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trusted him to be the man to make a catechism for 

 public use, such a one as should stand as a rule for faith 

 and manners to their posterity. And the good old man, 

 though he was very learned, yet knowing that God leads us 

 not to heaven by many, nor by hard questions like an 

 honest angler, made that good, plain, unperplexed catechism, 

 which is printed with our good old "Service-book." l I say, 

 this good man was a dear lover, and constant [practiser of 

 angling, as any age can produce. And his custom was to 

 spend besides his fixed hours of prayer ; those hours which, 

 by command of the Church were enjoined the clergy, and 

 voluntarily dedicated to devotion by many primitive Christians ; 

 I say, besides those hours this good man was observed to 

 spend a tenth part of his time in angling ; and also, (for I 

 have conversed with those who have conversed with him,) to 

 bestowing a tenth part of his revenue, and usually all his 

 fish, amongst the poor that inhabited near to those rivers in 

 which it was caught ; saying often, " That charity gave life 

 to religion." And, at his return to his house, would praise 

 Grod he had spent that day free from worldly trouble ; both 

 harmlessly, and in a recreation that became a churchman. 

 And this good man was well content, if not desirous, that 

 posterity should know he was an angler ; as may appear by 

 his picture, now to be seen, and carefully kept, in Brazen- 

 nose College ; to which he was a liberal benefactor. In 

 which picture he is drawn, leaning on a desk; with his 

 bible before him ; and on one hand of him, his lines, hooks, 

 and other tackling, lying in a round ; and on his other hand, 

 are his angle-rods of several sorts, 2 and by them this is 



ants, fled to Germany, where he lived many years. In 1561 he was made 

 Dean of St. Paul's ; and in 1601 died. The monument mentioned in the 

 text was consumed in the fire of London ; but the inscription thereon is 

 preserved in Stowe's "Survey." An engraving of the monument itself ia 

 inDugdale's "History of St. Paul's Cathedral." H. 



1 Who was the compiler of our present " Church Catechism," is a con- 

 troverted question. Nowel is said not to have been author of the ' brief 

 Catechism in the Common Prayer, but of a larger Catechism, drawn up at 

 the request of Secretary Cecil, and approved by a convocation held 1562. 

 Hawkin's has a long note on the subject, but see CardwelTs "Docu- 

 mentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England," vol. i. p. 266. ED. 



2 Fuller, in his "Worthies" (Lancashire, page 115), has thought it 

 worth recording of this pious and learned divine, that he was accustomed 



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