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Bailey, N (1742)4
Great Britain. Exchequer2
Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290)2
Skaife, Robert H2
Surtees Society2
Taylor, Isaac (1829-1901)2
Baldwin, R1
Baldwin, R (1737-1810)1
Brookes, R (1763-)1
Gordon, George (1716-1728)1

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Words and places : or, Etymological illustrations of history, ethnology, and geography

Taylor, Isaac (1829-1901)

1873

92 page "Catalogue of educational books published by Macmillan and Co." and dated January 1890, at end.

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The survey of the county of York, taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's inquest : Also Inquisitions of the knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents

Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Skaife, Robert H; Great Britain. Exchequer; Surtees Society

1867

Edited by R.H. Skaife. The text of Kirkby's inquest is derived mostly from a copy belonging to the dean and chapter of York; that of the Nomina villarum (previously printed under the editorial care ...

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The survey of the county of York, taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's inquest : Also Inquisitions of the knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents

Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Skaife, Robert H; Great Britain. Exchequer; Surtees Society

1867

Edited by R.H. Skaife. The text of Kirkby's inquest is derived mostly from a copy belonging to the dean and chapter of York; that of the Nomina villarum (previously printed under the editorial care ...

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An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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