AT ROCHESTER, RIVER DOVE 



CHAPTER XIV 



First memorial Walton's initials on Casaubon's tomb, 

 Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey Michael Eland's 

 suggestion to John Major Second memorial, marble 

 bust in St. Mary's Church, Stafford Third memorial, 

 statue in Winchester Cathedral Fourth memorial, 

 window in St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, London, 

 and tablet on front wall of the church Epilogue. 



IZAAK WALTON'S MEMORIALS 



(~)NE can scarcely think that it was out of a desire 

 for posthumous fame that Izaak Walton, when 

 he was sixty-five years old, scratched his initials 

 on Izaac Casaubon's tomb * in the south transept 

 in Westminster Abbey " earliest of those unhappy 



1 Isaac Casaubon was a foreign scholar of the highest 

 eminence. He came to England along with Sir Henry 

 Wotton in 1610, who had, according to Walton, " contracted 

 a most worthy friendship with that man of rare learning and 

 ingenuity" ("Chambers' Book of Days "). Frank Buckland 

 was the first to draw attention to the initials. 



