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Total number of records: 253

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Indexes19
Coins8
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Brotherton Collection74
English Literature27
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society22
Quaker Collection20
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse16
Ripon Cathedral11
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Coin Collection8
Letters Database8
Art and Antique Market5

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society of friends7
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art2
cabala -- early works to 1800.2

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Anonymous8
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)7
Penn, William (1644-1718)6
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)5
Abauzit, M4
Abauzit, M (1679-1767)4
Bernard, Richard (1568-1641)4
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)4
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)4
Camm, Thomas (1641-1707)4

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Archive Print piece

Cymbeline. I. i. 176 - I. iv. 21

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (371)

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Archive Print piece

Henry the Fourth, Part One. III. ii. 176 - III. iii. 126

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (64)

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Archive File

Leeds Petition, 1692-3, concerning the cloth trade, signed by William Calverley, mayor, and 176 others

Calverley, William

c.1692

Comprises 'the humble petition of the inhabitants within the town and parish of Leeds to the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled'.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 134-8

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Notes and accounts for 1689-90, kept by Sir James Tillie

Tillie, Sir James

1689-1690

Written on the blank leaves of John Partridge, Merlinus liberatus: being an almanack for ... 1690 [London: printed by R.R. for the Company of Stationers, 1690]

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panel of Yun brocade
Textile

panel of Yun brocade

early 17th century

This item is a panel of Yun brocade in typical Ming brocade style, with a dark blue ground and polychrome weft patterning. The design consists of large bao xian flowers, an auspicious floral motif wh...

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Archive File

Bradfield feoffee accounts

1651-1674

Bradfield feoffee accounts and receipts, (1674, 1651). 23ff.

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Archive File

Sales Ledger

January 1889-December 1892

[Numbered 5] [With index]

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Archive Print Item

A travelling county atlas : with all the railroads accurately laid down and the boundaries coloured

Hall, Sidney (fl.1817-1860)

[1852]

Plate numbers have been added to the maps, and completed railways are shown as a thick black line. Railways projected but never constructed, are left as originally printed - as two fine lines with cro...

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Archive File

The Genealogist

July 1896

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COPYHOLD ADMITTANCE, MANOR OF INGLETON

(1 Dec 1865)

Copy of court roll of manor of Ingleton admitting Thomas Rumley to a cottage in Ingleton, surrendered by Squire Brierley of Pendleton, Lancashire

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