‘ 
Retyospect of Domestic Literature—Topography, &c. 
that he was sick at Bradley, and had lost 
his memory: though it is plain he had 
no concern im the act, because he was 
sent from the castle on account of his 
compassion, yet Mr. Smythe says, that 
the plea was untrue, because he did not 
go to Bradley till Michaelmas, aud sent 
Gurnay, the regicide, at the very time, 
with lerters to the Queen and Mortiner, 
at Nottingham castle, and by a second 
direction from them, kept his decease 
secret till All Saints following, 16 Ed- 
ward IL, this lord built the great hich 
tower in the north part of the keep, then 
ruinated, and called Thorpe’s tower, be- 
cause he held his lands at Weuswell by 
guard ef it; and 18 and 19 Edward III. 
built the new work at the castie, so then 
called, which is that part without the 
keep on the N.E. next to the little park 
and the great kiteben,(1) the roof of 
which Henry VIL. brought from Wotton, 
according to tradition, In the reign of 
Henry VL. the castle was often besieged, 
through family contentions; and Mr. 
Smyth supposes much of the town de- 
stroyed. Part of the churchyard was 
taken into the castle.(2) The officers of 
the castle were a constable, porter, con- 
stable's servant, and an under gaoler, but 
whether ander the constable or an upper 
gaoler, my authority does not express. (3) 
Mr. Smyth says, in another place, (4) 
that the castle was built in a great part 
out of the ruins of the nunnery which 
stood on the same spot, and that Henry 
If. when Duke of Normandy, made an 
engagement to Robert Vitzharding, to 
build a castle there; and not long before 
the death of King Stephen, came to 
Berkeley, to see the building performed, 
Mr. Bigland, says, from Mr.Prynue’s Col- 
lections, that, in 1418, Richard Beau- 
champ, Earl of Warwick, lay before it 
with an armed force, fully determined to 
destroy it, but was diverted from bis pur- 
pose by the Bishop of Worcester, and 
the neighbouring gentry. During the 
grand rebellion, it was held for the king 
by a Scottish captain (at one time by 
Colonel Veale), aud subdued all the 
country, There were frequent incursions 
and skirmishes, but only one regular 
siege, by Massie. Thus Corbet: but 
1 Outside the keep. Lady Ann, against 
the eleven days’ visit of K. Hen. VII. pulled 
down the house at Wotton, for the lead on 
the roof. 
2 Smythe, 459. 
3 Id. 267. 
4 Hist. of Berkcley Hernesse. 
625 
other aceounts say, ‘ Berkeley town and 
castle, the chief streneth of which con- 
sisted in the outworks and church, was 
delivered up to the parliamentary forces 
by the gallant Sir Charles Lucas, Sept. 
25, 1645, atter a vigorous defence of nine 
days.” A redoubt used et the siege is 
shewn in the fields. Mr. Dallaway thinks 
that the large aperture in the keep, partly 
filled up by a comparatively low wall, is 
where the ancient gateway stood, and 
that the fortress founded by the Duke of 
Normandy consisted of that structure 
only: or else this aperture may have 
been made when Thorpe’s tower was re- 
built, for the purpose of greater command 
in flanking the entrance to the inner 
bailey; and safely, as no one could have 
got into the keep without destruction 
from above.” 
In an early part of his work, Mr. Fos- 
brooke announces an Appendix in six 
numbers, several of which have already 
appeared, iliustrative not merely of the 
old provincial manners and customs of 
Gloucestershire, but through them, of the 
kingdom at large. fi 
If any praise fours can cheer him in 
his laborious researches, we can readily 
and honestly bestow it. 
The plates, with which the history of 
Gloucestershire is adorned, are certainly 
not executed by the first artists, but the 
work is truly useful, curious, and enter- 
taining. 
Mr. Brrrton’s “ Catalogue Raisonné 
of the Pictures belonging to the most ho- 
nourable the Marquis of Stajford, in the 
Gallery of Cleveland House,” is illus- 
trated with anecdotes, and descriptive 
accounts of the execution, composition, 
and characteristic merits of the principal 
paintings. Prefixed, is a view of the new 
yallery, and a plan of the suite of rooms 
on the first floor. The following account 
of one of Raffuelle's pictures, No. 46, in 
the drawing-room, may serve 45 a speci- 
men of the execution, 
Virgin and Child—From the Orleans 
Galicry. “In this captivating picture, 
the mother and infant are represented in 
a room; whereas in the three former 
paintings by this artist, the holy families 
are all in the open air, with landscapes, 
&e. The present composition may, 
thercfore, be e¢alled a domestic scene. [t 
exhibits a modest graceful female, oceus 
pied in the most endearing, and there- 
fore the most attractive of feminine 
duties. 
In the present picture, the mother is 
represented as being carefully and ten- 
derly 
