172 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Walton to write Hookers Life to correct the errors 

 of that by Bishop Gauden, which had come out 

 in 1662. Cotton dedicated his translation of 

 Gerard's History of the Life of the Duke of 

 Espernon to Sheldon. Sheldon founded the 

 theatre at Oxford, and was very active over the 

 rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral. His chief 

 defect would appear to have been his severity 

 against Dissenters. 



He died a bachelor at Lambeth, and was buried 

 under a " stately monument " at Croydon. There 

 is a portrait of him at All Souls' College, Oxford, 

 by an artist unknown. 



JAMES SHIRLEY 

 (1596-1666). 



• Mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; 

 Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail." 



" Shirley, the morning-child, the Muses bred, 

 And sent him born with bays upon his head." 



He was born in London and educated at 

 Merchant Taylors' School, London, and took his 

 degree from St Catharine's College, then Hall, 

 Cambridge, having previously been at St John's 

 College, Oxford. He was ordained, but sub- 

 sequently became a Roman Catholic and a very 



