11 PREFACE. 



now bound up with the original, and a transcript 

 in the handwriting of the same gentleman : 



" Of this volume. The following 20 pages is the 

 fragment of a manuscript of the earlier part of the 

 xvth century and forms a considerable portion of 

 the 'little pamphlet' first printed in the Book of 

 St. Albans. This is the same manuscript as is 

 noticed in the Introduction to the reprint of that 

 volume (p. 63) as formerly in the possession of the 

 typographical historian William Herbert who trans- 

 cribed same, and that copy is there referred to as 

 then possessed by the late Mr. Townley. The 

 original, here preserved, passed from the possession 

 of Herbert to Mr. Brand, and from liim to the late 

 Geo-ge Isted, Esq., who presented it to me a few 

 months before he died. It was bound with other 

 manuscripts of less interest and value. A paginary 

 transcript was added for the convenience of reading, 

 wherein it will be found the letter y is occasionally 

 substituted for the Saxon compound character h, 

 or th. Bound by C. Lewis, 1823. J. H." 



At the reference here given to the reprint in 



1 8 10 of the treatise attributed to Dame Juliana 



Barnes, Mr. Haslewood says : 



" It extends to the instructions respecting the 

 trout, and stops with the bait to be used in Sep- 

 tember. There is the customary difference in 

 orthography; and three instances occur of variations 

 in the introductory matter, which may here be pre- 

 served." ( p. 63) 



