INDEX, 



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Offley, Mary, wife of Robert, Viscount Kil- 



morrey, i n. 

 , Sir Thomas, lord mayor in 1557, i «. 



*'Ohl the Gallant Fisher's Life," a soDg 

 partly composed by Walton, Iviii, 174, 



"Oh! the sweet Contentment," a sonz bv 

 John ChalkhiU, 86. ' 



Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsal, and 

 Metropolitan of Sweden, 284. 



Oldbury-sur-Montem, co. Gloucester, 276. 



"Old Rose," the song so called, li, 60. 



Oldys, William, Norroy king-of-arms, Ixxiii. 



Oley, Barnabas, his preface to Herbert's 

 '* Country Parson," Ixxvi. 



Orange-fly, the, for June, 261. 



Orford, account of a sea monster taken at, 

 temp. Hen. II., 45 n. 



Ormond, the Duke of; the Memoirs of the 

 Sieur de Pontis dedicated to him by Charles 

 Cotton, cc. 



Osprey, the, 63. 



Otter, very destructive to fish, 21 ; pleasures 

 of hunting it, 29 ; gloves made of the skin 

 of the, recommended by Walton, 59 ; said 

 to travel as much as ten miles in a night, 

 59 ; a young one tamed by Mr Nicholas 

 Segra^e of Leicestershire, 60 ; said to smell 

 fish at a distance of forty furlongs, 118, 127. 



Otter-hounds, belonging to Mr Sadler, of 

 Standon, co. Herts, mentioned by Walton, 

 1, 21 ; the pack of Walter Biddulph, Esq., 

 of Barton-under-Needwood, advertised for 

 sale in May 1760, 56, 



Ottersey, the river, co. Devon, so called from 

 the number of otters that breed in it, 59. 



Oudert, Nicholas, a confidential servant of 

 Sir Henry Wotton, xlii. 



Oughtred, Mr, his "Key to the Mathe- 

 matics," 33. 



Ouse, the river, made subject to the fence 

 months, by stat. 13 Edward I., 62 «., 196 ; 

 the name common to several rivers in 

 England, 230 n. 



Overall, Dr John, 52 n. 



Overbury, Sir Thomas, his " character " of a 

 milkmaid, 82 n. 



Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1626, a copy of, for- 

 merly belonging to Izaak Walton, now in 

 the cathedral library at Salisbury, cxlviii. 



Owen, John, anecdote of, 34 n. 



Owldham, Isaac, an industrious angler, 

 mentioned by Frank, in his " Northern 

 Memoirs," Ixi. 



Owl-fly, the, for June, 261. 



Oziander, Anne, niece to the wife of——, 



Paine, Dr, expelled from the University of 



Oxford, XXXV. 

 Palmer, Mr, a ring bequeathed to, by 



Walton,, cii ; not identified, cvi. 

 Palmer-fly, the, 96, 102. 

 "Paraphrase on the Song of Solomon,'' 4tO| 



1641, 27 n, 

 Parke, James, Esq. ; verses by him in praise 



of Walton, cxxvi. 

 Parkyns, Beaumont, of Sutton Bonington. 



CO. Notts, cci, cciii. 



Parkyns, Jane, cci, cciii. 



, Sir Thomas, Bart., cciii. 



Parrot-fish, the, 43. 

 Partridge, the, 47. 



" Passionate Pilgrim," and other sonnets, by 

 Mr William Shakespeare, 1599, 80 n. 



Paternoster-line, the, why so called, 172. 



Paternoster Row, a house in, called " The 

 Cross Keys," rented by Walton, Ixxi ; 

 burnt durmg the Fire of London, Ixxix ; 

 Walton's interest therein bequeathed to 

 his son-in-law, Dr Hawkins, c. 



Peacock-fly, the, for June, 261. 



Pemble Mere, the char caught in, 166 «. 



Perch, description of the, 156 ; German pro- 

 verb respecting, 156 ; its time of spawmng, 

 ^S^i ^57 ; engraving of the, 157 ; baits and 

 directions for angling for, 157 ; haunts of, 

 157 «.; a singular variety of, found in a 

 lake called Llyn Raithlyn, in Merioneth- 

 shire, 157 «. 



"Perfect Diurnall," first edition of the 

 '* Complete Angler," advertised in, 27+. 



Perkins, Dr William, biographical account 

 of, 51 «. 



Petty, George, clxviii «. 



" Pheer," definition of the term, 47 «. 



" Philida flouts me," a song, liv, 79 ; copy of, 

 277. 



' ' Phcenix Nest," the, a collection of poems, 

 published in 1593, iio». 



Philips, Mrs Katherine ; her translation of 

 Corneille's Tragedy of Horace, clxxii. 



Phillippes, Margaret, cliv. 



Pickerel, their appearance in ponds not 

 known to have been stored with them, 

 accounted for, Ixi. 



Pickering Tor and the Iron Chest in Dove- 

 dale, view of, 235. 



Pierce, Dr, letter from, to Walton, xcii. 



Pigeons, used to convey letters, 27. 



" Pigmalion's Image," xix. 



Pike, the said by Gesner to be generated by 

 the pickerel weed, 129; instance of lon- 

 gevity of, 130 «.; voracity of, 130-132 ; time 

 of breeding, 132 ; destroyed by frogs, 133 ; 

 directions for fishing for with a, live bait, 

 135-137 ; baits for, and trolling for, 138 w.; 

 recipe for cooking, 139 ; cooking in the 

 14th and 15th centuries, 140 w.; not intro- 

 duced into England before the reign of 

 Henry VIII., 140 ».; early mention of,. 

 140 n. 



Pike, the, a rock so called, in the river Dove, 

 near Beresford Hall, 221 ; description of, 

 250 «. 



Pilsbury, William, of Stafford, cli. 



Piper-cadis, the, description of, i8g. ■. 



" Piscatory Eclogues," 177, vide Fletcher. 



Pitts, Mr George, a bequest made to, by Dr 

 Donne the young;er, cxlii. Mr, of En- 

 comb, county Dorset, 134 n. 



Plain hackle, a, for February, 253. 



"Planter's Manual," the, by Chai-les Cotton, 

 8vo, 1^75, clxxxiii. 



" Playford's Antidote against Melancholy," 

 8s n. 



Plinlimmon Hill, 195. 



