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Total number of records: 33752

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items18188
Archives7635
People and organisations3993
Indexes3354
Coins493
Objects54
Textiles27
Art items8

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection9871
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7014
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3401
Quaker Collection2622
English Literature2363
Ripon Cathedral1607
Coin Collection493
Cookery Collection340
Medieval Manuscripts90
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections34

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends1000
theology224
sermons, english214
quaker church buildings212
popish plot, 1678151
christian life143
church and state140
theology, doctrinal140
dissenters, religious130
medicine123

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain1373
France196
Rome139
Europe95
London (England)67
Italy64
Derby58
Netherlands47
Yorkshire (England)43
Scotland43

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Anonymous1188
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)985
Wodehouse, Sir Philip631
Catholic Church439
Society of Friends425
Great Britain. Parliament384
Fox, George (1624-1691)378
Church of England358
Great Britain302
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax193

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15007467
From 160026215
From 17005
From 18002
From 19003
From 200047

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
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Up to 1991
Up to 29941
Up to 3991
Up to 59911
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Up to 169928558

Archive Collection

COUNTERPART LEASE FOR 21 YEARS

8 Jul 1609

1. John Towneley of Hyrstwood, Lancashire 2. John Brooke of Littlecargreene of Dalton, chapman

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GRANT AND PRECEPT

28 Aug 1599-17th century

1. John Hyndesley of Foggthorpe and his son John 2. John Clarke of Warter and his son Robert

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LETTERS PATENT OF PHILIP AND MARY CONFIRMING PRIVILEGES TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK

1557

Priviledges relating to treason, assizes, gaol delivery, seizure of forfeited goods, treasure trove, collection of fines and amercements, markets, prisons in Beverley and Ripon, free waren in their de...

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RALPH THORESBY'S CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME 6

1679-1696

Microfilm copy available.

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PHOTOCOPY OF A SURVEY OF THE GRAVESHIP OF HOLME IN THE MANOR OF WAKEFIELD

(1559-1602)

Gives tenant's names, acreagaes and rents for Holme, Cartworth, Upperthing, Scholes, Austonley, Hepworth, Wooldale and Fulstone

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PHOTOCOPY OF A LETTER FROM CHARLES FAIRFAX AT MENSTON TO MR NICHOLAS DENMAN, MAYOR OF HULL

(1645)

Relating to the plague in Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford and Halifax. Gives details of numbers of dead in various townships. With transcript. Original is in Hull City Record Office L402

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CLARKE THORNHILL COLLECTION (ADDITIONAL) PAPERS REGARDING PRIESTHORPE IN THE PARISH OF CALVERLEY

1630-1698

Comprising mainly extracts from court rolls of the manor of Crosley, Bingley and Pudsey

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COLLECTION OF YORKSHIRE PLANS AND DRAWINGS [SOME PHOTOCOPIES]

1644

including, Great Kelk (1839), Leeds showing Hopitaller crosses n.d., order of battle at Marston Moor (1644), Scosthrop pa Kirkby Malham (19 cent), aisled buildings in Yorkshire and East Lancashire 1...

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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SEWERS

1615-1637

Commissions of sewers for the North Riding, 1615 Commissions of sewers for Pickering Lythe wapentake, 1637

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DEEDS RELATING LUMLEY FARM AND OTHER PLACES IN PARISH OF KIRKBY MALZEARD

1608-1681

Relating to properties in Lungley [Lumley Farm], Grewelthorp, Kexmoor, Dallowgill, Swetton and Kirkby Malzeard

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