24 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



Here is an utterance of the pious Stephen 

 Marshall in 1641 — 



" What soldier's heart would not start 

 deliberately to come into a subdued city, and 

 take the little ones on a spear's point, to take 

 them by the heels, and BEAT OUT THEIR BRAINS 

 against the wall ! Yet if this work be to 

 REVENGE God's Church (the Presbyterian !) 

 against BABYLON (the Church of England) he 

 is a BLESSED MAN that takes and dashes the 

 little ones against the stones." 



Ken took his degree of Bachelor of Arts, May 3, 

 1 66 1, and soon afterwards went into orders, at the 

 proper age commencing Master of Arts. In 1663 he 

 was presented to the Rectory of Little Easton, Essex, 

 which he resigned in 1665. Subsequently he was 

 elected with one voice by the Fellows of Winchester 

 to fill the first vacancy of a Fellowship, by the 

 death of Stephen Cook in 1666. He then returned 

 to Winchester as Resident Fellow of that Society, 



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