spot of his earthly deposit. On the stone which is laid over his grave, the following inscription is perfectly legible : "Here resteth the body of MR. ISAAC WALTON,, Who died the 15th of Dec. 1683. "Alas! he's gone before, Gone to return no more. Our panting breasts aspire Whose well-spent life did last That which will ne'er be done, Crown'd with eternal bliss, We wish our souls with his. VOTIS MODESTIS SIC FLERUNT LIBERI.' He had one son, Isaac, who never married, and a daughter, Anne, the wife of Dr. William Hawkins, a Prebendary in the Church of Winchester, and Rector of Droxford in Hampshire. Dr. William Hawkins left a son, William, and a daughter, named Anne, who died unmarried. The son, who was a Serjeant at Law, and author of the well-known treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, lived and died in the Close of Sarum. He published a short account of the life of his great uncle in 1713, and edited in 1721, the "Works of the right reverend, learned, and pious Thomas Ken, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells," in 4 vols. 8vo. These works include only Bishop Ken's poetical compositions, which do not merit any great encomium, though they are written in a strain of real piety and devotion. This William Hawkins had a son and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Mrs. Hawes, relict of the Rev. -Hawes, Rector of Bemerton, is the only surviving person of that generation.* I have omitted to enumerate among the friends of our biographer, Dr. George Morley, bishop 4 The following sepulchral inscriptions are in the Cathedral Church of Winchester : H. S. E. GULIELMUS HAWKINS S. T. P. HUJUS ECCLESIÆ PREBENDARIUS, ANNO DOMINI 1691. ETATIS SUÆ 58. H. S. E. ANNA ETIAM IZAAC WALTON FILIA QUÆ OBIIT SUPER-MEMORATI GULIELMI VIDUA AUG. 18, 1715. ÆTATIS SUÆ 67. |