140 BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA. 



Manuscripts. Continued. 



is no date to the treatise itself, but it is bound up with an essay 

 on another subject following it, dated 1669, seven years before 

 Cotton published his work. The paper following it. as far as can 

 be judged, seems to be later, though in the same handwriting. 

 There is also in the same book a baptismal record of Rob. Noble's 

 children, the first date of which is 1669, the last 1701, with other 

 papers. These throw uncertainty upon the date of the treatise ; 

 but if it be older than Cotton's work it accounts for the rapidity 

 with which Cotton prepared his essay ; the details on iiv-fishing 

 being thus ready to his hand. There are variations, slight indeed, 

 but marked, from Cotton's book, which make the treatise, to my 

 eye, appear more like an original than a copy. It was purchased 

 from Wm. Garret, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and is named in his 

 catalogue for August, 1845."] 



Bainbridge ( George Cole ). Of artificial flies and the sea- 

 sons proper for using them. 1812. 



[120 octavo pages with two pages of coloured drawings of 

 flies, very nicely executed. The materials for "The liy -fisher's 

 guide." In the collection of Mr. Grego.] 



Baits. Baits and receipts for catching fish. (First half of 

 1 6th century.) 4 folios. Sloane J\J8. 4. folio 39 b. 



[ The name of Anthony Shupton occurs in various parts of 

 the volume in which the above is bound but attached to papers of 

 an earlier date. In the Sloane collec ion are other scattered MS. 

 notes of a similar character but of a later period.] 



Barker ( Thomas). Notes relative to Thomas Barker, Esq., 

 his work on angling, etc. ; with letters, etc. 4. 

 [ Sold at Prince's sale i 6s.] 



Berners (Lady Juliana). Treatise of fishing with an angle. 

 [ A manuscript of the XV century, on paper, (containing, on 

 20 pages, a portion of the work first printed in the Hook of St. 

 Albans anno 1496) from the library of J. Haslewood, who has 

 prefixed an account of the volume, and three illuminations in 

 gold and colours (the arms, a title-page, and a man fishing), 

 and inserted also a transcript for the convenience of reading. 

 Formerly in the hands of Mr. Jesse and now in the Denison 

 collection.] 



Comtes des pecheries de 1'Eglise de Troyes. 1349-1413. 

 Additional MSS. British Museum. No. 22,496. 



[ It is written on vellum, and is exceedingly minute in its de- 

 tails, naming not only the fish caught day bv day, but the differ- 

 ent " etangs," or " fosses/ 1 of which there seem to have been 

 many. 'Ihe weight of the whole is summed up at the end of 

 each six months. The fish are ' d'argent,' ' bremes,' ' carpes/ 

 4 luces ' and ' angouilies.' 



The expenses of working the fishery are also set down, with 

 equal minuteness ; the repairs of the ponds, or stews the hire 

 oi a horse and the price of wine and onions for the ' pescheur.'] 



