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Page xxv. I, Izaak Walton.

With respect to the peculiar orthography employed by Walton as to his christian name, it is to be remembered, that in his time it was frequently spelled in the Scriptures Izak, Izaacke; and Izaack; and also that such a manner was agreeable to the original Hebrew of the word Itzhak, or Laughter, vide Gen. xxi. 6. In this circumstance Walton was, most probably, guided by some of the many learned divines with whom he was acquainted.

Page xxix. Witness Abraham Markland.

The appearance of the above name as a witness to Walton's Will, is an additional proof of the great respect in which he was held by the most eminent clergy of his time. Dr. Abraham Markland was a Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, where he was installed the 4th of July 1692, and in August 1694 he was named Master of the Hospital of St. Cross, near the above city. He published several Poems, in 1667, 4to. composed in that retirement, and "A Sermon, preached before the Aldermen in Guildhall Chapel," Lond. 1683, 4to. Ath. Oxon. Edit. by Bliss, vol. iv. p. 710. The above circumstances were obligingly pointed out by his descendant J. H. Markland, Esq. F.R.S. etc. Walton's Will, which is given in the text, is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in the volume called 1. Hare 375, Art. 24. It was proved by the Executors at London, on February the 4th, 1683-4, before Sir Thomas Exton and Sir Leoline Jenkins.

Page 1.

A Conference betwixt an Angler, etc.

The First Edition of the Complete Angler has not any descriptive titles prefixed to the chapters; but the leaf immediately

"

preceding the commencement of the work itself, contains a short Table of Contents to the thirteen chapters of which that edition is composed, and which is introduced in the following manner: 'Because in this Discourse of Fish and Fishing I have "not observed a method, which (though the Discourse be not long) may be some inconvenience to the Reader, I have "therefore for his easier finding out some particular things "which are spoken of, made this following Table. The first chapter is spent in a vindication or commendation of the Art "of Angling." After having gone through the whole number of chapters, the Table concludes with, "These directions the "Reader may take as an ease in his search after some particular Fish, and the baits proper for them; and he will shew him"selfe courteous in mending or passing by some few errors in "the Printer, which are not so many but that they may be par "doned." In the Second Edition, there were twenty-one chapters, entitled as they are in the foregoing pages; and the Third Edition was the first which had an index.

Page 2. The Thatched House in Hoddesdon.

In the First Edition, there are but two characters introduced in Chapter I.: Viator, or the Wayfarer, whose name in the Se. cond impression was changed to Venator, or the Hunter, and Piscator, the Fisherman. Instead therefore, of the dialogue as it now stands, the opening passages were originally as follow: "Piscator. You are wel overtaken Sir; a good morning to you; I have stretch'd my legs up Totnam Hil to overtake you, hoping your businesse may occasion you towards Ware, this "fine, pleasant, fresh, May-day in the morning. Viator. Sir, "I shall almost answer your hopes; for my purpose is to be at

Hodsden (three miles short of that town) I wil not say, before "I drink, but before I break my fast: for I have appointed "6 a friend or two to meet me there at the Thatcht-house, about "nine of the clock this morning; and that made me so early 16 up, and, indeed, to walk so fast. Pisc. Sir, I know the "Thatcht-house very well: I often make it my resting place, "and taste a cup of ale there, for which liquor that place is very "remarkable; and to that house I shall by your favour accom" pany you, and either abate of my pace, or mend it, to "L enjoy such a companion as you seem to be, knowing that (as "the Italians say,") etc. Pages 1-2. The Thatcht-house is stated by the Rev. Moses Browne, in a note in his Third edition of the Complete Angler, Lond. 1772, 12mo. p. 1, to be " seventeen miles from London on the Ware road." It is now quite unknown; but it has been supposed, that a thatched cottage, once distinguished by the sign of the Buffalo's Head, standing at the farther end of Hoddesdon, on the left of the road in going

towards Ware, about seventeen miles and half distant from London, was the actual building.

Page 2. Mews a Hawk.

Mew, derived from the old French Mué, signifies a change, or the period when birds and other animals moult, or cast their feathers, hairs, or horns: hence Latham observes that the "Mew "is that place, whether it be abroad or in the house, where you "set down your hawk during the time she raiseth (or repro"duces) her feathers." In the above passage, the term refers to the care with which a hawk should be kept in her mewingtime; and in "The Gentleman's Academie, or the Book of St. "Alban's," Lond. 1595,4to. Edit. by Gerv. Markham, there are several sections on the mewing of hawks; from one of which, p. 9, it may be learned, that the best time to commence, is in the beginning of Lent, and, if well kept, the bird will be mewed by the beginning of August.

Page 3. Hunting the Otter.

In pursuing this sport, which is now almost obsolete, the huntsmen assembled on each side of the river where an otter was supposed to harbour, beating up the hollow banks, reedbeds, and sedges, with hounds kept solely for that purpose; and, if the game were at hand, its "seal," or the impression produced by the round ball under the soles of the feet, were soon discovered in the mud. Every hunter was armed with a spear, to assist the dogs, and attack the animal when it came to the surface of the water to breathe or vent; but if the otter were not found by the river-side, it was traced by the seal, the fragments of the prey, and the "spraints" or soil, up the stream inland to the place where it had gone to couch. The otter when wounded, as it is noticed on page 50, bites violently, and makes towards land; although the male-otter never utters a cry, but the pregnant females give a very shrill scream. When the otter fastens upon the dogs in the water, it dives with them, carries them far below the surface, and will seldom give up or quit its hold but with life. The hunting of an otter will last three and four hours, and the most fatal time for the pursuit is in snow and hard frost: an unbaited gin set near the landing. place of otters is also used to destroy them. Daniel. Otterdogs, which are mentioned a short distance below the line above-quoted, are a breed between the harrier and the terrier, and are hounds of great strength and activity. The following extract from The Whitehall Evening Post of May, 1760, was communicated for the first impression of this Edition of The Complete Angler, twenty-one years since, by the late Joseph Haslewood, as shewing the time when otter-hunting in England began to decline.