146 Colonel V enables. 



lest I should be thought to go about to 

 magnifie my own Judgment, in giving 

 yours so small a portion of its due, I 

 humbly take leave with no more ambition 

 than to kiss your hand, and to be 

 accounted 



Your humble and 



thankful Servant, 



"I. W." 



COLONEL ROBERT VENABLES. 



The first edition of The Experientd 

 Angler, by Venables, was published by 

 Richard Harriot in 1662. The best 

 modern reprint is that published in 1827 

 by T. Gosden; it contains a memoir of 

 the author, Colonel Robert Venables, from 

 which it appears that he served in the 

 Parliamentary army. In 1644 he was 

 made Governor of Chester; in 1649 ne 

 was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 

 Ulster. In 1654 Cromwell fitted out a 

 fleet for the conquest of Hispaniola, and 

 Colonel Venables and Admiral Penn were 

 entrusted with the command. Gosden 

 gives a long and interesting account of 

 this unfortunate expedition, taken, he tells 

 us, from a contemporary manuscript in his 

 possession, which had not previously been 

 printed 



