CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Piers of Fulham, 1420 Adventure of Sir Wil- 

 liam Wallace St. Patrick and some Fish 

 and Snake Stories ..... i 



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The Celebrated Treatyse of Fysshynge wytK~~87t \ 



Angle Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, 

 1496 Bibliographical Account of It Its 

 Practical Value from an Angler's Point of 

 View Considered as an Angling Idyl . "~TS* 



CHAPTER III. 



Leonard Mascall's Booke of Fishing with Hooke 

 and Line, 1590 Mascall the Pioneer of 

 Fish Culture in England Some Extracts 

 from His Work Directions for Taking 

 Herons, Otters, Sea-Pies, etc. How to 

 Preserve Fish Spawn The Parson of Guiles 

 Crayfish Culture A Crayfish War- 

 Curious Statement about the Kingfisher 

 "A Pretie Way to Take a Pye " . -33 



CHAPTER IV. 



Michael Angelo an Angler La Canna de Pis- 

 care Blakey and the Bibliotlieca Pisca- 

 toria Mynheer Vandunk . . . -53 



