LIFE OF WALTON. 53 



This worthy person died, at the age of sixty-nine, on 

 the 29th day of December, 1719 ; and lies interred in 

 the cathedral church of Salisbury. 



Anne, the daughter of old Isaac Walton, and sister 

 of the above person, was married to Dr. William Haw- 

 kins ; a divine and a prebendary of Winchester, men- 

 tioned above; for whom Walton, in his will, expresses 

 great affection, declaring that he loved him as his own 

 son: he died the 17th day of July, 1691, aged fifty- 

 eight, leaving issue by his said wife a daughter, 

 named Anne y and a son, named William. The daughter 

 was never married, but lived with her uncle, the canon^ 

 as his housekeeper, and the manager of his domestick 

 concerns : she remained settled at Salisbury after his 

 decease, and till the 27th of November, 1728, when 

 she died, and lies buried in the cathedral. 



William, the son of Dr. Hawkins, and brother of 

 the last-mentioned Anne, was bred to the study of the 

 law ; and from the Middle Temple, called to the bar ; 

 but attained to no degree of eminence in his profession. 

 He wrote and published in 8ro. anno 1713, A short 

 Account of the life of Bishop Ken, with a small speci- 

 men, in .order to a publication of his Works at large; 

 and, accordingly, in the year, 1721, they were pub- 

 lished, in four volumes, 8vo. From this Account, some 

 of the above particulars respecting the family connec- 

 tions of Walton are taken. 



I am informed, that this gentleman for several years 

 laboured under the affliction of incurable blindness, and 

 that he died on Hie 29th day of November, 1748. 



A few months before his death, our Author made his 

 will, which appears, by the peculiarity of many ex- 

 pressions contained in it, as well as by the hand to be 

 of his own writing. As there is something characteris- 

 tick in this last solemn act of his life, it has been 

 thought proper to insert an authentic copy thereof in 

 this account of him ; postponing it, only, to the fol- 

 lowing reflections on his life and character. 



Upon a retrospect to the foregoing particulars, and 

 a yicw of some others mentioned in a subsequent Let- 



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