then at Christ Church College, Oxford, and returned more convinced than before of the errors of the Romish Church. When at Winchester, Morley made him his domestic chaplain, and later on, that is, in January 1685, he became Bishop of Bath and Wells, and attended Charles II. on his deathbed. He opposed James II. in his endeavours to introduce Popery, and was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower. Though he was a non-juror he refused, unlike Sancroft, to consecrate bishops in order to continue the Episcopal succession among the non-jurors, who only died out in 1805. Queen Anne granted him a pension of £200 a year. Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns are perhaps the most popular in our language. Ken was attended in his last illness, which was very painful, by his physician, Dr Merewether, whose daughter married William Hawkins, grandson of Izaak Walton.1 Ken died a bachelor in 1711, and was buried in the Parish Church of Frome in Somersetshire. In his will he said: "I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith, professed by the whole Church before the division of East and West; more particularly, I die in the communion of the Church of England as it stands

1 Ken would not continue to take opium to relieve his sufferings, and wrote:-"Verse is the only laudanum for my pains." He died with the words "Laus Deo" trembling on his lips. The Rev. A. S. Wyndham Merewether (see p. 135) has Ken's watch, seal and Greek Testament.

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. Kitchen, 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.

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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 who was a celebrated preacher in his day, who was 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," 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 "To the

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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.