14 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



" My last son Isaac, borne the 7th 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 Clerkenwell. Mr. Henry 

 Davison and brother Beauchamp, were his god- 

 fathers, and Mrs. Row his godmother." 



" Rachel died 1640." (Walton's first wife.) 



"Our doghter Anne, born the loth July 

 1640, died the eleventh of May, 1642." 



"Anne Walton dyed the i/th of April 

 (1662), about one o'clock in that night, and 

 was buried in the Virgin Mary's Chapel in the 

 Cathedral in Worcester, the 2Oth day." This 

 was his second wife, half-sister of Ken. 



Then follows the epitaph in Walton's handwrit- 

 ing, with a few interlineations. "Alas ! alas ! 

 that she dyed " (dyed crossed out and " is ded " 

 inserted). 



The epitaph on a small oval monument of white 

 marble in our Lady's Chapel in Worcester 

 Cathedral, on his wife ; the following is the first 

 draft in the Prayer-Book x 



1 Walton's Prayer-Book. It should be noted that in his 

 days the Prayer-Book was proscribed. The ordinance against 

 the Prayer-Book runs thus : " 1645. That if any person or 



