halle, beside many other good workes."--_R. Elstracke sc. Collar of
SS.; his right hand on a cat._

Granger says of this:

"The cat has been inserted as the common people did not care to buy
the print without it. There was none originally in the plate, but a
skull in the place of the cat. I have seen only two proofs of this
portrait in its first state, and these were fine
impressions."--1775, vol. i. p. 62.

The following is a copy of the headings of the chapters in an early form
of the chap-book version of Whittington's life:




THE

HISTORY

OF

SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON,

THRICE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.


_Durham: Printed and sold by I. Lane._ [1730.]