OF WALTON. $7 



August the ninth, one thousand six 

 hundred eighty-three. 



tlje jame of <Bqto, amen. I IZAAK 



WALTON the elder, of Winchester, being this pre- 

 sent day, in the ninetyeth year of my age, and in per- 

 fect memory, for which praised be God ; out consider- 

 ing how suddainly I may be deprived of both, do 

 therefore make this my last will and testament as fol- 

 loweth : And first, I do declare my belief to be, that 

 there is only one God, who hath made the whole world, 

 and me and all mankind ; to whom I shall give an ac- 

 count of all my actions, which are not to be justified, 

 but I hope pardoned, for the merits of my Saviour 

 JESUS : And because the profession of Christianity 

 does, at this time, seem to be subdivided into Papist 

 and Protestante, I take it, at least to be convenient, 

 Jo declare my belief to be, in all points of faith, as the 

 Church of England now professeth : and this I do the 

 rather, because of a very long and very true friendship 

 with some of the Roman Church. And for my worldly 

 estate, (which I have neither got by falshood or flat- 

 tery, or the extreme cruelty of the law of this na- 

 tion*,) I do hereby give and bequeath it as follovveth : 

 First, I give my son-in-law, Doctor HAWKINS, and 

 to HIS WIFE ; to them I give all my title and right 

 of or in a part of a house and shop in Pater-noster 

 row, in London, which I hold by lease from the lord 

 bishop of London for about fifty years to come. And 

 J do also give to them all my right and title of -or to a 

 house in Chancery-lane, London, wherein Mrs. Grein- 

 wood now dwelleth, in which is now about sixteen 

 years to come : I give these two leases to them, they 



Alluding, perhaps, to lhat fundamental maxim of bur law, Sttmrnmn 

 / us ett snmma injuria. 



