XXXVI LIFE OF WALTON. 



*"hine was thy later years; so much refined 



Prom youth's dross, mirth and \\ it, us thy pure mnul 



Thought (like theanuels) nothing but the praise 



Oi thy Creator, in those last, best days. 



Witness this book, (thy emblem,) which begins 

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



Dr. Henry King, bishop of Chichester in a Letter to Walton, 

 dated in November, 1664, and in which is contained the judgment 

 (herein-before inserted) of Hales of Eton, on the Life of Dr. Donne 

 that Walton had, in the Life of Hooker, given a more short and 

 significant account of the character of this time, and also of archbi- 

 shop M /,//</>//. than he had received from any other pen, and that 

 he had also done much for Sir Htnry Sari/e, 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 de- 

 ceased, ' from whom myself had it, ri*. that there were then several 

 Letter $ of Walton extant, in the Ashmolean Museum, relating to a 

 life of Sir Henry Sari/e, which Walton had entertained thoughts of 

 writing. 



1 also find, that he undertook to collect materials for a Life of Hales: 

 it seems, that Mr. Anthony Farringdon, minister of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalen, Milk Street, London, had begun to write the Life of this me- 

 morable person ; but dying before he had completed it, his |>apers 

 were sent to Walton, with a request from Mr. Fiilman, - who had pro- 

 posed to himself to continue und finish it, that Walton would furnish 

 him with such information 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 tlie late Mr. Des Maizeaux, and published 

 b\ him in 1719. as a specimen of a new Biographical Dictionary. 



A Letter of Walton, to Marriot his bookseller, upon this occasion, 

 was aent me by the late Rev. Dr. Birch, soon after the publication of 

 my first edition of the Complete Angler, containing the above facts; 

 i.. which the Doctor added, that after the year 1719, Mr. Fnlman's 

 papers came to the hands of Mr. Des Maizeaux, who intended in some 

 way or other, to avail himself of them : but he never published a 

 second edition of his Life of Hales; nor, for aught that I can hear, 

 have they ever yet found their way into the world. 



In 1683, when he was ninety years old, Walton published Thealma 

 and Clearchus; a Pastoral history, in smooth and easy rerse, w in, ,, 

 long since by John Chalkhill, Esq.; an acquaintance and friend of 

 Edmund Spenser : to this poem he wrote a Preface, containing a very 

 amiable character of the author. 



(1) William Oldys, e*q Norroy king at arms, author of the Life of Mr. 

 Cotton, pi- fixed to the Second Part, in the (ormer ediiions of this work. 



(V) Mr. William Fulm:in, amanuensis to Dr. Henry Hammond. See him 

 in At ken. Oron. Vol. II. 923. Some specious arguments have been urged to 



prove that this person was the author of the H hole Duty of Man, and I 

 once thought they had finally settled that long xRiiated question, " To 

 whom is the world obliged for that excellent work?" but I find a lull and 



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

 Grt at Britain, by George Kallard, 4to. I75'2, p. 318, and that the weight of 

 evidence is greatly in favour of a lady deservedly celebrated by him, viz. 

 Dorothy, the wile of Sir John Pack'mgton, Bart, and daughter of Thomas 

 Lord Coventry, lord-keeper of the great seal, temp. Car. 1. 



