THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 41 



Thus Ken came frequently under the notice of the 

 Royal visitor. 



" Here then," says Mr. Bowles, " 1674, was 

 the old pastoral fisherman, piscator ; Ken the 

 Chaplain ; Morley, my lord of Winton ; 

 Charles the Second, King of Great Britain, 

 France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and 

 occasionally a lady, who will hereafter just 

 appear in this story, Eleanor Gwynn." 



Ken and Young Walton go to Rome 



Young Izaak Walton, who had been educated 

 under his Uncle Ken, was now in his twenty-fifth 

 year ; he had taken his M.A. degree in the year 

 1675, which was the year of the great jubilee 

 appointed by Clement the lOth. 



Ken had long felt a desire to visit Italy, and by 

 some perversity of judgment he, a strong Church 

 of England man, as much opposed to Rome on one 

 hand as to Geneva on the other hand, had chosen 

 this year to carry out his design — a visit which his 

 enemies did not fail afterwards to bring up against 

 him ; and in consequence of it he lost the favour of 

 many of his former auditors, who assumed that " he 

 must have been tinged with popery" 



