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Title: The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].

Author: Hartley Withers

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22832]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH.]

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
CANTERBURY

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
ARCHIEPISCOPAL SEE

BY HARTLEY WITHERS, B.A.

[Illustration: Arms of Canterbury.]

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1897

_First Edition December, 1896._
_Second Edition, Revised, with many Additional Illustrations, May, 1897._

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GENERAL PREFACE.

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great
English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a
popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled
with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of
archaeology and history, and yet not too technical in language for the use
of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case
would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general
sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful
are:--firstly, the great county histories, the value of which, especially
in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognized;
secondly, the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in
the transactions of the antiquarian and archaeological societies; thirdly,
the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master
of the Rolls; fourthly, the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the
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