NEAR EDMONTON 



PART II 



CHAPTER I 



Prologue — Ken and Walton by Bowles — " Compleat 

 Angler," first edition — Lea and Dove Edition — 

 Sir John Hawkins's " Life of Walton " — Notes and 

 (2iieries — William Oldys found the principal facts 

 for Sir John Hawkins 



CHAPTER n 



IZAAK Walton — Birth and birthplace— Birth in town 

 of Stafford — Jervis Walton — Dr. Zouch — Error 

 about Walton's mother and Walton's first wife 

 Rachel — Grand-daughter of Thomas Cranmer, 

 Archdeacon of Canterbury, brother of Archbishop 

 Cranmer — -Actual house of birth uncertain — 

 Walton's boyhood, nothing known of — Finding 

 his way to London at the age of i6— (Suggestion 

 that he may have arrived iiiuch earlier) — 

 Apprenticeship to Thomas Grinsell — Member of 

 Ironmongers' Company — Was he ironmonger or 



