Excerpt from Reading Records, Diary of the Corporation, Vol. 2: James I to Charles I, (1603/4-1629)In the erection of new tenements the Town seems to have expanded but slowly. The houses were, for the most part, densely congregated within a narrow area, and on an examination of Speed's map, a.d. 1611, it will be seen how small a space was really covered by the low and unsanitary dwellings of the trading population.The Analytical Table of Contents will furnish a convenient reference to all matters connected with the Civil Government, Trade and Social condition of the Town during the period covered by this Volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.