Yorkshire Notes and Queries, Volumes 1-2editor, 1888 - Folklore |
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... Yorkshire M.P's . , 1753 St. John of Beverley -- Extinct Yorkshire Magazines 7 . Stanbury Quaker Register 6 Latter Day Sinner 1 , 191 . 5 . 118 . · 124 . 6 . Sir John Hotham · 129 . York Mint 132,186,228 . 9 . Pontefract Shilling 133 ...
... Yorkshire M.P's . , 1753 St. John of Beverley -- Extinct Yorkshire Magazines 7 . Stanbury Quaker Register 6 Latter Day Sinner 1 , 191 . 5 . 118 . · 124 . 6 . Sir John Hotham · 129 . York Mint 132,186,228 . 9 . Pontefract Shilling 133 ...
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Yorkshire Notes and Queries . J. M. W. TURNER . " There was no County in England to which Turner was so much attached as Yorkshire . It was here on the Wolds , and beside the banks of the Wharfe , that he first ( after Wales ) saw ...
Yorkshire Notes and Queries . J. M. W. TURNER . " There was no County in England to which Turner was so much attached as Yorkshire . It was here on the Wolds , and beside the banks of the Wharfe , that he first ( after Wales ) saw ...
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YORKSHIRE M.Ps. in 1753. Ebor , 30 Members . COUNTY . Rt . Hon . Sir Conyers D'Arcy , of Aske , Privy Coun . Served in six parliaments . [ Not necessarily for same consti- tuency . ] Rt . Hon . Henry Pleydel Dawney , Visc . Downe , in ...
YORKSHIRE M.Ps. in 1753. Ebor , 30 Members . COUNTY . Rt . Hon . Sir Conyers D'Arcy , of Aske , Privy Coun . Served in six parliaments . [ Not necessarily for same consti- tuency . ] Rt . Hon . Henry Pleydel Dawney , Visc . Downe , in ...
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... YORKSHIRE MAGAZINES . - Just a century ago the first Yorkshire Magazine was started . It consisted of thirty - two pages , monthly , 8vo . , in double columns . No. 1 , " The York- shire Magazine for January , 1786 , " opens with a ...
... YORKSHIRE MAGAZINES . - Just a century ago the first Yorkshire Magazine was started . It consisted of thirty - two pages , monthly , 8vo . , in double columns . No. 1 , " The York- shire Magazine for January , 1786 , " opens with a ...
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... Yorkshire Magazine , " No. 1 , July , 1817. This was a venture of eighty pages monthly , and emanated from Sheffield ... Yorkshire Magazine : a Monthly and permanent Register of the Statistics , Literature , Biography , Arts , Commerce ...
... Yorkshire Magazine , " No. 1 , July , 1817. This was a venture of eighty pages monthly , and emanated from Sheffield ... Yorkshire Magazine : a Monthly and permanent Register of the Statistics , Literature , Biography , Arts , Commerce ...
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