Ixx LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1662, 



of May 1662 ; 7 but the Waltons probably continued at the palace 

 whilst the bishop attended his parliamentary duties. 



Dr Morley was translated to the see of Winchester in April 

 1662, and removed soon afterwards to his new diocese. Up to 

 that period Walton seems to have lived at Clerkenwell ; but not 

 long after Morley's translation, he found a permanent asylum for 

 his old age in the episcopal residence. The occupation attendant 

 upon his removal, the change of scene, and his own practical 

 piety, combined to alleviate his grief for the loss of his wife ; and 

 the evening of his days was happily passed in literary pursuits, 

 in the society of his family and friends, and in the performance 

 of his religious duties. He was in his sixty-ninth year when he 

 became the guest of Dr Morley, at which time his only surviving 

 son, Isaak, was eleven, and his daughter, Anne, about fourteen 

 years of age. 



Dr John Donne, the eldest son of the learned divine of that 

 name, died in the winter of i662. 8 Though not destitute of 

 talents, he appears to have been a very eccentric character ; and 

 Anthony Wood speaks of him as an "atheistical buffoon, abanterer, 

 and a person of over-free thoughts ; ' adding, however, that he 

 was valued by Charles the Second. The qualities which called 

 forth the censure of the great biographer of the University of Oxford, 

 probably attracted the favour of that prince ; and he seems to have 

 lived on very cordial terms with many noblemen of the time. Dr 

 Donne made his will on the 2ist of July 1657, and as it is a very 

 curious document, it was printed in February 1662. A copy of 

 it will be found in the notes to this memoir ; and it is here noticed 

 on account of the following bequests to Walton : " To Mr Isaac 



7 Lords' Journals, vol. xiv. passim. 



8 The following account of Dr Donne's children is given in the Gentleman's Magazine 

 for June 1835 : 



"John, eldest son of the Dean, is not so well known but that some account may be 

 here given of him. He was born about the year 1604, and is mentioned in his father's 

 will (dated isth of December 1630, and is proved in the P. C. C. on the sth of April in 

 the following year), together with his brother and four sisters. He was educated at 

 Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards being LL.D. of Padua, was 

 incorporated in the same degree at the former university, June 30, 1638. 



" He wrote several poetical trifles, some of which are enumerated in the Fasti (edit. 

 Bliss), 1/503. He died in the winter of 1662, and was buried near the standing dial in 

 the yard at the west end of St Paul's, Covent Garden. Whether he was married is not 

 stated by any biographer ; but it is not improbable he was the same John Donne who 

 was married to Mary Staples at Camberwell Church, 2jth March 1627. 



" George Donne, second son of the Dean, was baptized May 9, 1605, at Camberwell, 

 and is described in his father's funeral certificate (Coll. Arm. I. 23, p. 39) as captain and 

 serjeant-major of all the forces in the Isle of St Christopher. He married and had a 

 daughter, Margaret, baptized at Camberwell, March 22, 1637-8." See also Gentleman's 

 Magazine, Aug. 1835; Dr Southey's Life of Cowper, vol. i. p. 4 ; and Letters respecting 

 Dr Donne's marriage, in the Loseley Papers, p. 321. 



