"ACADEMY OF COMPLIMENTS," 1650, 111 2.
"Accomplishment of the Prophecies," by
Du Moulin, 8vo, 1613, 40.

Acre, carrier-pigeons used at the siege of, 27.
Action, question whether preferable to con-
templation, 39; Lord Clarendon's opinion
thereon, 39 n.

66

Adenographia; sive Glandularum totus
corporis descriptio," by Dr Wharton, 8vo,
1656, 33 n.

Adonis, or darling of the sea, a fish so called
by Elian, 46.

Elianus, Claudius, quoted by Walton, 46.
Air, the element of the fowler, 25.
Aire, the river, made subject to the fence
months by stat. 13 Edw. I., 62 n.
Albertus Magnus, quoted by Walton, 74

160.

Alcilia. Philoparthens loving Folly," xix.
Aldersgate Street, Doctor Wharton's house
in, 33 ".

Aldridge, Anne, wife of Robert, gent. of
Burton, civ.

Aldrovandus, Ulysses, quoted by Walton, 96,
121, 156, 164.

Ale, a bailad in commendation of, 281, v.
Ashbourn.

Aleppo, carrier-pigeons used at, 27.
Alfred, King, turned the course of the Lee
to prevent the return of the Danes, who
had sailed up it, 196 n.

Algiers, the pirates of, clxxxii.
Allington, Cordell, daughter of Richard,
Esq., ccii.

Alstonefield Church, arms of Cotton carved
on a pew in, 226.
Ambrose, St, Bishop of Milan, styles the
grayling "the flower of fishes," 121.
Amerly trout considered superior to others,

73, 140.

Amos, the Prophet, mention of fish-hooks
made by, 38, 49.

Amwell Hill, li, 21, 22; engraving of, 56.
Andrew, St, a fisherman, 49.

Andrews, Matthew, of Mathfield, co. Stafford,
clv.

Angel, a coin of the value of ten shillings,
209 n.; explanation of the term to "vie
angels," 209 n.

Angler, the idea of making one by a book
justly ridiculed by Walton, xlvii; the
qualifications of an, from Markham's
Country Contentments," 37 ., vide
"Complete Ang er."

Anglers, Walton's character of the generality
of, 24.

'Angler's Song," the, written by William
Basse, 88, 178.

"Angler's Wish," the, by Walton, 110: con-
tains the only allusion to his having resided
at or near Stafford, xli.

"Angler's Wish," the, by John Davors, Esq.,
extract from, 55.

Angling, verses in praise of, addressed to
Walton by the Rev. Thomas Weaver,
xlix; a song in praise of, made by Basse,
an eminent composer, at Walton's request,
cxiv; the favourite amusement of Charles
Cotton, clxx; not forgotten among his
regrets at taking leave of his home, clxxiv;
the antiquity of, 24 m., 36; the art of, said
to be as ancient as Deucalion's flood, 37:
first invented by Belus, 37; of high esteem
and of much use in other nations, 50;
allowed to Churchmen by the ancient
ecclesiastical canons, as a harmless recrea-
tion, 50; a recreation used by Cleopatra
and Mark Antony, 50; commendations
bestowed on, by the learned Perkins, 51;
Dr Whitaker, a great lover of, 51; account
of memorable men, ornaments of the art
of, 51-53; a short discourse by way of
postscript, touching the laws of, 212-214;
different sorts of, and directions for, 241,
et seq.; verses descriptive of the art and
of the pleasures of, by Shakespeare, 286;
by Quarles, Bunyan, Pope, and Gay, 287;
by Thomson, 288.

Ankham, in Lincolnshire, famous for eels,
164 N.

Ant-fly, the, a bait for chub, 69; directions
for preserving the, 184; directions for
making the artificial, 261.

Anthony, St, the picture of, bequeathed to
Lord Newport by Dr Donne the younger,

Cx ii.

"Antidote against Melancholy," 8vo, 1669,
by Playford, 85 n.

Antonia, the wife of Drusus, had a lamprey
at whose ears she hung jewels or ear-
rings, 119, 160 n.

Anus, the river, in Spain, 41.
Arabia, a river in, of which all the sheep that
drink have their wool turned to a vermil-
ion colour, 41.

