BEDMINSTER, (Somerset) a little S.W. of Brislol, was for several successions the estate of the Lds. Berkley; one of whom founded a hermitage here, and a hos. In the R. of Hen. VI. it was vested in the Ds. of Somerset; but, on the attainder of one of them in the R. of Edw. IV. the K. gave it to his brother, the D. of Glocester (afterwards Rich. III.) and so it passed to the crown. It has a chapel bel. to the Ch. of St. Mary Redcliff, at Bristol.