28 LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. 



I give my son-in-law, Dr 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 Bishop of London for about fifty years to come. 

 And I do also give to them all my right and title of or to a 

 house in Chancery Lane, London, wherein Mrs Greinwood 

 now dwelleth, in which is now about sixteen years to come : 

 I give these two leases to them, they saving my executor from 

 all damage concerning the same. And I give to my son Izaak 

 all my right and title to a lease of Norington farme, which I 

 hold from the Lord Bishop of Winton : And I do also give 

 him all my right and title to a farme or land near to Stafford, 

 which I bought of Mr Walter Noell ; I say, I give it to him 

 and his heirs for ever ; but upon the condition following, 

 namely, if my son shall not marry before he shall be of age of 

 forty and one years, or, being married, shall dye before the 

 said age, and leave no son to inherit the said farme or land, 

 or if his son or sons shall not live to attain the age of twenty 

 and one years, to dispose otherways of it, then I give the 

 said farme or land to the towne or corporation of Stafford, in 

 which I was borne, for the good and benefit of some of the 

 said towne, as I shall direct, and as followeth, (but first note, 

 that it is at this present time rented for twenty-one pound ten 

 shillings a year, and is like to hold the said rent, if care be 

 taken to keep the barn and housing in repair ;) and I would 

 have, and do give ten pounds of the said rent, to bind out 

 yearly, two boys, the sons of honest and poor parents, to be 

 apprentices to some tradesman or some handy-craft men, to 

 the intent the same boys may the better afterward get their 

 own living. And I do also give five pound yearly, out of the 

 said rent, to be given to some maid-servant, that hath attained 

 the age of twenty and one years, not less, and dwelt long in 

 one service, or to some honest poor man's daughter, that hath 

 attained to that age, to be paid her at or on the day of her 

 marriage : and this being done, my will is, that what rent shall 

 remain of the said farme or land* shall be disposed of as fol- 

 loweth : first, I do give twenty shillings yearly, to be spent by 

 the major of Stafford, and those that shall collect the said rent 

 and dispose of it as I have and shall hereafter direct ; and that 

 what money or rent shall remain undisposed of, shall be 

 employed to buy coals for some poor people, that shall most 

 need them, in the said towne ; the said coals to be delivered 

 the first weeke in January, or in every first week in February ; 

 I say then, because I take that time to be the hardest and most 

 pinching times with poor people ; and God reward those that 



