editions, Walton, in 1676, and in the eighty-third year of his age, was preparing a fifth, with additions, for the press; when Cotton wrote a second part of that work. Cotton submitted the manuscript to Walton's perusal, who returned it with his approbation, and a few marginal strictures; and in that year they were published together. Cotton's book had the title of "The Complete Angler; being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling, in a clear stream, Part II." and it has ever since been received as a second part of Walton's book. In the title-page is a cipher, composed of the initial letters of both their names; which cipher, Cotton tells us, he had caused to be cut in stone, and set up over a fishing-house that he had erected near his dwelling, on the bank of the little river Dove, which divides the counties of Stafford and Derby.

Cotton's book is a judicious supplement to Walton's ; for, it must not be concealed, that Walton, though he was so expert an angler, knew but little of fly-fishing; and indeed he is so ingenuous as to confess, that the greater part of what he has said on that subject was communicated to him by Mr. Thomas Barker, and not the result of his own experience *. And of Cotton it must be said, that, living in a country where fly-fishing was, and is, almost the only practice, he had not only the means of acquiring, but actually possessed, more skill in the art, as also in the method of making flies, than most men of his time. His book is in fact a continuation of Walton's, not only as it teaches at large that branch of the art of angling which Walton had but slightly treated on, but as it takes up Venator, Walton's piscatory discipline, just where his master

had left him.

Walton was now in his eighty-third year, an age, which, to use his own words, "might have procured him a writ of case t, and secured him from all farther trouble in that

This Mr. Barker was a good-humoured gossiping old man, and seems to have been a cook; for he says, "he had been admitted into the most ambassadors kitchens that had come to England for forty years, and drest fish for them;" for which he says, "he was duly paid by the Lord Protector." He spent a great deal of time, and, it seems, money too, in fishing; and, in the latter part of his life, dwelt in an alms-house near the Gatehouse, at

Westminster. A few years after the first publication of Walton's book, viz. in 1659, he published a book, entitled "Barker's Delight, or the Art of Angling." And, for that singular vein of humour that runs through it, a most diverting book it is.

+ A discharge from the office of a judge, or the state and degree of a serjeant at law. Dugdale, Orig. Jurid. P. 139.

kind;" when he undertook to write the life of bishop Sanderson, which was published, together with several of the bishop's pieces, and a sermon of Hooker's, 1677, in 8vo. It was not till long after that period when the faculties of men begin to decline, that Walton undertook to write this life; yet, far from being deficient in any of those excellences that distinguish the former lives, it abounds with the evidences of a vigorous imagination, a sound judgment, and a memory unimpaired; and for the nervous sentiments and pious simplicity displayed in it, let the concluding paragraph, pointed out by Dr. Samuel Johnson, be considered as a specimen: "Thus this pattern of meekness and primitive innocence, changed this for a better life. It is now too late to wish that mine may be like his, for I am in the eighty-fifth year of my age, and God knows it hath not; but I most humbly beseech Almighty God that my death may and I do earnestly beg, that, if any reader shall receive any satisfaction from this very plain and as true relation, he will be so charitable as to say, Amen!". Such were the persons, whose virtues Walton was laudably employed in celebrating; and it is observable, that not only these, but the rest of Walton's friends *, were eminent royalists; and that he himself was in great repute for his attachment to the royal cause will appear by a relation which sir John Hawkins has quoted from Ashmole's "History of the Garter."

Besides the works of Walton above-mentioned, there are extant, of his writing, verses on the death of Dr. Donne, beginning, "Our Donne is dead;" verses to his reverend friend the author of the "Synagogue," printed together with Herbert's "Temple;" verses before Alexander Brome's "Poems," 1646, and before Cartwright's "Plays and Poems," 1651. He wrote also the lines under an engraving of Dr. Donne, before his "Poems," 1635.

Dr. Henry King, bishop of Chichester, in a letter to Walton, dated in Nov. 1664, says, that he had done much for sir Henry Savile, his contemporary and familiar friend; which fact connects very well with what the late Mr. Des Maizeaux, some years since, related to Mr. Oldys, that

* In the number of his intimate friends, we find Abp. Usher, Abp. Sheldon, Bp. Morton, Bp. King, Bp. Barlow, Dr. Fuller, Dr. Price, Dr. Woodford, Dr. Featly, Dr. Holdsworth, sir

Edwin Sandys, sir Edward Bysh, Mr. Cranmer, Dr. Hammond, Mr. Chillingworth, Michael Drayton, and that celebrated scholar and critic Mr. John Hales of Eton.

there were then several letters of Walton extant, in the Ashmolean Museum, relating to a life of sir Henry Savile, which Walton had entertained thoughts of writing. He also undertook to collect materials for a life of Hales. Mr. Anthony Farringdon, minister of St. Mary Magdalen, Milkstreet, London, had begun to write the life of this memorable person, but, dying before he had completed it, his papers were sent to Walton, with a request from Mr. Fulman, who had proposed to himself to continue and finish it, that Walton would furnish him with such information as was to his purpose. Fulman did not live to complete his design; but a life of Mr. Hales, from other materials, was compiled by the late Mr. Des Maizeaux, and published by him in 1719, as a specimen of a new "Biographical Dictionary." In 1683, when he was ninety years old, Walton published "Thealma and Clearchus, a pastoral history, in smooth and easy verse, written long since by John Chalkhil, esq. an acquaintance and friend of Edmund Spenser :" to this poem he wrote a preface, containing a very amiable character of the author. He lived but a very little time after the publication of this poem; for, as Wood says, he ended his days on the 15th of Dec. 1683, in the great frost, at Winchester, in the house of Dr. William Hawkins, a prebendary of the church there, where he lies buried.

