chapter with his Erecting of four Scholarships at Christ's College in Cambridge, and endowing them with ten pound per annum, which in that University is a considerable allowance, the scholarships there being generally inferior to those at Oxford, as the Fellowships better. He had desired to have placed this his Benefaction at Sidney College, but upon some disgust altered his intention, tho' it is not improbable but that that College might refuse his proffer upon very good reasons: For at Oxford no College will accept a Benefaction which only increases the number of Fellows, or Scholars, for thereby the Society is rather injured, than profited, unless the Benefactor also builds Chambers for their reception, for taking away so many Chambers, takes away from the Fellows so many pupils, but on the contrary, a Benefactor who will increase the stipends of the members of the Society, will always be very gratefully embraced." SAMUEL WOODFORD (1636-1700). "On the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends."—Gay. He was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School, and at Wadham College, Oxford. He read for the Bar, but was in 1669 ordained by Bishop Morley. In 1670 he wrote some complimentary verses to Walton, addressed "To his very worthy and much honoured friend Mr Isaak Walton upon his excellent Life of Mr George Herbert." When referring to the lives of Herbert and Donne he wrote:- "Herbert and Donne again are join'd, Now here below, as they're above." In 1670 he wrote some verses upon Hooker's Life by Walton, and he also wrote a sonnet to Seth Ward. He composed a Paraphrase on the Psalms and made many translations. In 1676 we find him Canon of Chichester. The next year Archbishop Sancroft conferred upon him the degree of D.D. by diploma. In 1680 he was appointed Canon of Winchester. He married and had issue, his youngest son becoming a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Medicine in the University. The Canon died at Winchester. There were many more ecclesiastical friends of Walton besides those already mentioned. Among others may be named the Rev. Christopher Harvey or Harvie (see Harvie (see p. 156), The Rev. Thomas Weaver, the Rev. Edward Powel, the Rev. Henry Bayley or Bagley, Dr Honiwood, Dean of Lincoln, the Rev. Dr John Price and the Rev. Joseph Pullen.' "Oh bring us back once more The vanished days of yore, When the world with Faith was filled! Bring back the fervid zeal, The hearts of fire and steel, The hands that believe and build." LONGFELLOW. 1 I merely infer that Dr Honiwood and Joseph Pullen were friends of Walton from the fact that Walton wrote their names in presentation copies of his books (see catalogue of the Ashburnham Library, 1898). CHAPTER XIII COPY OF WALTON'S WILL August the ninth, one thousand six hundred eighty-three. IN THE NAME of God, amen, I, IZAAK WALTON, the elder of Winchester, being this present day, in the ninetyeth year of my age, and in perfect memory, for which praised be God; but considering how suddainly I may be deprived of both, do therefore make this my last Will and Testament as followeth And first, I do declare my belief to be, that there is only one God, who hath made the whole world, and me, and all mankind; to whom I shall give an account of all my actions, which are not to be justified, but I hope pardoned, for the merits of my Saviour Jesus. And because the profession of Christianity does, at this time, seem to be subdivided into Papist and Protestante, I take it, at least, to be convenient, to declare my belief to be, in all points of faith, as the Church of England now professeth: and this I do the rather, because of a very long and very true friendship with some of the Roman Church. And for my worldly estate (which I have neither got by falsehood or flattery, or the extreme cruelty of the law of this nation), I do hereby give and bequeath it as followeth First, I give my son-inlaw, DOCTOR HAWKINS, and to HIS WIFE; to them I give all my title and right of or in a part of a house and shop in Pater-noster row, in London, which I hold by lease from the lord bishop of London for about fifty years to come. And I do also give to them all my right and title of or to a house in Chancery-lane, London, wherein Mrs Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is now about sixteen years to come : I give these two leases to them, they saving my executor from all damage concerning the same. And I give to my son IZAAK all my right and Norington farme, which I hold from the lord bishop of Winton: And I do also give him all my right and title to a farme or land near to Stafford, which I bought of Mr Walter Noell; I say, I give it to him and his heirs for ever; but upon the condition following, namely; if my son shall not marry before he shall be of age of forty and one years, or being married, shall dye before the said age, and leave no son to inherit the said farme or land,-or if his son or sons shall not live to attain the age of twenty and one years to dispose otherways of it, then I give the said farme or land to the towne or corporation of STAFFORD in which I was borne, title to a lease of |