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Whitchurch Response Book - 15He6
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Whitchurch Response Book - 15He6

Sykes, Donald Richard

12 Jul 1955 - 19 Jul 1955

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Title: Speech-less, Feb. 15 1695/6

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1696 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Speechless, asking God mercifully

to forgive his sins, and Christ to plead for him. Repeated

later in the MS.

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Pateley Bridge Response Book - 6Y15

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

5 Nov 1952 - 11 Nov 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Lease of land in Pybus Field, Over Bentham

24 Jan 1665

1. John Johnson of Whittington, Lancashire, Jennet Walker of Bottom, widow, and William Walker, her son 2. Stephen Husband of Bentham

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