. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Diocese of Ely. three croium or. Gulei and baptisms from 1697 to 1765. The second con- tains marriages from 1754 to 1789. The rectory to which the advowson ADVOWSON of the vicarage is attached was formerly annexed to a prebend in Lincoln Cathedral. In 113 2, together with Biggleswade manor () it was granted to the bishops of Lincoln,*" and in 153s the vicarage was worth ;£ 10.'° In 18 3 7 the arch- deaconry of Bedford, hitherto in the Lincoln diocese, was transferred to Ely, whose bishop now h
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE. Diocese of Ely. three croium or. Gulei and baptisms from 1697 to 1765. The second con- tains marriages from 1754 to 1789. The rectory to which the advowson ADVOWSON of the vicarage is attached was formerly annexed to a prebend in Lincoln Cathedral. In 113 2, together with Biggleswade manor () it was granted to the bishops of Lincoln,*" and in 153s the vicarage was worth ;£ 10.'° In 18 3 7 the arch- deaconry of Bedford, hitherto in the Lincoln diocese, was transferred to Ely, whose bishop now holds the right of presentation to Biggleswade.'" There appears to have been a chapel in Stratton in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies. In 1317 Thomas de Northfleet, canon of St. Paul's, left money for the repair of the chapel of St. ; John Enderby left alms in 1457 for masses for his soul to be said in Stratton Chapel," and in 1473 Maud his widow obtained a licence to found a chantry at the altar of St. Mary in the chapel of Stratton for the souls of John Enderby and ; The church of St. John the Baptist in the north of the town, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, is a building of brick, erected in 1883. There are in Biggleswade at the present day Strict Baptist, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a meeting-place for the Salvation Army. There are also a council and two non-provided schools. In 1475 the bishop of Lincoln received a licence to found a fraternity or gild to be called the Gild of the Holy Trinity," whose object was to provide a priest to say a daily mass in the church of St. Andrew, Biggleswade, ' for the good estate of the said King (Edward IV) and Queen, the soul of the late Duke of York, father of the king, and all the brothers and sisters of the said guild.'"' At the Dissolution its value was £j, but in 1547 it was found no longer to fulfil the purposes for which it was established, and was
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