126 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



several noble houses, and had possessed a very 

 plentiful fortune for many generations, having been 

 known by the name of The Kens of Ken's Place, 

 Somersetshire." 



Walton was fifty-three years old at the time of 

 this second marriage, his wife being thirty-two. 

 At that time the future Bishop of Bath and Wells 

 was about nine years old. That the marriage life 

 of Walton and his " Kenna " was a very happy one 

 is universally acknowledged, and is shown no less 

 by Walton's own touching inscription on her 

 monument, than by the testimony of her friend 

 George Morley, Bishop of Winchester. There can 

 be no doubt that after this marriage " Kenna " con- 

 tinued to take charge of her little brother Thomas. 



The births of this family as registered in the 

 old Prayer-Book have already been quoted ver- 

 batim (Part I. Chap. i.). The first birth was 

 March ii, 1648, the last September, 1651. 



Walton's name disappeared from the St. Dun- 

 stan's books after August, 1644. It is not unlikely 

 that he then made Clerkenwell his headquarters, 

 though evidently he was moving about, for we 

 find him with his wife residing for at least a whole 

 year at their cottage near Stafford ; the story of 

 Dr. Morley's residence there with them during 



