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1791. (See FASTING, § 2.) Mr Gallie fays, "She is paft 60, and takes no nourishment but a little of the thinneft gruel, or fome fuch light aliment, through the aperture made by breaking two of her fore-teeth."

(5.) KINCARDINE, a village in the above parish (N° 4.), 14 miles W. of Tain, excellently adapted for manufactures, being feated near two great corn counties, with the advantage of water carriage, &c. It has a fair in November.

(6) KINCARDINE, MOSS OF, an extenfive mofs of Perthith. in the parish of KINCARDINE (N° 1.), covering about 2000 acres of excellent ground, of which above 400 have been recovered, and improved in the most aftonishing manner, upon a plan fuggefted and commenced by the late Lord KAIMS, and continued by Mr Home Drummond with increasing fuccefs. See Moss. Thefe 400 acres, which had lien waste and ufelefs for ages, are now inhabited (as in time the whole ground ftill under the mofs will be), and, in May 1796, contained 102 houses, 764 perfons, 201 cows, and 54 horfes and carts.

(7.) KINCARDINE O'NIEL, a parish of Aberdeenshire, 7 miles long and 5 broad; containing 5560 acres, of which 4600 were under oats in 1792; 800 under barley; 160 under potatoes, turnips, and fown grafs; valued in all at L.9607; and 500 under wood. The population in 1791, by the Rev. Wm. Morrice's report to Sir J. Sinclair, was 2075: the increafe fince 1755, 369. The number of horfes was 130; of fheep 3000, and black cattle 1800; valued at L.Sooo.

(8) KINCARDINE O'NIEL, a village in the above parish (N° 5.), feated on the Dee, 23 miles W. of Aberdeen, and 22 N. of Montrofe.

KINCARDINESHIRE. See MEARNS.

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KINCHA, a river of Alia, which rifes in Thibet, paffes through the Chinese province of ScTchuen, and enters that of Hou-quang, where it is called YANG-TSE.

(1.) KINCLAVEN, a parish of Perthshire, in the diftrict of Stormont, on the S. and W. banks of the Tay. The climate is mild, the foil mostly light, fharp, and ftony; the furface diverfified with a few rifing grounds, natural woods, and plantations. Hufbandry is partly improved. Oats, barley, wheat, beans, peafe, and potatoes are the produce. The population in 1797, ftated in Sir J. Sinclair's Stat. Acc. was 1150: increase fince 1755, 157. Arntully is the chief village, There are feveral mills, but thirlages prevail. The ruins of Kinclaven Cafle ftill exhibit relics of our ancient ftrongholds.

(2.) KINCLAVEN, a village in the above parish, with a commodious inn, and a ferry on the banks of the Tay, about a mile from the church, which employs 3 boats.

(1.) * KIND. adj. [from cynne, relation, Sax.] 1. Benevolent; filled with general good-will.-

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By the kind Gods, it is molt ignobly done To pluck me by the beard. Shak. K. Lear. -Some of the ancients, like kind hearted men, have talked much of annual refrigeriums, or intervals of punishment to the damned, as particularly on the great feftivals of the refurrection and af cenfion. South. 2. Favourable; beneficent.-Ie is kind to the unthankful and evil. Luke vi. 35.

(2.) KIND. n.. [cynne, Sax.] 1. Race; ge nerical clafs. Kind, in Teutonick English, anfwers i to genus, and fort to fpecies; though this diftinc tion, in popular language, is not always obferved, Thus far we have endeavoured in part to open of what nature and force laws are, according to their kinds. Hooker.

As when the total kind
Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
Came fummon'd over Eden, to receive
Their names of Thee. Milton's Par. Leji.

That both are animalia,
I grant; but not rationalia ;
For though they do agree in kind,
Specific difference we find.

Hudibra

God and Nature do not principally concern themselves in the prefervation of particulars, but kinds and companies. South's Sermons

He with his wife were only left behind Of perish'd man; they two were human kind ... Dryden -Some acts of virtue are common to Heathers and Chriftians; but I fuppofe them to be perform ed by Chriftians, after a more fublime manner than among the Heathens; and even when they do not differ in kind from moral virtues, yet differ in the degrees of perfection. Atterbury...

