"Berkeley" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... afesse between six crosses crosslets or, No. 348: and Beauchamp of Bletshoe—Gu., afesse between six martlets or, No. 349. Second, acorresponding group of shields of the BERKELEYS:—Maurice de Barkele (or Berkeley)—Gu., achevron arg. (H.3): and then for other Berkeleys—Gu., achevron between ten crosses pattes, six and four, arg.; and the same Ordinary, with either ten cinquefoils of silver, or the same number of white roses. Three CORBETS bear ...
— The Handbook to English Heraldry • Charles Boutell
... Sir George Berkeley, afterwards Earl of Falmouth, was the confidant and favourite of the King: he commanded the Duke of York's regiment of guards, and governed the Duke himself. He had nothing very remarkable either in his wit, or his person; but his sentiments were worthy of the ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... enchanting, that Anne was beginning to take an interest in the theatre again, and was charming in a new suit and a really extravagant hat. The Warriners began to spend their Sunday afternoons with real estate agents in Berkeley—not this year, perhaps, but certainly next, they told each other, they could CONSIDER that lovely one, with the two baths, and such a view, or the smaller one, nearer the station, don't you remember, Jim? where there was a sleeping-porch, and the garden all laid out? ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... was short. Having flattered the citizens, and confirmed them in their attachment to his person, he turned to the west, and entered Evesham, on the same day on which York reached Berkeley. After an interchange of messages they met in the church of the castle; and, before they separated, the doom of Richard was sealed. That the regent consented to the actual deposition of his nephew does not necessarily follow; he might only have sought his reformation ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... Albemarle Sound to St. John's River in Florida, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. A small strip extending from the north shore of the Albemarle Sound to the southern boundary of Virginia was not included in this grant, but nevertheless the Lords Proprietors, of whom Governor Berkeley, of Virginia, was one, assumed control over this section; and in 1663 these noblemen authorized Berkeley to appoint a governor to rule over this territory, whose ownership was a disputed ...
— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson
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