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first wife contained in every edition of 

 the " Complete Angler," except the first, 

 xxi ; his acquaintance with Dr King the 

 cause of his introduction to the family of 

 Floud of Canterbury, xxi; married Rachel, 

 daughter of Robert Ploud^ xxi ; his wife's 

 mother removed to London, and resided 

 with them until her death, xxii ; Walton's 

 account of his connection with the Cranmer 

 family from his Life of Hooker, xxii ; 

 the two sisters of William Cranmer, sup- 



fosed to have been his mother-in-law, Mrs 

 'loud, and the widow of Dr Spencer, xxii ; 

 his account of the death of his friend Dr 

 Donne, whom he attended in his last hours, 

 xxiii ; presented by the Dr with a ring of 

 heliotropium, or bloodstone, engraven with 

 a representation of the Saviour extended 

 on an anchor, instead of the cross, which 

 he always used, xxiv ; Elegy on Dr 

 Donne's death, xxiv ; remark on his use of 

 the word ** convert" in the Elegy, xxvi ; 

 lines written by him and placed under a 

 portrait of Dr Donne, xxvi ; requested by 

 Sir Henry Wotton to collect materials for 

 an intended Life of Donne, xxvi ; letter on 

 the subject from Sir Henry Wotton, xxvii ; 

 Sir Henry dying, Walton himself under- 

 takes to write the Life, xxvii ; his motives 

 for so doing, xxviii ; his first essa^ as a 

 biographer highly applauded by ms con- 

 temporaries, xxviii ; received the appro- 

 bation of Charles I., and of "the ever- 

 memorable " John Hales, xxviii ; Donne's 

 son sends him a copy of the volume of 

 Sermons and a letter of thanks, for 

 having written his father's Life, xxix ; 

 his residence from 1628 until 1644, 

 as stated in the parish books of St 

 Du^istan's, xxix; filled various parish 

 offices between 1632 and 1640, xxix ; birth 

 and death of his two sons, respectively 

 named Henry, and death of his mother-in- 

 law, Mrs Floud, xxx ; bequests to him and 

 his wife by her, xxx ; death of his wife 

 Rachel, and of his only child Anne, xxx ; 

 the original of his picture of the married 

 state presented to him by his own home, 

 xxxi ; only one allusion to his first wife in 

 his works, xxxi ; in " The Angler's Wish" 

 he speaks of the happiness it affords him 

 to "hear roy Chlora sing a song," but in 

 the fifth edition, in 1676, "Kenna" is sub- 

 stituted for " Chlora" xxxii ; verses to his 

 friend Lewis Roberts, the author of "The 

 Merchants' Map of Commerce," xxxii; 

 supposed to have published George Cran- 

 mer's Letter to Hooker concerning the 

 new church discipline, xxxii ; verses pre- 

 fixed to a collection of the Poems of Wm. 

 C^rtwright, xxxiii ; continued to reside in, 

 Chancery Lane until August 1644, xxxiii ; 

 his place of residence between 1644 and 

 1651 doubtful, xxxiii ; supposed to have 

 retired from mercantile pursuits, xxxiu ; 

 political and religious opinions, account of 

 the Scotch Covenanters, and the proceed- 

 ings of the Long Parliament, xxxiv; re- 



markable fact respecting the execution of 

 Archbishop Laud, xxxv ; in London in 

 Jan. 1645, and in Dec. 1647, xxxv ; his 

 account of the expulsion of Dr George 

 Morley, canon of Christ Church, from 

 Ojcford, xxxv; anecdotes of Charles L, 

 xxxvi ; the address to the reader prefixed 

 to F. Quarles' " Shepherd's Eclogues," 

 attributed to Walton, xxxvii ; married 

 Anne, daughter of Thomas Ken, attorney 

 in the Court of Common Pleas, xxxviii ; 

 his wife's age and character, xxxix ; refu- ' 

 tation of Anthony Wood's statement re- 

 specting Walton's removal from London, ' 

 xi ; said to have retired during the civil 

 wars to a cottage of his own, near Staf- 

 ford, xl ; the accuracy of this statement 

 considered to be doubtful, xl ; no allusion 

 in his works to his having Jived at or near 

 Stafford, excepting the mention of " Shaw- 

 ford Brook" in "The Angler's Wish," xli ; 

 Mrs Walton delivered of a daughter, Anne, 

 on the nth March 1648, xli; the event re- 

 corded by Walton in a copy of his prayer- 

 book, now in the possession of Dr Hawes, 

 xli ; description of that book, xli ; took a 

 house in Clerkenwell before the year 1650, 

 where Mrs Walton gave birth to a son, 

 Izaak, who was buried there on the loth 

 June, xli ; his last son Izaak, born 7th 

 September 1651, xli; published a collec- 

 tion of the writings of Sir Henry Wotton, 

 under the title of " Reliquise Wottonianae," 

 with a memoir of the author, xlii; his 

 motives for becoming Wotton's biographer, 

 xlii ; observations on that work, xliii ; 

 Walton the "friend" alluded toby Wotton 

 in his " Description of the Spring, on a 

 bank as I sat a-nshing," xliv ; letter by Sir 

 Henry Wotton, enclosing a hymn, written 

 during a severe illness, xliv ; intrusted by 

 Robert Milward, Esq., a prisoner in the 

 garrison at Stafford, to convey to Colonel 

 Blague, then a prisoner in the Tower, the 

 King's lesser George, preserved by the 

 Is^tter after the battle of Worcester, xlv ; 

 resided in Clerkenwell from 1650 to 1661, 

 xlv; commendatory verses, prefixed to his 

 ** worthy friend" Edward Sparke's " Scin- 

 tillula Altaris," xlvi ; published the first 

 edition of the " Complete Angler " in 1653, 

 being then sixty years of age, xlvi ; 

 adopted as the model for his work, "A 

 Treatise on the Nature of God," and in- 

 debted for some of his ideas to Heresbach- 

 ius' Husbandry, by Googe, xlvi ; dedicated 

 the work to John Omey, of Madeley 

 Manor, in Staffordshire, Esq., xlvii ; ac- 

 complished in the " Complete Angler," as 

 in the "Life of Donne," an object which 

 had been contemplated by Sir Henry 

 Wotton, xlvii ; proved the will of 

 his father-in-law, Mr Thomas Ken, 

 xlvii ; made large additions to the se- 

 cond edition of the Reliquiae Wottoni- 

 ans, xlviii ; published a second edition of 

 the "Complete Angler" in 1653; analy- 

 sis of tbe contents of his second edition. 



