BIBUOTHECA PISCATORIA. 139 



Then will thy mind be so staved with the fear of the Lord, that 

 this verse may not disagree with thy thoughts, viz : 

 Whilst weary anglers in the night do sleep. 

 Their fancies on their Hoat still watching keep." 

 We trust the link of connection between the fear of the Lord 

 and the couplet quoted, will be clearer to others thin it is to our- 

 selves.] 



Manley (John Jackson). Notes on fish and fishing. With 

 illustrations. ' Quicqnid agunt pisces nostri est farrago 

 libeili.'' ( Slightly altered from) JUVKNAL. London. Sampson 

 Low and Co. 1877. pp. viii. 363. 8. 



[Contains an interesting chapter on the Literature of Angling,] 



Manual of rural sports. See STONKHENGE, pseud. 

 Manuel du chasseur, 1825. See ECOLE. 

 Manuscripts. 



Angling books and angling hooks. 



[ A curious collection of memoranda, extracts from sale cata- 

 logues, cuttings from old newspapers, etc., illustrating the history 

 of angling books and hooks. This volume which contains the 

 bookplate of Haslewood, was formerly in the library of the Rev. 

 Dr. Cotton and afterwards in the possession of Dr. Bethune.] 



Art. Art of angling, augmented ; gathered out of Mr. 

 Walton and others. 



[ An original MS. very closely written. Formerly in Pickering's 

 collection.] 



De arte piscatoria. Concerning Angling for a Trout or 



Grayling. 



[Once in the possession of Dr. Bethune who thus describes 

 it : 



" This is a very curious MS. by Robert Noble, who appears to 

 have been a clergyman. It begins thus: 3 waies. i. At the top ; 

 2. At the bottom ; 3. In the middle. At the top with a fly. At 

 the bottom with ground-bait. In the middle with a minnow or 

 ground-bait. 



At the top is of two sorts, with I. A quick fly; 2. An arti- 

 ficial fly. At the bottom is of two sorts I. By hand ; 2. Or with 

 a float. For the middle is of two sorts I. With a minnow for 

 a trout ; 2. Or with a ground-bait for a grayling or omber, vulgo 

 ouinindr. Of flv-fishing at the top I. With a natural fly ; 2. 

 With an artilicial or made fly. 



i. First of the natural fly, which are to be used in May or June 

 only, namely, the greendrake, the stone-fly, and the chamlet-fly, to 

 which I may add the grasshopper, the most excellent of any." 

 After this follows " 2. With an artificial or made fty you are "to 

 angle with a line (or tawm), &.c." Then follows a list of flies for 

 each month, the same, and in nearly the same words, as Cotton's, 

 in his second part of the " Complete angler," and the treatise 

 breaks off. From this it is clear that either Cotton copied from 

 this treatise, or the treatise is a synopsis from Cotton's. There 



