28 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



or Dove, musing on the olden times, he re- 

 turned at evening to the humble home of 

 love, to the evening hymn of his wife, to his 

 infant daughter, afterwards wife of Dr. Hawkins 

 to his Bible and to the consolation of his 

 proscribed Prayer-Book." 



It was here, according to the Bowies' tradition, 

 that Morley found refuge in the days of his dis- 

 tress ; here he resided the year before he left 

 England. 



" He sojourned," says Bowles, " in that 

 peaceful but humble abode twelve months, 

 and to that cottage of affectionate friendship 

 he returned after the execution of Lord Capel, 

 for a few weeks, we may imagine, till he left 

 England, to partake exile and adversity with 

 his new master, the son of the murdered 

 Charles." 



Walton's dedication of his " Life of Dr. Sander- 

 son " to George Morley, in which he speaks of his 

 " friendship begun nearly forty years past," is a 

 sufficient refutation of the suggestion that Walton 

 never knew Morley intimately. 



Mr. Bowles having in mind Walton and Cotton's 



