^ET. 69.] LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. Ixxi 



Walton, I give all my writings under my father's hand, which 

 may be of some use to his son if he makes him a scholar. To 

 the Reverend [Henry King,] Bishop of Chichester, I return that 

 cabinet that was my father's, now in my dining-room, and all 

 those papers which are of authors analysed by my father ; many 

 of which he hath already received with his Common Place-Book, 

 which I desire may pass to Mr Walton's son as being more 

 likely to have use for such a help, when his age shall require 

 it." 



In December 1662, Walton obtained from his friend Gilbert 

 Sheldon, Bishop of London, a lease of a newly-erected building, 

 adjoining a house called the Cross Keys, in Paternoster Row, for 

 forty years, at the yearly rent of forty shillings, which premises 

 were burnt in the fire of London. 9 



The first two years of Walton's residence with Bishop Morley 

 were employed in writing the Life of Richard Hooker, the learned 

 author of fhe Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The memoir ap- 

 peared in January 1665, and in the dedication to the Bishop of 

 Winchester, dated on the 28th of November 1664, Walton says, 

 " It was written by me under your roof, for which and more 

 weighty reasons, you might (if it were worthy) justly claim a title 

 to it ; but indeed, my Lord, though this be a well-meant sacrifice 

 to the memory of that venerable man, yet I have so little confi- 

 dence in my performance, that I beg your pardon for subscribing 

 your name to it ; and desire all that know your Lordship to 

 receive it, not as a dedication by which you receive any access 

 of honour, but rather as a more humble and more public acknow- 

 ledgment of your long-continued, and your now daily favours to 

 your most affectionate and most humble servant, 



" IZAAK WALTON." 



A very interesting letter from Dr King, Bishop of Chichester, 

 to Walton, commencing with the homely but emphatic address 

 of " Honest Isaak," l was prefixed to the memoir ; and as that 

 letter contains many illustrations of Walton's life, such parts of it 

 as have not been already introduced will be inserted. Bishop 

 King commences with this flattering testimony to Walton's worth : 

 " Though a familiarity of more than forty years' continuance, and 

 the constant experience of your love, even in the worst of the 



Vide postea. 



l This address is omitted in the first edition of the Life of Hooker, but occurs in the 

 second, and all subsequent editions. 



