2^4 APPENDIX TO THE 



Compendious' History of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals, and other 

 Nortliem Nations. Written by Olaus Magnus, Arch-Bishop of Upsall, and 

 Metropolitan of Sweden." Lond. 1658, folio. This was a translation from 

 the Latin by J. S., and the particulars mentioned in the text occur on page 

 47, in book iii. chap. xv. "Of the Conjurors and Witches in. Finland. 

 Also, I shall shew very briefly what force conjurors and witches have in 

 constraining the elements, enchanted by them or others, that they may 

 exceed or fall short of their naturall order : premising this, that the extream 

 land of the North Finland and Lapland, was so taught by witchcraft 

 formerly in heathenish times, as if they had learned this cursed art from 

 Zoroastres the Persiarf; though other inhabitants by the sea-coasts are 

 reported to be bewitched with the same madness ; for they exercise this 

 divellish art, of all arts of the world, to admiration ; and in this, arid other 

 suchlike mischief, they commonly agree. The Finlanders were wont for- 

 merly, amongst their other errors of Gentilisme, to sell winds to merchants, 

 that were stopt on their -coast by contrary weather ; and when they had 

 their price, they knit three magical knots, not like to the laws of Cassius, 

 bound up with a thong, and they gave them to the merchants ; observing 

 that rule, that when they unloosed the first, they should have a good gale 

 of wind ; when the second, a stronger wind ; but when they untied the 

 third, they should have such cruel tempests, that they should not be able 

 to look out of the forecastle to avoid the rocks, nor move a foot to pull 

 down the sails, nor stand at the helm to govern the ship ; and they made 

 an unhappy truth of it, who denied that there was any such power in those 

 knots." 



"Olaus Magnus, the author of the above, was brother and successor to 

 John, Archbishop of, Upsal ; and, like him, he suffered much from his 

 attachment to the Roman Catholic religion when Gustavus Erickson 

 introduced Protestantism into Sweden. He distinguished himself at the 

 Council of Trent, and" he died at Rome in 1555." 



P. 117. In Evelyn's Memoirs (ii. 80, ed. 1827), under 22d July 

 1654, it is said, " We departed and dined at a farme of my uncle Hunger- 

 ford's, called Dameford Magna, situate in a valley under the plaine, most 

 sweetly watered, abounding in trouts catcKd by speare in the night, when 

 they come attracted by a light set in the sterne of a boat." Pepys, in his 

 Diary, March iS, 1667, says, "This day Mr Cassar told me a pretty 

 experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a guttstring varnished over, 

 which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and" 

 smallness. The secret I like mightily." — Vol. iii. p. 171, ed. 1828. 



P. 1 28. The conjecture in the note to this page that " R. R." may have 

 been the R. Roe mentioned in the preface to Walton's Angler, is rendered 

 improbable by the fact that in the/irsi edition of the " Secrets of Angling " 

 the initials are "R. B." 



Since the Memoir of Walton was written, wherein it is said (p. Ixvii.) 

 that nothing had been discovered respecting his friends Nat. and R. Roe, 

 file following entries have been found in the register of St Dunstan's in 

 the West : — 



1622. August 12. John, the Sonne of Edward Rde, buried. 



1624. August 5. Susanna and Elizabeth, daughters of Edward Roe 

 and Barbara his wife, christened. 



1636. January 3. Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Roe, was buried. 



