'
OF
"
THE
BORNE
BESIDES
"
"
THIS
"
"
GY1FT
FOR
'
"
GAVE
THE
"
"
GOOD
ANNO
Wotton-under-Edge
1864, Elizabeth
Hill
MANY
"
"
"
DOMINY
is famous
of the
O*
Alms
GOOD
"
THIS
"
for its
House
GY1FTS
"
'
TOWNE
"
*
163s
longevity. In August,
passed away, she
known
Nurse
as
reached
of
tlie age
Mrs
sew,
and
104
was
100, with
faculties-
all her
and
Hill
a
"
Gardiner
the
Long
April, 1892, retained
bright specimen of holy waiting,
MAXOR
THK
Manor
This
of
the
it recorded
of
I'mime
in
fifteen
he
the
daughter of
daughter
of
Gerard
and
was
a
1.01.
aged
lordship of Berkeley.
there
no
are
particulars
but
"
than
that
there
till
Berkeley,
Thomas
Lord
AVarreu,
In
"
are
ley
Roger de Berkethe
Conqueror, and
land."
the
death
married
Lisle," by
of
garet,"
Mar-
"
his
wife
Lord
Tyes, with whom
garet
a
Thomas,
Berkeley and Margreat estate.
very
his
wife
in Wottton-under-Edge
buried
Church,
were
who
married
Richard
6, leaving an only daughter, Elizabeth,
and
heir
of
Henry,
Lord
had
1 41
Earl
Beauchamp,
of the
estate
of
100th
great
This
Berkeley.
"
her
at
faculties
of William
Manor
read
KSTATKS.
yard
a
reign
the
Lord
"
Alice
"
of the
half
and
with
fourth
Thomas,
died
survey,
Book
Doomsday
it in
descended
it
she
general
"
hides
possessed
her
OTHKU
member
a
was
time
the
at
AM)
all
ed
retain-
could
she
Street, Wotton,
10th
year
she
sight
death
her
husband
her
age,
of
exception
before
year
of
of
oars
y
James,
heir
Warwick
of
Berkeley
;
family,
brother
younger
to
she
heiress
was
Lord
James,
but
to
whole
Berkeley,
Berkeley,
Lord
Thomas,
the
descended
heir
son
was
male
by
husband,
rightful heir ; but Elizabeth's
Eai'l of Warwick,
of his
being in Berkeley Castle at the death
wife's father, seized
all deeds
and
the
writings that concerned
thus
Berkeley, to
estate,
making it difficult for James, Lord
died
his title. Richard
leaving three daughBeauchamp
prove
wife
co-heiresses.
to John,
Margaret," the eldest, was
tcrs,
mate, and
only,
James
as
was
Berkeley
the
estate
the
"
Karl
of
created
their
Shrewsbury,
"Viscount
Viscount
in
in
House
Lisle."
pretensions against
Talbot,
Green
and
"
a
the
by
fatal
Lisle,
battle.
Borough
the
church.
their
"
sou,
He,
with
the
Lords
son
of
There
of
John,
prosecuted
and
Berkeley,
lost his
tinder-Edge
are
afterwards
was
descendants,
Talbot,
Thomas
of Wotton-
his
John,"
life
Viscount
in"Manor
still remains
of
Thomas
Nibley
at
Lisle,
or
his
sided
re-
Lisle
Lord-
to
WOTTON-ITNDER-EDGE.
ship's House
the
or
gate
the
to
; the
the
passages
Church
"Portico."
passages
"Cloud"
the
was
still bears
carriage
the
Very recently, the
in Lisle
leading
under
House
the
were
"Cloud"
name
of
.Keep
dungeons
blocked
was
up
and
entrance,
"
:
Gate
"
and
ranean
subter-
one
of these
discovered
in
an
the occupants
the fireplace,
using it
outlying cottage, behind
as
a- receptacle for
wood, coal, etc., the cottage being pulled
down
about
It is traditionary that these
1883.
were
passages
mounted
in
full
on
sufficiently
armour,
lofty to enable knights
their
in
enemies
dark
their
from
shelter
steeds,
to
prancing
WOTTOX-UXDEK-EDGE.
and
recesses,
disappearing
"It
seemed
Had
A
lower
is
note
sweet-scented
a
flower
passed
bower,
last
Berkeley,respecting
Viscount
challenge
ley. wherein
l
suit
he
he
a
desired
the
by
surrounding
in
the
old-fashioned
an
Lisle
settlement
him
sword.
of
Lord
he
1
time
a
Lord
which
William
\{J'l years' lawsuit.
-ixtli
and
Lisle's
letters
and
William,
to
h'\
to
curious
some
Viscount
the
sent
birth.''
Avail
rampart
from
extracts
the
Lisle
h
cart
warlike
garden.
arc
between
mother
u\" her
remaining
shady simmuT
following
The
if their
a"
allowed
s\\
tlu-
on
courtyard
11
Lord
I.erke-
place for
challenge
deciding
commence-
thue
William,
""
other
hod;
lo
(
ye
li'di nance,
it down
for
nye,
nation
To
J
Thou
there
to
The
the
.
.
not
I So
(iuimes,
Manor
of
nede
to
men
of
English
and
not
(iod
), by
"
of
\\cj-
\Yotlon
come
uiy
",
,
o\vn
false
a
to
morrow
fail
not
to
i-nsiied.
Nihley
1 oO
a
I in
valuables
House,
to
I'M rkeley laid
in
and
Berkeley
out
"100
curried
Castle.
(Avhich
repairinghis house
of
and
Defence
true
a
.
.
and
Castle
My
einht
(ireeneat
about.
being
an
f'ori^tei-
or
men.
Lord
lit't(Avliile
arroAV
from
1.000
slain:
])eau
having poured from tliere to assist
victorious Lord Berkeley .then hastened
Lisle
.
Day,
"
men
with
a
Quarrels,
our
ther
1.470. with
'
and
all
and
Quarrel
mouth
\\ ill.
Black
appoint
Hands
lie at
mete
2Uth.
March
strmi^e
in
continued
t'ountrys,
\Votton
of
t\vo
"
long
not
1 should
hat
our
answer:
Lisle,
our
t
and
in
to.
1 will
on
returneil
miners
The
-inn
of
my
shall
ye
]\Iy .Manor
hetwene
enira.u'emc'iit
vi/or
rude
)
kniirhtlKXxl
of
fatallysliot in the
Avas
rifled
to
with
Viscount
.
jiartiesmet
his
ealh-d
.
Clock,
furious
iug
home
tiling, hrou^ht
hetwixf
Fail
""f the
Lisle
Carls
your
mine,
will,
you
Herkeley
Foi-thouari
.
A
try
,,f rjolif.
ne
all
to
nere
you
Lord
found
Title.
.
n\
I let
mete
otherwise
now
a
me
reejuirest
iii the
mydway
thce
Title
TO
willi
forward
set
ye
Head
challenge
Talbot,
licrkelev,
and
that
JMV
forth
not
come
to
hut
name,
mete
ISerkeley,
"
this
where
ii]HHi
(iod
trust
"Thomas
that
Lord
I merveille
"
with
railed
Lord
to
Forest,
ley.
Berke-
Wotton,
deeds, furniture, and
away
In
Edward
Ill's reign Lord
was
in A Volt
then
on.
considered
During
the
a
great
conteu-
12
WOTTON-UXDEK-EDGE.
tions
House
:
and
sawed, hewed
razed
windows,
carried
Lady Ann
Henry VII
expense
Berkeley in
gates
in two
and
James, Lord-Berkeley
aud
the
doors
timber
vaults, tore
of
4,000
in
marks
preparing for
the
ten
Castle
; and
this seat
which
had
been
"
a
roof
iron
from
and
the
pipes, and
repairs. At last,
days visit of King-
Berkeley Castle, pulled down the
the roof of the great
assist in making
to
of the
the
to
House
Manor
the
of
leaden
hinges, gutters,
away
an
Lisles
the
cut
walls
the
galleries
;
occasioned
and
castle,brake
his
from
came
Berkeley*
of the
Queen
hall at Wottou
kitchen
of
House*
the
at
"
to
John
family for 280 years, wholly perished, and when
Staunton
purchased the fee-farm of the site from Henry Lord
dug
Berkeley, gilded bricks, stones and pieces of timber were
James
Court
ard"
OrchI, (Smythe's MSS.)
up in the reign of
of
allotments
the
Manor
were
part
garden
grounds, the
word
"court"
The
House
restored
was
signifyingsuch.
on
in the Jacobean
the old foundations
and
of
architecture,
style
is now,
in a good state of preservation, anpl to those who
love
memories
the quaintness and
of olden times
besides
a
fortable
comhome
is a very interestingplace.
the
"
HISTORY
PARISH
OF
CHURCH
THE
OF
OF
ADVOWSON
S.
MARY
THE
THE
VIRGIN,
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
Church
of WottonVicarage and Rectory of the mother
chapels of Symondsall
under-Edge together with her two
and
Nuns
of
and
Nibley belonged originallyto the Abbess
the Confessor, (A.D. 1042
Berkeley until the time of Edward
it passed to Earl Godwin
and his sou
thence
to 1066) and
King
until the Conquest 1066
from
which
time it passed to
Harold
and to Roger de Berkeley of Dursley and
his descendants,
the Crown
The
who
held
the
same
in fee-farm
rent
with
the
great
Berkeley under the two Williams, Henry I and part
of the reign of Stephen ; at which
time it was
given with that
ing
Manor
to Robert
Fitzhardiuge and his heirs, upon whose foundthe
to the
Monasteiy of S. Augustine, Bristol, it came
Manor
of
WOTTON-UNIfrER-EIXJE.
Abbot
and
Convent
gift, together
A.]).
is
with
from
1172)
Abbot
the
serving
Wotton-under-
so
it
to
seems
inund
then
the
granted
his
and
son
IA.D.
1:507
Berkeley
and
to
who
left it
issue
the
to
17th
till the
:
7th
King
all
and
the
heirs:
and
family of
of Berkeley
Henry
of
together
19th
and
to
Maurice
the
1~"04.
brother
Lord
Church
with
their
year
March.
Kd-
Monastery
William, Marquis
the
of
thereof
through
in the
his
churches
this
of
Berkeley,
it descended
so
to
when
that
of
heir
to
Xibley, and
continued
appurtenances
Lord
Thomas,
On
and
Edge
have
Advowson
and
rights
1492
dying without
Manor' of Wotton.
said
Wotton-under-Edge
of
was,
sustentation
in the
Abbot
cester,
Wor-
of
subject
honest
in
Kdward
his
ches
Chur-
it then
Convent,
the
Vicars
:J5tli
b\
other
Bishop
diocese
and
rights, and
the
the
grant of Appropriatum (circa
a
in whose
the
all
Manor
of the
There
thereof
VII
with
the
of
year
heir
to
Berkeley,
Henry V I I
from
the
Advowson
Crown,
the
recovered
on
a
petition
Marquis
him
the
of
Tewkesto
It
of right.
Monastery
was
conveyed by
and
the
endowed
it
who
position
Vicarage by a comappropriated
bury
of Henry VIII
1540. this Monastery
olst year
: in the
Maurice
the
.
dissolved
was
Letters
by
Chapter
of the
and
seven
Patent
years
dated
Cathedral
later
Dec.
the
llth, 1547,
of
Church
King
Christ
Church
the
gave
to
son
Advow-
Dean
the
in Oxford
and
by
the
Wotton-under-Kdge
Rectory and
thereof."
with all the rights and appurtenances
(Berkeley MSB.)
the
S.
dedicated
to
is
Church
Mary
Virgin and stands
The
and
it is a handsome
in the tything of Simvell.
spacious edifice
of
name
all that
of
: it has
a
pinnacledtower
loftybattlemented
south
south' aisles, chancel, tower,
porch, and
with
a
and
the
"
north
The
nave,
north
chapel
on
side.
present
Church
was
erected
in the
l-'Uh century,
remains
1")
WoTToN-r.N'DKK-KIXiE.
of
all the
nearly
then
church
which
the
was
by
to,
change
took
affected
no
the
of
induced
the
:
say
of
erection
insertion
the
have
can
IIOAV
The
century.
existed
Screens
well
as
At
windows.
nave
such
as
character
arch
and
1882
dimensions
by
refloored
and
1883
the
the
addition
wall
of
refloored
and
a
and
prayer
who
have
the
to
open
nave
"
reseated,
almost
Cathedral
praise,and
laboured
right therein,
Paintingsof
that
now
in
History
present
fine
the
south
it
is^
now
original
nave
end
dows,
win-
cel
chan-
the
the
the
debased
its
to
of
seats
and
a
arch,
tower
and
oaken
where
west
oak.
and
1838
screen,
of
in most
saving
:
lOtli
north
roofs
new
the
century
old
restored
galleriesat
1890
19th
high
windows
the
north
Churched
positionto
was
the
in
the
the
may
place flat
they were
painted glass
were
and
was
moved,
re-
ern
west-
remaining portion was
Wotton-under-Edge
possesses
always for
open
appearance,
GOD
the
may
bless
the
efforts
gain such, giving rich and
of many
a
worshipper.
prayer
to
is the
S.
of the
view
in
remove
across
; and
erected
were
of the
and
why
the
to biiild
era
and
its old
the
to
of the
chancel
reseated,
throwing
Church
from
removed
was
now
Architecture
the
to
great
but
itself
church
of the
end
east
removed
there
A
early part of
undoubtedly
and
screens
clerestory,
are
again
was
present,
lamented
arch,
the
were
this
building, as
commencement
aisles
and
whole
chancel, and
the
roofs, the
oak
of the
}n
of the
as
church
stages of
century.
of the
place
fittings were
at
lower
and
century
be
chancel
altars
of
perfect edifice,to
two
l("th
in the
and
the
at
aisles,and
aisles
old
roofs
of the
windows,
clerestories,to
to
took
sills
erect
the
over
much
Church, which
of the
south
lead
third, and
the
priorto
the
with
and
and
and
pitched early English
Perpendicular style,to
covered
way
door-
clerestorywindows.
in the
15th
in the
roofs
the
possibly the desire to obtain more
the nave
arcades,
a
clerestory over
of the
roofs
roofs
the
in the
larger windows
men
window
ornament)
erection
the
the
no
century
stages
more
were
complete
14th
the
place after
light caused
and
two
one
there
a
nave,
; the
tower
(ball flower
tower
present
the
and
of the
window,
east
doubt,
no
added, in
was
added
and
church
high pitched
were
The
aisle,the
south
the
arcades
the
early building being
of this
Christopherand
other
poor
of those
equal
Saints, formerly adorn-
17
WOTTOX-rNDER-EDGE.
ed
the
the
wall.
western
the
('Impel on
tiles with
caicd
her
wheel
Virgin Mary.
in
a
north
Parish
"good
seribed
guinea
(Itevd
of
by
All
in
from
the
bachelors
its
The
to
dedi-
one
"
the
Blessed
Magazine)
1571
year
of the
erection, it
floor
one
Parish
chantries,
S. Katherine,
to
the
Saints, and
preservation"
several
towards
between
II. Sewell
registers date
state
for
to
several
dedicated
was
found
one
formerly
were
side
were*
S. Nicholafr"
1o
The
There
A.I), and
present font
was
parish, who
each
arc
sub-
paid
S.
formerly placed
(Catherine's
but
now
('haj)el,
occupies its present place in the
Tower
thence
western
or
entrance,
being removed
by subscriptions
collected
by the Sunday School children of the Parish.
