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Excerpt from English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to Mr. Hubert Hall and Miss E. M. Deli for their helpful suggestions and criticism, to Miss C. W. Arding and Mr. H. Chapman for the gift of photographs, to Dr. Hurry for permission to copy his admirable plan of Reading Abbey, from his Russ and Fall of Readmg Abbey, published by Mr. Elliot Stock, and to Mr. Holland Young for allowing me to reproduce photographs of the George Inn, Salisbury. 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.