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
Archæology 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 Archæological Societies; Thirdly,