August the 9, 1683. 



Introduction 



Of (&0&, Amen. I, Izaak Walton, the elder, of Winchester, 

 being this present day in the neintyeth yeare of my age, and in perfect 

 memory, for wich praysed be God : but Considering how sodainly I may 

 be deprived of boeth, doe therfore make this my last will and testament as 

 followeth. And first, I doe [declare]* my beliefe to be, that their is only one 

 God, who hath made the whole world, and me and all mankinde ; to whome I 

 shall give an acount 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] Cristianity does, at this time, seime to be subdevided into 

 papist and protestant, I take it to be at least convenient to declare my beleife 

 to be, in all poynts of faith, as the Church of England now professeth. And 

 this I doe the rather because of a very long and very trew friendship with some 

 of the Roman Church. 



And for my worldly estate (which I have nether got by falshood or flattery, 

 or the extreme crewelty of the law of this nation), I doe hereby give and be- 

 queth it as followeth : First, I give my son-in-law, Doc r Hawkins, and to 

 his Wife, to them I give all my tytell and right of or in a part of a howse 

 and shop in Pater-noster-rowe, in London, which I hold by lease from the 

 Lord Bishop of London for about 50 years to come, and I doe also give to 

 them all my right and tytell of or to a howse in Chancery-lane, London, 

 where in Mrs. Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is now about 16 years 

 to come. I give these two leases to them, they saving my executor from 

 all damage concerning the same. 



[[And I doe also give to my saide dafter all my books this day at Win- 

 chester and Droxford : and what ever ells I can call mine their, except a 

 trunk of linen w ch I give my son Izaak Walton, but if he doe not marry, or 

 use the saide linen himselfe, then I give the same to my grand-doughter 

 Anne Hawkins.]] 



And I give to my son Izaak all my right and tytell to a lease of Noring- 

 ton farme, which I hold from the lord B p of Winton : And I doe also 

 give him all my right and tytell to a farme or land nere to Stafford, which I 

 bought of Mr. Walter Noell ; I say, I give it to him and [his] heares for 

 ever ; but upon the condition following, namely : if my sone shall not marry 

 before he shall be of the age of forty and one yeare, or, being marryed, shall 

 dye before the saide age, and leve noe son to inherit the saide farme or land, 

 or if his son [or sonns] shall not live to ataine the age of twentie and one 

 yeare, to dispose otherwayes of it, then I give the saide farme or land to the 



The words and sentences in square brackets were interlineations, and a 

 passage in double square brackets was erased because "twice repeated." 



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