2:2 LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. 



Thought (like the angels) nothing but the praise 



Of thy Cre.itor, in those last, best days. 



Witness this book (thy emblem) which begins 

 With love ; but ends with sighs and tears tor sins. 



Dr Henry King, bishop of Chichester, in a letter to Walton, 

 dated in November, 1664, and in which is contained the judg- 

 ment (herein before inserted) of Hales of Eaton, 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 this time, and also of Archbishop Whitgift, than he had 

 received from any other pen, and that he had also done much 

 for Sir Henry Savile, his contemporary and familiar friend ; 

 which fact does very well connect with what the late Mr Des 

 Maizeaux some years since related to a gentleman now 

 deceased,* from whom myself had it, viz. that there were 

 then several letters of Walton extant, in the Ashmolean 

 Museum, relating to a Life of Sir Henry Savile, which Walton 

 had entertained thoughts of writing. 



I also find that he undertook to collect materials for a Life 

 of Hales. It seems that Mr Anthony Farringdon, minister of 

 St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London, had begun to write 

 the Life of this memorable person ; but dying before he had 

 completed it, his papers were sent to Walton, with a request 

 from Mr Fulman, f who had proposed to himself to continue 

 and finish it, that Walton would furnish him with such infor- 

 mation as was to his purpose. Mr Fulman did not live to 

 complete his design ; but a Life of Mr Hales, from other 

 materials, was compiled by the late Mr Des Maizeaux, 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, soon after 

 the publication of my first edition of the Complete Angler, 

 containing the above facts ; to which the doctor added, that 



* 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. 



j- Mr William Fulman, amanuensis to Dr Henry Hammond. r-.ee him 

 in Athen. Oxon. 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 1 find a full and 

 ample refutation of them, in a book entitled Memoirs of several Ladies 

 of Great Britain, by George Ballard, quarto, 1752, p. 318, and that the 

 weight of evidence is greatly in favour of a lady deservedly celebrated by 

 him, viz. Dorothy, the wife of Sir John Packington, Bart, and daughter 

 of Thomas Lord Coventry, lord-keeper of the Great Seal, temp. Car. I. 



