LIFE OF WALTON. 17 



first preferment in the church was to a prebendary in the cathedral 

 of Lincoln : and his next and last the rectory of Bemerton, near 

 Salisbury. About 1630, he married a near relation of the Earl 

 of Danby ; and died about 1635, aged forty-two, without issue. 



His elder brother, Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, mentions him 

 in his own "Life;" and gives his character in the following 

 words : " My brother George was so excellent a scholar, that 

 he was made the publick orator of the university in Cambridge : 

 some of whose English works are extant, which, though they be 

 rare in their kind, yet are far short of expressing those perfec- 

 tions he had in the Greek and Latin tongues, and all divine and 

 human literature. His life was mostly holy and exemplary ; 

 insomuch that about Salisbury, where he lived beneficed for 

 many years, he was little less than sainted : he was not exempt 

 from passion and choler, being infirmities to which all our race is 

 subject but, that one excepted, without reproach in his actions." 

 A collection of religious poems, entitled the " Temple," and a 

 small tract, " The Priest to the Temple ; or, the Country Parson 

 his Character," with his " Kemains," are all of his works that 

 are generally known to be in print ; but he translated Cornaro's 

 book of " Temperance and long Life ; " printed in 12mo. Cam- 

 bridge, 1639. Among the "Kemains " is a collection of foreign 

 proverbs translated into English, well worthy of a place in some 

 future edition, with those of Bay. 



SANDERSON was a man of very acute parts, and famous for 

 deep skill in casuistry : a sort of learning formerly much 

 cultivated among the Romish divines, with a view to qualify the 

 younger clergy for the office of confession ; and it continued in 

 fashion here longer after the Reformation than it was useful. 

 In the year 1647, he drew up the famous Oxford " Reasons 

 against the Covenant ; " which discover amazing penetration, 

 and sagacity, and so distinguished him, that at the Restoration, 

 he was promoted to the bishopric of Lincoln. In 1671, by 

 virtue of a commission from King Charles II., he assisted at a 

 conference at the Savoy, between the episcopal clergy and non- 

 conforming divines, for settling a Liturgy ; a,nd, upon a review of 

 the book of " Common Prayer " that followed it, composed 

 sundry of the new Collects and additional offices ; it is said that 

 the form of general thanksgiving is in the number of the 

 former : and he drew up the Preface, " It hath been the wisdom of 

 the Church," &c. This great man died in 1662. There are 

 extant, of his works besides a volume of Sermons, in folio, a 

 treatise, " De Juramenti promissorii obligatione," which was 

 translated into English by King Charles I., while a prisoner in 

 the Isle of Wight ; and several other pieces. Walton's acquaint- 

 ance with him had a very early commencement : and what degree 



