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Excerpt from Chapter Acts of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary of Lincoln, A. D. 1520-1536 As the chapter year began on the Monday after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (september which in that year fell on September 17, it appears that the records of about six weeks have been lost. One or two of the earliest existing folios have suffered from wear and tear, and some words at their margins have been lost, but with these exceptions the volume is in good condition, and the script beautifully clear, presenting no difficulties to the transcriber. Especially is this the case during the time of Master Peter Effard, who held the office of Chapter Clerk for about twenty years, and as such was responsible for the entries from 9 August, 1522, until his death in January, 1540-1. Needless to say these entries are uniformly made in Latin, except when documents in English, such as wills or leases, are inserted. When such occur they have been transcribed verbatim, but ordinarily it will be sufficient to calendar the chapter-acts, as is done in the Record Office publications, omitting the frequent repetitions of formal official phrase ology, while retaining all matter of interest and importance. It has been thought well to commence our publication with the present volume, as dealing with a period of surpassing interest in the history of our church, but as for convenience sake it was once found advisable to divide the 464 folios of the original thick volume into two, so now it will be needful to extend the many pages of print, which even in its calendared form this Act Book will fill, into three volumes of the ordinary size of our Record series, the present volume containing the entries from its commencement in October, 1520, to the end of the Chapter year in September, 1536. 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.