Waller, Edmund

Tew - ... William Chillingworth, to the interpretation of religious problems rather by reason than by tradition or authority. Falkland's intellectual pleasures, however, were soon interrupted by war and politics. He was the friend of John Hales and Chillingworth, was celebrated by Ben Jonson, John Suckling, Abraham Cowley and Edmund Waller in verse, and in prose by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Strafford, at the same time endeavouring on more than one occasion to moderate the measures of the Presbyterian system, which in Scotland had proved equally tyrannical. His mother had embraced Roman Catholicism, to which ...