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Excerpt from The Reconstruction of the English Church, Vol. 1 During the eight years occupied in the preparation of these vol umes, I have been guided and assisted by the advice and help of many kind friends. First and foremost, I am deeply indebted to Pro fossor Edward Charming of Harvard University, my preceptor and friend, for encouragement, counsel, and trenchant criticism, whose value can be appreciated only by those who have known him. It is also a great pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness for many favours to Hubert Hall, Esq., of the Public Record Ofice, through whose influence many archives were opened to me; and especially to the late Professor F. York Powell, from whose deep learning and acumen I profited so often while at Oxford. I have also had val nable assistance on legal topics from President Lowell of Harvard University, whose counsel was of great influence at a very critical moment of my life. On economic matters, and particularly in con nection with the preparation of the maps showing the distribution of population in England, I had the advantage of the unrivalled and detailed knowledge of England in the sixteenth century pos sessed by Professor E. F. Gay of Harvard University. On questions relating to the Catholics, I was very materially aided by Father J. H. Pollen, S. J who most kindly loaned me his transcripts from the Catholic archives at Turin, Naples, and Birmingham. I also re ceived valuable suggestions from Professor R. B. Merriman of Har vard University, and from Dr. Conyers Read of Princeton. 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.