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He with a hundred arts refin'd, Shall ftretch thy conquefts over half the kind. P 2. Particular nature. No human laws are exempt from faults, fince thofe that have been looked upon as moft perfect in their kind, have been found to have fo many. Baker. 3. Natural state-He did give the goods of all the prifoners unto thote that had taken them in kind, or compound for them. Bacon's Henry VII.-The tax upon tillage was often levied in kind upon corn, and called de cume, or tithes. Arbuthnot on Coins. 4. Nature; natural determination.

5.

The fkilful fhepherd peel'd me certain wands, And in the doing of the deed of kind, He ftuck them up before the fulfome ewes. Shai. Some of you, on pure inftinct of nature, Are led by kind t' admire your fellow-creature. Dryden

Manner; way.

Send me your prifoners with the speedief.

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bread. If. xliv. 15.—I was not forgetful of thofe fparks, which fome men's diftempers formerly ftudied to kindle in parliaments. K. Charles.—If the fire burns vigorously, it is no matter by what means it was at first kindled: there is the fame force and the fame refreshing virtue in it, kindled by a fpark from a flint, as if it were kindled from the fun. South. 2. To inflame the paflions; to exafperate; to animate; to heat; to fire the mind. I've been to you a true and humble wife; Ever in fear to kindle your dislike. Sha. H. VIII. He hath kindled his wrath against me, and count eth me as one of his enemies. Job xix. 11.

Thus one by one kindling each other's fire, 'Till all inflam'd; they all in one agree. Daniel. Each was a caufe alone, and all combin'd To kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. Dryd. (2.) To KINDLE. v. n. [cinnu, Welth; cyndelan, Saxon.] 1. To catch fire.-When thou walkest through the fire, thou fhalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. If. xliii. 2. 4. From cennau, Saxon.] To bring forth. It is ufed of fome particular animals.

Are you a native of this place?

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Shakesp KINDLER. n. S. [from kindle.] One that lights; one who inflames.

Now is the time that rakes their revels keep, Kindlers of riot, enemies of fleep. Gay. (1.) KINDLY. adj. [from kind; probably from kind the fubftantive.] 1. Homogeneal; congeneal; kindred; of the fame nature. This competency I befeech God I may be able to digeft into kindly juice, that I may grow thereby. Hamm.→ Thefe foft fires

Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat Temper or nourish. Milton's Par. Loft. 2. The foregoing fenfe feems to have been originally implied by this word; but following writers, inattentive to its etymology, confounded it with kind. 3. Bland; mild; foftening.—

Thro' all the living regions do'ft thou move, And scatter'ft, where thou goeft, the kindly feeds of love. Dryden. Ye heav'ns, from high the dewy nectar pour, And in foft filence fhed the kindly fhow'r! Pope. (2.) * KINDLY. adv. {from kind.] Benevolently; favourably; with good will.-Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows kindly in your company. Shak.

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I fometime lay here in Corioli,
At a poor man's houfe; he us'd me kindly. Shak.
-Be kindly affectioned one to another, with bro-
therly love, in honour preferring one another.
Ram. xii. 10.-

The fatal caufe all kindly seek.
Who, with lefs defigning ends,
Kindlier entertain their friends.

Prior.

Swift.

KINDNESS. n. f. [from kind.] Benevolence; beneficence; good-will; favour; love. If there be kindness, meeknefs, or comfort in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men. Eccluf xxxvi. 23.-Old Lelius profeffes he had an extra ordinary kindness for feveral young people. Collier. Ever bleft be Cytherea's fhrine, Since in thy kindness my defires are crown'd.

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Love and inclination can be produced only by experience or opinion of kindness to us. Roger. (1.)* KINDRED. n. f. [from kin ; cynrene, Sax.] 1. Relation by birth or marriage; cognation; confanguinity; affinity.

Like her of equal kindred to the throne. Dryd.
2. Relation; suit.—An old mothy faddle, and the
stirrups of no kindred. Shakefp. 3. Relatives.-
I think there is no man fecure
But the queen's kindred. Sha. Richard III.
Eaftern kings, who, to fecure their reign,
Must have their brothers, fons, and kindred flain.
Denham.

(2.) KINDRED. adj. Congeneal; related; cognate.

From thence afcended to his kindred skies. Dryd, (3.) KINDRED, in law, perfons related to one another, whereof the law reckons three degrees or lines, viz. the defcending, afcending, and collateral line. See CONSANGUINITY, DESCENT, and INHERITANCE. On there being no kindred in the defcending line, the inheritance paffes in the collateral one.

* KINE. n. s. plur. from cow.

2

To milk the kine,

E'er the milk-maid fine
Hath open'd her eyne.

