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Mascall's book, are given for " preserving fish from all 

 sorts of devourers." 



The angling portion of the Pleasures of Princes 

 appears unaltered in several of Markham's 

 books, which were issued under different titles, 

 as Cheape and Good Husbandry p , The Way to get 

 Wealth, etc. 



In the Booke of Cheape and Good Husbandry (1616) 

 two chapters on making fish ponds are given, and in 

 the 1623 edition of the same work a woodcut of "a 

 Platform for ponds " is added. 



Markham appended another work on angling to 

 The Whole Art of Husbandry by Conrad Heresbach, 

 which he edited in 1631. " The Whole Art of 

 Husbandry contained in Foure Bookes. . . . First 

 written by Conrade Heresbatch, a learned Nobleman, 

 then translated by Barnaby Googe, Esquire, and now 

 Renewed, Corrected, enlarged and adorned with all 

 the experiments and practices of our English 

 Nation, which were wanting in the Former Editions. 

 By Captaine Gervase Markham." 



The first edition which Markham published in 

 1614 contained no reference to angling. On com- 

 paring Markham's edition of Conrad Heresbach's 

 work with the translation by Barnaby Googe, I find 

 the whole of the angling portion has been added by 

 Markham, though no note to that effect is given : in 

 the original work there is merely a brief treatise on 

 fish ponds. 



Markham's addition on angling is practically a 



