1 2 Dame Juliana Berners. 



Biographia Britannica, Art. "Caxton," 

 Note L., wherein the author, Mr. Oldys, 

 has given a copious account of the book, 

 and a character of the lady who compiled 

 it). Wynkyn de Worde's impression has 

 the addition of the treatise of fishing, of 

 which only it concerns us to speak. 



"The several tracts contained in the 

 above-mentioned two impressions of the 

 same book were compiled by Dame 

 Julyans, or Juliana Bemers, B ernes, or 

 Barnes, prioress of the nunnery of Sopwell, 

 near St. Albans ; a lady of noble family, 

 and celebrated for her learning and accom- 

 plishments, by Leland* Bale, Pits, Bishop 

 Tanner, and others ; and the reason for 

 her publishing it in the manner it appears 

 in, she gives us in the following words : 



"And for by cause that this present 

 treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of 

 eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it yf 

 it were enpryntyd allone by itself, and put 

 in a lytyll plaunflet, therefore I have com- 

 pylyd it in a greter volume of dyverse bokys 

 concernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the 

 entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche 

 sholde have but lytyll mesure in the sayd 

 dysporte of fysshyng sholde not by this 

 meane vtterly dystroye it" 



* This is said to be a mistake, as he does not 

 mention the name. 



