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willing to obey your desires, and am 

 indeed 



" Your affectionate Friend 



"THOMAS LINCOLN. 



"LONDON, May loth, 1678." 



We see from these brief extracts that 

 Walton was personally known to, and 

 beloved by, 



Dr. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester ; 



Dr. George Morley, Bishop of Win- 

 chester ; 



Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury ; 



Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lin- 

 coln; 



Dr. Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln. 



SIR HENRY WOTTON TO His " WORTHY 

 FRIEND," 



On February 27th, 1672, Walton wrote 

 a dedication of the fourth edition of his 

 Reliquicc. Wottoniance to the Right Honour- 

 able Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, who was 

 a grand-nephew of Sir Henry Wotton, in 

 which I find he says that two of his 

 reasons for dedicating the work to his 

 lordship were, 



i. "That Sir Henry Wotton, whose 

 many merits made him an Ornament, even 



