Excerpt from Christ Church Letters: A Volume of Mediaeval Letters Relating to the Affairs of the Priory of Christ Church CanterburyThe Norman Conquest gave Bishop Odo an opportunity for an illegal and soon-ended seizure of some of the Church lands, but the charters by which those lands were held by the Church remained safely, as they do to this day, in the hands of their proper owners.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.