



[The original is among Aubrey's MSS. in the Afhmolean 

 Mufeum : annexed to it is the following note by Aubrey: 

 " This account I received from MMfaac Walton (who wrote 

 " D^ Donne's Life, &c. Decemb. 2, 1680, he being then 

 " eighty-feven years of age. This is his own hand-writing, 

 " I.A." See Walton s Lives, With Notes and the Life of the 

 Author by Thomas Zouch^ third edition. Tork, 1 8 17. Vol. II. 

 PP- 353-356.] 



