Promissory Note

Derrick Holmes has a footnote referring to this promissory note preserved at the Bristol Academy Library

March 25 1758

Twelve months after the date I promised to pay the Revd. Mr. Bernard Foskett or order the sum of one hundred and four pounds for value secured by me. Signed BB

Recd 11 July seventy five pounds in Lue of this note - B F

(Part of the principal money)

By September 1758 Foskett was dead.

Beddome was a beneficiary of Foskett's will.

Gloucestershire 1724

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Derrick also reproduces this map made by Herman Moll in 1724

Bourton Chapel 1843

Derrick's thesis contains a number of visuals including this one of the chapel,

which i do not recall seeing.

I am not sure of its source.

 

Another nice parcel

Derrick Holmes' family have kindly alos sent me his thesis and one or two other things. Very interesting.

Interesting Parcel

I have just taken delivery of a very precious parcel, kindly sent to me by the family of Derrick Holmes, now living down in Devon. Derrick has had a life long interest in Beddome and the Bourton on the Water church and wrote a many years ago called The Early Years (1655–1740) of Bourton-on-the-Water Dissenters who later constituted the Baptist Church, with special reference to the Ministry of the Reverend Benjamin Beddome A.M. 1740–1795. Sadly, Derrick is now in a home and suffers dementia. There are five books in all. I will describe them in a later blog.