I90 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



inscriptions of names of visitors," writes Dean 

 Stanley, "whicli have since defaced so many a 



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sacred space in the Abbey. ' O, si sic omnia.' . . . 

 Let us in like manner forgive the angler for this 

 mark of himself in Poet's Corner." 



" It has been conjectured by Dean Stanley that 

 he was named Izaak after the learned Isaack 

 Casaubon, who was a friend of Walton's father " 

 (quoted by Mr. Stapleton Martin). 



At all events this slight, ungraceful, and unautho- 

 rised memento of himself is likely to be remembered, 

 through the fact of Dean Stanley having mentioned 

 it, as long as any other of his memorials. We 

 will call this his j^rsi memorial. 



The next suggestion of a memorial was made 

 by Michael Bland, Esq., F.R.S., and is quoted in 

 John Major's edition of Walton, 1844. The follow- 

 ing is an extract from Major's Introduction — 



" Soon after the appearance of my first 

 edition in 1823, I received the following from 



