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Title: The complete angler, or, Contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687. cn Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789. cn Rennie, James, 1787-1867
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: London : T. Tegg & Son Glasgow : R. Griffin Dublin Tegg, Wise & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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f this age would almost as much disdain to admitof a tenant for half his shop, as a knight would to ride double;though the brethren of one of the most ancient orders in theworld were so little above this practice, that their common,seal was the device of two riding on one horse. § A morethan gradual deviation from that parsimonious character, ofwhich this is a ludicrous instance, hastened the grandeur anddeclension of that fraternity ; and it is rather to be wishedthan hoped, that the vast increase of trade of this country,and an aversion from the frugal manners of our forefathers,may not be productive of similar consequences to this nationin general. I conjecture, that about 1632 he married; for in that yearI find him living in a house in Chancery Lane, a few doors * Wards Life of Sir Thomas Gresham, p. 12. f Ibid. \ Ex vet. charta penes me. § The Knights Templars. A^hraol^^s Inst.of the Order of the Garter,p. 65. See the seal at the end of Matt. Paris Hist. Anglicana, ^dit. *1640.
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~^-^^^^^^ /^ ^^ ^<^»rs WALTONS HOUSE, FLEET STREET. LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. 3 higher up, on the left hand, than the former, and described bythe occupation of a sempster, or milliner. The former of thesemight be his own proper trade ; and the latter, as being afeminine occupation, might probably be carried on by his wife :she, it appears, was Anne, the daughter of Thomas Ken, ofFurnivals Inn, and sister of Thomas, afterwards Dr Ken,Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the seven that were sent tothe Tower, and who, at the Revolution, was deprived, anddied in retirement. Walton seems to have been as happy inthe married state, as the society and friendship of a prudentand pious woman of great endowments could make him ; andthat Mrs Walton was such a one, we may conclude from whatwill be said of her hereafter. About 1643 he left London, and, with a fortune very farshort of what would now be called a competency, * seems tohave retired altogether from business ; at which time, (to usethe words

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