Excerpt from Westminster Abbey the King's Craftsmen: A Study of Mediaeval Building Collecting for the purpose of this volume, which has ex tended over a period of a dozen years or more, has necessarily been done in the intervals of business, and I hope that some faults will be excused on this account. I should have liked my references to have been much fuller, and here I should say that all those given by numbers alone, as: I and 2, mean in every case - The Record Ofice, Exchequer Accounts, Works, qr. (now the numbers referring to the bundles and items, as, in the above example: bundle items I and 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.