LIFE OF WALTON. 



The issue of Walton's marriage were, a son, named 

 Isaac; and a daughter, named, after her mother, Anne. 

 This son was placed in Christ Church college, Oxford*; 

 and, having taken his degree of bachelor of arts, tra- 

 velled, together with his uncle, Mr. (afterwards bishop) 

 Ken, in the year 1674, being the year of the jubilee, into 

 France and Italy , and, as Cotton says, visited Rome 

 and Venice. Of this son, mention is made in the re- 

 markable Will of Dr. Donne the younger, (printed on 

 a half sheet,) in 1662 ; whereby he bequeathed to the 

 elder Walton all his father's writings, as also his com- 

 mon-place book, which, he says, may be of use to him 

 if he makes him a scholar. Upon the return of the 

 younger Walton, he prosecuted his studies ; and hav- 

 ing finished the same, entered into holy orders ; arid 

 became chaplain to Dr. Seth Ward, bishop of Sarum ; 

 by whose favour, he attained to the dignity of a canon 

 residentiary of that cathedral. Upon the decease of 

 bishop Ward, and the promotion of Dr. Gilbert Burnet 

 to the vacant see, Mr. Walton was taken into the friend- 

 ship and confidence of that prelate, and being a man 

 of great temper and discretion, and for his candour 

 and sincerity much respected by all the clergy of the 

 diocese, he became very useful to him in conducting 

 the affairs of the chapter. 



Old Isaac Walton having by his will bequeathed a 

 farm and land near Stafford, of about the yearly value 

 of 20 /. to this his son and his heirs for ever, upon con- 

 dition, that if his said son should not marry before 

 he should be of the age of forty-one, or being mar- 

 ried, should die before the said age, and leave no son 

 that should live to the age of twenty-one, then the 

 same should go to the corporation of Stafford, for cer- 

 tain charitable purposes ; this son, upon his attain- 

 ment of that age without having married, sent to the 

 mayor of Stafford, acquainting him, that the estate was 

 improved to almost double it's former value, and that 

 upon his decease the corporation would become entitled 

 thereto. 



* Vidt Part II. page 417; Men. Oxon. Vol. II. 989; Biogr.Brit. Art. 