The
of grey
tomb
marble
with
two
large handsome
figures
is
in
brass
of Thomas, fourth Lord
on
plates,
engraven
memory
and
his
wife, sole heiress of Gerard
Lady Margaret,
Berkeley,
a
Lord
Warren,
of
Thomas
Lisle
Lord
of the
"
he died
Berkeley
period wTith
141
in
was
7
she
"
represents
the
The
1392.
knight
in the
Brass
usual
long pendant ; the sword
its
originally rested upon
unfortunately is gone : the head
remarkable
heaunie.
The
most
maids,
peculiarityis a collar of merIn
garet
the effigyof Lady Marprobably a family badge.
hair
is
confined
with
forehead
and
the
the
worn
over
only
called a crestine or crespine,a small
gold and silver net-work
and
kerchief
is pinned at the top of the head
falls behind:
the
of the figure must
round
the head
ornamental
work
not
seen
be confounded
with
the head-dress, the head
resting on a piece
and
with
of cloth adorned
stretched
an
diagonally over
sprays,
cushion
embroidered
having a tassel at each corner, at her feet
This
is a lap-dog with
Lord Berkecollar of bells.
Thomas
ley
a
Lord
Lisle
of
in 41st
contracted
to Margaret daughter
was
III and
of Kdward
of her tender
she was
by reason
age
year
it was
old
only then about
arranged that she
seven
years
armour
belt
died
and
a
"
"
should
remain
with
happening in
the
her
father
for four
family, they
were
but
ness
sickyears:
in the Novemmarried
ber
more
was
so
followingrftie
devotedly attached to her, and was
a
on
pilgrimage and never
by her death, that he went
38
the
he
married
time of her death,
at
was
again though
only
The brasses
at the time
of
are
supposed to have been executed
he was
her
to his
known
decease, and
only the date added
affected
"
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
18
effigies
is no
inscriptionon the
Archaeological Society)
Magnificent" the
formerly richly jewelled, there
the
"Thomas
as
were
Altar
(B.
tomb.
Bound
the
figure of
G.
and
of
verge
a
man
a
(supposed
a
upon
the
to be
of
fingers
"
both
had
flat stone, which
plate fixed upon it now
marble
grey
brass
tomb)
founder's
torn
off
Loin-
in
lines
these
are
the
Characters, 1329.
bardic
in hac
Satus
"
villa,cognomine dicttts ab
ilh'i,
sibi xif
Qui Rector fuit hie, opium iw/nauj
;
coelica
cui
Wottond
dona,
It. de
jacithie,
riryo Maria.
Jmpretret ipsa pia pntckemma
A/nen."
Translation.
this
In
de
lies E.
Here
town
suited
Well
to
who
"Wottou
which
from
such
an
In
name
et
a
name
loving and
heavenly
gifts.
of the
centre
"
most
him
for
born
here,
thou
-iniJiivirgopia, Dux
"V
"
the
his
Do
one"
obtain
Virgin Mary
Gracious
Eector
was
took
he
most
Amen.
stone.
Lux,
Sancta
Maria."
Translation.
Holy
This
a
loving Virgin
of
It
cross.
a
scroll issuing from
of which
of
one
every
the oldest
only
the
THE
This
is
a
mural
Guide
de
Wotton
of the
and
in the
Light.
Rector
kneeling
the peculiarity
of having
figure,with an inscription
separatelyinlaid
was
brasses
my
exhibited
the hands
letter
and
gone
be
represented Richard
Brass
foot
the
at
Mary
with
county, but
brass
alas ! the
; this
brass
is
is
impression remains.
TASWELL
one,
with
marble, in front of which, and
MONUMENT.
a
high pyramidal
surmounting
the
back
tablet
of coloured
is
a
small
exquisitelysculpturedstatue in white marble, representing the
in a pensive attitude
Hymen
leaning on an urn, and
On
the base the sculptor'sname
holding an inverted torch.
God
"
"
19
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
rum
with
this
figure,is,
its way
from
Rome
to the place of its destination,
that when
on
and that
taken
the ship which
by a privateer,
conveyed it,was
thus, finding its way to England, and coming into the possession
it was
deceased
at an
of the family of the
opportune moment,
in question. Hence
the monument
utilised by being placed on
of Hymen
the incongruity of a statue
ment
forming part of a monuof
deceased
the
to
a
erected
clergyman. The
memory
Vicar
of this parish,
Taswell
William
Revd
was
many
years
This monument
buried August 8th, 1 775.
was
and was
formerly
etc.
the
at
the
East
South
These
Thomas
The
recorded.
are
follow
Grail who
"
One
June
I lov'tl in
Dentli
For
but
has
been
now
Inscriptionto the
5th,1669, aged 61.
Interr'd
underneath
that
Physick
Latin
a
died
Here
connected
placed
over
interior.
door
Porch
lines
Church
of the
end
legend
bids
Thee
prepare
Paths
to
upright
my
in too
Physick
Practice
strong
and
of
lie
doth
die
to
go
memory
"
but
loe,
was,
for any
man,
Physitian."
(B. and
Of.
Archaeological
Society)
20
WOTTOX-UXDER-EDGE.
Over
Entrance
door
the
at
Porch
South
the
from
being
Priest's
a
Church
is where
left hand,
the
is
the
the
Chamber,
door
the
of
side, the
right-hand
c'hapel'formerly stood, only
at
a
doorway remaining.
ORGAN.
THE
.
After
to
this
Father
the
at
country
Smith, with
Schneider,
business, and
of the
his
of
appointed
was
Government,
Germany,
in
his
that time
for the
chosen
was
tired
of
this noble
gift,
of
S. Mary
'
Parish
the
year
which
organ,
stands
now
Dr
It is difficult to
S. Martin's-in-the-Fields
of
Schneider,
the
the
of
His
came
it
Majesty
S.
parishof
three
church
as
at
Martin,
months
farewell
a
parishchurch
small
understand
to
S.
for
paid
sum
in the
I.
was
church
Tattersall,vicar, for the
1800.
the
George
Virgin, Wotton-under-Edge, having
Rev.
the
by
in the
"200
old
the
to
lishment,
estabto
King
office,in
the
becoming
time, resigning his post, presented
Smith's
by
guineas.
churchwarden
etc., etc., but
bought
to
first organs
of importance, built
by His Majesty George I to
1726;
other
succeeded
builder
presented
Martin's-in-the-Fields,London, in
thousand
five hundred
being one
the
^Christopher
Father
master,
organ
came
named
one
France.
from
son
builders
organ
from
workman
death
the
upon
of the
nephews
German
clever
a
eminent
two
request
two
with
Harrison
Thomas
One
Rebellion
Great
the
been
of
sum
how
with
part
the
this
old
considered
instrument, and that it was
a
very
fine one, there is ample evidence, for Handel
was
engaged to
the
it,and was
so
delighted with it,that he attended
open
magnificent
himself
:
regularly,and often played the voluntaries
it is also surprisingthat the parish of S. Martin's
should
part
with
their royal'gift,especially
it
bears
still
as
a
panel
upon
His
the following inscription, THE
SACRED
GIFT
MOST
OF
church
"
MAJESTY
Schneider
the
price
KING
completed
of
1726."
GEORGE,
one
one
for
thousand
After
Westminster
pounds
'
*
Mr
building
Watts.
;
Abbey,
therefore
this
in
the
organ,
1730,
Wotton-
at
22
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
should
the
the
of
sins
chancel
Esq., by
world."*
the
building.
John
Colonel
Blagdon
takest
memory
the
is to the
memory
his
of
wife
other
Court, erected by their daughter Jane, and
of our
Blessed
The
subject represents the Ascension
The
Esq.,
parish
don
to
to
in
panelled
shelf.
in
church
the
Abingdon,
The
Church.
exists
chandelier
rich brass
of
bells, which
were
chime
three
by
the
HANOVER,
publish
IN
IN
THE
your
His
abroad
SCALE
SCALE
THE
favourite
of GOD
servants
Rudhall
OF
over
"
Master
by
H.
Sewell
Handel
;
"
they
over,"
Han-
Name."
A.
4
in Parish
Magazine.
EXTRA
-
*Bev.
high mantel
peal of eight
proclaim,
wonderful
A.
OF
a
still
staircase,
Gloucester
of
tune
the
Moore
the
carries
Church
Moore,
from
balustraded
painted panel
"
Lord.
offeringto Abing-
Madame
and
oaken
an
Wotton
hours
And
BELLS
oil
re-cast
Ye
siiniliar
a
relations.
removal
his
on
made
of William
house
tower
"
also
he
with
rooms,
every
1763,
; it contains
Wotton
The
and
of
Bradley
William
presented by
was
over
Anthony Adey,
portion of the
eastern
Jane
and
Hale
away
window
of
in Tower
window
The
sacred
in
there
beautifying
widow,
GrOD, that
three-mullioned
The
placed
was
his
of
Lamb
"
the
offer to
always
BELLS
REQUIRED.
23
WOTTON-UNDEll-EDGE.
The
scale
the
bells
eight
of
with
them,
the
the
Compare
that
seen
the scale
instead
of its proper
out
at
chimed,
present
the
bells
except
-"8i=pi=;
the
theoretical
*G
note
planation
ex-
organist.
it will be
; therefore
the
on
"
natural
in order
first note
throws
following gives
the
the
which
of
tune
tune
is
to
not
as
in
-
the
is
there
no
~=
HP
-J-
4"
"Compare
that
The
on
scale, and
makeshift
"
well
late
begin
must
in
of A.
scale
-
useless
be
to
very
for the
of the
are
tune
sounds
Partridge,the
notes
of A.
scale
"
note,
one
fifth,this
of the
being, supposed
Hanover
of
the
bells, the
these
employ
with
lower
four
the
time
to Mr
indebted
tune
the
old
"
exception
are
we
for
are
A," and
"
with
notes
G
natural
~
J-Q
""
-
J---
scale
the
on
the
"
-
of
A, and it will be seen
bells, G sharp being used
instead.
There
is
Bells, they
bells
the
a
certain
serve
carried
in
value
as
facts
nothing
regard to inscriptionson Church
belonging to past ages, sometimes
but
the
founder's
the
name
and
5
following
Wotton-under-Edge
will
us
we
ring,
sweetly sing.
you
and good neighbourhood.
Peace
of England.
Prosperity to the Church
Prosperity to our Benefactors.
all cast
We
at Gloucester
were
by Abel Rudhall,
C
Revd
bear
of
ours
1
2
3
4
date,
mottoes.
When
Mr
William
Taswell, Vicar.
17oC.
24
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
7
Through
8
I
Agustin
Church
the
to
the
living call,
The
of Rudhall
family
who
bear
the
to
England
I
grave
In
their
use
old
an
of
and
"
Clock, ringing the
Bell, and
casting the Church
dated
and
"6
5s."
Mrs
lived
who
Anne,
Queen
the
Page
ascended
parapet,
fortunately caught
headed
gargoyle a
mid
lowered
air.
A
and
the
Sundials
but
their
with
a
noose
Churcl^ Porches
on
terse
of
mottoes
are
warning
to
enter
Churchyard
go
forth
beyond
and
on
the
the
one
motto,
be
may
may
world
:
it any
of Time
may
and
the
over
lion-
the
there
of mind
into
hung
this
procured,
too
of
however
was
and
up
reign
leaning
she
summit,
was
sufficient
the
tower
for
much
on
but
regarded
is
a
the
tomb.
simply
sacred
cherish
and
sweet
wings
the
with
of
ecclesiastical
and
invitation
The
Tower,
not
to
has
about
was
as
neither
Street
the
tranquil serenity put
their
propriety, adding
doubt
disbursements,
;
the
nerves.
air of
general
below
Bristol,
lead, forty waights,
victim, had
presence
drawn
her, and was
fainted, the reaction
was
place
rope
immediately
from
other
poor
round
the
overstrained
to
quilted petticoat upon
feet
rope
ing
Keepentry
Clock, new-
and
fell over,
and
her
few
dorse,
fully en-
"
the
for
divers
Church
balance
by
him
Bell,
in Church
the
lost her
is this
1666,
carrying
Clapper of ye
mendynge
ye
Clock
line for ye
and
'new
a
A
of
promote,
Bell, mendynge
the
for
to
Church
the
all will
which
motto
perity
Pros-
good neighbourhood."
Booke
"
account
or
lishmen
Engnearly
"
May
"
endeavours
best
Peace
the
of
people,
following,
the
as
England,"
class
State
and
good
epigraphs
flourish," also
"
she
the-
to
of that
been
Church
such
Church
ever
and
have
must
called
were
bells
all their
to
and
all.
summon
in
Dancy, Churchwardens.
Phill
and
features,
and
incentive,
their
of the
question any
genial though mute
South
porch is not old,
out
a
as
reminder
of the
ing
pass-
interest.
holy spot,
where
and
memories,
faith, look upward
affection
whence
to
a
templation
con-
brighter
25
WOTTOX-rxnER-EDGE.
BENEFACTIONS
OF
YTOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
Katharine, daughter of Sir
widow
who
in
Sir Peter
of
died
bears
School,
endowed
a
leaving her
138"), which
Grammar
it with
scheme
new
foundation
Head
is
No
remain
may
than
in
value
nor
think
fit,at
them.
The
school
a
land.
and
houses
of the
In
above
1885
mentioned
under
until
than
six
the
of
age
United
in the
University
some
exhibition
an
ley,
Berke-
by
Charity Commissioners.
boarding school for boys, the
out
day
Governors,
the
given by
:
Lord'
founded
she
and
the
and
more
Also
2nd
administration
Scholarships,to
of "6.
Thomas,
Charfield,
Katharine, Lady Berkeley's
the
Richard
Second, and
of
year,
specialcases
"60,
Foundation
a
graduate of
boy is admitted
a
Kingdom.
a
a
of
drawn
now
of
widow
reign
marks
was
Cliveden
married
name
the
for the
Master
less
in
John
again
the
40
school
school
The
le Yeel.
