CHAPTER XIII 



COPY OF Walton's will 



August the ninth, one thousand six hundred eighty-three. 



In the name of God, amen, I, Izaak Walton, the 

 elder of Winchester, being this present day, in the 

 ninetyeth year of my age, and in perfect memory, 

 for which praised be God ; but considering how 

 suddainly I may be deprived of both, do therefore 

 make this my last Will and Testament as 

 followeth : And fii'st, I do declare my belief to 

 be, that there is only one God, who hath made 

 the whole world, and me, and all mankind; to 

 whom I shall give an accomit of all my actions, 

 which are not to be justified, but I hope pardoned, 

 for the merits of my Saviour Jesus. And because 

 the profession of Christianity does, at this time, 

 seem to be subdivided into Papist and Protestante, 

 I take it, at least, to be convenient, to declare my 

 belief to be, in all points of faith, as the Church 

 of England now professeth : and this I do the 

 rather, because of a very long and very true 

 friendship with some of the Roman Church. And 

 for my worldly estate (which I have neither got 

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