( The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely by E. Miller, and Canterbury
Cathedral Priory by R. A. L. Smith).

I should also like to thank Miss Susan Flower and Dr
R. L. Storey for their help in choosing illustrations; and I
am grateful to the following for permission to reproduce
photographs: the Air Ministry and the Cambridge University
Committee for Aerial Photography (photograph by Dr J. K.
St Joseph, Cambridge University Curator of Aerial Photog-
raphy; Crown copyright reserved); the Bodleian Library,
Oxford; the British Museum; the County Archivist, Essex
Record Office (D/DGh M 14, mem. 2, from the records of
Guy's Hospital); the Courtauld Institute of Art; Mr A. F.
Kersting; the National Buildings Record; the Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Office
(Crown copyright reserved) ; Mr Lawrence Stone; and the
Wool (and Allied) Textile Employers' Council, Bradford.
The drawing of the village of Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, is
reproduced by permission of Major Sir H. L. Aubrey-Fletcher
and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

I am particularly grateful to four people who have gener-
ously spent a great deal of time, and shown much patience,
in helping me to improve the book: to Professor C. N. L.
Brooke and Mr Denis Mack Smith, to Mr James Campbell,
and to my wife.

G. A. H.

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