316 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



Laughter, vide Gen. xxi. 6. In this circumstance Walton was, most 

 probably, guided by some of the many learned divines with whom he was 

 acquainted. 



Page 31. Witness, Abraham Mark land. 



The appearance of the above name as a witness to Walton's Will, is an 

 additional proof of the great respect in which he was held by the most 

 eminent clergy of his time. Dr. Abraham Markland was a Prebendary of 

 Winchester Cathedral, where he was installed the 4th of July, 1692 ; and 

 in August, 1694, he was named Master of the Hospital of St. Cross, near 

 the above city. He published several Poems, in 1667, 4to, composed in 

 that retirement, and "A Sermon, preached before the Aldermen in Guild- 

 hall Chapel," Lond. 1683. 4to. Ath. Oxon. Edit, by Bliss, vol. iv. p. 

 710. The above circumstances were obligingly pointed out by his 

 descendant J. H. Markland, Esq., F.R.S., etc. Walton's Will, which 

 is given in the text, is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in 

 the volume called I Hare, 375, Art. 24. It was proved by the Executors 

 at London, on February the 4th, 1683-4, before Sir Thomas Exton and 

 Sir Leoline Jenkins. 



Page 41. A Conference betwixt an Angler, etc. 



The First Edition of the Complete Angler has not any descriptive titles 

 prefixed to the chapters ; but the leaf immediately preceding the com- 

 mencement of the work itself contains a short Table of Contents to the 

 thirteen chapters of which that edition is composed, and which is intro- 

 duced in the following manner : "Because in this Discourse of Fish and 

 Fishing I have not observed a method, which (though the Discourse be 

 not long) may be some inconvenience to the Reader, I have therefore for 

 his easier rinding out some particular things which are spoken of, made 

 this following Table. The first chapter is spent in a vindication or com- 

 mendation of the Art of Angling." After having gone through the Tfhole 

 number of chapters, the Table concludes with, "These directions the 

 Reader may take as an ease in his search after some particular Fish, and 

 the baits proper for them ; and he will shew himselfe courteous in mend- 

 ing or passing by some few errors in the Printer, which are not so many 

 but that they may be pardoned." In the Second Edition, there were 

 twenty-one chapters, entitled as they are in the foregoing pages ; and the 

 Third Edition was the first which had an index. 



Page 41. The Thatched House in Hoddesden. 



In the First Edition, there are but two characters introduced in Chapter 

 I. : Viator, or the Wayfarer, whose name in the Second impression was 

 changed to Venator, or the Hunter, and Piscator, the Fisherman. In- 

 stead, therefore, of the dialogue as it now stands, the opening passages 

 were originally as follow : ' ' Piscator. You are wel overtaken Sir ; a 