Archer, Charlotte, cc; bequest made to, by
her father, Dr Stanhope, cci.

-

Elizabeth, ccii.

-, Emily, living in 1744, cciii.

ham, in Kent, cc, ccii.

Henry, of Thaxted, ccii.
Olivia Alcione, cciii.
Stanhope, ccii.

Ardglass, Wingfield, second Earl of, clxxxiv.
Mary, Countess-Dowager of, the wife
of Charles Cotton, clxxxv, cciii; adminis-
tration of his effects granted to her, 12th
Sept. 1687, clxxxviii.

Aristotle, quoted by Walton, 41, 45, 48.
Armstrong, Augustine, of the parish of St
George the Martyr, cci, ceiii.

Charles, cci, cciii.
Gilbert, ccii.

-, Katherine, ccii, cciii.

Mrs Lettice, sister of Sir Aston Cokayne,
buried at Ashbourn, clxxviii n.
Artificial flies, Walton's list of, and directions
for making, 100, 102-105; Cotton's direc-
tions for making, 244, et seq.; twelve only
mentioned by Walton, 252; Cotton's list
of, for January and February, 253; for
March, 254; for April, 255; for May, 256-
261; for June and July, 261; for August,
September, October, November, and De-
cember, 262.

"Art of Angling," the, by Thomas Barker,

Lond. 1651, 12mo, extract from, 101, 283.
Arundel mullet considered superior to others,
73, 140.

"As at noon Dulcina rested," copy of the
song so called, 277.

Ashbourn, the town of, 222, 225; account of
the Talbot Inn at, 227 n.; said by Cotton
to be famous for the best malt and the
worst ale in England, 235.
Ash-fly, the oak-fly so called, 106 n.
Ashford, county of Derby, 230.
Ashmole, Elias, his collection of natural
history, 43; biographical account of, 43 .
Aston, the family of, connected with that of
Cotton by marriage, clxiv.

-

Walter, Lord, 21 n.; a copy of the
Lives of Donne, Wotton, and Hooker, pre-
sented to him by Walton, preserved in the
library at Tixall, lxxviii.

Sir Willoughby, of Aston, county of
Chester, Bart., 1 n.
Atkinson, Mr, quantity of barbel caught by
him at Shepperton, 9th Aug. 1807, 170 .
Aubrey, John, Esq., his statement that
Cotton had relieved Colonel Lovelace,
during his distress, corroborated, clxviii;
described as "a silly crack brained en-
thusiast,"
43 2.

Aurelius Macrobius, a writer of the fourth

century, quoted by Walton, 33.
Ausonius, Decius, referred to by Walton,

Aylesbury, the town of, 195 .

Aylmer, Dr, letter from Walton to Anthony
Wood, in reply to an inquiry respecting
his death, xcix.

BABYLON, carrier-pigeons used at, 27.
Backhouse, Mr, said to have imparted to
Ashmole the secret of the philosopher's
stone, 217 2.

Bacon, Sir Francis, his visit to John Hales,
cxlvi; his works quoted by Walton, 74.
118, 123, 125, 127, 139, 144, 149, 159, 160.
Bagley, or Baily, a clergyman, compliment-
ary verses addressed by him to Walton, on
the publication of the second edition of
"The Complete Angler," xlviii, 16.
Bagster, Mr, his account of the fishing-
house at Beresford, 238, 251.

Baiting with a lob-worm, directions for, 93:
with a minnow, 94; with live bait, 135:
with dead bait, 138.

Baits, for barbel, 168; for bleak, 172; for
bream, 149, 150; for bullheads, 193; for
carp, 147, 148; for the chub, 68-70, 189,
190; for dace, 183-185, 188, 189; for ees,
161; for flounders, 165; for grayling, 122,
188; for gudgeon, 171; for loach, 192;
for minnows, 192; for perch, 157; for pike,
135-139, 152; for roach, 184, et seq.; for
ruffe, 171; for the salmon, 127; for tench,
155; for trout, 69, 70, 94, 117; directions
for preserving dead baits, 138.

