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some verses on the proper keeping of the book. He 

 was buried in the parish of Farnham Royal, on loth 

 May 1589. 



Mascall appears to have been rather a translator of 

 foreign writers than an author, for among other works, 

 he translated from the Dutch, A profitable booke 

 declaring dyvers approved remedies , to take out spottes 

 and staines in Silkes, 1588, and A very proper Treatise 

 on Limming. The introduction of the carp into 

 England has been attributed to Mascall, and in a 

 work entitled The Angler's Sure Guide, printed 1706, 

 the following passage occurs : " Carps have not been 

 of very antient standing in England, as appears by 

 what follows : Carps were first brought into England 

 by one Mr Mascall of Plumstead in Sussex, 15 H.8. 

 Anno Dom. 1524 who stored his Ponds with them 

 there." 



The fact of the carp being mentioned in the 

 Treaty se of jfysshyng wyth an Angle, proves the date 

 mentioned to be incorrect, and the following passage 

 in Mascall's book probably gave rise to the above 

 statement : " The Carpe also is a straunge and 

 daintie fish to take, his baites are not well knowne, 

 for he hath not long beene in this realme. The first 

 bringer of them into England (as I have beene 

 credibly enformed) was maister Mascoll of Plumsted 

 in Sussex, who also brought first the planting of the 

 Pippin in England" It is possible that Mascall, 

 writing, as he was in this case, anonymously, was 

 here attempting to attach either to himself or to 



