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democracy." ^ His generosity was so well known 

 that when the king gave him the Bishopric of 

 Winchester he said that "Morley would never 

 be the richer for it." " He restored Farnham Castle 

 at his own expense and built and endowed the 

 College of Matrons," says Dean Kitchin — " a home 

 for the widows of the clergy of the diocese of 

 Winchester. This is among the proofs that after 

 the Kestoration the position and needs of a 

 married clergy were much more distinctly re- 

 garded than they had been before that time " 

 (Historic Towns : Winchester). Morley was not 

 at all acceptable to Laud's party, as he was very 

 tolerant of, and charitable to, many of the Non- 

 conformists. It is supposed that Walton and his 

 second wife were on a visit to Morley at Worcester 

 when she died there. From a study of his life it 

 is difficult to see what he and Walton could have 

 had in common, although he writes he had had the 

 advantage of forty years' friendship with him. In 

 1683 Morley published a book in vindication of 

 himself from " divers false, scandalous and in- 

 jurious reflections" made upon him by Richard 

 Baxter, who, according to his opinion, was the 

 most fluent and chief speaker at the Savoy 

 Conference. Walton tells us he was introduced 

 by Morley to Sanderson, Hammond and Chilling- 

 worth. He died at Farnham Castle on the 29th of 



1 See Notes and Queries, 9th S. XI., p. 502. 



