AT ROCHESTER, RIVER DOVE 



CHAPTER XIV 



First memorial — Walton's initials on Casaubon's tomb, 

 Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey— Michael Bland's 

 suggestion to John Major — Second memorial, marble 

 bust in St. Mary's Church, Stafford— rAzV-rf memorial, 

 statue in Winchester Cathedral — i^oarM memorial, 

 window in St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, London, 

 and tablet on front wall of the church — Epilogue. 



IzAAK Walton's Memorials 



^NE can scarcely think that it was out of a desire 

 for posthumous fame that Izaak Walton, when 

 he was sixty-five years old, scratched his initials 

 on Izaac Casaubon's tomb ^ in the south transept 

 in Westminster Abbey — " earliest of those unhappy 



' Isaac Casaubon was a foreign scholar of the highest 

 eminence. He came to England along with Sir Henry 

 Wotton in i6io, who had, according to Walton, " contracted 

 a most worthy friendship with that man of rare learning and 

 ingenuity" ("Chambers' Book of Days "). Frank Buckland 

 was the first to draw attention to the initials. 



