Excerpt from The History and Fate of Sacrilege: Edited, in Part From Two Mss;, Revised and Corrected, With a Continuation, Large Additions, and an Introductory Essay Of our own part in the work we have little to say. We have omitted no opportunity that lay open to us Of acquiring correct information; and, where the names of our inform ants do not appear, we nevertheless are in possession of them. We beg leave to thank all those who have replied to our inquiries as to the fate of those abbeys on which county historians are silent. And our gratitude is more particularly due to the rev. C. J. Lyon, the author of the History of S. Andrew's, to whom we owe all the facts connected with Scotch sacrilege, which we have been able to present to the reader; to the rev. F. E. Paget, for the ms. To which we have referred; to the rev. W. Scott, incumbent of Christ Church, Hoxton, London; to the rev. W. Wheeler, vicar of Old and New Shoreham and the rev. W. Rankin, priest at Old Deir, Scotland. 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.