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Total number of records: 120

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection120
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections119

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
romanies21
cant6
trials (perjury)6
english language4
law4
rogues and vagabonds3
romani language3
christian life2
common fallacies2
crime and criminals2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
United States6
Spain2
[Augsburg1
Clwyd (Wales)1
Holywell (Wales)1
Saxony (Germany)1
Wales1
Whiteford (Wales)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-177322
Squires, Mary, D. 176214
Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?10
Goadby, Robert (1721-1778)10
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)8
Fielding, Henry, 1707-17548
Goadby, Mrs Robert7
Grellmann, H M G (1756-1804)7
Canning, Elizabeth (1734-1773)5
Goadby, Robert5

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From 160030
From 170088

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Up to 169926
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Commentaries on the laws of England, in four books (v.4)

Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780); Christian, Edward (1823)

1793-95

Vols.2 and 3 are dated 1794; vol.4 is dated 1795.

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Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, together with the Religio medici

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)

1672

The second section of the book, consisting of the Religio medici with Digby's Observations, has separate pagination and signatures, and a separate title-page reading: Religio medici. The seventh editi...

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A Refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne's account of his conduct, in the cases of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires

Gravelot, Hubert François (1699-1773)

1754

Signatures: A² B-F⁴ G². Ill. engraved by H.F. Gravelot.

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An apology for the life of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, son of the Rev. Mr. Carew of Bickley, commonly known throughout the west of England by the title of King of the Beggars and Dog Merchant-General : containing, an account of his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of Gypsies; his many comical adventures... The whole taken from his own mouth

Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert

[1749]

Variously ascribed to Robert Goadby and Mrs. Goadby. Cf. NUC pre-1956, Lowndes, Halkett & Laing. There are numerous versions, probably by various compilers, with varying titles, including: "An apolo...

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The story of Elizabeth Canning considered

Hill, Sir John (1714?-1775)

1753

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The story of Elizabeth Canning considered

Hill, Sir John (1714?-1775)

1753

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