6 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



two volumes do, indeed, contain a good deal 

 about Izaak Walton, but more in connection with 

 Morley, Bishop of Winchester, than with Ken, 

 Bishop of Bath and Wells. What he does tell us 

 about Walton and Bishop Morley is new and very 

 interesting, but it is founded on tradition, and is 

 not supported by other biographers. Ken himself 

 had much more to do with Izaak Walton, junior, 

 Canon of Salisbury. 



Thomas Ken was the third son by his second 

 wife 1 of Thomas Ken, attorney-at-law, of Furnival's 

 Inn, London, said also to have been a clerk of the 

 House of Lords, and clerk of assize for the counties 

 of Glamorgan, Brecon, and Radnor. He was born 

 at Little Berkhampstead, July, 1637. His mother 

 died in 1641, and the father is supposed to have 

 died in 1651, after which date it is probable that 

 his home was mostly at the house of his brother-in- 

 law, Izaak Walton. Thomas Ken the elder had 

 two daughters and one son by his first wife 

 Anne, born in 1612, married to "that singular and 

 interesting character Izaak Walton, the celebrated 



1 Thomas Ken the elder's first wife was Jane, daughter 

 of Rowland Hughes of Essenden. His second wife was 

 Martha, daughter of John Chalkhill of Kingsbury in 

 Middlesex. 



