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Lisbon administered the sacrament to them. It was re- 

 markable that rude and barbarous a the Irish were, they 

 gave them no disturbance in the performance of divn 



and often told the bishop they had no quarrel with 

 him. but that the sole cause of their confining him was his 

 Kniihshman. After being kept in tins manner 

 for thru- weeks, the bishop, his two sons and Mr. i 

 were , 1 for two of the O'Rourke's: but though it 



wms agreed that they should be safely conducted to Dublin, 

 "bels would never suffer them to be carried out of the 

 country, but sent them to the house of one Dennis Sheridan, 

 an Irish minister and convert to the Protestant reli-i n, t.. 

 which he steadily adhered and relieved many who lied to 

 him for protection. Notwithstanding this the. Irish suffered 

 hint to live quietly amongst them on account of the great 

 family from which he was descended. While Bishop Ik- 

 dell remained there, and enjoyed some degree of health, he 

 Sunday read the prayer* and lessons, and preached 

 .If. The last Sunday he officiated was the 30th of 

 January, and the day following he was taken ill. On the 

 second day it appeared his disease was an ague, and on the 

 fourth, apprehending a speedy change, he called for his 

 sons and his sons' wives, spoke to them a considerable time, 

 i:a\e them much spiritual advice, and blessed them. Bishop 

 Burnct (pp. 210, 216) has detailed his conversation with 

 them. On the 7th of February, lC41-2,he breathed Ins hist, 

 in the seventy-first year of his age, his death being chiefly 

 occasioned by his la'te imprisonment and the weight of sor- 

 row which lay upon his mind. 



As his body could not be buried as he hod desired, with- 

 out the new 'intruding bishop's leave, Mr. Clogy and Mr 

 Sheridan went to ask it. They found the bishop in a state o! 

 int.ixiriitioii, and a sad change in the house; butaftera 

 little hesitation leave was pi-anted, and on the 9th February 

 1641-2, Bishop Bedell was buried, agreeably to his owi 

 direction, in the churchyard of Kilmore close to his wife's 

 n. The rebels gathered their forces to pay honour to the 

 funeral, and would have suffered Mr. Clogy to bury the bisho] 

 according to the office prescribed by the church, but it was 

 feared the rabble might be provoked by it, and it was passei 

 over: the Irish, however, discharged a volley of shot at the 

 interment, and cried out in Latin, ' Recmiescat in pace ulti 

 mus Anglorum :' for, says Burnet, they had often said tha 

 as they esteemed him the best of the English bishops, so hi 

 should' be the last who should be left among them. Ed 

 mund Farilly, a popish priest, is said to have exclaimed a 

 hi* interment, 'Osit ammameacum Bedello.' His epitaph 

 as ordered by himself, was simply ' Depositum Gulielm 

 quondam episcopi Kilmorcnsis." 



The public character of Bishop Bedell did honour to hi 

 hinh office in the church, and his private life was perfectly 

 con-istent with the doctrines which he taught. His action 

 were such as rendered him beloved and esteemed while he 

 lived, and cannot but secure the highest reverence for hi 

 memory. The country, and the times in which he li\ei! 

 required such examples, and the respect paid him by 111 

 Irish sufficiently showed what might have been done 

 among them if all, or the greater part, of the Protestant 

 clercy had been such as he was. 



'I'll,- It ,nkt of the Old Testament, translated by the care 

 and diligence of Bishop Bedell into Irish, were first pub- 

 lished, -itD. l.ndn, 16H5, with O'Domhnuill's translation 

 of the New Testament, 4to. London, 1681, appended : both 

 again printed in the Irish character, 12mo. 1690. 

 ( ) Domlmiiill, pronounced O'Dunnell, is the true Irish name 

 of William Daniel, archbishop of Tuam, mentioned above: 

 his translation of the New Testament was first published 

 in Dublin in Ifi02. (See Journal of l''.<lurntinn. No. XI.) 



if original letters nf Hishop Bedell munrniin; the 

 itrps tahtn totoard a reformation nf religion at Venice 

 upon nrrarion nf the quarrel between that Statf and Ihe 

 I'nid V. were printed 12mo. Dublin, 1742. They were 

 found among Archbishop Usher's manuscripts in the library 

 of Trinity College there. 



". Bishop Burnet's Life if Pedell, 8vo. London, 1685 ; 

 Biogr. Hrilannii-ii. edit. 1747, vol. i. pp. r,.'is, ,; , i : Cfuinic.- 

 tn- of 111 '' at the end of Certain Discoursetby 



Nicli. Barnard, D.D., Mo. Ixindon, 1659.) 



HKDKSMAN. or BKKDMAN. from bede, a prayer, and 

 that from tho An^lo S.i\"ii l> an, to pray, was a common 

 mode of signature in the time of Henry VIII. nt the end of 

 letters; as of a prayer-man, or cue who prayed for another. 

