n 6 Life of Walton. 



about jfive-and-thirty ; he himself tells us, 

 in the inscription on her monument in 

 Worcester Cathedral, that she was "a 

 woman of remarkable prudence, and of 

 the primitive piety ; her great and general 

 knowledge being adorn'd with such true 

 humility, and blessed with soe much Chris- 

 tian meeknesse as made her worthy of 

 a more memorable monument." It is 

 certain, from these lines and others ad- 

 dressed to her by Walton, that their married 

 life of sixteen years was a very happy 

 one. The first child of this marriage wasj 

 a daughter, Anne, born March nth, 1648. 

 In 1650 a son was born, but only lived 

 a few months, making the eighth child 

 Walton lost by death. In 1651, on 

 September yth, another son was born, 

 the note of his birth being thus entered 

 by Walton in the family Prayer Book : 



" My last son Isaac, born the yth of 

 September, 1651, at half an hour after two 

 o'clock in the afternoon, being Sunday, 

 and so was baptized in the evening by 

 Mr. Thornton in my house in Clerken- 

 well. Mr. Henry Davison and Brother 

 Beauchamp were his God-fathers, and 

 Mrs. Row his God-mother." 



From 1650 to 1661 Walton appears to 

 have resided at Clerkenwell. It was 

 during his residence here that the first 



