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have found pleasant and abundant occupation for 

 his pen, in writing those delightful " Lives " and 

 other works already mentioned. 



" So when I would beget content, and 

 increase confidence in the power and wisdom 

 and providence of Almighty God, I will walk 

 the meadows by some gliding stream, and there 

 contemplate the lilies that take no care, and 

 those many other various little living creatures 

 that are not only created but fed, man knows 

 not how, by the goodness of the God of nature, 

 and so — 



" Let every thing that hath breath, praise the Lord." 



POSTSCRIPT 



Since the earlier sheets had gone to press I have 

 received, through the courtesy of the Rev. H. Lionel 

 James, Rector of St. Dunstan's, several extracts 

 from the parish registers having reference to Izaak 

 Walton and Thomas Grinsell, of which the follow- 

 ing are interesting. It appears that altogether there 



