and such, I please myself in thinking, was this tranquil and delightful old man, looking on the sports of the juniors with a smile-remembering the days of his youth-familiar with the elder boys, as they grow up, and pass into the crowd of life. After a day's tranquil recreation, he retires to the home of his friend, mild, but remembering those days and scenes which he has himself so beautifully described among the river-scenes in his own "Contemplative Man's Recreation." Arrived at the household of simplicity and love in a palace, surely it would be natural to imagine, when Charles the Second was often a visitor, that, in his "merry mood," he might sometimes accost the old man, "Odd's fish! honest Piscator, you wear your old age bonnily!"* But we would rather imagine the interesting family assembled piously at night, Ken singing with his evening hymn, adapted to old Tallis's melody, probably that very air to which it is now sung-and so welcoming "peaceful evening in!" Unhappy Norman fish'd for trout, one day, The reader may perhaps recollect Warton's translation of an epitaph on an organist : Organa namque loqui fecerat ipse quasi. He made the organ for to speak — Eke, even, as it were! * From his introduction to Charles the Second at Winchester, Ken afterwards became Bishop of Bath and Wells. This is no picture of imagination. Ken always sung his morning and evening hymn. Isaak, we know, concluded the long and tranquil evening of his days in this beloved society, between Winchester and Farnham palace. He occasionally varied his abode, and died at the Prebendary-house of his son-in-law. We have spoken of Kenna, buried soon after the Restoration in Worcester Cathedral, and transcribed her epitaph, as first written in the PRAYER-BOOK, which had been Isaak's companion in his own poor cottage, and in MORLEY'S palace. Over his bed in the Bishop's palace, at Farnham, he had a small collection of his choice books, and drawings, probably by his son. He died in 1683 at the great age of ninety-three, one year before his honoured friend, in religious peace and hope, and with piety sincere as unostentatious. His "will" records his gratitude to his early and latest friend, bequeathing "a ring to the Bishop of Winchester, with the words "A MITE FOR A MILLION." The next year, full of days, died his long-tried, and generous, and warm-hearted friend, Morley, dying 1684, aged eighty-seven. Both were buried in the same Cathedral. On looking back on the varied events of life on the scenes of sorrow and of sunshine-on their unvarying friendship, in stations so different and that unvaried friendship, through so many years as they went "hand in hand down the hill" together; when we remember, moreover, their warm but unaffected piety, and the hallowed pile where their bones rest-we may add, with a sigh, "They were lovely in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." As the first humble recorder of these circumstances, I have dwelt on them the longer, because they are so materially connected with my subject, are most interesting in themselves, and the origin of this singular friendship would probably have been for ever unknown, if I had not taken up the pen to record the life of Bishop Ken, though such an example of gratitude and friendship deserves a far more lasting memorial and monument than I am conscious I could raise to ISAAK WALTON and BISHOP MORLEY, the patron and the brotherin-law of the apostolic Ken.* * Morley and Ken, with Hammond-Sherlock-Lowth, and ten thousand more were examples of public school piety, though Sherlock has been noted in the Edinburgh Review as having been privately educated! With the same accuracy Ben Jonson, educated at Westminster under Camden, is said to have been privately educated. PEDIGREE OF MORLEY, Showing the connection of the present Marquess of Winchester, more honourable than the "pride of heraldry," with Morley. VISITATION 1686. ARMS: Argent, a lion rampant Sable, ducally crowned Or. Robert Morley, descended from Anne, dau. of Richard Tancred, of Pannel, co. Ebor. Francis Morley, Sarah, dau. of William Denham, and sister of of London. Sir J. Denham, Baron of the Exchequer. 1. George Morley, Bp. Winton, ob. 2. Thomas Jane, dau. of 1684, s. p. of Droxford, Hants. Morley. .... Collins. Captain T. Morley Penelope, daughter of Denham Hancock. Sir Charles Morley, Master of Requests to Chas. II, of Droxford, Hants. Magdalene, daughter of Sir Elizabeth Jane, co--Norton Paulet, 2d son of Lord Henry Morley. heir. Paulet, 2d son of Wm. 4th M. of Winton. George Paulett, eighth son, who, surviving all his brothers, became Marquess of Winchester on the death of Harry 6th Duke of Bolton in 1794. He was the father of the present Marquess. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. PERSECUTED CLERGY. During the period intervening from the commencement of the Long Parliament to the Restoration, the Clergy had to undergo three distinct persecutions. First, when they were expelled from their livings for not taking the Presbyterian Covenant; secondly, when they were arbitrarily dismissed from their colleges at the visitation which was to purify Oxford; and thirdly, when the inquisitorial "Tryers" of Oliver Cromwell were sent into every county, with full powers to question and examine the Parochial Clergy, chiefly regarding their views of Calvinism. LILLY AND HUGH PETERS. PRÆDESTINARIANISM AND ASTROLOGY. Most memorable is the Judicium Merlini Anglici on the aristocracy of the Presbytery, and spoken from his heart: "These men, to be serious, preach well, but they were more LORDLY than BISHOPS, and USUALLY, in THEIR PARISHES, more TYRANNICAL than the GREAT TURK!" Lilly had prophesied against them, and his delight seems to be beyond bounds when Oliver dispersed the Presbyterian Parliament, for he singeth: "Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut, &c. "For these enemies of mine, viz. PARLIAMENT-MEN, were turned out of doors by Oliver Cromwell. 16 Feb. 1653-4." * Of all who suffered after the Restoration, for being concerned in the murder of the King, that poor pulpit pantaloon, Hugh Peters, seems to have suffered most undeservedly; for he was tried and condemned, and executed, under circumstances of peculiar cruelty- not for what he did, but only for what, it was reported, he said! * Lilly's Life. |