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mine, except a trunk of linnen, which I give to my son Izaak ; 

 but if he do not live to marry, or make use of it, then I give 

 the same to my grand daughter, Ann Hawkins ; and I give my 

 daughter, Doctor Hall's Works, which be now at Farnham. To 

 my son Izaak, I give all my books, not yet given at Farnham 

 Castell, and a deske of prints and pictures ; also a cabinett near 

 my bed's head ; in which are some little things that he will 

 value, though of no great worth.* And my will and desire is, 

 that he will be kind to his aunt Beachame, and his aunt Rose 

 Ken, by allowing the first about fifty shillings a-year, in or for 

 bacon and cheese, not more, and paying four pounds a-year to- 

 wards the boarding of her son's dyet to Mr. John Whitehead : 

 for his aunt Ken, I desire him to be kind to her, according to 

 her necessity and his own abilitie, and I commend one of her 

 children, to breed up as I have said I intend to do, if he shall 

 be able to do it, as I know he will ; for they be good folke. I 

 give to Mr. John Darbyshire the Sermons of Mr. Anthony Far- 

 ringdon, or of Dr. Sanderson, .which my executor thinks fit. 

 To my servant, Thomas Edgill, I give five pound in money, and 

 all my clothes, linen and woollen, except one suit of clothes: 

 which I give to Mr. Holinshed, and forty shillings, if the said 

 Thomas be my servant at my death ; if not, my clothes only. 

 And I give my old friend, Mr. Richard Mai riot, ten pounds in 

 money, to be paid him within three months after my death ; 

 and I desire my son to shew kindness to him if he shall neede, 

 and my son can spare it : and I do hereby will and declare my 

 son Izaak to be my sole executor of this my last will and tes- 

 tament, and Dr. Hawkins to see that he performs it ; which I 



* How many a " Grangerite " must have felt his mouth 

 water at this passage, in the rational idea, that Walton's good 

 taste had selected in this small compass so many Faithornes, 

 Elslrackes, Lombarts, &c, as would now fetch five hundred 

 guineas under the hammer of Christie and Manson, or Leigh 

 Sotheby and Wilkinson. 



