NEAR EDMONTON 



PART II 



.CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



Prologue KEX and WALTON by Bowles" COMPLEAT 

 ANGLER," first edition Lea and Dove Edition 

 Sir John Hawkins's " Life of Walton " Notes and 

 Queries William Oldys found the principal facts 

 for Sir John Hawkins 81 



CHAPTER II 



IZAAK. WALTON Birth and birthplace Birth in town 

 of Stafford Jervis Walton Dr. Zouch Error 

 about Walton's mother and Walton's first wife 

 Rachel Grand-daughter of Thomas Cranmer, 

 Archdeacon of Canterbury, brother of Archbishop 

 Cranmer Actual house of birth uncertain 

 Walton's boyhood, nothing known of Finding 

 his way to London at the age of 16 (Suggestion 

 that he may have arrived much earlier) 

 Apprenticeship to Thomas Grinsell Member of 

 Ironmongers' Company Was he ironmonger or 



