Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bedford” in chapter 2 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:

...gent spirit of freedom invaded the royal authority in the Established Church; and in 1748, just as Sherlock, the new bishop of London, was interceding with the king for an American episcopate, which Bedford and Halifax both favored as essential to royal authority, Virginia, with the consent of Gooch, its lieutenant-governor, transferred by law the patronage of all the livings to the vestries. The ac...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Bedford (Missouri, United States) 177 0 5 0 0 user votes
Bedford (United Kingdom) 76 38 2 0 0 user votes
Bedford (New Hampshire, United States) 25 0 5 0 0 user votes
Bedford (United Kingdom) 11 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (North Carolina, United States) 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Ohio, United States) 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Alabama, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Canada) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Illinois, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Louisiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Michigan, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Montana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Tennessee, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Texas, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Washington, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Bedford (Wyoming, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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