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INDEX. 



Sergius I., Pope, the Venerable Bede invited 

 to Rome by, 159 n. 



Serpentine river, a perch weighing nine 

 pounds taken in the, 157 «. 



Severn, salmon of the, when in season, 5, 7 ; 

 the conger in the, 165 ; source of the, 195 ; 

 mentioned by Drayton, 196 «. 



Seymour, Richard, Esq., ctxxxi «. 



Shakespeare, Mr William, author of the 

 "Passionate Pilgrim," and other sonnets 

 in, 1599, 80 n. ; verses on his death, . by 

 WilUam Basse, 282 ; quotations from, his 

 plays, in reference to angling, 2S6. 



Shark, the, 43. 



Shawford Brook, alluded to by Walton, in 

 'I The Angler's Wish," xli ; that part of the 

 river Sow that runs, through the land be- 

 queathed by Walton to the corporation of 

 Stafford, ixi ». 



Sheldon, Dr Gilbert, Warden of AU Souls 

 College, afterwards Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, the friend of Walton, Ixxii Ixxix ; 

 Cotton's translation of Gerald's "History 

 of the Life of the Duke of Espernon" dedi- 

 cated to, clxxviii; mentioned by Walton as 

 a famous angler for barbel, 170. 



Shelley, Mary, daughter of John, of Michel- 

 grove, CO. Sussex, clxiii n. 



Shell-fly, the, 95, xoi, 262. 



Shelsey cockles, superior to others, 73. 



" Shepherd's Eclogues," xxxvii, videQuarles. 



Shepperton, chiefly resorted to by Londoners, 

 for the sport of angling, 183. 



Shirley, James, his poems, 14 «. 



Shovelboard, account o^ the game of, 173. 



Shrewsbury, the town ,of, 195. 



Shrigley, Isabel, daughter of Lawrence, of 

 Sinfin, co. Derby, cxxxii. 



Shute's Divine Cordials, in Ten Sermons, a 

 copy of, formerly belonging to Izaak Wal- 

 ton, now in the cathedral library at Salis- 

 bury, cxlvii. 



Sibbs, Dr,his " Soules Conflict,"bequeathed 

 by Walton to his son Izaak, ci ; his "Saints 

 Cordial," and "Returning Backslider," 

 formerly belonging to Izaak Walton, nowiq 

 the cathedral library of Salisbuiy, cxlviii. 



" Sicelides, a Piscatory," by Phineas Flet- 

 cher, iig n. 



Skelton, the poet, extract from his " Crown 

 of Laurell,' 149 «. 



Slane, , Anne Cranmer, wife of, cxxxv. 



Small bright-brown fly, for April, 255. 



" Small Poems of Divers Sorts," by Sir Aston 

 Cokaine, xlv n. 

 , Smith, Martha, of Stafford, cli. 



Sniggling for eels, directions for, 162. 



Solan goose, the, 43. 



*' Songs and Poems of Love," by Thomas 

 Weaver, 13 «. 



"Songs and other Poems," by Alexander 

 . Brome, 1664, 15 n. 



South, Nathaniel, President of India, cxxxv. 



Sow, the river, near Stafford, xli. 



"Spanish Gipsee," the play of, 274. 



Sparke, Edward, verses by Walton, prefixed 

 to his " Scintillula Altaris," xlvi> 



Sparrowhawk, the, 28. . 



Spencer, Dr J., President of Corpus Christi 

 College, married a daughter of Thomas 

 Cranmer, of Canterbury, xxii ; mentioned 

 in will of Mrs Floud, mother-in-law to 

 Walton, XXX ; pupil and friend of Hooker, 

 cxxxv «. 



Spiders, thirty-three kinds of, discovered and 

 published by the Royal Society, 76. 



Spoondon, rectory of, co. Derby, clxxi, cc< 



Stafford, the birthplace of, Walton, xvii; no 

 ' allusion in his works to his residence at, 



~ xli ; a farm near, bequeathed to his son 

 Izaak, c ; bequest to the town of, c ; his 

 charities to the town of, cxlix-cUi. Henry, 

 son of Mr William, bequest to, by Dr 

 Donne the younger, cxlii. 



Standon, co. Herts, the seat of Ralph Sadler, 

 Esq., 21 n. 



Stanhope, the family of, connected with that 

 of Cotton bi^ marriage, clxiv. Anne, 

 daughter of Sir John ; Charlotte, wife of 

 Rev. Henry Archer, cc, ceil. Elizabeth, 

 cc. Dr George, Dean of Canterbury ; G., 

 his son, cc-cci. Henry Lord, eldest 

 son of Philip, ist Eai'l of Chesterfield, xliii, 

 Ixxix. Sir Henry, K.B.; Sir John, of 

 Shelton, co. Notts, and of Elvaston, co. 

 Derby ; John, ancestor of the Earls of 

 Harrington, cc, ccii. Katherine, daughter 

 of Sir John, ccii. Mary, wife of William 

 Burnet, Governor of New York, cc, ccii. 

 Olive, daughter of Sir John, of Elvastun, 

 in Derbyshire, wife of Charles Cotton, 

 clxiii, clxiv, ccii. Olivia, wife of Dr 

 George, ccr. Sir Philip, ist Earl of Ches- 

 terfield ;' Philip, ad Earl of Chesterfield, ccii. 



Stangel, the, a' species of hawk, 28. 



Staples, Mary, wife of John Donne, Ixx. 



Starkin, Mr, of Stafford, his charity, cl. 



Steletto, species of hawk, 28. 



Stickleback, baiting with, 193. 



Still, Bishop, author of " Gammer Gurton's 

 Needle," 1375, 281. 



Stone-fly, the, for April, 95, loo, 357, 259. 



SCour, in Dorsetshire, famous for eels, 164 w. 

 The name of, common to several rivers in 

 England, 230 n. 



Stourhead, a carp caught at, eighteen pounds 

 in weight, 142 «. 



Strafford, the Earl of, Charles L's assent to 

 his death, xxxvi. 



Strawberries, Dr Boteler's observations re- 

 specting, quoted by Walton, log. 



Straw-worm, a species of cadis, 190. 



Stubs, Mr John, near to the Swan in Golden 

 Lane,' menfioned by Walton as a seller of 

 fishing-tackle, 188. 



Sturgeon, the, ushered in with music by the 

 Romans, 33. 



Sudbury, the seat of Lord Vernon, clxxxvi. 



. Sussex, boasts of four sorts of fish, 140. 



Sutton, George, of Stafford, apprenticed by 

 Izaak Walton, cxlix. 



Sutton, CO. Warwick, a bream pie made at, 

 and sent to the Earl of Warwick at Middte- 

 ham, 218 ». 



Swale, the river, made subject to the fence 

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



