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Brotherton Collection4
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english poetry2
enthusiasm1
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Arpe, Peter Friedrich (1682-1740)1
Bacon, Francis, 1561-16261
Bertin, Theodore Pierre1
Bertin, Theodore Pierre (1751-1819)1
Bohun, Edmund (1645-1699)1
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-17151
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-17261
Comber, Thomas (1645-1699)1
Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-17131
La Monnoye, Bernard De (1641-1728)1

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Surrender

30 Sep 1709

Samuel Lane of Ossett and Elizabeth his wife grant to Robert Nettleton of Ossett, for the use of Robert Nettleton and his heirs. Relating to property in Wakefield

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Lease and Release (Mortgage)

20-21 Dec 1770

From John Taylor the younger of Norland to Robert Parker of Halifax, of Norland Hall and Scarr to secure repayment of £100.

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Lease (to lead to a Release)

9 Aug 1750

From John Greenwood of Longfield in Langfield yeo., eldest son of William Greenwood deceased, to John Sutcliffe of Hoohoyle in Ayringden Park of the Great House and half a barn with fields &c. (na...

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Bargain and Sale (with livery of seisin)

1 May 1731

From Daniell Greenwood of Benthead yeoman, and Susan his wife, to Henry Greenwood of Hippings gent., (for £150) of Benthead and all appurtenances.</p><p>Witnesses include Thomas Greenwood.

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The history of the desertion, or, An account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of September 1688 to the twelfth of February following : with An answer to a piece call'd The desertion discussed. In a letter to a country gentleman

Bohun, Edmund (1645-1699)

1689

"The desertion discuss'd" (p. 134-145) was written by Jeremy Collier in answer to Gilbert Burnet's An enquiry into the present state of affairs. cf. DNB.

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Poems on affairs of state : from 1620. to this present year 1707

1716

A reissue of the first edition, 1707, with cancel title-page. Signatures: A⁶, B-Z,⁸ Aa-Gg,⁸ Hh² (R incorrectly signed S). Pages 134, 294 incorrectly numbered 124, 264, respectively. Title...

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Christianity no enthusiasm, or, The several kinds of inspirations and revelations pretended to by the Quakers tried, and found destructive to holy scripture and true religion : in answer to Thomas Ellwood's defence thereof, in his tract, miscalled Truth prevailing, &c

Comber, Thomas (1645-1699)

1678

Reissued 1698 as: The several kinds of inspirations and revelations. "Introduction" and contents on sig. [2d](b)1. Chronological index on sigs. O1-3. Anonymous. By Thomas Comber.

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Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de François Bacon, grand-chancellier d'Angleterre : peinture exacte, quoiqu' anticipée, de la conduite & du renversement du dernier ministère. Traduction de l'anglois

Mallet, David (1705?-1765); Bertin, Théodore Pierre (1751-1819)

1742

R. W. Gibson. Francis Bacon: A bibliography, no.480b. Title vignette. Translated by Théodore Pierre Bertin. Barbier (II, 715) gives the translator's name as P.J. Berlin. Pages 90 and 134 wrongl...

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Poems on affairs of state : from 1620. to this present year 1707

printed in the year 1707

First edition. Signatures: A⁶, B-Z,⁸ Aa-Gg,⁸ Hh² (R incorrectly signed S). Pages 134, 294 incorrectly numbered 124, 264, respectively. Title within double line border. Paragraph notes.

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Theatrum botanicum : the theater of plants, or, herball of a large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants..., shewing withall the many error, differences, and oversights of sundry authors ..., distributed into sundry classes or tribes

Parkinson, John (1567-1650)

1640

Added engraved t.p. Signatures: [A]⁶, a⁴, B-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, Aaa-Zzz⁶, Aaaa-Llll⁶, Mmmm⁴, Nnnn-Zzzz⁶, Aaaaa-Zzzzz⁶, Aaaaaa-Zzzzzz⁶, Aaaaaaa-Iiiiiii⁶ (X3, Ll3 incorrectly signed X5, ...

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