I70 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



very friendly with Walton. This fact tends to 

 show how probable it was that the latter could 

 get on with men with whom others found it im- 

 possible to remain friends. The Dean died at 

 North Tidworth in Wiltshire, and was buried 

 there, as also was his wife, by whom he had issue — 

 two sons. The following epitaph was composed 

 by him upon himself: — 



" Here lies all that was mortal, the outside, dust 

 and ashes of Thomas Pierce, D.D., once the 

 President of a College in Oxford, at first the 

 Kector of Brighton - cum - Membris, Canon of 

 Lincoln and at last Dean of Sarum ; who fell 

 asleep in the Lord Jesus, but in hope of an awake 

 at the resurrection. He knew himself, and taught 

 others, that all the glorified saints in heaven cannot 

 amount to one Saviour, as all the stars in the 

 firmament cannot make up one sun. Therefore his 

 only hope and trust was in the Lord Jesus, who will 

 change, etc., Phil. iii. 21. 'Disce, viator, perinde 

 esse, seu fragile frangi, seu mortale mori.' " 



GILBERT SHELDON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 



(1598-1677). 

 " He served his generation." 



He was born at Stanton,^ a small village in the 

 Parish of Ellaston, two miles west of May field in 



1 In the Dictiotmry of Natioiud Biography it is stated he was born 

 at Ashbourne. My authority is The History and Topography of 

 Ashbourne (1839). 



