THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF LINCOLN
A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION
OF ITS FABRIC AND A LIST OF
THE BISHOPS
BY A. F. KENDRICK, B.A.
WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1902
First Published July 1898
Reprinted, with corrections, 1899, 1902
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED
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GENERAL PREFACE
This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to thegreat English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-booksat a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a workcompiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value tothe student of Archæology and History, and yet not too technical inlanguage for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.
To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each casewould be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the generalsources of information which have been almost invariably found usefulare:—(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especiallyin questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised;(2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time inthe Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archæological Societies; (3)the important documents made accessible in the series issued by theMaster of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis onthe English Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooksto the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to which thereader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially inreference to the histories of the respective sees.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
The literature on the subject of Lincoln Minster is considerable, butscattered. The valuable researches of the late Precentor Venables publishedchiefly in the Archæological Journal, claim the first place amongauthorities consulted in the preparation of the present handbook. Theworks of Freeman, Scott, Rickman, and Parker have also been referredto. For the Episcopal Visitations, Prebendary Perry's account in thethirty-eighth volume of the Archæological Journal has been followed;and for the Inventories of the Treasures, that of Prebendary Wordsworth inthe fifty-third volume of the Archæologia. Holinshed's "Chronicles,"Bright's "Early English Church History," and the topographical worksof Leland, Dugdale, Camden, and Stukeley, contain useful information onthe subject. In the Rolls series, the chronicles of Henry of Huntingdon,Matthew Paris, Roger de Hoveden, and G