| Summary: | Contains: Latin texts of nineteen of the documents in a law suit about the patronage of Stevington church, with an introduction. The documents cover the period from the mid-twelfth century to 1206; Latin text with brief summaries in English of presentments and plaints from the Bedfordshire hundreds before the supervisors of the peace (forerunners of justices of the peace), with introduction; Latin text of the extent of the manor, identified as Kempston Greys alias Hastingsbury, with introduction; abstracts of fifteen inventories made between 1562 and 1591, with introduction; an extract from the analysis of expenditure kept by Simon Urlin for the Ampthill estates of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury.
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