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in white alabaster, and is one of the earliest effigies we have in this fine (now 
extinct) material. The dead king’s heart was placed in a silver vase by Lord 
Berkeley, who received £5 a day while the body lay here. The flamboyant 
account of the murder by De la More (probably of Bitton and no friend of 
the Berkeleys) is our earliest detailed authority, and it is not only full of 
impossibilities about “ heavy feather-beds more than fifteen strong men could 
carry ” being thrown over the wretched prisoner, and to no purpose “ for his 
shrieks were heard all over the town of Berkeley," but unfortunately his MS. 
is not in existence, and was only copied (inaccurately) seventy years after 
the event which it professes to describe after the manner of Harrison Ainsworth 
or Mrs. Radcliffe. 
It may be worth while to point out that as the Thorpe Tower and at least 
one semi-circular turret vanished with it when it was rebuilt in 1346, perhaps 
it had special and most unpleasant memories as having been the real prison 
of Edward II., and so was gotten rid of not unwillingly. 
We can here say farewell to the Castle, and perhaps faintly picture, on 
this calm, beautiful September day, those other days when 
“ Berkeley’s towers appeared in martial pride, 
Menacing all around the Champaign wide.” 
Drayton. 
A hearty vote of thanks was given by the Members of the Club to the 
Right Hon. the Earl .of Berkeley for the pleasure afforded to them in spite 
of the perforce limited sight of the building. 
The following candidates for Membership of the Club were declared duly 
elected : — 
Rev. Maurice Maltby, The Rectory, Longhope, proposed by C. I. 
Gardiner, seconded by J. W. Gray. 
H. Cairns Terry, M.B., Hampden House, Barton Street, Gloucester, 
proposed by Dr. J. M. Martin, seconded by Roland Austin. 
R. G. Wootton, Mickleton Manor, Gloucestershire, proposed by J. M. 
Dixon, seconded by F. J. Mylius. 
MISERDEN MEETING. 
The meeting arranged for September 9th, had, for various reasons, to • 
be abandoned. 