In the cathedral of Winchester, on a large black flat marble stone, is an inscription to his memory, the poetry of which has very little to recommend it. Of the various

editions of Walton's Angler, and other works on the same subject, an accurate catalogue is given in the British Bibliographer, vol. II. Of his "Lives" a much improved edition was published by Dr. Zouch in 1796, 4to, reprinted since in 8vo. The life of Walton followed in the preceding sketch, is principally that by sir John Hawkins, in his edition of the Angler. Dr. Zouch's is perhaps more elegant, but has few additional facts..'

WANDESFORDE, (CHRISTOPHER, VISCOUNT CASTLECOMER), an upright statesman, was the son and heir of sir George Wandesforde, knight, of Kirklington, in Yorkshire, and was born at Bishop Burton, in the East Riding of that county, in Sept. 1592. His family was very ancient and honourable, the pedigree beginning with Geoffrey de Musters, of Kirklington, in the reign of Henry Il. He

1 Life by Sir John Hawkins-and by Dr. Zouch,

was taught by his virtuous mother the rudiments of the English tongue, and of the Christian religion, and sent, as soon as it was proper, to the free-school of Wells, and there instructed in due course in the Latin and Greek languages. About the age of fifteen he was judged fit for the university, and admitted of Clare-hall, Cambridge, under the tuition of Dr. Milner. Here, it is supposed, his acquaintance commenced with Mr. Wentworth, afterwards earl of Strafford, which grew into the strictest friendship and fraternal affection. Mr. Wandesforde is said to have made great progress at college in the arts and sciences, and the knowledge of things natural, moral, and divine; but applied himself closely at the same time to the study of the classics, and particularly to oratory, as appears from his subsequent speeches in parliament. At the age of nineteen he was called from the university by his father's death, to a scene of important business, the weighty regulation of family affairs, with an estate heavily involved; his necessary attention to which prevented him from pursuing the studies preparatory to the church, which he had originally chosen as a profession, and now relinquished.

After this, a general acquaintance with the laws of his country seems to have been his leading acquirement, and hence, when he became a representative in parliament, he was nominated one of the eight chief managers in the impeachment of the duke of Buckingham. The account of Mr. Wandesforde's share in that transaction, as given by Rushworth, is much to the credit of his moderation and prudence. In the new parliament, which met March 17, 1628, he made a conspicuous figure, and acted a truly constitutional part, supporting the privileges of the people when attacked, and when these were secured by a confirmation of the petition of right, adhering to his sovereign. About 1633, it was proposed by Charles I. to send Mr. Wandesforde ambassador to Spain; but this honour was declined, from his not wishing to engage in any public employment. Soon after, however, when his friend lord Wentworth was fixed on to go as lord-deputy to Ireland, Mr. Wandesforde was persuaded to accompany him as master of the rolls, from motives of personal regard. He arrived at Dublin in July 1633, where he built a new office of the rolls at his own cost. In 1636 he was made one of the lords justices of Ireland, in the absence of lord Wentworth, and knighted. Retiring to his seat at Kil

dare, he completed his book of "Instructions to his Son," which bears date Oct. 5, 1636. He soon after sold Kildare to lord Wentworth, and purchased the estate of Castlecomer, where he established a manufactory for cottons, and founded a colliery. In 1640 he was appointed lord-deputy in the place of lord Strafford, and gave such satisfaction to the king by his conduct in that high station, that he was created baron Mowbray and Musters, and viscount Castlecomer. On the receipt of the patent, however, he exclaimed," Is it a fit time for a faithful subject to appear higher than usual, when his king, the fountain of honours, is likely to be reduced lower than ever?" He therefore ordered the patent to be concealed, and his grandson was the first who assumed its privileges.

His lordship died Dec. 3, 1640, and his loss was universally lamented, says Lodge, being a man of great prudence, moderation, integrity, and virtue. Lord Strafford, on hearing of his death, is said to have uttered the following apostrophe: "I attest the eternal God, that the death of my cousin Waudesforde more affects me than the prospect of my own; for in him is lost the richest magazine of learning, wisdom, and piety, that these times could boast."

His lordship was reported by his daughter to have read over the whole Bible yearly, and to have made "great remarks upon it." These remarks, with other "Collections. in Divinity," are said to be lost, and so it was for some time surmised, were his valuable "Instructions to his Son," an excellent manual of piety and wisdom, till a duplicate copy was discovered which had been privately transcribed, and from which the work was printed under the care of the author's great-great-grandson, Thomas Comber, LL. D. in 1777, 12mo, with a second volume in 1778, containing memoirs of the life and death of lord-deputy Wandesforde.

WANLEY (HUMPHREY), a literary antiquary of great learning and accuracy, was the son of the rev. Nathanael Wanley, some time vicar of Trinity-church in Coventry. This Nathanael Wanley was born at Leicester in 1633, and died in 1680: Besides the vicarage of Trinity-church, it is probable that he had another in Leicestershire, from the following title-page, Vox Dei, or the great duty of self-reflection upon a man's own wayes, by N. Wanley, ! Memoirs by Dr. Comber.-Park's edition of the Royal and Noble Authors.