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Brotherton Collection3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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recipes1
fairfax family1
english poetry1
commonplace-books1

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Fairfax, Henry3
Favour, John1
Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax Baron (1584-1648)1
Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)1

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Analecta Fairfaxiana, compiled by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry Fairfax.

Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)

c.1648-1672

Contains a collection of Fairfax family records, written chiefly in Latin, but with some English poems and sentences included in it, by Charles Fairfax for his son Henry, including many coats-of-arms....

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BC MS Lt 43, f. 34v: Henry Fairfax's poem
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax

Fairfax, Henry

1679-1682

Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.

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Manuscript miscellany relating to the Fairfax family.

Fairfax, Henry

early to mid 17th century

Miscellany of transcripts, mainly in the nature of antiquities and heraldry, nearly all in the hand of Henry Fairfax. Many of them are on the backs of letters sent to him. Pieces in the hands of other...

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