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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1916 
WEST END LOWERED NORMAN ARCH (XV. Cent.) 
to be identified with the messuage held by Nicholas de 
Berkeley at the time of his decease in 1382 (i.p.m.) and in 
1485 again. It is not possible to state absolutely where that 
mansion was situated, but the probabilities of the locality 
suggest that it was at Downton Stanley, where stood a moated 
hall. It was certainly not the site of the present House,* near 
1 This was still building in Rudder’s day. 
