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The work now for the first timereprinted from Caxton’s original edition has been preserved in threecopies. One of these is in the Library of Ripon Cathedral, another inthe Spencer Library, now at Manchester, and the third at BamboroughCastle. A small fragment, consisting of pp. 17-18 and 27-28, is in theBodleian Library. The text of the present edition is taken from theRipon copy. I have not had an opportunity of seeing this myself; but atype-written transcript was supplied to me by Mr. John Whitham, ChapterClerk of Ripon Cathedral, and the proofs were collated with the Riponbook by the Rev. Dr. Fowler, Vice-Principal of Bishop Hatfield’s Hall,Durham, who was kind enough to re-examine every passage in which Isuspected a possible inaccurac
