TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL JOHN OFFLEY, HONOURED FRIEND. SIR, I HAVE made so ill use of your former favours, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest NOTE.] Son and heir of Sir John Offley, of Madeley, in the county of Stafford, Knight, and great grandson of Sir Thomas Offley, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1557. Mr. Offley, to whom this work is dedicated, succeeded his father in 1646, and was twice married; first to Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Lidcott, of Mousley in Surrey; and B |