Excerpt from Sodor and Man IN endeavouring to write a history of the Manx Church, I have encountered various difficulties. Before the twelfth century, there is an almost total absence of trustworthy sources of information. Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, the monkish chronicles, the charters and papal bulls, which are the staple materials. Available for my purpose, afford, as regards a portion of the chronicles at least, a somewhat nu reliable basis for the construction of a credible and continuous history. Whilst, during. The last three centuries, I have found it. By no means easy to make a judicious selection from the copious materials in the insular records, both ecclesiastical and civil, and'in the writings of authors contemporary with the events they relate. Want of space has, unfortunately, prevented the publication of the canons of Bishops Simon, Mark, and Russell,1 but the most important of the spiritual laws, and the whole of Bishop Wilson's canons, will be found in the text. 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.