[1845.] Woodcock’s “Lives of Illustrious Lords Mayors and Aldermen of London, with a Brief History of the City of London.”  London. 8vo.  Pp. 28-46, Life of Whittington; but it contains no information of any value.

1860.  The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, exemplified in the Story of Whittington and his Cat:  being an attempt to rescue that interesting story from the region of fable, and to place it in its proper position in the legitimate history of this country.  By the Rev. Samuel Lysons, M.A.  London:  Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1860. 8vo.

     1871.  The Story of Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London in
     the years 1397, 1406-7, and 1419 A.D.  Written and
     illustrated by Carr.  London:  Longmans, Green and Co. 1871.  Folio.

     A new Ballad prettily illustrated, in which Canon Lysons’s
     researches are taken into account, and the boy is made of good
     parentage, but the rest of the legend is retained.

     1881.  Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London.  By Walter
     Besant and James Rice.  London:  Marcus Ward and Co. 1881.  Sm. 8vo.

     Whittington and his Cat.  By Ernest J. Miller.  Published by the
     Albany Institute, Albany, N.Y.  Weed, Parsons, and Company. 1881.
     8vo.

     A valuable paper, which contains a great mass of information on
     both the true and——­the fictitious Whittington.

     Whittington and his Cat, an Entertainment for Young People, by Miss
     Corner.

     The Remarkable History of Richard Whittington and his Cat.  Aunt
     Busy Bee’s New Series.  Dean and Son.  Coloured illustrations on the
     page.

     The following title is taken from Mr. Lysons’s book, and I presume
     it is merely an edition of the ordinary chap-book.

     History of Sir Richard Whittington.  Printed at Sympson’s in
     Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market.

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The following extract from Granger’s History of England is curious as showing that the public would not have a portrait of Whittington without a representation of his famous cat:—­

“The true portraicture of Richard Whitington, thrise Lord Maior of London; a vertuous and godly man, full of good works, and those famous.  He builded the gate of London called Newegate, which before was a miserable doungeon.  He builded Whitington College, and made it an almose-house for poore people.  Also he builded a great parte of the hospitall of St. Bartholomew’s, in West Smithfield, in London.  He also builded the beautiful library at the Grey Friars in London, called Christe’s Hospitall.  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: