SAINT ANTHONY totelar Saint of the Company of Grocers from an ancient carved figure preserved at Grocers Hall. TO THE MASTER, WARDENS, AND THE Members of the Court of Assistants, GENTLEMEN, In presenting to you the following pages, I ought, I ought, perhaps, to express some diffidence at the reception they are likely to meet with, and to make a multitude of apologies for the inefficient mode in which I have executed my undertaking. All this I would willingly do were I an author by profession, or even by pretension; but, as I am neither the one or the other, I shall content myself with saying that I have endeavoured to do my best. I am conscious that my work abounds with faults, both of omission and commission; but, when I assure you that it has been executed at those intervals which my avocations left me, and that, a |