xxrvi BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. 



other kindes of Vermine and Beasts whatsoever.' The 

 greater part of that portion of the book which treats of 

 fishing is clumsily taken from the ' Treatyse of Fysshynge 

 wyth an Angle,' and marred in the transfer ; but then it 

 must be confessed that there are some curious instructions, 

 which are peculiarly the author's own, such as : How to 

 catch eels in pottles of hay; how to bob for eels; and how 

 to breed miller's thumbs and loaches. The book is alto- 

 gether such an one, as a professional author, who did not 

 know^ a w^easel from a foumart, might be supposed to 

 make from the dictation of a rat-catcher, who occasionally 

 amused himself with a sweep-net or an eel-spear, in the 

 intervals of his regular vocation." The L. M., whose 

 initials are on the title, is understood to have been 

 the person referred to by Walton, in the beginning of his 

 ninth charpter, when he observes of the carp : " It is ge- 

 nerally thought that they w^ere brought to England by one 

 ]Mr. Mascal, who then lived at Plumstead, in Sussex, a 

 county that abounds more with this fish than any in this 

 nation." The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 

 however, speaks of the carp being in England, though it 

 says they were very few. Leonard Mascal also translated 

 a book on Planting and Grafting, 1589-1592, and wrote 

 another on Cattle, 1596. 



The* next book deserving notice has this title : " A new 

 Booke of Good Husband?^, very pleasaunt^ and of great 

 profile both for Gentlemen and Yomen : containing The 

 Order and maner of making of Fish-pondes, xvith the breed- 

 ing, preserving, and multiplying of the Carpe, Tench, 



• Ellis gives the following title of a book, a description of which I take 

 from him: G(ryndairs) (W[illiam]) Hawking, Hunting, Foivling, and 

 FHshing, vnth the trtie measures of Blowing, noiu neioly collected by W. 

 G., Faukcner, -Ito. : Lend., (slip., 159G. Hawking, Hunting, Fishing, 

 with the true measures of Blowing, newly corrected and amended, Ato.t 

 Lond. Edio. Aide., 1596. 



(Mr. Haworth had a copy which sold for four guineas.) 



