

PREFACE, 



To the prefent Editor the colledion and anno- 

 tation of thefe Remains has been a moft welcome 

 labour of love. Some of his oldeft and moft 

 cherifhed memories conned themfelves with the 

 author of the " Complete Angler." That book 

 was one of the firft that he ever read with real 

 and genuine delight ; and even before reading 

 days commenced, in the earlieft dawn of memory, 

 the place where Walton had cut his familiar fig- 

 nature of " Iz. Wa." on Chaucer's tomb in Weft- 

 minfter Abbey, was pointed out to him often by 

 a kindred fpirit now here no more. The name 

 of Walton will alfo be found enfhrined in the 

 earlieft profe produdion * to which the Editor 

 prefixed his own name. 



R. H. S. 



* Tbe School of Pant agruel, Sunbury, 1862, p. 9. 



