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Archive File

Archive Print piece

The Tempest. IV. i. 109 - IV. i. 225

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (15)

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Title: Montaigns 3B Ch of the art of conferring 225 page

Author: Wodehouse, Edmund

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: On the problems of speaking of oneself, prompted by Montaigne's "Of the art of conferring". The reference in the title is to the third edition (1700) of Cotton's translation of Montaigne's "Essays", III.8.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 147-75

Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius (161-80)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

embroidered border fragment
Textile

embroidered border fragment

late 16th-17th Century

Border of trailing flower design in yellow, red, blue, and green on ground of white with metalic thread, created in satin and couching embroidery, with brown outlines. Hand sewn onto backing cotton.

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Title: On John Abrahall being elected into the Corporation, he being a priest of

the Church of England

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Lighthearted admonitory satire addressed to the Rev. John Abrahall on his

election to the corporation of Hereford

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Poems

Lloyd, Robert (1733-1764)

1762

"Poemata" p.225-261.

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Deux lettres adressées à un membre du Parlement actuel sur les propositions de paix avec le Directoire régicide de France

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Peltier, Jean-Gabriel (1760-1825)

1796

Page 225 numbered 125.

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