1 64 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



GEORGE MORLEY, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER 



(1597-1684). 



"What I planned, I did; what I desired to be, I was; 

 what was in me I taught." 



He was a son of Francis Morley, and was 

 born in Cheapside, London, and was educated 

 at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, 

 Oxford. In 1641 he was made a Canon of Christ 

 Church, the only appointment he said he ever 

 desired. He became one of Jonson's "sons." 

 Charles I. appointed him to be one of his 

 chaplains. In 1642 he preached one of his 

 sermons before the House of Commons, but he 

 was not ordered to print it according to the usual 

 custom. He was a Calvinist, and zealous against 

 Popery. Innocently asked '' what the Armenians 

 held," he answered pleasantly, " that they held 

 all the best bishoprics and deaneries in England.'* 

 He passed some years abroad. In 1660 he was 

 appointed Dean of Christ Church and Bishop 

 of Worcester, but after two years he was, on 

 Dr Duppa's death, translated to Winchester. In 

 1660 Morley preached the Coronation sermon 

 (from Proverbs xxviii. 2). "The sermon was 

 very long and was intended to show the evils of 

 a multitude of rulers, and especially of an un- 

 natural, unreasonable, insolent and tyrannical 



