MEMOIR OF WALTON. cli 



Since that statement was written, the following remarks on the subject 

 have been communicated to tlie Gentleman's Magazine by an intelligent 

 correspondent : — 



*' The estate has not hitherto been forfeited, although as appears from 

 the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Public Charities 

 (wherein it is particularly described,) complaints have occasionally been 

 made that the money was not distributed with perfect impartiality. The 

 subjoined accounts of the manner in which the receipts have been ex- 

 pended in one or two recent instances are from the Stafford Newspaper. 

 ' This week has been dispensed to the poor of the Borough of Stafford the 

 bounty of the celebrated and ingenious Izaak Walton, a native of the 

 place, who bequeathed a portion of the "rents and profits of a farme" for 

 the purchase of coals "for some poor people," to be delivered in January 

 or February . "I say then^ " run the words of the humane testator, 

 "because I take that time to be the hardest arid most pinching time with 

 poor people." The farm in question is now of considerable value, bringing 

 in, we believe, about 80/. a year, and after deducting a moiety of the 

 profits directed to be applied to the apprenticing of two boys, and in a 

 gift to a maid servant, or some honest poor man's daughter, a sufficient 

 sum has this year remained for the purchase of a small allowance of coal 

 to almost every poor family, which has this week been distributed.' — 

 Staffordshire Advertiser, 27th January 1827. 



'On Monday last (Sunday being St Thomas's Day) the Corporation 

 of this borough, in pureuance of the will of "good old Izaak Walton," gave 

 5/. each with the son of Charles Smith's vridow, and the son of William 

 Pilsbury, on their being bound apprentices ; also 5/. to Martha Smith, for 

 long servitude in one place and general good conduct, and 40J. each to ten 

 bui-gesses of this borough.' — Ibid. 27 Dec. 1828." — Gentleman's Magazine, 

 vol. xcix. pt. ii. p. III. 



Note G. 

 LIST OF PORTRAITS OF WALTON'S FAMILY, 



IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS DESCENDANT, THE EEV. DE. HAWES, 

 AT SALISBURY, JUNE 1 836. 



Izaak Walton, by Housman, st. 79. 



a crayon drawing, ost. 82. 



Izaak Walton, Jun. by A. Bega. 



Dr Hawkins, by 



Mrs Hawkins, Daughter of Izaak Walton, by Housman. 



Anne Hawkins, Daughter of the above. 



William Hawkins, Esq. 



His Wife. 



Bishop Ken, by F. Skiffer. 



