The Complete Angler

Abstract

Xili has been in some sort a prey to modern journalistic espials.Walton was born of a family of substantial yeomen at Stafford, on the 9th of August, 1593, the year of Marlowe's death, and twenty-two years before Shakespeare's.Of his family we know next to nothing, minute research having developed little more than the rather spectral fact that his father, Jervis Walton, was probably the second son of George Walton, sometime bailiff of Yoxhall.Of his school days there is no record.One fancies, however, that Izaak found the "contemplative man's recreation " more to his taste than the Classics; as his writings testify that he had little Latin and no Greek, -his frequent quotations of authors who wrote only in Latin, as Gesner, Cardan, Aldrovandus, Rondeletius, and Albertus Magnus, being derived his wife.His first venture was Rachel Floud, maternally descended from Archbishop Cranmer.By ;Xvi INTRODUCTION.her, who died in 1640, he had six sons and one daughter, all of whom died in infancy or early childhood.His second wife, to whom he was married in 1646, was Anne, daughter of Thomas Ken, and sister of Dr. Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the stubborn seven sent to the Tower by James II.Of this marriage there were three children, -one son, Izaak, who lived but a short time; a daughter, Anne; and another Izaak, who survived his father, and died in 1719, a canon of Salisbury and a worthy " brother of the angle."Anne Ken, the second wife, died in 1662, as appears by a monumental inscription in the cathedral church of Worcester.Her epitaph, one of the quaintest of its kind and decked with sundry choice flowers of mortuary rhetoric, closes with the pious sentiment : -"SHE DYED, (ALAS THAT SHE IS DEAD

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