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« of Christ, 1397, being the 21st of King Eichard II, tiU when 

 "and somewhat after himself flourished," He died in 1412, 

 and was buried in Berkeley Church. 



Trevisa was a cotemporary of Wtclifp whom he much 

 resembled in the enlightenment of his doctrines and in 

 his denunciations of the monastic system, especially of the 

 Mendicant Orders. As Wtclifp held the Prebend of Aust in 

 the Collegiate Church of Westbury-on-Trim in this county 

 it seems not too much to suppose that Trevisa and his Lord may 

 have imbibed some of the reformed doctrines which they appear 

 to have held, by personal intercourse with Wycliff. 



Though neither Trevisa nor his Patrons are usually ranked 

 amongst the followers of Wycliff, or the Lollards, "yet," says 

 MiLNER, ''■ do they seem to be sufficiently distinguished by their 

 piety and veneration for the scriptures." 



The Mttrder of Edward the 2nd. 



In 1322, Maurice 7th Lord Berkeley, engaging with the 

 Lords AxjDELEY and Mortimer in the rebellion directed against 

 the Kings favourites, the De spencers, was seized by the King 

 (Edward IL) at Cirencester, where he had been induced with 

 others to come on the faith of a safe conduct, and committed to 

 prison in the Castle of Wallingford, where he died 5 years after. 

 Thomas, his son, who succeeded him, continued the rebellion, 

 and ravaged the manors belonging to the favourites in Oxon 

 and Berkshire, but was taken prisoner and committed to the 

 Tower, whence he escaj)ed. He was, however, again cajptured 

 and sent to the Castle of Pevensej^, and remained a prisoner 

 nearly five years, until he was set free by the success of the 

 Queen's party in 1326. During the last six years of the reign 

 of Edward II. it is recorded that half the baronage of England 

 were butchered, imprisoned, or banished by the King in the 

 course of the struggles against the King's favourites. 



The popular party was, however, at length reinforced by the 

 Queen Isabella and the Prince op Wales, and a new and 

 stronger combination was formed, by which Edward ultimately 



