no IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



After his death his Nine Cases of Conscience 

 Occasionally Determined were published with 

 other of his writings. Few now read the writings 

 of this very learned prelate and great casuist. 

 Walton dedicated his Life of Sanderson to George 

 Morley when he was Bishop of Winchester, and 

 states that his own friendship with Sanderson 

 began " forty years past when I was as far from a 

 thought as a desire to outlive him ; and farther 

 from an intention to write his life," and he 

 expressed his thanks to the Bishop for having 

 introduced him to Sanderson, Chillingworth and 

 Hammond. At the Restoration Sanderson was 

 made Bishop of Lincoln. 



Sanderson in his will, after commending his 

 soul into the hands of Almighty God, professed 

 that as he lived so he desired to die, in the 

 Communion of the Church of England. He 

 mentions the danger the Church was in from 

 the great increase of ''Popery." By his will 

 he directed: "As to my corruptible body, I 

 bequeath it to the earth whence it was taken, 

 to be decently buried in the Parish Church of 

 Buckden, towards the upper end of the Chancel, 

 upon the second, or — on the furthest — the 

 third day after my decease ; and that with as 

 little noise, pomp, and charge as may be." And 

 he gave further instructions for carrying out his 

 funeral in a simple style which would have vastly 



