52 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



as you have done," and he goes on to say that "there 

 was SOMETHING ELSE THAN CONSCIENCE AT THE 

 BOTTOM ! " He also accused Ken of having changed 

 his mind. 



Ken's reply is very dignified, but also very long. 

 With reference to " change of mind" Ken had 

 been confidently assured that King James had by 

 some special instrument made over the kingdom of 

 Ireland to the French King. 



" Before I went to London," he says, " I told 

 some of my friends that if THAT PROVED 

 TRUE, which was affirmed to us with ALL 

 IMAGINABLE ASSURANCE, it would be an in- 

 ducement for me to comply ; but when I 

 came to town I found it was false ; and with- 

 out being influenced by any one I burnt 

 my paper (a pastoral letter which he had 

 prepared to have published in justification 

 of his change) and adhered to my former 

 opinion. If this is to be called change of 

 mind, and a change so criminal that people 

 who are very discerning, and know my own 

 heart better than myself, have pronounced 

 sentence upon me that there is SOMETHING 

 ELSE THAN CONSCIENCE AT THE BOTTOM, 



