His Two or Three Reasons for Exchanging Livings
A DISCIPLE OF IZAAK WALTON,
Meadly, his biographer, relates, that when asked why he had exchanged his living of Dalston for Stanwix? he frankly replied, “Sir, I have two or three reasons for taking Stanwix in exchange: first, it saved me double housekeeping, as Stanwix was within twenty minutes’ walk of my house in Carlisle; secondly, it was 50l. a-year more in value; and, thirdly, I began to find my stock of sermons coming over again too fast.” He was And carried his passion for angling so far, that when Romney took his portrait, he would be taken with a rod and line in his hand.