So THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



the fish they mean to take yet herewithal Dr. Whittaker was much 

 delighted." H. 



T Dr. Alexander Nowel, a learned divine and a famous preacher 

 in the reign of King Edward VI. ; upon whose death he, with 

 many other Protestants, fled to Germany, where he lived many 

 years. In 1561 he was made Dean of St. Paul's, and in 1601 died. 

 The monument mentioned in the text was consumed in the Fire 

 of London, but the inscription thereon is preserved in Stowe's 

 " Survey." An engraving of the monument itself is in Dugdale's 

 "History of St. Paul's Cathedral." H. 



Fuller, in his "Worthies" (Lancashire, page 115), has thought 

 it worth recording of this pious and learned divine that he was 

 accustomed to fish in the Thames; and having one day left his 

 bottle of ale in the grass on the bank of the river, he found it 

 some days after no bottle but a gun, such the sound at the opening 

 thereof. And hence he seems to derive the origin of bottled ale 

 in England. H. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



1 " Mews a hawk," from the French. The moulting of hawks 

 is termed " mewing," and particular care must be taken of them at 

 this time. The enclosure of the country into fields has, amongst 

 other things, put an end to the noble practice of hawking or 

 falconry, although several attempts have been made of late years 

 to revive it. 



1 Otter -hunting is now confined to Wales and the northern 



