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Excerpt from The Esquire Bedells of the University of Cambridge From the 13th Century to the 20th Century
For some seven hundred years the Bedells have been amongst the most useful and picturesque officers of the University of Cambridge. A record of their careers and of their many sided activities 'will form quite an epitome of academical history.
In the following chapters a systematic account will be given of the titles, the duties, the mode of election, the stipends, the dress, etc. Of the Esquire Bedells.
Then a biographical list of nearly one hundred Of these officials will be recorded - and incidents connected with their lives will be noted which, all down these centuries, strikingly illustrate the ceremonies and the studies of the University.
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