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Brotherton Collection5
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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Coin Collection2
Quaker Collection2
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covenant theology3
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covenanters1
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Calais1
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Fox, George (1624-1691)5
Anonymous1
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)1
Carleton, George (1559-1628)1
Cecil Betsalel Roth1
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)1
Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin (1837-1914)1
Gibson, John Harris1
Gorges, Arthur1
Gorges, Sir Arthur (1557?-1625)1

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 367-08-24-375-11-17

Issuer/creator: Valens (364-78)

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Religious poem arguing that those in heaven enjoy such perfect bliss that

their intentions and their thoughts become identical

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BC MS Lt 27, p. 61: The opening of
Archive Item

Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

c.1680

Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors apologie to the reader"

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Archive Print Item

The essays or counsels, civil & moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban : with a table of the colours of good & evil : whereunto is added the wisdom of the ancients

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Gorges, Sir Arthur (1557?-1625)

1673

Pages 68, 239, 1st group of paging, p.119, last group, incorrectly numbered 86, 39, 129, respectively. "The wisdom of the ancients. Written in Latine by Sir Francis Bacon... . Done into English by S...

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Epistolae duae, quarum altera de moribus ac institutis Turcarum agit: altera septem Asiae ecclesiarum notitiam continet

Smith, Thomas (1638-1710)

1672

This work was translated into English as "Remarks on the manners, religion and government of the Turks", London, 1678. With an initial imprimatur leaf and 10 final pages consisting of an index of Ar...

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Miscellanies over claret, or, The friends to the tavern the best friends to poetry : being a collection of poems, translations, &c. to be continued monthly from the Rose Tavern without Temple-Bar

Pittis, William (1674-1724)

in the year 1697

no.4 1698 Letter to contributors, dated March the 12th. 1697/8, and "signed" by J.S., secretary to the President and Court of Assistants at the Rose-Tavern, on back of title-page. Dedication to Sir ...

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Brut Chronicle
Archive Collection

Brut Chronicle

Wolhouse, Anthony (1533-1587); Speed, W; Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

After 1430

Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...

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groat
Coin

Denomination: groat

Date(s): 1422-1427

Issuer/creator: Henry VI of England

Place: Calais

Material: silver