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Floral border and initial (fol. 107v)
Archive Piece

Floral border and initial (fol. 107v)

[ca. 1480-1500]

3-line initial in pink, gold, blue and green, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a blue leaf. On the left, a column border decorated with flowers, leaves and gold discs with concentric p...

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Initial 'M' (fol. 130r)
Archive Piece

Initial 'M' (fol. 130r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

Initial 'M', halved in red and blue, with a white outline, infilled with curved foliage in blue, green, and red. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.

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Quitclaim

1 Aug 1336

1 John de Stokhild son of Sir Richard de Stokhild 2 Dame Eustachia, widow of Sir Peter de Midelton; Sir William de Wetherby, chaplain; and Thomas de Midelton Quitclaim of all right in his close ...

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Feoffment

2 May 1544

From John Lacy esq., Lord of Southowrome to Richard Lacy his son and heir and 10 others, of 2½ acres, parcel of waste at Wakefield Bank in Southowrome, to the use of the township of Halifax.

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Archive Item

Court roll

1447-1449

Courts of Middleton ['Medilton'] held at Stubham 27 Sep 1447, 13 Feb 1449

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Archive Print Item

Hermou tou Trismegistou Poimandrēs; Asklēpiou horoi pros Ammona basilea = Mercurii Trismegisti Poemander, seu De potestate ac sapientia divina ; Aesculapii definitiones ad Ammonem regem

Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499); Stobaeus; Hermes Trismegistus

1554

Greek text, with Latin translation, of the Corpus hermeticum (books 1-14 and 16-18; book 15 is not extant). In this ed. three excerpts from Joannes Stobaeus are included with books 1-14. Cf. Hermetica...

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Licence

6 Jan 1585

From Q. Eliz. to Grace Cowcroft (14s. 6d.) to alienate to Adam Morres clerk and Richard Cowcroft, 2 messuages, 10 acres of land &c. in Aringden to the use of Henry Cowcroft of Sawghes in Wadsworth...

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Letters Patent

1 Aug 1591

Letters patent granting a licence, for the sum of £3 6s. 8d., to Ralph Ellerker, esq., to alienate the manor of Acaster Selby with its appurtenances, and 20 messuages, 10 tofts, 10 cottages, 200 acre...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 4400 BCE

Cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie.

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Religious Houses, Deeds

12th century-16th century

Deeds relating to the estates and interests of religious houses: 1-4: Bolton Priory. 5-9: Byland Abbey. 10: Cockersand Abbey. 11: Guisborough Priory. 12: Hospitallers. 13: Jervaulx Abbey....

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Archive File

Notes in English and Latin, apparently for a course of sermons for Sundays throughout the year, by Anthony Higgin

Higgin, Anthony

c.1587

Contains: (1) f.6: in festo Matthaei, Matth.9.9; (2) f.8: Math.9.9. Euangelium on Mathews day 1587; (3) f.11: Dominica 1a post trinit. Luke 16 Dives and Lazarus; (4) f.12: Dominica 2a post trinit. Luk...

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Final concord

20 Jan 1594

Fine levied at Westminster in the Octave of St Hilary 36 Elizabeth between William Fairfax knight. Peter Roos Esq. and John Badeley gent. plaintiffs and George Rosse gent. deforciant Premises: the ma...

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