LIFE OF WALTON. 15 



many others of that early time, without a title; but 

 which, by the colophon, appears to have been printed 

 at Westminster, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496, in a 

 small folio, containing a treatise on hawking , another, 

 on hunting, in verse, the latter taken, as it seems, from 

 a Tract, on that subject, written by old Sir Tristram, 

 an ancient forester, cited in the Forest Laws of Man- 

 wood, chap. iiii. in sundry places ; a book wherein is 

 determined tlieLygnagc of Cote drmures ; the above- 

 mentioned treatise of Jishing ; and the method of Bla- 

 synge of Ernies. 



The book printed by Wynkyn dc Worde is, in truth, 

 a -^publication of one known, to the curious, by the 

 name of the " Book of St. Alban's," it appearing by the 

 colophon to have been printed, there, in 1486, and as 

 it seems, with Caxton's letter*: Wynkyn de Worde's 

 impression has the addition of the treatise of Jishing; 

 of which only, it concerns us to speak. 



The several tracts contained in the abovementioned 

 two impressions of the same book, were compiled by 

 dame Julyans (or Juliana) Berners, Berncs, or Barnes ; 

 prioress of the nunnery of Sopwell, near St. Alban's; a 

 lady of a noble family and celebrated, for her learn ing 

 and accomplishments, by Lclaud, Bale, Pits, Bishop 

 Tanner, and others. Aivd the reason for her publishing 

 it, in the manner it appears in, she gives us in the fol- 

 lowing words: 3nt) for bg cau0e t&at ti0 present treatise 

 0I)olHe not come to tfje f>ontjp0 of ccl;c gtile persone to&gc&e toottje 

 fce0iie it, pf it toere emprgntcti allone by iteeff anfc put in a Iztyll 

 plaunflet ; tljerefoice 31 fjaue compyIi?B it in a crcter uolume, of 

 t>puer0e 6o&j?0 toncernpnge to cctttgH anTJ noble men, to tfce entent 

 tfjat k t|)e for0a?n rule per0one0 to!)2Cl;e flbolue tjauc but fytvll me* 

 0ute in ti?e 0apti Ugspojte of fg00i)2nBe, 0|?oltie not bg t!?i0 meane 

 uttetlg tJg0trore it* 



And as to the treatise itself, it must be deemed a great 



* Vide Biografbia Britamiica y Art. CAXTON, note L, wherein the 

 author, Air. Oidys, has given a copious account of the book, and a cha- 

 racter of the lady who compiled it. 



