mascall] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
389 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 4 un. + pp. 79 (the two last pages 
wrongly numbered 70 and 63). Folding front, containing map 
and two figures of birds. 
The above, the fourth and best-known edition, is the one from 
which the account in Pinkerton’s Voyages is derived (Lowndes). 
Idem. Another edit. Glasgow : 1818. 1 vol. 8vo. 
1703. A | Description | of the | Western Islands | of | Scotland. | con- 
taining | [etc. . . . etc.] | By M. Martin, Gent. | London, printed 
for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys and | Bible, in Cornhil, near 
Stocks-Market, 1703. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 8vo, pp. 32 un. +pp. 392, map and pi. to 
face p. 9. 
Mentions and describes several birds. 
Idem. A second edition of the above, “ very much corrected,” 
appeared in 1716. 
Note. — Although 1703 is generally accepted as the date of the 
first edition of A Description of the Western Islands there is 
a copy in W.P.L. with the date 1673 on the title. This would 
appear to be one of a very early issue with an error in date 
on title-page. The title-page was afterwards corrected and 
reprinted. 
Martin (W. C. L.). See Mudie (R.) 
Mascall (Leonard), ob. 1589 
Of Mascall little is known, except that he was “ of an 
old family of Plnmstead, in Kent, and became clerk of the 
kitchen in the household of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of 
Canterbury 55 ( D.N.B. ). He died at Farnham Royal, Bucks, 
and was buried there on May 10, 1589. 
Mr. J. E. Harting says that “ the treatise on fishing is a 
mutilated version of that in the Book of St. Albans .” Mas- 
call’s most notable work is his Government of Cattell, of which 
a number of editions appeared from 1587 onwards, while 
another work which went through various editions was one 
entitled A Booke of the Arte . . . howe to plant and grajfe 
all sorts of Trees (1572). 
1590. A Booke of Fishing | with Hooke & Line, and | of All other Instru- 
ments there- | unto belonging. | Another of Sundrie Engines and | 
Trappes to take Polcats, Buzards, Battes, | [etc. 4 lines] . . . 
Made by L. M. | [woodcut] | London : | Printed by John Wolfe, 
