112 Life of Walton. 



the seventh house on the left-hand side," 

 > that he filled a parish office in December 



1632; served on the jury in 1633; was 

 appointed a constable on December 2oth, 

 1636 ; was again on the grand jury in 1638 ; 

 was one of the overseers of the poor in 

 and a sidesman on April i8th, 1639 ; and 

 a vestryman in February 1640. He con- 

 tinued to reside in Chancery Lane until 

 about August 1644. He was appointed ex- 

 aminer of St. Dunstan's August 27th, 1641, 

 was elected a vestryman in 1 644 ; but at a 

 vestry holden on August 2oth in the same 

 year another person was chosen " in the 

 room of Isaak Walton lately departed out 

 of this parish and dwelling elsewhere." 



From 1644 to 1651 there is some 



uncertainty as to where Walton lived. 



Anthony Wood, the Oxford antiquary, tells 



us that, " finding it dangerous for honest 



men to be there, he left that city [London], 



i , and lived sometimes at Stafford ; but 



Y mostly in the families of the eminent 



* clergymen of England, of whom he was 



much beloved." 



While making some inquiries at Staf- 

 ford about Walton's connection with that 

 town, the most interesting relic I came 

 across was a note by him referring to 

 his house and land at Shallowford (of 

 which note I have given a facsimile copy 



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