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INDEX. 



B isp, Dr, a recipe for catching pike, from 

 a MS. in his possession, 128 ». 



Blood-red rook from Turkey, the, a species 

 of liawk, 28. 



Blore Pipe House, county of Stafford, the 

 residence of Mr George Barlow, xlv. 



Blowfield, Jchn, gent., xxii, cxxxiv, vide 

 Cranmer. 



Bludworth, Elizabeth, wjldow, administration 

 of the effects of Charles Cotton granted to 

 her, clxxxviii. 



Blue-dun fly, directions for making the, 254. 



Bluet, Dorothy, daughter of John, of Hol- 

 comb Regis, county of ®evon, Esq., xcvi, 

 vide Wallop. 



Boar, the wild, 30; a feast of, given by 

 Cleopatra to Mark Antony, 30. 



Bobbing for eels, the method of, i6z n, 



Bockerel and Bockeret, the, 28. t 



Bocton Palace, Ixxix. 



" Bonny Milkmaid," the, a song, 83 n. 



Booby, Thomas, cxxxiii, cxxxviii. 



*' Book of St Alban's," the, quoted, 141. 



" Booke of Fishing with hooke and line," 

 4to, Lond. 1600, supposed to have been 

 written by Leonard Slascal, 141 n.- 



Borradale, Dr, rector of Market Deeping, 

 county of Lincoln, was in 1714 in pos- 

 session of the letter written by the younger 

 Donne to Izaak Walton, thanking him for 

 having written his father's Life, xxix. 



Borrowashe, settlement of the manor of, on 

 the marriage of Charles Cotton, the 

 younger, clxxi. 



Buswelt, James, requested by Dr Johnson, in 

 1777, to procure him all the editions of 

 Walton's Lives, cxxiv, vide Johnson. 



Botcher, the, description of, 126 «. 



Boieler, Sir Francis, of Lewin, county Herts, 

 ccii. 



Boteler, or Butler, Dr William, his observa- 

 tion respecting strawberries quoted by 

 Walton, 109 ; biographical account of, 

 109 «. 



Bowles, the Rev. William Lisle, an error in 

 his Life of Bishop Ken corrected, xxxix; 

 no evidence in support of his assumption 

 in his Life of Bishop Ken, that Dr Morley 

 was Walton's guest at his cottage in 

 Staffordshire, from April 1648 to May 

 1649, xl ; his authority apparently derived 

 from traditional information, xl « ; his 

 remark upon an alteration made by Walton 

 in the epitaph of his second wife, Ixix ; 

 his conjecture " that the retired spot which 

 contains Walton's remains, was fixed on 

 by himself, as suiting his humbler station 

 of life," cvii ; his account of Walton's 

 merits, cxxviii. 



B mltoii, James, of Stafford, apprenticed by 



Izaak Walton, cxlix. 

 Bowlker, extract from his "Art of Angling" 

 respecting the mode of generation of eels, 

 164 n. ; his directions for making the oak- 

 fly, 105 «. ; quotation from him respecting 

 the making of flsh-ponds, 200 n. 



Boyle, the learned, advanced a sum of money 



to Bishop Sanderson, during a period of 

 distress, xcii. 



Bradford, the river, 230. 



Bradley, A., his answer to the song "Piiil- 

 lida flouts me," 79 n, 



Bradshaw, John, Esq., 237. 



Brailsford, a village near Ashboum, clxxxv, 

 222. 



Brandling, the, a bait for trout, where to be 

 found, 91 ; method of preserving it, 92 ; 

 the best bait for perch, 157. 



Brandon, Charles, his residence near tne 

 Swan, in Golden Lane, Ix; mentioned in 

 the first and second editions of the " Com- 

 plete Angler," 188 «-. 



Bream, the, 11; description of, 148; found 

 in the larger lakes and still rivers of 

 Europe, and in the Caspian Se», 148 ». ; 

 highly esteemed by the French, 149 ; in- 

 stances of the high price of in the 15th 

 century, 149 «. ; baits for, 149, 185, 186, 

 188 ; directions for angling for, 150, 152 ; 

 ground-bait for, 151 ; a kind of bastard 

 roach bred from the bream and the roach, 

 182. 



Breton, Nicolas, the author of "Poste with 

 a packet of Mad Letters," 1637, 81. 



" Brewsed Reide," the, by Dr Sibbs, be- 

 queathed by Walton to his son Izaac, ci. 



Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, lord keeper, his 

 plan for the compression of the more 

 moderate of the dissenters from the Estab- 

 lished Church, and allowing indulgences 

 to such as could not be brought within the 

 comprehension, rejected by the House of 

 Commons, xcvi. 



Bright brown fly, directions for making, 254. 



Bright dun gnat, the, directions for making, 

 253- 



Brigntman, Mr, his comment on the Revela- 

 tions, cxliv. 



" Britannia," Camden's, the edition of 1637, 

 quoted by Walton, 5, vide Camden. 



Broderick, Sir Allan, a bequest made to by 

 Dr Donne, the younger, cxlii. 



Brome, Alexander, compHmentary verses 

 addressed by him to Walton, on the pulj- 

 lication of the second edition of " The 

 Complete Angler," xlviii, 14 ; an " humb e 

 eclogue," addressed to him by Walton, on 

 the Restoration. Ixv ; the first edition of 

 his songs and other poems printed in 1661, 

 Ixvi; died 2gth June 1666, Ixvi «. ; the 

 second edition of his poems, printed in j66S, 

 Ixvi «.," an epode written to, by Charles 

 Cotton, on the king's return, clxix ; veises 

 on his death, by ihe same, dxxii ; was one 

 of the adopted sons of Ben Jonson, 217 ». ; 

 edited Fletcher's Comedy of " Monsieur 

 Thomas," in 1639, 274. 



, Mr Henry, of St Paul's Churchyard, 



London, xcvii, clxxvi «., clxxxiii ; the 

 publisher of Charles Cotton, presumed to 

 be the brother of the poet of that name, 

 clxxxt. 



Bromley, William, son of Sir William 

 Bromley, K. B., cxxxv. 



