MEDMENHAM ABBEY, RIVER THAMES 



CONTENTS 



PART I 



CHAPTER I 



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Life of Ken by Hawkins — By Bowles — Plumptre and 

 others — Ken's birth and parentage — The Ken 

 pedigree— His Hymns — Izaak Walton and the 

 Cranmers — Walton's first wife Rachel .... 3 



CHAPTER H 



Izaak Walton's Prayer-Book — Story of it — The 

 register in it — Death of Anne Walton — Her 

 epitaph, original draft of — Facsimile from the 

 Prayer-Book — How the copy was made .... i; 



CHAPTER HI 



Thomas Ken — Scholar at Winchester— Entry of his 

 admission— His musical voice— At Hertford College, 



