iET. Sg.] LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. ci 



prove so necligent or dishonest as not to imploy the rent by me given as 

 intended and exprest in this my will, (which God forbid,) then I give the 

 saide rents and profits, of the saide farme or land, to the towne and chiefe 

 magestrats or governers of Ecles-hall, to be disposed by them in such 

 maner as I have ordered the disposall of it, by the towne of Stafford, the 

 said Farme or land being nere the towne of Ecles-hall. 



" And I give to my son-in-law Doctor Hawkins (whome I love as my owne 

 son) and to my dafter his wife, and my son Izaalc to each of them a ring 

 with these words or motto ; — love my memory, I. W. obiet = to the Lord 

 Bp of Winton a ring with this motto — a mite for a million : I. W. obiet = " 

 And to the freinds hearafter named I give to each of them a ring with this 

 motto A friends farewell. I. W. obiet" = And my will is, the said rings be 

 deliverd within fortie dayes after my deth. and that the price or valew of 

 all the saide rings shall be - 13= 4"' a peice. 



" I give to Doctor Hawkins Docto' Donns Sermons ; which I have hear'd 

 preacht, and read with much content, to my son Izaak I give Doc' Sibbs 

 his Soules Conflict, and to my doughter his Brewsed Reide ; desiring them 

 to reade them so, as to be well acquanted with them, and I also give to 

 her all my bookes at Winchester and Droxford, and what ever in those two 

 places are or I can call mine : except a trunk of linen, which I give to my 

 son Izaak, but if he doe not live to [marry, or] make use of it, then I give 

 the same to my grand-dafter, Anne Hawkins : And I give my dafter 

 Doc' Halls Works which be now at Farnham. 



" To my son Izaak I give all my books, (not yet given) at Farnham 

 Castell and ^ deske of prints and pickters ; also a cabinet nere my beds 

 head, in w'^'' are som littell things that he will valew, tho of noe greate 

 worth. 



" And my will and desyre is, that he will be kinde to his Ante Beacham 

 and his ant Rose Ken : by alowing the first about fiftie shilling a yeare in 

 or for bacon and cheise (not more), and paying i^- a yeare toward the 

 bordin qf her son's dyut to Mr John Whitehead, for his Ante Ken, I 

 desyre him to be kinde to her acording to her necessitie and his owne 

 abillitie. and I comend one of her children to breide up (as I have saide I 

 intend to doe) if he shall be able to doe it. as I know he will ; for, they be 

 good folke. 



" I give to Mr John Darbishire the Sermons of Mr Antony Faringdon, or 

 of do' Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit. to my spxvant, Thomas 

 Edghill I give five pownd in mony, and all my clothes linen and woUen 

 (except one sute of clothes, which I give to Mr Holinshed, and forty 

 shiling) if the saide Thomas be my servant at my deth, if not my cloths 

 only. 



' ' And I give my old friend Mr Richard Harriot ten pownd in mony, to 

 be paid him within .3. months after my deth. and I desyre my son to shew 

 kindenes to him if he shall neide, and any son can spare it. 



" And I doe hereby will and declare ray son Izaak to be my sole executo' of 

 this my last will and testament ; and Do' Hawkins, to see that he performs 

 it, which I doubt not but he will. 



' ' I desyre my buriall may be nere the place of my deth ; and free from 

 any ostentation or charg, but privately : this I make to be my last will, (to 

 which I shall only add the codicell for rings,) this l5. day of August 

 1683. 



" Witnes to this will. Izaak Walton. 



