Parish of St Mildred, Poultry

The parish of St Mildred, Poultry in the City of London covered an area that stretched north from the south side of Poultry to the corner of Princes Street and Lothbury. The church, first recorded in 1175, burned down during the Great Fire of London in 1666 and was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1670-76, although the tower was not completed until the early 18th century. The new church served the united parish of St Mildred, Poultry and St Mary, Colechurch and the patronage of the living alternated between the Crown and the Mercers' Company. It was demolished in 1872 under the Union of City Benefices Act and the land was used for road widening. The parish was then united with that of St Margaret, Lothbury.

The compiler of this volume is not recorded, and its early provenance is unknown. The papers may have been put together by a churchwarden or a local historian, almost certainly at the beginning of the 18th century.