The Bedford directory and almanack (and history of the town) compiled by T.A. Blyth, Volume 3 |
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Adelaide square Albert street Alfred Allhallows lane Ampthill street Ashburnham road baker Balsall street Bedford Britannia road Bromham butcher carpenter Castle lane Cauldwell street Cemetery road Chandos street chapel Charles Church Commercial road Conduit street Cuthbert's street Dame Alice street Dane street draper Edward Elizabeth Foster street Frederick Gadsby street George Gravel lane Greenhill street Grey Friars grocer Gwyn street Harpur street Hassett street Hawes street Henry High street Hockliffe Howard James John John's street Joseph Kimbolton Kimbolton road King's place Lansdowne terrace Little Butt street Little Thurlow Loyes street maker Mary Mary's Midland road Mill street Miss Newnham street Offa street Paradine Patteshall street Paul's square Peter's green Pilcroft street porter Prebend street Princes street Priory street Queen street Richard Robert Russell street Samuel shoe shoemaker Silver street street Clarke street Smith Street-continued tailor Tavistock street Thames street Thomas Thurlow street Union street walk Wellington street William
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Page 2 - As an elementary treatise on a science not very much studied, it will be found very useful to the class of students for whom it is intended. The glossary of technicalities at the end is also a good feature, and adds much to the value of the work.
Page 27 - Knight, and Dame Alice his Wife, for a free and perpetual School in the Town of Bedford, and other Purposes, and of the Rents and Profits thereof.
Page 7 - ... Barony of Bedford, which had belonged to Simon de Beauchamp, their father, unto Hugh Pauper, brother to the Earl of Leicester, garrisoned Bedford Castle, which was then a fort of great strength, environed with a mighty rampier of earth, and a high wall, within which was an impregnable tower ; so that the king, not being able to get it by assault, brought his army before it on Christmas Eve, and after a long and hard siege obtained it by surrender through the mediation of his brother, Henry de...
Page 3 - A MEMOIR OF JOSEPH JAMES INSULL, Co-Pastor of Bunyan's Church. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, is. " A very interesting memoir. . . . Will be highly treasured." Cambridge Independent Press. "A concise little memoir. . . . The memoir is short, but sufficient to continue to posterity the remembrance of a good and useful man." — Hertfordshire Express. "A justly-drawn picture." — Luton Advertiser. " We have much pleasure in commending it." — Dunstable Chronicle, " Mr. Blyth has paid an earnest...
Page 6 - Nothing more is mentioned about Bedford in the Saxon Chronicle till the year 970, when, alluding to the Monastery here, it states that " This year died the Archbishop Oskytel, who, at first, had been consecrated diocesan Bishop of Dorkeceastre :* and afterwards, by the consent of King Edward and his nobles (or Council, according to Ingram), he was consecrated archbishop of Eouerwic.f He was 22 years (translated winters by Ingram) bishop, and died on the night of All Hallow-mas, 10 nights before Martinmas,...
Page 26 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland Quene, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 1 - Andria. Literally translated from Wagner's Text. Arranged for interleaving (if desired) with the Cambridge larger and Smaller Editions of Terence. Crown 8vo. Is. Cloth. Is.
Page 4 - THE OXFORD LOGIC CHART. Notes and Hints, prepared expressly for " Moderations," and purposely divided into 24 Sections or Lessons [The Student is advised to prepare and write out entirely from memory, one section each morning, and one each night. By this means the main Points of Logic may be mastered in a Fortnight.'] II.
Page 4 - ... improbable (as Florilegus informs us that a chapel stood formerly on the margin of the river, in which were deposited the remains of Offa the famous Mercian king, which was afterwards swept away by an extraordinary flood) that this name of Bedeford originated from the chapel; as it was not unfrequently the case, previous to the erection of bridges, for chapels to be erected in such places, in which persons might offer their prayers and oblations for the safe passage of the river.* This practice...
Page 43 - Bunyan's writings, and especially his Holy War, evidently show that he had well studied the " Book of Martyrs." In this imprisonment he wrote also many valuable treatises ; as, " The Holy City ;" " Christian Behaviour ;" " The Resurrection of the Dead...