c LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1683, 



fessetli. And this I doe the rather, because of a veiy long and very trew 

 friendship with some of the Roman Church. 



"And for my worldly estate, (which I have nether got by falshood or 

 flattery or the extreme crewelty of the law of this nation,) I doe hereby 

 give and bequeth it as foUoweth. — First I give my son-in-law Doc' Haw- 

 kins and to his Wife, to them T give all my tytell and right of or in a part of 

 a howse and shop in Pater-noster-rowe in London : which I hold by lease 

 from the Lord Bishop of London for about fifty years to come, and I doe 

 also give to them all my right and tytell of or to a howse in Chansery-lane, 

 London ; where in Mrs Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is now about 

 16 years to come. I give these two leases to them, they saving my executor 

 from all damage concerning the same. [pAnd I doe also give to my saide 

 dafter all my books this day at Winchester and Droxford : and what ever 

 ells I can call mine their, except a trunk of hnen w'^'' I give my son Izaak 

 Walton, but if he doe not marry, or use the saide linen himselfe, then I 

 give the same to my grand-doughter Anne Hawkins.']] 



"And I give to my son Izaak, all my right and tytell to a lease of 

 Norington farme, which I hold from the lord Bp of Winton. And I doe 

 also give him all my right and tytell to a farme or land nere to Stafford : 

 which I bought of Mr Walter Noell : I say, I give it to him and [his] 

 heares for ever, but upon the condition following. Namely — If my sone 

 shall not marry before he shall be of the age of forty and one yeare ; or 

 being marryed shall dye before the saide age and leve noe son to inherit 

 the saide farme or land ; or if his son [or sonns] shall not live to ataine the 

 age of twentie and one yeare, to dispose otherwayes of it, then I give the 

 saide farme or land to the towne or corperation of Stafford (in which I was 

 borne,) for the good and benifit of some of the saide towne, as I shall 

 direct and as followeth. but first note, that it is at this present time rented 

 for 21" 10^ a yeare (and is like to hold the said rent, if care be taken to 

 keipe the barne and bowsing in repaire) and I wood have and doe give ten 

 pownd of the saide rent, to binde out yearely two boyes, the sons of honest 

 and pore parents to be apprentises to som tradesmen or handy-craft-men, 

 to the intent the saide boyes [may] the better afterward get their owne 

 living. — And I doe also give five pownd yearly, out of the said rent to be 

 given to some meade-servant, that hath attain'd the age of twenty and 

 [one] yeare (not les), and dwelt long in one servis, or to som honest pore 

 man's daughter, that hath attain'd to that age, to [be] paide her, at or on 

 the day of her marriage — And this being done, my will is, that what rent 

 shall remaine of the saide farme or land, shall be disposed of as followeth. 



" First I doe give twenty shillings yearely, to be spent by the maior of 

 Stafford and those that shalll colect the said rent ; and dispose of it as I 

 have and shall hereafter direct. And that what mony or rent shall remaine 

 undisposed oife shall be imployed to buie coles for some pore people, that 

 shall most neiie them in the said towne ; the saide coles to be delivered 

 the last weike in Janewary, or in every first weike in Febrewary : I say 

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

 with pore people. And God reward those that shall doe this with out par- 

 tialitie and with honestie and a good contience. 



" And if the saide maior and others of the saide towne of Stafford, shall 



8 This passage is erased in the original. 



