io6 TJie Times Walton Lived in. 



these charming scenes of peaceful, pastoral 

 life, should have been produced by a 

 man who had lived through the horrors 

 of the Civil Wars sieges, battles, 

 skirmishes, and countless struggles be- 

 tween the Royalist and Parliamentarian 

 forces, in which brother often fought 

 against brother and father against son." 



WALTON ON His OWN TIMES. 



In his admirable Lives Walton gives 

 some stirring pictures of the times in 

 which he lived. In his Life of Dr. 

 Robert Sanderson he says : 



" Some years before the unhappy Long 

 Parliament, this nation being then happy 

 and in peace, (though inwardly sick of 

 being well,) namely in the year 1639, 

 a discontented party of the Scots Church 

 were zealously restless for another refor- 

 mation of their Kirk-government ; and to 

 that end created a new covenant. . . . 

 The Presbyterian party of this nation did 

 again, in the year 1643, invite the Scotch 

 covenanters back into England : and 

 hither they came marching with it {the 

 covenant] gloriously upon their pikes and 

 on their hats, with this motto : ' For the 

 Crown and Covenant of both Kingdoms.' 

 This I saw, and suffered by it. 



