62 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



in the habit of writing several works on the same 

 subject under different titles; indeed in order to 

 protect themselves from this latter device the book- 

 sellers obtained from him the following agreement, 

 which is recorded in the Stationers' Registers : 



14 July 1617 

 15 Regis Jacobi. 



Memorandum That I Gervase Markham of London 

 gent. Do promise here after Never to write any more 

 book or bookes to be printed, of the Deseases or 

 cures of any Cattle, as Horse, Oxe, Cowe, sheepe, 

 Swine and Goates etc. In witnes where of I haue 

 here unto sett my hand the I4th Day of Julie 1617. 

 GERUIS MARKHAM. 



In 1613 The English Husbandman , by Gervase 

 Markham, was published. It contained no mention 

 of angling, but was divided into three parts, "a 

 former part, before the first part : Being an absolute 

 perfect Introduction into the Rules of true Husbandry," 

 the " first Part contayning the manner of plowing and 

 manuring, etc.," and the second part, " contayning the 

 art of Planting, grafting, etc.," concluded with a promise 

 if the work was well received, of another book of 

 husbandry, "contayning the feeding, breeding, and 

 diseases of cattle and other arts of Husbandry." 



The book appears to have met with a good 

 reception, for in the following year (1614), The second 

 booke of the English Husbandman was published, 

 "contayning the orderings of the Kitchen Garden 

 ... a discourse of the generall art of fishing with 



