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 138 BERKELEY VII. 1534. 7- Henry (Berkeley), Lord Berkeley, posthumous s. and h., by 2nd wife, who "may bee called Henry the Harmlesse, or Posthumous Henry." (^). He was b. 26 Nov. 1534, 9 weeks and 4 days after his father's death. At the death of King Edward VI, 6 July 1553, and the consequent failure of heirs male of the body of Henry VII, he obtained possession (under the entail of 1488) of the estate of Berkeley (as also of many other estates) which had been alienated above 60 years. K.B. at the coronation of Queen Mary, 28 Sep. 1553. By Royal warrant, 13 May 1555, he had spec, livery of his lands, though under age. He undoubtedly sat in the Pari, held 20 Jan. (1557/8) 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary ;('') he was sum. to Pari, by writ directed Hetirico Berkley, from 5 Nov. (1558) 5 and 6 Ph. and Mary to 18 Nov. (1606) 4 Jac. 1. When taking his seat he was ranked similarly to his predecessors (Lords Berkeley), many of whom had not possessed the Castle and Honour of Berkeley. From 1603 till his death he was Lord Lieut, of co. Gloucester. He w., istly, at Kenninghall, Norfolk, in Sep. 1554, Katharine (") (then aged 16), 3rd da. of Henry Howard, styled Earl of Surrey (s. and h. ap. of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk), by Frances, da. of John (Veer), Earl of Oxford. She was restored in blood (1559) i Eliz. from the effects of her father's attainder. She d. at Callowdon afsd., of dropsy, 7 Apr., and was bur. 20 May 1596, near the Drapers' Chapel in St. Michael's, Coventry. He m., 2ndly, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, 9 Mar. 1597/8, Jane, widow of Sir Roger TowNSH end, sister of John, ist Baron Stanhope of Harrington, and da. of Sir Michael Stanhope, of Shelford, Notts, by Ann, da. of Nicholas Rawson. He d. 26 Nov. 1613, at Callowdon afsd., on his 79th birthday, and was bur. at Berkeley. M.I.('^) Will dat. 20 Dec. 1612, pr. 2 Feb. 1613/4. Inq. p. m. 20 Jan. (1613/4) 11 Jac. I. His widow d. at her house in the Barbican, London, 3 Jan. 161"] ji. Will dat. 20 July 16 17, pr. 10 Mar. 1611 1%, by Sir Roger Townshend, Bart. VIII. 1 613. 8. George (Berkeley), Lord Berkeley,('^) grandson and h., being only surv. s. and h. of Sir Thomas Berkeley, (^) According to Smyth's Berkcleys, he was styled "Lord Berkeley, Mowbray, Segrave and Breousc," the adoption of which last Barony {Brewes of Gower) is an innovation superadded to the assumption of his predecessors. See ante, p. 134, note " b," and note " d " below. C") See Lords' 'Journals ; his name, however, does not appear in Dugdale's list of peers sum. to that Pari. V.G. ('^) She was inclined to " betake herself to the delights of youth and greatness. . . and was so good an archer at butts with the longbow, as her side, by her, was never the weaker. She kept commonly a cast or two of merlins, mewed in her own chamber to the detriment of her gowns and kirtlcs." V.G. ('') The titles of "Mowbray, Segrave and Breouse," are ascribed to the Lords Berkeley in the following mon. inscriptions, vi%. on that, at Berkeley, to Henry who d. 161 3; and on those at Cranford, Midx., to George, who d. 1658, and George (Earl of Berkeley) who d. 1698.