392 NOTES. 



at the close of the sixteenth century ; and the love of the 

 latter for Angling is mentioned in Fuller's Holy State, book iii. 

 chap. 13. Dr. Alexander Nowel was a learned divine, and a 

 famous preacher in the reign of King Edward VI. ; upon whose 

 death he, with many other Protestants, fled to Germany, where 

 he lived several years. In 1561 he was made Dean of St. Paul's; 

 and died in 1601. His monument was consumed in 1666; but 

 the inscription and an engraving of the tomb will be found in 

 Dugdale's History of St Paul's. There has been considerable 

 dispute as to the Catechism alluded to by Walton : and it seems 

 almost certain that it is not the one printed in the Book of 

 Common Prayer. See Fuller's Worthies, Lane. 115, Athen. 

 Oxon. 113, and Churton's Life of Nowel, p. 366. Hawkins. 

 See also Herbert's Typographical Antiquities, Edit, by the Rev. 

 T. F. Dibdin, vol. iv. p. 13, and the Rev. E. Cardwell's Docu- 

 mentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England, vol. i. 

 page 266, note. 



Page 41. Sir Henry Wotton. 



An eminent scholar and statesman, born at Bocton Hall in 

 Kent, in 1568, and educated at Winchester School and New 

 College, Oxford. Having travelled about nine years, he became 

 Secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex ; but upon his at- 

 tainder he again went to the Continent, and attached himself to 

 the Duke of Florence, who sent him as Ambassador to James VI. 

 of Scotland. When that Monarch came to be King of England, 

 he received Wotton into his service, knighted him, and em- 

 ployed him as his principal Ambassador. About 1624 he 

 took Deacon's Orders, and was made Provost of Eton College, 

 where he died in December, 1639. Walton. The passagequoted 

 in the text, is in his Remains ; see the foregoing list, No. 43, 

 and the recto of sign, c 6 in that volume. The poem printed 

 on page 42 is in the same book at p. 524 ; and in these verses 

 the word Pilgrim is put for the Swallow, because of its migra- 

 tions. 



Page 48. The gloves of an Otter, etc. 



All the particulars related of the Otter were derived from the 

 Rev. Edward Topsell's Natural History; see No. 41 in the list of 

 Authorities, and pp. 572-575 of that volume. The work is, in 

 effect, a translation of the Historise Animalium of Gesner, and 

 contains numerous references to many learned authorities. 

 The Rev. Edward Topsell, by whom it was executed, was Chap- 

 lain to Dr. Neile, Dean of Westminster, in the Church of St. 

 Botolph Aldersgate. The Second Chapter in the First Edi- 

 tion of W T alton contains a great part of the matter of the 

 present Chapters II, III, IV; since it ends with the Hostess 

 calling Viator and Piscator to supper. The title of it in the 

 table already mentioned, is " In the Second are some obser- 



