36 Mascall and Dame Juliana. 



evidence that his book was very little 

 known, in the fact that the very simple 

 methods of fish culture which he describes 

 and illustrates are, as far as I am aware, 

 not referred to by subsequent angling 

 writers. Even North, in his very valuable 

 Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds, 1713, 

 would have much improved his work had 

 he included in it some of the methods 

 described by Mascall. 



As Mr. Satchell clearly shows, Mascall 

 took his directions for fishing with " hooke 

 and line " bodily from Dame Juliana 

 Berners ; about half his Booke is made 

 up in this way, but the remainder is most 

 of it, I think, written from his own prac- 

 tical experience, with the exception of a 

 few passages which he acknowledges as 

 " thus much taken of Stephanus in 

 French." 



Mr. Satchell says : " How much of the 

 rest of the book is the author's own (i.e., 

 beyond that taken from Dame Juliana), 

 and how much is drawn from other 

 sources, I have not been able precisely to 

 ascertain, but chapters fifty-nine to seventy 

 are, I find, taken from L Agriculture et 

 Maison rustique de M. Charles Estienne, 

 Docteur en Medicine (liv. iv., chap. 13-18, 

 22-26), and the particular edition used 

 appears to have been that * A Paris, 