8 years,
and
A
of not
yearly sum
is given in maintaining
"100
ten
or
boys, each of the yearly
is
of "50
of the yearly value
19.
tenable
conditions
such
on
they
as
education, approved by
place of advanced
any
following subjects are taught in the school, with
branches, Latin, Mathematics, at least one
ing,
modern
Science, DrawForeign European Language, Natural
additional
fee of not
Music
at an
Drill, and Vocal
; Greek
in all
Kuglish
less
than
"3
Christian
a
'
the
the
the
admiration
the
nineteenth
of the
now
native
Church
for
five
Wotton
blue
blue
the
comfortable
"
Thirty boys
picturesque
Charity
oldest
endowed
an
costume.
breeches,
a
the
coat,
bigger
century
Street,
infirm
abounds
School,"
brass
with
buttons,
yellow
; but
same
the
band
in
old
1G38.
men
in
Charity
leathern
the
and
the
"
boss,"
small
jTmighPerry, Esquire,Alderman
place, built
from
called
so
ation
boys, but the detestof
jeered at by the fashionables
of
is
the
The
this
a
past.
thing
and
number
of boys in warm
when
clothingthe
of this
with
the
yearly from
received
cap
delight of
ones,
Coat
Blue
woollen
and
suits.
boy, and
School
This
be
is also
principlesof the
missioners
is reported by the Charity Comin the
school
endowed
kingdom.
for each
year
Faith.
to
I There
its
the
The
and
charities.
Alms
Bearpacker
five
old
infirm
There
and
Houses
are
Alms
women
Alms
of
London,
Chapel
Houses
in
are
; in
fact
Houses
for
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
forty-eight
also
and
charities
other
amounting to about
cluding
pounds yearly, not in-
hundred
twelve
families,
or
persons
Warwick
Hospital Charity,
founded
which
was
by Robert
Dudley,
of the
of Leicester, (a descendant
Earl
Berkeley family),for twelve poor men
the
should
battle, two of which
ess
Countbe from Wotton; andLady Anne
built
Alms
House
at
of Warwick,
an
in
wounded
Cheney, in Buckinghamshire, in
reign, and appointed that
the
with
the
town.
folk should
alms
a
weekly
new
A
still upon
1707 the
"
allowance
Tolsey
"
clock
the
sum
be from
and
"
"
to
this
two
of
parish,
also gave
; she
the
of the
use
quaint bell
Tolsey
of "2
beth's
Eliza-
"
10s.
turret
is
building; in
Cd. was
paid
27
)X-UXDER-EDGE.
WOTT"
and
for
Dragon
the
making
for
copper
and
Pd
guilding Him," also
Woster
about
a jorny from
Mr
Coxe
the
clock
"
for
House, 1686."
1030, Hugh
Perry joined with his
Venn, in
father-in-law, Sir Richard
and
diall
the
over
Gate
In
erecting an aqueduct to
from
a
spring in Edbrooke
Market
Cross.
Bradley,Esqre, gave
A
town."
of
memento
a
Feoffees
the
by
engine
engine
of
the
to
Jubilee
Market
the
of
given as
was
Victoria's
Queen
the
to
Dawes
fire
a
fire
new
field
Thomas
"
water
convey
Lands
1887.
The
Parish
3,276, the
was
andis
acres
about
in
Wotton
of
Population
contains
feet above
500
10,998
Rowland
of Sir Rowland
Hill, son
visited Wottou-under-
1771, and
Market
of
level.
sea
celebrated
The
1894
He
people.
with
the
erected
to
in
great
was
in
Edge
preached
Place
Hill,
so
the
crowds
ed
charm-
vicinitythat
he
house, to which he
The
Tabernacle," in
brought his bride, and a chapel called
situations
that can
of the most
romantic
be
conceived,
one
a
"
and
suitable
very
beauties
of nature
residence.
Wotton,
was
ever
much.
born
man
and
and
he
was
Wesley,
functions
a
it, Sir, this
"
in," strong
however
he
Life
a
he
found
once
Hill).
in
1744, but
the
the
the
county
Bishop
mere
a
as
Hill
a
Diocese.
discharge
and
Mr
was
young
Gloucestershire,
of
of the
sphere for him,
large congregations,and
restricted
drew
by
curate
summer
him
of Rowland
with
picturesque
visit at
a
paid
is the most
paradisaicalspot I
expressionhe did not say too
Shropshire
associated
ordained
preaching;
the
was
in
Hawkestone
too
as
Sydney's
became
Hall
Robert
to the
his favourite
became
Wotton,
famous
said of
exceedingly alive
mind
; and
The
(From
at
to
of his
took
in
some
to
Like
clerical
itinerant
parts of
28
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
"
lines adoptof permanent work
on
ed
country laid foundations
of
He
him.
vaccination, on its
was
a
strong supporter
by
all who
introduction
came
by Dr Jenner, and himself vaccinated
the
From
to him.
would
he
I
say
children
many
as
several Alms
and
rebuilt
gables,balconies
in Old
Day
the
is minus
budding
and
the
washing
many
who
a
laugh
love
their
Druids,
folks
and
at
one
branches
broke
and
Even
VIII
Palace
Samuel
Hill.
Woolwich,
"
Every custom
feelinginto
of rustic
garden
to
thought
on
the
for the
informs
to
us
gather May
dew
valued
to
with
Spring.
time
music
They
their
with
persons
the
as
festivals
therewith
practice,we
the
above
forth
of
return
their
decked
and
sallied
and
people
in his
that
us
;
and
hill and
old
as
heathen
to
tells
the
May Day,
be
are
traced
be
fortunate
young
o'er
ramble
ceremonies
which
observed,
of those
trees, adorned
not
Briton,
been
silverygreen
is likewise
Chaucer
the
was
should
manners,
conies
bal-
garlands.
are
told
by Queen Katharine, from
at Shooter's
disport him
"
"
his wife
that
to
which
sweeten
wash
had
gone
her
face
withal."
to
infuse
tends
and
soften
the
to
poetical
rudeness
without
destroying their simplicity.
of insects, a perfect
in swarms
woods
abound
flinghis net over
entomologist,who may
geous
gor-
butterflies,as
pass
is
welcome
Pepys
hills and
The
house
forth, accompanied
rode
Greenwich
beech, with
can
Flora."
from
have
of
May morning
on
a
expense
the
merry
Day
door-posts,and
Henry
he
May
blowing, to
horn
that
of
in honour
Houses
style; the pointed
pleasantarchitectural
in Wotton
on
May
custom
dew
than
older,for they
"
Hill's Tabernacle
brownsheathed,
the
at
more
of the
many
rose
raised
is
rest
Some
dale.
held
face
There
branches
no
of the
spray
in May Day
a
escape
morning, climbing
knolls, through the hanging
grassy
lovely glens abound,
which
may
the
of the
in search
old
an
as
hills at five in the
the
rocky paths, over
woods,
the
It is
over
Alms
making
to
bring them."
Elizabethan
in
them
Rowland
with
latelythe
woodwork
and
Town.
wander
to
;
wish
will
you
pox,
connected
Houses
Sunday School
fresh
ground
a
on
feature
the small
if you
; and
choose
you
disease
that horrid
are
pulpiton Sunday evenings, after the sermon,
am
morning
ready to vaccinate to-morrow
the
"
entranced
bright
with
as
the
eastern
melody
skies, while
of
the
many
his hours
feathered
30
WOTTOX-UNDER-EDGE.
it
to be seen
shady glen,where
be sought, bending its gracefulpetalsin its glossy leaves ;
must
flowers
of the reeking
lic
GarSolomon's
Seal
and the white
"
the
home
Lily
is in the
"
"
"
often
are
streaked
"
mistaken
Round
flower.
"
"
bed
with
this sweet
sight for
old
gnarled
a
many
Woodbine,"
"
first
at
its
C Asperula Oderata) like a waxen
The
of the wood.
Woodderowffe," as
in the rhyme"
is commemorated
frill
"
authors
Double
"
E
flower
The
0
double
U
0
double
tf double
double
F
itself is scentless, but
it exhales
in
crushed
profusion that
dense
such
nodding hyacinth with
pale,
primroses, whose
mossy
So
way.
the
red
deep
wealth
for
much
leaf and
spring and summer
sunset
gold of
the
of
for
one
like
when
sweetest
bells
flowers
fresh
dry, than
mown
hay,
new
"
are,
step,
blue
it
does
often
to
dark
its
the old
E
D
sooner
no
flowers
the poor
the
E."
a
and
edges
spelt by
pleasant fragrance, resembling
yet partaking of the odour of bitter almonds
crushed,"
pink
flowers, and
shaped
Woodruff"
skirts
the
clings
root
trumpet
scented
they
som
blos-
sacrifices
the
and
clumps
brings
; autumn
bramble
the
the
begem
stars
of
and
a
and
excursions
mulberry- sized blackberries,
many
and
Nuts
be
are
a-nutting,"
a-blackberrying
may
and
the whisking squirrelmakes
fine
a
gathered in handfuls
made
"
larder
"
in
country
of the Wotton
which
the
school
meanwhile.
The
Maid
(Fair
are
meadows
a
many
and
the
twigs ;
empty nut shells
with
kernels
the
with
bestrewn
are
of
"
a
"
"
"
May
the
vie with
the
in
and
in the
found
furiously
Snowdrop
and
(Daffodil),
the
field
moat
by
"
"
"
latter takes
surface
well of water,
of the
caught
in
it
name
water.
a
stone
from
A
"
Acker
(Doro-
Bradley
and
to
"
"
the
"
Bane
July ; while by the water-courses
and golden
Forget-me-nots
Bulrush.
and
slender
stately Iris
of the sedgy reeds
ont
growing by
blue
Mills ; the
rippleon
plant
rare
very
from
streams
a
faggot
a
; while
oak
of hazel
crunching
boys scatter, munching
town
"
Court
Hack
with
old
some
Lenten
February), the
Lily
Leopard's
wine-producing Cowslip," the
nicum),
dart
of
trunk
is heated
oven
streets
the
hollow
the
"
"
mill
Kingcup
Moor
Combe
"
"
fowl
and
meaning
beautifullyclear, rippling
tank
the Grist Mill,
near
WOTTON-UNDEK-EDGE.
31
33
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
has
medicinal
properties,especiallynoted
Eglantine," Clematis,"
and
greenish
dark-green leaves
with
them
hedgerows, suffocating
''
"
eyes.
the
(Ircpot
to
effect, by
wild
colour, leaves
rose
touch
a
in all its
rose,
of
for
or
its
Joy," with
clings to
flowers
white
feathery
berries
colouring;
the
its
the
; its predecessor,
crown
delicate
varieties,from
its scarlet
warmer
strengthening
Traveller's
"
cream
heighten the
from
vices,
sandy creto
while
flourish the vase
light of the summer
shaped
sun,
the yellow
the yellower
Bindweed,"
Geum,"
Crowsfoot,"
the
Vetch," the fairy
Ragged Robin," the various coloured
Foxglove," the clear-toned
Campanula," the mournful
the
Scabious."
its purple bloom,
Periwinkle," and, with
with
The
rare
ferns, and
specimens
shady lanes are luxuriant
be
found.
Flowers
gers,
finand
ferns
to
are
gathered by nimble
bound
into
each
bunch
text
bunches,
bearing a
together
in the
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
card,
words
or
Town
the
of cheer
Hospitals every
ferns, leaves, berries
full may
Miss
that
in
hamper
Nightingale
Florence
enlivens
and
sick
variety of
; the
great
so
to the
sent
Wotton
flowers, is
and
be
can
from
month
procured ; and
nothing so cheers
that
us
comfort,
be
soon
assures
and
the
a
mind
of the
flowers, bright flowers," Flowers
given in the
patientas
from
love and
self-denial,are
spiritof Christian
messengers
GOD
who
has sent
of Him
with
them
the kindness
; they carry
them
His
to
are
creatures, and
fitting types of the glorious
"
resurrection.
Flowers,
"
Minister
delight to man,
beautify the earth."
And
"
That
wher'er
man
Petrifactions
:
fish, and
the
have
been
the
may
see
in
been
a
discovered
of doubt
matter
the
oyster
easilyin
bow
of
stamp
so
GOD."
and
cockle
this
bourhood
neighshell
many
productions of the deep should be intermixed
our
highest hills,it is now
generally believed to
effect of the universal
deluge." To archaeologists
the
"
Roman
or
coney
gore
Hill
attraction,and also on Coombe
"
circles,a
*
the
as
.
.
soil of
large
druidical
.
step
every
substances,
(mol/usca),are
it has
other
with
walks
of marine
shells,ammonites
"
he
Eing
of
Baal
remnant
(?)or
settlement
the
evidentlyof
Molech,
an
altar
"
our
for
Ring
will
ancestor's
human
prove
o' Bells
"
an
triplet
worship.*
sacrifice.-
34
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
The
Societyof
the
mistletoe
them
from
Ditches
"
the
on
in the
West
belonged.
First.
Hugh
This
manor
very
are
to
Bradley
fine
"
The
trenches.
Roman
eminent
an
lived
held
was
discovery of
specimen sent
Brackenbury
for the
HAMLETS.
AND
name
de
a
woods
Ridge
"
gave
had
Gloucestershire.
TITHING-S
Bradley
premium
a
oak, and
in
oak
an
offered
Arts
by
in the
Sir
family
reign of
Maurice
de
whom
to
it
the
Richard
Berkeley, in
of the lands
were
reign of Henry" the Fourth, and many
Lord Berkeley to the Abbey of S. Augustine's
given by Thomas
Canon's
is called
the chief messuage
Bristol,for which reason
they
Court; and after the dissolution of religiousfoundations
were
Bradley
granted to the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
the
"
House
the
"
"
or
house,
removal
to
Court
where
"
is
a
Edward
Berkeley
Castle
fine
II,
and
old
mansion
was
it is
confined
and
celebrated
as
previous
to
his
that
at
the
usuallystated,
35
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
murdered
king was
lying dangerously sick
the
time
was
and
(Sept. 21, 1327),
and
unconscious
at
Lord
Berkeley
Bradley, one of
Sir Thomas
that
Gournay, and John Maltravers
committed
the hoi'rid deed.
Fortunately for Berkeley and for
the Barony, this plea was
admitted, without much
investigation
his manors,
of
Knights, and he was
acquitted of complicity
in the crime, although the
of the steward
of the
accounts
that Lord
household mention
Berkeley did not arrive at Bradthis
days after the murder
Icy until Michaelmas, seven
; to
in
his
Lives
of
John
the
Berkeley's gives credence.
Smyth
is a fine old avenue
of elm
There
trees
leading to Bradley
and
Dove
Cot"
stone
as
a
quaint
Court,
large as a barn,
and
with
inside
the
built
stones
doorway ;
are
pointed gable
with
regular interstices, so making 950 or 1000 nests for the
cooing tribe.
is the
Simondshall
highest ground in this part of the
from
be seen
some
country, eighteen counties may
parts of it;
by
jury
a
twelve
"
"
"
hall
belonged
di
the
ancient
an
"
Yeel
"
half
that
house
in
was
!
"
in
Symonds-
There
are
residence
the
into
came
le Veel
hide
a
of Berchelai
mansion
family, who
Hugh
Conqueror.
the
"
Lordship
the
to
of
remains
the
it is recorded
Book
Doomsday
in
England
ly
formerWilliam
with
esteem
great
here
with
King
John.
