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ford, where he formed the defign of the Polyglott Bible, 

 and which he aftually commenced, upon his removal to 

 London, in 1653. Indefatigable in his application, he 

 completed this work in fix vols. fol. in 1657 ; and it was 

 the firft work publifhed in England by fubfcription. The 

 proteftor's government alfo allowed him to import paper 

 exempt from duty. For an account of this, as well as the 

 other principal polyglotts, with a brief ftatement of their 

 refpeftive contents, we refer to the article Polyglott. It 

 is fomewhat curious in the hiilory of literature, that in the 

 firft preface to this work. Dr. Walton acknowledged his 

 obligations to the proteftor for his patronage ; but that 

 after the Rcitoration, feveral alterations were made in this 

 preface, and the paragraph in which he acknowledges his 

 obligations to the proteftor is fuppreffed, and another tranf- 

 ferrin^ his refpeft to Charles is introduced in its room. 

 (See HoUis's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 425. Bowyer's Origin of 

 Printino-, Appendix.) Thefe alterations have occafior.ed a 

 diftinftion among thofe who are curious in the editions of 

 books between republican and royal or loyal copies of the 

 Polyglott. The republican copy now before us is the 

 rareft, and therefore bears the higheft price. Dr. Owen in 

 1659 made an attack upon the prolegomena or appendix of 

 this bible, which was annexed to two of his trafts publifhed 

 at Oxford, and in the fame year Dr. Walton publifhed an 

 elaborate reply. 



Soon after the Reiloration, Dr. Walton prefented his Po- 

 lyglott to Charles II., who, in recompence of his fervices 

 to religion and learning, appointed him his chaplain in ordi- 

 nary, and bifhop of Chefter, to which fee he was confecrated 

 in December in 1660. In the following year, he was one of 

 the commifTioners at the Savoy conference. After his re- 

 turn to London from a vifit to his diocefe, in the autumn 

 of that year, he was feized with a difeafe, which terminated 

 his life on the 29th of November. His remains were in- 

 terred in the cathedral of St. Paul's, and a fumptuous mo- 

 nument was erefted to his memory. Biog. Brit. 



Walton, Isaac, was born at Stafford in 1593 ; and 

 fettling in London as a fhop-keeper, he married, about the 

 year 1632, the fdler of Dr. Ken, afterwards bifhop of Bath 

 and Wells. Satisfied with a moderate competency, he left 

 bufinefs, and removed from London. Upon the deceafe of 

 Dr. Donne, in 1631, whofe miniftry he attended during his 

 refidence in the city, he undertook, at the requeft of fir 

 Henry Wotton, to colleft materials for his life ; but as Wot- 

 ton, for whofe ufe they were intended, died before he had 

 an opportunity of executing his purpofe, Walton, though 

 deftitute of a literary education, wrote this life, which he 

 publifhed in 1640, and alfo that of Wotton, which appeared 

 in 1644. After his recefs from bufinefs, his favourite amufe- 

 ment was fifhing ; and being expert in the praftical part of 

 this art, he wrote a book upon the fubjeft, which he pub- 

 lifhed in 1653 under the title of " Complete Angler, or Con- 

 templative Man's Recreation," i2mo. This fmall traft, 

 drawn up in the form of dialogue, was rendered interefting 

 by the refleftions that were introduced, and by the engrav- 

 ings of fifhes that adorned it. Accordingly it became po- 

 pular, and five editions of it, with fucceffive improvements, 

 appeared to the year 1676 ; and it is now a kind of ftandard 

 book among thofe who purfue this recreation. Having loft 

 his wife in 1662, he affociated chiefly with the clerjry, and 

 whillt he was refident with Dr. Morley, bifhop of Winchcf- 

 ter, he was induced, by the fuggeilion of Dr. Sheldon, to 

 write the hfe of Richard Hooker, which was followed by 

 that of George Herbert ; and both were publifhed in 1670. 

