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To all whom it may concern; with my kind remembrance to the Posts, Carriers,Waggoners and Higglers.
If any man or woman whomsoever hath either occasion or patience to read this following description, it is no doubt but they shall find full satisfaction for as much as they laid out for the book: if not, it is against my will; and my good intentions are lost and frustrate. I wrote it for three causes. First, for a general and necessary good use for the whole commonwealth. Secondly, to express my grateful duty to all those who have honestly paid me my money which they owed me for my books of The collection of Taverns in London and Westminster, and ten shires or counties next round about London; and I do also thank all such as do purpose to pay me hereafter. Thirdly, for the third sort, that can pay me and will not; I write this as a document: I am well pleased to leave them to the hangman's tuition, as being past any other man's mending, for I would have them to know, that I am sensible of
