Licences and Settlement Papers

Summary

Licence for Mrs Okely’s barn

This is to Certifie whom it may Concern That Thomas Craner of Blunham in the County and Archdeaconry of Bedford and Mathew Basterfield of the Town and Archdeaconry of Bedford aforesaid Tayler have on this sixteenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1740 Certified to the Worshipfull Thomas Reynolds Esqr Master of Arts Commissary and Official of the Archdeaconry of Bedford that the Bam of Mrs Anne Okley scituate within the Parish of St Paul in the Town and County of Bedford aforesaid is intended to be made Use of for a place of Publick Worship for Protestants dissenting from the Church of England as by the Act of Toleration made in the first Year of the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary is allowed of Witness my hand the day and Year abovewritten.

William Frank Registrar

[BRO, MO 42]

Licence for the Bedford Chapel

To all to whom this may concern This is to Certify That George Tranker and William Vowell produced and filed a certificate to the Justices of the Peace Assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at the Town of Bedford in and for the said Town on Monday in the first week next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel that is to say the first day of October in the Thirty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc. and in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty nine Reciting that in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty two the Chapel situated in the parish of St Peters in the said Town of Bedford was Registered in the Archdeacons Court of the said Town as a place appointed for the Religious Use of those of his Majestys Protestant Subjects known by the name of Unitas Fratrum And that a large Room had since then been Built adjoining to the said Chapel on the East side in the Ministers House on the second story And certifying that the said Room is appointed solely for Religious Uses and as a Vestry Room to the said Chapel

John Marsh

Clerk of the Peace of

the Town of Bedford

[BRO, MO 43]