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Excerpt from Compotus Rolls: Of the Obedientiaries of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchesterfrom the Winchester Cathedral Archives
This volume of Obedientiary Rolls is the chief publication of the Hampshire Record Society for 1892; and the members will be pleased to see that it is issued within the current year. The slender income of the Society is not sufficient to give the subscribers two volumes every year; and as two books have been issued for 1891, and it is hoped that two will appear in 1893, the Council are obliged thus to husband their resources for 1892. I believe that no collection of Obedientiary Rolls has heretofore been printed. There is a very fine collection of such Rolls in Norwich Cathedral, well cared for by their learned and judicious custodian, Dr. Bensley. The Norwich Rolls are often strong where ours are weak; and it is much to be hoped that they will someday be printed, and be both preserved from the many risks which lie in wait for ancient documents, and also made accessible to the student of Church History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
