cvi LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1683, 



perhaps received civilities from Mr Rede, " the bishop's servant," 

 or probably agent or land steward. Mrs Eliza Johnson is men- 

 tioned in the will of Walton's son, in 1714, as "formerly of 

 Worcester," where she may have resided in 1662, when Mrs 

 Walton died in that city ; and it is not unreasonable to conjec- 

 ture that her kindness to the Waltons on that occasion caused 

 her to be thus remembered. Mr Valentine Harcourt was doubt- 

 less a younger son of Humphrey Harcourt, who in the year 1614 

 was the son and heir-apparent of John Harcourt, of Ranton Hall, 

 in Staffordshire. 9 Mr Richard Walton, Mr Palmer, Mr Taylor, 

 who was perhaps one of the witnesses to his will, " his cousin 

 Lewin," l Mr Walter Higgs, 2 Mr John Darbyshire, Mr Holingshed, 

 Mrs Mary Rogers, Mrs Vuedvill, Mrs Rock, Mr Peter White, 

 Mr John Lloyde, his cousin GreinselTs widow, and Mrs Dalbin, 

 have not been identified. 



The execution of Walton's will on the 24th of October 1683, 

 was one of the latest acts of his life respecting his temporal 

 affairs ; and the completion of that instrument may have been 

 hastened by symptoms of decay, warning him that the unusual 

 period to which his existence had been prolonged, was not 

 likely to be extended. Of his last hours nothing is known. 

 Few men were so well prepared for the awful change, and had so 

 little cause to view it with apprehension. His death took place 

 in the house of his son-in-law, Dr Hawkins, at Winchester, on 

 the 1 5th of December 1683, during a severe frost, which may 

 have hastened the event, for the serious effect of extreme cold 

 upon aged persons is well known. His dying hours were 

 probably cheered by the tender regard of his family ; 3 and it 

 is not unlikely that he received the consolations of religion from 

 his constant and venerable friend Bishop Morley, who died in 

 the following year, aged eighty-seven, and being also buried in 

 Winchester Cathedral, 



" In one hallowed pile at last their bones repose."* 



Walton was buried in Winchester Cathedral, in a chapel in the 



9 Harleian MS- 1439, f-S7- 



1 A Dr Lewin Floud was first cousin of Robert Floud, who is supposed to have been 

 the father of Walton's first wife. A family of Lewin were seated at Oldingden, in Kent, 



n 1619. 



2 The ancestor (it is presumed) of William Simond Higgs, Esq. of the Regent's Park, 

 London, whose youngest son, John Higgs, Esq. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, died at 

 Hastings on the 4th May 1833. His library contained copies of the original editions, 

 and numerous illustrations, of the " Complete Angler." Gentleman's Magazine, ciii. 

 pt. i. 477, & civ. 



3 His brother-in-law, Dr Ken, was then abroad, having accepted the situation of 

 Chaplain to Lord Dartmouth, who commanded the expedition to Tanyiers, in that year, 

 Bowles's Life of Ken, ii. 62. * Bowles, ibid. i. p. 112. 



