Walton at Winchester. 



Parliament proclaimed " that whoever 

 shall assist the King with Horse, Arms, 

 Plate or Money against them, are Traytors 

 to the Parliament " ? and they had a short, 

 sharp way of dealing with " Traytors. w ji 



''Between 1651 and 1661 almost the 

 only particulars we have of Walton are 

 from scattered references in his works. 

 He lost his second wife, Anne, in 1662, 

 and in December of that year he obtained 

 from his friend Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop 

 of London, a lease of a newly erected 

 building, adjoining a house called the 

 Cross Keys, in Paternoster Row, for forty 

 years, at the yearly rent of forty shillings, 

 which premises were burnt in the Great 

 Fire of London. 



"After the Restoration" (1660), says 

 Dr. Zouch, "Walton and his daughter 

 had apartments constantly reserved for 

 them in the houses of Dr. Morley, Bishop / 

 of Winchester, and Dr. Ward, Bishop of 

 Salisbury." 



The charming letter from Walton to 

 Cotton which is prefixed to the first 

 edition of Cotton's Part II. of The Corn- 

 pleat Angler is dated "London, 1676." 

 I have just copied it from a little time- 

 worn edition of that date now in my 

 possession, which is bound up in the 

 original old calf binding with the fifth 



