50 * LIFE OF WALTON. 



is contained the judgment (hereinbefore inserted) of 

 Hales of Eton, on the Life of Dr. Donne says, that 

 Walton had, in the Life of Hooker -, given a more 

 short and significant account of the character of his 

 time, and also of archbishop Whitgift^ than he had re- 

 ceived from any other pen, and that he had also done 

 much for Sir Henry Savile, his contemporary and fa- 

 miliar friend ; which fact does very well connect with 

 what the late Mr. Des Maizeaux, some years since, re- 

 lated to a gentleman now deceased *, from whom my- 

 self had it, viz. that there were, then, several Letters of 

 "Walton extant, in the Ashmolean Museum, relating to 

 a Life of Sir Henry Samite, which Walton had en- 

 tertained thoughts of writing, 



I also find, that he undertook to collect materials for 

 a Life of Halts : it seems, that Mr. Anthony Farring- 

 don, minister of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-street, Lon- 

 don, had begun to write the life of this memorable 

 person; but dying' before he had completed it, his pa- 

 pers were sent to Walton, with a request from Mr. 

 Fulman t, who had proposed to himself to continue and 

 finish it, that Walton would furnish him with such in- 

 formation as was to his purpose: Mr. Fulman did not 

 live to- complete his design. But a Life of Mr. Hales y 

 from other materials, was compiled by the late Mr. 

 Des Maizeax, and published by him in 1719, as a 

 specimen of a new Biographical Dictionary. 



A Letter of Walton, 'to .Marriot his bookseller, upon 

 this occasion, was sent me by the late Rev. Dr.' Birch, 



* William Oldys, Esq. Norroy king at arms ; Author of the Life of 

 Mr. Cotton, prefixed to the Second Part, in the former editions of this 

 work. 



{ Mr. William Fulman, amanuensis to Dr. Hen. Hammond. See him 

 in Atben. Qxon. Vol. II. 823. Some specious arguments have been urged 

 to prove that this person was the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, 

 and 1^ once thought they had finally settled that long agitated question, 

 " To whom is the world obliged for that excellent work ?" but I find 

 a full and ample refutation of them, in a book entitled, Memoirs of seve- 

 ral Ladies of Great Britian, by George Ballard, 4to. 1752, p. 318, and 

 that the weight of evidence is greatly in favour of a lady deservedly cele- 

 brated by him, viz. Dorothy, the wife of Sir John Pakington, Bart, and 

 daughter of Thomas lord Coventry, lord keeper of the great seal, temp. 

 Car. I, 



