Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and Its Grand Priory of England
The completion of the work about the Church and Crypt contemplated when the Guide was issued, and the need to record the more recent discoveries, together with the desire for more extended notes on the history of the Order, make it necessary to write anew rather than re-issue the old Guide.
It is a great pleasure for me to undertake this task, for it is twenty-five years ago, on my appointment as Rector's Warden that, with borrowed pick and spade, I went down into the Crypt and cleared away the accumulated earth, nearly two feet deep, from the foot of one of the Transition responds and laid bare the charming details of its base, working with the light of a candle amid great cobwebs and the debris of old coffins.
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