Compotus Rolls Of The Obedientiaries Of St Swithuns Priory

Author : Priory Of St. Swithun
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ISBN 13 : 9781331892090
Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Compotus Rolls written by Priory Of St. Swithun and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Compotus Rolls: Of The Obedientiaries Of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchesterfrom The Winchester Cathedral Archives This volume of Obedientiary Rolls is the chief publication of the Hampshire Record Society for 1892; and the members will be pleased to see that it is issued within the current year. The slender income of the Society is not sufficient to give the subscribers two volumes every year; and as two books have been issued for 1891, and it is hoped that two will appear in 1893, the Council are obliged thus to husband their resources for 1892. I believe that no collection of Obedientiary Rolls has heretofore been printed. There is a very fine collection of such Rolls in Norwich Cathedral, well cared for by their learned and judicious custodian, Dr. Bensley. The Norwich Rolls are often strong where ours are weak; and it is much to be hoped that they will some day be printed, and be both preserved from the many risks which lie in wait for ancient documents, and also made accessible to the student of Church History. Though in the MSS. here laid before the Society there are many unhappy blanks and not a little wearisome redundancy, still I cannot but hope that they will be found to be really interesting; for they certainly bring vividly before us some of the characteristics of the medieval life in community. It is disappointing to learn so little from them respecting the Conventual buildings; so little respecting the changes made from time to time in the fabric of our huge Cathedral Church. One would have liked, too, to see more of our monks in their dealings with the world around them. For nowhere did spiritual persons have such temporal opportunities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.