 In 1677 he pubhftied the life of Dr. Sanderfon, which clofed 

 his literary labours. His life was prolonged to the age of 



ninety, when he was carried off at Winchefter, in Decem- 

 ber 1683, by the feverity of a hard froft. In his difpolition 

 and charafter, he was amiable, loyal, and religious ; and in 

 his ilyle of writing fimple and unaffefted. A colleftion of 

 his lives with notes was printed by Dr. Zouch in 1796, 4to. 

 and again in 8vo., to which is prefixed a copious life of the 

 author. Gen. Biog. 



Walton, in Geography, a poft-townfhip of Delaware 

 county, in New York, about 85 miles from Albany ; about 

 7 miles fquare, iituated on both fides of Conquago, or the 

 W. branch of the Delaware river ; it is mountainous and 

 hilly, v/ith good foil along the ftreams ; much of the hills is 

 arable or meadow land, and good for grazing. The town- 

 fhip is well watered, and affords timber, which is rafted to 

 Philadelphia. Here are a Prefbyterian meeting-houfe, and 

 feveral fchools. In 18 10 the whole population was 131 1, 

 with 128 eleftors, 173 taxable inhabitants, and 183,357 

 dollars of taxable property. 



Walton, a town of Virginia ; 60 miles S. W. of Richmond. 



Walton, a town of England, in Derbyfhire ; 3 miles 



S.W. of Chefterfield Alfo, a village of England, in the 



county of Gloucefter, where there is a medicinal fpring, 

 fimilar to Cheltenham ; I mile E. of Tewkefbury. 



Walton le Dale, a townfhip of Lancafhire ; 7 miles 

 W. of Blackburn. 



W ALTON-oii-the-IVolJi, a village and parifh in the hundred 

 of Eaft-Gofcote, and county of Leicefter, England ; 4 miles 

 E. of Loughborough. See Nichols's Hiilory, &c. of Lei- 

 cefterfhire. 



W ALTOS -upon-Thames, a village in the hundred of Elm- 

 bridge and county of Surrey, England, is fituated on the 

 fouthern bank of the river, 14 miles N.E. by N. diftant 

 from Guildford, and 18 miles W. S.W. from London. Mr. 

 Gough fays it probably derived its name from an encamp- 

 ment on St. Georgt's-hill, in the vicinity, called Wall-town. 

 Thefe works are laid to have been of Roman conftruftion 

 as well as a larger encampment at Oatlands, and fome topo- 

 graphers contend that Julius Cxfar raifed a bridge over the 

 Thames near this place. This however is very doubtful, 

 although it feems fatisfaftorily proved, that many piles and 

 pieces of timber have been raifed from the bed of the river, 

 and that thefe as well as the fpot have long been called 

 Cowey-ftakes. In Walton are two annual fairs, one of 

 which was eftabhfhed by grant of king Henry VIII. Apfe- 

 court, in this paiiih, is an old manlion, belonging to Ed- 

 mund Hill, efq. ; but the land and extenfive walled gardens 

 are now let to a gardener. At Burwood-park is a handfome 

 modern houfe, built by fir John Frederick, bart., who has 

 lately much enlarged and improved the eftate. Burhill is a 

 feat in this parifh, belonging to fir Charles Kemys Tynte, 

 grandfon of general Johnfon, who obtained this eftate in 

 1720 by the bequeft of Peter de la Porte. Pains-hill is 

 much celebrated for its fine grounds and beautiful gar- 

 dens, which were firft laid out by the honourable Charles 

 Hamilton, and obtained very confiderable popularity from 

 having been formed from a fterile heath. Thus an apparent 

 defert was transformed to a terreftrial paradife. Walpole, 

 Gilpin, and other authors, have defcanted on the beauties 

 of this famed feat. One of thefe ftates, " there may be 

 fcenes where Nature has done more for herfelf, but in no 

 place that I ever faw has fo much been done for nature as at 

 Pains-hill. The beauty and unexpefted variety of the fcene, 

 the happy fituation, elegant ftrufture, and judicious form of 

 the buildings ; the flourifhing ftate, uncommon diverfity, and 

 contrafted groupage of the trees, and the contrivance of the 

 water, will not fail to awaken the moft pleafing fenfations." 

 Mr. Hamilton fold this place to Benjamin Bond Hopkins, 



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