TO THE 



RIGHT WORSHIPFUL 



JOHN GFFLEY, 



OF 



MADELY MANOR, IN THE COUNTY OF 

 STAFFORD, ESQ. ; 



My most Honoured Friend. 



Sir, 



1 have made so ill use of your former favours, 

 as by them to be encouraged to intreat that they 

 may be enlarged to the Patronage and Protec- 

 tion of this Book : and I have put on a modest 

 confidence, that I shall not be denied, because 

 it is a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, which you 

 know so well, and both love and practise so 

 much. 



You are assured, though there be ignorant 

 men of another belief, that Angling is an Art ; 



