THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 115 



lent to me by Mr. Alderman Shallcross, of 

 Stafford ; it appears a little difficult to read at 

 first chiefly owing to the letter h being made 

 like a German /^with loop below the line. 



I read the note thus : 



" Note that I have [in hand .'] besyde this 

 lease two assurances past to me of the land 

 in Halfhed. Since the first assurance, Mr. 

 Walter Noell has sould all his land in Halfhed 

 and elsewhere, (after his death) but Mr. [? sd". 

 for said] Martin Noell, now note, that if ever 

 Mr. Martin Noell's heirs come to lay clame 

 unto my land in Halfhed, this lease intytells 

 me to all their land. And note that noe other 

 can lay any clame to it. So that I think my 

 folks to have an undoubted tytell. 

 "IzAAK Walton. 



" Oct. 23, 1676. 



" Note that I have now had peaceable 

 possetion of it — 22 years." 



This property Walton left to his son Izaak, and 

 in the event, as happened, of his death without 

 issue, to the Corporation of Stafford " for the good 

 and benefit of some of the said town " ; and if the 

 Corporation of Stafford " shall prove so negligent 



