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Total number of records: 241

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Archives61
Indexes26
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Brotherton Collection93
English Literature37
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society27
Quaker Collection15
Letters Database9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
University Archive4
Business Archives2
Herbert Read Collection2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture2

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)36
Stuart-Wortley, Lady Emmeline (1806-1855)31
Blessington, Marguerite Countess of (1789-1849)14
Hurst, Chance and Co14
Jennings, Robert (Fl. 1812-1831?-)14
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877)14
Power, Marguerite A (1815?-1867)14
Reynolds, Frederic Mansel (1850)14
Astell, Mary (1668-1731)10
Great Britain. Parliament9

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Name: Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill B2

Meeting: Rawdon PM 1733-96

Place: Leeds

Pages: 295

Name: Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill E3

Meeting: Leeds PM 1749-1792

Pages: bread for poor 35; John Musgrave of 106

Name: Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill R6

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1831-1836

Pages: 11

Name: Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill R10

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1851-1855

Pages: 182, 240, 293

Name: Wortley, Upper

Reference: Carlton Hill R9

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1847-1851

Place: Leeds

Pages: 103

Name: New Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill R10

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1851-1855

Pages: 330

Title: Grace Wortley

Author: Fairfax, William ?

Date(s): 1620 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 22

Contents: Epigram praising Grace Wortley, the first of two copies in the book

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Title: Grace Wortley

Author: Fairfax, William ?

Date(s): 1620 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 22

Contents: Epigram praising Grace Wortley, the second of two copies in the book

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Archive Print Item

The New Wortley almanack

1876-1882 Shelved in box lettered "DIALECT ALMANACS NEW WORTLEY-PATELEY BRIDGE"

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Archive Series

Wortley, Ben Atkinson

1930-1982

Biography: Ben Atkinson Wortley (C.M.G., O.B.E., Q.C.) graduated LL.B., 1927; with Honours class I, 1928; LL.M., 1934. He later became Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Universi...

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Archive File

Name: Musgrave, John, of Wortley

Reference: Carlton Hill Q1

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1688-1704

Place: Leeds

Pages: 148, 150, 151