26 LIFE OF WALTON. 



ley bishop of Winchester * : which particular seems 

 to agree \vith [confirm] Wood's account, that " after 

 ie his quitting London, he lived mostly in the families 

 " of the eminent clergy of that time t." And who 

 that considers the inoffensiveness of his manners, and 

 the pains he took in celebrating the lives and actions of 

 good men, can doubt his being much beloved by them ? 



In the year 1670, these Lives were collected and 

 published in octavo : with a Dedication to the above 

 bishop of Winchester t and a Preface, containing 

 the motives for writing them : this preface is followed 

 by a Copy of verses, by his intimate friend and adopt- 

 ed son, Charles Cotton, of Beresford in Staffordshire, 

 Esq. the author of the Second Part of the Complete 

 Angler, of whom further mention will hereafter be 

 fnade : and by the Letter from bishop King, so often 

 referred to in the course of this life. 



The Complete Angler having^ in the space of 

 twenty-three years, gone through four editions, Wal- 

 ton in the year 1676, and in the eighty -third of his 

 age, was preparing a fifth, with additions, for the 

 press ; when Mr. Cotton wrote a second part of that 

 work : It seems Mr. Cotton submitted the manuscript 

 to Walton's perusal, who returned it with his appro- 

 bation +, and a few marginal strictures: And in that 

 year they came abroad together. Mr. Cotton's book had 

 the title of the Complete Angler ; being Instructions 

 how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear 

 stream; Part II. and it has ever since been received 

 as a Second part of Walton's book. In the title page, 

 is a cypher composed of the initial letters of both 

 their names; which cypher, Mr. Cotton tells us, he 

 had caused to be cut in stone, and set up over a 

 fishing-house , that he had erected near his dwelling, 



* Dedication of the Lives* 



f After the Restoration, apartments were reserved for Walton and hi* 

 daughters, both in the house of the above-named prelate, and in that 

 of Dr. Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury. Zoutb. 



\ See Walton's Letter to Cotton^ before the Second Part. 



r\dt> infra, Part II. Page 383. 