 Sir Thomas More, in writing to Cardinal Wolsey, ordinarily 



tyles himself ' Your humble orator and most boundcn heed- 

 man. Thomas More. 1 (Sec Ellis's Orig. Leltrrt I//MV 



'. I litt. first ser. vol. i. pp. 1U-. 203, 206, 



I, 211.) Margaret Bryan, tin- novcrm-** ni'ihe Ijwiy 

 ilirabclh, writinu' to bird Cromwell, s^iis herself in the 

 ame manner, - Your da) ly Iitdt-W"iimn.' < Ibid, second ser. 

 ol. ii. p. 82.) 



It was not out of use in Shakspeare's time, who in the 

 Two Gentlemen of Verona,' act i. scene i., says 



For I will be thy bndnnui, Vtlcnlinr.' 



Valentine answers 



4 And on a love-book pray for my tuceeM.' 



BEDFORD, a borough, and the county town of Bedford- 

 shire, situated on both sides of the river Ouse. which is 

 nn\igable to the German Ocean. Bedford is forty-eight 

 miles N.N.W. from London. Caraden states the town 

 to be of hisrh antiquity; but doubts if it was the I. 

 dorum of Antoninus, as some affirm, for it does not stand 

 on a Roman road, nor had Roman coins ever been found 

 there. Nevertheless the plough turns up many coins in 

 - parts of the county, and the \ieinity of Slieflbrd in 

 particular has l>een remarkably productive in Roman pot- 

 tery, glass, and bronze. Camdcn proceeds to state that 

 lie 'hail read that the British name of the place WU l.if- 

 wiilur, or Lattidur; but he regards the latter us a t 

 lationofthe English name ' Lettuy, in British, signify- 

 ing public inns, and Lettidur, inns on a river 

 ford, in English, beds and inns at a ford.' This account 

 is not very satisfactory. 'Iciminit Magatilt, 



1794, for a quotation bearing on this point from a work 

 called Ensl'ind lllintnitrd.) It is generally supr 

 however, that the town is the Bedicanford of t. 

 Chronicle. This signifies ' a fortress on a river,' a de- 

 signation of which tlie present name seems a corruption. 

 Bedford appears to have been the scene of a battle in 572 

 between the Saxon Cuthw ult'and the Britons. It afterwards 

 suffered greatly in the wars between the .Saxons ;md the 

 Danes, and was ultimately burned by Ihe latter in 1010. 

 Mention is made of a fortress or citadel 1 uilt on the south 

 side of the river by Edward the Elder; but it would .seem to 

 have hern destroyed by the Danes, or was found an inade- 

 quate defence, for Paine de Beauchamp. to whom the barony 

 was u'lsen h\ William Rul'us, thought it necessary to build, 

 adjoining to the town, a very strong castle, which was sur- 

 rounded by a vast entrenchment of earth, HB well as a lofty 

 and thick wall. ' While this castle Mo .1. >a\- Camdeii, 

 ' there was no storm ol civil war that did not burst upon it.' 

 In 11.17 it sustained a siege against Kins; Stephen and his 

 army; but accounts vary exceedingly both as to who were 

 the defenders and what was their fate. Camden, without 

 entering into particulars, says that Stephen took the fort- 

 ress, with great slaughter; but Dugdale, who gives details 

 and quotes antient authorities, says that the king obtained it 

 by surrender, and granted honourable terms to the ;_MI TIM>II. 

 In 121li, William de Beauchamp, being then po*., >.,-il of 

 the barony of Bedford, took part with the rebeiiioui 1 

 and received them as friends into the castle, which they 

 were advancing to besiege. When, however, Kinij John 

 sent his favourite, Faukes do Brent, lo summon the < 

 it was surrendered to him within a few days, and the king 

 gave it to him, with the barony, for h. 



having repaired and greatly strengthened his castle. I i 

 which purpose he is said to have pulled down the colh 

 church of St. Paul's, presumed so far upon its impregnnhlo 

 chancier as to set all law and authority at defiance. His 

 outrages and depredations on his less powerful neighbours 



tich, that in the year 1224, Martin Pateishul. Tl, 

 de Moullon, and Henry Braybrooke, the king's justices itine- 

 rant, then silting at hunsiaplc. felt it their duty to take 

 cognizance of his proceedings, and fined him in the sum of 

 thousand pounds, l-'uukes, being ^really provoked at 

 this, sent his brother at the head of a party of s. .M: 

 seize the judges and bring them prisoners to Bedford. They 

 had timely notice of his intention, and two of them escaped ; 

 but Bruybrooke wus taken and earned lo the ensile, where 

 he was shamefully treated. The king I Henry 111.), In HILT 

 highly incensed at this and the other outrageous conduct nf 

 ;ii. determined to brills; him to punishment. He 

 therefor* matched to Bedford in person, attended by Stephen 



bop of Canterbury, and the principal , 



of the realm. On this occasion the Church wus so pro, 



by Faukes's sacrilege, that the prelates and abbots granted 



