NEAR EDMONTON 



PJRT II 



CHAPTER I 



FAGE 



Prolog-ue — Kex and Walton by Bowles — " Compleat 

 Angler," first edition — Lea and Dove Edition — 

 Sir John Hawkins's " Life of Walton " — Notes and 

 Qitci-ies — William Oldys found the principal facts 

 for Sir John Hawkins 8i 



CHAPTER H 



IZAAK Walton — Birth and birthplace — Birth in town 

 of Stafford — Jervis Walton — Dr. Zouch — Error 

 about Walton's mother and Walton's first wife 

 Rachel — Grand-daughter of Thomas Cranmer, 

 Archdeacon of Canterbury, brother of Archbishop 

 Cranmer — Actual house of birth uncertain — 

 Walton's boyhood, nothing known of — Finding 

 his way to London at the age of i6 — (Suggestion 

 that he ma\' have arrived miicli earlier) — 

 Apprenticeship to Thomas Grinsell — IMember of 

 Ironmongers' Company — Was he ironmonger or 



