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Total number of records: 766

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Books and printed items656
Archives105
Objects4
Indexes1

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Quaker Collection186
Brotherton Collection146
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society81
English Literature11
Medieval Manuscripts6
Ripon Cathedral6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Cookery Collection1
Incunabula1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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churches, quaker43
society of friends22
church and state16
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freedom of religion13
inner light13
popish plot, 167811
repentance11
oaths10
encyclopedias and dictionaries8

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Great Britain56
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Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Society of Friends188
Fox, George (1624-1691)129
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)59
Great Britain29
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)22
Great Britain. Parliament19
Smith, William (1672)15
Catholic Church14
Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)14
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)11

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Archive Item

Counterpart lease for 21 years of messuage and 10a 1r 28p land

21 Mar 1631

1 Sir Peter Middelton of Stockeld, knight 2 John Utley and his son William Utley of Ikley, husbandmen

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Archive Object Item

cuneiform tablet

6th century BCE

A two sided cuneiform tablet with damage across the bottom and in the centre of the top edge. 1 loose paper label.

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Grotesques (fol. 14v)
Archive Piece

Grotesques (fol. 14v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes three grotesques: a green bird with a head of a bearded old man wearing a hat and a collar; a lion with a man's head clad in a hood, man's for- legs clad in socks, and ...

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Archive Object Item

cuneiform tablet

c. 1700-1500

An irregular shaped fragment of a cuneiform tablet with lines between the inscription, which is on one side only. The reverse side is concave and has a round paper label attached with a '3' in pencil...

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Archive Object Item

cuneiform tablet (section)

No date

A section of a pink clay cuneiform tablet, with script on one side.

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Archive Series

Skipton

1384-1619

1384 Grant from John de Malghom of Calton to Sir Robert del [F...] and Sir William de Rothwell chaplains, of a toft and three oxgangs which he had by feoffment from Edmund son of Thomas de Kendal, in...

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Grant of toft, croft and land in Storthes by Stokebrige

[Late 13th century]

1 Nicholas del Beyemeslay 2 Richard son of Peter de ?Ditherstayn Witnesses: Sir Peter de Westwyke, Sir John leW[...], [...] de Plumpton, knights; William Mauleverer del Beyemesley; Peter de Midd...

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Archive File

Extract of Court Roll

1643

Reported to private court Baron of Gervase Scrope knt held 1st June 19 Charles I [1643] Re John Welmy esq’s payment into the hands of the lord of the manor land in Gedney post 1643

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Priest and clerics (fol. 228r)
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Priest and clerics (fol. 228r)

[ca. 1260]

The first initial 'C' encloses two clerics singing, the second has a priest censing the altar.

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Archive Print piece

[*]4v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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