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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
On the 28th August, 1652, the Court " is pleased to bestow x 1 " 
more for the same reasons. 
Here all entries as to Bedford cease in the Eecords, and, with the 
exception that periodically between 1649 and 1652 he had been 
named one of the Examiners of the School, there are no other 
entries relating to him. The registers of St. Martin Outwich 
Church have all been lost or destroyed except one of 1560, which 
is now preserved at St. Helen's Church, Bishopsgate Street ; so that 
we have to turn elsewhere to find the missing link. 
The veritable Bedford was a man of mark and learning. Twice 
had he been called to preach at Paul's Cross — the first time on the 
26th August, 1621, when his subject was, " The Sinne unto Death, 
or an ample discovery of that fearfull sinne the sinne against the 
Holy Ghost, together with the signes, degrees, and preservatiues 
thereof. By Tho. Bedford, Mr. of Arts in Queene's Colledge in 
Cambridge. London. Printed by John Dawson for William Shep- 
pard and are to be sold at the signe of the Starre vnder St. Peter's 
Church in Cornhill and in Pope's-head Alley 1621." The second 
time in 1638, when he delivered, as before mentioned, "The Eeady 
way to True Freedom, set doune in a Sermon Preached in the 
Publique Lecture appointed for S. Paul's Crosse on the feast of S. 
John Baptist June 24th, 1638. By T. B. Pr : PI: (Praelectoris 
Plymothiensis) London. Printed by E. G. for Abel Roper, at the 
blacke spreade Eagle, over against S. Dunstane's Church in Fleet 
Street 1638." 
Bedford also wrote " A Treatise of the Sacraments according to 
the Doctrine of the Church of England touching that argument, 
collected out of the Articles of Religion, the Publique Catechism, 
the Liturgie, and the Book of Homilies. By T. B. Pr : PI : 
London. Printed by Richard Bishop, for Abel Roper, and are to 
bee sold at his shop, at the black spred-Eagle in Fleet-Street, over 
against S. Dunstans Church 1638," with a dedication by "Aaron 
Wilson Arch-Exon & Vic. de Plymouth." 
An examination of a pamphlet entitled " The Compassionate 
Samaritan" followed in 1647 — the work probably of his hours of 
deepest affliction and trial ; and in the same year " An Examination 
of the Chief Points of Antinomianism collected out of some 
Lectures lately preached in the Church of Antholines Parish, 
London" In 1649 was published "Some Sacramental Instructions; 
or, An Explication of the Principles of Religion." The two last of 
