xxx LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1640, 



besides his wife and her mother, Mrs Floud, who appears to have 

 formed part of his family. By her will, which was dated on the 

 2oth of April 1635, and proved on the 27th of November follow- 

 ing, wherein she described herself of the parish of St Dunstan in 

 the West, widow, she bequeathed the sum of ,150 to her son, 

 John Floud, to be paid to him when he attained the age of twenty- 

 eight ; and she ordered that in the meantime it should be disposed 

 of by her "loving cousin, Doctor John Spenser," and her "loving 

 son, Izaak Walton," who were to pay him the interest yearly for 

 his support ; but if he died under that age, the money was to be 

 equally divided between her son, Robert Floud, and her daughter, 

 Rachel Walton. If, however, Mrs Walton died without issue, the 

 whole sum was to go to her brother Robert ; but in case she left 

 children, each child was to be paid 10. She directed that her 

 linen at Canterbury should be divided by her sister Cranmer 

 between her two sons above mentioned ; and her son John Floud 

 was to have, besides, a silver-gilt salt and a cup. To " my son 

 Izaak Walton and my daughter Rachel, his wife," she bequeathed 

 ^50, and the interest then due ; for which money she held a bond 

 from a Mr John Burgess. To the poor of St Mildred's, Canter- 

 bury, she left ,40, which were to be distributed by her brother 

 and sister Cranmer. She gave legacies of ten shillings each to 

 her sister Field ; to her cousin Dr Spenser, and to her cousin, his 

 wife ; to her brother and sister Cranmer j to her " son Walton," 

 and her " daughter Walton ; " to her two sons, Robert and John 

 Floud ; to her cousin, Charles Sellar ; l and to her friend, Mr 

 Leonard Browne ; 2 which several sums she said she gave them 

 " to buy them rings for remembrance of me, being small testi- 

 monies of my great love." To her two cousins, Susannah and 

 Elizabeth Cranmer, she left two pieces of old gold which were in 

 her box at Canterbury ; but her god-daughter Elizabeth was to 

 have " the bigger piece." The rest of her property was given to 

 her son and executor, Robert Floud. 



Between four and five years after the death of his mother-in-law, 

 the heaviest calamity to which domestic life is exposed befell 

 Walton. On the loth of July 1640, his wife was delivered of a 

 daughter, but she only survived the birth of the infant about six 

 weeks ; and dying on the 22d, was buried in St Dunstan's on the 



1 The son of Dr John Sellar, by her sister Ann Cranmer. 



2 Mr Leonard Browne was an alderman of Canterbury in 1663 ; and by Anne, 

 daughter of Captain Richard Bargrave, of Patricksbourne, near that city, had two 

 children, Isaac and Elizabeth. Additional MSS. in the British Museum, 5507, f. 396. 



