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W£is, as indeed many others of great learning have been. But I 

 will content myself with two memorable men, that lived near 

 to our own time, whom I also take to have been ornaments to the 

 art of angling. 



The first is Doctor Nowel,* sometime Dean of the Cathedral 



ingg we must conclude) great "commendations on angling." Perkins had 

 the misfortune to want the use of his right hand, as we find in this distich 

 on him : 



♦' Though Nature hath thee of thy right hand bereft, 



Right well thou writest with the hand that's left." — Trans. 



And, therefore, can hardly be supposed capable of even baiting his hook. 

 The fact respecting Whittaker is thus attested by Fuller in his Holy State, 

 Book III., ch. 13 : " Fishing with an angle is to some rather a torture 

 than a pleasure, to stand an hour as mute as the fish they mean to take, 

 yet herewithal Di. Whittaker was greatly delighted." — Hawkins 



* Dr. Alexander Nowel was a learned divine and famous preacher, in 

 the reign of Edward VI., on whose death he fled into Germany, till the 

 persecutions were over, when he returned and was made Dean of St. Paul's. 

 He. died in 1601. The monument spoken of as standing in Walton's day, 

 was destroyed in the Great Fire. Dr. Dunham Whittiker, in his History 

 of Whallfy, says of Nowel, that Walton, " a man of the same tranquil 

 devotion," records his (Nowel's) spending the tenth part of his time in 

 angling, " an amusement suited above all others to calm and contemplative 

 minds, and sacred as it would seem to the relaxation of eminent divines." 

 There ha::? been much dispute about the authorship of the Catechism in the 

 Church of England Prayer Book, and Strype {Memorials, ii., 442) holds 

 the opinion of Walton ; but Nowel did write two catechisms, a small and a 

 larger one, the latter by the request of Secretary Cecil and others, which 

 was approved (not by parliament), but by a convocation held 1562. In tlie 

 conference at Hampton Court, Dr. Reynolds distinguished between the cate- 

 chism of Nowel and that in the service-book, saying that the first was too 

 long and the latter too short. Both Nowel's catechisms contained the 

 doctrines of the sacraments, which the catechism in the book did not, until 

 after the Hampton Court conference, when Dr. Overall, to answer the objec- 

 tions of the Puritans to it on that account, added what has been ever since 

 printed in it after the explanation of the Lord's Prayer. The true author 

 of the Church of England Catechism will never probably be ascertained. 

 The curious may consult Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities (Herbert's), 

 vol. iv., 13; and Cardwell's Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church 

 of England, vol. i., 266. — Hawkins, Major, 8fc. 



Fuller ( Worthies, lancashire) ascribes the invention of bottling ale to 

 Nowel, who, he tells us, having taken some ale in a bottle with him when 



