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Total number of records: 31

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Archives30
Books and printed items1

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society27
Ripon Cathedral1
Brotherton Collection1
English Literature1

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manuscripts, english -- 17th century -- texts.1
paraguay. jesuits, 1607-17681
thirty years' war, 1618-16481
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
jesuits. province of paraguay1
christian converts from judaism -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
great fire, london, england, 1666 -- sources.1
jesuits1

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Ganton; Yorkshire East Riding5
Yorkshire2
Almondbury; Yorkshire West Riding2
Rotherham; Yorkshire West Riding1
Rothwell; Yorkshire West Riding1
Ryton; Kirby Misperton; Yorkshire North Riding1
Spaldington; Bubwith; Yorkshire East Riding1
West Heslerton; Yorkshire East Riding1
Staxton; Willerby; Yorkshire East Riding1
Rillington; Yorkshire East Riding1

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People and organisationsCount
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1
Jaggard, Isaac (1627)1
Jacob Ben Samuel1
Smethwicke, John (1641)1
Tilley Family, Fl 1594-1689, of London and Shenley, Hertfordshire1
Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William (1853-1930)1
Wells, Gabriel (1861-1946)1
Vail, Theodore Newton (1845-1920)1
Heminge, John (1556-1630)1
Hastings, Theophilius (1650-1701)1

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Archive Sub-collection

Cowthorpe deed

nd [14th century]

QUITCLAIM WITH WARRANTY no date 1) Richard s. of Adam tailor of Kolphorp 2) Brethren of the Knights of the Temple of Salomon (Templars) For a certain sum of money, 1) has granted to 2) the building...

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Norton family deeds

13th-17th century

Grantley collection formerly at Burton Constable Hall (East Riding). Large collection of deeds, (mainly medieval), most of which relate to the West Riding, but also much material on the East and North...

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Kirkby Malzeard deeds

nd [14th century]

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Archive Judaica File

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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Archive File

Manuscript and printed documents relating to the Jesuit province of Paraguay.

c. 1626-1634

The largest manuscript item (115 pp.) is a copy of the Cartas Anuas or annual reports of the Jesuit province of Paraguay for the years 1626 and 1627, describing the early Jesuit Missions in Paraguay, ...

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Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883); Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William (1853-1930); Vail, Theodore Newton (1845-1920); Wells, Gabriel (1861-1946); Condell, Henry (1627); Heminge, John (1556-1630); Droeshout, Martin (1601-); Jaggard, Isaac (1627); Blount, Edward (1588-1632); Smethwicke, John (1641); Aspley, William (1640)

1623

The 'first folio', with very slight imperfections. 12 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches. F.1b. 'To the reader'. [By Ben Jonson.] F.2a. Title-page. F.3a-b. 'To the most noble...'. F.4a. 'To the great variety ...'. F....

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