lation of the Earl of Danby, and died without issue in 1635, at the age of 42. The printed works of Herbert are, A Collection of Religious Poems called the Temple, his Remains, and a Translation of Luigi Cornaro's Work on Temperance and Long Life. Walton. The passage quoted in the text is in the first of these, vide No. 22 of the foregoing list, pp. 110, 113 of that volume; Stanzas 7, 8, 36. The word Owes in Herbert's Verses, is equivalent with Owns. Page 30. Gesner, Rondeletius, Pliny, Ausonius, Aristotle.

Conrad Gesner, an eminent Scholar, Philosopher, Physician, and Naturalist, was the son of Vasa Gesner and Barbara Friccius, and was born at Zurich in Switzerland in 1516, and there received his initiation into the Greek and Latin languages. His poverty obliged him to travel, and at length to study Physic at Basle, where he took his Doctor's degree, and then returned to Zurich. His works are very numerous, and were many of them evidently composed in haste to procure him a subsistence of these, the principal is the "Historiæ Animalium," for which he was surnamed the Pliny of Germany. For twenty-four years Gesner was Professor of Philosophy at Zurich, and he died of the Plague on Dec. 13, 1565. Gulielmus Rondeletius, or Guillaume Rondelet, was a celebrated Physician, who was born at the city of Montpellier in Languedoc, in 1507; he wrote several medical books, but his best production is his Treatise "De Piscibus Marinis," of which there is also a French Translation. He died of a surfeit, induced by eating figs to excess, in great poverty, at Réalmont in Albigeois, on July 18, 1566, Chalmers. C. Plinius Secundus, surnamed the Elder, was born at Verona, and was celebrated as a Soldier, a Statesman, and a Scholar. He wrote 160 volumes of remarks on the Authors which he had read; but his Natural History, in 37 books, is the only one of his works now extant. He perished in that eruption of Mount Vesuvius which overthrew Herculaneum, A. D. 79, in his 56th year. Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Latin Poet born at Bourdeaux in Gaul; and Preceptor of Gratian the son of the Emperor Valentinian, which occasioned him to be made Consul. His compositions are chiefly Epigrams from the Greek, Epitaphs, and Poetical Epistles. He died about A. D. 390. Aristoteles, was a very celebrated Philosopher, who was born at Stagira, and who studied at Athens under Plato. He wrote above 400 literary and scientific volumes, and Alexander the Great magnificently patronized his Natural History of Animals. He died at the age of 63, B. C. 322. Lempriere.

Page 31. Divine Du Bartas.

Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur Du Bartas, was the son of a Treasurer of France, and was born in 1544, at Montfort in Armagnac. He served in the army of Henry IV. as the commander of a company of Cavalry, in Gascony, under Marêchal de Matignon; and

the King also employed him in various commissions to England, Denmark, and Scotland. His works are numerous, and are written both in French and Latin verse; but they have been translated into English by Joshua Sylvester, Merchant-Adventurer of London. His principal production is entitled "Commentary of the Week of the "Creation of the World," in seven books. In six years, it passed through upwards of thirty editions; and the first English translation appeared in 1605. Du Bartas held the doctrines of Calvinism; he was a modest and reserved man, a brave soldier, and he died in 1590, at the age of 46. Chalmers. The passage quoted in the text, will be found in the Fifth Day of the First Week, line 33, but it is considerably varied from the original: vide No. 7 in the list of Authorities, and p. 39, col. 2 of that volume. In the quotation from Du Bartas in the text, the word Stares is put for Starlings: it is derived from the Saxon Staer or the Teutonic Sterre, ultimately from the Latin Sturnus. Todd. The two Ecclesiastical fishes mentioned by Du Bartas, are described by Rondeletius, and delineated in the posthumous works of Mr. John Gregory. Lond. 1683. 4to. pp. 121, 122. Hawkins.

Page 31. The Cuttle-fish, &c.

The margin in all the editions refers to Montaigne's Essays; vide No. 29 of the preceding list; and in the Apology for Raymond de Sebonde, Book 11. Chap. xII. p. 256, is the passage alluded to.

Page 32. called by Elian, &c.

Claudus Ælianus, was a Roman Sophist of Præneste in Italy, in the reign of Adrian, who originally taught Rhetoric at Rome; but taking a dislike to his profession, he became an Author, and wrote 17 books De Animalium Naturâ, and 14 of various History, &c. in Greek. He died in his 60th year, A. D. 140. Lempriere. The passage from the words "And there is a fish," down to "most of "mankind," was not inserted till the Third Edition of the Complete Angler, 1664.

