Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wilson's Description of the New Royal Exchange, Including an Historical Notice of the Former Edifices: And a Brief Memoir of Sir Thomas Gresham, Founder of the Original Burse in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
The importance of true records connected with the benefactions of departed worthies cannot be overrated, when it is seen how many valuable eu dowments have, by such means, been restored to those for whom they were originally intended, and which but for them must have been lost to the public for ever.
Of the numerous plans laid before the Gresham Committee for the New Exchange, (many, no doubt, of great merit, ) it is not our province to speak; but not one of them, in our humble Opinion, could have been selected better calculated to conduce, not only to the splendour of the City of London, but as well to the general convenience of the commercial community as to the numerous tenantry, whose every comfort has been. Considered by the talented architect with as much care as if the building had been purposely erected for them.
To those who have contributed details connected with the several matters described in the following pages, the Publisher begs to offer his most grateful acknowledgments.
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