Baker, Sir Richard, quotation from his
Chronicle respecting the first introduction
of carp into England, 141.
Bakewell, county of Derby, 230.
Balana, or whirlpool, a fish found in the
Indian Sea, 42.

Bala Lake, the guiniad found in, 166 n.
Bald buzzard, the, a species of hawk, 29.
Balsami, Opobalsami, Carpobalsami, et Xylo-

balsami, cum suo cortice, Explanatio;
Lond. 1598, written by Matthias de Lobel,
160 n.

Bar, arms of the ancient Counts of, 166 #.
Barbel, the care taken by it of its spawn, 48:
complaint made in 1384 that they were
unlawfully taken in the Thames and sold
as food for pigs, 63 m.: a leather-mouthed
fish, 69; description of the, its haunts, 167;
part of the arms of the ancient Earls of
Bar, 166; spawning-time of, the spawn
considered poisonous, 167; baits for, 168;
directions for angling for, 169; quantity of
caught by a fishing party at Shepperton,
in 1807, 169 n.

Barker, Thomas, author of "The Art of
Angling," biographical notice of, 283; his
directions for fly-fishing adopted by Walton,
101; his recipe for anointing boots and
shoes, 189 n.
Barker,

Elizabeth, widow of, ccv.

Barlow, Dr, Bishop of Lincoln, his letter to
Walton, 10th May 1678, xcii.

-, Mr George, conveyed the king's lesser
George, which had been preserved by
Colonel Biague, after the battle of Wor-
cester, to Robert Milward, Esq., xlv, vide
Blore Pipe House.

Barm-fly, th, for June, directions for
making, 261.

Barnacles, 43.

Barrington, the Hon. Daines, 166 n.
Basse, William, an eminent composer, in-
timate with Walton, cxiv; composed the
"Angler's Song," at his request, 85, 88;
author of the songs mentioned by Walton,
called "The Hunter in his career,'
" and
Tom of Bedlam,' 281; list of other
verses and poems composed by, 282.
Bat, the, called a half-year bird, 73.
Bateman, William, Esq. of Middleton, near
Bakewell, anecdote of Cotton related from
his information, clxxvii.
Battey, Francis, of Stafford, apprenticed by
Izaak Walton, cxlix.

Beaucham, Ion, vicar of East Brent, in
March 1688; prebend of Wanstrow, in
October 1689; fellow of Trinity College,
1713. cxxii, cciv; a bequest made to him
by his "cousin Izaak Walton, the

younger, cxviii.

James, a goldsmith of London, god-
father to Izaak Walton's "last son Isaac,
xlii; a ring bequeathed to him by Walton,
cii; living in July 1714, cxxii, cev.

Martha, wife of James, mentioned in
the will of her father, Mr Thomas Ken,
xlii; Izaak Walton, the younger, en-
joined by his father's will to be kind to
her, cii.

William, fellow of New College, ap-
pears to have died before 1713, cxxii, cciv.
Bede, the Venerable, account of him, 159 ".
Bedford, Charles, Esq., the occupier of John
Tradescant's house in Lambeth, 43-
Bee, the diligence of the, 28; the brood of
the, a good bait for bream, dace, and
roach, 186.

"Beggar's Bush, the," Lond. 1647, a
comedy, by Fletcher, 113 .

"Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green," the
ballad of the, 209 ".
Beketes, mentioned in the Rolls of Parlia-
ment, anno 1382, 140 .

Bellonius, a voucher for the authenticity of
the story of the bishop-fish, 45 ".
Belus, said to be the first inventor of the art
of angling, 37-

Beresford Hall, county of Stafford, Walton
supposed to have spent some weeks at, in
May and June 1676, lxxxvi; description
of the fishing-house at, built by Charles
Cotton, lxxxvii n., 238 m.; drawings of,
made by Izaac Walton the younger, cxvi;
enjoyed by Charles Cotton, the father of
the poet, in right of his wife, clxiv; settle-
ment of, on the marriage of Charles
Cotton, the younger, clxxi; the grounds
near, planted by him, clxx; settled on
him for life by Act 27 Car. II, clxxxv;
said to have been surrendered by him, in
1681, to Joseph Woodhouse, gent.,
clxxxviii; purchased by Lord Beresford
in 1825, 238; engravings of the hall, 234,
257; engravings of the fishing-house,
237-239.

