THE LAWS OF ANGLING. 197 



CONTINUATION OF THE DISCOURSE. 

 BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS. 



Since the writing the foregoing Discourse, the 

 laws of this country, relative to fish and fishing, 

 have undergone such alterations as would alone 

 justify an addition to it ; but as it has, of late, 

 been objected to all laws that assign an exclusive 

 right in any of the creatures of God to particular 

 ranks or orders of men, that they savour of bar- 

 barism, and are calculated to serve the purposes 

 of tyranny and ambition, it was thought neces- 

 sary to trace the matter farther back, and show 

 from whence laws of this kind derive their force. 

 And though it is not imagined that speculative 

 arguments will operate upon men of licentious 

 principles, yet, as the general tenor of this dis- 

 course supposes the angler to be endued with 

 reason, and under the dominion of conscience, it 

 may not be amiss to state the obligation he is 

 under to an observance of such laws, and to point 

 out to him the several instances where he cannot 

 pursue his recreation without the risk of his quiet. 

 Property is universally allowed to be founded 



