1 66 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



October 1684, and was buried in Winchester 

 Cathedral. There is a portrait of him there, and 

 there is a portrait of him also in the National 

 Portrait Gallery, drawn in coloured chalks on 

 grey paper by E. Lutterel, which was presented to 

 the Gallery in 1877. The Cathedral library at 

 Winchester owes its origin to a bequest made 

 in Morley's will. 



THOMAS MORTON, BISHOP OF DURHAM 



(1564-1659). 



" All his prospects brightening to the last 

 His heaven commences ere the world be past." 



Goldsmith. 



He was one of the nineteen children of Richard 

 Morton, an Alderman of York, and was born in 

 Berkshire and educated at St John's College, 

 Cambridge. In 1614 he erected Casaubon's tomb in 

 Westminster Abbey at his own expense. In 1602, 

 when the plague raged in York, Morton visited 

 many of the poor who had booths erected on a 

 moor near the city, and ministered to them and 

 helped to provide for their wants. He befriended 

 Donne, and once gave him a sum of money, saying : 

 "Take this, gold is restorative;" to which Donne 

 replied: '*I doubt I shall never restore it back 

 again." Before becoming Bishop of Durham he 

 was successively Dean of Winchester, Peterborough 



