Notes 



D.D., Lond., 1671, there is this polemical epigram upon those who claim authority 

 from St. Peter. 



Peter a fsher ivas and fie caught men, 



And they have nets and in them catch men too ; 

 Tet I'll not swear they are alike, for those 



He caught he sa-vd t these catch and them undo. B. 



Page 54. -fish-hooks . . . but twice mentioned. Hawkins refers also to Is. xix. 8 ; 

 Habakkuk i. 15. 



Page 55. Ferdinand Mendez Pinto (1509-1583). A Portugese traveller, whose 

 " voyages " were at one time wholly discredited, but have since been verified. 



Congreve thus refers to him in Love for Love : "Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was 

 but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude." 



Page 55-56. angling allowed to clergymen. What must have contributed to the 

 cultivation of the angle, was its being allowed, as Walton tells us, by the ancient 

 Ecclesiastical canons, to ecclesiastical persons, as a harmless recreation 'a recrea- 

 tion inviting them to contemplation and quietness ; ' while hunting was forbidden, 

 * as being a turbulent, toilsome, and perplexing recreation ; ' or, according to the 

 observation of St. Ives, the compiler of Ecclesiastical Canons, angling is a thing 

 simple and innocent, no ways repugnant to the clerical character : non in-veniri in 

 Scripturis sanctis, sanctum aliquem venatorem ; piscatores inveniri sanctos (Esau, c. 86). 

 For similar reasons, and to avoid idleness in the time that must have hung heavily 

 on their hands, the religious were told to make fishing-nets : ux texantur ab eis Una 

 capiendis piscibus. Nor could angling have well been forbidden them by the church, 

 as St. Peter, their Rock, was, according to St. Ambrose (on Luke v., 13), the 

 angler among the apostles : Solum Tetrum piscari Dominus jubet, dicens : mitte ha- 

 mum, et eum pi seem, qui primus ascendent, tolle. B. 



Page 56. learned Perkins, Doctor Whittaker, Doctor Nowel. 



William Perkins (1558-1602) having led a dissolute youth, turned devout, and 

 became a famous Calvinistic divine. Fuller says that "he would use the word 'damn' 

 with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo in his auditors' ears a good while after." 



William Whittaker (1548-1595), another Cambridge Calvinistic divine and 

 controversialist. He was educated under Dean Nowel, who was his uncle, and 

 whose Catechism he translated into Greek ; he likewise translated the liturgy into 

 the same language. 



Alexander Nowel (1507 1601-2), a famous Oxford divine, who is supposed to 

 have written the greater part of the Church Catechism. In 1560 he was made 

 dean of St. Paul's, and in 1595 principal of Brasenose College. 



Page 60. Jo. Davors, Esq. These verses are quoted from the now famous 

 poem, The Secrets of Angling. Teaching, the choisest Tooles, Baytes and Seasons for 



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