Notes 



Madeley Pond is still a resort for anglers, and like every old pond, boasts its 

 legends of marvellous pike. No doubt Walton used to fish in it, and there is a 

 tradition in the district that a large stone used to stand at the side of the pool, on 

 which he had carved his " I. W.", but the stone has long since disappeared. 



Page 8. honest Nat. and R. Roe. These friends of Walton's have never been 

 identified. 



Page 8. Mr. Hales (a most valiant and excellent fencer). Mr. Egerton Castle, 

 in his Schools and Masters of Fence (1892), refers to the fact of Hales' The Private 

 School of ^Defence being mentioned by Walton, but he adds no further information 

 about the book or its author. Mr. Thimm, in his Complete bibliography of Fencing 

 and Duelling, also refers to Walton, but also adds nothing further to our knowledge. 



Pages 11-19. WRITERS OF COMMENDATORY VERSES. 



Jo. Floud, Mr. of Arts, and Rob. Floud, C. Brothers of Walton's first wife, 

 Robert being the elder son, and John the second son, of (Robert ?) Floud of 

 Canterbury, who had married Susannah, daughter of Thomas Cranmer of Canter- 

 bury. Robert Floud, the famous Rosicrucian, was a connection of the family. 



Ch. Harvie, Mr. of Arts. Probably Christopher Harvey, Vicar of Clifton, in 

 Warwickshire, born 1597, lived till 1663 and perhaps after. In Part I., Chap V., 

 Walton quotes a poem by him on Common Prayer, which is included in The 

 Synagogue, a collection of sacred poems (supplementary to Herbert's Temple), of 

 which the authorship, before doubtful, seems thus established as Harvey's. 



Tho. Weaver, Mr. of Arts. The son of Thomas Weaver, of Worcester. He 

 entered of Christ's Church, Oxford, in 1633, being then seventeen years of age, and 

 took his Master's degree in 1640, about which time he was made one of the 

 chaplains or petty canons of the cathedral. He was ejected by the Parliament in 

 1648, when "he shifted from place to place, and lived upon his wits." After the 

 Restoration, he was made an exciseman at Liverpool, and was commonly called 

 "Captain Weaver" ; but "prosecuting too much the crimes of poets," he died at 

 Liverpool, on the 3rd of January. 16623. His works are : Songs and Poems of 

 Love, 1654 ; Choice Drollery, with Songs and Sonnets, 1656. Wood's Athen. Oxon., 

 quoted by N. 



Edw. Powel, Mr. of Arts. Probably the Edward Powel " of the borough of 

 Stafford, Minister," whose son Charles took his degree of B.A. in 1666, became 

 Rector of Cheddington, and was the author of The Religious Rebel. Wood's 

 Fasti Ox on. 



An "Ed. Powel," and most likely the same person, addressed some com- 



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