. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. BEDFORD. five confolidated parifTies. A new town gjaol Ins lately fea to the eaft and north is almoft every where full of been cTicited, and a county gaol is jull hnilhcd ; towards the and reefs. ' '""Ji» completion of which the' late Mr. Whitba-ad left a legacy Bedford Levkl, is the name jjiven to a hvi trafl of of 500I. This town coiitanis 800 houTcs and 394S nihabit- fenny, boggy land in England, «liidi remained a fteril wafte '"w^r ^ A ^ u . u« , cf, , n»
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. BEDFORD. five confolidated parifTies. A new town gjaol Ins lately fea to the eaft and north is almoft every where full of been cTicited, and a county gaol is jull hnilhcd ; towards the and reefs. ' '""Ji» completion of which the' late Mr. Whitba-ad left a legacy Bedford Levkl, is the name jjiven to a hvi trafl of of 500I. This town coiitanis 800 houTcs and 394S nihabit- fenny, boggy land in England, «liidi remained a fteril wafte '"w^r ^ A ^ u . u« , cf, , n» T'^^S,--''- It "as calculated to contain 400,000 acres Bedford was made a dukedom by Henn,-the fifth, who O'lfributed through the fevenil counties of Canibrid.^e Hun eonftituted John Plantagenet, third fon of Henry the fourth, ingdon, Northampton, Lincoln, Norfolk ai ^r Suff 11 the firil duke. Alter enjoyed by a Nevil, and a de Hal- 'i'lic chief part of this cxtenfive traft appear'^ Viom'tl -"vn' field. It was bellowed on Joiiu Rulfell, in whofe family it nout phenomena noticed by dilforent auihors' to liav b " ftill continues. See Rvcsel. ^"7^''x = ^O" =i''d cultivated land ; but alher from injudiaonC At Etllow, about one mile from Bedford, was an abbey embankments, wlâch prevented the waters from thj uplands ofbenemdme nuns, founded by Judith, mece to the con- iirnmg at their proper outlets, or from ludden and violcn- queror. At the difTolution us revenues were valued at convulfions of nature, it was reduced to the Hate of a morafs ⢠'.^+'-J";^"^V J'']' '^^"'â '=1' "' ^^l*l"T.'* t ^â¢^-'-y fi'if .=""- "â ''^'"':" ,''"-â «=>t" ilagnating and becoming putrid, fdied'the Cient building, with a detached tower. 1 his place gave birth air with noxious exhalations; and not oalv deltroved th- to John Bunyan in the year 1628. His allegor)- of the Pil- health of
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