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Record ID 49909

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 33r

Hist: of the City of York

Borrowed: 1767/9/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1767/9/30 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Sep 1767. Original Returned Date: 30 Sep 1767.


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George Muirhead
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor of Oriental Languages 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity 1754-1773; Dean of Faculty 1764-1766; Clerk of the University 1769.
Original Full Name: Mr Muirhead. Life dates: 1715-1773. Academic dates: 1728; MA 1742 (Edin.).
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor.


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Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
Ancient and modern history of the famous city of York.
Press: BV. Shelf: 6. Number: 12. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm5-k.1  . Original Author: Gent, Thomas, 1693-1778..

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Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
The antient and modern history of the famous city of York; and in a particular manner of its magnificent Cathedral, commonly call’d, York-Minister.
Language: English . Published: York. Date of publication: 1730. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2


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Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York

Borrowed: 1767/9/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1767/9/30 (Wednesday).

Borrower: George Muirhead

Author: Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778), Genre: History

Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York

Record ID 178212

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 219

Gent's  hist. of York.

Borrowed: 1771/3/7 (Thursday). Returned: 1771/3/13 (Wednesday). Classmark: O7. 48. Original Returned Text: Gent's hist. of York.


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Alexander Mair
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1757-1781. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1397066444.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
The antient and modern history of the famous city of York; and in a particular manner of its magnificent Cathedral, commonly call’d, York-Minister. As also an account of St. Mary’s Abbey, and other antient religious houses and churches; the places whereon they stood, what orders belong’d to them, and the remains of those ancient buildings that are yet to be seen: with a description of those churches now in use, of their curiously painted windows, the inscriptions carefully collected, and many of them translated: the lives of the archbishops of this see: the Government of the Northern Paris under the Romans, especially by the emperors severus and constantius, who both dy’d in this city: of the kings of England and other illustrious persons, who have honour’d York with their presence: an account of the mayors and bayliffs. Lord-mayors and sheriffs. (with several remarkable transactions, not published before) from different manuscripts, down to the third year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the second. To which is added, a description of the most noted towns in Yorkshire, with the antient buildings that have been therein, alphabetically digested for the delight of the reader; not only by the assistance of antient writers, but from the observations of several ingenious persons in the present age. The whole diligently collected by T.G.
Classmark: O.7.48.

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Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
The antient and modern history of the famous city of York; and in a particular manner of its magnificent Cathedral, commonly call’d, York-Minister.
Language: English . Published: York. Date of publication: 1730. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2


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Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778)
Genre: History
Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York

Borrowed: 1771/3/7 (Thursday). Returned: 1771/3/13 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Alexander Mair

Author: Thomas Gent (Male, born 1693, died 1778), Genre: History

Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York