Beresford, John, Esq., of Ashbourn, portrait
of Cotton in his possession, cxcix.

-, John, Esq., of Newton Grange, county
of Derby, clxxxviii.

Olivia, daughter and heiress of Edward
Beresford, of Beresford, county of Stafford,
cixiv, cciii.

Berners, Dame Juliana, 29; extract from the
advertisement prefixed to her "Treatyse
of Fysshynge wyth an Angle," 290.
Berwick, the town of, 196.
Bibliotheca sive Catalogus Scriptorum, Lat
Gr. and Heb., by Gesner, 1545-55, 44, ".
Biddulph, Ann, wife of Simon, E-q., of the
Cape of Good Hope, the representative of
Mrs Burnet, cc.

-, Walter, Esq, of Barton-under-Need-
wood, sale of his otter-hounds, 56
Bird of Paradise, 43.
Birds' nests, 43.

Bishop-fish, the story of the, 45 n.
Bishop's Thorpe, the archiepiscopal palace

cxxi, cxxxii, vide Hawkins.

Blague, Colonel, preserved the king's lesser
George, after the tattle of Worcester, xlv;
imprisoned in the Tower, xlv.; escaped
from thence, xlv.

Ben Jonson adopted several persons as his

Sons, 217 n.

Bleak, the, called the river Swallow; de-
scription of, and baits and mode of angling

for, 172.

Bleak Hall, near Edmonton, liv, 64 n., 78.

Biss, Dr, a recipe for catching pike, from
a MS. in his possession, 128 .
Blood-red rook froin Turkey, the, a species
of hawk, 28.

Blore Pipe House, county of Stafford, the
residence of Mr George Barlow, xlv.
Blowfield, John, gent., xxii, cxxxiv, vide
Cranmer.

Bludworth, Elizabeth, widow, administration
of the effects of Charles Cotton granted to
her, clxxxviii.

Blue-dun fly, directions for making the, 254.
Bluet, Dorothy, daughter of John, of Hol-
comb Regis, county of Devon, Esq., xcvi,
vide Wallop.

Boar, the wild, 30; a feast of, given by
Cleopatra to Mark Antony, 30.
Bobbing for eels, the method of, 162 n.
Bockerel and Bockeret, the, 28.
Bocton Palace, lxxix.

"Bonny Milkmaid," the, a song, 83 n.
Booby, Thomas, cxxxiii, cxxxviii.
"Book of St Alban's," the, quoted, 141.
"Booke of Fishing with hooke and line,"
4to, Lond. 1600, supposed to have been
written by Leonard Mascal, 141 ".
Borradale, Dr, rector of Market Deeping,
County of Lincoln, was in 1714 in pos-
session of the letter written by the younger
Donne to Izaak Walton, thanking him for
having written his father's Life, xxix.
Borrowashe, settlement of the manor of, on
the marriage of Charles Cotton, the
younger, clxxi.

Boswell, James, requested by Dr Johnson, in
1777, to procure him all the editions of
Walton's Lives, cxxiv, vide Johnson.
Botcher, the, description of, 126 n.
Boteler, Sir Francis, of Lewin, county Herts,
ccii.

Boteler, or Butler, Dr William, his observa-
tion respecting strawberries quoted by
Walton, 109; biographical account of,

109 n.

Bowles, the Rev. William Lisle, an error in
his Life of Bishop Ken corrected, xxxix;
no evidence in support of his assumption
in his Life of Bishop Ken, that Dr Morley
was Walton's guest at his cottage in
Staffordshire, from April 1648 to May
1649, xl; his authority apparently derived
from traditional information, xl ; his
remark upon an alteration made by Walton
in the epitaph of his second wife, lxix;
his conjecture "that the retired spot which
contains Walton's remains, was fixed on
by himself, as suiting his humbler station
of life," cvii; his account of Walton's
merits, cxxviii.

Boulton, James, of Stafford, apprenticed by
Izaak Walton, cxlix.

