Volume 95:
by Dorothy Jamieson (2019)
Drawing on documentary evidence dating between 1382 and 1522, this volume examines a single manor parish that was dominated by the powerful Mowbray family, the Dukes of Norfolk, and by Katherine Neville, widow of the second Duke, as part of ...
Volume 48:
edited by Elisabeth G. Kimball (1969)
The analytical introduction describes the two rolls, the commissions of the peace, the justices who presided over the session, the place and work of the sessions, the offences and the punishment of offenders.
The Latin transcriptions of the entries are provided ...
Volume 43:
edited by Joyce Godber, (1963, 1964)
A cartulary of the deeds and charters of Newnham Priory in Bedford was compiled in the early fifteenth century. It contains the Priory's deeds and charters from 1166 to 1409. The Latin transcriptions have been explained by brief explanatory headings ...
Volume 72:
(1993)
This collection of fifteen essays was presented to Patricia Bell on her retirement as BHRS Honorary General Editor.
Contents:
'Pre-1841 censuses and population listings in Bedfordshire', by Colin Chapman
'The Bedfordshire Historic Environment Record', by David Baker
'Archives and the visual arts: Potsgrove Church, ...
Volume 56:
edited by Eric Stockdale (1977)
This history of Bedford Prison is told through the story of the family of gaolers who ran it for many years and the contributions of five men closely associated with the prison.
To the account of John Bunyan’s trial and imprisonment ...
Volume 58:
edited by Margaret McGregor (1979)
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) was the highest court in which wills were proved, usually indicating that testators held land in several diocese or were wealthy.
These 130 PCC wills of Bedfordshire people have been abstracted in great detail. Irrespective ...
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 ...
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 98:
Edited by Barbara Tearle (2024)
Fewer than two hundred probate inventories were thought to have survived for Bedfordshire and most were published in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society volumes 20 and 32. Recently more came to light, bringing the total of known pre-1660 inventories to almost ...
Volume 19:
(1937)
Contents:
'Tractatus de Dunstaple et de Houcton', edited by G. Herbert Fowler. [Of the 10 surviving folios of the Tractatus of Dunstable, folios 1-5 deal with Dunstable Priory; and folios 6-10 with Houghton Regis, where the Priory’s most important Bedfordshire lands ...
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 ...
Volume 61:
by Eric Stockdale (1982)
These five essays on issue of law and order grew out of the author’s earlier research on local crime for his book on Bedford Prison (BHRS vol. 56).
The first essay recounts the riots following the enactment of the Militia Act ...
Volume 66:
edited by Richard Morgan (1987)
John Thomas Brooks led the life of a country squire, managing his estates, raising a family, serving the county as High Sheriff and on the Ampthill Board of Guardians and socialising with his peer group in the county. These activities ...
Volume 51:
edited by H. G. Tibbutt (1972)
The transcriptions of early church books from eight Independent churches provides a picture of the membership, fortunes and practices of the churches themselves and also of local social and agricultural conditions.
The churches are: Kensworth, 1675-1694; Keysoe Brook End, 1658-1677; Stevington, ...
Volume 50:
edited by AIan F. Cirket (1971)
The notebooks kept by Samuel Whitbread II of Southill (1764-1815) are a rare survival, recording in detail the cases he handled in his capacity as a Justice - or Magistrate - for the County. The original notebooks are difficult to ...
by L. R. Conisbee and A. R. Threadgill (1962-1978)
This bibliography and its three supplements were published over the period 1962-1978 and were aimed at providing lists of books, articles and newspaper extracts about Bedfordshire, published from the early years of printing in Britain to 1975 and held by ...
Volume Quarto memoirs, volume 3:
edited by G. Herbert Fowler (1929)
The volume contains two documents: the sheriff’s roll of writs and returns 1333-1334, found in the William Salt Library in Stafford in the early 1920s; and the county roll of pleas for Bedfordshire 1332-1333, in private hands in Northamptonshire in ...
Volume 85:
edited by James Collett-White (2006)
This is the first volume of BHRS's series of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poll books. Poll books tell the story of local people and their link with national history. This book is the first in a series by ...
Volume 94:
by Michael Benson (2015)
The Bedford (Amateur) Musical Society, now Bedford Choral Society, was formed in 1867. Its beginnings were not auspicious - an article in a local newspaper reported that ‘no one felt very sanguine about the success of the proposed Society ... ...
Volume 87:
James Collett-White, (2008)
This second volume of BHRS`s series of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poll books continues the story of Bedfordshire voting in the context of local and national politics up to the election in 1734. It contains transcriptions of the ...
Volume 96:
edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (2020)
The Bedford Diary of Leah Aynsley, 1943-1946, provides a fascinating insight into the daily life of a working class woman during the Second World War. Leah hoped that her diary, which she gave as a bequest to Bedfordshire Archives Service, ...
Volume 91:
edited by Barbara Tearle (2012)
Religious guilds or fraternities proliferated throughout England until their dissolution in the late 1540s, yet remarkably few of their records have survived. Amongst the survivals are the last twenty-one years of the accounts of the Luton Guild of the Holy ...
Volume 90:
edited by James Collett-White (2011)
This is the third volume in BHRS's series of poll books and covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger. It was a period when Britain was constantly at war, when it ...
Volume 86:
edited by Richard Smart (2007)
The diaries of Charlotte Bousfield, extending from 1878 to 1896, paint a vivid picture of the activities of the multi-talented Bousfield family of Bedford, led by its strong-minded matriarch.
The Bousfields were prominent in local life. Charlotte's husband, Edward, was an ...