following extract from Major: "I had long been asking myself in the language of Abraham Cowley, 'What shall I do to be for ever known?' and my good genius whispered, 'Give your days and nights to emblazon the worth of Izaak Walton.'" CHAPTER XII SHORT SKETCHES OF SOME FAMOUS ECCLESIASTICS WHO WERE WALTON'S FRIENDS "Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting." 20, 385, The Spectator. "In companions That do converse and waste the time together, Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirits." Merchant of Venice. "Life is never finished in its purpose and idea; and its work is at best but a fragment."-JAMES MARTINEAU. In his youth and early manhood Walton appears to have had the power to make "troops of friends," and he possessed the still greater power of keeping them. We have seen in a former chapter he was very particular whom he would reckon as his friends; his will shows he had many who survived him, though he outlived nearly all of the most famous of them. I now give concise biographical sketches of some of them. "And we may well wonder how many more sons of Memory must he not have known or seen in all those years-so populous with men justly famous." I have dived into a multitude of books to gain my information, and I think that certain matters not generally known will here be found narrated. He was He was He was born at Langhill, in the Parish of Orton, in Westmoreland, and was a son of Richard Barlow, descended from the ancient family of that name, of Barlow Moore, in Lancashire. educated at Queen's College, Oxford. a strong Protestant and Calvinist, and became a very ambitious man and a great time-server. In 1660 he wrote in favour of toleration.1 Becoming Provost of Queen's College, and a prebendary of Worcester Cathedral, he was, in 1675, appointed Bishop of Lincoln. It appears he changed his views in 1684, for in a charge to his clergy he called on them to enforce the laws against the dissenters, "agreeably to the resolution of the 1 The title of the treatise being The Case of Toleration in Matters of Religion; it was addressed to Robert Boyle. Bedfordshire Justices adopted at Ampthill." In this charge he both justifies and enforces the persecution of dissenters as necessary to "bring them to a sense of their duty by the blessing of God for that afflictio dat intellectum.'" He died at Buckdon and was buried in the chancel of the Parish Church there, near to the body of Bishop Sanderson. By his will he bequeathed some of his books to Queen's College and some to the University of Oxford. His portrait "was bequeathed by Bishop Cartwright of Chester, to be hung up and kept for ever in the provost's lodgings." WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH (1602-1644). "Thy commandment is exceeding broad." He was the son of an Oxford mercer, and was educated at the Grammar School in Oxford, and became a Fellow of Trinity College in that university in 1628, and was ordained in 1638. His fame rests on his book The Religion of Protestants, the full title being "The Religion of Protestants, a Safe Way of Salvation, or an Answer to a Book entitled 'Mercy and Truth; or, Charity Maintained by Catholiques."" The writer pleads for the right of private judgment, and declares it is impossible for any man to attain to more than relative certainty on religious matters. "Chillingworth," says Sir James Stephen, "wants little but a change in punctuation to be a writer of our own day, and a writer as powerful, as expressive and as idiomatic as any in the whole history of our language." A writer in the Quarterly Review for July 1902 asks if it can be said that there still survives sufficient interest in the long argumentation between a Protestant and a Jesuit on the facts of the case, as they appeared in the earliest part of the seventeenth century, to make it worth while to republish The Religion of Protestants. Chillingworth has been styled "The Immortal.' He died on the 30th of January 1644, and was buried in Chichester Cathedral.1 JAMES DUPORT (1606-1679). He was a scholar; and a ripe and good one." He was the son of John Duport, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, who assisted in the translation of King James's Bible. He was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a 1 His life was much harassed by Francis Cheynell, the Parliamentary Chaplain, who threw the famous book into Chillingworth's |