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Total number of records: 106

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Brotherton Collection28
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Herbert Read Collection3
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Quaker Collection1

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land tenure106
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peasantry6
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Great Britain. Record Commission9
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6
Yorkshire Archaeological Society6
Parker, John William Robinson (1857-)4
Roper, Michael4
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Kay, Joseph (1821-1878)4
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Archive File

Deeds relating to a house and land at 30, Wynford Rise, West Park, Leeds, 16, and to surrounding land, recording transactions from 1948 to 1971, when the title was registered under the Land registration acts, 1925 to 1966

1948-1971

Comprises: (1) Abstract of the title of Messrs Gordois and Co. Ltd to property at Far Headingley in the city of Leeds, 1948, 11 ff.; (2) Copy of the memorandum of deposit, between D. Gordois and Marti...

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Edmonton copyhold document: Mr Wm Waller surrender to the use of his will; per Jacobum Mundy

Mundy, James

1703

Comprises a copy of the record allowing William Waller to transfer his copyhold land in his will to anyone he should choose

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Extracts from documents relating to the rights and history of the seigneurie of Montchaton, Manche, France, followed by extracts on the history of Normandy

c.1730

Accompanied by a letter from Maurice Le Dault, Librairie Celto-bretonne, Quimper, 21 mai, 1925, enclosing a list of manuscripts on Normandy which he has for sale; and by a second list (in another hand...

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Leases and plans concerning land at Manor Farm, Garforth, and at Askham Bryan

F C. Gascoigne

1898-1925

(1) 2 copies of an indenture by which F.C. Trench Gascoigne and F.R.T. Trench Gascoigne lease Manor Farm, Garforth, for 30 years to the County Councils of the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire and th...

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Tinsley Highfield survey book, ca.1740

c.1740

Contains an anonymous survey of Highfield in the parish of Tinsley, near Sheffield, showing the extent, ownership and occupation of each parcel of land, ca.1740

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Liber tenementorum in capite in comitatu Ebor., probably compiled from material collected by Sir Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms

17--

The compilation was made in the 18th century. It includes a critical marginal note referring to Sir Richard St George in part I, p.108, and sundry other notes in English referring to subsequent tenure...

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A neglected aspect of the land question

Thompson, George Carslake

1883

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A great iniquity

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910); Chertkov, V G (1854-1936); Mayo, Isabella Fyvie (1843-1914)

[1903]

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Formulare Anglicanum, or, A collection of ancient charters and instruments of divers kinds : taken from the originals, placed under several heads, and deduced (in a series according to the order of time) from the Norman Conquest to the end of the reign of King Henry the VIII

Madox, Thomas (1666-1727)

1702

Text primarily in Latin; prefatory material, index, and marginalia in English. Dedication signed: Thomas Madox. "A dissertation concerning ancient charters and instruments": p. i-xxxiv, 2nd group....

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