THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 333 



con's Orders, and was made Provost of Eton College, where he died in 

 December 1639. Walton. The passage quoted in the text is in his Re- 

 mains ; see the foregoing list, No. 43, and the recto of sign, c 6 in that 

 volume. The poem printed on page 70 is in the same book at p. 524 ; 

 and in these verses the word Pilgrim is put for the Swallow, because of 

 its migrations. 



Page 73. The gloves of an Otter, etc. 



All the particulars related of the Otter were derived from the Rev. 

 Edward Topsell's Natural History ; see No. 41 in the list of Authorities, 

 and pp. 572-575 of that volume. The work is, in effect, a translation of 

 the Historise Animalium of Gesner, and contains numerous references to 

 many learned authorities. The Rev. Edward Topsell, by whom it was 

 executed, was Chaplain to Dr. Neile, Dean of Westminster, in the Church 

 of St. Botolph, Aldersgate. The Second Chapter in the First Edition of 

 Walton contains a great part of the matter of the present Chapters II., 

 III., IV. ; since it ends with the Hostess calling Viator and Piscator to 

 supper. The title of it, in the table already mentioned, is "In the 

 Second are some observations of the nature of the Otter, and also some 

 observations of the Chub or Cheven, with directions how and with what 

 baits to fish for him." 



Page 76. Make conscience of the Laws of the Nation. 



This passage which from "Is not mine Host a witty man ?" p. 76, 

 down to "To speak truly," p. 77, is wanting in the First Edition alludes 

 to a statute made in the 5th of Eliz., which enacts that any person eating 

 flesh upon the usual Fish-days shall forfeit ^3 for every offence, or under- 

 go three months' imprisonment without bail. This Act, in all its branches, 

 views, and amendments, is fully considered in a Tract published by John 

 Erswicke, Gent., in 1642, 4to, entitled "A briefe note of the benefits that 

 grow to this Realme by the obseruation of Fish-daies with a reason and 

 cause wherefore the Law in that behalfe made is ordained." The statutes 

 mentioned on p. 76, with many amendments, may be seen in " The Sec- 

 ond Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England," by Sir Edw. Coke, 

 Lond. 1642, fol. p. 477. In most of the former editions of The Com- 

 plete Angler there is a misprint of Richard III. for Richard IL 



P a g e 85. You shall read in Seneca. 



These particulars were taken from Dr. Hakewill's Apology, No. 21 in 

 the preceding list, and book iv. sect. 6, p. 433 of that volume. The 

 translation of Seneca by Dr. Thomas Lodge, printed in 1620, fol., was 

 however most probably known to Walton. 



Page 87. His name is of a German offspring. 



Minsheu shows it to be rather from the Low-Dutch Trort t derived 

 probably of the corrupt Latin Truta. 



