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Total number of records: 97

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Indexes6
Coins3

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Brotherton Collection45
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
Incunabula11
Quaker Collection10
English Literature9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History5
Coin Collection3
Medieval Manuscripts3
Ripon Cathedral2

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society of friends7
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sermons, english3

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)7
Bishop, George (1668)6
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5
Baron Brotherton5
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
Benard, Robert5
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton5
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton5
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)5
Henry Sotheran Ltd.5

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Floral border (fol. 278v)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 278v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils and trefoils, a rose, and black hairline tendrils with gold balls, ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold. ...

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Archive Print piece

Love's Labour's Lost. IV. iii. 160 - IV. iii. 278

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (134)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 86 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Gargonius; Marcus Vergilius; Ogulnius

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Collection

EXCHEQUER RECEIPTS FOR PAYMENTS OF LAY SUBSIDIES, FINES ON LEASE, FEE FARM AND OTHER RENTS IN THE NORTH AND WEST RIDINGS

1541-1637

Each document gives date, name of collector (farmer, lesee, or other payee), description of lands, amount of money paid and signature of exchequer receiver

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder ?

Date(s): 1700 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Hyperbolic praise of an unnamed nobleman on the occasion of the Catholic

Church's Jubilee in 1700. Untitled but prefaced by 'My lord'.

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Archive Item

Miscellaneous receipts

1612-1637

Includes fine for refusal of a knighthood, rents from seized lands, payments imposed by the Court of Star Chamber

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