cxvi LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1683, 



petence, enjoy it with a meek, cheerful, thanlcful heart. I will 

 tell you, Scholar, I have heard a grave divine say, that God has 

 two dwellings ; one in heaven, the other in a meek and thankful 

 heart, which Almighty God grant to me and to my honest 

 Scholar." 



Izaak Walton left only two children, Izaak and Anne. Of the 

 former the greater part of what is known has been already stated. 

 He was thirty-two years of age, and rector of Polshot near Devizes, 

 when his father died ; and was afterwards elected a canon of 

 Salisbury Cathedral. In this station he passed the remainder of 

 his days ; and unless the inscription on his tomb be more than 

 usually mendacious, he performed the duties of a parish priest 

 with great zeal and propriety, and was distinguished for his 

 genuine piety, sound doctrines, benevolence, and charity. His skill 

 as an artist has been alluded to ; ' and an interesting specimen 

 is still preserved by his relation, Dr Hawes, who possesses a 

 portrait of the venerable Piscator by his son,' in crayons ; and 

 Cotton states that he had made drawings of Beresford Hall and 

 the adjacent scenery. He is said to have contributed largely to 

 Dr Walker's " History of the Sufferings of the Clergy," ' for 

 which work the conversation of his father was likely to have fur- 

 nished him with abundance of materials. The most pleasing fact 

 in the life of Canon Walton is, however, his having repaid the 

 kindness of his uncle, Dr Ken, by unremitting attention to him 

 after he was deprived of the bishopric of Bath and Wells. Bishop 

 Ken passed much of his time at the rectory of Polshot, and at 

 the canonry house, in the Close at Salisbury ; and his corre- 

 spondence shows that he considered the residence of his nephew as 

 his home,i until he found a permanent asylum at Longleat. His 

 father having ordered by his will that certain lands should become 

 the property of the corporation of Stafford, in case his son did not 

 marry before he was forty-one years old. Canon Walton wrote to 

 the Mayor of Stafford as soon as he attained that age, to acquaint 

 him that the estate was improved to almost double its former value, 

 and that on hi? decease the corporation would be entitled to it.^ 

 Canon Walton is said to have obtained the confidence and friend- 

 ship of Dr Burnet, who succeeded Bishop Ward in the see of 

 Salisbury in 1689, and "from being a man of great temper and 

 discretion, and fropi his candour and sincerity much respected by 

 all the clergy of the diocese, he became very useful to him in con- 



8 Bowles's Life of Ken, i. 7. 9 Zouch's Life of Walton, ii. 368. 



^ Bowles's Life of Kep, it. 193, 231. ^ Hawkia's Life of Waltpn, p. 55. 



