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chester and Droxford, and whatever in those two places are, or I can call mine, except a trunk of linen, which I give to my son Izaak; but if he do not live to marry, or make use of it, then I give the same to my grand-daughter, Ann Hawkins; and I give my daughter, Doctor Hall's Works, which be now at Farnham. To my son Izaak, I give all my books, not yet given, at Farnham Castell, and a deske of prints and pictures; also a cabinet near my bed's head; in which are some little things that he will value, though of no great worth. And my will and desire is, that he will be kind to his aunt Beachame, and his aunt Rose Ken, by allowing the first about fifty shillings a year, in or for bacon and cheese, not more, and paying four pounds a-year towards the boarding of her son's dyet to Mr. John Whitehead: for his aunt Ken, I desire him to be kind to her, according to her necessity and his own abilitie, and I commend one of her children, to breed up as I have said I intend to do, if he shall be able to do it, as I know he will; for they be good folke. I give to Mr. John Darbyshire the Sermons of Mr. Anthony Farringdon, or of Dr. Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit. To my servant, Thomas Edgill, I give five pounds in money, and all my clothes, linen and woollen, except one suit of clothes; which I give to Mr. Holinshed, and forty shillings, if the said Thomas be my servant at my death; if not, my clothes only. And I give my old friend, Mr.

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Richard Marriot, ten pounds in money, to be paid him within three months after my death; and I desire my son to shew kindness to him if he shall neede, and my son can spare it and I do hereby will and declare my son Izaak to be my sole executor of this my last will and testament, and Dr. Hawkins to see that he performs it; which I doubt not but he will. I desire my burial may be near the place of my death, and free from any ostentation or charge, but privately. This I make to be my last will, to which I shall only add the codicil for rings, this sixteenth day of August, one thousand six hundred eighty-three. Izaak Walton. Witness to this will.

The rings I give are as on the other side: to my brother John Ken, to my sister his wife, to my brother Doctor Ken, to my sister Pye, to Mr. Francis Morley, to Mr. George Vernon, to his wife, to his three daughters, to Mistris Nelson, to Mr. Richard Walton, to Mr. Palmer, to Mr. Taylor, to Mr. Thos. Garrard, to the Lord Bishop of Sarum, to Mr. Rede his servant, to my cozen Dorothy Kenrick, to my cousin Lewin, to Mr. Walter Higgs, to Mr. Charles Cotton, to Mr. Richard Marryot : 22, to my brother Beacham, to my sister his wife, to the Lady Anne How, to Mrs. King, Doctor Phillips's wife, to Mr. Valentine Harecourt, to. Mrs. Eliza Johnson, to Mrs. Mary Rogers, to Mrs. Eliza Milward, to Mrs. Dorothy Wallop, to Mr. Will. Milward, of Christ Church, Oxford, to Mr.

John Darbyshire, to Mr. Undevill, to Mrs. Rock, to Mr. Peter White, to Mr. John Lloyde, to my cousin Creinsell's widow, Mrs. Dalbin must not be forgotten 16, Izaak Walton. Note that several lines are blotted out of this will, for they were twice repeated and that this will is now signed and sealed this twenty and fourth day of October, one thousand six hundred eighty-three, in the presence of us: Witness, Abraham Markland 5, Jos. Taylor, Thomas Crawley.

9 Abraham Markland, a scholar of St. John's College, Ox. ford, anno 1562, took the degree of M.A, in 1669, at which time he was senior of the great act celebrated on the 12th of July, in that year. At length, entering into holy orders, he was installed prebendary of Winchester, the 4th of July, 1679, was afterwards beneficed near that place, and on the 5th of July, 1692, was admitted D.D. and in August, 1694, became Master of the Hospital of H. Cross, near Winchester, on the death of Dr. William Harrison.-Wood's Athena Oxon. by Bliss, 1815, 4to. vol. iv. p. 710.

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