The Life of Mr. Richard Hooker

Izaak Walton’s classic biography of Hooker (1665), printed as the standard companion to the Works since the seventeenth century. Included here as supporting material: its author is Walton, not Hooker. Text from Keble’s 7th edition via the Online Library of Liberty.

1. The Introduction.
2. The Life.
3. To Sir Francis Knolles 1 .
4. A Short Note of Sundry Unsound Points of Doctrine at Divers Times Delivered by Mr. Hooker in his Public Sermons.
5. Here Follows an Account, Given in by Mr. Hooker Himself, of What He Preached, March 28, 1585 1 . and Then of What Travers in his Lectures Excepted Thereunto. and Lastly, of Hooker’s Reply and Vindication of Himself and his Sermons.
6. An Appendix to the Life of Mr. Richard Hooker.
7. The Copy of a Letter Writ to Mr. Izaak Walton, by Dr. King, Lord Bishop of Chichester 1 .
8. To the Worshipfull My Verie Loving Frend Mr. D. Rainoldes at Queenes College 1 in Oxford.
9. To the Worshipfull My Verie Good Frend Mr. D. Rainoldes at Queenes College in Oxford.
10. A List, in Order of Time, of Letters Preserved by Mr. Fulman, Mss. T. Ix. Relating to the Disputes in C. C. C. Which Led to Hooker’s Temporary Expulsion, Ad 1580.
11. 1 Mr. Richard Hooker to the Lord Treasurer, When He Sent Him the Written Copy of his Ecclesiastical Polity.