I30 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Cotton did not write a biography of Walton, which, 

 as he survived him four years, there was ample 

 time for him to do. Mr Le Gallienne in his edition 

 of Tlie Complete Angler (1897) remarks that 

 Canon Isaak Walton, " in his long quiet life in 

 Salisbury Close, might surely have written some 

 notes of a father to whose biographical faculty, 

 and consequent acceptability with bishops, he owed 

 his canonry." 



One of the last editions of The Complete 

 Angler I have seen is called the " Winchester 

 Edition," published in 1902, by Freemantle, 

 and edited by Mr George A. B. Dewar, who 

 has discovered the lease of "Norington farme " 

 which Walton in his will gave to his son 

 Isaak." 



There is a great deal of learned and interesting 

 information as to Donne's seals in The Perverse 

 Widow; or, Memorials of the Boevey Family 

 before mentioned. I only remark here that 

 many gifts passed between Walton's friends 

 in the way of seals. Donne sent Herbert a 

 seal depicting Christ upon an anchor, which 

 Donne adopted in lieu of the crest of his 

 family, which was a sheaf of snakes : — 



" Adopted in God's family, and so 

 My old coat lost, into new Arms I go." 



Walton sealed his will with one of these seals 



