Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    FR1/1/1/1
  • Title
    Mens Minutes Folio vol., 9½ x 4¼", 166 pp. (? 18th cent. pagination) minutes pp. 1-16 only (the remainder of the vol. consists of very detailed sufferings - see below) subject matter:- YM & Meeting for Sufferings & 2nd day meeting in London Persons to attend YM appointed (if the Lord permit) e.g. 15/10/1702 Jn Robins, Jas Hawkins & Jn Chester (p.4) 14/10/1703 Jn Robins & Jn Chester (p.5) correspondent appointed (Jas Hawkins, p.5: 1703) early memories to be collected, 1704 (p.6), brought in (p.9) collection: a paper to be sent to each MM (1691, p.1); £49 collected within a year; further collection (1702, p.4); 2 Friends to convey to London Pulloxhill £1 5s 0d Kempston Hardwick. £1 6s 6d Market St. & Sewell £13 7s 0d Hempstead & Wood End. £1 19s 0d Total £17 7s 6d (1703) paid to Peter Briggins for the use of Friends Parliament: Friends are going to apply to P. this session on the occasion of the solemn affirmation (17/10/1701: p.4) QM places of meeting:- until 1705 variable: Clifton, p.3; Kempston Hardwicke, pp. 1,3,5,7; Pulloxhill, pp. 2,5,10,16; (Kitchen End, p.4) Dunstable, pp. 1-6; p.4: inconvenient on market day, so change to 3rd day before quarter day; settled at Pulloxhill, pp. 6-7, 21/1/1704-5 "at our meetinghouse" 3rd day before every quarter day. constituent MMs: (e.g. p.2) 1704 Market St. & Sewell - Edw Chester, Jn Chester, Jn Robins, Jn Hawkins "Cranfield etc." Jos. Barber, Dan White Pulloxhill Tho & Jn Gamble Clifton, Langford (Langford a separate MM 1708 (p.16)) & Stotfold Jn Samm, Ralph Summerfield Dunstable: new meetinghouse built & meeting settled, 1712 (p.24) Emergence of Albans MM:- p.3 agreed that Hemel, Redborn, "Harding" & Albans have their freedom, 1696 P.3 some Friends have "got up" this MM without the rest of the Friends; consideration referred "to the respective MM they have for many years counted themselves belonging to", 1699 p.5 Herts. QM writes as to Albans, Hemel Wood End "joining" to them, 15/10/1702; Joint conference planned for Herts., Beds. & Bucks. (as some of their members in the undertaking); 6 Friends appointed to confer. Charity p.2 £20 collected for Jas Smith of Aylesbury's loss by fire, 1693 Books p.3 Geo Fox's journal 3-4 Robt Barclay's Apology - another edition 4 "our dear Friend" Jn Crook's writings: "enquiries being made after titles"; what have Friends to give in? to be remitted to Herts. QM, 1700. Records p.3 book of "the several meetings" enquired for - Joshua Wheeler has it. Marriage: p.1 disagreement at MM at Kensworth as to the marriage of Jas Cooke and Kath Mosse, 1691 (Kensworth Meeting has objected because they proceeded "disorderly" in not proposing their intentions to the women Friends); QM gave them their "Christian liberty"; 14/10/1703 Jas & Kath Cooke write from Albans to say:- "We are sorry that we did oppose Friends in their good and godly care at their MM at Kensworth...., we having had cause of sorrow and trouble for it... having now a more clearer sight in things than ever we had before." Record of sufferings of Friends (apparently Beds QM, though a number of Friends live in Bucks., especially in the earlier years) pp. 8,15,17-136 (in vol. which opens with Beds QM minutes) 1700-93 at first the sufferings are mainly corn and hay; later coals, flour, malt, shovel, table, chairs; Places: Beds.: Ampthill, e.g. 27 Barton, e.g. 23,32 (barn locked, corn had to lie out) 36,39: 1711,1715 Wm Pearson, Robt Impey, 1719 Clophill Cranfield, e.g. 63,73 Luton, e.g. 93,99,113-4 Stotfold, e.g. 36 Totternhoe, e.g. 31 Pulloxhill, e.g. 85 Turvey, e.g. 112: Wm Richardson, 1775 Sewell Places outside Beds.: Albans Cheddington Dagnall Horton Ivinghoe Aston Kensworth pp. 137-42 Ampthill MM sufferings, 1789-93
  • Date free text
    1669-1708
  • Production date
    From: 1669 To: 1708
  • Level of description
    item
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