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Excerpt from Canterbury: A Historical and Topographical Account of the City IN 1884, the year after his translation from Truro to Canterbury, I was asked by Dr. Edward White Benson to write a Short history of the City of Canter bury, as the Archbishop was not able to lay his hands on any one book that gave the information that many desired to have. Such a request I regarded almost as a command, more especially as Dr. Benson had rendered me much kindly service at the time when he was Chancellor of Lincoln, and when I had occasion to frequently consult the chapter muniments of that minster. The project, however, through stress of other work, got no further than a scheme of procedure, which was submitted to the Archbishop and met with his approval, and the collection of some material. Since that time the local guide-books have materi ally improved, and the idea of this small book had been abandoned, until - nearly twenty years after - my friend Professor Windle, in arranging a series of books on Old English towns for Messrs. Methuen, asked me to undertake the volume on Canterbury. 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.