WALTON'S WILL. 



August the Ninth, 

 One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-three. 



In tfje Name of ffioti, Amen. I, Izaak Walton, the elder, of 

 Winchester, being this present day in the ninetyeth year of my age, 

 and in perfect memory, for which praised be God ; but considering 

 how suddainly I may be deprived of both, do therefore make this 

 my last will and testament as followeth : 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 

 account of all my actions, which are not to be justified, but I hope 

 to be pardoned, for the merits of my Saviour Jesus. And because 

 the profession of Christianity does, at this time, seem to be sub- 

 divided into Papist and Protestante, I take it at least to be con- 

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

 Church of England now professeth ; and this I do the rather be- 

 cause 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 falsehood or flattery, or the extreme cruelty of the law of 

 this nation), I do hereby give and bequeath it as followeth : 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 

 Paternoster Row, in London^ which I hold by lease from the Lord 



