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of this my last will and testament, and Dr. Hawkins to see that he per- 

 forms it ; which I doubt not but he will. I desire my burial may be near 

 the place of my death, and free from any ostentation or charge, but 

 privately. This I make to be my last will, to which I shall only add the 

 codicil for rings, this sixteenth day of August, one thousand six hundred 

 eighty-three, Izaak Walton. Witness to this will. 



The rings I give are as on the other side : to my brother John Ken, to 

 my sister his wife, to my brother, Doctor Ken, to my sister Pye, to Mr. 

 Francis Morley, to Mr. George Vernon, to his wife, to his three daughters, 

 to Mistris Nelson, to Mr. Richard Walton, to Mr. Palmer, to Mr. Taylor, 

 to Mr. 77ios. Garrard, to the Lord Bishop of Sarum, to Mr. Rede his 

 servant, to my cozen Dorothy Kenrick, to my cousin Lewin, to Mr. Walter 

 Higgs, to Mr. Charles Cotton, to Mr. Richard Marryot : 22, to my 

 brother Beacham, to my sister his wife, to the Lady Anne How, to Mrs. 

 King, Doctor Phillip's wife, to Mr. Valentine Harecourt, to Mrs. Eliza 

 Johnson, to Mrs. Mary Rogers, to Mrs. Eliza Milward, to Mrs. Dorothy 

 Wollop, to Mr. Will. Milward, of Christ-Church Oxford, to Mr. John 

 Darbyshire, to Mr. Undevill, to Mrs. Rock, to Mr. Peter White, to Mr. 

 John Lloyde t to my cousin GreinselFs widow, Mrs. Dalbin must not be 

 forgotten : 16, Izaak Walton. Note, that several lines are blotted out of 

 this will, for they were twice repeated : and that this will is now signed 

 and sealed this twenty and fourth day of October, one thousand six hun- 

 dred eighty-three, in the presence of us : Witness, Abraham Markland, 

 Jos. Taylor, Thomas Crawley. 



This will was composed by him but a few months before his 

 death, which took place on the i5th of December, 1683, at 

 the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Hawkins, a Prebendary of 

 Winchester, he having attained the great age of ninety years 

 and four months. In the Cathedral of the same place is a 

 gravestone to his memory, but with such " uncouth rhymes " 

 and "shapeless sculpture" as but coldly to invite either de- 

 lineation or transcription ; but in this respect we still hope to 

 see justice done him : certain we are that this wonderful man 

 is far from having "gathered all his fame"; the bare hint 

 will be sufficient to those that love " virtue and angling." * 



* Soon after the appearance of my first edition, I received the following 

 from Michael Bland, Esq., F.R.S.: "The Walton and Cotton Club, to 

 which I am the Secretary, adopting the idea suggested in your Introductory 

 Essay, have resolved to institute an immediate inquiry into the condition of 

 the insufficient monument to the memory of Honest Uaak in Winchester 



