The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 12
‘In memoriam, W. A.’ [William Austin] ‘A calendar of the feet of fines for Bedfordshire Pt. III for the reign of Edward I with some earlier fines’, edited by G. Herbert Fowler. [1273-1307 and 1183-1272] ‘Belverge of Sharpenhoe’, by Jos. Hight Blundell. [A minor gentry family c.1200-1415]
‘The meeting places of Stodden and Redbournstoke hundreds’, by F. G. Emmison.
‘The writer of the warrant for the arrest of John Bunyan’, by F. G. Emmison. [On William Johnson, notary and deputy registrar; 1674-5.]
‘Bedfordshire bells, c.1710’, compiled by L. H. Chambers.
‘Note on the name Helder’, by Jos. Hight Blundell. [Discusses the evolution of the surname Spicer to Spicer alias Helder and then simply to Helder, in the period 1500-1542 in Luton and in Lilley, Offley and Hexton (Herts), on the evidence of the register of the Guild of the Holy Trinity of Luton.]
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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