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Total number of records: 282

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Brotherton Collection71
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
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Letters Database4
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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)45
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)21
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)19
Gay, John (1685-1732)19
Nichols, John (1745-1826)19
Sheridan, Thomas (1719-1788)19
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)13
Birch, Thomas12
Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)12
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Archive Print piece

Troilus and Cressida. II. iii. 111 - II. iii. 241

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: -

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King Henry the Eighth. II. iv. 121 - II. iv. 241

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (217)

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King Henry the Eighth. III. ii. 241 - III. ii. 356

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (222)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 193-4

Issuer/creator: Pescennius Niger (193-4)

Place: Antioch

Material: silver


Archive Judaica File

[Certified extract of deliberation of Council of the City of Verona relating to the Jews, 1694, with magnificent example of communal seal].

1694

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 241. Communal seal: Elliptical seal with representation of a structure reminiscent of a...

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Archive File

Antiquarian memoranda, letters

No date

Miscellaneous: includes antiquarian memoranda; letters; leases and notes from book catalogues. 264ff.

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Archive File

430 invoices from other firms

December 1842-December 1843

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Archive File

Halifax & Ovenden Junction Railway- Bill

1870

A Bill to extend the time for the purchase of lands, for the construction of the railway, to alter the tolls, and for other purposes.

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Title: To Dr Broughton after a fitt of sickness

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: In praise of Broughton's skill as a physician, referring also to the Catholic

and Jacobite beliefs shared by the two men

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This is an answer to John Wiggans book... Wherein may be seen how he exalts himself, against Christ and the light

Curwen, Thomas; Fell, Margaret (1614-1702)

1665

Errata: p. 144. Error in paging: p. 98 misnumbered 89. The work by Wigan, here replied to, is "Antichrist's strongest hold overturned".

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