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King's indignant response in defence of his Alma Mater is very credi- 

 table to him from several different standpoints ; ^ and followed as 

 it is, in the editio princeps, by the interesting group of doubtfully 

 autobiographical poems, it may well serve to close his educational 

 period and introduce the next division of this sketch of his history. 



III. PRIVATE LIFE: HUSBAND, FATHER, FRIEND, AND POET. 

 Fuller and Wood make no mention of Henry King's wife ; Bayle^ 

 and Lipscomb^ assign him his son's wife, Anne Russell. King him- 

 self did not mention her name in any of his extant poems, letters, 

 or sermons. Hannah^ was the first to bring her name to light, as 

 the reward for painstaking researches,^ and a brief statement of his 

 results will therefore summarize all hitherto available information 

 about this marriage. Henry King, then, married Anne Berkele}', eldest 

 daughter and heiress to Robert Berkeley, Esq., who was the son of 

 Sir Maurice Berkeley (Standard Bearer to Henry VIH, Edward VI, 

 and Elizabeth), of Somerset and of Boycourt (or Boycote), Kent. 

 Hannah infers that the marriage took place about 1617, after King 

 had vacated his studentship at Oxford and moved to London, and that 

 by 1624 at the very latest Anne Berkeley King had died and been 

 buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. John, the eldest son of this marriage, 

 died in infancy ; the second child was also a son, and was given the 

 same name ; the third, a daughter christened Anne, was born in 

 February, 1621 ; and the fourth, a son named after his father, was 

 born, as Hannah conjectures, in 1622 or 1623. Furthermore, inas- 

 much as John and Henry both lived to maturity, while their father 

 early penned a mournful elegy "On two Children dying of one Disease, 

 and buried in one Grave," Hannah ver}^ naturally surmised the birth 

 of another child ; for it appears from lines ii and 12 of the elegy that 

 the two children here lamented survived their mother, and con- 



1 One cause for King's anger was injured family pride, if Hannah be 

 correct in stating that two of his "younger brothers, William and Philip, 

 were among the Actors of Holiday's unlucky Comedy." — p. x, footnote; 

 but Hannah's presumable source (Nichols, op. cit., IV, 1 108—9,) identifies 

 only " Ds. Phil. Kinge" as Bishop John King's son, giving no account of 

 "Ds. Guil. King." 



2 "General Dictionary," 1739, VI, 528. 



* "Hist, and Antiq. of Bucks," 1847, I, 585. 



* Op. cit., xii— XV and Appendix A. 



^ The MSS. brought to light in connection with the prosecution of the 

 present work would have settled the question, had not Hannah already 

 arrived at the correct conclusion. Cf. pp. 283, 284, inf. 



