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Leeds Student, volume 36 issue 9
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Leeds Student, volume 36 issue 9

18/11/2005

All issues in vol. contain 'LS2' Magazine.

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Title: The Bed of Reverend Mr William Willets - an Humble Faithful Minister - in Dudley, Who at the Age of 36 Fell Asleep, March the 9th 1699/1700

Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)

Date(s): 1700?

Manuscript: Lt 98

Contents: Epitaph on the clergyman William Willets, concerning the consequences of human vanity and reality of divine judgement

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On the shipwreck of Edith Lovell and Joseph Sparrow

1782

The full title is 'On the shipwreck of Edith Lovell and Joseph Sparrow who perished in their passage from Cork to Bristol addressed to her sister Ann by her friend M. S.'. Lovell was a Minister in th...

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The Wound photographs

1994

By Gilly Fraser. 1994 Autumn National Tour.

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A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)
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A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)

[ca.1480-1500]

The border is decorated with a bird, pinks, strawberries, thistles, speedwells, acanthus leaves and a man dressed in clothes for labour, with a hat, a hood, an apron and boots. 5-line foliate initial ...

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Anna Blackburn

April 1710

Regarding the Bishop of Man's book.

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Letter from George Middlemass to Maurice de Sausmarez

16 May 1966

Typewritten letter from George Middlemass, Secretary of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, to Maurice de Sausmarez, requesting to borrow 'Near Pienza' for an exhibition in the McLellan Gall...

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Fines

1766

Fines concerning land in Hutton and Arranthorne 1.Robert Jobling: plaintiff

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