distinguished from all papal and puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrines of the cross." Ken's house at Winchester stood in the garden of the present Deanery. "Tradition still points to the spot in the garden at which Ken made his famous stand against 'Poor Nelly,' and won the respect of the monarch whose wishes he did not fear to withstand" (Historic Towns : Winchester. By G. W. Kitchin, Dean of Winchester, Longmans, 1890). Ken's figure has been placed near Walton's on the great screen of Winchester Cathedral.' There are two portraits of him in New College, Oxford, and one at Wells Palace and Winchester College, and he is one in the group of "The Seven Bishops" in the National Portrait Gallery. In 1885, a window to Ken was set up in Wells Cathedral, and as mentioned in a previous chapter, he is given a place in the window erected to Walton's memory in St Dunstan's Church.

HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER
(1592-1669).

"Linked sweetness long drawn out.”—GOLDSMITH.

He was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford, and was a son of John King,

1 Dr Plumptre, in his Life of Ken, claims for Walton a larger share in the formation of Ken's character than the biographers before him (Plumptre) have assigned to Walton.

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Bishop of London, who died in 1621, and was a celebrated preacher in his day, being styled by James I. "The King of Preachers," and is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, with the one word Resurgam" on his gravestone. On his death a report went about that he had died a Roman Catholic. The son Henry King preached a sermon at St Paul's Cross,' entitled "The Scandalous Report touching the supposed Apostasie," exposing the falsity of the story. King and Walton were both present with Donne when the latter was dying. King wrote a letter from Chichester, dated the 17th of November 1664, to Walton, commencing "Honest Isaac," 2 in which he stated that their friendship had existed for more than forty years, and which, after giving him certain information about Hooker, ends thus: "One who heartily wishes your happiness, and is unfeignedly, Sir, your ever faithful and Affectionate old Friend, Henry Chichester." King wrote an elegy "Upon the

1 Stowe says that there was a pulpit cross of timber, mounted upon steps of stone, and covered with lead, in which sermons were preached by learned divines every Sunday in the forenoon, when the Court and the Magistrates of the City, besides a vast concourse of people, usually attended.

It was at St Paul's Cross that, in the beginning of the Reformation, the Rood of Grace, whose eyes and lips were moved with wires, was exposed to the view of the people and destroyed by them.

2 In using the word "Honest" the writer possibly remembered the force of the Latin word "honestus," and may have wished to imply that Walton possessed a fine character as well as a magnetic one,

death of my ever-desired friend Doctor Donne, Dean of St Paul's." Like his father, King gained great celebrity by his preaching. He was a Low Churchman. He died at Chichester and was buried there, where there is a monument to his memory. There is a portrait of King at Christ Church College, Oxford.

ABRAHAM MARKLAND

(1645-1728).

"We cannot all be Masters."-SHAKESPEARE.

He was a son of Michael Markland, a druggist, and was born in London. After being sent to Merchant Taylors' School, he proceeded to St John's College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1662, and was ordained, and successively held various livings in Hampshire, becoming a prebend of Winchester, and, in the year 1692, D.D. In 1694 he was appointed Master of St Cross Hospital, Winchester, which post he held till his death. He was married twice and had issueone child by each wife. He published some poems and sermons. He was one of the three witnesses to the will of Walton. James Heywood Markland, the learned antiquary, who died in 1864, was one of his descendants, and published a Life of Bishop Ken.

GEORGE MORLEY, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER

(1597-1684).

"What I planned, I did; what I desired to be, I was; what was in me I taught."

He was a son of Francis Morley, and was born in Cheapside, London, and was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1641 he was made a Canon of Christ Church, the only appointment he said he ever desired. He became one of Jonson's "sons." Charles I. appointed him to be one of his chaplains. In 1642 he preached one of his sermons before the House of Commons, but he was not ordered to print it according to the usual custom. He was a Calvinist, and zealous against Popery. Innocently asked "what the Armenians held," he answered pleasantly, "that they held all the best bishoprics and deaneries in England." He passed some years abroad. In 1660 he was appointed Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Worcester, but after two years he was, on Dr Duppa's death, translated to Winchester. In 1660 Morley preached the Coronation sermon (from Proverbs xxviii. 2). "The sermon was very long and was intended to show the evils of a multitude of rulers, and especially of an unnatural, unreasonable, insolent and tyrannical