"
Combe
lies
eastward
of
Wotton
Church, and
was
given
de
the
of
Nigel
Kingscote
(ancestor
by
impress
in the wars,
to her
Kingscotes of Kingscote), for his services
but
possessed
that family (as Rudder
was
observes),
probably disof it on
the change of affairs."
Sinwell
is comprised of a few straggling cottages by the
from
Gerard
latter deriving their name
Warren
woods
; the
"
Maud
the
to
"
"
"
"
Warren,
a
Viscount
comparatively
though
sheltered
panoramic
"
The
modern
with
the
Rudgg
Abbey
Wortley
of
ease,
"
The
Warren"
is
pleasantly situated, and
yet possessing a picturesque and
structure,
trees,
view.
"
"
or
Ridge
writings dignifiedwith
to
called
Lisle," the house
is
founded
a
of
the
"
is
an
title of
estate
sometimes
It
manor.
in ancient
belonged
ly
former-
Kingswood.
distinct
by
tithing
Thomas
where
Lord
formerly a Chapel
to S.
Berkeley, dedicated
was
36
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
John
of
priests to
money,
This
and
successors."
himself
dwelling house,
resided
there
Hill
Chapel
"
relic of the
family
of
"
the
road
and
one
Avon
Little
bore
with
monks
the
where
is
Kingswood
eight p.m.
ago
having
dwelling house
this
buttress
remains
as
a
PARISHES,
pretty walks,
many
and
Abbey,
long
into
past.
of the
of the
ancestors,
converted
been
to
is
in
boats
and
trout
Abbey
Kingswood
:
nearly verbatim
is
remains
tolls out
to
Abbey,
the
from
an
hour
the
of
banks
of which
water
and
supplied the
following History of
old writings, and
is
The
grayling.
culled
the
stream,
of
the
manufacturing parish on
a
river,Merriford
grain
the
are
"
bell
curfew
"
fields to the
the
through
where
interesting village of l^y^jw.fliid,
old
prisoners'
present occupants
The
NEIGHBOURING
One
has
Chapel
his
for his
masses
say
century.
a
over
is still named
the
Poictiers, with
"
for
ransom
a
battle
the
1356, after
in
some
"
"
Lord
year of our
Clare
de
founded
In the
Walter
Tintcrn
1131, the
Monmouthshire,
convent
being
in
This
Abbey
an
Mary.
to William
applied themselves
found
an
Abbey of the same
County of Wilts, of which
and
of
31st
Henry I,
Monks
Cistercian
of
dedicated
desirous
King
it to
the
at
Virgin
their
order,
enlarge
with
de Berkeley,
a
petitionto
order
at Kingswood,
then in the
the
he was
proprietor ; William
in those
yielded to their request (itbeing thought meritorious
and
founded
endowed
days to erect religious houses), and
a
of
the
at
honour
in
to
the
Virgin Mary,
Monastery
Kingswood,
1139, which
his concession
the
or
grant
Empress, daughter
"
the
partlysupplied with
was
Wars
Kingswood
purchased
marton,
in
to
monks
from
by
charter
confirmed
King
Henry
a
a
ville
out
Tintern, and
from
Maud,
between
called
Hazcldean,
Gloucestershire,
of
John
Maud,
I.
King Stephen and
great uneasiness, and they chose to
to some
quieter situation,in order
breaking
monks
was
to
now
of
a
S.
remove
whereto
hamlet
John's,
of
to
gave
from
they
Rodwhom
39
iX-UXDER-EDGE.
\V" "TT"
had
made
a
Stephen during ihe wars
grant of i^ though
lauds
had
belonged rightly to Reginald, of S. AValerilfwho
King
the
to be
was
ejected
the
monks
The
But
to
and
when
the
wars
were
the
rightfulowners
repossessed himself
;
over,
everything
then
Reginald
of
Ha/.eldcan.
thus
Reginald
importunity at
would
restored
monks,
of the
he
!Maud.
part with
taken
dispersed made
perpetual complaints to
done
and
them,
injury
by their teasing and
length so prevailed with him, that he promised'
restore
and
Hazeldean,
bestow
on
them
other
some
but transfer
lands, if they would
Kingswood Abbey thither,for,
he told them, that through a penance
enjoined him by the Pope,
he
was
To
this
to
divide
obliged
to
proposal the
their
found
society,and
Kingswood,
stay
and
settle at Hazeldean,
so
was
to
at
Abbey
an
monks
far
so
of
and
Cistercian
the
of the
Abbot
order.
that
consented,
moiety
one
the
they chose
religiousorder
with
the
rest
they kept both places in
long fixed at Hazeldean,
to
their
when
possession. They had not been
incommoded
for want
of water, of which
they found themselves
there
a
was
Reginald's motion
they
great scarcity,so upon
called
where
he
removed
to
a
again
Tetbury,
place
generously
which
lands
bestowed
a
them, near
was
some
perennial
upon
fail
them
with
that
would
This
to
water.
never
supply
spring
from
of the monks
removal
Kingswood gave some
umbrage to
mentioned
William, and
Roger de Berkeley, heir to the above
remonstrance
to the
he thereupon drew
a
King on this
up
of
this
his
father's
to
foundation, and
affair,complaining
injury
left to him
by his predecessor,
setting forth that Kingswood was
but
held
noted
to
was
now
as
as
a
a
only
Abbey,
grange
thither, he
body of monks
being removed
Tetbury ; the main
his land
insisted that he might either have
again, or the monks
The
and
settle at Kingswood.
be recalled
King thought this
but
and
his
reasonable,
by the interposition
yielded to
request,
General
of the
Chapter of the Cistercians, who
petitioned
of
the
the
remonstrance
was
King
Roger,
prevailed
against
it was
the order, and
that Kingsdetermined
resolvent
with
to
made
that mass
should
be
to Tetbury, but
wood
a
grange
at
be constantly read
should
Kiugswood by some
one
monk,
altar
the
who
a
deputed for
priest,at the proper
was
priest,
in
order
make
matters
to
the
and
monks,
easy, compounded
40
WOTTON-UNDEK-EDGE.
Roger before mentioned,
with
givehim twenty-seven
to
marks
mark
to his son, and
and one
silver,
thereupon
and
to
his
ratified
the
confirmed
contract,
Charter,
Roger,by
them his father's gift. Affairs being in this posture there was
and
half in
a
held
convocation
a
Abbot
Philip,
Pagan,Abbot
the rest
among
Waverley,and
which
about
proposedto
they
restore
it,and
in
the monks
Kirchstead, where
at
Tetbury. Here,
were
the
Abbey
Kingswood
of Waverley
and
replace
the direction of the
himself
upon
; to this the Abbot
of
of
after the debates
ended, the Abbot
met
to take
met,
Elemosyne ; Henry, Abbot
of
of
Abbots
many
Tetbury,being a weak man,
the knowledge of his convent, or
gave his consent, but without
of Tintern,who, when
the assent of the Abbot
they heard of
and a great deal of litigious
disallowed and opposed,
it entirely
monastery
of
it,but in the conclusion it was decreed
upon
of the Cistercian Abbots at Kingswood, that the
disputesfollowed
in
a
meeting
Abbot
had
and
of
Waverley
recall the four
should
all his
Kingswood, and remove
Kingswood should return again to
to
sent
Grange ; yet there
present at
was
monks
enough
room
scarcely
so
goods and
its former
use
he
chattels,
as
bury
Tet-
monastery several
Roger the founder,
laicks,with
At
accommodations.
these
Tetbury not
at
whom
stillleft in the
was
monks, converts, clerks,and
who
monks
well
liking their
for the commodious
length,the
situation,
having
of an Abbey
settling
of
through the scarcity
findinggreat inconvenience
in those parts,being forced to fetch their fuel
wood for firing
from Kingswood which lay at a considerable distance,chose to
back to Kingswood,but the buildingthere being not
remove
sufficient for the receptionof their number, Bernard
of S.
Walerick,founder of Tetbury Church, requestedand obtained
from
Roger de Berkeley,lord of Kingswood,fortyacres of
the
land at Merriford,a placebordering on Kingswood, near
waterside,and there they erected a new
Abbey, about A.D.
there,and
1170, and
transferred
the
Tetbury. The ruinous
the brook, and
still standingnear
remains
of this
Abbey
are
the
Abbey
which
stood
old
of
convent
about
a
mile
to the
to build the
south,was
yet
new,
partlypulleddown to furnish materials
a small
chapelbelongingto it is stillpartlyremaining,called
this time Merriford took
to this day the old Abbey.'* From
'
*
About
the year
1830
the
ruins
of the
cottage built
old
on
Abbey
were
pulled down,
and
the site.
/
"jr
4xZ^"v"^
a
tho
church
handsome
a
remained
till the
"'list
""f
year
aud
Kingswood,
of
name
and
chapel,
monks
dedicated
having erected
Virgin Mary,
to the
which
Abbey,
their
of
VIII
Henry
the
here
dissolution
King
41
"EK-E1)GE.
\VOTTOX-U.\1
The
reign.
in the
was
church
of
Kings-
f
wood
but
demolished
was
chapel
Lady
the
This
AVaverley in
Catonian
has
charters, and
which
Abbey,
Smith
vol. 1, folio
said
in
and
which
old record
to
sold,
exhibits
belonging
hands
in the
be
Abbey,
still
are
still known
sloping field
811,
an
1651
site of the
the
of which
banks
materials
the
the
to
of Mr
John
Nibley."
of North
Adjoining
Abbey,
the
'
preserved
was
and
standing for the use of the parishioners.
taken
the annals
of
was
partly from
Library, and partly from the Mon-
account
the
the
left
was
Anglicanum,'
asticon
the
with
as
called the
Vineyard
Abbey. Robert
in
be
can
the
seen
perfect,beyond
fishpond,
facing
south
the
dow
meaAbbey Vineyard. The
Wotton-under-Edge, belonged
the
to
Lord
Berkeley (1189 to 1220) gave
divers lands
mill and
a
wat
adjoining at Wortley, and land
er
hundred
called Bradpeu and pasturage for one
sheep, rents etc.
other
at
Wortley, also his
pretious gold ringe and many
things."
William
named
The last Abbot
of Kingswood
was
Bewdeley,
Kingswood
"
and
Thomas
Lord
to
kitchen
Hart,
of the
time
the
at
dissolution
Berkeley,
who
died
there
were
1243,
was
monks
13
an
factor
especialbene-
Over
Abbey in the reign of Henry III.
carved
chimney piece of the Abbey were
the
Ostrich,
an
his
forming
a
Mermaid,
Ass
and
Elizabeth
Thomas.
name
an
Swan
a
there.
a
; the
the
Tiger, a
initials
only daughter
and
Berkeley (whose fine altar tomb is in
Wotton-under-Edge Church), and wife of Richard
Beauchamp
in
Earl
buried
of Warwick
was
Kingswood
Abbey 1422, to
erected
whose
by her
a
goodly tomb of marble was
memory
husband, according to her will.
heiress
"
The
Neoles,
Cistercian
this
rule
Mary,
.and
there
should
in
country
all
their
they
not
of monks
order
Cisteaux,
at
fir.^t into
their
Lord
of Thomas
so
be
in
Burgundy,
at
Waverley
churches
arranged
another
were
the
house
founded
was
in
1098, and
Surrey
dedicated
in
to
position of their
of their
own
Robert
by
of
introduced
1128.
the
By
Virgin
houses
order
that
within
a
42
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
; their
distance
certain
scapulary
they had a
with
Friars,' or
Bernardines
black
order.
also
have
S.
from
habit
while
except
they
;
gown
white
a
was
over,
gown
of their
fame
the
a
dress
narrow
called
who
raised
abstain
to
church
White
'
much
so
ordered
were
a
travelling,when
been
Bernard,
They
with
from
service, no peal
of bells was
allowed, or stained glass in their churches, they
crucifix
in their
allowed
not
services, only a plain
a
were
cross.
especiallyenjoined to live
They were
painted wooden
the
of
crowd
towns
in the country, avoiding
; living thus, they
in
devotional
well
themselves
duties,
as
practicalas
employed
of
which
to
cultivation
the
to the
land,
them, the
belonged
all decoration
repairs of
preservationand
church, and
of their
work
necessitated
the
these
admitted
were
the
or
waterflow
the
a
feather
under,
(J.R.,
Member
were
from
the
built
;
sanitary
that
depend
should
water,
conducted
water
offices."
domestic
and
kitchen
brethren
running
over
running
nearest
This
necessitated
buildings
being
the
lay
The
strict,and
conventual
estates, the
people.
of
number
a
very
houses
of the
special vow.
a
adjacent to,
or
of
their
on
ArchaeologicalAssociation.)
forbade
Abbot, Stephen Harding, in 1114
of anything but fustian and
church
to be made
of the
British
Cistercian
"The
in his
chasubles
plain
; the
stream
flow
a
education
under
days
or
buildings
the
of the
arrangements
on
the
employment
of those
authorities
in their
ornament
or
linen
; the
monks
boots, the
wore
shoes
canon
and
the
Slymbridge, belonged to the Abbey of
"10
the Rector
of Slymbridge
yearly to
Kingswood,
pays
Magdalen College, Oxford, for choir music, and annually on
of that princely
ascend
the tower
the first of May the choristers
in
eucharistic
the
building at five
morning to sing a
hymn
friar sandals.
which
"
floats
Land,
down
in
in
a
sweet
calm
like
music
the
of
the
spheres."*
The
to a forest of large extent
place of Kingswood gave name
of
oifice
the
annexed
the
to
conformerly
keeper was
;
Stafford
Bristol
of
constable
was
Castle,
stableship
Humphrey
1 Edward
Cook
IV, and Humphrey
keeper of the forest 1660
but
*
the
Holman
whole
Hunt
is
"
now
and
disafforested
this
lias immortalized
in
1891.
in
his
vested
beautiful
in
painting
different
executed
;
43
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
Previous
proprietors."
Lane
Bridle
or.
road
the
to
the
named
Abbey, it commenced
(now dry) winding through
Abbey
sturdy old
its
of
name
"
field
old
solemn
almost
Trench
"
on
Kingswood,
containing
Trinityand
with
tower
may
be
possession; the
motto
is
is
God
clock
at
some
bell
save
the
Elms
of
in
road
old
the
tangled
bey
Ab-
wood,
under-
a
the
battle, or
dedicated
large
as
Danish
a
the
Holy
building Early English,
Kingswood,
a
rather
a
leading
Hillesley from
and is interesting,whether
slain in
1723, is
of
name
to
in it
those
Church
quaint, and
pollard wych
Richard
of
erected
of
mound
a
remains
heard
"
side
hand
it has
and
from
solitary,
gloomy,
bore
the
cottagers living near
the
"
old
very
Squall'sLakito
and
it
bats, made
(or burial place)is
left
The
Barrow.
road
called
thick
a
leading
Fields
Trench
densely
and
Lane
place
a
was
Owls."
