I04 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



grammar school there. He proceeded to Corpus 

 Christi College, Oxford. It is not within the plan 

 of this book to say much about him. He was no 

 angler so far as we know. His marriage was un- 

 fortunate, and his wife appears to have been a foe 

 to his life, and a "clownish silly woman." Her 

 maiden name was Churchman. Hooker was 

 Master of the Temple from 1581 to 1591. The 

 reader or lecturer there was one Walter Travers, 

 a man of Ultra- Calvinistic and Presbyterian views, 

 but "a man of learning and good m-anners," and 

 the controversy between them on theology became 

 very acute. Fuller says : " The pulpit spake pure 

 Canterbury in the morning and Geneva in the 

 afternoon." In their disputations Travers seems 

 from all accounts to have come off more than 

 conqueror. In 1595 Hooker became Rector of 

 Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. He was a most 

 exemplary parish priest, and noted for his great 

 humility. His fame of course rests on his 

 Ecclesiastical Polity. Mr Bayne, the latest writer 

 on Hooker, insists that Hooker wrote under the 

 influence of Calvin, and that Calvin, the leading 

 theologian of the Sacramentarians, did not hold 

 what are called "low" — what Hooker calls 

 "cold" — views of the Lord's Supper (see The 

 Pilot, January 3, 1903). 



The reader is referred to Hallam's Constitutional 

 History and to his Literary History for informa- 



