a century later, shakespeare editor and historian a. l. rowse wrote a biography of shakespeare, where, similarly, he firmly asserted that the writer was not a secret catholic, but a protestant: "he was an orthodox, confirming member of the church into which he had been baptised, was brought up and married, in which his children were reared and in whose arms he at length was buried". shakespeare had also become the godfather of william walker in the church of england, and he remembered his godson in his will with twenty shillings.