Excerpt from Westminster AbbeyPossible, unfortunately, to draw a complete picture of the place as it was a thousand years ago, yet, by chance, some very ancient materials exist - materials into whose age and authenticity we may have occasion to inquire in another chapter, but they enable us to mark distinctly some important points, around which we can build a more or less useful working hypothesis.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.