328 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



of Peter Du Moulin, who was also celebrated in the same cause. He was 

 Chaplain to King Charles II. of England, and a Prebendary of the Cathe- 

 dral of Canterbury, in which city he died in 1684, at the age of 84. The 

 passage alluded to by Walton will be found in No. 30 of the preceding 

 list, at sign, a 3 in the Preface to the Reader. 



Page 59. And an ingenious Spaniard says. 



This passage is commonly supposed to allude to John Valdesso, a Span- 

 ish soldier in the service of the Emperor Charles V. ; of whom, in his old 

 age, he obtained leave to retire, by urging the aphorism, " It is fit that be- 

 tween the employment of life and the day of death some space should inter- 

 vene " : reflection on this is thought to have been the chief reason of that 

 Sovereign's abdication, of which Walton gives a particular narrative in his 

 Life of Mr. George Herbert. Valdesso secluded himself in the city of 

 Naples, and there wrote, in the Castilian tongue, "The Hundred and Ten 

 Considerations of Signer Valdesso," which were translated into Italian by 

 Cselius Secundus Curio, of Basil, and thence into English by the celebrated 

 Nicholas Farrar, Jun. of Little Gidding, and published in 410 at Oxford in 

 1638. From this work the passage in the text is said to have been taken, 

 but it does not appear there. Hawkins. 



Page 59. One of no less credit than Aristotle. 



In the margin of the First Edition of Walton is inserted at this place, 

 " In his Wonders of Nature. This is confirmed by Ennius, and Solon in 

 His Holy History." The circumstances mentioned by Camden will be 

 found in his Britannia, see No. 8 in the preceding list, at pages 558 and 762. 

 The Sabbatical River of Josephus is described in the Seventh Book and 

 5th Chapter of his History, No. 24 in the list ; and in the fifth volume of 

 Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, p. 581, will be found some additional 

 particulars and references concerning it. 



Page 60. Learned Dr. Casauborf s discourse. 



Meric, son of Isaac Casaubon, a man of very great learning, was born 

 at Geneva in 1599, and was educated at Oxford ; he was afterwards made 

 a Prebendary of Canterbury, in addition to which Oliver Cromwell vainly 

 endeavored to engage him by a pension of ,300 to write the history of his 

 time. He died in 1671, bearing an amiable character for loyalty, religion, 

 and charity : he wrote many volumes, but the singular work mentioned in 

 the text will be found at No. lo of the preceding list, and the passage 

 alluded to commences at page 243 of thav edition. 



Page 60. Collected by John 7^radescant. 



Of these names there were three p-rson&, grandfather, father, and son j 

 of whom the son is the one alluded , the text. They were all eminent 

 botanists, and collectors of natura' / ^ jsities ; the two former were gar- 

 deners to Queen Elizabeth, and tL* ' -ter held the same situation under 



