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them to reade them so as to be well acquanted with them. And I also give 

 to her all my bookes at Winchester and Droxford, and what ever in those 

 two places are or I can call mine, except a trunk of linen, which I give to 

 my son Izaak ; but if" he doe not live to [marry or] make use of it, then I 

 give the same to my grand-dafter, Anne Hawkins. And I give my dafter 

 Doc r Halls Works, which be now at Farnham. 



To my son Izaak I give all my books, not yet given, at Farnham Castell ; 

 and a deske of prints and pickters ; also a cabinet nere my beds head, in 

 w ch are som iittell things that he will valew, tho of noe greate worth. 



And my will and desyre is, that he will be kinde to his Ante Beacham, 

 and his ant Rose Ken, by alowing the first about fiftie shilling a yeare, in or 

 for bacon and cheise, not more, and paying 4 a yeare toward the bordin of 

 her son's dyut to Mr. John Whitehead : for his Ante Ken, I desyre him 

 to be kinde to her acording to her necessitie and his owne abillitie ; and I 

 comend one of her children, to breide up as I have saide I intend to doe, if 

 he shall be able to doe it, as I know he will ; for they be good folke. 



I give to Mr. John Darbishire the Sermons of Mr. Antony Far- 

 ingdon or of do r Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit. To my servant, 

 Thomas Edghill, I give five pownd in mony, and all my clothes, linen 

 and wollen, except one sute of clothes, which I give to Mr. Holinshed 

 and forty shiling, if the saide Thomas be my servant at my deth ; if not, 

 my cloths only. 



And I give my old friend, Mr. Richard Marriot, ten pownd in mony, to 

 be paid him within 3 months after my deth ; and I desyre my son to shew 

 kindenes to him if he shall neide, and my son can spare it. 



And I doe hereby will and declare my son Izaak to be my sole execute' of 

 this my last will and testament ; and Do r . Hawkins to see that he performs 

 it, which I doubt not but he will. 



I desyre my buriall may be nere the place of my deth, and free from any 

 ostentation or charg, but privately. This I make to be my last will (to which 

 I shall only add the codicell for rings), this 16. day of August, 1683. 



Witnes to this will. IZAAK WALTON. 



The rings I give are as on the other side. 



To my brother Jon Ken. to my brother Beacham. 



to my sister his wife. to my sister his wife, 



to my brother Doc r . Ken. to the lady Anne How. 



to my sister Pye. to Mrs. King Do r Philips wife. 



to Mr. Francis Morley. to Mr. Valantine Harecourt. 



to S r George Vernon. to Mrs. Elyza Johnson, 



to his wife. to Mrs. Mary Rogers. 



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