MEMOIR OF WALTON. cxlix 



Note F. [Referred to in p. cxxiii.] 

 ACCOUNT OF WALTON'S CHARITIES. 



The following statement occurs in the parish church of St Mary, at 

 Stafford :— 



"The Gift of M' Isaac Walton, borne in y» Bun-ough of Stafford, A 

 worthy & generous benefactor to this Burrough as foUoweth. 



First y" said M' Walton in his life tyme gave a garden of eight shillings 

 a yeare in y« possession of widdow Tildesley to buy coales for ye poore 

 yearely about Christmas. 



Alsoe y° said M' Walton in his life tyme gave 22 pounds to build a 

 stone wall about St Chad's church yard in this Burrough, and alsoe set 

 forth 9 boys apprentices, and gave to each 5 pounds, viz. 



Samuel Henshaw Francis Battey Richard Lees 



Richard Hanson John Boulton George Sutton 



Daniel Bullock James Eaton Adam Hubball 



The said M"' Walton at his death gave by his Will to this Burrough one 

 Messuage or Tenement in Shalford in this county w™ all the lands 

 thereto belonging of the yeariy value of ;^20. 10. 6. besides Taxes and 

 Repairs to the use hereafter as in & by his Will is mentioned, viz. " I 

 would have & doe give 10 pounds of the said rent to bind out yearley 2 

 boys y" sonns of honest & poore parents to be apprentices to some trades- 

 men or handicraft men to y" intent y° said boys may y' better afterwards 

 gett their owne living. And I doe also give 5 pounds yearley out of y° 

 said rent to be given to some maid servant y« hath attained y" age of 21 

 yeares not less & dwelt long in one service or to some honest poore Man's 

 daughter y' hath attained to y' age to bee paid her at or on y" day of her 

 marriage. And this being done my will is, that what rent shall remaine of 

 y° said farme or land shall be disposed of as foUoweth. First I doe give 

 yearley 20 shillings to bee by the Major of Stafford and those that shall 

 collect the said rent and dispose of it as I have or shall hereafter direct. 

 And that what money or rent shall remain undisposed of shall bee em- 

 ployed to buy coles for some poore people that shall most need them in 

 the said tovra : the said coales to bee delivered in the last weeke in January 

 or every first weeke in February I say then because I take that tyme to 

 bee the hardest and most pincheinge tyme with poore people." 



Before inserting the following account of the present state of those 

 Charities, from a pamphlet which was published about twenty-seven years 

 ago, ' it must be observed, that the farm there mentioned did not become 

 the property of the Corporation of Stafford until the death of Canon 

 Walton in 1719. 



"This farm is now [1808] let at the yearly rent of ;^8o, and, excepting 

 the application of the money directed to be given to some maid servant or 

 poor man's daughter, I believe that the trusts of the will have for some 

 years past been complied with. With respect to that sum, it has been the 

 practice almost invariably for the mayor to give it to his own servant, 



2 A Letter to the Inhabitants of Stafford. 



