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| Notes for Maurice Berkeley |
Smyth in his Lives of the Berkeleys relates that Maurices's death was in a "round play" joust, where many caroused - and more - around within a strong round wooden stockade.
Smyth also lets slip a phrase in his chapter on his younger brother and successor Thomas, that Maurice was "otherwise addicted" in this sentence on Thomas:
"In whome I admire the providence of the disposeinge God, by removeinge the elder brother (otherwise addited) but in the Eve before his father's death, thereby to graft into this familye this noble branch..." |
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