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who, three years after, pulled down what remained of the house and built another 

 for himself about a mile to the south of it. Sir Henry Ellis quoted by N. 



Page 21. mews a hawk. From the old French mue, which signifies a change, 

 or the period when birds and other animals moult, or cast their feathers, hairs, or 

 horns. In the above passage, it is applied to the care with which a hawk should 

 be kept in her mewing-time, from the beginning of Lent till the beginning of 

 August. M. 



Page 22. noble Mr. Sadler's upon Amwell Hill. Ralph Sadler, or Sadleir, of 

 Standon, in the county of Hertford, Esq., only son and heir of Sir Thomas Sadler, 

 and grandson of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight Banneret, so eminent in the times of 

 Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. He married, in 1601, Anne Paston, 

 eldest daughter of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice ; in 1606, he succeeded 

 to the family seat of Standon, and he died, with issue, on February 12, 1660. 

 Scoffs Sadler's Papers. He appears to have had a strong regard for angling, since 

 Sir Henry Chauncy, in his Hist. Ant. Hertf., p. 219, says of him, that "he brought 

 an Action of Trespass Quare Vi and Armis against John Hyat in the Court of 

 King's Bench, for fishing in the river Standon, leading through his own land, and 

 for erecting a weir there : and he obtained judgment thereupon. He delighted 

 much in hawking and hunting, and the pleasures of a country life ; was famous 

 for his noble table, his great hospitality to his neighbours, and his abundant charity 

 to the poor." On his death, at a great age, his estates descended to Walter, Lord 

 Aston, the son and heir of Gertrude, his sister. M. & N. 



The reader will remember that Walton presented a copy of The Compleat Angler 

 to this Lord Aston. 



Page 25. Lucian, well skill* d in scoffing This epigram is altered by 



Walton from the version of it in Certain select Dialogues of Lucian, together with his 

 true History -, translated from the Greek into English, by Mr. Francis Hickes, Oxford, 1663, 

 4.10. The epigram is signed T. H. i.e., Thomas Hickes, the son, who published 

 the work and reads thus : 



Lucian well skilled in old toyes this hath writ; 

 For all's but folly that men think is wit ; 

 No settled judgment doth in men appear, 

 But thou admirest that which others jeer. 



While speaking of Lucian, the reader's attention may be called to a keen satire 

 of his on the mercenary philosophers of his time, in a dialogue called The Fisher- 

 man, the point of which is this : Lucian borrows an angle, baits his hook with gold 

 and figs, seats himself on the Pelasgic wall and angles in the city; when he catches, 

 one after another, an Epicurean, a Cynic, a Platonist, a Peripatetic, a Stoic, &c. 

 It is admirably carried out, and has been more than once imitated by modern 

 writers. B. 



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