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making them ; " indeed these Rods are the most 

 sufficient for any ordinary Angling whatsoever, and 

 because there is so great choyse of them to be 

 bought almost in every Haberdashers Shop, I will 

 not trouble you with any further relation of them, 

 but leave them to your best election." 



Markham still seems to regard the barbel as a free 

 riser at the fly : 



As thus you may buy these bare hookes, so you 

 may also buy all manner of Flyes for every month in 

 the yeere, and for every Fish that biteth at those 

 baits, especially the Trout, the Chevin, and the 

 Barbell. Now if you will be so industrious to make 

 these things yourselfe, then having provided Wyer, 

 Silke, wool, Feathers, and the like, lay but the 

 examples before you and undoe one, and you shall 

 finde it most easy to make an hundred. 



A curious little book, the exact date of publication 

 of which I have been unable to ascertain, entitled 

 The Young Sportsman's Instructor. In Angling ; 

 Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, Ordering Singing Birds, 

 Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, and Dogs, A nd how to 

 Cure them, by G. M. Sold at the Gold Ring in 

 Little Brittain, price 6d., has been attributed to 

 Gervase Markham. 



Mr Pearson, in producing a partial reprint of this 

 work in The Angler's Garland, 1871, gives the date 

 as about 1 597. But apart from the style of the book, 

 which is very different from that of the familiar 

 angling works of that period, it contains the following 



