If after the publication of a volume of royal household establishments, the Society can be supposed to give any attention to a detail of the property and expences of a wealthy merchant in the fixteenth century, I must beg that your lordship will do me the honour to lay before them some extracts from the household-book of Thomas Cony, of Bassingthorpe, in the county of Lincoln, Esq. merchant of the staple of Calais, and merchant adventurer of England.