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ker's conjecture as to his having been supported by charity ; ^ and 

 consult any detailed account of the siege and capture of Chichester.'^ 

 The negative testimony, of King's exclusion from Col. John White's 

 "Century of Malignant Priests,"^ is overborne by the virulent 

 attacks of that rabid Puritan, John Vicars : " Bishop King, as bad 

 as the worst" ;^ "Dr. King also, then Bishop of Chichester (a proud 

 Prelate, as all the rest are, and a most pragmaticall Malignant against 

 the Parliament, as all his cater-capt companions also are)."^ As 

 for King's poetry, there is plenty of orthodox ecclesiasticism there ; 

 the two elegies on King Charles are just two long and fiery condem- 

 nations of the Puritans.^ And finally, if, in his promotion to a Bish- 

 opric in 1641— 2, there was need of avoiding the giving of offence to 

 parliamentarians and Puritans, surely there was at least equal need 

 of appointing a man whose loyalty to the tottering Church and 

 Monarchy could be relied upon ; Hannah'' quotes the evidence 

 demonstrating the validity of this hypothesis, but fails to draw the 

 inference, in this excerpt from a Letter from King Charles to William 

 Juxon, Bishop of London, relative to the five appointees for the 

 vacant Bishoprics: "I have altered somewhat frome my former 

 thoughts, to satisfie the tymes, & yet I hope that I have not disserved 

 my selfe in my elections." Henry King's appointment as chaplain 

 to King Charles as well as to King James,^ his preferments in the 

 Church,^ the royal bestowal of Petworth upon him after his con- 

 secration as Bishop, ^'^ his dedication of his "Exposition upon the Lords 

 Prayer," ^^ and his two elegies on King Charles, all go to show that he 

 stood high in his royal master's favor and was deservedly "one of 

 those persons of unblemished reputation that his majesty, tho' late, 

 promoted to that honourable office." ^^ 



Aside from these fairly satisfactory evidences of orthodoxy, six 

 further positive indications remain to be noted, (i) Sir John Mon- 

 son, who "suffered much for his loyalty" ("Fasti Oxon.", H, 40) 

 during the Civil War, dedicated to Henry King his "Antidote against 



1 pp. 240, and 242 Note i, sup. 



2 " Sussex Arch. Coll.," V, 43—51 ; XXXI, 205—8 ; "Victoria Hist. Sussex," 

 I. 522. 



^ Note that this was only "The First Century": others were to have 

 followed. 



* "England's Worthies," 1845, p. 78. 

 ^ " Jehovah- J ireh," 1644, p. 239. 



^ The lines to Sandys and the Lucas-Lisle elegy are equally unequivocal. 

 ' xlii, xliii. ^ p. 249, sup. ^ Ibid. 



^^ Hannah, xlix, I. " Bibliog., p. 277, inf. ^^ "Athen. Oxon.," Ill, 839. 



