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Total number of records: 221

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Books and printed items212
Archives9

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English Literature94
Brotherton Collection3
Ripon Cathedral2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Quaker Collection1

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churches, quaker10
church and state5
tithes4
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- press cuttings.2
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.2
freedom of religion2
oaths2
persecution2
anabaptists1
anti-catholicism1

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Ireland1
Livorno (Italy)1
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Rome (Italy)1

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Society of Friends40
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)39
Johnson, Samuel36
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)36
Fox, George (1624-1691)28
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)19
Burrough, Edward6
Catholic Church5
Burrough, Edward, 1634-16623
Fox, George3

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Release of right to house called Brownebanke

19 May 1653

1. Thomas Wigelsworth of Rathmell Moors 2. Margaret Wigelsworth of Rathmell, his natural mother, widow

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A new Spanish and English dictionary : collected from the best Spanish authors, both ancient and modern... To which is added, a copious English and Spanish dictionary. Likewise a Spanish grammar, more complete and easy than any hitherto extant

Stevens, John (1726)

1706

'A dictionary English and Spanish' has a separate titlepage dated 1705; 'A new Spanish grammar, with some remarks upon syntax' has a separate titlepage, dated 1706, and separate pagination. - The regi...

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Le Moine, traduit de l'anglais (v.1-2)

Lewis, M G (1775-1818)

An V--1797

Page 61 of volume 4 wrongly numbered 6.

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The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of Mysterie Babylon... Also, their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifest by their wicked compulsary laws against the Lamb and his followers

Howgill, Francis (1618-1669); Copeland, J R; Hodgson, Robert; Norton, Humphrey (1655-1659); Rous, John (1695)

1659

Pp. 53-60 numbered 42-52 in error. Includes brief first-person narratives by Robert Hodgson, Humphrey Norton, John Rous, John Copeland, and others.

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Eikon basilike : Le portrait du roy de la Grand' Bretagne. Durant sa solitude & ses souffrances

Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662); Charles king of England (1600-1649); Porrée, Jean Baptiste (1621-); Porrée, Jonas

1649

Dedication signed: Porrée. Page 339 wrongly numbered 239. Purporting to be in the king's own words, but probably the work of John Gauden, based on a core of material which the King has himself co...

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Commentary on Philippians, by Anthony Higgin

Higgin, Anthony

c.1591

Contains: (1) f.1r: a few genealogical notes on the family of Henry VII; (2) f.3r-end: 'Epistola Pauli ad Phillippenses explicata in Collegio Diui Iohannis anno domini 1591, Decembris 8, inchoata'.

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The humour of the age : a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's servants

Baker, Thomas (fl. 1700-1709)

1701

Published anonymously. By Thomas Baker. With booksellers' advertisments (1 p.) on verso of half-title and bottom of title-page. Booklist of R. Wellington (1 p.) at end. Pages 52-53 misnumbered 42-...

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Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia

Adam, Robert (1728-1792)

[1764]

Brunet, I, col. 46, gives London as imprint location.

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Vedute di Roma

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Summa de arithmetica, geometria : Proportioni: et proportionalita

Paccioli, Luca (1514)

[1523]

Colophon:... Con spesa e diligentia e opistio del prudente homo Paganino de Paganini da Brescia nella excelsa cita di Venegia ... Neli anni de nostra salute M.CCCC.lxliiii. adi. 10. de nouembre ... Fr...

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