Bowlker, extract from his "Art of Angling"
respecting the mode of generation of eels,
164 N.; his directions for making the oak-
fly, 105.; quotation from him respecting
the making of fish-ponds, 200 M.
Boyle, the learned, advanced a sum of money

to Bishop Sanderson, during a period of
distress, xcii.

Bradford, the river, 230.

Bradley, A., his answer to the song "Phil-
lida flouts me," 79 n.
Bradshaw, John, Esq., 237.

Brailsford, a village near Ashbourn, clxxxv,

222.

Brandling, the, a bait for trout, where to be
found, 91; method of preserving it, 92;
the best bait for perch, 157:

Brandon, Charles, his residence near the
Swan, in Golden Lane, lx; mentioned in
the first and second editions of the "Com-
plete Angler," 188 n.

Bream, the, 11; description of, 148; found
in the larger lakes and still rivers of
Europe, and in the Caspian Sea, 148 ;
highly esteemed by the French, 149; in-
stances of the high price of in the 15th
century, 149.; baits for, 149, 185, 186,
188; directions for angling for, 150, 152;
ground-bait for, 151; a kind of bastard
roach bred from the bream and the roach,
182.

Breton, Nicolas, the author of "Poste with
a packet of Mad Letters," 1637, 81.
"Brewsed Reide," the, by Dr Sibbs, be-
queathed by Walton to his son Izaac, ci.
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, lord keeper, his
plan for the compression of the more
moderate of the dissenters from the Estab
lished Church, and allowing indulgences
to such as could not be brought within the
comprehension, rejected by the House of
Commons, xcvi.

Bright brown fly, directions for making, 254.
Bright dun gnat, the, directions for making,

253.

Brightman, Mr, his comment on the Revela-
tions, cxliv.

'Britannia," Camden's, the edition of 1637,
quoted by Walton, 5, vide Camden.
Broderick, Sir Allan, a bequest made to by
Dr Donne, the younger, cxlii.
Brome, Alexander, complimentary verses
addressed by him to Walton, on the pub-
lication of the second edition of "The
Complete Angler," xlviii, 14; an "humb e
eclogue," addressed to him by Walton, on
the Restoration. Ixv; the first edition of
his songs and other poems printed in 1661,
Ixvi; died 29th June 1666, xvi ; the
second edition of his poems, printed in 1663,
lxvi n.; an epode written to, by Charles
Cotton, on the king's return, clxix; verses
on his death, by the same, cixxii; was one
of the adopted sons of Ben Jonson, 217 K.;
edited Fletcher's Comedy of "Monsieur
Thomas," in 1639, 274.

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Mr Henry, of St Paul's Churchyard,
London, xcvii, clxxvi n., clxxxiii; the
publisher of Charles Cotton, presumed to
be the brother of the poet of that name,
clxxxi.

Bromley, William, son of Sir William
Bromley, K. B., cxxxv.

Brookhouse, Anne, wife cf Robert, of Bub-
ton, co. Derby, clv.
Broughton, Mary, daughter of Thomas
Broughton, of Broughton, county of Staf
ford, 1 1.

Brown Gnat, the, for June, directions for
making, 261.

Brown, Miss Elizabeth, married the Rev.
Henry Hawes, cxxi, cxxxii.
Browne, Mr Leonard, alderman of Canter-1
bury, married Anne, daughter of Captain
Richard Bargrave, of Patricksbourne, xxx.
Martin, alderman of London, ccv.
the Rev. Moses, reprinted the "Com-
plete Angler," in 1772, cxxiv; quotation
from his preface, cxxvii, 28 n., 40 N., 59 n.
Rebecca, ccv.

William, Esq., cxxxii.
Brydges, Margaret, of Upleaden, county of
Hereford, 143 n.

Buck, the, 29, 30, 75.

Bulbourne, a spring so called, near Tring,
county of Herts, said to be one of the heads
of the Thames, 195 2.

Bullhead, or miller's-thumb, description of
the, 193; spawning-time, haunts of and
baits for the, 193.

Bullock, Daniel, of Stafford, apprenticed by
Izaak Walton, cxlix.

