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Recreation. The Royiil Rccrc.uiDii of Jovial Anglers. 

 ProviiitJ; thai all men aic Iiilan^lcrs, 

 And all protcssioiis are turn'd Anglers. 

 To the tunc oi Amaiillis. (The second part to the same 

 tune.) B. L. [ London.] F. Coles, T. Vere, W. Gilbertsoii 

 and J Wright. [1654?] a broadside. 



[ A copy of this ballad is in the Roxbiirtrhe collection (vol. iii., 

 nos. 232. 233.) now preserved in the Hritish Museum, where the 

 conjectural date of 1660 is assigned to it in the catalogue. The two 

 parts contain eleven verses, and the first part is headed with the 

 woodcut which forms the frontispiece to the first, second and fourth 

 editions of J. D's " Secrets of angling." This last edition was 

 issued in 1652 by Francis Coles of liie "Old Bavley," whose name 

 is upon the ballad. ('I'he earliest ballad with a (kite in the Ro.x- 

 burghe collection, on which the aliove four names ajipear conjointly, 

 was issued in 1655.) Mr. John Payne Collier thinks that this was 

 probablv the original pid)lication, ami adds, " It is doubtful whether 

 the ballad is o'der than the date of the first impression of Walton's 

 'Angler,' in 1653. The hours of business on the Royal E.xchange 

 is stated in it to be ' twi.xt twejve and one,' whereas in the latter 

 end of the reign of Elizabeth and in that of James ist. it was 

 between eleven and twelve. William Haughton's comedy, 'English- 

 men for mv money,' (printed in 1616, but written in 1598, as 

 appears bv Henslowe's Diary, p. 119), shows that merchants then 

 attended Change at eleven o'clock, and dined at twelve. There is 

 no other very distinct note of time in the ballad. The tune seems 

 comparatively modern, as we do not find it in any early collection." 

 The ballad has been included (with slight variations) in several 

 collections: in "Cupid's Beediive," 1721 (See Cupid); in "The 

 compleat fisher or the true art of angling, by J. S.," 6th ed., and 

 more recentlv in "The Book of Ro.xburghe Ballads," 1847, edited 

 by Mr. J. P. Collier, and in the publications of the " Ballad 

 Society."] 



Recreator. The popular recreator. A key to in-door and out- 

 door amusements. 2 vol. London, Cassell. (n. d.) 8°. 

 [A treatise on angling extends through both volumes.] 



Reck (Mord. von der). Disputatio juridica de piscatione. 

 Solenniter defendendam suscepit M. von der Reck. Argen- 

 torati, 1662. pp. 12. 4°. 



RecueiL Recueil deslois, decrets, arretes et reglemens en rigeur 

 en Belgique, sur I'administration forestiere de la peche et de la 

 chasse. Arlon, 1836. 8°. 



Reeves (Boleyne). Sports and pastimes in town and country 

 ...With twelve illustrations by R. Cruikshank. Edited by 

 B. Reeves. London. Printed by T. H. Coe, 27, Old Change, 

 1841, pp. iv. 356. 12°. 



See CoLBURN (H.) Colburn's kalendar of amuse- 

 ments, 1840. 12°. 



