Robert Sanderson was an Oxford teacher and Anglican divine who served as chaplain and confidant to King Charles I and later as bishop of Lincoln. For his friend and early biographer, Izaak Walton, Sanderson exemplified Caroline holiness and purity. Comparing him variously to Josiah, Daniel, Paul, and Barnabas, Walton portrays "Dr. Sanderson" as something approaching an Anglican saint. Speaking of his piety and virtue, Walton writes: "as he was inclin'd to this by that native goodness, with which the wise Disposer of all hearts had endow'd his: So this calm, this quiet and happy temper of mind . . . made the whole course of his life easie and grateful both to himself and others." Students of Walton's biographies might conclude that Walton's primary concern was the reestablishment of the episcopacy and the High Church in the wake of the English Civil Wars, Commonwealth, and Restoration, and that he therefore wished...