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Books and printed items11
Archives4
Coins1

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Brotherton Collection9
English Literature5
Medieval Manuscripts2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Coin Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Incunabula1
Quaker Collection1

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
separatists2
credit1
latin poetry, medieval and modern1
lectionaries1
peace1
quaker church buildings1
verse satire, latin1
verse satire, latin (medieval and modern)1
war1

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Balne; Snaith; Yorkshire West Riding2
Sisak1

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Cowley, Abraham4
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)4
A. C2
Hausted, Peter (1645)2
Taylor, John2
Taylor, John (1580-1653)2
Bank of England1
Barksdale, Clement1
Barksdale, Clement (1609-1687)1
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)1

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 312-04-312-07

Issuer/creator: Galerius (305-11)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy


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An essay towards the setlement [sic] of a national credit in the kingdom of England

Cary, John (1720); Great Britain. Parliament

1696

The half-title and running title read: An Essay towards setling a national credit.

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Molti devotissimi tractatelli

Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)

1511

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The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace : With annotations. III. parts. And memorials of the author's life and death

Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645); Barksdale, Clement (1609-1687)

1654

First edition in English. Running title reads: Of war and peace. "Memorials of the life and death of H. Grotius" has separate dated title page; register is continuous. Annotation on Thomason cop...

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Ad populum, or, A lecture to the people : with a satyr against separatists

Hausted, Peter (1645); Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Taylor, John (1580-1653)

Printed in the late times and now reprinted 1675

Attributed to Peter Hausted. cf. NUC pre-1956. "A satyre against Separatists" has separate title-page; first published in 1642 over the initials "A.C. generosus" and variously attributed to Hausted,...

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Ad populum, or, A lecture to the people : with a satyr against separatists

Hausted, Peter (1645); Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Taylor, John (1580-1653)

1678

"A satyr against Separatists" has separate title-page; first published in 1642 over the initials "A.C. generosus", and variously attributed to Hausted, John Taylor the "water-poet" and Abraham Cowley,...

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DEEDS MAINLY RELATING TO SNAITH AREA

14th century-15th century

Relating to Balne, Carlton [parish of Snaith], Cowick, Drax, Gowdall, Heck, Hensall, Sessay, Snaith and elsewhere. Some of these are published in YRS 120 (1953). A note with the deeds reads: "From C....

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Poems : with the Muses looking-glass: and Amyntas

Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635)

1638

First edition. Each play has special title page and separate pagination. Pages 92 and 93 of the second numeration misnumbered 93, 92. Signatures: *⁴, **⁴, ***⁴, A-Q⁴, (Poems); Aa⁴, B-M...

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The laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First, and his royal successors, Kings and Queen of Scotland in two parts. Part I. Collected, and extracted, from the publick records of the said kingdom, by Sir Thomas Murray of Glendook, Knight, and Barronet, clerk to His Majesties Council, register, and rolls, by His Majesties special warrand

Murray, Thomas Lord Glendoick (1630?-1684); Scotland; Scotland. Convention of Estates

1682

At foot of title: Cum privilegio. With two preliminary contents leaves. Vol. 2, "The Acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraign, Charles the First" (Wing S1168C), has s...

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[Evangelistarium]
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[Evangelistarium]

[ca. 1480-1520]

Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower m...

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An essay upon satyr, or, A poem on the times : under the names of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age: to which is added a satyr against Separatists

A. C; Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

1680

Postscript to the "Essay" signed "A.C."; this poem was first published under the title "The foure ages of England", 1648, but repudiated by Abraham Cowley in the preface to "Poems", 1656. "A satyr a...

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