"
Dinnywick
the
and
for owls
harbour
a
oaks
the
there
Trench
at
to
:
1830
year
stone
to
bells, which
containing a set of tubelar
distance; the latter is quite a modern
which
our
in
"
is
rings Curfew
Church."
Queen and
"
front
now
ten
of
in number
Holy Apostles.
The
Blinco, distiller of Bristol
NEWARK
Church
the
dated
The
Porch
1706, its
yard
churchare
some
presenting
formerly twelve, reis the gift of
Candelabra
1723.
PARK,
longed
Parish formerly beWotton-under-Edge in Ozleworth
House
and
Newark
is
to the Monastery of Kingswood,
built with
the stones
from
Kingswood Abbey and partly from
olas
in the neighbourhood by Sir Nichstones
pulled from crosses
It is situated
Pointz in the reign of Edward
VI.
on
an
eminence
views ; a subterranean
extensive
commanding
passage
thence
to
exists, supposed to lead from
Abbey.
Kingswood
Here
flower
Snowdrops grow in great profusion,a favourite
in a Monastic
a
garden sacred to the Virgin Mary ; and many
of England, where
not
a
shady dell especiallyin the West
of the old convent
stone
remains, the Snowdrop still blossoms
Near
44
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
vanished
Spring tellingus of a
probably be a small Monastic
in the
as
the
name
building
Kingswood
leading to the
Ark
or
There
suggests.
from
monks
some
Ark
New
"
"
There
garden.
of
is
a
safety
sought
would
refuge here,
legend, that
in the
ranean
subter-
"
Ark
where
New
they perished
passage
Saint's
their
of
and
the
Day
Spiritsappear
eve
on
every
;
in Cistercian
and
clad
with
in solemn
lightedtapers
procession
gliding from
House, they slowly pass
vestments,
down
and
for
the
Walsh
beautiful
the
is
There
duel
then
panelled wall in the present Newark
across
a
through the room,
passage
staircase
chanting softlyas they go.
called
Newark
little fort at
a
a
"
Sir William
between
the
Midland
distinctly the
memory
monument
the
birthplace
Tyndale,
two
There
and
famous
Walter
no
Knoll
translator
miles
may
erected
be
seen
to
the
of the
from
Martyr,
record
Bristol
Bible; the little
Wota"D" claims to be
at Vtiwlio"~perished
of his
early studies, and
it
of
that he received
imagination to suppose
of languages at the Wotton-under-Edge
mar
Gramthe rudiments
School, before
entering as a student Magdalen College,
He afterwards
became
Oxford.
chaplain to Sir John Walsh,
of Little Sodbury ; and almost
within sight of
lord of the manor
is
the
no
great
spot where
old-fashioned
he
stretch
is
to
Nibley
of this Christian
vorde, in 1536.
Throkmorton
Gloucester
on
Nibley,
villageof North
Broome,"
MONUMENT.
line from
of William
"
Sodbury.
of Little
TYNDALE'S
On
the
he
had
dining
first conceived
spent the years
hall of the
the
idea
manor
of his
of his childhood
house
; in
the
of Little
Sodbury,
translating
great work, the
tongue ; afac simile
of his
Holy Scripture into his native
is
in
in
the
translation
a
story of
glass case
preserved
upper
the
visitors
monument
which
the
Knoll,
are
on
permitted i""
trifle
lives
in
the
who
tin- village.
to
custodian,
see
by paying a
found
that
the copy
of the New
Testament
"It
having been
of the Tyndale Monument
which
was
placed in the Chamber
of
46
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
manuscripts,which he was
been
compiling ; they have never
printed,and are
few copies were
of the Berkeley family, however
a
historical
valuable
many
He
1887.
died
and
floor
lived
Warren's
at
and
1641
buried
was
pulpit much
his
commemorating
house
at
building a new
the entrance
1790) over
the
near
In
name.
1607
Small-combe
placed
he
M.
H.
N.
C.
Nunc
mei
Sed
than
more
A
flat stone
Latin
with
date
in the
tion
inscripSmythe commenced
Court
in
(pulled down
stone
a
fortyyears
possession
printed in
forty years
the
still shews
worn
M.
Couplet.
for
Nibley.
at
S. P.
N.
letters
Jjatin
Court
in
which
are
and
graved
en-
initials of the
the
hujus
mox
posted nescio
cuj'/is.
Translation.
It
T'is
mine
to-day
;
But
after
whose
?
proved prophetic,the
family ; this
his
which
stone
During
Berkeley
building
Castle
his
Steward
the
house
new
with.
the
on
of the
house
reply
who
seen
in
Castle
to
the
of
passed entirelyout
estates
site
heirs';
my
dares
!
over
of
Church,
family
wealth
to
to
way,
door-
in
house
the
1607
carrying the Castle
(James H. Cooke)
arched
an
the
Smythe's growing
satirized
from
him
still be
may
by tying the
said
Let
Nibley
erected
was
the
(perhaps)
to-morrow
1807.
fool
portance
im-
and
prevent
Nibley
of
he
as
to
build
BERKELEY.
BOLING
"
"
(Seven
miles
PERCY
"
will
the
the
"
How
far
from
Wotton
There
stands
is
it
my
lord,
to
Berkeley
the
tuft of trees,"
yon
of the fortress,as when
castle, by
describe
the situation
fairlynow
Shakespere penned the lines.
Castle is from
the park, it was
built in
as
William
an
the
ancient
which
nunnery
Conqueror,and
"
)
"
immortal
of
?
now
was
the
existed
The
best
1134
in
on
the
last castle which
view
the
time
held
of
mains
re-
of
out
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
47
4$
WOTTOX-UNDER-EDGE.
against
Oliver
Edward
II
and
in the
vacant
Edward
a
;
from
introducer
Berkeley
which
he
of
the
Church
took
also.
the
lymph
the
days
miles
in the
from
is
horns
of the
are
preserved in
of
kindness
al
origin-
Lord
cester
Glou-
and
Lady
allowed
for
to
viewing
week.
Berkeley
Sea," with
pilot boat
placed in
window
The
Dr
dral
Cathe-
in Gloucester
his memory
glass memorial
Through
Severn
"
keep
buried
is
vaccination; he
reside in the Castle, visitors are
Fitzhardinge,who
the interestingfortress, and
orders
obtain
see
can
Three
the
birth-placeof
the
as
to
stained
Museum.
it certain
; it has
unfortunate
steps leading to
renowned
ever
erected
handsome
of
for
the
statue
a
chancel
cow
form
feet.
146
will be
Jenner,
here, and
the
; above
inner
an
the
of
space
Berkeley
the
and
keep
a
dungeon, containing the originalfurniture,
the foul deed
as
was
mitted,
combeing the place where
the
The
Castle
church
gives
tragic celebrity.
early English styleis separated from its tower by
is shewn
built
murdered
was
called
room
a
and
a
of
by buildings of castellated
the
chapel. In this Castle
and
hall
noble
is
consists
It
yard, surrounded
court
a
Cromwell.
white
the
its broad
the
are
docks
sails of
at
a
and
Sharpness
merchantman
is the
or
Sharpness
Gloucester, large steamships discharge grain in
these docks
also some
well
are
kept pleasure gardens,
; there
where
inhale
the
southwest
der
breezes, and wanone
gentle
may
through the leafypaths,which the late Dowager Countess
of Berkeley claimed
to the
her
as
pleasance, belonging now
the river
at
Canal
A
Company.
strong iron bridge crosses
the
to
upon
port of
waters.
entrance
which
spin the trains
point,uniting the two banks, over
On
the road from
slowly en route for Chepstow and Tintern.
the remains
is
are
Stancombe," where
Berkeley to Wotton
of a Roman
villa,and specimens of tesselated pavement were
cester.
Glouremoved
for preservationto the
from
thence
Museum,
tained
A
is obfarewell
Silvery Severn
glimpse of the
this
"
"
"
from
"
Bournestream,"
Streamstrcam,"
the
where
Nibley highway,
which
The
"
Bordering
a
sundialed
in the
of
stands
reign
standing
by a
yeoman," the house
House
grounds. Bournestream
"
own
"
gabled
James
in the
possesses
a
"
Stream
I
or
house
was
midst
mottoed
on
pied
occu-
of
its
sun-
50
WOTTON-UXDER-EDGE.
dial, the words
F.
Gatty
motto
I mark
"
Editor
the
to
Sackville
at
but
none
Standard
of The
Horas
College.
"
fifteen
less than
occurring at no
the same
thought, variously clothed
as
she
non
in
I mark
'
House, Wotton-under-Edge,
reference
English
is at
but
none
to
the.
;///"";serenaf,"
tntniero
placesin the
happiest version
"the
remarks,
in
K.
Horatia
hours."
sunny
form, and
same
words.
haps,"
Per-
"
Bournestream
"
hours.'
sunny
-o-
INTERESTLNG
AT
PROCEEDINGS
BERKELEY
CASTLE.
Corporations
The
from
existed
have
which
March, 1886,
in
time
In
1883.
immemorial,
of the
pursuance
of
consequence
that the maces
Wottou-under-Edge,
and
Berkeley
of
this it
ceased
on
the
25th
Municipal Corporation Act,
poration
was
suggested by each Cor-
by their respective bodies should
be handed
to Lord
over
Fitzhardinge, who is Lord of the Manor
of Berkeley and
Wotton
boroughs, to be kept by him and his
his
heirlooms.
On
this being made
known
to
as
successors
with
him
at
lordship, he invited both Corporations to lunch
used
Berkeley Castle, at
then
receive
copies
are
"
To
the
Manor
"
The
of
Lord,
the
25th
your
the
ancestor,
1661, to hold
Manor
day
Aldermen
of
of
and
addresses
which
handed
were
with
over
the
Fitzhardinge :Hon.
Corporation
request
of both
Francis
of the
lordship
Eight
Berkeley
same
in the
County
Prescriptive Borough
dissolved
the
Fitzhardinge,Lord
William
Berkeley Borough
now
suggesting that he could
Corporations. The following
time
same
maces
the
Right
of Gloucester,
your
of
Lord
to
maces
the
the
hy
the
to
receive
Hon.
Municipal
back
George,
to
Earl
of
of Gloucester."
Berkeley
in
and
heirs
successors,
your
heirloom.
witness
As
our
Borough,
March, 1886."
(Here followed
Sergeant-at-Mace of Berkeley).
an
the
County
Corporation
Act, 1883, respectfully
the
to them
mace
presented
by
of
in
the
of our
Berkeley,
year
yourself,
as
of the
the
signatures
of
Lords
of
hand, the
the
Mayor,
.51
WoTToX-rX!"Kll-KI"(;K.
To
"
liight Hon.
the
undersigned,
We
"
of
tin-
dissolved
the
on
-J5th
regret
of
and
tiitO years,
lordship
your
the
and
intent
ihai
may
Lords
successors,
the
Karl
it
interest
and
of
the
to
tie
Borough
Aldermen
(ilouciistershire,
of the
express
of the
of the
of
Manor,
etc.
of the
Borough
as
tion,
Corpora-
who
a
Municipal
Corporation
Act, 1883,
of
lordship the deep sense
your
which
has
existed
between
\Votton-under-Edge
your
for
upwards
time
take the opportunity
of handing
we
same
to
which
inaee
was
presented
by your
lordship's noble
of Berkeley,
for
the
of the
in 1747,
use
Corporation
be for ever
heirloom
preserved as an
by yourself
silver
Augustus,
ancestor,
and
the
at
the
to
;intl
Mayor
of
operation
severance
house
nohle
lordship's
late
County
last, beg
the
at
the
the
the
by
March
feel
we
Lord
Pitzhardinge,
being
in
Wofton-under-rHge,
were
to
Lord
the
Manor
patronage
of
Wottou
noble
your
house
Borough,
and
formerly
took
as
a
memorial
of
exercised,
and
in
the
of Wotton
-underCorporation
Kdge.
Signed at Wotton-under-Edge, this
Kith
188(3."
the
of the
day of May,
(Here followed
signatures
Mayor,
and
of Wotton
Aldermen,
Sergeant-at-Mace
Borough).
the
On
into
the
Lord
procession arriving
line
old
Fit/.hardinge. The
Mr
D. Legge, senior
and
of Mr
T.
handed
P.
at
lordship as
Lord
Mayor
Wotton,
Mayor,
last
added
and
of the
of
of
Leets
read
the
received
were
Mr
J. F.
above
suitable
of the
the
and
by
Blake,
absence
addresses,
pressing
remarks, ex-
connection
of
shown
were
Berkeley, in
some
termination
the
they
they
Alderman
Maces,
the
over
Castle
the
hall, where
last
Bailey, the
regret
his
baronial
at
between
Wotton
and
Berkeley
to him.
presented the maces
them
for so doing, and
said he
boroughs, and
Lord
Fitzhardiuge thanked
of the
reciprocatedtheir feelings of regret at the severance
His
connection
alluded
to.
lordship then produced the old
of Berkeley, which
returned
of Berkeley
to the Lord
was
mace
dated
in 10(51, when
the present mace
was
was
given, which
those
ancient
loOO.
The
is the
oldest
Chalice
known
Grodwin
or
piece
of
is dated
cup, which
plate in England, was
then
filled
proposed the healths
of the last Mayors of Berkeley and
Wotton, and having drunk
it
round
the company.*
the
from
the cup,
sent
toast
to
Lord
at Berkeley
Fitzhardiugo is willing to retain the mace
shall
it
be
shown
visitors
that
to
Castle, agreeing
on
days on
wirh
which
the
champagne,
visitors
and
view
public-,he
shall
will
noble
1066, and
the
chairman
Castle,
the
deal
with
and
the
that
mace
direct.
*
From
a
Bristol
Paper.
if
as
ever
the
it is closed
Charity
to
missioners
Com-
52
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
A
small
parish,two miles south from Wotton, situated on a
of the forest of
bounds
rising ground, was
formerly the utmost
is written
Alrelie."
the name
Kingswood ; in Doomsday Book
the
north
and
Two
small
brooks
bound
the parish on
south,
"
unite, and
river
"
Severn.
of
Justice
from
run
the
Alderley
great lawyer,
King's Bench.
greatest civil commotion
himself
by
to
Berkeley
to
is remarkable
that
of
thence
so
this
uprightly
all ranks
and
as
He
lived
country
to
be
conditions
join
ever
men.
brimming
place
birth-
the
Hale, Lord
in the
of
yet he
and
admired
He
Chief
time
knew,
equally
of
the
being
as
Matthew
Sir
"
was
a
the
ried
carteemed
es-
most
54
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
where
being
is
a
Giles),which
dated
the
mullions
this
a
had
(according
poor,
to
Sir Robert
of
of windows,
and
Mother
Ease
the
was
Church
of
one
history of
Church,
old
font
the
shire,
Gloucester-
such
which
(Saint
for
found
were
built
as
was
in
ging
dig-
massive
broken
;
daughters belonging
seven
to
S.
