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Total number of records: 144

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Books and printed items92
Archives42
Indexes8
People and organisations2

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society55
Brotherton Collection19
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
English Literature3
Ripon Cathedral3
Letters Database2

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greek language3
anagrams2
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epitaphs2
names, english2
antiquities1
atlases1
broadsides1
english poetry1
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Great Britain46
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Wales2
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France1
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Camden, William (1551-1623)62
Seller, John (1698-)22
Seller, John21
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791)17
Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748)14
Camden, William12
Gibson, Edmund10
Speed, John (1552?-1629)8
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-16037
Telle, Reinier5

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From 160066
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Up to 179993

Sender: Camden

Recipient: "Townshend"

Letters: 1

Date(s): [4 Aug 1793 ?]

Location: BC Sydney/Townshend: File Q3

Title: Verses address'd to old Camden's picture, at Lord Camden's in

Kent. Apr. 1766

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1766 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Extravagant praise of Lord Camden, formerly Charles Pratt,

addressed to a portrait of his late father Sir John Pratt. With

a prose note "This picture (an original) which formerly hung in

the same house in Camden's time, was lately made a present of,

to L

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Title: To Charles Pratt Esq now Lord Camden, 1747

Author: Davies, Sneyd

Attribution: Sneyd Davies

Date(s): 1743 (Ragnarsson)

Manuscript: Lt q 19

Contents: Address to Charles Pratt, later Lord Camden, reviewing their

long friendship, regretting the passing of youth, and urging

him to win fame in the world

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Camden's Britannia : newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements

Camden, William (1551-1623); Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748)

1695

Contains 50 maps including the counties of England, maps of North and South Wales, etc. Most of the maps bear the name of Robert Morden. Sutton Nicholls and John Sturt appear as engravers on a few of ...

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The abridgment of Camden's Britannia with the maps of the seuerall shires of England and Wales

Camden, William (1551-1623)

1626

Engraved title-page. Fifty-one small maps of the counties of England and Wales, which are chiefly remarkable as being the earliest individual county maps to show latitude and longitude.

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Camden's Britannia : newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements

Camden, William (1551-1623); Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748)

1695

Contains 50 maps including the counties of England, maps of North and South Wales, etc. Most of the maps bear the name of Robert Morden. Sutton Nicholls and John Sturt appear as engravers on a few of ...

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Title: Upon Sir Charles Pratt, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas being created a Peer by the Title of Baron Camden from the Name of his House, formerly the Residence of the celebrated Historian Camden

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1786 (?)

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Lines in praise of the patriotism of Sir Charles Pratt, recently created Baron Camden, comparing him to the historian William Camden.

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Sender: Pratt, Sir Charles, 1st Earl Camden

Recipient: Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney

Letters: 1

Date(s): Jun 1786

Location: BC Sydney/Townshend: File K12


Archive Item

Letter to Ralph Thoresby from William Nicolson

31 Mar 1695

Regarding Camden's Britannia

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