NEAR HODDESDEN, RIVER LEA 



CHAPTER II 



Izaak Walton — Birth and birthplace — Birth in town of 

 Stafford — Jervis Walton — Dr. Zouch — Error about 

 Walton's mother — Walton's first wife Rachel — Grand- 

 daughter of Thomas Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canter- 

 bury, brother of Archbishop Cranmer — Actual house of 

 birth uncertain — Walton's boyhood, nothing known of 

 — Finding his way to London, about sixteen — Sugges- 

 tion that he may have arrived much earlier — Apprentice- 

 ship to Thomas Grinsell — Member of Ironmongers' 

 Company — Was he an ironmonger or sempster — Poem 

 addressed to him by Samuel Page. 



Birth and Birthplace of Walton 



TZAAK WALTON was born on August 9, 1593, 

 in the parish of St. Mary in the town of 

 Stafford. His baptism is recorded in the register 

 of the same parish as follows: "1593, Septemb. 

 Baptiz. fuii Isaac Filiiis Jervis Walton, 21° die 

 mensis et anni prcedict!' Of his father, Jervis Walton, 

 little is known. " Of his wife " (meaning Walton's 

 mother) " not even the name has been discovered.' 