Mary, Hawkesbury, with Tresham
and
the original Chapels.
Little Badminton,
the two
latter
are
is an
Church
The
of -Saint Mary, Hawkesbury,
ancient
stone
in
the
building of various dates, built principally
perpendicular
has
and
tled
embatsouth
handsome
aisle, chancel,
a
style,
nave,
All that is known
of its earlyhistoryis that about
tower.
the
680
founded
for secular
a
canons
College was
by
year
Oswald, nephew of King Ethelred, that in 984 King Edgar at
the intercession
dictine
Beneof the Bishop of Worcester
introduced
and
that
its impropriation belonged to the
Monks,
iam
Abbey of Pershore in Worcestershire, from the time of Willthe
The
Conqueror to its dissolution.
building as it now
work
stands
dates
from
Saxon
of
the
period, and contains
period from that time to the present. The only Saxon
every
remains
the bases
of the shafts of the inner doorway of the
are
north
ation.
porch, it was
re-opened 9th April, 1885, after its restorStoke
Hamlet
called
or
was
Hawkesbury
formerly
Stock
Mother
main
the
the
(Saxon)
stem, or
body, being
the
Church,
seven
daughters or Chapels of Ease were
Hillesley,
and
Little
Tresham,
Kilcot, Upton, Saddlewood,
Ingleston
Badminton.
An
without
old church
notice
at
Hawkesbury
the notice
board
of the
northwest
date, on
porch of parish
the
church,
would
be
Edge,
of the
It is desired
careful
would
women
At
"
not
Hawkesbury
on
of
the
it is
tenements
remains
present
also
1851,
dedication
four
Atkins'
curious
Many
foundations
of
into
converted
been
1712).
Chapel
in
building consecrated
former
Chapel of the same
modern
site of
the
Hille.sley,
is held
yearly, having the reputation of
longest standing in the country. The present
of the
one
Church
upon
Show
Flower
a
pretty little village of
is the
Alderley
Adjoining
the
brow
to
that
leave
walk
a
that
Dogs
their
in with
Upton,
of
all persons
their
four
at
hill,commanding
surrounding country,
is
a
and
home,
Church
the
that
on."
Pattens
miles
to this
come
from
a
fine monumental
Wotton-under-
magnificent
tower,
view
erected
"TTOX-UXDER-EI"GE.
W"
the
m
built
point may
\Vyndcl iff"
The
At
Vale."
form,
320
Danish,
others
Edward
IV
and
very
fresh
a
than
of swift
with
wind
into
Duke
of Beaufort,
verde
white
Lord
a
antique.
marble
font
Raglan
examples
the
Rome).
Janseu,
of
was
of
Tintoretto.
Sir
winter's
a
Joshua
Duke
about
three
covert,
the
to
morning
of
are
the
length
to
the
see
following a pack
Malmesbury.
Park.
Upton is Badminton
and
fallow
mimic
some
chancel,
embracing
deer
rest
arms
beneath
sound, rush like the
House, the seat of the
with
built
Michael,
of
their
spreading
with
in
of
private Chapel
a
in classic
crated
style,conse-
of four
nave
altar
mosaic, the
bays, aisles
are
some
buried
1855.
piece
which
Caracci.
Da
Reynolds,
by
the
Vinci
him
his
of
has
Rosa, (including
expulsion from
Teniers.
etc., etc.; also
tomb
House
early Dukes,
Dolci, Salvator
cost
and
here,
also the
Badminton
paintings brought
jasper
monuments
by Rysbrach,
in
of
steps
handsome
Raphael, Guido, Carlo
satirical
of Tew-
in under
strong
are
great delight
studies, life size
collection
tine
extend
of
army
battle
through, owing
of red
There
who
to be
containing three bells,it has a highly enriched
of beautifully veined
marble, the floor of
Florentine
is
breadth,
elms
S.
to
tower
ceiling,a
chancel
and
1783, consists
western
a
the
exception,to
Badminton
space.
is a fine old mansion
dedicated
that
the
AVoods
Hawkesbury
distant
in
and
or
small
William
saith
startled
shade,
is
great coverts, which
a
took
hundreds
their
oblong
an
preparatory for the chase, looking
Edward
the Confessor, though more
of
from
whilst
before
pass
Sodbuvy
"
camp,
time
sight on
monarch,
so
the
meet
patriarchaloaks
attached,
to
morn.
a
miles
around,
in
fine
a
Some
Lower
one
also
of
camp,
think
this
it
with
The
hounds
hounds,
Four
in
family possessed
previously in \Vale"
certain
in these
belong,
'Tis
the
as
monk
Somerset.
strong
very
short
a
difficult
grass.
and
huntsmen
as
it
K.G.
of the
a
but
swarm
length and
times
at
Somerset
length.
Roman,
Beaufort,
in
H.
valley below,
is
in
yards
occupied
large extent,
miles
Sodburv
Foxes
kesbury.
of
lie in the
Little
about
E.
property
Woods
Lower
the
R.
having been
:
have
been
for a beacon, as the
originallychosen
in Monmouthshire,
is visible
clear
on
a
day.
this
""
Lord
land
first
all their
Knglaml.
General
of
memory
the
ii]ion
Holbeius
a
collection
and
of
56
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
fourteen
family portraitsin
onwards,
which
Castle.
Raglan
the
There
Fitzherbert
"
removed
were
"
two
are
and
the
"
lay's History of England"
equally true now, two
prove
of
the
spread
all
over
the
noted
oaks
in the
What
years
later,
and
kennels,
called
Macau-
Lord
in
of
seat
park
of Badminton
hundred
cellar,the
kitchen, the
from
assorts
Gaunt
of
earlier
hither
Duchess."
"
John
from
succession
will
1685
The
"
fame
stables
the
was
England."
OZLEWOETH,
Formerly
from
the
vie
"
written
Wozelworth,"
"
Wotton, the road
Black
Quarrs
or
"
with
on
Cheddar
the
in
verge
to
it
being
is about
"
up
Lisle
Quarries," where
"
glistening stalactites.
of
a
hill,with
woods
miles
two
some
Hill
of
"
and
the
Ozleworth
east
past
caves
is situated
adjoining,and
is
57
WOTTOX-UXDER-EDGE
remarkable
a
"
with
near
the
stones
here,
which
with
killed
amounted
edih'ce, divided
arch
rising from
tower
of foxes
reign, which
Saxon
beautiful
Park
number
Saxon
ancient
an
the
Kli/.nbeth's
Queen
is
for
in
to
into
two
one
year
during
231.
The
church
compartments
chevron
and
mouldings,
an
bell.
centre,
containing one
in the reign of Edward
restored
was
composed Kingswood
Abbey.
the
by
gonal
octa-
ark
New-
"
VI
BOXWELL,
Three
acres
a
miles
in
well
nunnery
the court
from
\\ niton,
has
a
probably the largest in
dedicated
to the
Virgin Mary ;
here
before
the Conquest.
The
extent,
house
of the
Abbots
of
boxwood,
fine
the
a
about
Kingdom.
forty
In it is
tradition
exists
of
Manor
House
was
old
Gloucester, under
freehold
whom
a
the
of Sir Walter
lessees, and purchased the
Huutleys were
it
whom
was
Raleigh,to
granted by Queen Bess; during
C'ivil War
it was
the
frequentlythe resting place of Prince
58
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
Rupert. The church is an old stone building in the Marly Knglish stylewith
campanile tower, there is also a very curious
and
Early English font.
Leightertou is a hamlet
chapclry of
Box well, here is a barrow
Matthew
opened by
Huntley, Esquire
about
the
found
also
earthen
an
a
above
1700, with
year
smaller
six feet
containing
urn,
Boxw
at
one
vaults, in
three
burnt
each
human
is
ell,whereon
a
which
of
bones
was
is
; there
large upright
stone
high.
Bagpath
Church
dedicated
S. Bartholomew,
to
Newington
has a peculiarsquare, campanile tower
old stone
ing,
build; it is an
Owlor
Oldpen
quaint ; the livingis attached to
very
in the
of the oldest
pen." The
Owlpen
property is one
county ; an originalgrant to the Owlpens by Earls Berkeley.
The
in England
and
Ireland,
Daunts, a family of eminence
acquired the property by marriage with the heiress of Owlpen.
"
"
"
"
"
KINGSCOTE,
six miles
Is about
from
Wotton-under-Edge.
tradition
that
have
there
a
once
a
was
cityhere
Kingchester. As tradition has generally some
formation, it
at
serves
least
to
anciently distinguishedby
Remains
of tesselated
ploughed
show
camps
pavement,
different
that
or
some
Roman
and
The
inhabitants
of the
of
name
truth
for
its
this
villagehas been
eminent
buildings.
coins, etc., have
been
of
statue
large stone
Minerva," and other antiquities. Colonel
Kiugscote is Lord
of the Manor
A short
and chief owner.
distance
from
Kingsis Calcot Barn
built by the Abbot
cote
which
of Kiugswood
was
at
up
times,
a
"
in the
reign of
called
"
as
Balaam
being
corn,
130
there
sacred
Edward
his Ass
and
feet
are
I.
long, and
indications
Within
the
doors
;" Bigland's M.S.S.
was
a
bas-relief
referred
capable of holding 900
of its having once
been
to
loads
used
it
of
for
purposes.
ULEY,
About
four
miles
from
Wotton
north-east.
Uley, Celtic,
"N-
worn
"
Uhella,"
';
lage," which
"
means
recorded
Book
Doomsday
is
place," taken
watery
springs which
villageshoots
numerous
."iO
i "KR-EDGE.
in
highest,""
r N
Part
rise here.
doubt
no
hill
of the
Eune-
"
as
on
from
the
the north
rocky head, and is united by a
of laud
neck
the
to
narrow
plain adjoining Nympstield.
open
Roman
This
is
Uley Bury, "the highest in the South
cam])
the all but
Cotswolds, is very strong by situation,commanding
A great military road has been
cut
impregnable slope below.
round
the promontory
sixtyfeet in width ; coins have been found
of the Emperors
A
here of the time
Antonins
and Constantine.
tine chambered
timmlus, or place of sepulchre, has also been
local name
hill in this parish. The
is Hetty
discovered
at West
Peglav's Turn]).
side
of the
in
out
a
"
a
A
contains
from
distance
short
Uley is Nympsh'eld
burial
was
place which
ancient
an
Naturalist
Cotswold
The
view
the
Malvern.
in the
from
this
down
in
18(51, and
The
South
into
old
turnpike
eminence
an
the
Wales
is
road
from
found.
were
of the
Yale
Xympsfield hill, which
here
explored by
bodies
16
the
spot overlooking
Hills, and
kingdom.
leads
Club
;
Severn,
of the
one
Bath
is very
finest
to
cester
Glou-
steep.
onel
Col-
of Gloucester,
for his memorable
defence
Massey, famous
mentary
of the Parliaagainst King Charles 1, being disgusted at some
proceedings, deserted their party in 1659, and formed
a
design of seizing Gloucester, being disappointed and forced
Simondshall.
take
There
he
to
near
refuge in a little house
him
of
who
mounted
sei/.ed
before
horse,
was
one
by a party
of the
troopers,
and
him
carried
Gloucester
towards
; but
and
himself
Nympsfield Hill, Massey tumbled
and
the horse, and
being a stout, strong man,
trooper from
his
under
favour
guards slightlyintoxicated, made
escape
dark, tempestuous night. (Rudder).
going
down
in
the
his
of
a
"
FROM
A
few
miles
HILL,
FROCESTER
beyond Nymphsfield
wild, rugged,
and
romantic.
settlement.
The
villageis
"
is obtained
Frowcester
little and
"
old,
old
once
a
splendid view,
name,
a
a
Roman
residence
of
60
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
Abbots
the
honoured
follows
as
:
jtivisit,in eoq
benigneq:
Barkleyum
in/Edibus
;
futn
Elizabeth,
in
the
/toe
Geary
a
oppidatum
trrm
accennil
ie
tract
1574,
year
into this
came
stayed
Huntley ami'iyeri,COM Her,
ant is p'liocfarife,
indeq,
the
feast
of
the
of
On
i.e.,
coticessit,"
day
Caste/ /tun
Lawrence
Saint
an
Jnonanitate
cum
a
night at the
entry in the parish register
die festo Laurenty
martijrin
Elizabetha
lira
ft.
184
Elizabeth
Queen
trusses.
visit,and
1574
anno
Reyina
good
a
fine barn
possessing a
from
appears
Hoc
"
et
and
bays,
village with
house,
Serenissima
et
12
this
Manor
as
Gloucester, and
ft. with
29
by
of
Serene
Most
our
town, and
lodged
Huntley, Esqre., by
our
Queen
in it that
night,
she
whom
was
George
she went
elegantlyand splendidly entertained, and afterwards
to
There, at the suggestion of the Earl of
Berkeley Castle.
havoc
Leicester, she made
by chasing and mercilesslykilling
the Earl of Berkeley's red deer, thereby offending his lordship.
at
the
of
seat
o
DURSLEY.
Six
miles
north
from
boroughs
of
Gloucestershire.
belonging
to
the
materials
have
Leland
Dodington.
his
words
own
"
the
of
of
centre
their
is
a
stone,
full
The
market
built
eldest
Viscount
of
in
sons
formerly
Manor
house
good moat,
a
it and
at
it
that
in
or
was
holes
and
lyke a
pores
in
house
of free stone
is
which
on
of
Earls
the
this
from
ancient
visible,part of the
round
1738,
of
Castle
a
the
it had
that
handsome
town,
title of
called
building
observes
towse
the
Queen Anne.
took
still
are
metely good dychc
a
chieflybuilt of
pumice." There
in
used
of
five
the
of
one
ruins
The
Berkeley family
been
is
Wotton,
town,
the
statue
a
Berkeley
eldest
sou
of
Dursley."
rise perpendicularly
are
springs,which
many
out of the ground like boilingwater, they are
called the
Broad
""
Saxon
Well"
is
Ewelm
a
; but in old
writings the name
word
head of the spring." The
meaning the
neighbourhood
is noted
for quarries of
when
tuffa
or
puff" stone, which
first dug is soft and
but
on
by the mason,
easily worked
Viscount
being
the churchyard
"
On
the
side
south-east
"
"
"
"
"
"
exposure
Berkeley
to
the
Castle
weather
hardens
is built with
part
"
and
becomes
of it.
very
durable,
62
WOTTON-UNDER-EUGE.
the
site
Hill,"
and
is also
There
"Anchoret
priory or
of
site of
the
belonging
grange,
hundred
cell,called
hermit's
a
to St.
a
medueval
rule
in
was
England,
highly civili/ed, beautifullystraight roads
with
villas
four
the
public
of
any
years
and
post
baths
and
other
our
modern
hundred
years
of human
houses
;
are
a
a
of
are
were
country
made,
five miles
apart,
It is doubtful
numerous.
of the
finger post
or
During
this
good as those made
a sign of civilization,
as
highways
intercourse,
distance
also
were
roads
ago
at
or
monastery
in Bristol.