Ben Jonfon.

A-field I went, amid the morning dew,
To milk my kine.

Gay.

KINETON, or KYNETON, a town in Warwickfhire, with a market on Tuesday. K. John kept his court in a canle here. It is 10 miles SSE. of Warwick, and 88 NW. of London. Lon. 1. 24. W. Lat. 52. 11. N.'

KINFAUNS, [from Ceann, Gael. head, and fanus, high ground,] a parish of Perthshire, beginning 14 miles below Perth, and extending 5 miles in length E. and from 2 to 3 in breadth along the N. banks of the Tay. The air is pure. The furface is diverfified by level and rifing grounds, wood and water. The lands on the banks of the Tay are flat. The foil is various, but fertile, even to a confidérable height on the hills, which are mostly covered with plantations. Of 3780 acres (the general contents of the parifh), 2520 are arable, and 1260 under plantations. Agriculture is much improved, and rich crops of wheat, pease beans, barley, hay, and oats, are produced, and exported. Some flax, turnips, and potatoes are alfo raised. The population in 1793, ftated by the Rev. George Chapman, in his report to Sir J. Sinclair, was 628; decrease 11 fince 1755. The number of horses was 186, fheep 90, and black cattle 400. The Gaftle of Kinfauns, the property of Lord Gray, ftands on an elevated fituation above the Tay. The roads are good, and the turnpike from Perth to Dundee runs through this pa rish.

(I.i.)* KING. n. S.[A contraction of the Teutonick word cuning, or cyning, the name of fovereign dignity. In the primitive tongue it fignifies ftout or valiant, the kings of moft nations being, in the beginning, chofen by the people on account of their valour and ftrength. Verstegan.] 1. Monarch; fupreme governour.

The great King of kings,

Hath in the table of his law commanded,
That thou shalt do no murder.

Shak.

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A fubftitute fhines brightly as a king, Until a king be by.

Shak.
True hope is fwift, and flies with fwallows
wings;

Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Shak.

The king becoming graces,
I have no relifh of them.

Shak.

Thus ftates were form'd: the name of king
unknown,

'Till common int'reft plac'd the sway in one.
Pope.
2. It is taken by Bacon in the feminine; as prince
alfo is. Ferdinand and Isabella, kings of Spain
recovered the great and rich kingdom of Granada
from the Moors. Bacon. 3. A card with the pic-
ture of a king.-
The king unfeen

queen.

Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Pope. 4. KING at Arms, a principal officer at arms, that has the pre-eminence of the fociety'; of whom there are three in number, viz. Garter, Norroy, and Clarencieux. Phillips.-A letter under his own hand was lately fhewed me by Sir William Dugdale, king at arms. Walton.

majefty first to Henry VIII. before which time cus kings were called grace, highness, &c.—In all public inftruments and letters, the king ftyles himself nos, "we" though till the time of king John, he fpoke in the fingular number.

