ex LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON. [1683, 



wanted power to persecute others ; when the giddy multitude 

 raged, and became restless to find out misery for themselves and 

 others ; and the rabble would herd themselves together, and 

 endeavour to govern and act in spite of authority. In this ex- 

 tremity, fear, and danger of the Church and State, when to sup- 

 press the growing evils of both, they needed a man of prudence 

 and piety, and of a high and fearless- fortitude, they were blessed 

 in all by John Whitgift's being made Archbishop of Canterbury ; 

 of whom ingenious Sir Henry Wotton (that knew him well) hath 

 left this true character ; ' that he was a man of a reverend and 

 sacred memory, and of the primitive temper ; a man of such a 

 temper, as when the Church by lowliness of spirit did flourish in 

 highest examples of virtue.' " ^ 



Of the Restoration he says, " Towards the beginning of the 

 year 1660, when the many mixed sects, and their creators, and 

 merciless protectors, had led, or driven each other into a whirl- 

 pool of confusion both in Church and State ; when amazement 

 and fear had seized most of them by foreseeing they must now 

 not only vomit up the Church's and the King's land, but their 

 accusing consciences did also give (;hem an inward and fearful 

 intelligence, that the God of opposition, disobedience, and con- 

 fusion, which they had so long and so diligently feared, was now 

 ready to reward them with such wages as he always pays to 

 witches for their obeying him ; when these wretches (that had 

 said to themselves 'we shall see no sorrow') were come to foresee 

 an end of their cruel reign, by our King's return, and such 

 sufferers as Dr Sanderson (and with him many of the oppressed 

 clergy and others) could foresee the cloud of their afflictions 

 would be dispersed by it ; then the 29th of May following, the 

 King was by our good God restored to us, and we to our known 

 laws and liberties, and then a general joy and peace seemed to 

 breathe through the three nations ; the suffering and sequestered 

 clergy (who had, like the children of Israel, sat long lamenting 

 their sad condition, and hanged their neglected harps on the 

 willows that grow by the rivers of Babylon) were, after many 

 thoughtful days and restless nights, now freed from their sequestra- 

 tion, restored to their revenues, and to a liberty to adore, praise, 

 and pray to Almighty God publicly, in such order as their 

 consciences and oaths had formerly obliged them."* 



Speaking of the Nonconformists, after admitting that " some 



7 Life of Hooker, ed. Zouch, i. ^62-364. 



8 Life of Sanderson, edi Zouch, li. 267-269. 



