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He too, the writer has discovered, was a resident of 

 Droxford, and lies buried in a vault in the north-west 

 corner of Droxford church, beneath the floor of the 

 baptistery. The Jacobean manor-house in which he 

 lived, with its quaint gables and legends of secret 

 passages, is still standing over against the rectory, 

 and the gateway in the massive red-brick garden wall 

 still opens into the orchard, through which "old 

 Izaak" and his comparatively youthful friend must 

 have often passed together. Francis Morley, as we 

 learn from his marble tablet in the church, was a 

 nephew of the Bishop of Winchester, and this fact 

 doubtless deepened the intimacy between the two 

 men. He was also a warm friend of Thomas Ken, 

 and when, two years after Walton's death, Ken was 

 made Bishop of Bath and Wells, Francis Morley 

 supplied him with the necessary cash in hand to 

 meet the expenses of his consecration. A most in- 

 teresting relic of this Droxford friend of our " honest 

 fisherman" is still preserved in the rectory garden. 

 In the middle of the undulating lawn, near the lofty 

 tulip-tree, at the moment of writing covered with 

 thousands of exquisite blossoms, there stands a stone 

 pedestal, which supports a sundial, of stately propor- 

 tions and design on which is carved two heraldic 

 devices. The one coat-of-arms represents the armorial 

 bearings of the Morley family impaled with those of 

 the Tancreds ; and the other the Morley arms impaled 

 with those of the Herberts. The stone pedestal, then, 

 it is clear, commemorates the marriages of father and 

 son of Walton's friend, Francis Morley, with Jane 

 Tancred, which took place in the year 1652; and of 

 Francis Morley's eldest son, Charles, who married 

 Magdalene, daughter of Sir Henry Herbert and niece 





