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arson1
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chapbooks, english1
children1
converts, catholic1
criminal law1
criminals1

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York Minster6
Church of England. Parish of Leeds5
Drake, Francis (1695-1770)5
Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)5
Drake, Francis2
Aram, Eugene (1704-1759)1
Aram, Eugene, 1704-17591
Ardsley Main Colliery (Barnsley)1
Bacon, Nathaniel (1593-1660)1
Bristow, William1

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Awful explosion of fire damp. 73 lives lost

Ardsley Main Colliery (Barnsley)

[1847]

Report of an explosion at Ardsley Main Colliery, Barnsley, 5 March 1847.

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The history of Giles Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning

Newbery, John (1713-1767)

[ca. 1825]

References: Davis, Roger. Kendrew of York... (1988) no. 26.

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Agenda : the what's on magazine, West Yorkshire

nos.1 & 3 (Jan. & March 1991) Listings, reviews and features on live music, nightlife, theatre, film, art and fashion in West Yorkshire. "Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield, York"....

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A relation of the fearful estate of Francis Spira : after he turned apostate from the Protestant Church to Popery : together with the miserable and woful death of several others, who have been enemies to the gospel of Christ

Bacon, Nathaniel (1593-1660); Harris, Benjamin publisher

1811

Included is the life of John Child; attached are the lives of John Howard, Timothy Senier and Samuel Finley.

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York Castle, in the nineteenth century; being an account of all the principal offences committed in Yorkshire, from the year 1800 to the present period; with the lives of the capital offenders; accompanied with interesting anecdotes, important disclosures and confessions, obtained from authentic sources, and under high magisterial authority

Rede, William Leman (1802-1847); Rede, Leman Thomas Tertius (1799-1832)

1831

The name of Leman Thomas Rede is on the title-page, but the work was wholly written by William Leman Rede, and was originally intended to form part of a longer work. [c.f. preface].

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