LIVES

OF THE

ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY

VOL. I.

Anglo-Saxon Period

History which may be called just and perfect history is of three kinds, according to the object which it
propoundeth or pretendeth to represent: for it either representeth a time, or a person, or an action. The
first we call Chronicles, the second Lives, and the third Narratives or Relations. Of these, although Chronicles
be the most complete and absolute kind of history, and hath most estimation and glory, yet Lives excelleth in
profit and use, and Narratives or Relations in verity or sincerity.
LORD BACON.

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

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