Introduction 



On the Restoration he was made Dean of Christchurch, and pre- 

 sently Bishop of Worcester, and it was during a visit to him at 

 Worcester that Walton's second wife is supposed to have died. Very 

 shortly after her death Morley was made Bishop of Winchester, and 

 invited Walton to make his home with him. The invitation was 

 accepted, and Walton continued to live with him at Winchester, with 

 occasional visits to London and to Morley's episcopal residence of 

 Farnham Castle, till the end of his life. That he spent the Christ- 

 mas of 1678 at Farnham Castle seems likely from the following 

 inscription in a copy of the fifth edition of 'The Compleat Angler 

 given to his friend, Mrs. Wallop : 



FOR MRS. WALLOP, 



I think I did some years past, send you a booke ot 

 Angling : This is printed since, and I think better ; and, because nothing 

 that I can pretend a tytell too, can be too good for you : pray accept of 

 this also, from me that am really, 



Madam, yo r most affectionate ffriend ; 



and most humble servant, 



IZAAK WALTON. 

 FARNHAM CASTELL, 



Decem r . 19", 1678. 



It was under one of Bishop Morley's roofs, and at his suggestion, 

 that he wrote the lives of Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson ; and it 

 is likely that the Hooker and possibly the Herbert were written 

 at Morley's house at Chelsea. 



On May 26, 1683, we ^ nc ^ mm a g am at Farnham Castle ; but this 

 seems to have been his last journey, for there is no record of his 

 again leaving Winchester. 



On August 9, in the same year, he was ninety years old, and on 

 that day he commenced to make his will. It was finished on the 

 1 6th and executed on the 24th, and is written throughout in his own 

 hand, with several erasures. Not the least characteristic of his writ- 

 ings, it ran as follows : 



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