NOTES. 385 



William Prescott, Bart, the present possessor. Of the magni- 

 ficence of the Palace at Theobald's, some idea may be formed 

 from the particular description given of it in the Life of Lord 

 Burghley, in Peck's " Desiderata Curiosa;" that by Sir Paul 

 Hentzner ; that in the " Voyages Ce'lebres" of the Sieur Jean 

 Albert De Mandelslo ; that in the Parliamentary Survey of 1 650, 

 already mentioned ; and also from a short notice in the " De- 

 scription of Hertfordshire," by John Norden. See also the 

 Rev. Daniel Lysons's "Environs of London," vol. iv., pages 

 29-39, and " Clutterbuck's History and Antiquities of the 

 County of Hertford," vol. ii. pp. 87-95, whence the foregoing 

 account has been abstracted. There are two small old views of 

 the exterior of this mansion, by John Stent and Peter King; but 

 the best is that published by the Society of Antiquaries, in 1 765, 

 in the second volume of the " Vetusta Monumenta," under the 

 name of Richmond Palace, from a painting by Vinkenboom. It 

 was identified as Theobald's in The Gentleman's Magazine, for 

 September 1836, and engraven as an illustration in Mr. Picker- 

 ing's edition of the Complete Angler. In 1840, in the first 

 volume of Mr. C. J. Richardson's Architectural Remains of 

 Elizabeth and James I. Part ii. plate x. were published for the 

 first time fac-similes of Thorpe's original plans of the base- 

 ment and ground floor of Theobald's Palace, from the collection 

 of the architect's drawings in the Museum of Sir John Soane. 

 The fragments of the old Theobald's House were taken down 

 about 1765, the present building standing on a rising ground, 

 about a mile to the north-west of the ancient site. Theobald's 

 House is not mentioned in the First Edition of the Contem- 

 plative Man's Recreation. 



Page 23. Then first for the Antiquity of Ans;lin^. 



At this place, in Walton's First Edition, p. J 2, there is a mar- 

 ginal reference to " J. Da. Jer. Mar." as the authorities which 

 furnished this paragraph ; which are certainly meant for John 

 Davors, and Jervis or Gervase Markham. The beautiful verses 

 by the former of these persons on page 43, have been, how- 

 ever, considered to belong rather to a John Dennys ; since 

 those stanzas which in the First Edition of Walton, p. 35, are 

 marked Jo. Da. afterwards extended into Davors, form a part of 

 a very rare poem entitled "The Secrets of Angling, by J. D., 

 "Esquire," first printed in octavo, in 1613. In a modern 

 reprint of this very curious work, the following extract from the 

 Books of the Stationers' Company gave an account of this 

 poem and the Author. " 1612. 23° Martij. Mr. Rog. Jackson 

 " entred for his copie under th'ands of Mr. Mason and Mr. 

 " Warden Hooper, a booke called the Secrete of Angling, 

 " teaching the choycest tooles, bates, and seasons, for the 

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