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X69/16
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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society [fo. leather bound, approx 600 pages)
Note The Society was formed at a meeting held at the Bedfordshire General Library on 28 September 1847, under the Chairmanship of Archdeacon H Tattam, 'for the purpose of publishing from time to time the various ancient churches and buildings in the county, and the local history of each parish, and for the general promotion of archaeological and architectural studies.'
Subscription 10s 6d (page 1)
Presidents: Duke of Bedford and Earl de Grey
Vice-Presidents: Lords St John, Carteret, Ongley and Alford; Baron Parke; Lord C J F Russell: The Rev H C Cust; Sir R H Inglis, Sir C G Payne, Hon G Rice-Trevor, Hastings Russell, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir H Verney, Henry Stuart
Council of 38; includes 17 clergy; also W Cooper Cooper, J Gibbard, J Harvey, R Orlebar, F Pym, W H and S C Whitbread, J T Wing
Treasurer: T Barnard
Secretaries: 7 (include B Rudge)
Proposal to include Buckinghamshire, made by Sir Harry Verney, rejected (page 7)
Pages 1 - 4 minutes of inaugural meeting
5 - 28 minutes of Council meetings (at first held monthly, 1847 - 1848
29 - c. 470 minutes of general meetings and Council meetings, 1843 - 1873; latterly increasingly short and supplemented by press-cuttings; finally presscuttings only
Division of the county into districts, pages 11 - 14
Rules pages 51 - 54
Initial circular (printed) with objects: page 21, also stuck at back 1847 - 1873
Pencilled note on front cover: 'Acquired for the Bedford Natural History and Archaeological Society by W N Henman for £1. Feb. 1948'
[Pages 75 - 80: Duke of Bedford's proposal to pull down Willington dovecote, stables and barn, 1850]
N.B. A sketch of the barn in B M Add. Ms 17, 456 (Powell, Topographical Collection for Beds. and Bucks) f 44 shows it as partly half timbered
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1847-1873
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From: 1847 To: 1873
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