of Beresford is the Rev. Gilbert Beresford (see Burke's Peerage for further information of the family).

In October 1901 the fishing-house and other adjoining property was sold to Mr Frank Green, of Treasurer's House, York. A letter appeared about that time in the Field newspaper suggesting that the National Trust for the Preservation of Historic Buildings or some other like body should purchase the fishing-house. It has been stated, however, in the Press, that "this property, is preserved from being broken up and developed for at least some considerable time to come.'

Tissington Hall is the seat of Sir Richard FitzHerbert, Bart., whose family has intermarried frequently with the Beresfords, and certain estates of the latter were acquired by the ancestors of the present Baronet.' The Waterford Beresfords are a younger branch of the English Beresfords, tracing from the sixth son of Thomas Beresford before mentioned, whereas the English Beresfords trace from the fourth son.

In 1808 a copy of The Complete Angler, with the bands of the book made of wood from the

one similar effigies for sixteen sons and five daughters, with a long inscription in hexameter verses. There are seven other mural monuments to the same family, dating from 1516 to 1815, and a brass to Richard Beresford (1733). Three new windows have recently (i.e., in 1895), been erected by the Beresford (English) family.

1 Tissington has been in the Fitz-Herbert family since 1466 (see Burke's Peerage). The word was originally spelt "Tiscinctuna."

The

door of the fishing-house, sold for £63. fishing-house was reproduced at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Walton's birthday on 9th August

1893.

"THE FISHING-HOUSE

"What spot more honoured than this peaceful place?
Twice honoured, truly. Here Charles Cotton sang,
Hilarious—his whole-hearted songs, that rang
With a true note, through town and country ways,
While the Dove trout-in chorus-splashed their praise.
Here Walton sat with Cotton, in the shade,

And watched him dubb his flies, and doubtless made
The time seem short, with gossips of old days.

Their cyphers are enlaced above the door,
And in each Angler's heart, firm-set and sure.
While rivers run, shall those twin names endure-
WALTON and COTTON linked for evermore-
And Piscatoribus sacrum,'-where more fit
A motto, for their wisdom, worth and wit?"

One of Twelve Sonnets by T. WESTWOOD.

"There ought to be death-beds worth going to."

"God give us men!

GEORGE DAWSON.

Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;

Men who have honour, men who will not lie."
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

IT has been

recently remarked that the England a com

biographic memoir was paratively late growth.

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Meagre seeds of the modern art of biography were indeed sown within a few years of Shakespeare's death, but outside the unique little field of Isaak Walton's tillage the first sproutings