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Manuscripts. Continued. 



Cockayne (Benjamin). Rules for angling. 1670. 



[ This MS., of 33 leaves, (now in possession of Mr. Denison) 

 figured in the sale catalogue of the Rev. H. Cotton, 1836, and 

 was set forth as the " Original and unpublished manuscript, in 

 the autograph of the Author, who was a relation and friend of 

 Charles Cotton's." To such a claim, however, it has no right, 

 being clearly modern, both as regards paper and handwriting. 

 That it may be a copy from an older MS. is possible ; it is at best, 

 however, but a mere collection of recipes for baits, extracted 

 from the different (antecedent) published works on the sport. 

 It is prefaced by the rough rhymes. 



" My rodde and my line, 



My cork and my lead," etc. 



to which the soi-disant Benjamin Cockayne sets his signature, 

 with the date, 1670, but which are quoted by Walton, in his 

 "Compleat Angler," 1653, as ''An old rhyme, from an old fish 

 book, j 



D. (J.) Memoranda and notes from various sources, in an 

 endeavour to trace the writer of that rare poetical work 

 mentioned by Walton in his u Angler," entitled "The 

 Secrets of Angling by J. D." 4. 



[Formerly in the collection of Mr. Prince.] 



Extracts. Extracts relative to fishing ; comprising all that 

 has been written on those subjects in the works of our 

 ancient and modern poets, and also in magazines, newspapers 

 and periodicals. 3 vols. 4. (circa 1800). 

 [ Formerly in the possession of Dr. Bethune.] 



Extracts relative to angling, from MSS. in the 



British Museum. 4. 



[ Mostly abridgements of known works.] 



Grant. Grant [in Latin] of Ranulph (de Meschines), Earl 

 of Chester to Roger (de Lacy) Constable (of Chester) of 

 a boat in the River Dee at Chester with the fishery thereof 

 above and below Chester bridge with the use of Flonets, 

 Dragnets, Stalnets, etc. (Circa 1180-1200). Har ley Char- 

 ters, British Museum, 52. A. 17. 



Heresbach (Conrad). A treatise of huntynge, with a dis- 

 course of faulconrie, foulynge and fyshynge, for the use of 

 Noblemen and the Maisters of countrie farmes. Written in 

 the Latin tongue by M. Conradus Heresbachius and newley 

 done into English by C. H. E. 4. 



[ A translation of the " Thereutices " in the possession of the 

 Editor. See HERESBACH (C.)] 



Middelen tot hot erstellen van de vischerie in de Spaenische 

 Nederlanden. 



[ In the Burgundian Library, Brussels.] 



