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mother having been the daughter of Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon 

 of Canterbury, and niece of Archbishop Cranmer. Subsequent- 

 writers have doubted the accuracy of these statements ; and whilst 

 they have indulged in various conjectures on the subject, without 

 arriving at the fact, every edition of " The Complete Angler," 

 except the first, has contained proof of the name of his wife.^ 



It is not unlikely that Walton's acquaintance with Dr King 

 was the cause of his being introduced to the family of Floud of 

 Canterbury, which was closely connected with that of Cranmer, 

 whom King, many years afterwards, called his " old friends." ^ 

 Susannah, daughter of Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (son of 

 Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, and grand-nephew 

 of Archbishop Cranmer), was born in August 1579, and married a 

 gentleman of the name of Floud,* who is presumed to have been 

 Robert, the son of John Floud, fifth son of Sir Thomas Floud, of 

 Milgate, in the parish of Bradsted, in Kent, and the descendant 

 of a family of considerable antiquity in Shropshire.^ He died 

 before his wife, leaving two sons, John and Robert Floud, and a 

 daughter of the name of Rachel. 



Of the sons very little is known. Robert, the eldest, was of 

 John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1627 :8 

 he was executor to his mother in 1635 ; and wrote the com- 

 mendatory verses to his " dear brother-in-law, Mr Is. Walton, 

 on his Complete Angler," ' which were prefixed to the second 

 edition of that work, in 1655. John Floud, the second son, was 

 under twenty-eight years of age at the death of his mother in 

 1635 ; and in 1655, at which time he was Master of Arts, he 

 also addressed verses to his " dear brother-in-law, Mr Iz. Walton, 

 upon his Complete Angler." 



Their sister, Rachel Floud, who was probably born about the 

 year 1605, was married to Izaak Walton, in the Church of St 

 Mildred, at Canterbury, on the 27th of December 1626.^ Soon 

 after Walton's marriage, Mrs Floud, his wife's mother, appears to 



2 This fact was first pointed out in the New Series of the Retrospective Review, vol. 

 ii. p. 341, by the Author of this Memoir. 



3 Vide postea. 



* Vide the accompanying pedigree of Cranmer, for which the Editor is indebted to 

 George Frederic Beltz, Esq., Lancaster Herald. 

 5 Harleian MS. 1548, f. 69^, and Additional MS. 5507, in the British Museum. 

 Additional MS. 5885, fo. 93. 



7 To his signature to these verses the letter " C " is added, the meaning of which has 

 not been discovered. 



8 Extract from the Register of " Maryagyes" in the parish of St Mildred, Canterbury, 

 for the year 1626. "IsAACK Walton and Rachel Floudd weare maryed the 27th 

 day of December." 



