Excerpt from A Description or Breife Declaration of All the Ancient Monuments, Rites, and Customes: Belonginge or Beinge Within the Monastical Church of Durham Before the Suppression, Written in 1593 IN preparing the following pages for the press, four Manuscripts have been used, two as forming the text, and two as affording various readings. 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.