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 or London, and £100 to the Drapers' Company, to employ and set on work poor children when the Drapery should be made a workhouse. There were also other gifts, including £20 for the repairs of the Church.

This large tomb of black marble and veined pillars formerly stood within rails, together with another to Lady Kath Berkeley, (now gone,) on the North side of the Drapers' Chapel. On the end are the family arms, (plate viii.), on the front two panels, one has the crest of the Berkeleys, and the other the following inscription-

""Here lyeth expectinge a joyful resurrec- tion the body of Sr Thomas Berkeley, Knight onely sonne of the Right Honble Henry Lo Berkeley and of the Lady Katherine his wife Sister of Thomas Howard late Dyke of Nor- folke, who by Elizabeth his wife (sole Dav- ghter and heire of the right Honorable George Lo: Hvngdon Lord Chamberlayne to our late Soveraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth,) left issue George and Theophila the onely children of 6 whom death had spared to attend their fathers funerall, and to bee the comfort of their mother; for to whose perpetval memory shee hath erected this her husbands monument. In which also lyeth the body of Henry the youngest of their children. The said Thomas Berkeley deceased the XXII day of November 1611

and the said Henry his sonne deceased the 4th day of March following.""

This great house of Berkeley (originally of Gloucestershire,) on the death of Edw. VI., Henry 12th Lord Berkeley by descent from the Mowbrays and Segraves became possessed of Caludon, where he died, 1613, and was buried in the Chapel of Berkeley Castle. He married the daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, she died at Caludon, 1596, and was buried with