[Illustration: LINCOLN FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. _Photochrom Co. Ltd., Photo_.] THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF LINCOLN A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC AND A LIST OF THE BISHOPS BY A. F. KENDRICK, B.A. WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration: Arms of the See] LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1902 _First Published July 1898_ _Reprinted, with corrections, 1899, 1902_ THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED EDINBURGH GENERAL PREFACE This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Archæology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist. To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archæological Societies; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to which the reader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially in reference to the histories of the respective sees. AUTHOR'S PREFACE The literature on the subject of Lincoln Minster is considerable, but scattered. The valuable researches of the late Precentor Venables published chiefly in the _Archæological Journal_, claim the first place among authorities consulted in the preparation of the present handbook. The works of Freeman, Scott, Rickman, and Parker have also been referred to. For the Episcopal Visitations, Prebendary Perry's account in the thirty-eighth volume of the _Archæological Journal_ has been followed; and for the Inventories of the Treasures, that of Prebendary Wordsworth in the fifty-third volume of the _Archæologia_. Holinshed's "Chronicles," Bright's "Early English Church History," and the topographical works of Leland, Dugdale, Camden, and Stukeley, contain useful information on the subject. In the Rolls series, the chronicles of Henry of Huntingdon, Matthew Paris, Roger de Hoveden, and Giraldus Cambrensis, as well as the annals of various reigns and the "Magna Vita" of St. Hugh, have been consulted. A number of old guides in the Library of the British Museum contain useful MS. notes. Some of the other works referred to have been acknowledged in the pages of this book.