Excerpt from The History and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, Vol. 1 of 2<br><br>Norman periods. Hence our city has already been the subject of as many particular accounts as perhaps any place within the com pass of this Island.<br><br>When the Author was first applied to, by a respectable book seller and printer of this city, to furnish him with a faithful ac count and description of Winchester, for the sake of publication the former works on this subject being either out of print, or not being to be procured by him - he had no other idea than to enlarge and correct one or other of our late descriptions or histories of it, after obtaining the consent of its proprietor. Upon examining, however, these works in succession, he found them to be, at the same time, so defective and so erroneous, omitting what ought to have been recorded, and supplying the deficiencies with fables.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.