which was printed at London in 1656, 8vo. Amsterd. 1659. Hawkins. Wood's Athena. Edit. Bliss. Dr. Wharton's name was not inserted in the text at this place till the edition of 1676: and the First is entirely without the eulogy on water. It is worthy of remark, that the whole of these passages relating to Hawking, Hunting, and Angling, are copied almost verbatim, in a very popular and well known work, entitled "the Gentleman's Recreation;" of which the first edition was printed in 1674, six years after the fourth edition of Walton's Angler; and that portion of the Gentleman's Recreation, which treats of Fishing, is merely an abstract of Walton's researches. Another imitation of this author, although in a much slighter degree, may be found in the Works of Bishop Horne, Edit. by W. Jones, Lond. 1809. 8vo. Vol. IV. p. 537, in a discourse composed at Brighthelmston, entitled "Considerations on the Sea." This circumstance was communicated to the Editor by the Rev. Dr. J. T. Barrett, of Westminster. Page 21. I see Theobald's House.

This favourite palace of King James I., formerly stood in a large Manor called Thebaudes, in the Hundred and County of Hertford, and the Parish of Cheshunt, somewhat north of the Ware road, about twelve miles from London. It was erected about the year 1559, by Secretary Cecil, afterwards Lord Treasurer Burghley. On the 27th of July 1564, Elizabeth made her first visit to the house, and having probably expressed her intention of repeating it, by her second progress to Theobald's on the 22d of September, 1571, it was considerably enlarged and improved. During her reign, the Queen went thither twelve different times; at some of which, the expenses of her entertainment amounted to from 20001. to 3000l. On the death of Lord Burghley, he was succeeded at Theobald's by his son Robert, subsequently the Earl of Salisbury; who, on the 3rd of May 1603, entertained King James I. then on his journey to London to assume the English Crown. This costly entertainment was repeated in 1606, when that Sovereign was accompanied by Christiern IV,, King of Denmark, and from these visits, King James became so great an admirer of Theobald's, that he at length exchanged for it the Palace of Hatfield; after which it became his favourite residence, and he died there on March the 27th, 1625. His son Charles also occasionally lived at Theobald's: he there received the Petition from the Parliament in 1642, and it was thence he went to assume the command of his army. In 1650, after a minute Parliamentary survey, and some disputes concerning it's sale, the greater part of Theobald's was taken down, and the amount produced by the sale of the materials reverted to the use of the army. About 1660, George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, received Theobald's by Patent from King Charles II.; but on the failure of male issue in the second Duke

Christopher, the property again returned to the Crown. In 1689, King Whim III issued a Patent granting it to William Bentinck Earl of Portland; but about 1762, it was sold to George Prescett, Esq. from whom it has ultimately descended to Sir George Burton Prescott, Bart. the present possessor. Of the magnificence of the Palace at Theobald's, some idea may be formed from the particular descriptions given of it in the Life of Lord Burghley, in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa;" that by Sir Paul Hentzner; that in the "Voyages Celebres" of the Sieur Jean Albert de Mandelslo; that in the Parliamentary Survey of 1650, already mentioned; and also from a short notice in the "Description of Hertfordshire,” by John Norden. All these, with several additional and interesting facts, will be found in the Rev. Dan. Lysons's "Environs of “Londen,” Lond. 1796. vol. iv. 4to. pp. 29-39, and Clutterbuck's Hist, and Ant. of the County of Hertford, ii. pp. 87-95, whence the foregoing account has been abstracted. It remains to be added enly, that the fragments of the old Theobald's House were taken down about 1765; that the present building stands on a rising ground about a mile to the North-west of the ancient scite; and that the View of the Palace given in the text, was copied by Mr. Tyson, from an ancient Tapestry preserved at Houghton in Norfolk. Theobald's House is not mentioned in the First Edition of the Complete Angler.

Page 23. Then first for the Antiquity of Angling.

