no Life of Walton. 



a member of the Ironmongers' Company ; 

 but jn his marriage licence with Rachel 

 Floud, dated December 27th, 1626, he 

 is described as of the " Cittie of London, 

 Ironmonger." Surely, if he had been a 

 sempstePoF" haberdasher, he would not 

 have called himself an ironmonger ? 



"No circumstance," says Mr. Nicholl, 

 F.S.A., in his History of the Ironmongers' 

 Company ', "has given me more gratifica- 

 tion than the discovery that Izaak Walton 

 is enrolled among their members." The 

 records of the company give other interest- 

 ing facts about Walton. We find that 

 "he served as a gentleman in foins in the 

 mayoralty of Sir Thomas Campbell in 

 1629, and performed the like service in 

 1635, in the pageant provided for Sir 

 Christopher Clitherow." 



In i&j^-^Valton was chosen Warden 

 of the Yeomanry, and in 1639 paid over 

 to his successor the sum of 2 'js. iod., 

 the balance left in his hands after dis- 

 charging the duties of that office. He is 

 again mentioned in 1641, the Lord Mayor 

 having addressed three several precepts 

 to the city companies, requiring them, in 

 the first place, to make a return of all 

 their members, with their several places 

 of abode ; secondly, to collect the moneys 

 rated upon them respectively by Act of 



