THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 9 



only trust that the above statement is the correct 

 one, which shows that Thomas Ken the elder had 

 twelve children in all — three by his first wife and 

 nine by the second wife ; of these Thomas was the 

 third son by the second wife. 



Izaak Walton himself, so far as I am aware, 

 makes no direct allusion to his first wife, nor is she 

 mentioned by Sir John Hawkins or Doctor Zouch ; 

 but in his " Life of Richard Hooker " he says — 



"About forty years past — for I am now 

 past the seventy of my age — I began a happy 

 affinity with William Cranmer — now with God, 

 — Grand-nephew unto the great Archbishop of 

 that name, — a family of noted prudence and 

 resolution, with him and two of his sisters I 

 had an entire and free friendship." 



One of these two sisters was the wife of Dr. 

 Spencer, the other sister was Susanna, who married 

 Robert Floud, and their daughter RACHEL married 

 Izaak Walton. This seems pretty clear from the 

 fact that farther on Walton speaks of Dr. Spencer's 

 wife as his aunt, and sister of George Cranmer 

 (see Part H. for farther account of Rachel 

 Floud). 



It was this George Cranmer, who with Edwin 



