24 LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. 



in the remarkable will of Dr Donne the younger, (printed on a 

 half-sheet,) in 1662 ; whereby he bequeathed to the elder 

 Walton all his father's writings, as also his commonplace 

 book, which, he says, may be of use to him if he makes him a 

 scholar. Upon the return of the younger Walton, he prose- 

 cuted his studies ; and having finished the same, entered into 

 holy orders ; and became chaplain to Dr Seth Ward, bishop 

 of Sarum ; by whose favour he attained to the dignity of a 

 canon-residentiary of that cathedral. Upon the decease of 

 Bishop Ward, and the promotion of Dr Gilbert Burnet to the 

 vacant see, Mr Walton was taken into the friendship and con- 

 fidence of that prelate ; and being a man of great temper and 

 discretion, and for his candour and sincerity much respected 

 by all the clergy of the diocess, he became very useful to him 

 in conducting the affairs of the chapter. 



Old Isaac Walton having by his will bequeathed a farm 

 and land near Stafford, of about the yearly value of twenty 

 pounds, to this his son and his heirs for ever, upon condition, 

 that if his said son should not marry before he should be of 

 the age of forty-one, or, being married, should die before the 

 said age, and leave no son that should live to the age of 

 twenty-one, then the same should go to the corporation of 

 Stafford, for certain charitable purposes ; this son, upon his 

 attainment of that age, without having married, sent to the 

 mayor of Stafford, acquainting him, that the estate was 

 improved to almost double its former value, and that upon his 

 decease the corporation would become entitled thereto. 



This worthy person died, at the age of sixty-nine, on the 

 29th day of December, 1719 j and lies interred in the cathe- 

 dral church of Salisbury. 



Anne, the daughter of old Isaac Walton, and sister of the 

 above person, was married to Dr William Hawkins, a divine 

 and a prebendary of Winchester, mentioned above ; for whom 

 Walton, in his will, expresses great affection, declaring that he 

 loved him as his own son : he died the 17th day of July, 

 1691, aged fifty-eight, leaving issue, by his said wife, a daughter 

 named Anne, and a son named William. The daughter was 

 never married, but lived with her uncle, the canon, as his 

 housekeeper, and had the management of his domestic con- 

 cerns : she remained settled at Salisbury, after his decease, 

 until the 27th of November, 1728, when she died, and lies 

 buried in the cathedral. 



William, the son of Dr Hawkins, and brother of the last 

 mentioned Anne, was bred to the study of the law ; and, from 

 the Middle Temple, called to the bar: but attained to no 



