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should dye before me I do then appoint my forementiond nephew 

 niece (William Hawkins & Anne Hawkins) jointly my executors, giving & 

 bequeathing unto them the Remainder of my Estate unbequeathed, to be 

 divided between them into Three parts, whereof my nephew is to have two 

 Thirds, & my neice one Third part. 



ISAAC WALTON. 



Signed, sealed, published & declared as the last \Vill & Testament of the 

 within named Isaac Walton, in the presence of us who have subscribed 

 our names as witnesses to the same on the request of the said Isaac 

 Walton & in his presence and in presence of each other 



EDWARD SEALE. 

 STEPHEN GAISFORD. 

 GEO: FROME." 



In the handwriting of the testator, 



" Last Will & Testamt of J: W: 

 July 14. 1714." 



"Probat Londini &c decimo quarto die mensis Nov rls Anno D'ni 1720 

 coram Vefili viro Humphredo Henchman Legum D'core Surro &c Jurto 

 Gufimi Hawkins afi nil Extof substitu? &c cui &c. De bene c jurat 

 Reservata potestate silem coiiinem faciendi Annze Hawkins jun alter 

 Exccuf substitu? &c. cum venerit^eandem petitura Anna Hawkins sea 

 Extrice in dco Testo nominal in vita Testatoris mortem obeunte. 



14 Nov ris 1720. 



"Guilielmus Hawkins Arm unus Executor substitut jura? reservaT, potes- 

 tate Anne Hawkins jun alteri Execuf Anna Hawkins sen. ExecutriC" in Vita 

 Testatoris mortem obiunte. 



Coram me 



HUM. HENCHMAN, 



Surr. 



"Testator fuit unus Canonicorum Residentiarium Ecclesice Cathedralis 

 S te Beatoe Marioe Virginis Sarum et obijt mense Decembris ult." 



The strong allusion which Canon Walton makes to his " many 

 and grievous sins," and to the " manifold scandals which his very 

 irregular, negligent, and most unprofitable course of life had too 

 surely administered," probably originated in extreme humility, and 

 ought not to be construed literally. Like his father, he professed 

 his ardent attachment to the Church of England, as she had then 

 reformed herself ; and he also imitated his example, by desiring 

 to be interred in the most unostentatious manner. 



Anne Walton, the only daughter of Izaak Walton who attained 



