CHAPTER II 



FOR more than a hundred years after the publication 

 of The Book of St Albans no new work on angling 

 was printed in England ; there must, however, have 

 been a demand for sporting literature, for between 

 the years 1500 and 1596, no less than fourteen 

 undated editions of The Book of St Albans were 

 printed. 



About the year 1 500 the Treatyse offfysshynge wyth 

 an Angle was printed separately, and it is to be hoped 

 that its publication in that form did not bring it into 

 the " hondys of eche ydle persone." 



In 1590 there was published A Booke of fishing 

 with Hooke and Line and of all other instruments 

 there unto belonging. Made by L. M. 



Leonard Mascall, the author of this book, was a 

 member of an old Sussex family living at Plumstead 

 in that county ; he was Clerk of the Kitchen of Mathew 

 Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury : he also drew up 

 the Parish Register of Farnham Royal, Buckingham- 

 shire, inserting in it the injunctions of Cromwell 

 concerning the keeping of Registers, and prefixing 



