236 Lawrence Mason, 



sequently tlie first-born son John^ could not have been referred to 

 in it. 



It now remains to supplement Hannah's facts and confirm or 

 replace some of his inferences and hypotheses, by means of informa- 

 tion found in certain MSS. which escaped his investigation. In 

 Appendix A is printed part of a 140-line poem by Thomas Goffe, 

 entitled "An Elegie upon ye death of Mris. Anne Berkley, wife to 

 Mr. Henry King,"^ preserved (unfortunately without date) in Rawl. 

 MS. D. 398, ff. 172— 173V, in the Bodleian. Thomas Goffe had 

 been at Westminster and Christ Church for many years with Henry 

 King, and, though a professed "enemy to the female sex,"^ might 

 well have attempted to enter into his friend's feelings and mourn his 

 loss of such a model wife ; moreover, Goffe saj^s in line 118 that he 

 offers this tribute "As my last homage to my deerest freind," as if 

 he had known Anne Berkeley personally. So there seems to be no 

 reason for rejecting the testimony of this piece, especially as one of 

 its doubtful points is corroborated by the preceding elegy .^ From 

 it, then, we learn (line 13, page 284) that three sons survived their 

 mother; this substantiates Hannah's surmise as to the fifth child, 

 and tells us that it was a boy, and this information is corroborated by 

 line 24, page 284, "An Epitaph" on Anne Berkeley by Henry King's 

 brother, John. Evidently, neither Goffe nor John King paid much 

 attention to the existence of little Anne, but that was commonly 

 the practise in those times; sons were counted, daughters ignored. 

 In Collinson,^ e. g., no mention is made of Anne's mother, even 

 though a large estate passed with her out of the Berkeley family. 

 Furthermore, we learn from Goffe's elegy (lines 15—18) that two 

 sons had died before their mother ; this brings the total number of 

 Henry King's family up to six, — not an improbably large figure, 

 in view of his father's nine and his grandfather's twelve. And, 

 finally, we learn from Goffe's elegy (lines 1—8) some facts (for the 

 statement would have been absurd or even offensive, unless reasonably 

 accurate) which enable us to offer some hypotheses in regard to the 



^ Touchingly grieved for in a separate elegy included among the Additional 

 Poems Hitherto Unprinted, in the ed. of King's poetry to be published by 

 the Yale Press. 



2 pp. 284—5, inf. 



3 "Athen. Oxon.," II, 463 ; Wood tells with much gusto the storj'- of his 

 betrayal into marriage with "a meer Xanthippe" and his consequent early 

 death, "heart-broken"; but Wood's malicious, satirical habits cast some 

 doubt on such stories. 



^ p. 283, inf. 5 "Hist, and Antiq. of Somerset." 1791, III, 280, 281. 