At this place, in the First Edition of the Complete Angler, p. 12, there is a marginal reference to “ J. Da. Jer. Mar." as the authorities which furnished this paragraph; which are certainly meant for John Davors, and Jervis or Gervase Markham. The former of these, some of whose beautiful verses appear on page 43, was in reality named Dennys; since those stanzas which in the First Edition of Walton, p. 35, are marked Jo. Da, afterwards extended into Davors, form a part of a very rare poem entitled "The Secrets of “Angling, by J. D., Esquire," first printed in octavo, in 1613. In a recent reprint of this highly curious work, appeared the following extract from the Books of the Stationer's Company. “1612. "25°. Martij. Mr. Rog. Jackson entred for his copie under th'ands "of Mr. Mason and Mr. Warden Hooper a Book called the Se"crete of Angling, teaching the choysest tooles, bates, and seasons "for the taking of any fish in Pond or River, practised and opened "in three books, by John Dennis, Esquire." The passage at present alluded to by Walton, will be found in that division of the Poem entitled "The Author of Angling, Poetical fictions," and on p. 13 of the reprint of 1811, beginning " Then did Deucalion first "the art invent." The Stanzas which Piscator quotes on p. 43, will be found in the division called “a Worthy Answer,” on p. 10. "O let me rather on the pleasant brinke," &c.; and in this

stance, as in nearly every other, Walton has improved his Author. The passage referred to in Markham, will be found in his "Plea"sures of Princes, or Good Men's Recreations; containing a Dis"course of the Generall Art of Fishing with an Angle or other"wise." Lond. 1614. 4to. Chap. 1. "Of Angling the Vertue, "Vse, and Antiquitie," p. 3. Sir John Hawkins supposed, that when Piscator is defining the mental character of a Fisherman, Walton had in his mind that singular Chapter in Markham's Country Contentments, on the subject of the " Angler's Apparel " and Inward qualities;" but it is more probable that he alluded to those Stanzas contained in the third book of the Secrets of Angling, which are entitled " The Qualities of an Angler."

Page 24. In the Prophet Amos, mention is made of Fish-hooks. Vide Chap, iv. 2. Canne, in his marginal references to this Chapter, refers to Jeremiah xvi. 16. " Behold I will send for many "fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them," &c. The passage of Job which the text refers to, will be found in Chap. xli. 1, 2, and the 7th verse is also distantly allusive to the formation of hooks. Again, in Isaiah the word occurs in Chap. xxxvii. 29. "I "will put my hook in thy nose:" And also in Chap. xix. 8, which Bishop Lowth translated

"And the fishers shall mourn, and lament;
"All those that cast the hook on the river,

"And those, that spread nets on the face of the waters,
"shall languish."

66

Isaiah, A New Translation," &c. by Robert
Lowth, D. D. Edit. Lond. 1795, 8vo. p. 56.

The common translation of King James reads "all they that cast "angle into the brooks shall lament." In Ezekiel xxix. 4, hooks are mentioned in connection with fishing, as the medium of catching the King of Egypt, who is represented under the figure of the Crocodile, lying in the midst of his rivers; and the word occurs again in Ezek. xxxviii. 4. The Prophet Habbakuk in Chap. i. 14-17, has an inference to hooks, but the word is commonly translated Angle. Hawkins.

Page ibid. In ancient times a debate hath arisen. &c.

This was a favourite subject with the old Theological writers of Italy; and the chief of their arguments with many references, are considered in "A Collection of Several Tracts of the Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon," Lond. 1727, fol. pp. 167205. This Tract was most probably written at Montpellier in March 1670. Hawkins. Walton however might probably allude to that rare Tract by J. Evelyn, Esq., which he wrote in answer to Sir Geo. Mackenzie, entitled "Public Employment, and an Active Life preferred to Solitude." Lond. 1667. 12mo.

Page 26. The learned Peter du Moulin.

This very eminent writer in the Romish Controversy was the eldest son of Peter du Moulin, who was also celebrated in the same cause. He was Chaplain to King Charles II. of England, and a Prebendary of the Cathedral of Canterbury, in which City he died in 1684, at the age of 84. Dict. Historiq. The passage alluded to by Walton, will be found in No. 30 of the preceding list, at sign. a 3 in the Preface to the Reader.

Page 26. And an ingenious Spaniard says.

