Excerpt from Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey I have scrupulously avoided all questions of controversial theology: indeed, it was scarcely possible-that, in such a work as this, theology could creep in at all. Accordingly the reader is not to suppose because he will meet with such ex pressions as Blessed Godefroid and Our Lady, that I am a Roman Catholic; nor, on the other hand, is he to imagine that, because he will meet with records which disclose some of the errors into which monks, like other fallible men, were prone to fall, I have introduced those records with the express purpose of drawing an unfavourable contrast between the Roman and the Protestant faith. My endea vour has simply been to furnish whatever information I could gather respecting the history of a monastery which was greater and wealthier than has hitherto been commonly supposed, and which for upwards of 350 years exercised a paramount influence over the neighbourhood in which it was situate. But the study of anti quities is as endless as it is fascinating; and I am conscious that I have only begun, or I should rather say continued, a work which the discovery of other materials will some day render more perfect. 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.