1 62 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Bishop of London, who died in 1621, and was 

 a celebrated ^preacher in his day, being styled 

 by James I. " The King of Preachers," and is 

 buried in St Paul's Cathedral, with the one word 

 "Resurgam" on his gravestone. On his death a 

 report went about that he had died a Koman 

 Catholic, The son Henry King preached a 

 sermon at St Paul's Cross,^ entitled "The 

 Scandalous Keport touching the supposed 

 Apostasie," exposing the falsity of the story. 

 King and Walton were both present with Donne 

 when the latter was dying. King wrote a letter 

 from Chichester, dated the 17th of November 

 1664, to Walton, commencing " Honest Isaac," ^ 

 in which he stated that their friendship had 

 existed for more than forty years, and which, 

 after giving him certain information about 

 Hooker, ends thus: "One who heartily wishes 

 your happiness, and is unfeignedly. Sir, your 

 ever faithful and Affectionate old Friend, Henry 

 Chichester." King wrote an elegy "Upon the 



1 Stowe says that there was a pulpit cross of timber, mounted 

 upon steps of stone, and covered with lead, in which sermons were 

 preached by learned divines every Sunday in the forenoon, when the 

 Court and the Magistrates of the City, besides a vast concourse of 

 people, usually attended. 



It was at St Paul's Cross that, in the beginning of the Eeformation, 

 the Eood of Grace, whose eyes and lips were moved with wires, was 

 exposed to the view of the people and destroyed by them. 



2 In using the word " Honest "the writer possibly remembered the 

 force of the Latin word " honestus," and may have wished to imply 

 that Walton possessed a fine character as well as a magnetic one. 



