6 LIFE OF WALTON. 



The several tracts contained in the above-mentioned two im- 

 pressions of the same book, were compiled by dame Julyans (or 

 Juliana) Berners, Bernes, or Barnes ; prioress of the nunnery of 

 Sopwell, near St. Alban's ; a lady of noble family and celebrated 

 by Leland, Bale, Pits, and Tanner, for her learning and 

 accomplishments. 



And as to the treatise itself, it must be deemed a great 

 typographical curiosity, as well for the wooden sculpture (copied 

 from thence, and here exhibited), which in the original imme- 

 diately follows the title, as for the orthography and type in which 

 it is printed. And, with respect to the subject-matter thereof, 

 it begins with a comparison, of fishing with the diversions of 



