GENERAL PREFACE.

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitorsto the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustratedguide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writerhas been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledgeand scholarship to be of value to the student of Archæologyand History, and yet not too technical in language for the useof an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made useof in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place.But amongst the general sources of information which havebeen almost invariably found useful are:—(1) the greatcounty histories, the value of which, especially in questionsof genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2)the numerous papers by experts which appear from time totime in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and ArchæologicalSocieties; (3) the important documents made accessible inthe series issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-knownworks of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals;and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks to theCathedrals, originated by the late Mr. John Murray; to whichthe reader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail,especially in reference to the histories of the respective sees.

GLEESON WHITE.
EDWARD F. STRANGE.
Editors of the Series.