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gree of Chalkliill in the Appendix. It ought also to he observed, that in 

 the parish register of St Dunstan's in the West.tlie following entry occurs : 

 "Jany. 2, 1628 [1628-9], Ann, the daughter of Roger Chalkhill, baptized ;" 

 and that John Ken (the half-brother of Walton's second wife) bequeathed 

 ;^5, by his will dated 26th April 1651, to his kinsman Roger Chalkhill. 

 This Roger Chalkhill may have been the person of that name who lived 

 atilCingston-upon-Thames, the administration of whose effects was granted 

 in 1669 to his widow Susannah. 



P. 96. The caterpillar here described is that of the Privet Hawk, of 

 which an engraving will be found in Harris's Aurelian, ed. 1 766, plate 2 ; 

 and of the Puss Moth, in the same work, plate 38. 



P. loi. Mr Thomas Barker. The first line of the note to this page 

 ought to be deleted. The passage referred to in the Complete Angler, and 

 a few particulars which occur in the two editions of the Art of Angling 

 25ublished by Barker, contain nearly everything which is now known con- 

 cerning that singular character. In " the Epistle to the Reader," prefixed 

 to his "Art of Angling," Lond. 1651, i2mo, are related some circumstances 

 of his life, which are amplified in the Dedication to "Barker's Delight," 

 Lond. 1659, i2mo, which is the second and best edition of the foregoing 

 work. The volume is inscribed " To the Right Honorable Edward Lord 

 Montague, Generall of the Navy, and one of the Lord Commissioners of 

 the Treasury ; " and in the course of the Author's Epistle, he writes as 

 follows. " I am now grown old, and am willing to enlarge my little book. 

 I have written no more but my own experience and practise, and have set 

 forth the true ground of Angling ; which I have been gathering these 

 threescore yeares, having spent many pounds in the gaining of it, as is 

 well known in the place where I was born and educated, which is Brace- 

 meale in the liberty of Salop, being a freeman and burgesse of the same 

 city. If any noble or gentle angler, of what degree soever he be, have a 

 mind to discourse of any of these wayes and experiments, I live in Henry 

 the yth's Gifts, the next doore to the Gatehouse in Westm. My name is 

 Barker, where I shall be ready, as long as please God, to satisfie them, 

 and maintain my art, during life, which is not like to be long." 



The following quaint lines occur in the commendatory vei-ses prefixed to 

 the edition of the Art of Anghng, printed in 1657 or 1659 :— 



*' Perhaps some Rustick currishly will bark 

 At thee, brave Barker: but if in the dark 

 And silent night thou canst the knave espie, 

 "With the captive Trout he soon shall make a die. 

 Then rogues thy name wil dread,- and from thee gallop 

 As from the Devil, when 'tis Tom oi Salop. 

 But thou ingenuous spirit, follow him 

 To christall streames, where nimble fish do swim 

 With fins display 'd, and skipping up the streams : 

 Then (without help of Phcebus' glorious beams) 

 The Trout shall gorge thy bait with pleasure store ; 

 Sweet Philomel shall eccho on the shore. 

 \Vhat now remains ? thou hast ensnar'd the fish, 

 And Barkers Art will make a princely dish. 



Kdvvard Hopton, Gejt. Hamtoniensis." 



P. 104. To buy a good wind of one of the honest witches. Mr Richard 

 Thomsoi> observes on this passage, " Walton in this place most probably 

 alludes to a passage in a superstitious and legendary book entitled ' ' A 



