ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank all the people who helped me in any way in writing this account. There is no significance in the order in which the names appear.

Miss M.L.Palmer.	Rev.T.G.Kelsey.
Mr.E.Elton.	Mr.P.H.Potter.
Mr.N.E.Bailey.	Sir Robert Douglas
Mrs.D.S.Smith.	Mr. & Mrs. G.Webster.
Mr.A.J.R.Wakefield.	Mr.R.B.Lea.
Mr.F.B.Stitt.	Mr.J.W.H.Carey.
Mr.D.B.Robinson.	Mrs.A.Wood.
Rev.W.Edge.	Mr.D.G.Cubberley.
Mr.J.A.Preston.	Mr.H.Elton.
Mr. & Mrs. D.W.Harvey	Mr.G.T.Morgan.
Mr.N.Barton.	Mr. & Mrs.N.Horton.
Mr.& Mrs.G.E.Webster	Mr.D.A.Johnson.

I would like to give particular thanks to Mr.G.S.Joiner who helped me greatly with the transcription of seventeenth century documents, to Miss Penelope Fussell, Archivist of the Drapers’ Company, for all her assistance, and to my sons, Clive and Andrew, for their help with the revision.

I would also like to thank the following bodies which provided me with an enormous amount of information :-

The Drapers’ Company, Drapers’ Hall, London.
The Libraries Department of the London Borough of Hackney
The Education and Libraries Department of the London Borough of Barnet.
The Public Records Office, London.
The Literary Department, Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House,London.
The Photographic Section, The British Museum, London.
The Corporation of London Records Office, Guildhall, London.
The Staffordshire County Library, Stafford.
The Lichfield Joint Records Office, Lichfield.