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doubt not but he will. I desire my burial may be near the 

 place of my death, and free from any ostentation or charge, but 

 privately. This 1 make to be my last will, to which I shall only 

 add the codicil for rings, this sixteenth day of August, one 

 thousand six hundred eighty-three, Izadk Walton. Witness to 

 this will. 



The rings I give are as on the other side : to my brother John 

 Ken, to my sister his wife, to my brother, Doctor Ken, to my 

 sister Pye, to Mr. Francis Morley, to Mr. George Vernon, to his 

 wife, to his three daughters, to Mistris Nelson, to Mr. Richard 

 Walton, to Mr. Palmer, to Mr. Taylor, to Mr. Thos. Garrard, 

 to the Lord Bishop of Sarum, to Mr. Rede his servant, to my 

 cozen Dorothy Kenrick, to my cousin Lewin, to Mr. Walter 

 Higgs, to Mr. Charles Cotton, to Mr. Richard Marryot : 22, to 

 my brother Beacham, to my sister his wife, to the Lady Anne 

 How, to Mrs. King, Doctor Phillip's wife, to Mr. Valentine 

 Harecourt, to Mrs. Eliza Johnson, to Mrs. Mary Rogers, to Mrs. 

 Eliza Milward, to Mrs. Dorothy Wollop, to Mr. Will. Milward, 

 of Christ-Church Oxford, to Mr. John Darby shire, to Mr. Un- 

 devill, to Mrs. Rock, to Mr. Peter White, to Mr. John Lloyde, 

 to my cousin Greinsell's widow, Mrs. Dalbin must not be for- 

 gotten : 1 C, Izaak Walton. Note, that several lines are blotted 

 out of this will, for they were twice repeated : and that this 

 will is now signed and sealed this twenty and fourth day of Oc- 

 tober, one thousand six hundred eighty-three, in the presence 

 of us : Witness, A braham Markland, Jos. Taylor, Thomas Craw- 

 ley. 



This Will was composed by him but a few months 

 before his death, which took place on the 15th of 

 December, 1683, at the house of his son-in-law, 

 Dr. Hawkins, a Prebendary of Winchester, he having 

 attained the great age of ninety years and four months. 

 In the Cathedral of the same place, is a grave-stone 



