Excerpt from Bulletin to He Pennsylvania Museum, Vol. 7: July, 1909 The most impo, rtant as well as most interesting vicissitude Of the bench or banc is that which appears in early inventories Of the fifteenth century as Bane 'armoire, which served to keep treasure, and was turned into a counter in which funds were kept. 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.