Excerpt from Memoriale Fratris Walteri De Coventria, Vol. 1: The Historical Collections Of Walter Of CoventryThe Master of the Rolls suggested that these materials should be selected for publication under competent editors without reference to periodical or chronological arrangement, without mutilation or abridgment, prefer ence being given, in the first instance, to such materials as were most scarce and valuable.He proposed that each chronicle or historical docu ment to be edited should be treated in the same way as if the editor were engaged on an Editio Princeps, and for this purpose the most correct text should be formed from an accurate collation of the best mss.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.