Bull-trout, a trout so called in Northumber-
land, 74:

Burgess, Mr John, mentioned in the will of
Mrs Floud, mother-in-law to Izaak Walton,

XXX.

Burleigh, Lord, extract from instructions to
him for the regulation of his fish-ponds,
144; Theobalds, the residence of, 180.
"Burlesque upon Burlesque, or the Scoffer
Scoffed," 8vo, 1675, written by Charles
Cotton, c'xxxiii.

Burlesque on the great frost, written by
Cotton, quotation from, cxc.
Burman, Charles, Esq., his Memoirs of Elias
Ashmole, 43"

Burnet, Dr, Bi-hop of Salisbury, the friend
of Isaac Walton, the younger, cxvi.

ссіі.

Gilbert, grandson of Dr Stanhope, cc,

Thomas, ccii.

Mrs, wife of William, governor of New
York, eldest son of Gilbert, Bishop of
Salsbury, ccii; anecdote of, cc.
Burrowash, county of Derby, 231.
Burrows, Margaret, of Ashbourn, county of
Derby, widow, clv.

Burton, county of Stafford, 229.
Burton, Francis, Esq., cxxxii.
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, extract
from, relative to the art of angling, 289.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, formerly Lady Char-
lotte Campbell, verses supposed to have
been written by her in a copy of the
"Complete Angler," which belonged to
Sir Humphrey Davy, cxxv.
Butterflies, baits for salmon, 127 n.
Buxton, the town of, famous for its baths,

230.

Buzzard, the, a species of hawk, 29.
Bysshe, Sir Edward, Clarenceux king-of-
arms, solicited Walton to write the Life of
Sir Henry Wotton, xlii.

CADARA, an island near the Ganges, the
inhabitants whereof make the timber for
their houses of fish-bones, 42.

Cadis or case worms, where found, 189, 191;
different kinds of, 190.

Calthorp, Sir William, the case of cited,

213.

Camden's Britannia, quoted by Walton, 5,
40, 41, 124, 126, 160, 161, 166, 198.
Camel brown fly, the, for September, direc-
tions for making, 262.
Cameleon, the, 74.

"Camerarius' Living Library," fol. Lond.
1621, copy of, formerly belonging to
Walton, in the cathedral library of Salis-
bury, cxlvii.

Camlet fly, the, inentioned by Cotton, 241;
directions for making, 261.

Campbell, Lady Charlotte, cxxv, vide Bury.
Camphire, said to give worms a tempting
smell, 93.

Cannon, or down-hill fly, the oak-fly so called
in Shropshire, 106.

Canterbury, a bequest of £40 made to the
poor of St Mildred's parish by Mrs Floud,
mother-in-law of Izaak Walton, xxx.
Cantharus, a fish mentioned by Du Bartas,
46.

Cardanus, Hieronymus, quoted by Walton,
136; account of him, 136 2.

Carew, the friend of Charles Cotton, the
elder, clxiv.

Carey, Sir Lucius, verses written by him on
the death of Dr Donne, xxiv.
Carleton, Sir Dudley, ambassador to the
States, cxliii.

Carlingford, in Ireland, Thomas Cranmer,
slain in an action with the Irish at, xxii.
Carp, the, 11; a leather-mouthed fish, 69;
assembled to feed by the ringing of a bell,
118; killed by frogs, 134, 143; said to
have been brought into England by Mr
Mascal, of Plumstead, in Sussex, 141;
mentioned in the "Book of St Alban's,'
141 ; quotation from Baker's Chronicle,
respecting its first introduction into Eng-
land, 141; lives longer out of the water
than any other fish, 141: presents of made
to King Henry the Eighth, 141 m.; breeds
several months in one year, 141; will not
breed in cold ponds, 142; large size of in
Italy, 142; receipt for making them fat in
gravelly water, 142 .; their breeding and
decay very mysterious, 143; account of
very large ones, 142 .; their longevity,
144; instances thereof at Emanuel College,
Cambridge, and at the Prince of Condé s
seat at Chantilly, 144 .; their time of
spawning, 144 .; the galls and stones in
their heads very medicinable; great profit
made by the Italians by selling their roes
to the Jews to make caviare, 145; eat their