[ONLY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED.]
RICHARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
SHOE-LANE.
[Illustration: ALERE FLAMMAM.]
[Illustration: Fac-simile of a page of the Chronicle of London in the
Harleian M.S. 565, fol. 37.
_J. Shuttleworth & Co. Lithog^{rs}. 28 Poultry._]
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
This Volume presents to your notice an early Chronicle of the great
Metropolis over which you preside.
The rising taste for literature, and particularly that part of it
relating to the History of your ancient City, which has lately been
evinced by you in the formation of a Library, as well as in the
private Collections made by several of your members on the same
subject, renders it probable that the publication of this Chronicle,
which has never before been printed, may not be deemed unacceptable.
Amongst the "Illustrations" will be found some interesting and
important documents taken from the Archives of your Corporation;--they
give a faint idea of the valuable historical information contained in
your Records; and it may be hoped that these specimens will induce you
to follow the example set by the Great Council of the Nation in
printing the Parliamentary Records, and that at no very distant period
measures may be taken for the publication of such of the documents in
your possession as will illustrate the History of England, and of the
City of London.
[Illustration: [signature] E^{d.} Tyrrell.]
London, February 1827.