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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 375-11-17-378-08-09

Issuer/creator: Valens (364-78)

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Fantastic vision of winged, speaking trees flying on the seas, and other

frightful marvels, perhaps foretelling disaster

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Bond

21 Jul 1543

From Gilbert Deane of Saltonstall to Thomas Sayvile and Richard Saltonstall for performance of covenants.

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Notes on Dryden's Virgil : in a letter to a friend : with an essay on the same poet

Milbourne, Luke (1649-1720); Virgil

1698

"The I. book of Virgil's Georgics made English" [by Milbourne]: p.206-232. Title-leaf, preceded by free end-paper and fly-leaf, is B1; B3 signed A3 in error - an irregularity not noted by Macdonald....

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The wild-goose chase. : A comedie as it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers: : being the noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the ingenious and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to His late Majestie

Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Lowin, John (1576-1659); Taylor, Joseph (1586?-1653?)

1652

Acted at court in 1621, but not printed until 1652. In 1647 when the folio of Beaumont's and Fletcher's works was published, this play was omitted, as it had long been lost and was supposed to be irre...

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A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
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A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same

Fisher, Clement (1539-1619); Bayley, Walter (1529-1593); Willoughby, Edward (16th century-16th century); Stephens, Marly (17th century-17th century)

c.1580

Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...

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The bloody assizes: or, A compleat history of the life of George Lord Jefferies, from his birth to this present time... : to which is added Major Holmes's excellent speech, with the dying speeches and prayers of many other eminent Protestants. None of which were ever before publish'd

Bent, James; Holmes, Abraham (1685); Tutchin, John (1661?-1707); Oates, Titus (1649-1705); Dunton, John (1659-1733); Shirley, John (fl. 1680-1702)

1689

Attributed to James Bent; cf. BM. According to Halkett & Laing (v. 9, p. 32), the original work was by John Shirley with contributions by Pitts (i.e. John Tutchin) and probably by Titus Oates and John...

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The love-sick king, an English tragical history : with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester

Brewer, Anthony (1630-1655)

1655

Probably originally written for the visit of James I to Newcastle in 1617 (vendor). Contains allusions to "Hamlet", "The tragedy of Hoffman", and Beaumont's "Knight of the burning pestle", from whic...

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