. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . eciative biography. Walton was in his eighty-third year whenhe undertook the Life of Robert Saunderson, Bishop of Lincoln, whichappeared in 1677. With such affinities Walton was of course a Ro3alist and heartilywelcomed the Restoration. Soon after that event he took up hisabode in Hampshire, first in the palace of Bishop Morley, and after-wards at the home of his own married daughter in Winchester; andnot the least strange thing about him is that, living in such a county,he seems to have been completely ignorant of the merits of a ch
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . eciative biography. Walton was in his eighty-third year whenhe undertook the Life of Robert Saunderson, Bishop of Lincoln, whichappeared in 1677. With such affinities Walton was of course a Ro3alist and heartilywelcomed the Restoration. Soon after that event he took up hisabode in Hampshire, first in the palace of Bishop Morley, and after-wards at the home of his own married daughter in Winchester; andnot the least strange thing about him is that, living in such a county,he seems to have been completely ignorant of the merits of a chalk-stream trout. Even his occasional visits to his friend Cotton, whofished on the Derbyshire Dove, could not make him a fly-fisher. Infact Waltons active fishing days had been spent upon such rivers asthe Thames and the Lea, and in the ignoble, if contemplative, pursuitof bottom fishing. But his mind, which was a garden of beautifulthoughts, could lend poetry even to a roach or a bream. He wastwice married, the second time to a half-sister of Bishop ISAAC WALTON From the portrait by Jacob Iliiysman in the National Portrait Gallery Face /* -,<t WILLIAM SANCROFT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (1617-1693) was the second son ot Francis Sancroft and Margaret Butcher, hisbirth-place being Fressingfield, Suffolk. After a schooling at BurySt. Edmunds, where he showed great aptitude for the classics, heentered fmmanuelCollcge,Cambridge, of which his uncle was Master,and was duly elected to a Fellowship in 1642. During the period ofthe Civil War he devoted himself to fighting the Parliamentary partyon religious grounds. He published an indictmentof Calvinism and anattack upon the doctrinal and political tenets of the Commonwealth,besides other less important pamphlets. At the same time he keptup a correspondence with the Royalists on the Continent, and in 1657made a foreign tour, which lasted until the Restoration. His fidelityto the Church and the Monarciiy obtained its reward. Cha
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