INDEX. 



' Academy of Compliments," 1650, m w. 

 "Accomplishment of the Prophecies," by 



Du Moulin, 8vo, 1613, 40. 

 Acre, carrier-pigeons used at the siege of, 27. 

 Action, question whether preferable to con- 

 templation, 39 ; Lord Clarendon's opinion 



thereon, 39 «. 

 " Adenographia; sive Glandularum tolus 



corporis descriptio," by Dr Wharton, 8vo, 



x6s6» 33 «• 

 Adonis, or darling of the sea, a fish so called 



by iEIian, 46. 

 ^iianus, C audius, quoted by Walton, 46. 

 Air, the element of the fowler, 25. 

 Aire, the river, made subject to the fence 



months by stat. 13 Edw. I., 62 11. 

 Albertus Magnus, quoted by Walton, 74, 160. 

 " Alcilia. Philoparthens loving Folly," xix. 

 Aldersgate Street, Doctor "Wnarton's house 



in, 33 71. 

 Aldridge, Anne, wife of Robert, gent, of 



Burton, civ. 

 Aldrovandus, Ulysses, quoted by Walton. 96, 



121, 156, 164. 

 Ale, a ballad in commendation of, 281, v. 



Ashbourn. 

 Aleppo, carrier-pigeons used at, 27. 

 Alfred, King, turned the cmrse of the Lee 



to prevent the return of the Danes, who 



had sailed up it, 196 n. 

 Algiers, the pirates of, clxxxii. 

 AHington, Cordeil, daughter of Richard, 



Esq., ccii. 

 Alstonefield Church, arms of Cotton carved 



on a pew in, 226. 

 Ambrose, St, Bishop of Milan, styles the 



grayling "the flower of fishes," 121, 

 Amerly trout considered superior to others, 



73, 140. 

 Amos, the Prophet, mention of fish-hooks 



made by, 38, 49. 

 Amwell Hill, li, 21, 22 ; engraving of, 56.. 

 Andrew, St, a fisherman, 49. 

 Andrews, Matthew, of Mathfield, co. Stafford, 



civ. 

 Angel, a coin of the value of ten shillings, 



Z09 «. ; explanation of the term to " vie 



angels" 209 «. 

 Angler, the idea of making one by a book 



justly ridiculed by Walton, xlvii ; the 



qualifications of an, from Markh a m's 



*' Country Conientmcnt.-i," 37 «., vide 



"Complete Anger." 



Anglers, Walton's character of the generality 

 of, 24. 



"Angler's Song," the, written by William 

 Basse, 88, 178. 



"Angler's Wish," the, by Walton, no; con- 

 tains the only allusion to his having resided 

 at or near Stafford, xli. 



"Angler's Wish,'* the, by JohnDavors, Esq., 

 extract from, 55. 



Angling, verses in praise of, addressed to 

 Walton by the Rev. Thomas Weaver, 

 xlix ; a song in praise of, made by Basse, 

 an eminent composer, at Walton's request, 

 cxiv ; the favourite amusement of Charles 

 Cotton, clxx ; not forgotten among his 

 regrets at taking leave of his home, clxxiv ; 

 the antiquity of, 24 «., 36 ; the art of, said 

 to be as ancient as Deucalion's flood, 37 ; 

 first invented by Belus, 37 ; of high esteem 

 and of much iise in other nations, 50 ; 

 allowed to Churchmen by the ancient 

 ecclesiastical canons, as a harmless recrea- 

 tion, 50 ; a recreation used by Cleopatra 

 and Mark Antony, 50; commendations 

 bestowed on, by the learned Perkins, 51 ; 

 Dr Whitaker, a great lover of, 51 ; account 

 of memorable men, ornaments of the art 

 of, 51-53 ; a short discourse by way of 

 postscript, touching the laws of, 212-214 ; 

 different sorts of, and directions for, 241, 

 et seq.; verses descriptive of the art wnd 

 of the pleasures of, by Shakespeare, 286 ; 

 by Quarles, Bunyan, Pope, and Gay, 287 ; 

 by Thomson, 288. 



Ankham, in Lincolnshire, famous for eels, 

 164 n. 



Ant-fly, the, a bait for chub, 69 ; directions 

 for preserving the, 184 ; directions for 

 making the artificial, 261. 



Anthony, St, the picture of, bequeathed to 

 Lord Newport by Dr Donne the younger, 

 cxiii. 



"Antidote against Melancholy," Svo, 1669, 

 by Playford, 85 n. 



Antonia, the wife of Drusus, had a lamprey 

 at whose ears she hung jewels or ear- 

 rings, 119, x6o ». 



Anus, the river, in Spain, 41. 



Arabia, a river in, of which all the sheep that 

 drink have their wool turned to a vermil- 

 ion colour, 41. 



Archer, Charlotte, cc ; bequest made to, by 

 her father, Dr Stanhope, cci. 



