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Miscellany notebook, containing extracts from Latin writings, mainly classical, notes on rhetoric and grammar, and translations from Aristotle
15--
Contents: (1) Notes on rhetoric and Latin grammar; (2) Quotations from classical authors, summaries of works of Aristotle, etc., namely: f.4, 'Eloquentia nihil aliud nisi dicendi prudentia', etc; f.13...
Account book and commonplace book relating to the coal industry, ca.1700-1720, by Joshua Arthington
Arthington, Joshua
c.1700-1720
Contents: (1) [f. 1r] Accounts for getting coal, notes of agreement for sinking pits etc., at Farnley, 1710-1720; (2) [f. 129v] Accounts of a similar nature, 1711-1714; (3) [f. 155v] Commonplace-book ...
Commonplace book containing extracts copied from accounts, books and lectures
c.1725-1775
Includes commercial accounts (mostly related to the shipping of commodities such as wheat); copies of contracts; statistical extracts from the Annual Register; and notes on various books including Tho...
Commonplace book, mostly written by Marianne Hogg of Kettering, containing selections of poetry, and related material
Hogg, Marianne
c.1830-c.1843
(1) Commonplace book, (2) Items formerly inserted loose inside the commonplace book, including letters from Eleanor Elizabeth Parr and Robert Arthington, and a printed pamphlet by James Haldane Stewar...
Commonplace book belonging to Thomas Eskricke
Eskricke, Thomas
c.1710-c.1748
Contains mainly veterinary preparations, but also notes on farming, as follows: (1) ff.1-15, veterinary preparations, ca.1710-ca.1748; (2) ff.24-19 (inverted), mathematical examples; (3) f.18v, sundry...
Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841
Bolt, Jane
1694-1841
Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v
A commonplace book of Mary Cowgill containing mainly notes on astronomical, medical and natural history topics
Cowgill, Mary
c.1801-1850
Contents include: (1) a plan of York Minster (f.33) and local topographical notes on Malham Cove, Whernside, Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent and Pendle Hill (ff.40v-41); (2) financial accounts dated 1838 on...
Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker
Walker, Margaret
1778-1869
At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...
Diary of Isaac Stockton Clark
Clark, Isaac Stockton
1807-1813
Contains: (1) Extracts from poems; (2) List of "books which I intend [to] purchase when capable"; (3) Notes on family events (1800-1813); (4) Miscellaneous cash accounts
Commonplace book, compiled by John Tateson
Tateson, John
1832-1853
Contains: (1) Ff.2-176. Account of his birth (1792) and early life in the parish of Longriston, and at Dunnington, near York; local preachers (especially Methodists) entertained by his father; removal...
An anonymous commonplace book and diary (for 1811-1812), kept by a resident of Ackworth, Yorkshire
c.1760-1812
Contents: (1) Diary (front paste-down - f.10v); (2) Verses on the rulers of England from 1066 to 1760 (ff.31v-33r); (3) Verses attributed to a Miss Seward, entitled 'Receipt for a sweet jar' (ff.33v-3...