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is narrated, in a state of great confusion at his 

 death, and some appear to have been purposely 

 burnt by, or at the least with the privity of, his 

 wife. Hooker's wife married again and died 

 suddenly within five months of his death. In 

 his will Hooker made Joane Hooker, my well- 

 beloved wife, sole executrix (he wrote executor), 

 of his will. Hallam thinks all the stories on this 

 subject given in the Life of Hooker by "Walton 

 (who, he says, seems to have been a man always 

 too credulous of anecdote), are unsatisfactory to 

 anyone who exacts real truth {Literary History, 

 Vol. II., Part II., Chapter IV.). 



Fuller states that Hooker's ' ' voice was low, 

 stature little, and gesture none at all in the 

 pulpit." 



Hooker died at Bishopsbourne in 1600, and 

 was buried there, where a monument was erected 

 to his memory in 1634. There is a bust of him by 

 the west wall of the south aisle of the Temple 

 Church in London. Hooker left four daughters, 

 two of whom married ; his family were left very 

 ill provided for. 



In the first edition (1670) of Hookers Life^ 

 by Walton, his portrait appears. In 1890 his 

 portrait, by a painter uncertain, was presented to 

 the National Portrait Gallery. 