Austin's,
of Roman
"Anchor"
if
sixteen
a
mean?,
times.
WICKWAR,
Four
miles
south-west
from
Wotton.
"
"
Wic
Wicken
"
or
"
called
Wickwar"
signifyinga villageor dairy farm, afterwards
from
the family of La Wavr, who
for many
generations were
lords of the manor.
In this neighbourhood
rocks
of very
are
is called
from
its colour
compact and ponderous stone, which
is said to have
white
lays,"a species of marble. ^JThe Church
been
Woolsworthf^who likewise built a house
erected
by one
the pool ; against the
end of this house
is the figure
east
near
of Saint
John
the Baptist in an
erect
posture, pointing with
towards
his left hand
him
the Church, and over
this inscription
"
"
"
in ancient
"
STE
characters,
IOHES
BAPTLSTA
and
ORA
under
the
.....
IN
YE
ZERE
SCORE
AND
OF
LORD
OUR
xvi
GrOD
TRINETE
figure"
M"CCCC"JIIJ
MONDAY
xxn
DAY
OF
MAY,"
(viz:- 1496)
CHARFIELD,
A
Bristol
omnibus
trains.
one
Station
Railway
of
is two
and
conveys
The
old
the few
a
the
on
half
Midland
miles
from
Line
Gloucester
from
Wotton-under-Edge,
for
that
from
town
passengers
Church
of Charfield
of
is
great
in this
county
that
possesses
a
the
to
an
various
antiquity,and
hagioscope or
'":}
\YOTTON-UXDER-EDGE.
s"|uint.
a
few
can
Mound
or
entries
curious
be
hack
registers date
The
occur:
back
traced
than
more
slightly excavated
under
nothing1
discovered.
but
200
Bury, probably a
Alderman's
was
still
years.
is known
tumulus
Charrield, this
near
K"8o', are
to
families
Saxon
a
as
11. B.
of
\\("TT()\-i;\l)KU-K])GE.
should
leave
our
roam
from
sea-girt isle
mountains
Where
frown, and
valleys smile,
furious
rivers
Where
roaring leap
With
wrath, out o'er the deep,
foaming
wild
Or
How
through some
rugged glen,
visited
seldom
But
by men,
Why
Where
one
Amidst
At
may
the
Why
To
seek
Why
in
There's
The
town
The
eye
Chipping
The
Blue
The
and
mills
sake
More
for
the
Than
for
artistic
Beyond
The
this,
church
on
of
brow,
feet.
my
well-known
street,
Hall,
and
tall,
Grammar
School,
weaving
wool,
slender
spire,
old
some
the
residents
of
taste
admire
Rowland
or
seem
now
for
Tabernacle's
Which
it
Town
new
they
dream.
flattened
at
view
;
still
flag-staffbare
Coat
old
each
the
see
The
few
smiling
trace
can
to
few,
ti-od,
road
I see
hill's
low
lies
Distinctly
A
ever
methinks
"/nc,
compare
the
to
midnight
a
:-
elsewhere;
num'rous,
as
off the
From
tourist
hand
at
can
spots
but
are
for,
land,
are
unfrequented
Such
Uncared
scenery
rind
numerous
hath
the
Yes.
another
beauties
are
still unknown
ne'er
in
can
Vet
sublime,
scenes
foreign clime?
we
Tor
Along
such
a
our
any
there
And
leave
such
that
"
rise,
surprise ;
time
here
Know
With
we
waste
"Whilst
e'en
scene,
beauties
a
them
to
morn
fresh
new
turn
every
should
'";
changing
ever
step
every
At
we
Hellbury
burying place:
direction
the
beautifullykept ;
living in this parish
There
is
large
Hill,
skill,
shelter'd
a
ledge,
Wotton.under-Edge
Hale,
it
Hill
was
Ivsqre,
(54
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE.
in
Appears
In
The
the
with
massive
bells
chime
melodious,
tones
noble
of
tune
rich
And
and
stands
Through
Rich
teach
And
th'
oft
curious
are
gold
fossils
many
midst
Enshrin'd
And
die
the
see
other
Through
A
river
And
on
ship,
a
tidal
these
flow,
waters
spots,
elms
are
seen,
pastures
green
"
below,
the
Severn's
its surface
many
Upon
"
sunny
of
this, expansive,
o'er
For
vale
which
;
found
smiling cots,
trees
graceful clumps
golden grain, and
And
I
and
neat
;
lie,
Deep, in this consecrated
ground
Beyond
this, in the vale below,
which
some
Through
sparkling
Are
breeze,
unfold
to
unburnished
of
trees,
autumnal
without, the tombstones
the
living they must
Within,
To
old
fine
floats
foliage
treasures
pile,
style.
some
now
their
Causing
hour,
clear,
Gothic
in
amidst
which
third
Hanover."
"
elegant
tower,
each
and
sweet
tine, old, ancient
This
Is
view
which
From
wide,
vessels
and
flow,
waters
glide,
skiff
and
boat,
float.
waters
This
valley is of vast extent,
luxuriant.
Rich, fertile, and
O'erspread with
woods, and
shady groves,
And
sheltered
lovely glens, and
coves,
With
noble
mansions,
castles, towers,
With
dells, and
fragrant bowers.
sunny
And
and
towns
villages complete
The
feet.
picture lying at my
Far
Is
in
the
a
many
Dim,
and
distance
to
hill
mountain
southern
Their
So
Which
All,
I
is
all
Wales
these
This
hallow'd,
Go
when
"
Of
And
the
'neath
Autumn's
gaze
this
hills
the
sun.
o'er
crest,
hue,
blue,
mountains
with
blending
scarcely
mountain,
West
sombre
ethereal
is beautiful
Sparkle
the
with
outline
faint
of
obscure,
Co-mingling
In
and
the
rise,
skies,
descry,
can
which
is
sky
"
around
enchanted
and
vales
noontide
Go
"
reach
ground.
below,
glow
this
ridge,
Wotton-under-Edge.
JOHN
D,
TAIT.
THE
BERKELEY
AUTHOR"
n-ith
Bristol
and
OF
the
be
Glouccsti-rxltire
several
important
the
as
their
in
secluded
from
known,
except
the
brief
which
a
and
Genealogy
The
present
allowed
we
be
day
they
Royal
the
think
perhaps,
which
has
which
Smyth
permission,
have
be
Editorship
also
world
of
the
so
Bristol
John
to
the
early
and
and
being
so
F.S.A.
of
by
Lord
those
by
of
quarian
antito
Topography
their
three
that
will
a
a
one
may
Society
fields
in
labourer.
Fitzhardinge's
Archaeological
I
time,
mean-
author,
those
casions,
oc-
upon
so
the
of
in
kindly
they
In
it.
by
;
members
work
while
;
reported
that
industrious
printed
Gloucestershire
Maclean,
to
scarcely
very
press.1
and
works,
expressly
(1883)
Sir
the
is
extent
Commission
anticipating
through
these
formed
now
of
in
closely
or
and
examined
at
so
the
two
on
main
re-
enriched
be
so
Room
has, however,
Manuscripts
none
mine
of
said
which
History,
shown
been
unacceptable
was
are
be
to
the
still
given
the
and
might
Berkeley
justified
the
to
been
for
of
lord
account
not,
the
be
given
They
Gloucestershire
Historical
may
some
1
of
of
much-
Fosbroke
of
contain,
is
been
them,
idea
knowledge
manuscripts
and
by
they
of
from
that
existence
and
Bigland
1880-1.
perhaps,
years
their
extracts
for
of the
Evidence
the
many
inadequate
which
noble
.the
of
V.,
Smyth,
John
even
Vol.
which
are,
in
for
that
view
very
stores
our
have
desultory
wealth
of
Transactions
materials
there
manuscript
readers
to
afford
writers,
future,"
They
public
and
of
compilations
Castle.
Berkeley
flu-
from
corrections,
Gloucestershire,
the
original
F.S.A.
Arclifcological Society,
of
History
in
COOKE,
collections
existing
looming
"
and
THEIR
SMYTH.
HERBERT
additions
some
to-be-desired
to
JOHN
JAMES
By
He-printed,
AND
MANUSCRIPTS,
Society,
kind
under
2
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
Fosbroke1
Hoby,
of
Smyth,
he
whence
of
heir
in
came
Callowden,
by
Smyth's
life and
awing of
the
For
her
family,(I say
revenue,) and the
could much
inlarge in
I
which
instance
That
:
as
myself
in 26th
I
wherewith
end. with
farther
duty,
that
and
was
missed
us
glimpse
a
of the
ing
period. Speak-
;
"
regulatingthe
of youth, shee
had
compeere.
no
mention
one
only
seventeen.) crossed
with
hands
ing
accord-
expense
shee
then
fast,
son's break-
her
thereby presented her, then at the
curtsey,as loth too longe to stay upon
I departed one
ere
her, and to make
or
to
them,)
the like in my
next
I
assay,
then
was
I had
when
at the least ; and
begin againe
to
well,
done
and
;
such
desert
lately
therein, (then a boy
great
but newly entered into her service.)that
a country schoole,and
the better how, shee lifted up all her garments to the calf of
mee
to
of
mee
legg, that I might the better observe
bowing of the knee."
doubt
that
Smyth
according
to
the ideas
birth
;
the
were
all
of
was
immediate
noe
service
of
always
1
History of Gloucestershire,Vol. I.,p.
2
I
suspect that this
misprinted for
though there is
Leic.
a
in Leicestershire.
the Derby School
more
3
4
a
is
Humberstone,
from
than
the
100
such
no
but
It is also much
no
his
persons
of
styled in
so
position,
was
third
gentle
high rank
household
place
there
more
are
further
as
both
Hoby
Hoby
likely that Smyth
from
in
and
Lincolnshire,
Humberstone
would
the N.E.
corner
off.
daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
Lives of the Berkeleys,Vol. III.,849.
She
reason
468.
latter place than
miles
is
the foot
"
for Leicestershire,
Line ." having been
mistake
There
there
back
unbecoming
days, not
attendants
are
drawing
good family, and
of those
gentlemen, and
of
the grace
this menial
Notwithstanding
to
well
is
from
to shew
and
back
mee
nobleness
her
come
her
called
shee
time
4
says
dish in my
running legge
leggs, (soe to call
hundred
at that
at
hastening, and
was
a
old,
years
Elizabeth, (then about
the Fryars in Coventry where
the upper
part of the gallery at
walked
and
having a covered
dwelt,
and
son
tells us, and which
perticulers.I will
many
He
Derby,
family
at that
not
education
the
to
the
in
of
the
Berkeley s
gives
lady Berkeley,3he
of Katherine
"
it also
great households
in
manners
9
then
he himself
which
anecdote
an
position
repeating,because
is worth
the
School
Thomas,
Berkeley,
Smyth,
county.
same
Free
upon
Coventry, where
near
chiefly resided.
illustrated
Lord
17th
Henry,
attend
1584,to
the
in
of Thomas
son
of William
son
at the
educated
the
was
Line.,2second
co.
1567, and
in
born
Smyth
(? Humberstone)
of Humbstone,
was
that John
says
be sent
to
colnshire,
of Lin-
and
accounts
families
orders
others
of
means
their
had
who
education
the
time
same
13th
the
lord.
companions
three
as
Mr.
Edward
time
Lord
his
family
the
and
training
in
courtly
introduction
an
and
Smyth,
to
a
The
two
the
attendants
boys
from
of
the
Berkeleys,
the
of all
grades.
had
companions
remained
been
establishment
of
entered
to
it
on
years,
as
this
a
a
private
lease for
90 to 70 servants
Berkeley
Temple
the
removed
and
his
after which
student
a
two
where
Magdalen College,Oxford,
Middle
the
the
tutor,
same
into
from
studying together for three
removed
much
as
About
converted
Feb., 1589, Thomas
were
Maurice,
tery,
Fryars1Monas-
Dissolution,having taken
reducing his
In
of
the
the old White
to
family
Berkeley,
young
a
in life.
of retrenchment,
purposes
as
martial
of the
been
together under
Callowden,
since
the
and
capacity,
Trinity College,Oxford.
Coventry, which
years,
of
sons
both
same
to
to have
seem
great
and
scion
related
of
career
the
in
Ligon, a
nearly
was
Berkeley, for
three
Smyth
in
with
Cowper,
residence
they
make
their studies
pursuing
at
world,
to
great-grandson of Anne, only daughter
the
being
service
for younger
sought after
as
who
Madresfield,1
of
The
period.
Callowden, William
also to
came
the
way
and
accomplishments,
At
of
fact,much
in
was,
X
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
of
mon
com-
law.
On
the
returned
the
completion
to
for the
settled
married
Nibley,
He
belonging
also
to
many
1
Now
four
took
laid
claim
miles
a
which
to
of
following
same
time
of
he
Berkeley, having
the
relict of
of Warren's
to
founded
The
endowments
represented by Earl Beauchamp.
the
the
from
Berkeley.
the
At
belonging
was
Steward
office of Steward
there,
lease
estate
Katharine, Lady
years
Temple, Smyth
became
lucrative
widow
it,an
Wotton-under-edge,
1385, by
1596
Liberty of Berkeley.
dowered
well
a
Drewe, Esq.
lands
dignified and
and
North
at
in
at the
exchanged that appointment
more
Hundred
the
Berkeleys, and
but
Household,
year
of
the
of his studies
Court
the Free
and
and
had
this
the
School
endowed
crown
of
John
in
for
school,
4
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
under
much
VI., whereby
the
By
decree
1607
In
William
stone
Latin
rhyming
Over
the
M.H.
S.P.
N.C.
;
still be
on
next
HIM
over
seen
the
that
Smyth's growing
to
the church
the
in
arched
engraved
these
letters
the
a
:
following
the
CUJUS.
of
his
all
family
stone, with
doorway,
the
at
its
which
earthly
before
the
erected
was
whom
building of this house,
Castle
importance by tying
Nibley
the
inscription,
Jortin,Esq.,to
Berkeley
string,to prevent,
castle to
;
!
DARES
proved prophetic,as
case
During
and
:
HEIR'S
instabilityof
John
fool
thus
MY
WHO
1807,by
family
wealth
with
carrying
from
an
belonged.
the estate then
it is said
purchased
placed
REPLY
This
century.
site of the house
the
at
he
(PERHAPS)
passed entirelyout
estates
may
he
paraphrased
or
of
appropriate memento
in Smyth's
possessions which
of the
house1
new
HUJUS,
TO-MORROW,
? LiKT
WHOSE
AFTER,
end
tions
regula-
entrance
NESCIO
An
Nibley
a
forming
MOX
POSTEA
TO-DAY
MINE
BUT
N.M.
freelytranslated
be
'TIS
front
date, were
MEI,
SED
may
were
couplet ;
NUNC
which
claims
new
which
estate
the
a
expense,
of the time.
initials of the words
the
are
his
these
building
Nibley, an
Tracy.
which, with
on
which
in
occasioned.
re-incorporatedunder
commenced
Court,
been
chiefly at
requirements
Smyth
Smallcombe
had
expense
and
1 Edw.
Chantries,in
obtained, by which
school
the
to
and
Smyth,
was
the
suitable
from
of
chancery
rest, and
set at
trouble
exertions
in
of
for the Dissolution
the statute
he
as
to
satirized
the
said,the
build
his
castle
steward
new
house
with.