(1.) KING, AUTHORITY, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES OF THE BRITISH. In Great Britain, the power of the king is fubject to great limitations: but they are the limitations of wisdom, and the fources of dignity; being so far from diminishing his honour, that they add a particular glory to hiscrown: for while other kings are abfolute monarchs over innumerable multitudes of flaves, the king of Bri. tain has the diftinguished glory of governing a free people, the leaft of whom is protected by the laws: he has great prerogatives, and a boundles power in doing good; and is at the fame time only reftrained from acting inconfiftently with his own happiness, and that of his people. To un de ftand the royal rights and authority in Britain, we must confider the king under fix diftinét views, 1. With regard to his title. 2. His royal family. 3. His councils. 4. His duties. 5. His preroga tive. 6. His revenue. I. His title. See HEREDITARY RIGHT AND SUCCESSION. II. His royal family. See ROYAL FAMILY. III. His councils, (ii.) A KING (§ 1, def. 1.) is a potentate who rules See COUNCIL. IV. His duties. By the British fingly and fovereignly over a people.-The Latin conftitution, there are certain duties incumbent word rex, the Scythian reix, the Punic refch, the on the king; in confideration of which, his dig. Spanish rey, and French roy, come all, according nity and prerogative are established by the laws to Poftel, from the Hebrew w¬, rosch, chief, or of the land: it being a maxim in the law, that head. Kings were not known amongst the Ifrael- protection and subjection are reciprocal. And ites till the reign of Saul, though Abimelech ufurp- thefe reciprocal duties are what Sir William Blacked a partial royalty over the Schechemites. See ftone apprehends were meant by the convention ISRAELITES, 2, 4. Most of the Grecian ftates in 1688, when they declared that king James had were governed at first by kings, who were chofen broken the original contract between king and by the people to decide differences, and execute a people. But, however, as the terms of that ori power which was limited by laws. They com- ginal contract were in fome measure disputed, bemanded armies, prefided over the worship of the ing alleged to exift principally in theory, and to Gods, &c. This royalty was generally heredi- be only deducible by reafon and the rules of na tary; but if the vices of the heir to the crown tural law, in which deduction different underwere odious to the people, or if the oracle had fo ftandings might very confiderably differ; it was, commanded, he was cut off from the right of fuc- after the revolution, judged proper to declare thete ceffion; yet kings were supposed to hold their fo- duties exprefsly, and to reduce that contract to vereignty by the appointment of Jupiter. The a plain certainty. So that, whatever doubts might enfign of majefty was the fceptre, which was made be formerly raifed by weak and fcrupulous minds of wood, adorned with ftuds of gold, and orna- about the existence of such an original contract, mented at the top with fome figure; commonly they must now entirely ceafe; especially with rethat of an eagle, the bird of Jove. Rome alfo gard to every prince who hath reigned fince the was governed at firft by kings, who were elected by year 1688. The principal duty of the king is, Ta the people, with the approbation of the fenate, govern his people according to law. Nec regibu and concurrence of the augurs. Their power ex- infinita aut libera poteftas. And this is not only tended to religion, the revenues, the army, and confonant to the principles of nature, of liberty, the administration of juftice. The monarchy fub- of reafon, and of faciety; but has always been fifted 244 years in Rome, under feven kings. See efteemed an exprefs part of the common law of ROME. Among the Greeks, the king of Perfia England, even when prerogative was at the highbad anciently the appellation of the great king; eft. "The king (faith Bracton, who wrote unthe king of France had that of the most Chriftian der Henry III.) ought not to be fubject to man; king; and the king of Spain has that of Catholic but to God, and to the law: for the law maketh king. The king of the Romans is a prince chofen the king; for he is not truly king, where will by the emperor, as a coadjutor in the government and pleasure rule, and not the law." And For. of the empire. The kings of England, by the La- tefcue lays it down as a principle, that "the king teran council, under Pope Julius II. had the title of England muft rule his people according to the of Chriftianiffimus conferred on them; and that of decrees of the laws thereof; infomuch, that he is defender of the faith was added by pope Leo X. bound by an oath at his coronation to the obfer. though it had been used by them fome time be- vance and keeping of his own laws." (See $2.1 fore. The title of grace was firft given to our But to obviate all doubts, it is exprefsly declared kings about the time of Henry IV, and that of by ftatue 12 and 13 W. III. c. 2, " that the laws

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Lary of England are the birthright of the people thereghof; and all the kings and queens who fhall afcend the throne of this realm, ought to adminifter the government of the fame according to the faid laws, and all their officers and minifters ought to ferve them refpectively, according to the fame; and therefore, all the other laws and ftatutes of this realm, for fecuring the established religion, and ike the rights and liberties of the people thereof, and fall other laws and ftatutes of the fame now in ar force, are by his majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, and by authority of the fame, ratified and confirmed accordingly. V. His prerogative. See PREROGATIVE. VI. His revenue. See REVENUE.

