civ LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. - [1683, 



of his only surviving daughter Anne, by saying that he " loved 

 him as his own son." The rings vphich he ordered to be given to 

 his friends bore an appropriate motto. Through these silent but 

 eloquent relics he bid his family, as it were from the tomb, to 

 " love his memory," whilst his gratitude to Bishop Morley was 

 quaintly but feelingly expressed by the legend, " a mite for a 

 million." The rings of his other friends who were thus remem- 

 bered, bore no other motto than the simple one, that they were 

 " a Friend's farewell." His regard for the spiritual welfare of his 

 children was evinced by his selecting for them the books from 

 which he had himself derived the most religious knowledge and 

 consolation. It appears that he had a house or rooms at Droxford 

 in Hampshire, as well as apartments in the episcopal residences 

 at Winchester and Farnham Castle ; that his books and other 

 property were divided among those places ; and that he was a 

 collector of prints and pictures. His affection for his second 

 wife's family is shown by the request that his son would be kind 

 to his aunts Beacham and Rose Ken, that he would contribute to 

 the support of a son of the former, and that he would bring up a 

 son of the latter, as he himself intended to have done, adding his 

 conviction that he would do so if he were able, because " they be 

 good folk." The bequest to his old friend and publisher, Richard 

 Marriott, of ten pounds and a ring, and his injunction to his son 

 to "show kindness" to him, if he happened to require it, is a 

 pleasing proof of the good understanding which existed between 

 them for nearly half a century. His desire to be buried " near 

 the place of his death, free from any ostentation or charge, but 

 privately," was consistent with the simplicity of his character. 

 Among the three witnesses to his will was the Reverend Doctor 

 Abraham Markland, a prebend of Winchester,! who was probably 

 one of his friends ; but nothing more is known of the other wit- 

 nesses than their names. Some of the parties mentioned in Wal- 

 ton's will have been already described ; and his descendants and 

 immediate relatives, the Kens and Beachams, will be particularly 

 alluded to ; but it is desirable to state, as far as has been 

 ascertained, who were the other persons to whom he bequeathed 

 tokens of his regard. 



Mr Francis Morley was a nephew of Bishop Morley. Sir 

 George Vernon was a younger branch of the ancient and dis- 



1 Dr Abraliam Markland, fellow of St John's College, Oxford : he was also a pre- 

 bendary of Winchester and master of the Hospital of St Croas. — Trollope's History of 

 Christ's Hospital, p. 242. 



