Bedfordshire Stories

Life is a journey and with our situations, we experience a lot of changes inside which may lead to divorces and family separation. However, this does not mean, it has end on a bitter discord rather we can consider bringing an end on a happy note for treasuring memories of times which was once yours and should not feel bad about it.

The Templars' largest estate in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ('Beds.' and 'Bucks.') was at Bulstrode, where they cultivated around 242 acres of arable land plus meadow and pasture. They also held Temple Manor at High Wycombe and land at Staughton and Swanton in Bedfordshire, and received rents from Radnage, Calverton, Stony Stratford, and Great Marlow. This volume contains draft transcriptions of the documents recording the Templars' property in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1308-14. The records are preserved at Kew: The National Archives of the UK in enrolled accounts (E 358/18-20), draft accounts (SC 6/741/28-29) and other documents (TNA E 142/89, E 142/90 and E 142/119) and at the British Library, Harley Rolls A 25-27, for the Temple Bulstrode 'particulars of account' for 1309, 1309-10 and 1310-11. The enrolled accounts in The National Archives are: TNA E 358/18 rot. 6 dorse: Gilbert of Holm accounts for Temple Bulstrode for the first four months of 1308 (another copy at E 358/20 rot. 24); E 358/18 rots 7 and 6: Walter de Molesworth accounts for Temple Bulstrode from Easter 1308 to 7 March 1309 (another copy at E 358/20 rot. 12). He then handed over custody of Bulstrode to Edmund of Burnham; E 358/19 rot. 36 Dorse: Edmund de Burnham accounts for the Templars' manors of Bulstrode and Wycombe in 1311-14; E 358/18 rot. 47 dorse (and E 358/19 rots 37-38): Geoffrey de la Lee accounts for the Templars' former estates in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in 1311-14, excluding Bulstrode and Wycombe. The documents in the National Archives are covered by an Open Government Licence for public sector information, which allows everyone to copy, publish, distribute and transmit the documents in their archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . However, copyright on this transcription of the documents is reserved to the transcribers.