f 



68 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



of him in the Dictionary of National Biography 

 seems to be derived. 



Venables was twice married ; first to Elizabeth 

 Rudyard, and secondly to Elizabeth, widow of 

 Thomas Lee, of Darn Hall, and daughter of 

 Samuel Aldersey. The reader can find the 

 story of the unfortunate expedition against the 

 Spaniards well narrated in Clarendons History of 

 the Rebellion, though Dr Gardiner says the account 

 is not to be "trusted implicitly." 



Venables was probably a disappointed man, 

 and the later part of his life is likely to have been 

 his happiest. The following lines of James 

 Thomson, the poet, seem to be applicable to his 

 last days : — 



"An elegant sufficiency, content, retirement, 

 rural quiet, friendship, books, ease and alternate 

 labour, useful life, progressive virtue, and ap- 

 proving Heaven." 



