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Ivy House Books, Bournstream, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. Published 1988, this being the 1996 reprint. Paperback, vii, 115 pp.; 21 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and 3 maps; index.
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In very good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers with mild shelf wear and light bumping and creasing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A study of the deposition, captivity, and death of Edward II at Berkeley Castle in 1327, one of the most notorious royal deaths in English history, and of the barons driven into rebellion by the Despensers. Gives extended attention to the Fieschi Letter, the document behind the long-standing theory that Edward was not murdered at Berkeley but escaped a second time and died years later as a hermit in an Italian monastery, and offers the author's explanation of that document's purpose and effect. Foreword by John Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, still the seat of the Berkeley family. Cover, drawings, and maps by Victor Jellings; photographs by Marc Giddings. Reginald Perry (died 1992) was a Gloucestershire historian who read History and Economics at Bristol and London; his maternal ancestors lived in and around Berkeley for three centuries, and he wrote and lectured widely on West Country history. Contents: As the Twigs Were Bent; The Road to Bannockburn; A Tumult of Barons; The Wheel of Change; The Captive King; They Shortened His Life; The Italian Priest's Tale; Uneasy Interlude; A Fairly Clean Slate; The Art of Survival; List of Sources; Index.