TOTTENHAM LOCK, RIVER LEA 



EPILOGUE 



'\X7'E know that Izaak Walton was born in 1593, 

 and we know that he was " born, not 

 made " an angler — ergo, I, for one, have no 

 difficulty in believing that during the unknown 

 first sixteen years of his life much of his time 

 must have been spent on the " banks and braes 

 and streams around " the old Castle of Stafford ; 

 there he must have served his" first apprenticeship, 

 and laid the foundation of a knowledge of the 

 gentle art which has made his name famous for so 

 many generations. 



We can guess that Izaak Walton found his way 

 to London when he was about sixteen years old. 

 (The present writer has guessed that he may have 

 been taken there much earlier.) 



We know that he was apprenticed to one Thomas 

 Grinsell. 