ving, in the preceding fections, chalked out all the principal outlines of this vaft title of the law, the fupreme executive magiftrate, or the king's majefty, confidered in his several capacities and points of view; it may not be improper to take a short comparative review of the power of the executive magiftrate, or prerogative of the crown, as it stood in former days, and as it ftands at prefent. And we cannot but obferve, that moft of the laws for afcertaining, limiting, and reftraining this prerogative, have been made within little more than a century paft; from the petition of right in 3 Car. I. to the prefent time. So that the powers of the crown are now to all appearance greatly curtailed and diminished fince the reign of king James I. particularly by the abolition of the ftar-chamber and high commission courts, in the reign of Charles I. and by the disclaiming of martial law, and the power of levying taxes on the fubject, by the fame prince: by the difufe of foreft laws for a century paft: and by the many excellent provifions enacted under Charles II.; especially the abolition of military tenures, purveyance, and pre-emption; the babeas corpus act; and the act to prevent the difcontinuance of parliaments for above three years; and fince the revolution, by the strong and emphatical words in which our liberties are afferted in the bill of rights, and act of settlement; by the act for triennial, fince turned into feptennial elections; by the exclufion of certain officers from the houfe of commons; by rendering the feats of the judges permanent, and their falaries independent; and by reftraining the king's pardon from obftructing parliamentary impeachments. Befides all this, if we confider how the crown is impove rished and ftripped of all its ancient revenues, fo that it greatly depends on the liberality of parliament for its neceffary support and maintenance, we may perhaps be led to think that the balance is inclined pretty ftrongly to the popular scale, and that the executive magiftrate has neither independence nor power enough left, to form that check upon the lords and commons, which the founders of our conftitution intended. But, on the other hand, it is to be confidered, that every prince, in the firft parliament after his acceffion, has by long ufage a truly royal addition to his he reditary revenue fettled upon him for his life; and has never any occafion to apply to parliament for fupplies, but upon fome public neceflity of the whole realm. This reftores to him that conftitutional independence, which at his first acceffion feems to be wanting. And then, with regard to power, we may find perhaps that the hands of government are fufficiently ftrengthened; and that a British monarch is now in no danger of being overborne by either the nobility or the people. The inftruments of power are not perhaps fo open and avowed as they formerly were, and therefore are the lefs liable to jealous and invidious reflections; but they are not the weaker upon that account. In fhort, our national debt and taxes (befides the inconveniences before mentioned) have also, in their natural confequences, thrown fuch a weight of power into the executive fcale of government, as we cannot think was intended by our patriotic ancestors; who gloriously struggled for the abolition of the then formidable parts of the pre

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(2.) KING, CORONATION OAth of the BriTISH. The terms of the original contract between Taking and people are now couched in the coronation oath, which, by the ftat. 1 W. and M. c. 6, is to be adminiftered to every king and queen who fhall fucceed to the imperial crown of thefe realms, by one of the archbishops or bishops of the realm, in the prefence of all the people; who on their parts do reciprocally take the oath of alElegiance to the crown. This coronation oath is conceived in the following terms; "The Abp. or Bp. fball fay, Will you folemnly promise and fwear to govern the people of this kingdom of Britain, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed, and the laws and cuftoms of the fame?-The king or queen fhall Jay, I folemnly promise fo to do. Abp. or Bp. Will you, to your power, cause law and justice, in mercy, to be executed in all your judgments?-K. or QI will. Abp. or Bp. Will you, to the utmost of y f your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profeffion of the gospel, and the proteftant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preferve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all fuch rights and privileges as by law do or fhall appertain unto them, or any of them? K. or 2. All this I promife to do. After this the king or queen, laying his or her hand upon the holy gafpel, fhall fay, The things which I have here betore promifed, I will perform and keep: fo help me God. And then fhall kifs the book." This is the form of the coronation oath, as it is now pre(cribed by our laws. In the king's part of this contract are expreffed all the duties which a mo. narch can owe to his people, viz. to govern according to law; to execute judgment in mercy; and to maintain the established religion. And with refpect to the latter of these three branches, by the act of Union, 5 Ann. c. 8, two preceding fatutes are recited and confirmed; the one of the parliament of Scotland, the other of the parliament of England: which enact; the former, that every king at his acceffion fhall take and fubfcribe an oath, to preferve the Proteftant religion, and byterian church-government in Scotland; the ter, that at his coronation he shall take and fubibe a fimilar oath, to preserve the fettlement of e church of England within England, Ireland, iles, and Berwick, and the territories thereunto longing.

