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TO THE 



EDITION PUBLISHED BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS, 1760. 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER having been written so long ago as 

 1653, although the last publication thereof in the life-time of the 

 Author was in 1676, contains many particulars of persons now 

 but little known, and frequent allusions to facts, and even 

 modes of living, the memory whereof is in a great measure 

 obliterated : a new edition, therefore, seemed to require a re- 

 trospect to the time when the authors lived, an explanation of 

 such passages as an interval of more than an hundred years 

 had necessarily rendered obscure, together with such improve- 

 ments in tin- art itself as the accumulated experience of suc- 

 ceeding times has enabled us to furnish. 



An Edition, undertaken with this view, is now attempted, 

 and in a way, it is to be hoped, that may once again introduce 

 the Authors to the acquaintance of persons of learning and 

 judgment. 



All that the Editor requests, in return for the pains he has 

 taken, is, that the reader will do him the justice to believe that 

 his only motives for the republication of this work were a desire 

 to perpetuate the memory of a meek, benevolent, pious man, 

 and to contribute something to the improvement of an art of 

 which he professes himself a lover. 



Twickenham, 

 Apr it JO, 1760. 



