56 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



house I am going, God willing, for some 

 time, partly for my health, partly to avoid the 

 cloud under which I lye (and chiefly from my 

 brethren, God forgive them for it), as having 

 done all that is proper for me to do to assert 

 my character, the doing of which has created 

 so many enemies, as I expected it would. My 

 brother of Gloucester is, I hear, out of harm's 

 way, in Wales, at the present, but I have heard 

 nothing from him. . . . Dr. Kidder is now said 

 to be my successor or rather supplanter. He 

 is a person of whom I have no knowledge. 

 " Your very affectionate friend, 

 " Tho. Bath and Wells." 



I find no record as to the time Ken spent at 

 Polsford, but it may be assumed that during the 

 next twenty years of his long life, whilst his home 

 was at Longleat, he not unfrequently visited his 

 young friend and former pupil at Salisbury. " He 

 also spent much of his time at Naish House, the 

 residence of two maiden ladies named Keymis ; 

 with Mrs. Thynne, at Leweston ; Archdeacon 

 Sand}s, and at the palace at Wells, who all thought 

 themselves happy to have him under their roof. 

 He was so charitable as to give away more than 



