"ROBERT is a _Ladies Shoemaker_, and works for DAVIES, _Lombard-street_. He is of a slender make; of about 5 F. 4 I. high; very _dark_ complexion.... His MOTHER, who is a very religions member of the _Church of England_, took all the pains she could in his infancy to make him pious: and as his Reason expanded, his love of God and Man increas'd with it. I never knew his fellow for mildness of temper and Goodness of Disposition. And since I left him, universally is he prais'd by those who know him best, for the best of Husbands, an indulgent Father, and quiet Neighbour. He is between thirty-three and four years old,[Footnote: Corrected from the above Date, p. vi, to his present Age, May 1800. C. L.] and has three Children;" two Daughters and a Son.[Footnote: Added from the information of Mr. R. BLOOMFIELD. _Hannah_, born 25 _Oct_. 1791. _Mary Anne_, 6 _Sept_. 1793. _Charles_, 15 _Sept_. 1798.] Mr. GEORGE BLOOMFIELD concludes this clear, affectionate, and interesting Narrative, by a very kind Address to the Writer of this Preface. But, pleas'd as I am with the good opinion of a Man like him, I must not take praise to myself for not having neglected or suppress'd such a Work when it came into my hands. And I have no farther merit than that of seeing what it was impossible for an unprejudiced Mind not to see, and of doing what it was impossible not to do. But I join with him cordially in his prayer, "that GOD, _the Giver of thought_, may, as mental light spreads, raise up many who will turn a listening ear, and will not despise "_The short and simple annals of the Poor_." Very few words will complete what remains to be added. Struck with the Work, but not less struck with the remark, which is become a proverb, of the Roman Satirist, that "_it is not easy_ [Footnote: Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.] for those to emerge to notice whose circumstances obscure the observation of their Merits," I sent it to a Friend,[Footnote: This Friend, THOMAS HILL, Esq. I hope will forgive my mentioning him without asking his consent.] whom I knew to be above these prejudices: and who has deserv'd, and is deserving, well of the public, in many other instances, by his attention to Literature and the elegant Arts. He immediately express'd an high satisfaction in it; and communicated it to the Publishers. They adopted it upon terms honorable to themselves, and satisfactory to the Author, and to me in his behalf. They have publish'd it in a manner which speaks abundantly for itself; both as to the typographical accuracy and beauty, and the good taste and execution of the Ornaments in Wood.