MEMOIR OF WALTON. cxii 



In the hatidwriting of Izaak Walton the younger : — 



My father, Izaak Walton, dyed Dec. 15, 1683. 



Thomas Ken, Bp. of Bath and Wells, deprived, dyed March 15, 

 1710-1. 



In the handwriting of William Hawkins, the biographer of Ken : — 



Dr William Hawkins my Father dyed July 17, 1691. W. H. 

 My sister Anne Hawkins dyed Aug. 18, 1715. I. W. 

 My uncle, Mr Isaac Walton Jun. dyed December 29, 1719. W. H. 

 My sister, Anne Hawkins, died Nov. 1728. W. H. 



Note C. [Referred to in p. Ixx.J 



DR DONNE'S (THE YOUNGER'S) LAST WILL AND 

 TESTAMENT. JULY 21, 1657. 



Video mehora proboque. ^>^^^^. 



3n tbt name of iBoft, JCnien. I, John Donne, by the mercy of Christ Jesus, 

 being at this time in good and perfect understanding, do hereby make my 

 last Will and Testament, in manner and form following : First, I give my 

 good and gracious God an intire sacrifice of body and soul with my most 

 humble thanks, for that his blessed spirit imprints in me now an assuredness 

 of salvation of one, and the resurrection of the other; and for that con- 

 stant and cheerful resolution which the same spirit established in me, to 

 live and dye in the same religion established in England by the known law. 

 In expectation of the resurrection, I desire that my body may be buried in 

 the most private manner that may be, in the churchyard of the parish' 

 where I now live, without the ceremony of calling any officers. And I 

 desire to be carried to my grave by the ordinary bearers of the dead, with- 

 out troubling any of my friends, or letting them know of my death by any 

 means but by being put into the earth. And I desire my executor to 

 interpret my meaning in this request by my word, and not by his own 

 discretion ; who, peradventure, for fashion sake, and apprehending we 

 shall never meet, may think to order things better for my credit ; (God be 

 thanked,) I have not lived by juggling, therefore I desire to dye and be 

 buried without any : and not having (as I hope,) been burdensome to my 

 friends in my life, T would not load their shoulders being dead. I desire 

 and appoint the Right Honourable Jerome, Earl of Portland, to be my 

 executor, hoping that for all his cares of me, and kindnesses to me, he will 

 undertake to see this my Will punctually performed, especially concerning 

 my burial. To the most excellent, good, kind, virtuous, honourable Lady 

 Portland, I give all the rest that I have in this Will unbeqiteatlied : and I 



