Archer, Charlotte, wife of Robert Turner, Avon, the river, 55 mentioned in one of
--, Emily, living in 1744, cciii.
Drayton's sonnets, 196; the name com- mon to many rivers in England, 230 %. Awber, the river, 231.
the Rev. Dr Henry, rector of Fevers- Awberson, co. of Derby, the town of, 231.
ham, in Kent, cc, ccil.
Henry, of Thaxted, ccii. Olivia Alcione, cciii. Stanhope, ccii.
Ardglass, Wingfield, second Earl of, clxxxiv. Mary, Countess-Dowager of, the wife of Charies 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, cuii.
Charles, cci, cciii. Gilbert, ccii.
-, Katherine, ccii, cciii.
-, Mrs Lettice, sister of Sir Aston Cokayne, buried at Ashbourn, clxxviii n. Aruficial 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 Augling," the, by Thomas Barker,
Lond. 1651, 12mo, extract from, 101, 283. Arundel mullet considered superior to others,
"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 .; 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 1. Aston, the family of, connected with that of Cotton by marriage, clxiv.
Walter, Lord, 21 m.; 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 n. 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 n.
Aurelius Macrobius, a writer of the fourth century, quoted by Walton, 33- Ausonius, Decius, referred to by Walton,
Austin, St, his "Confessions," quoted by Walton, 210.
Aviaries in Italy, 26; Varro's, 26.
Aylesbury, the town of, 195 R.
Aylmer, Dr, letter from Waiton 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, con piment- 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 . 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 m. 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 .; 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 . 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 Blague, 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, 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
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, cxxi, cciv.
Martha, wife of James, mentioned in the will of her father, Mr Thomas Ken, xhi; 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 2. 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 n.
Beketes, mentioned in the Rolls of Parlia- ment, anno 1382, 140 2. 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 n.; 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 Loid Beresford in 1825, 238; engravings of the hall, 234. 257; engravings of the fishing-house,
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, clxiv, 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, Esq., 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.
Bishop-fish, the story of the, 45 n. Bishop's Thorpe, the archiepiscopal palace
Black gnats, directions for making, 255, 261. Black hackle, the, for July, directions for making, 262.
Black patches, worn by women of fashion, 129 2.
Blagden, Mrs, the only living descendant of Walton, excepting the Rev. Dr Hawes, cxxi.
cxxi, cxxxii, vide Hawkins.
Benion, the scent of the herb so called, said Blagden, Mr Thomas Knapp, of Winchester, to deter otters from fish-ponds, 59. Bentley Brook, near Ashbourn, 228. Bently, county of Derby, the manor of possessed 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.
Ben Jonson adopted several persons as his
Blague, Colonel, preserved the king's lesser George, after the Lattle of Worcester, xlv; imprisoned in the Tower, xlv.; escaped from thence, xlv.
Bleak, the, called the river Swallow; de- scription of, and baits and mode of angling
Bleak Hall, near Edmonton, liv, 64 ., 78.
Biss, Dr, a recipe for catching pike, from a MS. in his possession, 128 n. Blood-red rook from 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 Charies Cotton granted to her, c xxxviii.
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. 1000, 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.
Bulton, James, of Stafford, apprenticed by Izaak Walton, cxlix.
Bowiker, extract from his "Art of Angling" respecting the mode of generation of eels, 164.; his directions for making the oak- fly, 105.; quotation from him respecting the making of fish-ponds, 200 N. 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 %. Bradshaw, John, Esq., 237.
Brailsford, a village near Ashbourn, clxxxv,
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 "Cum- plete Angler," 188 .
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 indu gences 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,
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 1668, lxvi .; an epode written to, by Charles Cotton, on the king's return, clxix; ve ses on his death, by the same, clxxii; was one of the adopted sons of Ben Jonson, 217 #.; edited Fletcher's Comedy of "Monsieur Thomas," in 1639, 274
- Mr Henry, of St Paul's Churchyard, London, xcvii, clxxvi ., cixxxiii; 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 of Robert, of Bub- ton, co. Derby, clv. Broughton, Mary, daughter of Thomas Broughton, of Broughton, county of Staf ford, 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- bury, married Anne, daughter of Captain Richard Bargrave, of Patricksbourne, xxx. -, Martin, alderman of London, ccv.
Bulbourne, a spring so called, near Tring, county of Herts, said to be one of the heads of the Thames, 195 ".
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,
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.
-, Gilbert, grandson of Dr Stanhope, cc, ccii.
Mrs, wife of William, governor of New York, eldest son of Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 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 . 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,
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.
