The Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Unfortunately there are no means by which the name of the Author of the treaty/e can be afcertained; and the opinion, expreffed by Sir John Hawkins that, it was written by Dame julian de Berners, is not only unfupported by even a {hadow of proof, but it is negatived by the following circumftances. It does not occur in the firlt edition of the Boke of St. Alban's in 1488, and upon its introduction into that.

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