144 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



or the extreame cruelty of the law of this nation) I 

 doe hereby give and bequeath it as followeth. 

 First I give my sonne in law Doct. Hawkins and to 

 his wife to them I give all my title & right of or in 

 a part of a house and shop in Paternoster rowe in 

 London which I hold by lease from the Lord 

 Bishop of London for about fifty yeares to come 

 and I doe alsoe give to them all my right and title 

 of or to a house in Chansery Lane London wherein 

 Mrs. Greinwood now dwelleth in which is now 

 about sixteene yeares to come I give these two 

 leases to them they saveing my Executor from all 

 damage concerning the same and I give to my 

 Sonne Izaak all my right and title to a lease of 

 Norington Farme which I hold from the Lord 

 Bishop of Winton and I doe alsoe give him all my 

 right and title to a farme or land neare to Stafford 

 which I bought of Mr. Walter Noell I say I give 

 it to him and his heires for ever but upon the 

 condicion following namely if my sonne shall not 

 marry before he shall be of the age of forty and 

 one yeares or being married shall dye before the 

 said age and leave noe sonne to inherit the said 

 Farme or Land or if his sonne or sonnes shall not 

 live to obtaine the age of twenty and one yeares to 

 dispose otherwayes of it then I give the said Farme 

 or land to the Towne or Corporation of Stafford (in 

 which I was borne) for the good and benefit of 

 some of the said towne as I shall direct and as 

 followeth but first note that it is at this present 

 time rented for twenty one pounds tenn shillings a 

 yeare (and is like to hold the said rent if care be 

 taken to keepe the barne and houseing in repaire) 

 and I wood have and doe give ten pound of the 

 said rent to bind out yearly two boyes the sonns 

 of honest and poore parents to be aprentizes to 