Camiet fly, the, mentioned 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, Hierony mus, 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 #.; breeds several months in one year, 141; will not breed in cold ponds, 142; large size of in Italy, 142; receipt for making them tat in gravelly water, 142 2.; 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
own spawn; will not fatten where there are many tench, 145 m.; directions for angling for, 145, 147; baits for, 146, 147, 150, 185; the haunts of, 147: recipe for co king, 147: called the water fox, 182; the spawn of, devoured by ducks, 199: thrive and breed best when no other fish is put into the same pond, 200; directions for storing ponds with, and feeding them, 200 n.,
Carpenter, Anne, sister of John, second son of John Carpenter, of Rye, in Sussex, supposed to have been the mother of Izaak Wa ton's first wife, xxiii, cxxxv. Carthusians, the college of, never eat flesh,
Cartwright, Edmund, of Ossington, in the county of Notts, cxxxv.
— Wiliam, a collection of his poems pub- lished in 1643, xxxii; elegies on his death, referred to by Walton, cxlviii; was one of the adopted sons of Ben Jonson, 217 #. Cary [or Carew], Mr Thomas, "a poet of note," anecdote of, cxlvi.
Casaubon, Dr, his "Discourse of Credulity and Incredulity," quoted by Walton, 41, 116; biographical account of, 41 #. Cases of Conscience, Hale's letters on, cxlvii. Case-worm, the, a bait for chab, 69. Catechism, dissertation on the authorship of the, 52 n.
Caterpillars, mode of generation, and dif- ferent kinds of, 95-97.
Cats, quotation from Montaigne relative to.23. Caussin, Nicholas, account of, 207 n.; quota- tion from, cxv.
Caviare, made from the roes of carp, 145. Cecil, the arms of, on a building called the Almshouse, on the road leading from Waltham Cross to Cheshunt, 36 n.
-, Sir Robert, afterwards Earl of Salis- bury, 35"
Sir William, afterwards Lord Burleigh, Theobald's Palace built by, 35. "Ce que Dieu garde est bien gardé," a French proverb quoted by Cotton, 232. "Certaine Experiments concerning Fish," 4to, 1600, by Taverner, extract from,
xl; a house in, bequeathed by Walton to his son-in-law, Dr Hawkins, and his wife, c.
Chantilly, tame carp at the Prince of Conde's
Chapman, Geo., the poet, alluded to in some verses by Sir A-ton Cokayne, clxviii. Char, the, 165; where found, 165 m. Charles the First, expressed his approbation of Walton's Life of Dr Donne, xxviii, ixiv ; anecdotes of, xxxvi; Walton's account of the religious dissensions which preceded his death, cix.
Charles the Second, his restoration attended by the promotion of many eminent divines who had suffered in his cause, lxv; satirical verses on his angling, by Lord Rochester, 285.
Charleton, Sir Job, chief-justice of Chester,
"Charon of Wisdom," 4to, Lond. x. d., copy of, formerly belonging to Walton, in the cathedral library of Salisbury, cxlvii. Chatfield, Elizabeth, wife of William, of Bermondsey Street in Southwark, civ. Chatsworth, in the county of Derby, 231: a poem descriptive of, published by Cotton in 1681, cixxxvi.
Chaucer s prologue to the Canterbury Tale→ quotation from, 140.
Chauncy, Sir Henry, 21 n. Chavender, vide Chub.
Cheeke, Sir John, secretary of state and pre- ceptor to Edward the Sixth, clxiii. Chelsea, Bishop Morley's house at, lxxviii. Chepstow, the town of, 230 #. Chester, Cotton's account of his meeting with, and visit to the Mayor of, clxxv. Chesterfield, Philip, first Earl of, xliii. -
Philip, second Earl of, ccit; the third edition of the "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ dedicated to him by Wa ton in 1673, lxxix; the translation of De Montluc's "Com- mentaries" dedicated to him by Charles Cotton, clxxx.
-, Katherine, wife of Henry, Lord Stan- hope, created Countess of, for life, xl, ccii.; the "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ dedi- cated to her, xiii.
"Chevy Chace," a song, 79- Chichester lobsters considered superior to others, 73, 140.
Child and Greenhill, the case of, cited, 213. Chillingworth, Mr, mentioned in the dedi- cation of Walton's Life of Bishop Sander- son, xci.
China, gold and silver fish brought from,
Chiswick, the drag-net much used by the fishermen of, 182 #.
"Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, to sing to the Theorbo, Lute, and Bass Viol," fol. 1675, 185 n.
"Choice Drollery, with Songs and Sonnets," 1656, written by Thomas Weaver, 13 . Cholmondeley, Lord, 131 . "Christ's Passion,' a tragedy, translated from Grotius, 1640, 12mo, 27 n.
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