In the Chapter Archives-Numerous original Charters and Grants, from the time of Henry the First; the Chapter Registers, from the beginning of the fourteenth century; and the Correspondence and Register of Proceedings on the Canonisation of Osmund.
For access to these valuable documents, I am indebted to the Right Reverend the Lord BISHOP, and the Reverend the DEAN and CHAPTER. Their confidence and condescension I shall ever sensibly feel; and I trust their liberality will not remain without its due share of approbation from a discerning public.
The Reverend WILLIAM DOUGLAS, chancellor of the Diocese, and canon residentary, obligingly favoured me with the materials from which the life of his father, the late Bishop Douglas, is compiled. For this, as well as for many other marks of his kindness, it is my duty to express my acknowledgments.
Besides my obligations to the Reverend WILLIAM COXE, archdeacon of Wilts, as a member of the chapter, I have to testify my gratitude to him for many valuable observations, as well as for the flattering interest which he has been pleased to take in my work. I have also to mention the advantages drawn from his extensive library.
To H. P. WYNDHAM, Esq. I beg leave to return my thanks, for access to his library :
And to WILLIAM BOUCHER, Esq. chapter clerk, for the readiness he has manifested in facilitating my researches.
I am far from wishing to anticipate the judgment of the Public, with regard to the execution of the Plates; but I should be ungrateful were I not to express a proper sense of the assiduous attention, and friendly aid of Mr. F. NASH, by whom the drawings were made.