COMPLETE ANGLER. 



could scarcely be said to have elbow-room, for the shops 

 over the Bourse were but seven feet and a half long and 

 five wide ; yet here did he carry on his trade till some time 

 before the year 1624, when he dwelt on the north side of 

 Fleet Street, in a house two doors west of the end of 

 Chancery Lane . . . and in this house he is, in the 

 deed above referred to, said to have followed the trade of a 

 linendrapcr. It further appears by that deed that the house 

 was in the joint occupation of Izaac Walton, and John 

 Mason, hosier, from whence we may conclude that half a 

 shop was sufficient for the business of Walton ! " 



We would rather conclude, however, that he was a whole- 

 sale merchant, and that the small shop was in reality an 

 office, where it is possible that he and Mason may have been 

 in partnership. 



He afterwards moved to a house in Chancery Lane, a few 

 doors higher up on the left hand than the former. 



Walton was married twice. His first marriage was to 

 Rachel Floud, a descendant of Archbishop Cranmer, at 

 Canterbury, in the month of December, 1626. He had 

 seven children by this marriage ; but they all died young, 

 and his wife died in 1640. He was married again, about 

 the year 1646, to Anne, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Ken, 

 Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the seven that were sent 

 to the Tower, and who at the Revolution was deprived and 

 died in retirement. Walton seems to have been as happy in 

 the married state as the society and friendship of a prudent 

 and pious woman of great endowments could make him. 



At the age of fifty he retired from business, upon a very 

 moderate fortune, which was, however, amply sufficient for 

 his simple needs. He left London, "judging it dangerous 



