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Walton was, for some years, an inhabitant of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street; and with Dr. John Donne, then Vicar of that parish (of whose sermons he was a constant hearer), he contracted a friendship, which remained uninterrupted to the period of their separation by death. He attended him in his last sickness, and was present at the time that he consigned his sermons and numerous papers to the care of Dr. Henry King, who was promoted to the see of Chichester in 1641.

He married Anne, the daughter of Thomas Ken, Esq., of Furnival's Inn-a gentleman, whose fa

on a visit to Sir Thomas Gresham, 23d of Jan. 1570, was complimented by the descent of several cherubs from the top of this house, who, from thence, by a contrivance of the students in the Temple, flew down, and presented her majesty with a crown of laurels and gold, together with some verses—the fourth cherub delivered the following:

"Virtue shall witness of her worthyness,

And Fame shall registrate her princelie deeds.

The world shall still praie for her happiness ;
From whom our peace and quietude proceeds."

Report says
"the Queen's Highness was much pleased there-
with." This house was pulled down, to widen the entrance
into Chancery-lane, in May 1799. The scite of Walton's
residence must, therefore, have been where Thomas's Mil-
linery Warehouse now stands.-ED.

4 Walton's first marriage seems to have escaped his biographers. Neither Sir John Hawkins, nor Dr. Zouch, appear to have examined the parish register of St. Dunstan, Fleet

mily, of an ancient extraction, was united by alliance with several noble houses, and had possessed a very plentiful fortune for many genera

street; or they would otherwise have found that bishop Ken's sister was Walton's second wife; and that he had at least two children by his first, who died in infancy.

"1632.-Oct. 12, Henry, sonne of Isaak Walton, was baptized."

Oct. 17, Henry, sonne of Isaak Walton, was buried out of Chancery-lane."

1633-4.-March 21, Henry, sonne of Isaac Walton, was baptized out of Fleet-street."

"1634, Dec. 4, Henry, sonne of Isaac Walton, was buried." These extracts serve to shew, that previous to 1632, Walton had moved into Chancery-lane, and was in the following year removed into Fleet-street.

Dr. Zouch's assertion, that Walton's mother" was the daughter of Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, sister to George Cranmer, the pupil and friend of Richard Hooker; and niece to that first and brightest ornament of the Reformation, Dr. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury," is unquestionably false. In the Introduction' to his Life of Richard Hooker, 1665, 12mo., he says, "About forty years past (for I am now in the seventieth of my age) I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer (now with God), grand nephew unto the great Archbishop of that name; a family of noted prudence and resolution. With him and two of his sisters I had an entire and free friendship." Walton's Address to the Reader,' is dated 1664; and the erroneous notion of his relationship in blood being here confuted, in his own words, places his first marriage sometime about the

tions, having been known by the name of the Kens, of Ken-Place, in Somersetshire. She was the sister of Thomas Ken, afterwards the deprived Bishop of Bath and Wells. If there be a name to which I have been accustomed from my earliest youth to look up with reverential awe, it is that of this amiable prelate. The primitive innocence of his life, the suavity of his disposition, his taste for poetry and music, his acquirements as a polite scholar, his eloquence in the pulpit (for he was pronounced by James II. to be the first preacher among the Protestant Divines) :—these endearing qualities ensure to him our esteem and affection. But what principally commands our veneration, is that invincible inflexibility of temper, which rendered him superior to every secular consideration. When, from a strict adherence to the dictates of conscience, he found himself reduced to a private station, he dignified that station by the magnanimity of his demeanour, by a humble and serene patience, by an ardent, but unaffected piety.

year 1624. This connexion was obligingly pointed out to the writer by the Rev. Dr. Barrett; and it seems conclusive, that his first wife was grand niece to Archbishop Cranmer, and that his affinity to 'that first and brightest ornament of the Reformation,' though equally creditable to Walton, was only by marriage with his first wife, of whom there is no further memorial extant, than that obtained from the parish register of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street." 1640. Aug. 25, Rachell, wife of Izaack Walton, buried."-ED.