Excerpt from Some Account of the Condition of the Fabric of Llandaff Cathedral, Chiefly From 1575 to the Present Time: With Extracts From the Act Books of the Chapter Under the impression that some statement ought to be on record of the several steps by which the Cathedral had been brought to its condition of partial restoration, before the solemnity just referred to I printed a small pamphlet, entitled Some Account of the Condition of the Fabric of Llandafi' Cathedral from 1575 to its Re-opening in 1807, with Extracts from the Act Books of the Cathedral. These Act Books and a ms. Of the sixteenth century, containing a speech of Bishop Blethin addressed to the Prebendaries of his Cathedral assembled in Chapter in 1575 and the Consuetudines et Ordinationes Ecclesiw Lan davensis, - selected, as he tells the Prebendaries in his address, from an older book entitled Ecclesiae Textus, with certain additions of his own - are almost the only documents belonging to the Chapter that have escaped the fires by which its Registry, it is said, has been more than once destroyed 2. 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.