There's a good search function at the Beds Archives: http://bedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk/#Archive Is this the right time frame, 1418 - 1430? Here are a couple Common Pleas records: 1418 / f 433, third entry: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0433.htm Hunts. Henry Godfrey and John Herteshorn, of Yekwell, executors of Joan, who was the wife of Henry Godfrey of North Yevyll, Beds, and formerly the wife of John of Herlynton, versus John Peek, of Yakesley, yeoman, for a debt of ten pounds. 1430 / d 984, third full entry: Hunts. Henry Godfrey and John Mepersale versus Robert Boteler, of Gillyng, for waste (destruction of real property by someone in temporary possession).