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Title: The Cathedral Church of York
Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief
History of the Archi-Episcopal See

Author: A. Clutton-Brock

Release Date: October 1, 2006 [EBook #19420]

Language: English

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[Illustration: York Minster, the West Front and Nave.]

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF

YORK

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
ARCHI-EPISCOPAL SEE

BY
A. CLUTTON-BROCK

[Illustration: The Arms of the See]

WITH FORTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1899

W. H. WHITE AND CO. LTD.
RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH

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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:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in
questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2)
the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in the
Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies; (3) the
important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master
of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the
English Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks to
the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray;