. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. er thename of Beggars Bush Fair, it continued to be held until aboutfive-and-twenty years ago. Before quitting Theobalds, it may be of interest to mention thatthe owner of the modern house upon this ancient site, Sir HenryMeux, having purchased the old Temple Bar u[)on its demolitionin Fleet Street, caused it to be removed and re-erected as an entrancegate to his park. 2 Harting, Essays on Sport and Natural Historj, p. 430. 3 Hartings edition of Waltons Angler, vol. i., p. 38 note. 194 IZAAK WALTONS ASSOCIATION WITH THE RIVER LEA.
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. er thename of Beggars Bush Fair, it continued to be held until aboutfive-and-twenty years ago. Before quitting Theobalds, it may be of interest to mention thatthe owner of the modern house upon this ancient site, Sir HenryMeux, having purchased the old Temple Bar u[)on its demolitionin Fleet Street, caused it to be removed and re-erected as an entrancegate to his park. 2 Harting, Essays on Sport and Natural Historj, p. 430. 3 Hartings edition of Waltons Angler, vol. i., p. 38 note. 194 IZAAK WALTONS ASSOCIATION WITH THE RIVER LEA. Continuing the journey with Venator, after Auceps had taken hisleave here, Walton would follow the road to Cheshunt, and passingthrough Wormley and Broxbourne, would reach Hoddesdon to restat the appointed rendezvous, the Thatched House, of whichPiscator says : I know the Thatched House very well. I oftenmake it my resting place and taste a cup of ale there, for whichliquor that place is very remarkable. The ancient site of the Thatched House, long since de-. U /..n. Aud leZ Jcu//t ^Ae- ^yna/cAecC (^yCou^e- molished, has been variously conjectured. The Rev. Moses Brownin his third edition of The Complete Angler, published in 1772,supposed it to be seventeen miles from London on the Ware Road,a thatched cottage once distinguished by the sign of the BuffalosHead, standing at the further side of Hoddesdon on the left of theroad going to Ware, and this identification for want of betterinformation has been generally accepted by subsequent is now, however, good reason to believe that this is a R. B. Croft, of Ware, states^ that Mr. Charles Whitley, ofHoddesdon, informed him that the Thatched House to whichIzaak Walton referred was situate in the centre of the town of Hod- 4 Trans. Hertfordshire Nat. Hist. Soc, vol ii., p. ii. IZAAK Waltons association with the river 195 desdon, near the old chapel or clock house, and not far from the siteof the old cro
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