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Total number of records: 7

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Record type	Count
Books and printed items	5
Archives	2

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Subject	Count
textile industry	7
textile fabrics	4
wool	2
protestants	1
textile printing	1
poor	1
poetry	1
credit	1
almshouses	1
debts, public	1

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Place	Count
Great Britain	1
France	1

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People and organisations	Count
Academie Des Sciences	3
Roland, Jean-Marie (1734-1793)	2
Great Britain	1
Wilmot, John Earl of Rochester	1
Duhamel Du Monceau, Henri Louis (1700-1781?)	1
Cary, John (1720)	1
Bufton, Joseph	1
Calverley, William	1

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From 1700	5

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Up to 1699	1
Up to 1799	6

Archive File

Leeds Petition, 1692-3, concerning the cloth trade, signed by William Calverley, mayor, and 176 others

Calverley, William

c.1692

Comprises 'the humble petition of the inhabitants within the town and parish of Leeds to the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled'.

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Diary of Joseph Bufton.

Bufton, Joseph

1680-1710

Comprises personal notes made by Joseph Bufton on blank pages and margins of a printed almanac 'Rider's British Merlin 1680'. These include miscellaneous collections of poems, extracts taken from book...

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A discourse on trade : and other matters relative to it : viz. of trade in general : of the trade of England : of husbandry, feeding, tillage, corn, fruit, fish, minerals, trees, manufactures, sheep-wool, hemp and flax...[etc.]

Cary, John (1720)

1745

Half title page, p. [147]: An account of the proceedings of the corporation of Bristol, in execution of the act of parliament for the better employing and maintaining the poor of that city. Separate...

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