Excerpt from The Lineage: From Apostolic Times of the American Catholic Church, Commonly Called the Episcopal ChurchLet me fall back on the good old-fashioned form of Preface, and ask your indulgent perusal of this book and your interest in it. You will find some points with which you disagree. It would be impossible that it should not be so. Do not, however, for some few facial blemishes, con demn the work as worthless. Give credit to the motive of the writer, and help on the good work it is hoped by it to do.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.