Excerpt from Winchester Cathedral Close: Its Historical and Literary Associations For several of the illustrations and for the Plan of the Close I am indebted to Mr. N. C. H. Nisbett, our able architectural surveyor. I specially desire to place on record the help I have received from my esteemed friend Mr. Francis Joseph Baigent, whose intimate knowledge of Winchester and whose wide antiquarian learning has ever been placed most generously at my disposal. 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.