Browne, all his best known writings published long ago, but appearing in new editions, was contented now with attending his patients; and, when Izaak Walton was not in his house in Clerkenwell (to which neighbourhood he seems to have removed after giving up his shop in Chancery Lane), he was away on some fishing ramble.

His _Complete Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation_ had appeared in May 1653, and a second edition of it was just out.[1] [Footnote 1: Details in this paragraph are from various sources: e.g.
Wood's; 'Ath.

and Fasti and Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy under the several names, Cattermole's _Literature of the Church of England_, Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual by Bohn, and the Thomason Catalogue of Pamphlets.

See also, for Jeremy Taylor, Evelyn's _Diary and Correspondence_, about date 1855-6.

Evelyn was greatly concerned about Cromwell's ordinance for suppressing preaching and schoolmastering by the Anglican clergy, and about its probable results for Taylor in particular.