Korah, so these died without repenting of these spiritual wickednesses; of which the practices of Coppinger and Hacket in their lives, and the death of them and their adherents, are, God knows, too sad examples, and ought to be cautions to those men that are inclined to the like spiritual wickednesses.

And in these times, which tended thus to confusion, there were also many of these scruple-mongers, that pretended a tenderness of conscience, refusing to take an oath before a lawful Magistrate : and yet these very men in their secret Conventicles did covenant and swear to each other, to be assiduous and faithful in using their best endeavours to set up the Presbyterian doctrine and discipline; and both in such a manner as they themselves had not yet agreed on; but up that government must. To which end there were many that wandered up and down and were active in sowing discontents and seditions, by venomous and secret murmurings, and a dispersion of scurrilous pamphlets and libels against the Church and State; but especially against the Bishops; by which means, together with venomous and indiscreet sermons, the common people became so fanatic, as to believe the Bishops to be Antichrist, and the only obstructors of God's discipline! and at last some of them were given over to so bloody a zeal, and such other desperate delusions, as to find out a text in the Revelation of St. John, that Antichrist was to be overcome by the sword. So that those very men, that began with tender and meek petitions, proceeded to admonitions: then to satirical remonstrances and at last-having, like Absalom, numbered who was not, and who was, for their cause-they got a supposed certainty of so great a party, that they durst threaten first the Bishops, and then the Queen and Parliament, to all which they were secretly encouraged by the Earl of Leicester, then in great favour with her Majesty, and the reputed cherisher and patrongeneral of these pretenders to tenderness of conscience; his design. being, by their means, to bring such an odium upon the Bishops, as to procure an alienation of their lands, and a large proportion of them for himself: which avaricious desire had at last so blinded his reason, that his ambitious and greedy hopes seemed to put him into a present possession of Lambeth House.

Of the Restoration. From the "Life of Sanderson"

Towards the end of this year, 1659, when the many mixed sects, and their creators and merciless protectors, had led or driven each other into a whirlpool of confusion: when amazement and fear had seized them, and their accusing consciences gave them an inward and fearful intelligence, that the god which they had long served was now ready to pay them such wages, as he does always reward witches with for their obeying him: when these wretches were come to foresee an end of their cruel reign, by our King's return; and such sufferers as Dr. Sanderson—and with him many of the oppressed Clergy and others-could foresee the cloud of their afflictions would be dispersed by it; then, in the beginning of the year following, the King was by God restored to us, and we to our known laws and liberties, and a general joy and peace seemed to breathe through the three nations. Then were the suffering Clergy freed from their sequestration, restored to their revenues, and to a liberty to adore, praise, and pray tc God in such order as their consciences and oaths had formerly obliged them.

NOTES

Page 3.-John Offley.-Son and heir of Sir John Offley, of Madeley in the county of Stafford, Knight, and great-grandson of Sir Thomas Offley, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1557. John Offley, to whom this book is dedicated, succeeded his father in 1646, and was twice married; first to Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Lidcott, of Mousley in Surrey; and secondly, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Broughton, of Broughton in Staffordshire. He died in 1658, leaving, by his second wife, John, who was thirteen years old in 1663, Thomas, then aged twelve; and Mary, who became the wife of Sir Willoughby Aston, of Aston, in the county of Chester, Bart. John Offley, the eldest son, acquired Crew, in Cheshire, in right of his wife, Ann, daughter and coheiress of John Crew, of that place, Esq., by whom he had, first, John; second, Crew; third, Mary, who married Robert, Viscount Kilmorrey. John Offley, his son and heir, assumed the name of Crew, and died in 1749, leaving John Crew, of Crew, Esq., his son and heir, who was living in 1751, three other sons, and three daughters. Crew Offley, of Wichner, in the county of Stafford, the second son, married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Lawrence, of Chelsea; and dying in 1739, left, by her, two sons, John Offley, of Wichner, in the county of Stafford, living unmarried, and aged thirty-four in 1751, and Lawrence Offley, who died in 1749, unmarried. Records of the College of Arms marked C 36 and 3 D 14. This dedication is not the only evidence of a personal acquaintance between the families of Walton and Offley: a John Offley proved the will of Agnes Walton, of the parish of Madeley, on the 22nd of April, 1573.-N.

The present Lord Crewe is a direct descendant of Walton's John Offley, and the dedication of this latest edition of The Compleat Angler, is, therefore, so to say, but the due payment of an hereditary compliment. Offley's house has been erroneously stated to be the large, timbered, Elizabethan house, near Madeley Pond, bearing across its front the quaint inscription, Walk on knave, what lookst at. Actually it was situated about a mile to the south of the village, and all that now remains of it is a ruined gateway, as shown in Mr. New's sketch on page 5. About this ruin, which stands in the middle of a field to the right of the road, there are many mounds and trenches, which give some

hint of the ground plan of the old house. The place is known among the natives as "Manor Moat" (or Mote ?).

