xlviii LIFE OF 1ZAAK WALTON. [1655, 



that he had maintained her " with diet and lodging and other 

 necessaries for the space of twelve years and above, to my great 

 charges, and for whose sake I have bestowed a place upon her 

 husband in the circuit of South Wales, to the value of forty marks 

 per annum or thereabouts, which I conceive to have been a greater 

 portion for her than my estate could afford." He, however, left 

 her forty shillings, which were to be paid " whensoever her said 

 husband shall take her away with him from London to live with 

 him as it is fit." The rest of his property he ordered to be equally 

 divided among his four other children, Martha, the wife of James 

 Beacham, Jon Ken, Jane Ken, and Thomas Ken, all of whom 

 were the issue of his second marriage with Martha Chalkhill ; and 

 he appointed his sons-in-law, Izaak Walton and James Beacham, 

 his executors. 



In the ensuing year, 1654, the second edition of the " Reliquiae 

 Wottonianse " was published, in which Walton made large addi- 

 tions : the apology for inaccuracies is omitted, and he had 

 evidently reviewed the first impression with great care. His next 

 publication was in 1655, when he printed the second edition of 

 " The Complete Angler," in which he made so many important 

 alterations, that much of his time in the two preceding years must 

 have been employed in revising that work. 



In the title, the " Discourse " was stated to include " Rivers 

 and Fish-ponds," as well as Fish and Fishing. Very slight varia- 

 tions occur in the Dedication ; but several passages were added 

 to the Address to the Reader, wherein he says " that in this 

 second impression there are many enlargements, gathered both 

 by my own observation and the communication of my friends." 

 The contributions of his friends were not, however, confined to 

 the body of the work, for seven of them addressed complimentary 

 verses to the author, which were prefixed to this edition. These 

 verses were written by his two brothers-in-law, John and Robert 

 Floud; the Rev. Christopher Harvie, author of " The Synagogue;" 

 the Rev. Thomas Weaver, author of "Songs and Sonnets;" 

 Edmund Powel, apparently a clergyman of Stafford ; Henry 

 Bagley or Bailey, a clergyman ; and Alexander Brome, who was 

 a poet, and, like Walton's friend, Dr Morley, one of Ben Jonson's 

 twelve adopted sons. No date occurs to any of the verses ; but 

 it is remarkable that in the third and subsequent impressions of 

 " The Complete Angler," Powel' s lines " To the readers of my 

 most ingenious friend's book, the Complete Angler," are dated on 

 the " 3d of April 1650," whence it may be inferred that the work 



