THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



Charles I. They resided at South Lambeth in Surrey, at a building now 

 known by the name of Turret-House ; and, dying there, were buried in 

 an altar-tomb, singularly ornamented, in Lambeth churchyard. With the 

 youngest of the family Mr. Ashmole contracted an intimacy, and, together 

 with his wife, boarded at his house for a summer ; during which time he 

 agreed with him for the purchase of his whole collection of rarities, and it 

 was accordingly conveyed to him by a deed of gift from Tradescant and 

 his wife. On his death, Ashmole was obliged to file a bill in Chancery for 

 the delivery of his property ; but soon after a decree had been pronounced 

 in his favor Mrs. Tradescant was discovered drowned, in her own pond. 

 This collection of natural curiosities, which was the first made in England, 

 Ashmole bequeathed with all its additions to the University of Oxford, 

 and thus founded the Ashmolean Museum. Hawkins. The list of 

 strange Fishes, etc. , mentioned by Walton, will be found at page 8 of a 

 Catalogue of the Collection, entitled " Museum Tradescantium, or a Col- 

 lection of Rarities preserved at South Lambeth, near London, by John 

 Tradescant." Land. 1656, 8vo. The passage from the words, "But I 

 will lay aside," p. 60, down to "she locks up her wonders," p. 61, was 

 not inserted till Walton's Fifth Edition. Elias Ashmole, who is men- 

 tioned in the same sentence with Tradescant, was born May 16, 1617, an< ^ 

 was a Chorister in Lichfield Cathedral. In 1638 he became a Solicitor in 

 Chancery ; but in 1649 he married his second wife, the I^dy Mary Main- 

 waring, who was possessed of a large fortune, and he resigned himself to 

 alchemical study in concert with William Lilly and John Aubrey, Esq., of 

 Surrey. In 1660 Charles II. gave him the office of Windsor Herald ; and 

 ten years after he produced his excellent History of the Order of the Gar- 

 ter. Ashmole married a third time in 1668, Elizabeth Dugdale, daughter 

 of Sir William Dugdale, and he died on May 18, 1692, celebrated for his 

 knowledge of many and various Arts and Sciences. 



Page 6 1. Mr. George Herbert. 



This pious, learned, and eminent person was of the noble family of Her- 

 bert, and a younger brother of the deistical Edward Lord Herbert of 

 Cherbury. He was a King's-Scholar at Westminster, and subsequently a 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; where, in 1619, he was chosen 

 University Orator. In that station he studied the modern languages with 

 a view to the office of Secretary of State ; but being of a consumptive habit, 

 and a retired turn of mind, he entered into holy orders, and was preferred 

 to a Prebend in the Cathedral of Lincoln. He married about 1630 a near 

 relation of the Earl of Danby, and died without issue in 1635, at l ^ e a g e 

 of forty-two. The printed works of Herbert are, a collection of Religious 

 Poems called the Temple, his Remains, and a Translation of Luigi Cor- 

 naro's Work on Temperance and Long Life. Walton. The passage 