This passage is commonly supposed to allude to John Valdesso, a Spanish soldier in the service of the Emperor Charles V.; of whom in his old age, he obtained leave to retire, by urging the aphorism "It is fit that between the employment of life and "the day of death, some space should intervene," reflection on this is thought to have been the chief reason of that Sovereign's abdication, concerning which, Walton speaks particularly in his Life of Mr. George Herbert. Valdesso secluded himself in the City of Naples, and there wrote, in the Castilian tongue," The Hundred " and Ten Considerations of Signor Valdesso," which was translated into Italian by Cælius Secundus Curio, of Basil, and thence into English by the celebrated Nicholas Farrar, Jun, of Little Gidding, and published in 4to. at Oxford, 1638. From this work the passage in the text is said to have been taken, but it does not appear there. Hawkins.

Page 27. One of no less credit than Aristotle.

In the margin of the First Edition of Walton is inserted at this place, "In his Wonders of Nature." This is confirmed by Ennius, "and Solon in his Holy History." The circumstances mentioned by Camden will be found in his Britannia, Vide No. 8 in the preceding list, at pp. 558, and 762. The Sabbatical River of Josephus, is described in the Seventh Book and 5th Chapter of his History; vide the list of Authorities, No. 24: and in the fifth volume of Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, p. 581, will be found some additional particulars and references concerning it. Page 29. learned Dr. Casaubon's Discourse, &c.

Meric, son of Isaac Casaubon, a man of very great learning, was born at Geneva in 1599, and was educated at Oxford; he was afterwards made a Prebendary of Canterbury; in addition to which, Oliver Cromwell vainly endeavoured to engage him by a pension of 300l. to write the History of his time. He died in 1671, bearing an amiable character for loyalty, religion, and charity; he wrote many volumes; but the singular work mentioned in the text, will be found at No. 10 of the preceding list, and the passage alluded to commences at p. 243 of that edition. Wood's Athen. Oxon.

Page ibid. Collected by John Tradescant.

Of these names there were three persons, grand-father, father,

and son ; of whom the son is the one alluded to in the text. They were all eminent botanists, and collectors of natural curiosities, the two former were gardeners to Queen Elizabeth, and the latter held the same situation under Charles 1. They resided at South Lambeth in Surrey, at a building now known by the name of TurretHouse; and dying there, were buried in an Altar Tomb, singularly ornamented, in Lambeth Church-yard. With the youngest of the family Mr. Ashmole contracted an intimacy, and together with his wife, boarded at his house for a Summer; during which time he agreed with him for the purchase of his whole collection of rarities, and it was accordingly conveyed to him by a deed of gift from Tradescant and his wife. On his death, Ashmole was obliged to file a bill in Chancery for the delivery of his property, but soon after a decree had been pronounced in his favour, Mrs. Tradescant was discovered drowned in her own pond. This collection of Natural Curiosities, which was the first made in England, Ashmole bequeathed with all it's additions, to the University of Oxford, and thus founded the Ashmolean Museum. Hawkins. The List of strange Fishes, &c. mentioned by Walton, will be found at page 8 of a Catalogue of the Collection, entitled “ Museum Tradescantium, "or a Collection of Rarities preserved at South Lambeth, near London, by John Tradescant." Lond. 1656. 8vo. The passage from the words "But I will lay aside,” p. 28, down to " she locks "up her wonders," p. 29,was not inserted til! Walton's Fifth Edition. Elias Ashmole, who is mentioned in the same sentence with Tradescant, was born on May 16, 1617, and was a Chorister in Lichfield Cathedral. In 1638 he became a Solicitor in Chancery; but in 1649, he married his second wife, the Lady Mary Mainwaring, who was possessed of a large fortune, and he resigned himself to Alchemical study in concert with William Lilly and John Aubrey, Esq. of Surrey. In 1660, Charles II. gave him the office of Windsor Herald; and ten years after he produced his excellent History of the Order of the Garter. Ashmole married a third time in 1668, Elizabeth Dugdale, daughter of Sir William Dugdale, and he died on May 18, 1692, celebrated as excellent in many and various Arts and Sciences. Chalmers.

Page 30. Mr. George Herbert.

This pious, learned, and eminent man, was of the noble family of Herbert, and a younger brother of the deistical Edward Lord Ĥerbert of Cherbury. He was a King's Scholar at Westminster, and subsequently a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge; where, in 1619, he was chosen University Orator. While in that station, he studied the modern languages with a view to the office of Secretary of State; but being of a consumptive habit, and a retired turn of mind, he entered into holy orders, and was preferred to a Prebend in the Cathedral of Lincoln. He married about 1630, a near re