WALTON'S WILL. 



A ugust the ninth, 

 One thousand six hundred eighty-three. 



n tfje Nattte Of Ofo, Smett. I TZAAK WALTON, the 

 elder, of Winchester, being this present day, in the ninetyeth 

 year of ray 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 folio weth : 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 pardoned, for the merits of my Saviour 

 Jesus : And because the profession of Christianity does, at this 

 time, seem to be subdivided into Papist and Protestante, I take 

 it, at least to be convenient, to declare my belief to be, in all 

 points of faith, as the Church of England now professeth : and 

 this I do the rather, because of a very long and very true friend- 

 ship with some of the Koman Church. And for my worldly 

 estate, (which I have neither got by falshood or flattery, or the 

 extreme cruelty of the law of this nation, 1 ) 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 Bishop of London for about 

 fifty years to come. And I do also give to them all my right 

 id title of or to a house in Chancery- lane, London, wherein 

 [rs. Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is now about sixteen 

 rears to come : I give these two leases to them, they saving my 

 ecutor from all damage concerning the same. And I give to 

 y 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 



1 Alluding, perhaps, to that fundamental maxim of our law, ' ' Summwn 

 jus est summa injuria." H. 



