He also builded the Guildehalle
chappell, and increased a great parte of the east ende of the said
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.]
THE LIFE OF
SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON.
CHAP. I.
How, Whittington, being born of unknown parents, was left to a
desperate fortune, and rambled the country till necessity and fear
made him come to London.
CHAP. II.
How, at the instance of Mrs. Alice, the Merchant's daughter, he
became a servant in the family under the cook maid, who used him
cruelly, and how Mrs.
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