152 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



He was no strong partisan, however. He was 

 deemed by one party before whom he preached 

 "a hot Royalist," while for his discourses 

 before the King and Court at Oxford he 

 was blamed as being too lukewarm. He was 

 noted for having a wonderful memory. He died 

 in Covent Garden and was buried in the chancel 

 of Cranford Church in Middlesex, of which he 

 had been appointed Eector in 1658. His epi- 

 taph says that "while he was endeavouring to 

 give immortality to others he himself attained 

 it." His wife survived him over twenty-one 

 years and was buried in Cranford Church. 



JOHN HALES 



(1584-1656). 



" Ever memorable." 



He was the fourth son of John Hales of High- 

 church, near Bath, in Somersetshire, and was 

 educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, being 

 subsequently elected to a Fellowship at Merton in 

 1605. He was a great Greek scholar ; Wotton 

 dubbed him "Our Bibliotheca ambulans." He 

 was a friend of Chillingworth's. Laud made him 

 a Canon of Windsor in 1639. Dr King styled him 

 "the best critic of our time." His chief work was 



