The complete angler ; or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / In two parts: the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, esq. With the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, knt.

Izaak Walton

Date:: 1808

Credit: The complete angler ; or, Contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing / In two parts: the first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, esq. With the lives of the authors: and notes, historical, critical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, knt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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It is needless to add what was the subsequent fate of this harmless society. Mr. Farrar died: the rebellion broke out : and when ‘* Popery and superstition’? was the cry, alas! how could Little Gidding hope to escape the calamities of the times? in short it was plundered © and desolated! — - | _ All that the Farrars had restored to the [ parochial] church, all that they had bestowed in sacred come- liness, was seized upon as lawful prey taken from superstitious persons: and finally, the owners them- selves were compelled to flee away and disperse: in all which persecutions, we are told that, applying to their wretched circumstances the words of the apostle, *¢ they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods *,” SANDERSON was a man of very acute parts, and famous for his deep skill in casuistry: that sort of learning was formerly much cultivated among the Romish divines, with a view to qualify the younger clergy for the office of confession ; and it continued in fashion here, longer after the reformation than it was useful, In the year 1647 he drew up the famous Oxford. Reae . sons against the Covenant ; which discover amazing penetration and sagacity, and so distinguished him, that-at the restoration, he was promoted to the bishop rick of Lincoln. In 1671 he, by virtue ofa commission from king Charles the Second, assisted at a conference at the Savoy, between the episcopal clergy and non- conforming divines, for settling a Liturgy ; and, upon a review of the book of Common. Prayer that followed it, composed sundry of the ew Collects and additional offices, it is said that the form of general thanksgiving is in the number of the former: and drew up the Pre- face, ‘It hath been the wisdom of the Chuich,” &c. *¢ should intervene.” The reflection on which is supposed to have moved * the emperor to resign his dignities, and betake himself to an ascetic life. In his retirement, which was to the city of Naples, Valdesso wrote the book above-mentioned in the Castilian language; and the same being translated into Italian by Czlius Secundus Curio of Basil, was out of that language translated into.English by Mr. Farrar. It was printed in 4to. at Oxford, 1638, and is often enough to be met with. * Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. x. verse 34,

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