CHAPTER XIV 



A SHORT NOTE ON WALTON'S FAMILY 



It has already been shown that all Walton's 

 children by his first marriage died in infancy. Of 

 the issue by his second marriage, the elder son 

 Isaak was born and baptised on the 10th of 

 February 1649, and died the following June. 



The younger son Isaak was baptised on the 7th 

 of September 1651, and was educated at Christ 

 Church College, Oxford. He became B.A. in 1672 

 and M.A. in 1675, and travelled abroad with Ken. 

 He was Rector of Poulshot, Wilts, and Canon of 

 Salisbui'y. The Canon refers in his will to his 

 "many and grievous sins," and to his "unprofit- 

 able life." W^e know, however, that he is said to 

 have been "a very pious, sober, learned, inofien- 

 sive, charitable, good man " (see Notes and Queries, 

 1st S. IX., p. 397). His estimate of his own char- 

 acter seems worthless. Sir Harris Nicolas thinks 

 that the allusion originated in extreme humility, 

 I think it arose from ill health. 



The will states that the testator lived at 

 present, and intended through God's grace to 



