Excerpt from The History of the Parish and Priory of Lenton, in the County of Nottingham I must also express my obligations to the Rev. J. Charles Cox, author of The Churches of Derbyshire, for his courteous permission to extract what was applicable to my purpose from his valuable work. I am also indebted to M. Leopold Delisle, Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, for furnishing me with interesting extracts from the Clugny mss. Recently deposited in that library; to Sir Henry E. L. Dryden, Bart, m.a., of Canons Ashby, for the loan of his sketches of the tiles found at Lenton Priory, and described on pages 226 and 227; to W. H. St. John Hope, Esq, m.a., f.s.a for the loan of casts of the seals from which the engravings on pages 231 and 232 have been made; to Edward Joseph Lowe, Esq., D.L., for the valuable meteorological table; and also to Mr. W. Henry Stevenson (editor of The Nottingham Borough Records) for several valuable suggestions. 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.

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