Page ibid. And first what Du Bartas says, &c.

Vide No. 7 in the preceding list, and the Fifth Day of the First Week, line 195, p. 41, col. 1, of that volume: the verses on the Cantharus and the Mullet, mentioned on pages 33 and 34, immediately follow the above at lines 201 and 205; and Walton's reference to the custom of the Thracian women also came from Du Bartas, beginning at line 209. The account of the Sargus was taken by Du Bartas from Oppian's Halieutics, lib. 4.

Page 34. Pheer—prest.

Pheer, or Fere. Saxon, Fera, Gefera, is a Mate, an Equal; and anciently, as in the present instance, a Husband or Wife. Prest is the old orthography of the French Prêt, Ready. Hawkins. Page 37. Moses, who I told you before, &c.

Vide ante, page 24. For full information on this and all the other

points of Sacred history and biography alluded to by Walton, see the Rev. T. H. Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures, 2nd Edit. vol. iv.

Page 38. The Voyages of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto.

A native of Monte Mor Ouelho in Portugal, born about 1510, and whose Travels, written by himself, are very much questioned as to their truth. For one and twenty years of his life, he was journeying chiefly in the East; and during that time he was five times shipwrecked, seventeen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave; he returned to Lisbon, Sept. 22, 1558. A translation of his Voyages will be found in the list of Authorities, No. 33; and the passage alluded to by Walton is in Chap. 79, p. 319. The paragraph in which this traveller is mentioned, did not appear until Walton's Second edition.

Page 38. He that reads Plutarch.

Vide No. 35 in the foregoing list, p. 983, marginal letter D, in that volume. Those passages from the words "And for the lawfulness," down to “great learning have been,” did not appear until Walton's Second Edition.

Page ibid. Angling is always taken in the best sense.

Vide Cruden's Concordance under the titles Fishing and Hunting.

Page 39. Our learned Perkins-Doctor Whitaker-Doctor Nowel. William Perkins was a learned Divine, and a pious and laborious preacher; and Dr. William Whitaker was an eminent writer in the Romish controversy, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. They both flourished at the close of the 16th Century; and the love of the latter for Angling is mentioned in Fuller's Holy State, Book iii. Chap. 13. Dr. Alexander Nowel, a learned Divine, and a famous preacher in the reign of King Edward VI.; upon whose death he, with many other Protestants, fled to Germany, where he lived several years. In 1561 he was made Dean of St. Paul's; and in 1601 died. His monument was consumed with that church in 1666; but the inscription thereon is preserved in Stowe's Survey, Ed. 1633, p. 362, and an engraving of the tomb will be found in Dugd. Hist. of St. Paul's. There has been considerable dispute as to the Catechism alluded to by Walton: it seems almost certain that it is not the one printed in the Book of Common Prayer. See Fuller's Worthies, Lanc. 115, Athen. Oxon. 113, and Churton's Life of Nowel, p. 366. Hawkins. Vide also Typographical Antiquities, Edit. by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, vol. iv. p. 113.

Page 41. Sir Henry Wotton.

An eminent Scholar and Statesman, born at Bocton Hall in Kent, in 1568, and educated at Winchester School and New College Oxford. Having travelled about nine years, he became a Secretary to Rob. Devereux, Earl of Essex; but upon his attaint, he again went

to the Continent, and attached himself to the Duke of Florence, who sent him as Ambassador to James VI. of Scotland. When that Monarch came to be King of England, he received Wotton into his service, Knighted him, and made him his principal Ambassador. About 1624, he took Deacon's Orders, and was made Provost of Eton College, where he died in Dec 1639. Walton. The passage quoted in the text, is in his Remains; vide the foregoing list, No. 43, and the recto of sign. c 6 in that volume. The poem printed on page 42 is in the same book at p. 524; and in these verses the word Pilgrim is put for the Swallow, because of it's migrations.

Page 48. The Gloves of an Otter, &c.

