ABSTRACT
The first substantial biography of Herbert, Oley’s ‘A Prefatory View of the Life of Mr Geo. Herbert’, was prefixed to Herbert’s ‘Remains’ (1652). Anonymous on its first appearance, the biography was claimed later by Oley as his own work. On Oley himself, and on the impact of his account on subsequent biographers inclusive of Walton, see above, pp. 9 f.
Source: ‘Herbert’s Remains. Or, Sundry Pieces of that sweet Singer of the Temple, Mr George Herbert’ (1652), sigs al-c6v. The volume includes ‘A Priest to the Temple’, which Oley in the following pages refers to as ‘this Book’.
