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Brotherton Collection57
Quaker Collection21
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
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Letters Database8
Coin Collection7
Ripon Cathedral6
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naseby (england), battle of, 16454
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Lactantius (240-320)11
Chevrieres, Jean Guillaume De7
Birch, Thomas5
Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)5
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)5
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)5
Brock, G4
Charles I, King of England, 1600-16494
Charles King of England (1600-1649)4
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-16714

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Archive Item

Bond in the sum of £240

26 June 1651

1 Sir John Middelton of Scooles 2 William Middelton of Stockeld For payment of £69 12s. to Joseph Watkinson of Ilkley

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Archive File

240 invoices from other firms

January 1845-December 1845

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Virgin and Child and Patron (fol. 240r)
Archive Piece

Virgin and Child and Patron (fol. 240r)

[1450-1500]

The arched miniature depicts a male figure kneeling in prayer in front of the Virgin and Child. His black hat lies on the ground beside him. An angel with blue wings stands at the background and plays...

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Archive Print piece

Richard the Third. V. iii. 240 - V. iv. 6

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (203)

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Archive Print piece

King Henry the Eighth. III. ii. 131 - III. ii. 240

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (221)

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Archive Print piece

Much Ado About Nothing. I. i. 240 - I. iii. 22

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (103)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 193

Issuer/creator: Didius Julianus (193)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

kerchief
Textile

kerchief

18th century

A head kerchief embroidered along each of its four edges with a narrow border pattern of alternating trees and triple buds. This is a feature which can be seen on other extant examples of eighteenth ...

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Archive File

Archive Judaica File

[Licenza di Sabbato ed alii Passapair di poter andare senza il solito segno]. [Original licence to Passapaire family to leave the Rome ghetto without wearing the Jewish badge, 10 January 1720 (with two renewals in 3 September 1720 and 13 March 1721)].

[1720–1721]

Italian title supplied from summary on verso. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 240. Begins: "Concediamo Licenza a Sabbato...

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