Madeley Pond is still a resort for anglers, and like every old pond, boasts its legends of marvellous pike. No doubt Walton used to fish in it, and there is a tradition in the district that a large stone used to stand at the side of the pool, on which he had carved his “I. W.”, but the stone has long since disappeared.

Page 8.-honest Nat, and R. Roe.-These friends of Walton's have never been identified.

Page 8.-Mr. Hales (a most valiant and excellent fencer).—Mr. Egerton Castle, in his Schools and Masters of Fence (1892), refers to the fact of Hales' The Private School of Defence being mentioned by Walton, but he adds no further information about the book or its author. Mr. Thimm, in his Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling, also refers to Walton, but also adds nothing further to our knowledge.

Pages 11-19.- -WRITERS OF COMMENDATORY VERSES.

Jo. Floud, Mr. of Arts, and Rob. Floud, C.-Brothers of Walton's first wife, Robert being the elder son, and John the second son, of (Robert ?) Floud of Canterbury, who had married Susannah, daughter of Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury. Robert Floud, the famous Rosicrucian, was a connection of the family.

Ch. Harvie, Mr. of Arts.-Probably Christopher Harvey, Vicar of Clifton, in Warwickshire, born 1597, lived till 1663 and perhaps after. In Part I., Chap. V., Walton quotes a poem by him on Common Prayer, which is included in The Synagogue, a collection of sacred poems (supplementary to Herbert's Temple), of which the authorship, before doubtful, seems thus established as Harvey's.

Tho. Weaver, Mr. of Arts.-The son of Thomas Weaver, of Worcester. He entered of Christ's Church, Oxford, in 1633, being then seventeen years of age, and took his Master's degree in 1640, about which time he was made one of the chaplains or petty canons of the cathedral. He was ejected by the Parliament in 1648, when "he shifted from place to place, and lived upon his wits." After the Restoration, he was made an exciseman at Liverpool, and was commonly called "Captain Weaver"; but "prosecuting too much the crimes of poets,' he died at Liverpool, on the 3rd of January, 1662-3. His works are: Songs and Poems of Love, 1654; Choice Drollery, with Songs and Sonnets, 1656. Wood's Athen. Oxon., quoted by N.

Edw. Powel, Mr. of Arts.-Probably the Edward Powel "of the borough of Stafford, Minister," whose son Charles took his degree of B.A. in 1666, became Rector of Cheddington, and was the author of The Religious Rebel. Wood's Fasti Oxon.

An "Ed. Powel," and most likely the same person, addressed some complimentary verses to his "very worthy and most ingenious friend, Mr. James Shirley," which are prefixed to Shirley's Poems, 1646.—N.

Henry Bayley, Artium Magister.-Between these verses and the lines by Robert Floud, there was printed in the second edition a long poem by Alexander Brome, to whom Walton addressed his eclogue of Damon and Dorus, but for some unexplained reason it was omitted in the three subsequent editions. "Henry Bayley was printed "Henry Bagley" in the second, third, and fourth editions. A Henry Bagley was minister of the Savoy from 1623 to 1625.—H.

Jaco: Dup., D.D.-James Duport, S.T.P., Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1668, and became Dean of Peterborough on the 27th of July, 1664. He was the son of John Duport, who assisted in the translation of King James's Bible; was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; afterwards Professor of Greek in that University; and died about 1679. Fuller's Church History, B. x. p. 46. Walton, in his life of Herbert, says that Dr. Duport had collected and published Herbert's Poems. In a collection of Latin poems, by Dean Duport, entitled Musa Subseciva, printed in 8vo. 1676, the verses in the text, and some on Walton's Life of Herbert, will be found pp. 103, 127, 391. A short account of this person is given by Bishop Kennett in the Lansdowne MSS., 986, 987.-N.

Duport was the author of a curious and learned work (in my collection) of which Sir Harris seems not to have known: Homeri Gnomologia, Duplici Parallelismo illustrata; Uno ex Locis S. Scripturæ, quibus Gnomæ Homerica aut propè affines aut non prorsus absimiles; Altero ex Gentium Scriptoribus, etc., loci Paralleli. Per Jacobum Duportum, Cantabrigiensem Graca Lingua nuper Professorem Regium, 4to., Cantab., 1660. It abounds in critical and other notes, and has a fanciful dedication to what he calls a quaternion of his pupils, Edward Cecil, John Knatchbull, Henry Puckering, and Francis Willoughby.-B.

A feeble translation of Duport's lines by Archdeacon Wrangham is to be found in his Life of Zouch, vol. ii. 441.

Page 21.-You are well overtaken, gentlemen. . . . .-The dialogue form had, of course, long been a traditional literary vehicle when Walton used it, being, in fact, as old as literature. It has been suggested that he took a hint from Plutarch's Dialogue, "Whether Water or Land Animals are the most Crafty; Heresbachius' "Husbandry," translated by Googe, and the "Treatyse of Fyshynge with an angle,"