LIFE OF WALTON. XXXVll 



He lived but a very little time after the publication of this poem j 

 for, as Wood says, he ended his days on the fifteenth day of December, 

 1683, in the great frost, at Winchester, in the house of Dr. Wtiliam 

 Hawkins, a prebendary of the church there, where he lies buried, i 



In the cathedral of Winchester, tie. in a chapel in the south aisle, 

 called Prior Silksteed's chapel, on a large black flat marble-stoae, is 

 this inscription to his memory : the poetry whereof has very little to 

 recommend it : 



HERB RESTETH THE BODY OP 



MR. ISAAC WALTON, 



WHO DYED THE FIFTEENTH OF DECEMBER, 



1683. 



Alas ! lie's gone before, 

 Gone to return no more. 

 Our panting breasts aspire 



After their aged MI e ; 

 Whose well-spent life did last 

 Full ninety years and past. 



Hut now he hatli begun 

 TliHl, which will ne'er be done. 



Crown'd with eternal bliss, 



We wish our souls with his. 



VOTIS MODKST1S SIC FLBRUNT LIBKRt. 



The issue of Walton's marriage were, a son, named Isaac ; and a 

 daughter, named, after her mother, /////-. This son was placed in 

 Christ-church college, Oxford; 8 and, having taken his degree of 

 bachelor-of-arts, travelled, together with his uncle, Mr. (afterwards 

 bishop) Ken, in the year 1674, being the year of the jubilee, into 

 France and Italy; and, as Cotton says, visited Rome and Venice. Of 

 this son, mention is made 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 common-place 

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

 Upon the return of the younger Walton, he prosecuted 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 Bur- 

 net to the vacant see, Mr. Walton was taken into the friendship and 

 confidence of that prelate ; and being a man of great temper and dis- 

 cretion, and for his candour and sincerity much respected by all the 

 clergy of the diocese, 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 



(1) Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. col. 305. 



(2) Vide Part II. Chap. VI. Athen, O*on. Vol. II. 989; Biogr. Brit. art. 

 KIN. 