All the particulars related of the Otter were derived from the Rev. Edw. Topsell's Natural History; vide No. 41 in the list of Authorities, and pp. 572-575 of that volume. The work is, in effect, a translation of the Historiæ Animalium of C. Gesner, and contains numerous references to many learned authorities. The Rev. Edward Topsell, by whom it was executed, was Chaplain to Dr. Neile, Dean of Westminster, in the Church of St. Botolph Aldersgate. The Second Chapter in the First Edition of Walton contains a great part of the matter of the present Chapters II, III, IV; since it ends with the Hostess calling Viator and Piscator to supper. It's title in the Table already mentioned, is "In the se"cond are some observations of the nature of the Otter, and also some observations of the Chub or Cheven, with directions how " and with what baits to fish for him."

Page 51. make conscience of the Laws of the Nation.

This passage, which from "Is not mine Host a witty man?" p. 51, down to "to speak truly," p. 53, is wanting in the First Edition, alludes to a Statute made in the 5th of Eliz., which enacts that any person eating flesh upon the usual Fish-days shall forfeit 31. for every offence, or undergo three months imprisonment without bail. This Act, in all it's branches, views, and amendments, is fully considered in a Tract published by John Erswicke, Gent., in 1642, 4to. entitled "A briefe note of the benefits that grow to "this Realme by the obseruation of Fish-daies with a reason and 66 cause wherefore the Law in that behalfe made is ordained." The Statutes mentioned on p. 52, with many amendments, may be seen in "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England," by Sir Edw. Coke, Lond. 1642, fol. pp. 477-9. In all the former editions of the Complete Angler, there is a misprint of Richard III. for Richard II.

Page 64. You shall read in Seneca, &c.

These particulars were taken from Dr. Hakewill's Apology, &c. Vide No. 21 in the preceding list, and Book IV. Sect. 6, p. 433 of that volume. The translation of Seneca by Dr. Thomas Lodge, printed in 1620, fol. was however most probably known to Walton.

Page 67. Mercator says, &c.

Gerard Mercator was born in 1512, at Ruremonde in Flanders, and was a man of such intense application to mathematical studies, that he neglected the refreshments of nature. He engraved and coloured with his own hand, the maps to his geographical writings. He wrote several books of Theology; and died at Duisburg in 1594. Hawkins.

Page 68. Sir George Hastings.

This has usually been supposed to be the Mr. Hastings, of Woodlands near Cranborne in Dorsetshire, whose character was written by Lord Shaftesbury, and printed in the Gents. Mag. vol. 24, p. 160. See likewise Hutchins' Hist. of Dorset, vol. ii. p. 63. Gilpin's Forest Scenery, vol. ii. pp. 23, 26. and the Rev. T. F. Dibdin's Bibliomania, p. 377. In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol. ii. Lib. xiv. p. 19, in Richard Smith's Obituary, is "1641. “June iv. died Sir George Hastings, Brother to the Earl of Hunt"ingdon, of the Plague."

Page 69. Albertus observes, &c.

Albertus Magnus, a German Dominican, and a very learned man: Urban IV. compelled him to accept of the Bishopric of Ratisbon. He wrote a treatise on the Secrets of Nature, and twenty other volumes in folio; and he died at Cologne in 1280. Hawkins. The passage in the text is from Topsell's History of Serpents; vide No. 42 in the preceding list, p. 180 of that volume. The quotation from Bacon will be found at p. 194, Century 1x of No. 3. Vide also Dr. Franklin's letter to M. Dubourg, "On the prevailing Doctrines of Life and Death."

Page 73. The Royal Society, &c.

Vide No. 37 in the foregoing list, pp. 2170-2175; the list alluded to is on the last page. This passage did not appear until Walton's last edition. The word Sleight on the following page is from the Icelandic Slaegd or the Anglo-Saxon Slyth, Deceit, or Deceitful. Todd.

Page 76. that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow.

Christopher Marlow, or Marloe, was a poet of considerable eminence, and is called by Phillips "a kind of second Shakspeare." He is supposed to have been born about 1562, and in 1587 he became M. A. at Bene't College, Cambridge; after which he commenced Actor and Dramatic Writer. There are extant five Tragedies of his writing, and a Poem entitled Hero and Leander, which was finished by George Chapman. The Song attributed to Marlow in the text, is printed with his name in England's Helicon, 1600, 4to.; as is also the Answer, there signed Ignoto, but ascribed by Walton to Sir Walter Raleigh. Marlow is said towards the end of his life to have become a professed Atheist : he died before 1593, of a wound given him by a serving-man, who was his rival, in a disgraceful amour. Hawkins. Chalmers.