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 332 BERKELEY. Mayor of Bristol, by Isabel his wife. She{ :1 ) became li. to her br. Thomas Head, inheriting lands at Thornbury, eo. Clone, ami at Wraxall, Ashton, Bedminslcr, ami Tickenham, co. Somerset. He d. Sep. 1506 aged 70 antl is bur. at Austin Priors, Lon- don, His widow d., at the same ago of 70, at Coventry and was bur. with him. IV. 150G. 4 or 14 Maurice ]!ehkeley <1c jure (apparently) Lord rr iro-M DK BBBkBT-ttS [1421]. s. and h., who "may bee called Maurice Hie 1 1. c'ourtkr," was 6. 14o'7 probably at Thornbury. KB. at the coronation 23 June, 151/8, Sheriff of co. Clone. IbO'J, 1515 and 1516, residing principally at Tate, co. lllouc. ; Sheriff of eo. Leicester and eo. Warwick, !5l&(t) Keeper of Kingswood Forest &e. 1511, Knight of the body to Hen. VIII, 13 April 1512; Marshal of the Army for Spain, 1512; Capt. in the army in France, 1 . r > 1 3 and again 1529. Lieut, of Calais 1520. He appears to have been .sum. as a Baton (LORD BEKKKLEY) to the Pari, of 15 April (15-J3) 14 Hen. VIII(«) (at which time he was still abroad) and to have been advised to accept the honour, tho' the intention, apparently, was to place him as a junior Baron. (<•) He, however, never took his seat(°) He m. in his 17th year, 1484, Katharine, da. of Sir William Bkiikki.ky of Stukc Oill'ord co. Glouc. by Ann, da. of Sir Humphrey Stajtokb she being then not much umler that age. He (/. s p. legit. 12 Sep. 1523 at Calais and was bur. in Trinity chapel within the parish church there, Imp 16 Hen, VIII. His widow el. "not full three years " afterwards and was bur. at Yate afsd. ( a ) It has been conjectured that this match gave offence to his br. but Smyth says that the Marquess "had little cause to complain of the obscure parentage of the Lady Isable which he vainly called base, &c." (*>) " An argument that hee was not then accepted as a Peere of the llealme, as after also more fully doth appear.'" See Smyth's "Berkeleys." ( c ) "By reason of which summons he then sat in Pari, merely as a New Baron in the lowest place of which iie had no joy &e. "[but submitted] " being thereunto per- suaded by his Council learned in the law as appcarcth by an oiig. letter written t" him by Jolm Fitz James, then Lord Chief Paron," dated ti May t-'2S. Sec "Dngdalc," and sec also note "k" in/m. In the " Chronicle of Calais, 1485-1540," edited by J. 0. Nichols for the Camden Soc (lS-iG) it is stated that at a Pari, held at Wcstin. in April 1523 Sir Arthur Plautagenet, Sir Maurice Berkeley, Lieut, of Calais, Sir William Sands and Sir Nicholas Vaux were made respectively Yiscuunt Lisle. Ijord Berkeley, Lord Sands, and Lord Vaux. It is to be rem. irked that Kite-James' letter and this (contemporary) account in the "Chronicle of Calais" are the mil/ proofs of the alleged summonses, there being »« record of his mane in the list of summons temp. Hen. VIII. " This Writ [1523] was considered as having created a new Barony, in the claim made by Colonel Berkeley, already alluded to, and it would certainly appear that Maurice IX. [4 or 14] Baron was assigned a place in Parliament as junior Baron, although lie never sat therein ; but it is equally certain (of which no mention is made iu the case of Colonel Berkeley] that Thomas X [5 or IS] Baron and Thomas XI [6 or 10] Baron (neither of whom was possessed of Berkeley Castle) sat in the precedency of the older Barony, and that the accession of Henry XII [7 or 17] Baron to the Castle of Berkeley in no way altered his place in Parliament ; indeed, this latter individual was (in 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary, anil even after his controversy with the Lord Willoughby, 3!) KHz.) assigned a lower precedency than had been allowed to his father, who was not possessed of the Castle." See " Courthope." ( d ) The letter of Fitz .lames (alluded to supra in note " h") is printed in Smyth's " Berkeleys " (Vol. II. p. 208). He writes that as to " thy Honor, which the King's Grace by his writt hath lately called you too, Sir, wee all will advise you to take the honor, and howbeit that as yet ijee hare vat the ronme in the l'arl. Chamber that the Lord Berkeleys have had of old time, yet wee advise you to take this roome appointed to you at this time and to make nor labor of the higher roomc at this time, for causes to longe to write." (°) " This Lord, howbeit hee had his pruxey [Lord Mount joy] yet never tome per- sonally to that Pari, but still kept at Calais where he d. in Sep. following." See Smyth's " Berkeleys." The Journals of the House of Lords from 7 to 25 Hen. VIII are missing.