INDEX. 



Danow, the river, 196. 



Danube, the river, 167. 



Darbishire, Mr John, bequests made to by 

 Walton, ci, cii ; not identified, cvi. 



Dark brown flies for February and April, 

 directions for making, 254. 255. 



Darley, county of Derby, 231. 



Darneford Magna, a farm belonging to Mr 

 Hungerford, the uncle of Sir John Evelyn. 

 284. 



Davenant, Sir William, the poet, intimate 

 with Charles Cotton the elder, clxiv ', sup- 

 posed author of some verses quoted by- 

 Walton, in praise of music, 179 n. 



Davers, or Danyers, Agnes, daughter of Sir 

 Robert, 276, vide Davers. 



, John, supposed to be the author of the 



" Secrets of Angling," 37 n ; and of the 

 "Angler's Wish," 54, vide Dennys. 



Daves, John, 54 n., 276 ; the old way of 

 spelling Davers, or Danvers, 276. 



David, the prophet, quoted, 48. 



Davison, Anne, sister of Mr Secretary Davi- 

 son, married John Carpenter, of Rye, in 

 Sussex, xxiii, cxxxv. 



, Francis, eldest son of Secretary Davi- 

 son, biographical account of, 113 n. ; editor 

 of the ''Poetical Rhapsody," xxii ; author 

 of the "Beggars' Song," in the "Com- 

 plete Angler," xxiii, Ivii. 



, Mr Henry, of Gray's Inn, godfather to 

 Walton's last son Izaak, xlii, cxl ; his will, 

 xlii 11. 



, Jane, the wife of Richard Cleare, xlii . 



, Mary, xlii n. 



, William, Secretary of State to Queen 



Elizabeth, xxii. 



Davy, Sir Humphrey, cxxv, vide Bury. 



Debat, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Archer, ccii. 



Decimus Brutus, 27, vide Hircus. 



Dee, the river, 166, 196. 



Defoe's "Tour through England," quoted, 

 41 . 



Deighton, the c'iffs of, 276. 



Deloney's " Strange Histories, or Songes 

 and Sonnets," xamo, 1607, 81 n. 



Dennys, John, Esq. of Oldbury-sur-Montem, 

 co. Gloucester, 54 11. ; reasons for believing 

 that the "Secrets of Angling" were written 

 by him, and not, as commonly supposed, 

 by John Davers, 276. 



, Sir Walter, of Pucklechurch, co. Glou- 

 cester, 276. 



Derby, the county of, famed for trout and 

 grayling, 224. 



, the town of, 231. 



, James, Earl of, verses on his execution, 

 by Charles Cotton, clxix. 



Derwent, the river, 196, 229, 231 ; made sub- 

 ject to the fence months by stat. 13 Edw. 

 I. c. 47, 62 n. 



" Description of the spring on a bank, as I 



sat a-fishing," by Sir Henry Wotton, xliv. 



Devonshire, the Countess of; Cotton's 



"Wonders of the Peak," dedicated to her, 



in 1681, clxxxvi. 



Dew-worm or lob-worm, 91 ; directions for 

 baiting with, 93. 



Dibbing, instructions for, by an anonymous 

 writer, 106 n. 



Dickenson, the lord mayor in 1757, destroyed 

 all the stops or weirs in the Thames, be- 

 tween London and Staines, 183 n. 



Diodorus Siculus, quoted by Walton, 177. 



" Discourse of Credulity and Incredulity," 

 by Casaubon, 42 . 



Dixon, Cecily, widow of , ccv. 



Dock-worm, 91 ; directions for finding, 91 . 



Dogfish, the, 43. 



Dolphin, the, fond of music, 42. 



Donne, George, son of the dean, biographical 

 account of, Ixx n. 



, Dr John, Dean of St Paul's, intimate 



friend of Izaak Walton, xx ; was attended 

 by him in last hours, and presented to him 

 a seal of blood-stone, engraven with a re- 

 presentation of the Saviour extended on an 

 anchor, xxiv ; edition of his poems, printed 

 in 1633, xxiv ; second edition, with a 

 portrait, published 1655, xxvi ', first volume 

 of his sermons, with Life by Izaak Walton, 

 prefixed, published 1640, xxvii ; author of 

 the song, " Come, live with me and be my 

 love," Iviii, 158 ; said to be author of a 

 poem called a " Farewell to the Vanities 

 of the World," Ix ; also poem called " The 

 Bait" 81 n. ; second edition of his Life, 

 published 1658, Ixiii ; republished with the 

 Lives of Herbert, Hooker, and Wotton, 

 about 1670, Ixxvi ; again in 1675, Ixxxi ; 

 sermons bequeathed by Walton to Dr 

 Hawkins, ci ; Letters, 410, Lond. 1651 ; 

 and his Eighty Sermons, fol. 1640, formerly 

 belonging to Izaak Walton, now in the 

 cathedral library of Salisbury, cxlviii ; in- 

 timate with Charles Cotton the elder, 

 clxiv. 



, Dr John, the younger, bequeathed his 



father's collection of extracts to Bishop 

 King, for the son of Izaak Walton, xxiv ; 

 letter to Walton, thanking him for having 

 written his father's Life, xxix ; death, Ixx : 

 character of, by Anthony Wood, Ixx ; bio- 

 graphical account of, Ixx n. ; extracts from 

 will, Ixxi ; copy of will, cxli. 



Dorchester, the town of, 195 . 



Dove, the, 27 ; dissertation on two passages 

 in Scripture, respecting descent of the Holy 

 Ghost in the shape of a dove, 27 n. 



the river, Ixxxvi, 196, 231, 232, 234, 246 ; 



made subject to the fence months, by stat. 

 13 Edw. I. 62 n. ; divided the counties of 

 Derby and Stafford, 229; Cotton's de- 

 scription of, 236, 286. 



Dove bridge, clxxxvi. 

 Dovedale, description of, 229 11. 

 Dover, Mr Robert ; a poem by William Basse 

 upon the Olympic games annually cele- 

 brated by him upon the Cotswold Hills, 

 4to, 1636, 282. 



Drake, Dr, a passage from "Complete 

 Angler," on singing of birds, quoted by 

 him in " Literary Hours," cxiv . 

 Dravtis, the river, 196. 



Dray ton, Michael, poet, biographical account 

 of, 124 n. ; quoted by Walton, 197. 



