I believe I have found over the web the son of the author of this article described by Brian Breedlove below. The son's genealogy page indicates that his father the author, Howard V. Pendley III, is alive. I'll try to find him and see what I can discover about this piece. I think it may have been fiction, but the author should know! Cheers, Marc Breedlove At 12:21 PM 10/7/00 EDT, you wrote: > i am forwarding a copy of part of an article i found interesting some time >ago. i hope you find it interesting. > Brian H Breedlove > > i have located and scanned the first page of the article i referenced >in my prior note. i am sending it to you and several others for their review >and comment. I find it interesting in light of the comments on the net with >respect to the origin of our family name. one theory proposes that the name >was a colonial invention and another a misspelling or pronunciation of a name >that originated in a different language such as german. i make no conclusion >other than to say that it appears that professor Hendley has done some >scholarly work and it shows that at least one breedlove lived and worked in >england at the time indicated. > >For those that read this portion of the article, note that i have left out >the remainder because it did not scan well and is not pertinent to the point >re: origin of the name. Also please note that the author and the magazine >are identified so as to give proper attribution to the author. > > > The Breedlove Papers > > "PROCEEDINGS, being a true account of the trial of John Bunyan, Tinker, of >Bedford-shire." Well, maybe not true. But the author of Pilgrim's >Progress-the bane of freshman literature classes and the boon of upwardly >mobile English teachers-did spend 10 years in an English prison for his >religious convictions. So, what if a Yale professor on sabbatical in London >did find, in the musty papers of Thomas Breedlove, verbatim accounts of... > >By Howard V. Pendley III > > >One of the most significant finds re-lated to the legal history of England in >the years immediately following the Commonwealth Period was the discovery. >among the papers of one Thomas Breedlove.ofnearly a thousand verbatim >accounts of primarily minor trials conducted between 1660 and 1675. Almost >nothing is known of Breedlove's life, except that he was one of a number of >legal scribes, the seventeenth-century English equivalent of a court >stenographer. These men accompanied magistrates from place to place on court >days in order to record the disposition of mostly lackluster cases that, even >then, cluttered the legal system. >What makes the Breedlove collection so valuable is the virtual dearth or >firsthand >accounts of legal proceedings during this period of English history. The >public rec-ords of these trials were, almost without exception, lost in the >wake of the plague outbreak and subsequent Great Fire of Lon-don in 1666. How >it happened that Thomas Breedlove possessed copies of the tran-scripts of the >trials remains a mystery to historians, and may never be solved, Breed-love >himself passed from the scene after 1675, as unremarkably as he entered it >three and a half decades earlier. We may be grateful, however, for whatever >fortuitous circumstances led to his making and pre-serving his copies, for >among the sheaves found were those recording the proceedings of His Majesty, >King Charles II, against one John Bunyan, tinker and sometime preacher >of a relatively new and strange-as well as illegal-cult known as Baptists. >What fol-lows is the account of that trial, essentially as Thomas Breedlove >recorded it. > >IFor purposes of readability, the editor has updated Breedlove's language and >spelling. No changes have been made in the substance of his record. The >reader may focus on the proceedings themselves, without constantly having to >refer to the copious footnotes that would necessarily accompany the archaic >language of the origiual.-Ed.J > >Howard V. Pendley III is pastor of the Bedford Baptist Church in Bedford, >Vir-ginia. > >