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opening into the chapel by four cusped arches ; on the west wall 
is a raised pew or gallery entered from the house and set apart 
for the family. The roof is of a very low pitch, divided into 
panels by timber ribs, and is of the Decorated style. A recent 
discovery of ancient black letters is of some interest. On the 
flat, part of the sides of these beams can be traced a black-letter 
inscription on a white ground almost illegible, but sufficient 
remains to show that there are portions of the Book of Revelation 
translated into Norman-French by John Trevisa, a Cornishman of 
the fourteenth century, and once Vicar of Berkeley. These 
inscriptions are said to be of great historical value as being one of 
the earliest attempts to translate any portion of the Scriptures 
into a language understood by Englishmen. A low, uncomfortable- 
looking chair is shown here as having once belonged to Queen 
Anne. Passing from the chapel to the drawing-room various 
articles formerly belonging to Queen Elizabeth, amengst them a 
very fine onyx, were seen, and the deep splay of the south 
window indicated the thickness of the old walls. Having seen 
all that was permitted to be seen of the interior the members 
re-crossed the court-yard to the staircase leading to the keep, the 
most interesting part of this very interesting Castle. Turning off 
the stairs to the right, a narrow ledge leads to the room over the 
gateway, said to be the place where King Edward II.. was 
murdered, and his bedstead, which has the suspicious look of 
being of much more modern date than that commonly attributed 
to it, almost fills up the small space. Entering the keep through 
a Norman portal, the room over the dungeon, where putrid 
carcasses were placed below to annoy the King, was the last spot 
of interest shown. The banner floating from Thorpe’s tower 
(one of the four towers flanking the keep, three of which are 
semi-circular, while this is rectangular), indicated that his Lordship 
was at home. Indeed this was the rent audit day, and as the 
members wended their way through rain and mud to the station, 
his Lordship was then presiding at the tenants’ dinner at the 
