NEAR NORBURY, RIVER DOVE 



CHAPTER III 



Thomas Ken — -Scholar at Winchester — Entry of his admis- 

 sion — His musical voice — Hertford College, Oxford — 

 Fellow of New College, Oxford — Milton's terrible denun- 

 ciation of the Church of England — Cowper's opinion of 

 Milton — Stephen Marshall— Ken takes degree of B.A. 

 — Elected Fellow of Winchester. 



HAVING now done my best to clear up the 

 complicated mystery of the genealogy of 

 the Ken and Izaak Walton family, and to show 

 Walton's connection with Archbishop Cranmer, and 

 Thomas Ken the future Bishop of Bath and Wells, 

 I will proceed to give a sketch of his connection 

 with Morley, Bishop of Winchester ; but I must 

 first bring young Ken into that city. 



The future Bishop of Bath and Wells entered 

 into life at that eventful period " when the murmurs 

 of the storm began to increase which soon after- 

 wards shook the foundation of the Church of 

 England." Thomas Ken became a scholar on the 



