Joyce Godber 
The Cartulary of Newnham Priory [PDF ebook] 

The Cartulary of Newnham Priory


A cartulary of the deeds and charters of Newnham Priory in Bedford was compiled in the early fifteenth century.  It contains the Priory’s deeds and charters from 1166 to 1409. The Latin transcriptions have been explained by brief explanatory headings in English for each of the 600 or more documents.  The deeds are rich in field names for the places where the Priory held lands: Goldington, Biddenham, Cardington, Sharnbrook, Ravensden, Renhold, Stotfold and Wotton. The volume is in two parts.  Part I includes a tribute In Memoriam to Frederick Joseph Manning.

Circa l’autore

Joyce Godber (1906-1999) was Bedfordshire-born.  Following a history degree, she spent a few years teaching, then worked at Oxford University Press.  She was  assistant secretary at the Institute of Historical Research before becoming clerk of the records, then County Archivist of Bedfordshire (1946-68).  She was general editor of BHRS (1946-76) and an active member of the Society of Archivists and the British Records Association.  She planned the transfer of the record office to its new premises, which took place in 1969, the year in which her History of Bedfordshire was published.