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Page 224. like the Rosicrucians. 



The title of the Rosycrucians, or the Brothers of the Rosy- 

 Cross, was first assumed by a sect of Hermetic Philosophers in 

 Germany, about the commencement of the fourteenth century. 

 They professed to have a knowledge of all the Occult Sciences, 

 as the making of gold, the prolongation of human life, the 

 restoration of youth, from which they were also called Im- 

 mortales, and the formation of the Philosopher's Stone ; but 

 all these secrets they were bound by a solemn oath to reveal 

 only to the members of their own fraternity, and it is to this 

 custom, in particular, that Walton alludes. Their founder was 

 a German gentleman, named Christian Crux, who had tra- 

 velled to Palestine, where, falling sick, he was cured by Ara- 

 bian Physicians, who, he asserted, revealed to him their 

 mysterious Arts. He died in 1484 ; and the name of his 

 Society was composed of the word Ros, Dew, and his own 

 name, Crux a Cross, the old chemical character for light. Mos- 

 heim. Gassendi. Renaudot. Brucker. 



Page 224. either to Mr. Margrave, etc. 



There is printed upon the reverse of the last leaf of Cotton's 

 Second Part of the Complete Angler, Edit. 1676, the following 

 memorandum concerning this person. " Courteous Reader. 

 You may be pleas'd to take notice, that at the Sign of the 

 Three Trouts in St. Pant's Church-Yard, on the North side, 

 you may be fitted with all sorts of the best Fishing-Tackle, by 

 John Margrave." 



The four earlier editions of Walton read, " I will go with you 

 " either to Charles Brandon's (neer to the Swan in Golding- 

 " Lane) ; or to Mr. Fletcher's, in the Court which did once 

 " belong to Dr. Nowel, the Dean of St. Paul's, that I told you 

 " was a good man and a good Fisher ; it is hard by the West 

 " end of St. Paul's Church ; they be both," etc. Viator selects 

 Charles Brandon. This is in the last chapter of the First Edi- 

 tion. The marginal note on the value of an Angler's Tackle 

 did not appear until the Second Edition. 



Page 233. Matthiolus commends him. 



Petrus Andreas Matthiolus, was born at Sienna in Tuscany, 

 in 1501. He was an eminent Physician, and particularly 

 famous for his Commentaries on some of the writings of Dios- 

 corides. He died of the plague at Trent, in 1577. Hawkins. 



Page 235. As you may note out of Dr. Hey tin's Geography. 



See No. 23 in the foregoing list, from pages 458, 459, of 

 which, this Chapter, from the words " The chief is Thamisis" — 

 down to the end of Drayton's Sonnet, is printed almost ver- 

 batim. Dr. Peter Heylin was born at Burford in Oxfordshire, 

 Nov. 29th, 1600. In 161'J he was made Fellow of Magdalen 



