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xlviii-lx ; can be no doubt that Walton 

 meant to identify himself with Piscator, 

 1.x ; his treatise gave universal satisfaction 

 to his contemporaries, with the exception 

 of Robert Frank, the author of " Northern 

 Memoirs," Ix ; defended from this attack 

 by Sir Walter Scott, in a second edition of 

 Frank's work, Ixii ; account of his inter- 

 view with Bishop Sanderson, in 1655, Ixii ; 

 his opinion of Dr Fuller's " Church His- 

 tory," Ixiii ; published a second edition of 

 his " Life of Dr Donne " in 1658, dedicated 

 to Sir Robert Holt, of Aston, in Warwick- 

 shire, Ixiv ; the memorials of Walton again 

 imperfect until after the Restoration, Ixv ; 

 an "Humble Eclogue," addressed to his 

 " ingenious friend Mr JBrome, on his vari- 

 ous and excellent poems," Ixvi ; published 

 the third edition of the "Complete Angler " 

 in 1661, wherein he alludes to the loss of 

 his fishing companions, Nat. and R. Roe, 

 although he does not notice the death of 

 Mr OfHey, to whom he had dedicated the 

 previous edition, Ixvii ; also wrote some 

 verses on the publication of the fourth edi- 

 tion of a poem, called " The Synagogue," 

 by the Rev. Christopher Harvie, Ixvii ; 

 death of his second wife, Ixviii ; epitaph to 

 her memory, Ixix ; remarks on the altera- 

 tions in a manuscript copy thereof, in his 

 Prayer-Book, Ixix ; conjectured to have 

 been on a visit to his friend Dr Morley at 

 the time of his wife's death, Ixix ; became 

 the permanent guest of Dr Morley soon 

 after his translation to the see of Winches- 

 ter, Ixx ; had a bequest from Dr Donne 

 the younger, who died in the winter of 

 1662, " of all my writings under my father's 

 hand, which may be of some use to his son 

 if he makes him a scholar," Ixxi ; obtained 

 a lease of a building adjoining a house 

 called the Cross Keys, in Paternoster Row, 

 Ixxi ; the first two years of his residence 

 with Bishop Morley occupied in writing 

 the Life of Richard Hooker, Ixxi ; letter 

 from Dr King, Bishop of Chichester, con- 

 gratulating him on that undertaking, Ixxii ; 

 the inference which has been drawn from 

 a passage in Dr King's letter, that Walton 

 intended to write the Life of Sir Henry 

 Savile, apparently without foundation, 

 Ixxiii ; his motives for writing the Life of 

 Hooker, Ixxiii ; said to have written a let- 

 ter to a kinsman at Coventry, on the rejec- 

 tion of the Bill of Comprehension, in 1668, 

 Ixxv ; published a fourth edition of the 

 " Complete Angler," in 1668, which is 

 stated in the title-page to have been "much 

 corrected and enlarged," Ixxv ; still the 

 guest of Bishop Morley, and engaged 

 upon the Life of Mr George Herbert, and 

 in revising the Memoirs of Donne, Wot- 

 ton, and Hooker, Ixxv ; indebted for some 

 of the facts respecting Herbert to Dr 

 Henchman, Bishop of London, and to Mr 

 Oley's preface to Herbert's " Country 

 Parson," Ixxvi ; complimentary verses 

 addressed to him " upon his excellent 



Life of Mr George Herbert," by Samuel 

 Woodford, afterwards prebendary of Chi- 

 chester, Ixxvi ; Walton's account of his 

 biographical labours, Ixxvii ; compliment- 

 ary verses to Walton upon the Life of 

 Hooker, by Dr Woodford, Ixxviii ; a copy 

 of the "Lives," presented by Walton to 

 Walter, Lord Aston, preserved in the 

 library at Tixall, Ixxviii ; presented a peti- 

 tion to the Court of Judicature for the 

 determination of differences touching 

 houses burnt in London, Ixxix ; dedicated 

 the third edition of the " Reliquiae Wot- 

 tonianse," to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, 

 Ixxix ; copy of his letter of dedication, 

 Ixxix ; letter from him to his publisher 

 Marriott, Ixxx ', the tenth edition of 

 Herbert's poem, "The Temple," with 

 Walton's " Life of Herbert," for the first 

 time prefixed to it, Ixxxi ; poem addressed 

 to Walton, by Charles Cotton, on the re- 

 publication of the Lives of Donne, Wotton, 

 Hooker, and Herbert, Ixxxi-lxxxiv ; no 

 allusion made by Walton to his only surviv- 

 ing son and daughter during their child- 

 hood, Ixxxiv ; his son destined for holy 

 orders, Ixxxiv ; marriage of his daughter 

 Anne with Dr William Hawkins, preben- 

 dary of Winchester, Ixxxiv ; published the 

 fifth edition of the " Complete Angler," in 

 1676, Ixxxv ; observations upon the addi- 

 tions made by him in that edition, Ixxxv ; 

 Cotton's treatise on fly-fishing, written in 

 consequence of Walton's application to 

 him, Ixxxv ; his letter to Walton which ac- 

 companied the MS., dated at Beresford, 

 loth March 1676 ; a printed copy of the 

 treatise, with an answer, dated at London, 

 returned to him on the 2gth of the follow- 

 ing month, Ixxxvi ; supposed that Walton 

 spent some weeks at Beresford in May and 

 June 1676, Ixxxvi ; the intimacy between 

 Walton and Cotton well known to the 

 readers of the " Complete Angler," Ixxxvi ; 

 their initials joined in a cipher on a stone 

 placed over the door of a fishing-house 

 which the latter erected on the banks of 

 the Dove, between Walton's last visit to 

 Beresford and that paid in 1676, Ixxxvii ; 

 Walton's description of the scenery near 

 the fishing-house, Ixxxvii ; eulogiums upon 

 his character introduced into Cotton's 

 treatise, Ixxxvii ; his allusions thereto in a 

 letter to Cotton, Ixxxviii ; complimentary 

 verses to Walton, on the publication of the 

 fifth edition of the " Complete Angler," in 

 a Latin Ode, by Dr James Duport, trans- 

 lated by the Rev. James Tate, canon resi- 

 dentiary of St Paul's, Ixxxviii ; verses ad- 

 dressed to him by Cotton, inviting him to 

 renew their piscatory'sports in the ensuing 

 May, xc ; published his last work, the Life 

 of Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, 

 xc ; dedication to Bishop Morley, xci ; his 

 reasons for writing the Life, xci ; requested 

 information relative to Sanderson from Dr 

 Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, xcii ; whilst 

 writing the account of Bishop Sanderson's 



