I am not on this list, so may perhaps be presumptuous in posting
this--if so, please forgive me.
I am editing a Restoration (British) poet's work (Anne Killigrew
1660-1685). She writes a poem to "my Lady Berkeley" on the "affliction"
of her son going "early to sea service." I thought this would be easy
but find myself up to my tush in Berkeleys--some earls, some barons.
Lord Berkeley (the son) has seen service in "two French campaigns," and
was young (although this could be hyperbolic)--more boy than man, says
my poet. I assume that Killigrew (a maid of honor for Mary of Modena,
the second wife of the James, the Duke of York--eventually James II) is
at court, her family are royalists and Anglicans in the main--maybe that
would help isolate the pertinent Berkeley. Anyone with any ideas about
how I might find more about Berkeley's, would be delighted to hear from
you.
I hope that there is someone out there doing an in-depth bio of British
Berkeleys about whom poems were written ;-)
Please reply directly to:
Pat Hoffmann
hoffmap@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu