AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

PUBLIC CHARITIES

OF THE

TOWN OF BEDFORD,

WITH A

FULL AND DIGESTED STATEMENT

OF THE

LAWS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PRIVILEGES

OF THE

Harpur Free Grammar and other Schools,

AND A DESCRIPTION OF

THE TOWN,

ITS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, BUILDINGS, &c.

To which is annexed,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

THE LETTERS PATENT OF EDWARD VI. GRANTING LICENCE
FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THE HARPUR CHARITIES,

WITH A TRANSLATION.

"B.

EMBELLISHED WITH

A PORTRAIT OF SIR WIILIAM HARPUR, KNIGHT,
And Dedicated (by Permission) to

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

By R. B. HANKIN,

of Bedford, SOLICITOR.

BEDFORD:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY C. B. MERRY:

SOLD IN LONDON BY

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN ;
By the Booksellers in Oxford and Cambridge,
and in all Provincial Towns.

JOH

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evinced County

connecti self and i

the follow

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BEDFORD,