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carving on the marriage chest described in 

 Chapter xi. 



Walton's description of the married life of 

 Richard Hooker, which has previously been men- 

 tioned (see Part I. Chap, i.), is not, unhappily, a 

 picture of domestic felicity. The gentle Izaak may 

 possibly now and then have also been peremptorily 

 called upon to " rock the cradle ! " 



Walton continued to reside in Chancery Lane 

 until about August, 1644. He was appointed 

 examiner of St. Dunstan's on August 27, 1641 ; 

 and in February, 1644, he was elected (or more 

 likely re-elected) vestryman of that parish ; but 

 at a vestry holden on August 20 in the same 

 year, another person was chosen, "in the room 

 of Izaak Walton, lately departed out of this parish 

 and dwelling elsewhere." 



"From 1644 to 165 1 there is some uncertainty 

 as to where Walton lived," says Mr. R. B. Marston, 

 but it seems clear that during the year 1648 he 

 must have been living with his wife " Kenna " " on 

 that little property near Stafford " ^ where he was 

 visited by George Morley (afterwards Bishop of 

 Winchester). (See Part I. Chap, iv.) 



1 Walton did not buy this property till about 1654 (see 

 page 1 1 5), though he may have occupied it. 



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