The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 10
‘Digest of the charters preserved in the cartulary of the Priory of Dunstable’ by G. Herbert Fowler. This digest is from a thirteenth century manuscript, with additions to the fifteenth century, preserved in the British Library as Harleian MS 1885. It uses a mixture of transcription, translation, abstracting and listing to present the charters and other documents in the cartulary. The editor has prioritised charters and older documents from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries for the most extensive treatment. Dunstable Priory held land in many of the surrounding parishes and this volume is a valuable source for land holding, people and place names in the southern part of Bedfordshire in this period. There are detailed notes, fourteen pedigrees (some extensive), a map of south Bedfordshire and thorough indexes.
About the author
Dr G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) was a zoologist working in London before he retired to Bedfordshire, where he became a county councillor and chairman of the county’s Records Committee in 1913. He immediately reformed the existing record room, established standard procedures and ran it as a public service, the first in the country. He was a founder member of BHRS in 1912 and its Secretary, General Editor and principal contributor to the annual volumes until his death. He also published extensively on sources in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere.
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