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Archive Print Item

The day dawned both to Jews and Gentiles, and clear discoveries of light and righteousness, the bright and morning star appearing

White, Dorothy (1630?-1685)

1684

Pages 7-8 skipped in page numbering. Signed at end: Dorothy Wight. Errata slip pasted to p.16.

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Archive Item

Letter

19th Jul 1669

Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from Sir Joseph Bright , about the coach accident suffered by Bright's wife and daughter and Mr Newton's letter regarding his innocence.

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Archive Item

Letter

2 Apr 1678

Jon Waterhouse to Sir John Bright of Badsworth

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Letter

7 May 1678

Jon Waterhouse to Sir John Bright of Badsworth

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 91

Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 91

Contents: Epigram on the brightness of virtue, comparing it to a glow worm; largely unreadable owing to damage to leaf

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Title: Chloe

Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: Comparing a young woman to a bright day, both beautiful and common to all,

i.e. promiscuous

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Letter

nd [17th century]

Letter to Sir Godfrey Copley from [Sir] John Bright [DNB] about Mr Newton

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Title: Epigramma

Author: Baynes, Martin; or Baines, Martin

Attribution: Martin Baynes

Date(s): c.1615

Manuscript: Lt q 53

Contents: Epigrammatical lines, introductory to 'A Christian Kalendar', making imaginative use of stars and celestial brightness

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1603 ?

Manuscript: Lt 25

Contents: On no star being bright enough to have foretold the death of a particular

queen, or princess, probably Elizabeth 1

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