IFFLEY MILL ON THAMES 



THOMAS KEN AND 

 IZAAK WALTON 



CHAPTER I 



Life of Ken by Hawkins — By Bowles — Plumptre and others 

 — Ken's birth and parentage^The Ken pedigree — His 

 hymns — Izaak Walton and the Cranmers — Walton's 

 first wife Rachel. 



TpHE name of Bishop Ken is far more widely 

 known in the Christian World than is even 

 that of Izaak Walton in the Angling World, but 

 perhaps to the great majority of those who sing 

 his hymns it is a name and nothing more. For 

 nearly two hundred and fifty years those two 

 hymns, Azva.ke, my Soul, and ivitk the S?in, and 

 Glory to Thee, my God, this Night} have been said 



' " In a sort oi plebiscite as to favourite hymns, taken about 

 twenty years since this noble hymn took the first place." — 

 (H. P. Skepton.) 



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