Excerpt from The Lay Folks Mass Book: Or the Manner of Hearing Mass, With Rubrics and Devotions for the People After all, the result has been that, not to mention other libraries at home and abroad, I have had to give up the hope of finding the missing mss. In the British Museum, the Bodleian, the University Library at Cambridge, the public libraries at Paris and Edinburgh, the Lambeth Library, the libraries at Durham, Lincoln, and other cathedrals in this country, at Ushaw and other Roman Catholic colleges, or in the libraries at Rouen and Caen, where, from the Norman origin of the treatise, it seemed not impossible that a copy may have found its way at the revolution among the Spoils of some Norman monastery or manor house. I did, however, succeed in getting to know of other mss., which, though later than the Museum ms, are interesting as Showing the changes that were afterwards introduced. Mr. 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.