LIFE OF WALTON. 23 



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

 and a daughter, named, after her mother, Anne. This son was 



laced in Christ Church College, Oxford ; and, having taken his 

 egree of Bachelor of Arts, travelled, together with his uncle, 

 Bishop Ken, in 1674, into France and Italy. Of this son, 

 mention is made in the remarkable will of Dr. Donne the 

 younger, 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 pro- 

 secuted his studies ; and having finished them entered into 

 holy orders ; became chaplain to Dr. Seth Ward, Bishop of 

 Sarum ; and by his favour, attained to the dignity of 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 much respected by the clergy of the diocese, 

 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 20. to his 

 son and his heirs for ever, upon condition, that if he 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 attain the age of twenty-one, then the estate should 

 go to the corporation of Stafford, for certain charitable purposes ; 

 this son, upon reaching forty-one, without having married, 

 informed the mayor of Stafford, that the estate, now almost 

 double its former value, would upon his decease belong to the 

 corporation. 



He died, at the age of sixty-nine, on the 29th day of December, 

 1719 ; and lies interred in the cathedral church of Salisbury. 



Anne, the daughter of old Isaac Walton, was married to Dr. 

 William Hawkins ; a divine and prebendary of Winchester ; 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 house- 

 keeper, and the manager of his domestic concerns : she remained 

 settled at Salisbury after his decease, till 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. He wrote and 

 published in 8vo. 1713, " A short account of the life of Bishop 



