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Total number of records: 68

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Books and printed items58
Indexes4
People and organisations3
Archives2
Coins1

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Brotherton Collection37
Quaker Collection7
English Literature6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4
Ripon Cathedral2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Coin Collection1
Incunabula1

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sermons, english11
funeral sermons9
english language5
lord's supper3
society of friends3
theology3
microscopy2
physics2
science2
altars1

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Great Britain5
London (England)1
Oxford (England)1
Plymouth1

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Coles, Elisha (1640?-1680)6
Coles, John4
Coles, John (1623-)4
La Calprenede, Gaultier De Coste Seigneur De (1663)4
Catholic Church3
Church of England3
Cole, Henry, 1500?-15803
Featley, Daniel (1582-1645)3
Harding, Thomas, 1516-15723
Humphrey, Laurence (1589)3

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Nouvelle lumiere philosophique des vrais principes et elemens de nature, & qualité d'iceux : contre l'opinion commune

Clave, Éstienne de (fl. 1624-ca. 1635)

1641

Page numbers 431-450 omitted. Engraved title-vignette, head- and tailpieces, initials; heraldic illustration on final page. Champions the elements of S. Basso over those of Aristotle. Cf. Cole.

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Hymen's præludia, or, Love's master-piece : being the fifth part of that so much admir'd romance, intituled Cleopatra

La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste seigneur de (1663); Coles, John (1623-)

1656

By Gaultier de Costes, seigneur de La Calprenède; translated by John Coles. Pagination slightly irregular. Dedication signed: Coles.

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Title: [unknown]

Date(s): 15-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Lines said to be engraved on Elizabeth I's pocket pistol presented to her by

Philip of Spain, displayed on Dover pier, claiming to be able to shoot as far

as France; included in Coles's prose autobiography.

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Title: Upon the death of the Lord Protector in the year 1658. [Latin epigraphs from

Bible]

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1659 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Panegyric, praising Oliver Cromwell and his achievements on behalf of

England, especially abroad, lamenting his death, and describing the

accompanying storms. Here with three extra lines followed by "Sic desiderat

affinis eius B. Coles".

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Title: A short character of a witch

Author: Otway, Thomas

Attribution: Mr Otway; ex Orphan's Trajedy

Date(s): 1680 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Description of a poverty-stricken old witch from Otway's play "The Orphan,"

II.1, slightly altered, at the end of a prose treatise "Arguments proving

there are witches." At end, "B.Coles, 23 February 1740/1".

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To the priests and people of England, we discharge our consciences, and give them warning

Cotton, Priscilla; Cole, Mary

1655

Authors named, p.8: Priscilla Cotton, Mary Cole.

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Severall proposals humbly tendered to the consideration of those that are in authority, for the ease, security, & prosperity of this common-wealth

Cole, William (fl. 1659)

printed 1659

Imprint date in Roman figures. NUC lists a copy dated May 19, 1659 in a contemporary hand.

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