Index. 263 



the celebrated Fordwich trout, Walton right 

 and Yarrell wrong, 169, 170; Walton and 

 some of his editors, 171 ; did not use a reel, 

 180 ; " giving him the rod," 181 ; did Walton 

 keep a horse? 185. 



WALTON'S (!ZAAK) SOME EDITIONS OF THE Corn- 

 pleat Angler SUBSEQUENT TO THE FlFTH, 



207-228 ; a seventy years' interval, 208 ; 

 Moses Browne's editions, 208-210; Hawkins' 

 editions, 210-213 > tne Bagster edition of 

 1808, 212; Higgs ! 213; Gosden's reprint, 

 214 ; Major's editions, 215 ; Major's ambition, 

 217 ; Pickering's Magnum Opus, 217 ; a 

 missing edition, 217 ; American editions, Dr. 

 Bethune's, 219 ; the edition edited by 

 "Ephemera" (Edward Fitzgibbon), 221; 

 a German edition of Walton, 221-225 > some 

 other editions, and yet another, 225-228. 



SOME CONTEMPORARY AND SUBSEQUENT 



OPINIONS about Walton and the Cowtpleat 

 Angler, 228-251 ; lines to, by Samuel 

 Purchas, published in 1619, 230 ; letter from 

 his " affectionate old friend," Dr. King, 

 Bishop of Chichester, 231 ; his long friend- 

 ship with Dr. George Morley, Bishop of 

 Winchester, 233 ; also with Dr. Sanderson, 

 Bishop of Lincoln, etc., 234, 235 ; letter to 

 Walton from Sir Henry Wotton, 236 ; the 

 " Commendatory Verses " to Walton, 

 238-241 ; he knew Drayton and Ben 

 Jonson, 241 ; Dr. Samuel Johnson's high 

 opinion of his writings, 241 ; Moses Browne's 



