Excerpt from The Rectors of Manchester, Vol. 1: And the Wardens of the Collegiate Church of That Town Raines' Bequest, and the Lives of the Wardens being from vol. Xl. It is evident that an accurate account of the Wardens was a project that had occupied a large share of the attention of this indefatigable compiler, who justly viewed the College as the spot around which the ecclesiastical history of the district was gathered, that noble and useful foundation for learning and propagation of religion in those northern parts (strype A finals, vol. II. I. P. 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.