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imagine that when he doffed rod and creel it was to don the white 

 nipfht cap and apron. 



To this ciliiion of Harl<er, some commendatory verses entitled 

 " Pleasant iiexameter verses," by a Mr. Hockenhull, are prefixed. 

 One of them runs thus : 



" Markliam, Ward, Lawson, dare you with Barker now compare ?" 

 Who was Ward ? The Rev. H. N. Ellacombe suggests that he was 

 probably the translator of "The Secrets of Maister Ale.xis of Pie- 

 mont by him collected out of divers excellent authors, and now 

 newly corrected and au.gmcnted. London : printed by William 

 Stansby for Richard Meighen and Thomas lones and arc to be sold 

 at their shop with-out Temple Barre vnder St. Clement's Church, 

 1615 " This edition seems to be unknown to bibliographers. Two 

 recipes arc given in it : "To catch river fish," and "How to take 

 great store of fish." (pp. 138 and 150.) 



An objection has been made that there e.xists no trace of Ward's 

 having written any substantive work on angling, but it is scarcely 

 an objection at all in this case, Lawson being in precisely the same 

 j)osition, while even Markham was but a trader in other men's wits, 

 as far as his treatises on our sport are concerned. The three men 

 are therefore not unfairly linked, and it must be remembered that at 

 the period in question (Hockenhull's verses were probably written 

 before the advent of Walton and certainly of Venables) a triad of 

 original angling writers would have been hard to find.] 



Barlow (Francis). Seuerale wayes of hunting, hawking, and 

 fishing, according to the English manner. Inuented by 

 Francis Barlow. Etched by W. Hollar. 



If hunting, hawking, fishing pleasure yeald, 

 How much may art exceede, as if in feild. 

 You vew'd each sport, by figure so exprest, 

 The seuerale wayes they take fowle, fish and beast. 

 And are to be sould by John Overton at the White Horse 

 without Newgate. London, 1671. Obi. 4°. 



[ An extremely scarce work, if we may judge by the absence of it 

 from all the sale-catalogues of collectors that have come in our way. 

 There is no typed title. The engraved title consists of a scroll 

 enclosing the above and is followed by twelve plates, the subjects of 

 which are " Hare-huntmg," "Stagg- hunting," " Cony - catching," 

 "Otter-hunting," "Coursing fallow deer," "Fox-hunting," "Feasant 

 hawking," "Partridge hawking," "Hern hawking," "Angling," 

 "River fishing," and " Salmon fishing." Under each plate is a 

 quatrain similar in style to that in the title. 



Heineken in his " Dictionnaire des artistes," (Leipzig, 1788-90. 

 Vol. IL, p. 138) gives two sets of plates, the one of 6 including 

 title, the other of 7, but these, united, correspond with the above. 

 Bryan, in his "Dictionary of painters and engravers," gives a set of 

 13 plates, including, probably, as does Heineken, the elaborately 

 engraved title. Strutt also refers to the work as having come under 

 his observation. In a copy we have seen which is probabl}' of a 

 more recent issue, the title-page differs wholly from the above. It 

 is an engraved plate like the rest, but represents a hunting subject, 

 the death of the stag, and behind the group of hounds and horsemen 



