Reference
X178/3
Title
"Memorandums, accounts and copies of letters relating to my Monmouthshire estate" kept by Arthur Bedford, vicar of Podington and of Sharnbrook, 1739-66. The notebook is only slightly concerned with the Monmouth estate.
Date free text
1761-1764
Production date
From: 1761 To: 1764
Scope and Content
Arthur Bedford, vicar of Podington and of Sharnbrook, 1739-1766, married (apparently as his second wife), Temperance Alston, daughter of Vere John Alston and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Alston and wife Temperance. The notebook is mainly concerned with the claims of Arthur Bedford's two daughters, Temperance and Anne, to the estate of their aunt Anne Russell 'my first wife's only sister', which she left to a Harrold carpenter, William Wotton.
See refs page 6 to Mrs Russell, page 10 to Edmond Bedford, page 13 to quitting the Souldrop curacy, page 22 to the 'condition of my poor vicarages' and the vacancy at Turvey rectory, page 55 to Anne and Temperance Bedford, to parish of Podington and smallpox, page 53; page 89 to the Bishop's consent to the enclosure of Podington. Other reference are page 16 to sending lace as a present 'it being our provincial manufacture', and pages 18-19 to a quarrel with R Antonie, who had apparently referred to Bedford's 'Proud Daughters'. [Temperance Bedford married the Rev. Daniel Shipton and their daughter Charlotte married Robert Charles Orlebar.
Level of description
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