Volume 67:
edited by David Bushby (1988)
This volume presents original material to illuminate the state of elementary education in Bedfordshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, a vital period of change in the development of education.
Amongst the documents from which extracts are taken are: ...
Thomas Jefferys and Betty Chambers (1983)
This is a reproduction of the county map of Bedfordshire engraved on eight sheets at a scale of 1:31680 by Thomas Jefferys in 1765. A plan of Bedford at a scale of 1:4700 is at the top right corner of ...
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 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 52:
David Baker (1973)
The author and purpose of the document entitled 'The General Account of the number of persons in each house on January 1st, 1782' in Cardington, Fenlake, Harrowden and Cotten End & Pastors is unknown, although David Baker suggests that it ...
Volume 47:
edited by Joyce Godber (1968)
Although described in the introduction as 'a life', this book, written as a guide to more than 7000 letters held in Bedfordshire Archives, is far more than that. It is a biography of Jemima, Marchioness Grey (1722-1797), mainly pieced together ...
Volume 55:
edited by H. G. Tibbutt (1976)
These are the administrative records of the Bunyan Meeting, dealing with admissions, expulsions and discipline as well as spiritual matters. The book includes membership lists for 1650-1735, 1741, 1754 and 1761; and deaths 1681-1688.
Volume 44:
edited by Joyce Godber (1965)
The development of hunts in Bedfordshire is recounted in the introduction and through transcriptions of documents from several collections in Bedfordshire Archives. The documents relate to private hunts (1708-1797) and to the Oakley hunt (1795-1920). They include the hound book ...
Volume 12:
(1928)
Contents:
'In memoriam, W. A.' [William Austin]
'A calendar of the feet of fines for Bedfordshire Pt. III for the reign of Edward I with some earlier fines', edited by G. Herbert Fowler. [1273-1307 and 1183-1272]
'Belverge of Sharpenhoe', by Jos. Hight Blundell. [A ...
Volume 15:
(1933)
Contents:
'The relief of the poor at Eaton Socon, 1706-1834', by F. G. Emmison.
'Tithe at Pavenham, 1759/60', contributed by C. D. Linnell. [Transcriptions of two documents held by Trinity College, Cambridge. The first is a report on the tithes at Pavenham ...
Volume 2:
(1914)
Contents:
In memoriam C. G. C. [Clifford Gore Chambers, d. 1913]
‘The Bedfordshire wills and administrations proved at Lambeth Palace and in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon’, by F. A. Page Turner [parallel Latin transcriptions and English translations or abstracts of 23 wills ...
Volume 20:
(1938)
Contents:
'Jacobean household inventories,' by F. G. Emmison. [The editor claims that this is the first collection of inventories to be published with analytical notes. A 50-page introduction and analysis of the inventories under the headings houses, furniture, domestic life, farmyard ...
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 3:
(1916)
'Roll of the justices in eyre at Bedford, 1227,' by G. Herbert Fowler [Introduction and English translation of the roll]
'The Domesday water mills of Bedfordshire,' by W. Austin [Includes a map of their location]
'The King's larderer of Meppershall,' by Mrs. ...
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 4:
(1917)
Contents:
'The will of Roger Benetheton, 1438/9,' edited by the late Rev. R. M. Serjeantson. [A Latin transcription with English translation of a will entered on the court rolls of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.]
'Ancient Bedfordshire deeds II: Deeds relating to Elstow,' by ...
Volume 5:
(1920)
Contents:
'The assessment of knight service in Bedfordshire, no. 2,' by John E. Morris [For the barony of Beauchamp of Bedford.]
'St. John of SouthilI,' by F. A. Page-Turner [The family and descendants of Francis St. John, b.1559, with pedigree.]
'Some Saxon charters,' ...
Volume 8:
(1924)
Contents:
‘Stagsden and its manors’, by J. Steele Elliott [A reconstruction of the location of the manors in 1086, with a map of them and the adjoining manors.]
‘Three records of the alien priory of Grove and the manor of Leighton Buzzard’, ...
Volume 9:
(1925)
Contents:
‘The Shefford beaker’, by Cyril Fox [The beaker, dating to about 1800 BC, was found between Shefford and Campton in 1819. It is stated to be the only authentic example of a beaker-folk artefact found in the upland valley of ...
Volume 92:
by Jonathan Rodell (2014)
This radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely ...
Dr Jonathan Rodell has prepared a video to accompany his book The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851 ...
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 ...
Maximilian Wilson (image: courtesy of Dr Jonathan Rodell)
This article supplements The Rise of Methodism: a Study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851, ...
Volume 57:
(1978)
Contents:
'Bedfordshire chapelries: an essay in rural settlement history', by Dorothy Owen [The existence of chapels, in addition to churches, in many parishes in pre-Reformation England is explained. A list of rural parochial chapels in Bedfordshire between c.1123 and 1540 is ...