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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description
Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

Author: A. Hugh Fisher

Release Date: October 7, 2006 [Ebook #19487]

Language: English

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The Cathedral Church Of Hereford

A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
By A. Hugh Fisher

London
George Bell and Sons

1898

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; to which the reader
may in most cases be referred for fuller de