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4 to, 276 pp., bd. green vellum (probably by Lord Gordon, whose bookplate it bears), of the trustees for an Act of Parliament 11 Geo. I for repairing and amending the road from Biggleswade to Buckden and through Alconbury to the top of Alconbury hill.
At end: p.258 names and dates of new trustees, with note of those retiring, 1725-45
p.260 note of mortgage, 1726.
Of the trustees, those which definitely are, or may well be Bedfordshire, are as follows (with page where first mentioned):
Astell, Wm., 33
Astell, Ric., 212
Alston, Sir Rowland, 1
Becher, Wm., 13.
Bromsall, Thos., 4.
Bromsall, Owen Thomas, 13.
Brown, Thos., 13.
Chetwode, 104.
Blundell, Geo., 37.
Burgoyne, Sir Rog., 116.
Byng, Pattee, 48.
Cockayne, Ric., 1.
Cockayne, Sam., 116.
Fyshe, Hump., 82.
Colline, Rev. Barwell, 182.
Cotton, Jn., 197.
Francklin, Jn., 228.
Francklin, Luke, 256.
Gery, Wm., 197.
Harvey, J. 36.
Hillersdon, Ric, 1
Kingsley, Heylock, 1
Kingsley, Hen., 256
Monoux, Lew., 96
Monoux, Hump., 4.
Mordaunt, G., 17.
Orlebar, Ric., 4
Orlebar, Jn., 14
Pulleyn, Robt., 13
Pedley, Jn., 113
Ongley, S., 42
Palmer, Hump. Fish, 149.
Inns used for meetings: Cock, Laton Socon, 1, 48, 236
Saracen's Head, Laton Socon, 19, 27, 190
Sun, Biggleswade, 7, 13
+George, Tempsford, 33, 41, 72, 87, 96, 104, 112, 120, 128 etc.
Crown, Huntingdon, 188
Cross Keys, St. Neots, 14
+ Ship, St. Neots, 37, 55, 61, 63, 68, 75, 78, 92, 100, 109 etc
+George, Buckden, 4, 23, 29, 43, 102 etc.
+ inns mainly used.
Bills (little detail given). passim
Beds. & Hunts. Committees: separate committees were formed, 6, 47, 83, 85, 103 etc.
Surveyors: joint surveyor appointed 3a, salary 18, separate surveyors for Beds. & Hunts., 35, Beds. surveyor dismissed, 117.
Turnpikes, sites of: 1-3, 5-6, 13, 34, 38, 43, 44 etc. wages of gatekeepers, 16, 31.
Statute duty: 34, 58, 60, 69, 81, 87 etc.
Bridge, new, at Tempsford: 3a, 45, 74, 141, 144, 150, 154, 191 etc.
Petition to Parliament to restrain extravagant heavy carriages, 93.
Special arrangements for local inhabitants, 38-9.
Evasion at Tempsford gate, 41, 112. Sheep path at Sandy, 204