cxxii LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. 



Of some of the relations mentioned in the wills of the Waltons 

 it is difficult to speak with certainty. It is most probable that 

 their affinity was produced by Izaak Walton's marriage with Anne 

 Ken ; and as nothing is known of his wife's half-sisters, Margaret 

 and Elizabeth Ken, it may be conjectured, from the position of 

 tr^e name of his " sister Pye," in Izaak Walton's will, where it 

 occurs immediately after the Kens, that she was one of the 

 bishop's .sisters. His "brother Beacham " was James Beacham, 

 the husband of Martha Ken : he was living in July 1714, and 

 had two sons Jon and William Beacham, the latter of whom was 

 a fellow of New College, but appears to have died before 1713, as 

 his cousin Mr Hawkins does not mention him among Bishop Ken's 

 relations, in his account of that prelate, 9 though he particularly 

 notices his brother Jon Ken, who proceeded M.A. in November 

 1683, and B.D. on the 23rd of March 1693. The said Jon 

 Beacham obtained the vicarage of East Brent in March 1688, 

 and the prebendary of Wanstrowin October 1689, from his uncle, 

 Bishop Ken, who bequeathed part of his books, and ^50 to him 

 by his will. He was a fellow of Trinity. College in 1713, after which 

 year nothing has been found respecting him. 



Jon Ken, the elder brother of Bishop Ken, who married Rose, 

 the sister of Sir Thomas Vernon, was sometime treasurer of the 

 East India Company. He was living in 1683, and had issue by 

 his wife, who is mentioned in Canon Walton's will in 1714, a son, 

 who was at Cyprus about the year 1707,* and two daughters, 

 Rose, 1 who died in 1700, unmarried, when administration of her 

 effects was granted to her mother ; and Martha, who married 

 Christopher Frederic Kreinberg, resident for the Elector of Hanover 

 in London. She was bequeathed a legacy of ,50 by Bishop Ken ; 

 and Canon Walton left her, and her husband, 10 each, in 1714, 

 after which time they have not been traced. 



9 Mr Hawkins says that Bishop Ken "left behind him but few relations : Martha, the 

 daughter of his brother, Mr Jon Ken, by Rose, his wife, which Martha married to the 

 Honourable Christopher Frederic Kreinberg, resident of his Electoral Highness of 

 Hanover in London. Jon Beacham, at this time fellow of Trinity College, and William 

 Beacham, sometime fellow of New College, Oxon, and since deceased, who were the 

 sons of his sister Martha, by her husband, Mr James Beacham. Izaac Walton, residen- 

 tiary of the cathedral church of Sarum, and Anne, son and daughter of his sister Anne, 

 by her husband, Mr Izaac Walton, of London, which Anne having married to William 

 Hawkins, D. D., sometime prebendary of the cathedral church of Winton, had issue by 

 him, William and Anne, both living ; which William being, by will proved in the Pre- 

 rogative Court of Canterbury, April 24, 1711, appointed executor, and having had 

 opportunities of knowledge and inquiry of him, submits this impartial, and he hopes not 

 unacceptable account to the public." Short Account of the Life of Bishop Ken, by 

 William Hawkins, of the Middle Temple, Esq. 8vo. 1713, p. 46. 



1 Pedigree compiled by Mr Dale, one of the Heralds, about the year 1707, and 

 obligingly communicated by Charles George Young, Esq., York Herald. 



