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INDEX. 



Archer, Charlotte, wife of Robert Turner, 

 ceil. 



, Elizabeth, ccii. 



, Emily, living in 1744, cciii. 



, the Rev. Dr Henry, recior of Fevers- 

 ham, in Kent, cc, ccii. 



, Henry, of Thaxted, ccii. 



, Olivia Alcione, cciii. 



■ — — , Stanhope, ccii. 



Ardglass, Wingfield, second Earl of, clxxxiv. 



, Mary, Countess-Dowager of, the wife 



of Charles Cotton, clxxxv, cciii ; adminis- 

 tration of his effects granted to her, 12th 

 Sept. 1687, clxxxviii. "^ 



Aristotle, quoted by Walton, 41, 45, 48. 



Armstrong, Augustine, of the parish of St 

 George the Martyr, cci, cciii. 



, Charles, cci, cciii. 



■^— , Gilbert, ccii. 



1 Katherine, ccii, cciii. 



, Mrs Lettice, sister of Sir Aston Cokayne, 



buried at Ashbourn, clxxviii n. 



ArLificial flies, Walton's list of, and directions 

 for making, 100, 102-105 ; Cotton's direc- 

 tions for making, 244, et seq.; twelve only 

 mentioned by Walton, 252 ; Cotton's list 

 of, for January and February, 253 ; for 

 March, 254; for April, 255 ; for May, 256- 

 261 ; for June and July, 261 ; for August, 

 September, October, November, and De- 

 cember, 262. 

 "Art of Angling," the, by Thomas Barker, 

 Lond. 1651, i2mo, extract from, loi, 283. 



Arundel mullet considered superior to others, 



73* ^40- 



" As at noon Dulcina rested," copy of the 

 j-ong so called, 277. 



Ashbourn, the town of, 222, 225 ; account of 

 the Talbot Inn at, 227 n.\ said by Cotton 

 to be famous for the best malt and the 

 worst ale in England, 235. 



A-sh-fly, the oak-fly so called, 106 n. 



Ashford, county of Derby, 230. 



Ash mole, Elias, his collection of natural 

 history, 43 ; biographical account of, 43 ji- 



Aston, the family of, connected with that of 

 Cotton by marriage, clxiv. 



- — , Walter, Lord, 21 n.\ a copy of the 

 Lives of Donne, Wotton, and Hooker, pre- 

 sented to him by Walton, preserved in the 

 library at Tixall, Ixxviii. 



-^— , Sir Willoughby, of Aston, county of 

 Chester, Bart., i n. 



Atkinson, Mr, quantity of barbel caught by 

 him at Shepperton, 9th Aug. 1807, 170 «. 



Aubrey, John, Esq., his statement that 

 Cotton had relieved Colonel Lovelace, 

 during his distress, corroborated,^ clxviii ; 

 described as "a silly crackbrained en- 

 thusiast," 43 «. 



Aurelius Macrobiiis, a writer of the fourth 

 century, quoted by Walton, 33. 



Ausonius, Decius, referred to by Walton, 



45, 172. 

 Au>tin, St, his "Confessions," quoted by 



Walton, 210. 

 Aviaries in Italy, 26 ; Varro'-s, 26, 



Avon, the river, 55 ; mentioned in one of 

 Drayton's sonnets, 196; the name com- 

 mon to many rivers in England, 230 «. 



Awber, the river, 231. 



Awberson, co. of Derby, the town of, 231. 



Aylesbury, the town of,- 195 «. 



Aylmer, Dr, letter from Walton to Anthony 

 Wood, in reply to an inquiry respecting 

 his death, xcix. 



Babylon, carrier-pigeons used at, 27. 



Backhouse, Mr, said to have imparted to 

 Ashmole the secret of the philosopher's 

 stone, 217 72. 



Bacon, Sir Francis, his visit to John Hales, 

 cxlvi ; his works quoted by Walton, 74, 

 118, 123, 125, 127, 139, 144, J49, 159, 160. 



Bagley, or Baily, a clergyman, compliment- 

 ary verses addressed by him to Walton, on 

 the publication of the second edition of 

 " The Complete Angler," xlviii, 16. 



Bagster, Mr, his account of the fishing- 

 house at Beresford, 238, 251. 



Baiting with a lob-worm, directions for, 93 ; 

 with a minnow, 94 ; with live bait, 135 ; 

 with dead bait, 138. 



Baits, for barbel, 168 ; for bleak, 172 ; for 

 bream, 149, 150 ; for bullheads, 193 ; for 

 carp, 147, 148 ; for the chub, 68-70, i8g, 

 '190 ; for dace, 183-183, 188, 189 ; for eels, 

 161 ; for flounders, 165 ; for grayling, 122, 

 188; for gudgeon, 171; for loach, 192; 

 for minnows, 192 ; for perch, 157 ; for pike, 

 135-139, 152; for roach, 184, ec seq.; for 

 ruffe, 171 ; for the salmon, 127 ; for tench, 

 155 ; for trout, 69, 70, 94, 117 ; directions 

 for preserving dead baits, 138. 



Baker, Sir Richard, quotation from his 

 Chronicle respecting the first introduction 

 of carp into England, 141. 



Bakewell, county of Derby, 230. 



Bal£ena, or whirlpool, a fish found in the 

 Indian Sea, 42. 



Bala Lake, the guiniad found in, 166 «. 



Bald buzzard, the, a species of hawk, 20. 



Balsami, Opobalsami, Carpobalsami, et Xylo- 

 balsami, cum sue cortice, Explanatio ; 

 Lond. 1598, written by Matthias de Lobel, 

 I Go «. 



Bar, arms of the ancient Counts of, 166 n. 



Barbel, the care taken by it of its spawn, 48 ; 

 complaint made in 1384 that they were 

 unlawfully taken in the Thames and sold 

 as food for pigs, 63 «. ; a leather-mouthed 

 fish, 69 ; description of the, its haunts, 167 ; 

 part of the arms of the ancient Earls of 

 Bar, 166 ; spawning-time of, the spawn 

 considered poisonous, 167 ; baits for, 168 ; 

 directions for angling for, i6g ; quantity of 

 caught by a fishing party at Shepperton, 

 in 1807, 169 iu 



Barker, Thomas, author of "The Art of 

 Angling," biographical notice of, 283 ; his 

 directions forfly-fishingadopted by Walton, 

 loz ; his recipe for anointing boots and 

 shoes, 189 ;/. 



Barker, ^ Elizabeth, widow of, ccv. 



