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Church of St. Paul's in London, where his monument stands 

 yet undefaced : a man that in the reformation of Queen 

 Elizabeth, not that of Henry VIII., was so noted for his meek 

 spirit, deep learning, prudence, and piety, that the then Parlia- 

 ment and Convocation both, chose, enjoined, and trusted him 

 to be the man to make a catechism for public use, such a one 

 as should stand as a rule for faith and manners to their 

 posterity. And the good old man, though he was very learned, 

 yet knowing that God leads us not to Heaven by many nor by 

 hard questions, like an honest angler, made that good, plain, 

 unperplexed catechism, which is printed with our good old 

 service-book. I say, this good old man was a dear lover and 

 constant practiser of angling, as any age can produce : and his 

 custom was to spend, besides his fixed hours of prayer (those 

 hours which, by command of the church, were enjoined the 

 clergy, and voluntarily dedicated to devotion by many primitive 

 Christians) ; T.^&a^ r fy^ulp those hours ? this goodman was 

 observed to sppnH ^ tpnth part of his time in angling; and 

 also, for I have conversed with those which have conversed 

 with him, tooestJow a tenth part of his revenue, and usually all 

 hisTTsri, amongst the poor that inhabited near to those rivers in 

 which it was caught; saying often, "that charity gave life to 

 religion:" and, at his return to his house, would praise God he 

 had spent that day free from worldly trouble ; both harmlessly, 

 and in recreation that became a churchman. And this_good 

 man was well content, if not desirous, jhat posterity should 

 know he was an angler; as may appear by his picture, now to 

 be"~seen, and carefully kept, in Brazen-nose College; to which 

 he was a liberal benefactor. In which picture he was drawn, 

 leaning on a desk, with his Bible before him, and on one hand 

 of Jhim his lines^Jipoks, and other tackling lying in aground ; A AJ 

 and on his other hand are his angle-rods of several sorts : and 

 b^jLhejn_th[Fls~wntten, "That he died 13 Fet>. 'i6oi > _beJng ^ J*> 

 aged 95 years, 44 of which he had been Dean of St. Paul's 

 Church ; and that his age had neither impaired his hearing, nor 

 dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his memory, nor made any of 

 the faculties of his mind weak or useless." 3 Tis said that 



