Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 148 records

Total number of records: 148

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items129
Archives19

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection56
Brotherton Collection21
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society12
English Literature5
Incunabula5
Ripon Cathedral3
Medieval Manuscripts2
Cookery Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends20
tithes4
church and state3
churches, quaker3
grammar, comparative and general3
judgment of god3
oaths3
quaker church buildings3
repentance3
freedom of religion2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain5
Bedarrides (France)1
Comtat Venaissin (France)1
France1
L'Isle-Sur-La-Sorgue (France)1
Pesaro (Italy)1
Provence (France)1
Rome1
Senigallia (Italy)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Fox, George (1624-1691)50
Bayly, William (1675)28
Society of Friends14
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)4
Catholic Church4
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)4
Baron Brotherton3
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton3
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton3
Furly, Benjamin (1636-1714)3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 12001
From 13001
From 14008
From 150013
From 1600125

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 14998
Up to 159912
Up to 1699128
The Visitation (fol. 13r)
Archive Piece

The Visitation (fol. 13r)

[1450-1500]

The Virgin Mary and her cousin, Elizabeth, greet each other. A handmaiden stands behind the Virgin and holds a basket. The house of Zacharias and Elizabeth, a hilly landscape and a Judaean town can be...

More details and larger image


Archive Item

Petition

nd [1590-1603]

To the Right Honourable Sir Thomas [........?] Knight [........?] of the town of Doncaster, Privy Councillor. From the Inhabitants of the towns of Wakfeild, Stanley, Thornes and Allerthorpe in the pa...

More details


Archive Item

Bond in the sum of £3,000

23 Jan 1632

1 Peter Middelton of Stockeld 2 William Hungate of Saxton

More details


Archive Print Item

The history of Henry IV., surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre

Peŕéfixe, Hardouin de Beaumont de aBishop of Paris (1605-1670); Dauncey, John (fl. 1663)

1672

Indexed in: Christ Church, University of Oxford. Library. The Christ Church suppl. to Wing's Short-title cat., 1641-1700 no. Pl465.

More details


Archive Item

Estreat

1539

Halifax. Richard Saltonstall son and heir of Richard Saltonstall deceased, paid 10s. for entry into 2 messuages and 2 sixth parts of Saltonstall and half a sixth part of Saltonstall, lying between a r...

More details