In
married
1609
Mary,
A view
"
Smyth's
elder
wife
and
daughter of John
of this house, which
Atkyiis'Gloucestershire'"
died,
was
he
afterwards
soon
Browning,
pulleddown
about
of
1 790, is
Coaley,
given
in
6
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
there
for which
writings afford
indeed
that part of their
reclaimed
from
shews
Smyth3
this
that
of the
however, shews
highly
that
farms
two
and
Westridge
the
on
the final settlement
rights
he
was
as
Steward
of
Manors
the
in
this
"
farm
ordinary
extra-
such
as
suit,
great Law-
marriage of Theophila,
Sir Robert
blesome
trou-
some
in
which
over
it
in
Smyth's
remunerated
lord, and
the
Wiken,
and
by
he
which
services
fees
paid
presided, and
probably
was
easier
providing for
he
him
laid up
was
a
"
Unicorn's
and
not
unknown
costly
exquisite jellies,"
by which, he says,
for six weeks,
at Gloucester
horn
and
the
older
to
"
my
Bezoar
stone,"
pharmacopeia,
daies seem
repryved to
a
present.''
2
3
Preface
M.S.
"
to his
"'
Extracts
Descriptionof
for
(Lives of the Berkeleys, Vol. III., p. 833)
and
Lady Berkeley, in visiting him during a
remedies
rare
for
employed,
Berkeley.
were
courts
of Lord
great kindness
dangerous sickness,with which
besides
Park,
Berkeley.
Berkeley with
Lord
some
of Holt's
of the famous
of the
for Lord
the
two
Haw
and
recompense
at Callowden
especially mentions
in 1608, and
held
Justice,in 1613, and
Chief
common
of the
suitors
He
he
Lord
to
mon
com-
Smyth's will,
also
often
was
Lisle
Henry
commissioner
a
in
bought
long-continued chancery suits,touching tithes
by salaryfrom
1
of
of the Lord
son
and
not
he
Lord
with
grand-daughter
the
him
;
Lord
rights of
to
Park
belonging
1609, the negotiation
in
by
which
in
services
and
both
from
he
death
Berkeley estate,as
Woods,
exertions
contesting the claims
of his
time
at the
against
whom
successful.
was
probably granted
were
Coke,
of
leases of Micklewood
beneficial
now
he
in which
thereupon,
the
Thorpe, from
and
newly
crown
lease
on
Frampton-on-Severn
of
inhabitants
the
by
held
was
part or share, for the purpose
third
These
suit
mainly by Smyth's
land
Oldisworth
Berkeley,by
then
land
the
conjecture
parish of Slimbridge, which
in the
unsuccessful
an
Berkeleys
in his
is wrong
grant of
a
Berkeley,in 1638,defeated
Lord
a
was
Severn
the
subject of
the
was
bounty
The
fully
frequently and grate-
he
as
Fosbroke2
acknowledges,1but
refute.
to
liberal to him,
most
were
evidence
ample
his
foundation, and which
the smallest
is not
from
Smyth's Lives of
the Hundred
of
the
Berkeley,"p.
Berkeleys."
328.
BERKELEY
Lord
in those
Berkeley
of land
than
and
he
family
are
many
Sir Edward
eldest
settled
the
mansion
1763.
Nicholas
dover
Hall,
in
1772.
age,
the
date
sola salus.'1
bearing
an
a
is
there
which
floor
of
a
is also
on
the
near
Latin
memory
his
to
pulpit,much
Princess
House,
Owen,
of Con-
Sheriff
Smyth,
and
of
that
took
the
sold the
died
in
Nibley
unmarried
became
in
extinct.
sister,Anna-Maria,
dilapidated and
worn.
inscription,commemorating
is added
the south
kneeling figure in the costume
in
inscription,
the
went
of
Owen
to his own,
1702,
latter built
Great
High
was
in
the
The
the
Smyths
death, to which
There
in 1770.
line
estates
gyric
Pliny'sPane-
of Gloucestershire
the heiress
of
employments
published
He
male
daughter of
_to H.R.H.
Nicholas
in addition
remains
of
he
called
Nibley,
son,
Nibley
Court, which
of
High Sheriff
married
His
his
in
Translation
a
was
at
in the
flat stone
and
Bacon.
in
the
at Smalcombe
George Smyth
Hall
Condover
of
buried
Jortin, Esq.,in 1803.
the
ISiil,when
still shews
ment
parlia-
works
Anne,
him
Shropshire, and
in
to John
A
in the
marriage. George Smyth, his
at his
He
Smyth
of Owen
surname
1
his
was
of the work
Hanover.
present
The
and
Trajan, which
Emperor
another
estate
honourable
writings, and
in
married
resided
him
on
1711, and
county
who
son,
long dedication
Sophia, of
the
liberal
Puritan, but there
allusions
1641,
in
the Author
grandson, was
in
and
Chancellor
of this in his
Berkeleys,and
the
a
Midhurst,
violent
a
Bromfeild, succeeded
father
with
for
became
died
Smyth
His
on
interests of the
highly
are
earnest,
an
entirely different feeling.
an
Church.1
his
that he
expressions and
John
under
the
to
degraded Lord
and
slightestevidence
exhibit
displays
appreciation
member
was
impeached
says
the
works
part,which
their
on
Smyth
which
Fosbroke
it
by grants
acceptable to Smyth.
more
generous
a
work
parties.
In 1621
not
and
served,
the
as
single-hearted devotion
recognition of
to both
well
as
for extra
to pay
of his life and
tenor
constant,
days
in money,
whole
The
7
MANUSCRIPTS
the
wall
a
motto, "Solus
handsome
mural
of the period,under
of his first wife.
his name,
Christus mihi
monument,
an
arch, with
8
BERKELEY
married
Edward
to
Edward
is the
This
gentleman
to the
papers
has
fifth
amongst
which
are
of John
Smyth
of the
his son,
Lives
Fitzharding down
The
some
birth
and
3.
His
"
His
wife.
10.
9.
His
His
death
died
"
14.
the
2.
references
lord's
The
place
and
fourth
and
sixth
date
bringing
other
a
up
of
one
institutions.
the
to man's
The
"
with
the
"
His
12.
life.
"
he
The
which
they
particulars of each
of his education
manner
second, third and
and
The
Berkeleys,who
were,
for their benefactions
and
such
his
The
abroad.
his estate.
eighth contains
G.
by marginal
from
The
and
talities.
hospi-
of which
verified
are
His
recreations
of his
use
contains
monastic
"
arms.
lands
amusements,
with
1.
miscellanies.
seals of
authorities
at home
given,
and
His
"
His
"
His
"
estate.
and
church, and
The
8.
birth, and the
dealings
generations,remarkable
of,
4.
Robert
sales of land.
titles
heading
his habits
his
long
husbandries
gives
number.
;
13.
and
public services
detail
always
first
and
describe
of these
in
following heads
and
11.
he
are
His
"
burial.
documents
volumes, folio,
life
application and
each
to the
taken.
lord's
portant
im-
most
Berkeley,from
devotions.
issue.
The
"
under
statements
of
of each
and
His
place of
and
seized.
"
important
time, twenty-one
own
youth.
alms
;
documents
the
three
foreign employments.
7.
law-suits.
are
Lord
delights. 5." His purchases
and
"
of
course
other
mission,
Com-
of them
In this work
pages.
variations,under
with
and
Berkeleys,in
transactions
and
events
his
Manuscripts
works, perhaps
of every
to
family
historian.
of the
complete biography
valuable
highly interestingand
containing 933 closelywritten
a
in
Elizabeth.
full notices
very
originalletters
Smyth's manuscript
is his
his
Historical
report contains
Gloucestershire
future
Of
lately submitted
many
and
issue
sister,Caroline
another
examination
whose
to the
of
grandson
heir,
by Reginald Cholmondeley, Esq.,
inherited
who
and
son
dying without
Pemberton,
Smyth
were
Esq., whose
Pemberton,
William
1863, they
MANUSCRIPTS
military
fifth and
seventh
in all their
to,and
other
events
was
ments
endow-
charitable
and
trans-
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
actions
do
as
tenth
and
under
come
the
Smyth
also
pedigreesof
the
gives those of
eleventh
head
cleverly done
is followed
burial, and
died
in most
Then
follow
mortem.
to be
drawn
the
from
praises
moral
"
or
"
Berkeley,
who
in
by marriage
at
time
one
or
life
their
and
forefathers
telescope,or
insight
into
seldom
or
If the
truth
a
"
through
the
never
in almost
"
Lives
of
archaeological
this.
as
all the
have
the
England
the
and
northern.
most
valuable
most
and
generations
seems
looking-glass,"and
and
afforded
of the
and
;
in
they
almost
family
The
to
us,
of
daily
also
are
scribed
de-
bring
as
our
with
give such
of past times
customs
allied
illustrations
doings actually before
the
civil and
Their
Topography.
which
fidelity
The
been
another, possessed property
manners
been
period of the
the
history; they
History,Genealogy
with
George, Lord
compilation
occupations of successive
and
general
a
great families
annals, therefore,furnish
national
dispenses
unsparingly ;
the
over-estimate
such
English county, except
every
lessons
1618.
our
all the
with
of which
the
on
young
at
year
actively concerned
were
transactions
military
our
17th
all,"
place of
author
our
them,
Inquisitiones
impartially and
A.D.
of
the
vices
de-
of
lands
reflections
some
his
in
was
importance
Berkeleys
have,
from
scarcely possibleto
and
value
and
being for the benefit of the
completion of this work,
It is
of his death
instances
most
censures
of
many
of the
the
other
scene
life,in which
each
and
schedule
a
seized,taken
post
his
by
Under
arms
of
period.
families
other
twelfth, "last
circumstances
the
Berkeleys,
them.
drawings
The
the pen.
with
gives the date and
he
lord, with
by each
used
232
than
latest
of the
branches
the seals of
described
are
her
married,
to the
indirectly,with
connected, directly or
ninth
issue, including
down
fewer
no
he
lady
their
various
The
heading.
the
branches,
of younger
Besides
of
also
dower, and
descendants
other
any
particularsof
full
state
and
family
not
as
a
an
has
us.
Berkeleys
"
has
more
interest, Smyth's "Description of the
national
Hundred
and
of
10
"
Berkeley
is
perhaps of still greater importance
Gloucestershire.
The
accounted
one-fourth
the
county.
whole
426 pages,
sketch
is
of
and
a
place
successive
also is
its
for this purpose
the
title deeds
work
or
if the
that
carried
out
with
hitherto
has
freeholders
such
Knight's service
and
He
a
also wrote
and
which
another
seem
of
Also
under
of great value
freehold
the
1640,
in
to
access
also full
are
frequent
and
of
;
thoroughly
a
but
and
could
be
minuteness
history of
county
be
it may
county
of research
of any
parish. This
each
of the
rest
notices
character
a
a
folio
of the
volume
the
of the
volume
Berkeleys
;
these
History of
of the Manor
been
the
and
Borough
Hundred
lost.
and
of
Court
or
for what
Berkeley, and
another
Court,
weeks
of all
names
lands
Tenures
books
utilityin tracing Gloucestershire
to have
through
obtained
compilation
suit to the Three
service.
down
There
family.
amount
left
also
owing
manors
its possessor
Gloucestershire
a
parish
Religious Foundations,
the
of
work
attempted.
Pleas, of the Hundred
owe
to
peculiarityin
have
scarcelyeven
Smyth
and
same
should
detail, we
every
history of the
the
very
original grant, and
to have
seems
to
History
comprehensive
its
the
Every
time.
own
antiquity,with
essential
is most
said
Smyth
remarkable
other
a
every
of
traced
are
given, down
of
historical
of the
rest
accounts
from
out
Churches
monuments
of
ing
Proverbs, shew-
The
Book, and
of almost
of the
natural
The
followed
owners
volume
follows
description of
Smyth's
to
value, of
folio
one
Then
folk-lore.
Domesday
and
other
and
Hundred.
the
minutely
pedigrees of
is
in
peculiarities,
highly interestingto
complete history and
in
anciently
was
general descriptiveand
a
other
owners
accounts
book, which
regards
as
one-third
of old Gloucestershire
philology
with
commence
Berkeley
part of Gloucestershire.
collection
students
of
extent, and
in
The
colloquialand
contains
Hundred
prefaced by
of this
remarkable
of
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
Manor
Bosham,
would
of
they
by
be
pedigrees.
of
Tetbury,
in
Sussex,
It
is
scarcely
absolutely
few
and
far
Whenever
I
be
to
his
In
which
none
of
antiquaries
are
and
modern
The
ancient
records
not,
as
gathered
with
now,
facility
every
scattered
in
the
the
about
Rolls
and
road"
to
those
who
John
publication
his
of
writings
active
memory.
for
the
the
Nicolas,
workers
study
of
experience
Smyth
of
may
his
and
House
have
antiquity
the
of
be
works
appreciated,
that
full
Office,
these
but
justice
were
Tower,
others
Westminster,
Rolls
in
is
will
of
series,
and
and
other
"
royal
day.
our
helps,
it
or
Calendars
comparatively
a
were
but
Marshall,
historical
value
the
the
Sims,
use
Record
The
of
made
good
at
courts.
with
existence.
perusal,
in
some
days'
research
Public
search
been
two
a
in
such
publications
Nichols,
was
for
labour,
have
were
one
Chapter
various
various
zealous
into
places,
the
His
London
made
other
believing
must
favoured
he
their
various
of
the
which
together
Chapel,
Papers,
the
of
in
repositories
State
of
for
facilities
the
point.
with
wrong.
to
are
important
compilations
journey
a
mistakes
reasons
authorities
always
not
conflict
to
seems
is
his
any
found
these
in
day
horseback,
on
.that
the
industry
enormous.
ride
and
but
affect
never
generally
right
and
patience
and
have
Smyth
that
say
statements,
anything
says
authorities,
Smyth
his
in
between,
he
to
necessary
correct
11
MANUSCRIPTS
BERKELEY
the
only
be
By
labours
by
done
the
to
Wotton
?r
Edge.
iJ
Wotton
Hill.
u
alley.
*_.
I
rish
.,
Church.
J
Church
J
-I
"
i
Street.
J
treet.
s
"1
A*
^
"
-c
o
W
fe)
\
3
J"
A
1158
*"21SN
00577
REGIONAL
000
083
UBHAflY
6181
FACILITY
053
9