BHRS Volumes 21-40, 1939-1960
Volumes 1 to 30 and some subsequent volumes were published as a journal under the titles The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society or Miscellanea . Each contained up to sixteen articles. Click on a title for a list and description of contents.
Volume 21:
edited by G. Herbert Fowler (1939)
Contents:
'Calendar of the roll of the justices on eyre, 1247', G. Herbert Fowler.
The commission for the Eyre was issued on 25 May 1247 to hear the pleas of the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Bedford, Buckingham and seven others. Four justices ...
Volume 22:
edited by G. Herbert Fowler and Joyce Godber (1945)
The documents in the cartulary deal with the Priory’s property and privileges. They are transcribed in Latin and accompanied by brief summaries in English. There is an extract from the Valor Ecclesiasticus setting out the assessment of the Priory in ...
Volume 23:
by Ernest Oscar Payne (1946)
In the first part of the book, based on his University of London PhD thesis, the author draws on the correspondence and other writings of Richard How of Aspley Guise (1727-1801?) to present a picture of life in the Bedfordshire ...
Volume 24:
edited by T. S. Willan (1946)
During the seventeenth century attention was given to improving river navigation in several parts of the country, in return for tolls from boats carrying cargo on the river. Before the civil war the improvements to the River Ouse were mainly ...
Volume 25:
(1947)
Contents:
'The meeting-place of Wixamtree hundred,' by F. W. Marsom [Marsom suggests that the meeting place was in the centre of the hundred at Deadman’s Oak where old trackways meet.]
'Two Cranfield manors,' by Joyce Godber [This article identifies the medieval origins ...
Volume 26:
edited by Guy Parsloe (1949)
Minutes of the meetings of the Court of Aldermen, Common Hall and Common Council. They deal with procedure, admission to the freedom of the town, admission of burgesses, appointment of town officials, town property, repairs, the salary of the school ...
Volume 27:
edited by H. G. Tibbutt (1948)
Sir Lewis Dyve was born in Bromham on 3 November 1599; matriculated at Oxford in 1614; and was knighted in 1620. He was an MP, although not sitting for Bedford or Bedfordshire. During the Civil War he was a staunch ...
Volume 28:
edited by Marian K. Dale (1950)
This book presents records of the fifty courts held in 23 of the 35 years covered by the roll. The introduction to the book describes the roll (held by Bedfordshire Archives (opens in a new window)), the Loring family (who ...
Volume 29:
by Margery Bassett (1949)
The body of the book is a biographical dictionary of the men who represented Bedfordshire in Parliament as knights of the shire between 1274 and 1495. It is preceded by a list of Parliaments and Bedfordshire’s representatives, taken from official ...
Volume 30:
edited by C. D. Linnell (1950)
Benjamin Rogers was vicar of Stagsden from 1712 to 1720, when he was presented by Lord Trevor to the living of Carlton, where he remained until his death in 1771. His diary covers the years 1727 to 1752. In addition ...
Volume 31:
edited by F. N. L. Poynter and W. J. Bishop (1951)
Dr Symcotts lived in Huntingdon and his medical practice extended over Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. His patients included notable families and the editors have highlighted Oliver Cromwell and his family, drawing on other sources that also refer to him receiving ...
Volume 32:
(1952)
Contents:
‘Harrold priory: a twelfth century dispute,' by C. R. Cheney [Latin texts of nineteen of the documents in a law suit about the patronage of Stevington church, with an introduction. The documents cover the period from the mid-twelfth century to ...
Volume 33:
edited by Rev. J. E. Farmiloe and Rosita Nixseaman (1953)
Churchwardens were parish officers responsible for keeping the church and representing the people in parochial matters. They gradually took on more administrative responsibilities during the sixteenth century. Most parishes had two churchwardens who were appointed annually. They normally kept accounts ...
Volume 34:
edited by F. J. Manning (1954)
This is a selection of the letters to Edmond Williamson, rector of Millbrook from 1740 until his death in 1775 and also rector of Lolworth in Cambridgeshire. Williamson was from a Bedfordshire family. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity ...
Volume 35:
by H. G. Tibbutt (1955)
John Okey was an Anabaptist, London merchant, Parliamentary soldier, active in Parliamentarian politics, a regicide and an MP for Bedfordshire in 1658. This book recounts his life against the backdrop of the Civil War and its aftermath. It draws on ...
Volume 36:
(1956)
Contents:
‘A note on the foundation of Northill College in 1406’, by Peter Hull. [An introduction is followed by a transcription in Latin of the College's foundation grant.]
‘The origin of St. Mary's Square, Bedford’, by J. Fines. [Transcription in English of ...
Volume 37:
edited by A.F.Cirket, Bette Stitt (1957)
The wills are those in English in the first surviving register of wills proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Bedford, now held by Bedfordshire Archives at ABP/R/ 1. They are mainly presented here as abstracts: a few of ...
Volume 38:
(1958)
Contents:
‘A Bedford fragment and the burning of two Fraticelli at Avignon in 1354’, by D. W. Whitfield. [This transcription in Latin of an isolated folio gives the indictment of friars John de Castellione and Francis ab Arquata, with Friar John's ...
Volume 39:
by A. T. Gaydon, (1959)
The introduction explains the method of taxation in the thirteenth century. By the 1290s, taxes were levied as a fixed proportion of the value of a person’s goods: a ninth, a fifteenth, a thirtieth or other fraction, as ordered. The ...
Volume 40:
(1960)
The documents in this volume, together with that of Benjamin Rogers in volume 30, bring into print most of the surviving diaries of Bedfordshire people.
Contents:
‘John Harvey of Ickwell, 1688-9’, edited by Margaret Richards. [The diary of John Harvey, later MP ...