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Archive Print Item

To the brazen-head

[1685?]

Appeal to "... change nothing of religion nor the laws, then no discontent shall here invade." Apparently a dialogue in verse between James II and an oracle. Anon.

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Heads of lectures, on the polite arts

Fitzgerald, Francis

1784

"Miscellanies" has separate pagination and signatures.

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Title: Inscriptions on head-stones

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Churchyard epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective

title shared with BCMSV 1093-5.

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Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective title shared

with BCMSV 1092, 1094-5.

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Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1714 ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Epitaph, asserting victory over death; possibly for a man called Carnel,

wittily punning on his name (see Crum). Collective title shared with BCMSV

1092-3, 1095.

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Title: [Inscription on head-stones]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 13

Contents: Doggerel epitaph warning the living that they too must die. Collective title

shared with BCMSV 1092-4

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Lease of Hall Ing Head

5 Apr 1659

1. James Armitstead the elder of Settle, husbandman, and Richard Armistead, bachelor, his son 2. Robert Preston of Settle

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Lease of Hall Ing Head

15 Mar 1663

1. John Relfe , husbandman John Sigswick, labourer, and others of Settle 2. Robert Preston of Settle

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