LIFE OF IZAAK \VALTON. 15 



it was first published in duodecimo, 1670. Walton professes 

 himself to have been a stranger as to the person of Herbert j* 

 and though he assures us his life of him was a freewill offer- 

 ing,-!- it abounds with curious information, and is no way 

 inferior to any of the former. 



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 ; J 

 which particular seems to agree with Wood's account, that* 

 " after his quitting London, he lived mostly in the families of 

 the eminent clergy at that time." Zouch says, that apartments 

 for Walton and his daughters were reserved both in the house 

 of the Bishop of Winchester, and in that of the bishop of 

 Salisbury. 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, 

 and a Preface, containing the motives for writing them ; 

 this preface is followed by a Copy of Verses, by his intimate 

 friend and adopted son, Charles Cotton, of Beresford, in 

 Staffordshire, esq. the author of the Second Part of the 

 Complete Angler, of whom farther mention will hereafter be 

 made ; and by the Letter from Bishop King, so often referred 

 to in the course of his life. 



The Complete Angler having, in the space of twenty-three 

 years, gone through four editions, Walton, 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 approbation, 

 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 cipher composed of the initial letters of 

 both their names ; which cipher, Mr Cotton tells us, he had 

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



* Introduction to Herbert'/} Life. 



f Epistle to the Header of the Collection of Lives. 



$ Dedication of the Lives. 



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



