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Total number of records: 166

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Brotherton Collection68
Quaker Collection64
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse49
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21
Medieval Manuscripts5
Coin Collection2
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Ripon Cathedral1

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inner light3
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Alaesa1
Great Britain1
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Rome1

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Smith, William (1672)41
Anonymous16
Fisher, Samuel (1605-1665)7
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)5
Penington, Isaac (1616-1679)4
Waller, Edmund4
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Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax3
Style, Oliver3
Banks, John (1637-1710)2

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Title: On the Spring

Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden

Date(s): 1623 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Apparently urging a friend, in time of Spring, to abandon his spiritual

winter and think of the springtime of Heaven

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Assignment of woody ground called Middleton Spring alias Westwood

19 Feb 1691

1. Thomas Foster of Slaidburn and others 2. Shereburn Crombleholme of Long Preston, bachelor With bond

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Note concerning responsibility for fences around the Easegill [East Gill] spring

17th century

Gives names (John Lambert of Calton, George Falthrop, Roger Serjantson, Richard Serjantson, Anthony Preston, Christopher or Robert Lawson, Anthony Atkinson and Robert Serjantson and William Serjantson...

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The art of knowing ones self: or, A diligent search after the springs of morality. The first part

Abbadie, Jacques (1654-1727); Hanbury, P

1696

Pierre Boher is a pseudonym of Jacques Abbadie. With a half-title. Part 2 has separate title page, pagination, and register, with "printed by E.J... 1695" in imprint. Identified as Wing B3444 on...

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Friendly advice in the spirit of love unto believing parents and their tender off-spring in relation to their Christian education

Field, John (1652-1723); Scoryer, Richard

1695

Letter, p. 57-64, signed: Richard Scoryer.

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The discourse made before the Royal Society : concerning the use of duplicate proportion... together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions

Petty, Sir William (1623-1687)

1674

Imprimatur dated "Thursday Decem. 10. 1674" and signed "Brounckek [sic], P.R.S." [i.e. William Brouncker, 2nd viscount Brouncker], on A1 verso.

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Coin

Denomination: AE24

Date(s): c. 340 BCE

Place: Alaesa

Material: copper alloy

Title: Sorrow

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: On how sadness makes the writer unable to appreciate the beauties of nature

in Spring

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