10 LIFE OF WALTON. 



picture of his simplicity and goodness, and of the plain manners 

 of those times- is given in the note. 1 



The life of Mr. George Herbert, as it stands the fourth and 

 last in the volume wherein that and the three former are col- 

 lected, seems to have been written the next after Hooker's : it 

 was first published in duodecimo, 1670. Walton professes him- 

 self to have been a stranger to the person of Herbert : and 

 though he assures us his life of him was a free-will offering, it 

 abounds with curious information, and is in no way inferior to 

 any of the former. 



Two of these lives, those of Hooker and Herbert, we 

 are told, were written under the roof of Walton's friend and 

 patron, Dr. George Morley, Bishop of Winchester which 

 particular seems to confirm Wood's account, that " after 

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

 eminent clergy of that time." 2 And who that considers the 

 inoffensiveness of his manners, and the pains he took in cele- 

 brating 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 



1 " As soon as he was perfectly recovered from this sickness, he took a 

 journey from Oxford to Exeter, to satisfy and see his good mother ; being 

 accompanied with a countryman and companion of his own college, and 

 both on foot ; which was, then, either more in fashion or want of money, 

 or their humility made it so ; but on foot they went, and took Salisbury in 

 their way, purposely to see the good bishop, who made Mr. Hooker and 

 his companion dine with him at his own table ; which Mr. Hooker boasted 

 of with much joy and gratitude, when he saw his mother and friends. And 

 at the bishop's parting with him, the bishop gave him good counsel, and 

 his benediction, but forgot to give him money, which, when the bishop had 

 considered, he sent a servant in all haste, to call Richard back to him ; and 

 at Richard's return, the bishop said to him : ' Richard ! I sent for you 

 back to lend you a horse, which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank 

 God, with much ease : ' and presently delivered into his hands a walking 

 staff, with which he professed he had travelled through many parts of 

 Germany : and he said, ' Richard ! I do not give, but lend you my horse ; 

 be sure you be honest, and bring my horse back to me at your return this 

 way to Oxford. And I do now give you ten groats, to bear your charges to 

 Exeter ; and here is ten groats more, which I charge you to deliver to your 

 mother ; and tell her I send her a bishop's benediction with it, and beg the 

 continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse back to me, 

 I will give you ten groats more to carry you on foot to the college ; and so 

 God bless you, good Richard !' " Life of Hooker, in the "Collection of 

 Lives," edit. 1670. H. 



2 After the Restoration, apartments were reserved for Walton and his 

 daughters, both in the house of the above-named prelate, and in that of 

 Dr. Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury. ZOTJCH. 



