Excerpt from Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, Vol. 3 Fasti Eboracenses; or, Lives of the Archbishops of York, by Messrs. Dixon and Raine, will not interfere. Theirs is a valuable, learned, and important work; but Mr. Raine, in his preface, points out, with his usual clearness, the distinction between the object of their work, and that which is the aim of the present volumes. He states, that their work does not profess to be a history of the Church of England, or any part of it It has nothing to do with what are called the times of the archbishops or of any of them They write, he expressly informs us, ad clerum not ad populum, or, as he elsewhere playfully expresses it, for the bees, that is, for the philosophical enquirer and the historian, and not for the general reader, whom he compares to a less industrious insect. It is impossible to estimate too highly such works as those of Messrs. Dixon and Raine or, more important still, the Lives of the Judges, by Mr. Foss. They, as archaeologists, collect, with minute attention to details, the wild flowers of the desert, which the philosophical historian. 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.