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Total number of records: 408

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Books and printed items184
Archives179
Indexes44
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society165
Brotherton Collection143
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse48
English Literature48
Quaker Collection35
Ripon Cathedral5
Medieval Manuscripts3
Incunabula2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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english poetry7
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christian life5
persecution5
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english drama3
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sermons, english3
society of friends3

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Ellerton Priory; Ellerton; Yorkshire East Riding1

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Society of Friends22
Anonymous15
Wodehouse, Sir Philip9
Eccles, John5
Fountain, John5
John Fountain5
Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718)5
Smith, William (1672)5
Tomlinson, William5
Bayly, William (1675)4

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Archive Sub-sub-collection

Little Ribston

1580

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The Manor of Little Houghton

1681

Comprises an indenture between John Deane of Mattingley of the first part, Mary Bigg of Wootton St. Lawrence, Southampton of the second part and John Savile of Methley and Peter Clayton of London in t...

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Grant of a toft in Little Ribston

15 Feb 1328

1 Richard de Styveton of Little Ribston 2 William de Plumton, knight Property had come to the grantor by feoffment of Roger de Heslerton', senior Witnesses:

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Bargain and sale of Little Graystones Close

1 Sep 1617

1 Sir Peter Middelton of Stockeld, knight, and William Middelton of the same, esquire, his younger brother 2 Fraunces Knolls [signs 'Francis Knowles'] of Burley, husbandman

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Bargain and sale of Little West Close

20 Sep 1617

1 Sir Peter Middleton of Stockeld, knight, and William Middleton of the same, esquire, his younger brother 2 Anne Wade of Burley, spinster, daughter of William Wade of Stonesteele, Pannal, decease...

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Grant of an assart and a little alder grove

[Early 13th century]

1 Gilbert son of Henry de Stockelde 2 Henry son of Robert de Stockelde Property: the assart which he had held of Sir Richard de Stockelde, and the grove from the assart as far as the ditch of Ar...

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Mikrokosmos : a little description of the great world

Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662)

1633

Title vignette; some decorated initials; head-piece; tail-piece. Various pages mis-numbered. Includes indexes.

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Assignment of a little house called the Stable

14 Nov 1656

1. William Settle of Peakefield in Netherdale, yeoman 2. Christopher Horner of the Lodge in Netherdale and John Ellis of Arnside, husbandman 3. Margaret Jackson of Kilnsey, widow, late wife of Ch...

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Grant of a messuage and one acre in Little Ribston

19 Jan 1402

1 William son of Richard Hykson of Little Ribston 2 Nicholas de Mydylton, knight Property: messuage lying between the messuage of John Bottlear of Spofforth and that of John Bylson of Little Rib...

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Grant of a messuage and cottage etc in Little Ribston

20 Dec 1482

1 Thomas Houlden of Thriske, 'smyth' 2 Thomas Medilton and Joan his wife

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The night-walker, or, The little theife : a comedy

Fletcher, John (1579-1625)

1640

"As it was presented by Her Majesties servants, at the private house in Drury Lane." First edition.

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Grant of a four selions of arable land in Little Ribston

15 Jan 1333-24 Jan 1334

1 Henry Blome of Little Ribston 2 Robert del Hill of Sicklinghall, dwelling in Little Ribston, and Alice his wife Property: four strips lying between the land of Richard de Sutton and the land w...

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