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. Alice took pity on him, and interpos’d her authority.
Chap. III.
How, lying in a garret, he was ready to be devoured by rats and mice, and to prevent it purchased a cat with a penny given him for cleaning shoes; and how, with the servants, he adventured the cat, being all his stock.
Chap. IV.
How the bitter jade of a cook maid encreasing her cruelty towards him he grew weary of his service, and was running away on All-Hallow’s day; but upon hearing the ringing of Bow bells came back again. Also how the merchant abroad disposed of his cat.