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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
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textile industry1
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Hanson, T W1
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Jonathan Akroyd Business Archive

Akroyd, Jonathan

c.1772-1802

Lane Head, Ovenden, near Halifax. Clothier, in partnership until c. 1782 with his younger brother James, founder of James Akroyd & Sons, stuff manufacturers, worsted spinners and merchants, 49 North...

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REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: NOTES RELATING TO WILTSHIRE

c1849

With pamphlets on the Descent of the Manor of Draycot Cerne by Charles Edward Long, nd., and the Sculptures at Wilton House by Charles

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Men behaving curiously (fol. 29v)
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Men behaving curiously (fol. 29v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man holding a sword and a barrel, and a man hitting an upside-down cauldron with a sceptre.

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Annunciation to Zacharias (fol. 429r)
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Annunciation to Zacharias (fol. 429r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'F' encloses the scene of the annunciation of the birth of St. John the Baptist to Zacharias. The historiated initial and an ornamental initial 'Q' above it are decorated with foliage and smal...

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