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Total number of records: 34

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society20
Leeds Russian Archive5
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Medical Collections2
University Archive2
Brotherton Collection1
Business Archives1
English Literature1
Leeds Poetry1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life3
communication2
culture2
english language - dialects2
language and languages2
occupations2
russian literature2
russians2
dissenters1
education1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)1
Boyle, Lady Constance Jane (1855-1944)1
Boyle, Sir Edward Gurney (1878-1945)1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)1
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies1

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From 190014

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Up to 189913
Up to 199916
Up to latest2

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Archive Sub-collection

Papers regarding disputes relating to payment of tithe

1787-1808

1. Four copies of brief for the defendant and examination of witnesses in a case brought by Eizabeth Ayrton, widow, against the Rev Henry Croft in 1783 for not collecting his tithe hay from a meadow c...

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Stanton papers box 8

18th-19th century

Includes correspondence, papers re legal cases, papers regarding settling of estates, deeds, wills

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Papers and notes

20th century

Includes envelopes marked "The Extent of Otley 1307" by E.T. Cowling, copy of Historic Monuments in Yorkshire (published by Council for British Archaeology) and notebook of cuttings regarding Hampsthw...

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Papers and correspondence

20th century

Includes:

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Deeds and documents

1660-1802

Release relating to lands in York, Middlesex, Lincoln and Gloucestershire 1802, rectory of Wakefield 1660, petition of mayor and aldermen of Beverley to Duke of Somerset regarding Beverley Minster 172...

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Deeds relating to land at Bentley and Stirton

1649-1827

Includes: Schedule of deeds relating to estate of Earl of Guildford in mortgage of Colonel Monson, 1 June 1669 Schedule of deeds relating to estate of Colonel Monson in Isle of Ely, 29 Sept 1709 Le...

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Stanton papers box 7

18th century-1911

Documents including abstract of titles, conveyances, deeds of lands in Whorlton purchased of Joseph Birkbeck, letters to Cornelius Harrison regarding Bacon estate, plan of the lodge of Stubb House (19...

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Family papers

17th century-1856

Copy of will and codicil of Thomas Clapham, 1846 Valuation of household goods of Richard Clapham, late of Austwick Hall, bequeathed to his son Thomas Agreement with John Clapham regarding church gat...

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Duke of Leeds papers (box 9)

1834-1862

1. Cornwall estate correspondence 1839, 1840, 1849, 1851, 4 bundles 2. Correspondence regarding Yorkshire and Cormwall estates, 1839, 1 bundle 3. Correspondence relating to Rudd Hall, Yorkshire, est...

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