TO 



My HONOURED FRIEND 

 JOHN HYDE, Esq; 



SIR, 



Liberty you gave me this last Sum- 

 mer to Angle in your great Pond at 

 Winckliurst, emboldens me in gratitude to 

 present you with this little treatise on the 

 pleasure of Angling; the observations are 

 my own, and some of the Pleasure I re- 

 ceived in your good Company when Angling 

 at Heaver, and since in the Company of 

 Capt. Comer, and an other Gentleman at 

 Winckhurst ; where in one Day we caught 

 about twenty brace of extraordinary large 

 Carps with very sweet Eeles and Tench ; I 

 believe I shall hardly forget the Pearch of 

 eighteen Inches long, caught by Capt. Cb- 

 mer^ nor the Old Gentlemans resolution, 

 while we were drinking a Dram of the Bot- 

 tle, a Fish run away with his rod, which he 



being 



