Excerpt from The Canon Law in Mediaeval England: An Examination of William Lyndwood's Provinciale, in Reply to the Late Professor F. W Maitland In the first place, the relation between the Welsh case to-day and the Irish case of 1869 is one, not of likeness, but of great and glaring contrast. The position of the Welsh Church is altogether better; the treatment to be accorded to her is altogether worse. And this is putting it very mildly. 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.