THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON ii 



and Robert Floud ; ^ both of them call him their 

 dear brother. They were the sons of Susanna 

 Floud, who was the daughter of Thomas Cranmer, 

 Gent., of St. Mildred's, Canterbury, who was the 

 son of Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canter- 

 bury, and brother of Archbishop Cranmer. Susanna, 

 as already stated, was the mother of Rachel, who 

 became the first wife of Izaak Walton. 



Robert Floud wrote — 



" To my dear Brother, Mr. Izaak Walton, on his 

 ' Complete Angler ' — 



"This book is so like you and you like it, 

 For harmless mirth, expression, art and wit, 

 That I protest, ingenuously 'tis true, 

 I love this mirth, art, wit, the book and you." 



(Rob. Floud, C.) 



^ Rachel was born about 1605, and the marriage licence 

 signed by Izaak Walton is dated December 27, 1626, at 

 Canterbury— Walton had seven children by his first wife, all 

 of whom died in their infancy. Rachel died in 1640. 



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