(-) KING, INFLUENCE OF THE BRITISH. Ha

rogative,

sogative, and by an unaccountable want of fore. is first deposited in the royal exchequer, and thence light established this fyftem in their stead. The issued out to the respective offices of payment, entire collection and management of fo vast a re. This revenue the people can never refuse to raise, venue, being placed in the hands of the crown, because it is made perpetual by act of parliament; have given rise to such a number of new officers, which also, when well considered, will appear to created by and removable at the royal pleasure, be a trust of great delicacy and high importance. that they have extended the influence of govern. Upon the whole, therefore, it seems clear, that ment to every corner of the nation. Witness the whatever may have become of the nominal, the commissioners, and the multitude of dependents real power of the crown has not been too far on the customs, in every port of the kingdom ; the weakened by any tranfactions in the 17th cencommiilioners of excise, and their numerous subal- tury. Much is indeed given up; but much is terns, in every inland district; the postmasters and also acquired. The stern commands of prerogat their servants, planted in every town, and upon tive have yielded to the milder voice of influence ; every publicroad; the commissioners of the stamps, the, Navish and exploded doctrine of non-refiftand their distributors, which are fully as scattered ance has given way to a military establishment by and fully as numerous: the officers of the falt law; and to the disuse of parliament bas fucceed. duty, which, though a species of excise, and con- ed a parliamentary trust of an immense perpetual ducted in the same manner, are yet made a dif- revenue. When, indeed, by the free operation of tin& corps from the ordinary managers of that the finking fund, our national debts shall be lefrevenue ; the surveyors of houses and windows ; fened ; when the posture of foreign affairs, and the receivers of the land-tax; the managers of lot. the universal introduction of a well planned and teries; and the commissioners of hackney coaches; national militia, will suffer our formidable army all which are either mediately or immediately ap- to be thinned and regulated; and when (in conpointed by the crown, and removable at pleasure sequence of all) our taxes fhall be gradually re. without any reason asligned: these must give that duced; this adventitious power of the crown will power, on which they depend for sublistence, an Nowly and imperceptibly diminish, as it lowly influence most amazingly extensive. To this may and imperceptibly rose. But till that ihall hapbe added the frequent opportunities of conferring pen, it will be our duty, as good subje&s, to reveparticular obligations, by preference in loans, suba rence the crown, and yet guard against corrupt scriptions, tickets, remittances, and other money and servile influences from those who are intrufted transactions, which will greatly increase this in. with its authority; to be loyal yet free; obedifuence; and that over those persons whose at- ent, and yet independent. tachment, on account of their wealth, is frequently (iii.) KING AT Arms, or of Arms, an officer the most defirable. All this is the natural, though of great antiquity, and anciently of great authoperhaps the unforeseen consequence of erecting rity, whose business is to direct the heralds, preour funds of credit, and, to support them, efta. fide at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of blishing our perpetual taxes: the whole of which armoury. In England there are three kings of is entirely new since the restoration in 1660 ; and arms, viz. GARTER, CLARENCIEUX, and Norby far the greatest part Gince the revolution in RoY. (See these articles). These two last are also 1688. And

the same may be said with regard to called provincial heralds, as they divide the king. the officers in our numerous army, and the pla- dom between them into provinces. They have ces which the army has created. All which put power to visit noblemen's families, to fet down together give the executive power fo persuasive an their pedigrees, distinguish their arms, appoint perenergy with respect to the persons themselves, and sons their arms, and with garter to direct the other so prevailing an interest with their friends and fa- heralds. Anciently the kings at arms were created milies, as will amply make amends for the loss of and crowned by the kings of England themfelves; external prerogative.

but of late the earl marihal has a special commil(4.) KING, POWER OF THE BRITISH. Though fion at every creation to personate the king. this profufion of offices should have no effect on (iv.) KING AT ARMS, Lyon. See Lyon. individuals, there is fill another newly acquired (II.) KING, Dr John, a learned English bishop branch of power; and that is, not the influence in the 16th century, born at Wornall in 1959; only, but the force of a disciplined army: paid educated at Westminster, and at Christ-church, Oxindeed ultimately by the people, but immediately ford. He was appointed chaplain to Q. Elizabeth. by the crown: raised by the crown, officered by In 1605, he was made dean of Christ-church, and the crown, commanded by the crown. They are was for several years vice-chancellor of Oxford. kept on foot, it is true, only from year to year, In 1611 he was appointed bishop of London. Beand that by the power of parliament: but du- fides his Lectures upon Fonab, delivered at York, sing that year, they must, by the nature of our con- he publified several sermons. King James I. used ftitution, if raised at all, be at the absolute dispo- to style him the KING of preachers; and lord chief sal of the crown. And there need but few words justice Coke often declared, that he was the belo to demonstrate how great a trust is thereby re- speaker in the star-chamber in his time. He was to posed in the prince of the people: a trust that is constant in preaching after he was a bithop, that more than equivalent to a thousand little trouble. unless he was hindered by want of health, he vie some prerogatives. Add to all this, that besides fited some pulpit in London or near it, every Sunthe civillift, the immense revenue of almost 7 mil. day. He died in 1621. lions sterling, which is annua:ly paid to the credia (III.) KING, Henry, D. D. bishop of ChicherCors of the public, or carried to the linking fund, ter, eldest son of the above, was born in 1591, and

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