Person:George Bedford (4)

George Bedford

b.Abt 1602

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m. 19 Apr 1633

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	George Bedford
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1602
Marriage License	19 Apr 1633	to Edith Scrase
Marriage	19 Apr 1633	City of London, Middlesex, Englandto Edith Scrase
Other^[1]		Searcher Trier and Sealer of Madder throughout England

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 College of Arms (United Kingdom); Joseph Jackson Howard; and Joseph Lemuel Chester (eds.). The visitation of London, anno domini 1633, 1634, and 1635: Made by Sr Henry St George, Kt, Richmond Herald, and deputy and marshal to Sr Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieux King of Armes. (London: Harleian Society, 1880–1883)
p. 61.
SHERFIELD (SHERVILL), Henry (1572-1634), of Lincoln's Inn, London and Salisbury, Wilts., in The History of Parliament.

" An unwise investment in his stepson George Bedford’s project to monopolize the English madder market was just one of many drains on his purse in recent years, and by early 1632 he and some of his friends, notably Sir George Wrottesley and Sir Thomas Jervoise, were collectively more than £6,000 in debt."
Chenciner, Robert. Madder Red: A History Luxury and Trade
p. 107, 2000.

"...the malaria from Romney Marsh which afflicted George Bedford in 1624 was worse than the attack of the pigs."