72 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



Izaac Walton, jun.'s, gravestone of black marble 

 in Salisbury Cathedral is thus inscribed 



H. S. E. 



Isaacus Walton, hujus Ecclesiae 



Canonicus residentiarius, 



pietatis non fucatae, 



doctrinae sanse, 



munificentiae, 



benevolentiae, 



Exemplar desiderandum. 



Pastoris boni et fidelis functus officiis 



per Annos xxxix. in Parochia de Polshot, Wilts. 



Obiit Vicesimo nono Decembris, 



Anno D ni 1719, aetatis 6Q. 1 



1 Isaac Walton, Jun., Izaak Walton's only surviving son, by 

 Anne Ken, was born in Clerkenwell, September 7, 1651, was 

 educated by his uncle Ken, matriculating at Christ Church, 

 Oxford, July 12, 1668 (in Alumni Oxonienses, as of Stafford), 

 proceeding to the usual degrees of B.A. 1672, and M.A. 

 1675-6, domestic chaplain to Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury 

 1678, Rector of Boscombe 1679 (where Hooker once 

 ministered), Rector of Poulshot 1680-1719; in 1678 the 

 Bishop presented him with the prebend of Yatesbury, which 

 he quickly exchanged for that of Bishopstone, and finally for 

 that of Netheravon, once held by Hooker and John Pearson, 

 Bishop of Chester, the author of the well-known and admir- 

 able " Exposition of the Creed." 



Regret has often been expressed that he, "in his long 



