Excerpt from Winchester Within the narrow limits of this little book it has not been possible to do full justice to the most historic of English cities. The many traces of Roman occupa tion, discovered only by the spade, are left uninter preted; the relations of Wessex and its capital with the other kingdoms of early England, are treated only in outline; the position of Winchester as capital of Eng land, and even, under the Danes, as the chief seat of a Scandinavian empire, can merely be indicated. Very pleasant it would have been to work out in detail the domestic life of our civic ancestors; or to trace the gigantic commerce of England to its sources, which are indicated by the standards of coin and weight and capacity kept for centuries in the royal city; or to sketch the coming and going of kings and statesmen, churchmen and men of learning, who thronged our streets in the days when the monarchs were their crown m state in Winchester at the Easter Festival. The place teems with picturesque tradition and anecdote it has its own art and literature; Church authority. 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.