Excerpt from Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral of England and Wales, Vol. 2: The Drawings Made From Sketches Taken Expressly Fro This Work

To this information is added an account of the present establish ments in each-cathedral, the value of the bishoprics in the king's books, the present actual value as returned by the present prelates to the Church Commissioners, the former and present extent of the dioceses as settled by the late Act, and concludes with brief biographical sketches of the most eminent prelates who have filled the several sees from their first erection to the present times.

If the qualification of the editor of this volume for the work he has thus gratuitously undertaken be. Inquired into, his answer is first, the study of the subjects contained in it, from his youth, secondly, an attentive examination of every Cathedral in the kingdom, most of which he has visited many times, and, lastly, his residing close to to the first private library in England, if not in the world, to which he has free access at all times, and from which he has obtained that assistance in the fulfilment of his self-imposed task, without which, (notwithstanding his previous study and knowledge of the subject), he would not have dared to undertake it.

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