LIFE OF IZAAC WALTON. 



Gilbert Sheldon, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who 

 by the way was an angler. Walton also wrote the Life of 

 George Herbert ; it was first published in duodecimo in 

 1670. Walton nevertheless professes himself to have been 

 a stranger to the person of Herbert. 



Two of these Lives, viz., those of Hooker and Herbert, 

 we are told, were written under the roof of Walton's good 

 friend and patron Dr. George Morley, Bishop of Winchester. 

 In the year 1670 these Lives were collected and published 

 in octavo, with a dedication to Dr. Morley, and a preface 

 containing the motives for writing them. 



A book which had been published by Col. Robert 

 Venables some years before, called the " Experienced 

 Angler ; or, Angling Improved," was sometimes bound up 

 with Walton's and Cotton's books, and the three were sold 

 under the title of the " Universal Angler." It has a preface 

 signed I. W., undoubtedly of Walton's writing. 



In his eighty-third year Walton wrote the Life of Dr. 

 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, which was published 

 together with several of the bishop's pieces and a sermon of 

 Hooker's in octavo, 1677. 



Walton was a Royalist and a friend of Royalists, as 

 appears by the following quotation taken from Ashmole's 

 " History of the Order of the Garter," page 228 : " Nor will 

 it be unfitly here remembered by what good fortune the 

 present sovereign's lesser George, set with fair diamonds, 

 was preserved, after the defeat given to the Scotch forces 

 at Worcester, ann. 4 Car. II. Among the rest of his 

 attendants then dispersed, Colonel Blogue was one, who, 

 taking shelter at Blore-pipe House in Staffordshire, where 

 one Mr. George Barlow then dwelt, delivered his wife this 



